Inspiration of the flashbacks

In this music video "Break even" by the script, the singer has flashback of when he was with his partner. The whole music video is in black and white except for the flashbacks or when he's with her. We will use this idea by having the flash backs in colour and the rest in black and white.

Questionnaire

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wATDRBRL5NTtqkpwgOvMAc6c8aRrh_mu1e7i31iggIc/edit?hl=en_US#

Equipment

Sony HDV HVR-A1E Camera – we will use this to film our work.

Libel TH-650DV Tripod – this will support our camera in making sure we have smooth shots.

Libel DL-2 Dolly – this will be attached to the tripod and will help us move the camera smoothly to create atmospheric shots.

 Rotolight Stealth 45 – this will not only give us light but make sure the lighting will be correct while editing.

Mac book pro – this is the computer we will use to edit our film, magazines and other stuff. It supports all the software’s we will need to produce our film.



Final cut pro 7 / motion 4 – this software’s will help us edit our film and add any special effects.

Garage band – this software will help use create music for our film.

Adobe Photoshop CS5 – this software will help use create and edit pictures. We will use it when we create our magazine and logo.

Adobe In Design CS5 – this software will help us create our magazine.



Inspiration for props

When we came up with the storyline and made a decision of making the female protagonist a murderer, our idea escalated into making her a psychotic murderer. Our inspiration was from a successful thriller ''American psycho''. The film is about a normal man who looks very educated and well mannered, judging by his costume. The audience is then surprised to see him psychotically kill people in violent and vicious ways. The inspiration we picked up from this is the fact he looks very innocent and his actions were unexpected.

we got inspiration from the movie 'American Psycho' to use a sharp object such as this butcher knife as a main mood changer in our film, this is the vital equipment that will decide the fait of our protagonists.

The Interview

After creating the questionnaire we decided to interview and film our target audience’s answers. The questions we asked where open questions to prevent yes or no answers. Our aim was to find out if our ideas where good enough to create a twist in the film. Also, we wanted to emphasize on the feeling of oxymoron so we asked our target audience on how we should portray the protagonist. We also asked wither the film should be a silent film or not as we struggled in the decision.


Before filming, we gave a copy of the synopsis to the interviewee and continued with relevant questions. We will use the answers to improve our synopsis and will ask further questions if relevant. we decided to re film the interview as the sound was too low.

Costume

Our female protagonists will resemble her schizophrenic mental illness. in this case, two personalities meaning two diffrent costumes.

Our costume for the actress consists of an all black outfit, the choice of colour emphasises the dark, grim enviroment which our movie exploits.     

        

      

                                                                                                     



The costume for our actor was a simple, casual look. the differences of costume between the actor/actress is to show the love/hate relationship the couple have.

   

                          

Logo Production

This is our logo for our production company which is "Heartbeat Productions". the reason we have selected these colours is to show the reaction and lighting of love. we added the shooting stars as they are rare and beautiful to gaze upon. we chose to put the buildings in the background to show the plot of the story as our male and femle protagonist meet in a big and new city meaning curiosity.

London Eye

We had to book tickets to the London Eye in advance therefore we booked them online. We choose the most suitable time and date and planned our filming schedule.

Film locations

The locations we will be filming in will be places our protagonist will visit while having her flashbacks. These places are not only iconic but mean something to her as she previously visited them with a loved one. Every time she visits a place with so much memory her emotions trigger flash backs of when she was happier. However, the grave yard is a different place. It’s where our protagonist will reveal her dark secret and her oxymoron feelings.

                                                     

                               

                             

                                                            

                            

Choosing our locations

One of the most vital part of our film was to choose the correct location to film in, we brainstormed several ideas of iconic places where we could record our scenes, after several arguments, we as a group we decided that the London eye was most suitable for our film as it was easy to reach and its one of the main tourist attractions in London. It’s also located on the south bank, which meant we were able to film the river Thames and London Bridge as there all in the same perimeter as the London Eye.


