Research & Planning


WHAT THE STORY WAS BASED ON AND WHERE IT WAS SET

Out first idea as a group, we first came up with the idea of making a film where an innocent boy was pinned for murderer as he was found looking a t a dead body in a park alone by a young female as she was walking through the park to get to school. As the pinned murderer tries to justify his innocence the girl starts to run. We chose to go to Alexander Park, as we found it to be a lot quiet and suitable for us to be filming our product.

WHY WE USED THE PARTICULAR MISE EN SCENE

At that point we used the mise en scene through the costume of our two actors. The supposing murder was supposing to be wearing black, as it’s the appropriate colour we manage to associate a murderer with, and also supporting the stereo typing of our young male teenagers who are mostly seen as dangerous figures by today’s society. We used juxtaposition between the two characters as our female character was much more simply dressed, as she was wearing blue jeans a white top and a black leather jacket. We chose to dress our character this way as we believe the bright clothes would present her as a much more weaker, fragile and innocent character.

WHAT WE CHANGED AND KEPT FROM OUR FIRST PRODUCT

We came use shots such as close ups to show the characters emotions. Long shots were also displayed as the two characters were walking towards the tragedy. We used the tracking shot in the running scene to show the distance of the two runners. The Hand-held camera shot was also used in order to crate realism and to visualise the scene as the character did. We also used an establishing shot at the start, to reveal where the event was all happening. The editing of our, first product involved Matched cuts, of the two characters walking, to show how they ended up meeting each other. As the female character was running we also used cutting rate to show the how the character being chased blinked fast a she was getting chased.

WHAT CHANGED OUR MINDS ABOUT OUR FIRST PRODUCT

What changed our mind was mainly the idea that our storyline gave too much information and clues of what was happening. What we were really trying to get across is to match our product to something that would connote gloom and which would eventually create a disturbing atmosphere, matching the genre of our product. However, there were many things in our first product that immobilized us to make what we really wanted. The lighting wasn’t dark enough, the camera shots taken, displayed and revealed everything, and it contained too much actions, which was really hard for our female character to do, since sometimes it involved reproduction when we got several things wrong.

The fact that we also had to shoot the scenes in the park was one of the reasons we considered to change our mind about our first product, as this meant that we had to go to the park each time we wanted to add something new.

WHAT TECHNIQUES WE USED TO DIFFER THE PRESENT PRODUCTS TO THE PREVIOUS ONE

The present story line is a lot different to the present in many ways. The present story line is about a male stalker whose aim is to maltreat a young girl. The stalker eventually does catch the young female character but we keep the audience unclear about the whole situation by first of all not showing who the stalker is and also not showing what he does to the girl. We chose to do it this way as it creates a lot more suspense which is what we wanted to do in the first place. What the main techniques used in our present product is, the use of:

• different angle shot such as over the shoulder, while the killer was marking the girl’s face on the board

• the dark lighting to evoke danger

• mise en scene of black costume for the stalker

• Mid shot as the stalker is staring at the board without moving

• Non- diegetic sound of incidental music

• Non- diegetic sound of the narrative speaking

• Bright lightning when the victim is being shown walking

• The editing of the sepia colour when the close up shot focuses on the victim’s face as she has been marked by the stalker etc

• Flicker effect of the board, to raise a hazard tension.

• Use of phone as a key prop


WHAT WE CHANGED AND KEPT FROM OUR FIRST PRODUCT

The idea of the storyline was the main thing changed in our product, which allowed us to consider changing where the whole thing was going to get filmed, how it was going to get filmed, and how we’re going to edit it to make it like what we were really after. However, we used several stuff from the previous filming to help us achieve what we’ve got. We kept the running scene, but erasing the parts where the parts where the suspects face is revealed. We also used the footsteps of that particular running scene as we found it that was important to create realism, as it elevates a creepy atmosphere.