Fouzia 19/01/09

In Andrew’s lesson, we had an A3 sheet of sugar paper to put down all our ideas about the opening sequence to our thriller. We focused on key images/icons, music/sound, settings and locations, lighting, camerawork, storyboard, audience and production schedule. Together, we came up with what we needed in each of these elements and agreed on the best ideas. We thought mainly about the key image/icon that we were going to use for our thriller, as it would be symbolic throughout our clip. We decided that we were going to use a rose to symbolise our sequence as it a romance thriller theme. We also came up with a good title which is ‘love me, love me not. We all agreed with this idea and decided to get straight into planning the mise en scene, camera, sound and editing for our thriller. We wanted to leave the storyboard for Dan’s lesson because we were not completely sure about our story for the thriller and needed to discuss it with Dan before continuing.

However; we managed to come up with many ideas for technical elements which would be put together to make our thriller. Firstly, as well as using the rose as a key image in our sequence we decided to add another iconography which were polaroid images. The music and sound we decided to use for our opening sequence were sounds of heartbeats which would build tension as it would allow the audience to enter the feeling of the character. We have also decided to use steady beats involving voilins and strings. This would show the audience that our thriller is romance based. There are a variety of camera shots which we will use for our sequence. For instance, establishing shots to show the location and isolation of the character within the scene. We will be using a few handheld camera shots to create an effect of a character being followed or stalked. There will be tracking shots which will allow the audience to feel as if they are following a character and seeing what they are doing. We are going to have a panning shot of the polaroid images being scattered on the floor or table to reveal the images to the audience. We were thinking about the setting and location of our thriller which would preferbably be in a park, dark alleyway and London street. The lighting we will be using for our sequence would be bright and natural at the daytime however; we will turn the lighting to darker tones in order to reflect the thrilling mood of our sequence while a character is under tension. We decided that our thriller was going to be for both teenagers and adults as it could be for someone who is interested in a romance thriller genre. We came up with a production schedule to make sure that we have our timing and date under control. We decided that we were going to be doing 2 weeks of filming and 2 weeks of editing to make it balanced.