We then had to think about our location to film our coffee shop scene, so we asked around and got a friend of ours that allowed us to film in his dads cafe. Our last two scenes conisted of a train station and a graveyard, so we again had to brainstorm several places were we could film. for our train station scene we chose Paddington Station as it had a higher ground level were we was able to film our acrtess who was below us.


lastly we decided on what graveyard we wanted to record our scene in, within a few minutes we found a close graveyard , which is called 'Harrow Rd Graveyard' We then had to choose the train station we were going to use for the opening scene. At first we decided to use Victoria station but then we realised there was no high area for us to be able to film from so we changed the location to Liverpool st station as it has what we want. Lastly we had to choose a grave yard for our last scene. We decided to film in Harrow Rd grave yard as it was nearby and perfect for our scene.

 

Changing the name of our film

After changing the story line we decided to change the film title ‘One day’. This is because the film will no longer exist in one day, but over a period of time. We also discovered that a new major film by Lone Scherfig has been titled ‘One day’. We brainstormed many ideas; grieving, grieving and guilty, until we came up with ‘guilty grieving’. The name matched with the film as the female protagonist grieves but also feels guilty when we find out she killed him.

Noticing the release of the film 'One day', we realised we cannot go any further with the identical film title. We brainstormed many ideas and finally came up with "Guilty Grieving" because our female protagonist is not only grieving in the film but feels guilty. This title would allow our audience to feel very curious about the film as people who grieve don’t normally feel guilty.

Image Inspiration P2

This image from the movie 'Remember Me' inspired our group the most, we used this idea of a happy couple for several scenes in our film in iconic landmarks, we thought that the more scenes of the couple showing happiness will really shock our audience when they see the outcome of our film.

Image Inspiration P1

Because we wanted to create a psychotic character, we typed in Google images psycho to give us some idea of what is usually understood to be psychotic.

 

The four pictures above are from the famous film 'American psycho' and are almost a perfect description of our female protagonist. These pictures show that a psycho would enjoy killing and would have a hair lifting passion in doing it.

                                  

 This picture shows that it’s to do with darkness and blood which will be something we must consider in the production of our film and poster. 

Image Inspiration

This image of the London Bridge ; An iconic location in London had really inspired our group in terms of locations. We decided that filming a few scenes in this area would really make our film a lot more unique, as filming near school was repetitive for other media groups.

Music Inspiration P3

While researching the ideal music for our film, we discovered a song made by 'The Killers' which was called 'Mr Brightside'. This song had really inspired us as a group as the lyrics and video emphasised a jelous man whos wife has been tampered with by another man, this song also has a romantic twist in the lyrics, which was very ideal for our film.

Music inspiration P2

One member of our group was going through his music playlist and came across a distinctive song made by Immortal Technique called 'You Never Know' this song is really deep in terms of discussing a love/hate relationship between the artist and his partner due to the song ending horrificly. The reason why this inspired us is that its filled with romance, which is the main genre of our film production.

Music Inspiration P1

This is one of our inspirations for the music, used in twilight. Its depressing, romantic and mysterious. The main instrument used is a piano and violin, which symbolises tradition, class and quality. It could also suggest romance. We will try to create something similar to it for when out protagonist will be walking to the grave.


Music given by http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090206042428AAtXFwN

Character inspiration

Character inspiration

The costume is an important aspect in making a film. The costume would portray the character appropriate to the time, place, or other circumstances represented or described. It also sets the atmosphere of the scene and character.

 Bella, the female protagonist from twilight is a very similar character to ours. However, our female protagonist is schizophrenic, meaning she has a mental disorder similar to having a split personality. The side that ‘’Bella’’ resembles is her depressed and grieving side. The costume she will be wearing in the film will be different in the flashbacks as to the film. In the flashbacks she will be happy, made up and colorful. When she is grieving she will be wearing simple, relaxed and dull colours.

