19/11/13, Planning: Bruise Experimentation

Today in my group, we decided to research how to make fake bruises as we are going to have to try and put them on the girl who gets kidnapped. We thought looking at YouTube videos of tutorials would help us make the bruises as realistic as possible.

We decided that between us we would split the money and buy a yellow, green and black face paint that we can use on the face. We found out that the yellower the bruise the older it looked so we wanted to make them as brown/black as possible but still have a bit of yellow in them.

15/11/13, Research: Thriller Movie Trailers

Today my group decided to watch a handful of trailers from the genre of our film (thriller). We thought this would be helpful because although we aren't making a trailer, the editing and filming techniques could help us in our final film.

The films we watched trailers for included these films:

- Taken

- Taken 2

- Colombiana

- Batman

- The silence of the lambs

- The Departed

- Devil

- Shutter Island

- Unknown

- Non-Stop

- Hanna

- Wrecked

- Safe House

- Gone

11/11/13, Construction: Devising our film title

-       -    Today we worked on the exact wording for our film title. We wanted the title to establish our film’s genre. (Modern thriller)

-        -   Convey the key ideas (Revenge)

-         -  Intriguing the audience through enigma (because we cross cut between two narrative strands involving a surgeon and a vengeful patient)

-         -  Tap into the intertextuality through shared knowledge of cultural codes (through the terms or images that the audience is familiar with)

7/11/13, Planning: Final Film.

My group for my final film opening consists of Me, Emma Walker and Nicole Shakhnazarova. We did an 8 step diagram of the first ideas that we would want our film opening to have. We decided that we wanted it to have a 'thriller/suspense' genre/theme.

Our Ideas:
- There is a girl in a bath and she has just been kidnapped but she escaped and she ran back home and she is still emotionally damaged
- She doesn't want anyone to know what happened to her
- She keeps getting flashbacks of when she was taken and what the man that kidnapped her was going to do to her.
- The fact that she doesnt want anyone to know that she was taken creates enigma becasue the audience are confused as normally, someone would go to the police if this happened.
- She goes to her house and gets in the bath to wash away all the blood.
- She then looks down at her wrist and sees a rope burn of where the man tied her up very tightly and she keeps getting flashbacks.
- When she gets out of the shower, she covers the bruises with foundation, as she doesn't want anybody to know.
- Straight after, she throws away the clothes that she was wearing before as they are covered in blood.
- Straight after she throws the clothes away it cuts to the title sequence and the name of the film (undecided yet) comes up.