Today we created our storyboard collectively but I drew it.
Tuesday, 29 November 2016
Monday, 28 November 2016
Feedback from Matt
Today we talked to Matt about our thriller idea and he gave us some feedback on it. Overall he enjoyed the idea but gave us some pointers on how to improve the sequence.
His suggestions went two ways:
1. We establish the environment we are in, creating the world inside the shipping container. One by one the girls get taken out by big angry men, relying heavily on dialogue and mise-en-scene. The girls will be screaming, crying and trying to stand up for themselves which will involve close ups and hand held camera action, to exaggerate the movement. Matt told us in this idea to remove the undercover, confident girl in this idea because we will find out about her later in the film.
2. In this sequence it will be based upon an action-thriller genre, where there is an undercover girl and as in the original sequence, stands up for herself, knocks out the guy who try's to lunge towards her and gets the gun off him. She then leaves the container and shoots the unsuspecting people outside, involving hand held camera movement to also exaggerate the movement. She gets all of the other girls out and they try to get to safety.
We will most likely do the 1st idea because it will be more thrilling for the audience as they do not know what the film will be about, making them intrigued to watch more.
His suggestions went two ways:
1. We establish the environment we are in, creating the world inside the shipping container. One by one the girls get taken out by big angry men, relying heavily on dialogue and mise-en-scene. The girls will be screaming, crying and trying to stand up for themselves which will involve close ups and hand held camera action, to exaggerate the movement. Matt told us in this idea to remove the undercover, confident girl in this idea because we will find out about her later in the film.
2. In this sequence it will be based upon an action-thriller genre, where there is an undercover girl and as in the original sequence, stands up for herself, knocks out the guy who try's to lunge towards her and gets the gun off him. She then leaves the container and shoots the unsuspecting people outside, involving hand held camera movement to also exaggerate the movement. She gets all of the other girls out and they try to get to safety.
We will most likely do the 1st idea because it will be more thrilling for the audience as they do not know what the film will be about, making them intrigued to watch more.
Sunday, 27 November 2016
Step outline to our sequence
1. We will first do an establishing shot of the inside of the cargo container, with all the girls sitting on the ground in spaced places.
2. There will be many close up of the girls distress, tears and worried looks on their faces.
3. They hear Russian dialogue outside, which makes them panicked, including close ups of their faces and uncomfortable mid shot of their bodies swirming.
4. The container doors will then open with a silhouette of a big man, who comes strolling in to get a girl.The light blinds the girls as they have been travelling for days.
5. The big man grabs a girl viciously by tugging her by the hair to pull her out of the container while she is screaming and crying for help. They then leave and theres a pleonastic sound of the doors slamming shut.
6. It then goes back to the girl's faces of distress.
7. The man comes back in and all the girls stand up, two back away and one stands there dead still.
8. Here could be a pan going up the confident girl, to show her body language.
9. The man looks at her like she's very cocky and smiles sarcastically.
10. He goes to grab her but she acts quickly, grabbing the knife out of her sock and bending his arm backwards. She then puts the knife to his neck.
11. She leads him out of the container in the position of her behind him and him looking shocked as he is lead out into the daylight.
12. A final long shot of them exiting the container, and that is the end of the sequence.
2. There will be many close up of the girls distress, tears and worried looks on their faces.
3. They hear Russian dialogue outside, which makes them panicked, including close ups of their faces and uncomfortable mid shot of their bodies swirming.
4. The container doors will then open with a silhouette of a big man, who comes strolling in to get a girl.The light blinds the girls as they have been travelling for days.
5. The big man grabs a girl viciously by tugging her by the hair to pull her out of the container while she is screaming and crying for help. They then leave and theres a pleonastic sound of the doors slamming shut.
6. It then goes back to the girl's faces of distress.
7. The man comes back in and all the girls stand up, two back away and one stands there dead still.
8. Here could be a pan going up the confident girl, to show her body language.
9. The man looks at her like she's very cocky and smiles sarcastically.
10. He goes to grab her but she acts quickly, grabbing the knife out of her sock and bending his arm backwards. She then puts the knife to his neck.
11. She leads him out of the container in the position of her behind him and him looking shocked as he is lead out into the daylight.
12. A final long shot of them exiting the container, and that is the end of the sequence.
Thursday, 24 November 2016
Contact Sheet
Myself:
Email: Kate.Shillitoe@hurtwood.net
Telephone: 07557331
Sasha Gerry:
Email: Sasha.Gerry@hurtwood.net
Telephone: 07427609
Ollie Wills:
Email: Oliver.Wills@hurtwood.net
Telephone: 07837224
Email: Kate.Shillitoe@hurtwood.net
Telephone: 07557331
Sasha Gerry:
Email: Sasha.Gerry@hurtwood.net
Telephone: 07427609
Ollie Wills:
Email: Oliver.Wills@hurtwood.net
Telephone: 07837224
Wednesday, 23 November 2016
Feedback from Mike
Today Mike, one of our teachers reviewed our idea and gave us some pointers on it. He said that we have to be more realistic with our idea because in human trafficking the deal with money usually happens before the trade, making our test shoot unrealistic and glamourised. Therefore we have to create more tension in this sequence by making it based in a cargo container, where 4 girls will be, waiting for their fate.
There will be Russian dialogue from outside the container, which will not make sense to the girls or the audience, creating suspense. A girl is taken out of the container by a big man, screaming and crying. There is intense suspense to what happens next here, with heavy breathing and sobbing. Then a big, Russian man comes in to get another girl, and 2 girls cower and go to the back of the container, meanwhile the main character stays put and in front of the other girls. She lunges towards the man and pulls out a pocket knife. The sequence ends with her leading him out and into the light of outside the container.
There will be Russian dialogue from outside the container, which will not make sense to the girls or the audience, creating suspense. A girl is taken out of the container by a big man, screaming and crying. There is intense suspense to what happens next here, with heavy breathing and sobbing. Then a big, Russian man comes in to get another girl, and 2 girls cower and go to the back of the container, meanwhile the main character stays put and in front of the other girls. She lunges towards the man and pulls out a pocket knife. The sequence ends with her leading him out and into the light of outside the container.
The test shoot
We tried to do a test shoot on the cyberbullying sequence but we soon realised that it will rely heavily on miss-en-scene. This would be a very difficult to do and making props seem suspenseful without dialogue is a hard task to achieve. We thought of another back up idea which consists of two business men having intense dialogue about a human trafficking trade. In the sequence it will consist of 4 Chinese businessmen, one girl and 2 Russian businessmen.
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