Our character will be wearing relaxed jeans, black dolly shoes, a black trench coat and a French hat. She will also wearing earphones similar to ‘’Bella’’ in the picture. Her hair will be straight but wavy and She will have no makeup.

Production roles in our group

Heartbeat Productions

Tasks:

Duha: 


     ·         Cinematography  
     ·         Choice of all mise en scene including costume, lighting, props,
      ·         analysis of two short films,
      ·         analyse one article and one poster
      ·         questionnaire and target audience profile
      ·         pitch
      ·         Director                                                                                                   
      ·         Actor
      ·         Evaluation

Abdounoor:

·         main editor,

·         analysis of one short film,

·         storyboard, filming of storyboard.

·         Analysis of two posters

·         Production company/channel ident

·         draft layout of anciliary tasks

·         pitch

·         evaluation

Shalimur:

·         Main Filming,

·         Blog,

·         analysis of two short film,

·         script

·         Analyse two articles

·         Pitch

·         evaluation

Asking the audience

Heartbeat productions are this time looking at making a short film.  The genre of the film will be romantic thriller– We are currently working on the storyline but we would also like to hear your ideas.

What do you think makes a good romantic thriller?

Would you enjoy watching a romantic thriller?


If you were able to produce a storyline for a romantic thriller film, What would it be?

Target audience profile

This film specificaly targets male/femals ages 16-25, anyone with an interest towards romantic thriller movies would prefer our film, or anyone with past experiences with love & romance would also like this movie.

Audience members would be living with family , friends or a initimate relationship with a partner, they would be in temporary work or education.

The dress sense for our target audience will be a casual/smart look,  jeans, T-shirt and a leather jacker (Males) and for Females they would be wearing a casual/medium lenth cardigan, hat and smart shoes.

Our audience maybe living in the outer suburbs of London, near industrial estates , both working/middle class. We mainly target audiences living in England or who are British. Although our film is aimed at adults, the certificate classification rate is PG ; Parental guide.

After our interviews, we decided not to change our target audience due to the consistent answers we got, our film idea is ideal to all ages, giving us positive feedback

Initial idea

We came up with many ideas for our film and went through so many ideas and inspirations until we finally made a decision. Because of our film company being known for the production of “Love = pie r 2” as a romantic comedy we decided to create something with a similar genre.
 
We first  decided on a plain and simple romantic film, about a girl who arrives in London as a tourist and visits  emotional places that trigger flash backs of her and her ex visiting the same iconic places. The film didn’t really have much meaning and story so we escalated our genre to a romantic thriller and finally used our inspirations to come up with an initial idea.
The film begins with the female protagonist “Cécile” who is schizophrenic, arriving in London at a train station wearing dull and simple clothes with no makeup. This will foreshadow a negative emotion throughout her holiday. We then see her from an over shoulder view; looking at another girl being greeted by her boyfriend. This puts “Cécile” in an upsetting state. The camera then tracks her while she walks out the station and into a taxi. The taxi then drops her off at central London and she walks past a bridge and past the London eye. We cut to her having another flashback of them in the London eye together. The camera then tracks her walking nervously away from the London eye like she couldn’t handle it. She then stops to take a picture of Big Ben to re assure herself. As soon as she takes the picture she has another flashback of them taking pictures of themselves including Big Ben. We then cut to a mid shot of her in a cafe. As she sits she starts to get nervous and as she picks up the menu, a flash back is triggered of her boyfriend sitting in the same place. The flash back is in black and white like the others. After this happens she stands up, grabs her coat and leaves. We then see her walking in a grave yard in a hand held camera, fast. As she stops next to a grave we have a shot of her from far like another camera is spying on her behind a bush. We then have a long shot of her dropping a red rose which then turns into a knife as it hits the grave. She starts to laugh then cry, admitting that she has lost it and finally accepting what she is.