update

Unfortunately our animatic is taking longer than our group originally expected. Within the space of two weeks I had to travel to Liverpool and back to help my sick Nan and I came down with food poisoning myself, which really dehydrated me. However I don’t like using this as an excuse. Once I’d recovered and got myself back into school I found I was extremely behind in all my subjects as all the final pieces where due in. The other two members, Sehb and Amber did a great job though making sure we didn’t fall too behind whilst I was gone. Now that we are all back together we are all working hard and communicating together to try get our animatic finished.

thriller development

After a lot of debating my group and I came to a rough idea for our thriller.

We had to take into consideration we have no budget, everything we use as props or locations will be from our own pockets. To make things easier for ourselves we’ve decided to use local locations and use actors who we are familiar with and who are able to take direction well. In addition to this we will have to film some shots in school locations so we are able to use our time wisely, even if it is typical.

To make our shots dramatic and effective without the cost, we came up with the idea of our protagonist being obsessed with water. Reasons for this may be because someone close to him drowned or he had a near death experience with water but that doesn’t really matter for our opening. We thought this idea could really be suitable for a thriller, also that it would be easily done in our homes as we could simply use a bath, which could also fit into the narrative quiet well as the protagonist will be a teenage boy living at home. To be drowned is also one of the most horrific deaths possible, including this should make our opening attention grabbing and most importantly, thrilling.

To make the narrative flow and make sense, the protagonist will have his own personal scrapbook of which he collects Polaroid’s of people he envies. Whether it’s about popularity or girls, the book will be full of people from around the school. However the photos will be taken secretively without the victim knowing, along with anyone else. He records their day to day life and try’s to figure out what their like so he is able to be like them and replace them once he kills them, obviously wouldn’t happen though as he’s psycho.

From ambers storyboard I was able to take photography for the animatic to give a good representation of what our thriller will hopefully look like. I believe they came out pretty good as I tried to get the correct lighting suitable for each shot. I also tried to use as many colour connotations such as the alcoholic drink, which I chose a bright red Lambrini. I also shone the light onto the bottle to give a red rippled water like reflection.

From the storyboard and photographs we have been able to make decisions on the detail of our props and locations.

Props:

- Scrapbook

- Polaroid’s of victims

- Shot glass

- Red alcohol

- Pens pencils

- Stationary, (anything for scrap book)

- Draws and desk

- Bookcase and books

- Anything that is generally in a bedroom

Costume: (male protagonist)

- Black skinny jeans

- Plain white top

- Black leather jacket

- Black beanie hat

- Bear feet

All of which are typical teenage fashion whilst including necessary connotations.

Victims:

- Fully clothed

General teenage fashion/ smart school wear.