Feedback for Practical

Very strong use of editing, experimenting with temporal and spatial editing - the sound at these moments is also extremely effective. A clear and successful relationship exists between your soundtrack and your imagery. You have created very sinister effect. A smoother transition into your main title would have been more effective but well done.

Rough Cut

Possible Fonts For The Film Title

We Decided that we would call our Film Bonnie, After the little girl Bonnie ___ Who acted for us in our title sequence. Since she isn't very old and is still at school, we thought that it would be a good idea to make the font look like a child had written it. Here are some Possible fonts that we could use for our final Title sequence

Lighting

Titles

This is the order we plan to show our film titles for our opening sequence:

1. Firefox films present
2. A film by Roger Dervsky
   
3. Music by Rob Blackwell
   
4. Camerawork by Pia Rolfe
   
5. Lighting by Bryony Richards
   
6. Editing by Steven Priest
   
7. Bonnie ____
   
8. Robert Whitehall
   
9. (Title) Bonnie
   

Possible Film Titles

• Missing
  
• Bonnie
  
• Lost
• Taken
• Gone
• Watched
  

Thriller Deadlines

Deadlines for the thriller project:

1. Animatic Deadline - End of the last lesson of W/C 24th November.
2. Roughcut Deadline - End of the last lesson of W/C 8th December.
3. Final Cut Deadline - End of the last lesson of W/C 15th December.
4. 9am, 19th December completed evaluation powerpoint to moodle.

Location

We are planning to film in an old, derelict building, however it may be difficult to get permission to do this so we have considered different locations:

Fathers 'shack'

• Basement/Cellar
  
• Loft/Attic
  
• Barn
• Shed
• Garage
  
• Dark room

Girls play area

• Playground
  
• Park
  
• Child's bedroom
  
• Garden
  
• Street

The chosen location where we will film the child playing.

We will try to film most of our footage outside and will have to Film the Playground scenes outside. If necessary we could use the Black room in the media studio, or a Dark corner somewhere in the college if we cant fit the barn scenes in when we take the camera out or if we cant film at the barn for some reason.

Costumes

There are not many costumes involved in our sequence however we still need to think about them.


Father:
As he is living in a shack with no running water, he will not look very clean or well presented.
Dirty overalls
Messy hair
Dirty hands/fingernails



Chosen Overalls for the father.






Daughter/Child:
Comes from a normal background so she will look like the average little girl.
Pink (:
Well groomed i.e. hair, clothes

Props

Props we will be using in our filming:

• Camp bed - we will use this as the fathers make-shift bed in his shack.

• Candles - we need a lot of candles/lanterns to light the 'shack'

• Pictures - we need pictures of the girl we are filming to create a picture board for the wall

• Doll - we will be using a doll as a symbol of the child

Thriller Conventions

Here are a few thriller conventions we are going to try and follow in our opening sequence (:

• Themes of identity
  
• Crime at the core of narrative
  
• Extraordinary events happening in ordinary situations
  
• Protagonist with a flaw
  
• Mise-en-scene which echoes/mirrors the protagonists plight
  

Animatic Feedback

After showing the animatic to our media group we took notes on their feedback, which are as follows:

Good Points

• Idea of swing - girl on swing at beginning, not on swing at end
  
• Editing - flashes/flickers/flashbacks create suspense
  
• Following conventions - hiding identity of man by covering parts of face
  
• Atmosphere - happy to start with (children playing), at end it turns to sinister and unhappy

Things to work on

• Shot duration - shot at the start of animatic was too long
• No sound - did not create as much atmosphere without sound
  

Soundtrack sample idea

Here is a short sample of music i have created on garageband.
i found that the use of the high pitched melody with the sound of children laughing creates a weird tense moment for the auidence, this being perfect for are child thriller based theme.

Animatic

Concept idea for title sequence

The concept idea for our title sequence is based on a kidnap/murder mystery.
A loving father becomes obsessed with his daughter due to lack of contact with her during her early childhood years. After a divorce with his wife he was denied custody of his beloved daughter causing him kidnap his daughter out of desperation.
The title sequence starts with the father's memory of his daughter on a swing playing with her friends. To show it is a memory the first two frames will be very bright and dream like.
The third frame shows where the father is staying. It is a dim lit shack, the only light source being candle light. In this frame we can see pictures of his daughter on the wall and in frames showing his obsessive behaviour.
We show a close up of the father holding the childs doll which the flashes to her holding it and then back to the father. This is to create mystery as we do not know who has the doll or why.
From the father holding the doll, you see a medium shot from behind him as he throws the doll onto the bed. The camera will the pan around the room. This allows the viewer to become familiar with his surroundings. We also get an insight into his obsession with his daughter as this shot shows the pictures of the child on the wall.
After the pan shot, we see a close up of the fathers face. However we do not see all of his face as his eyes and nose are disguised by the shadows. This keeps the viewers guessing about the fathers full identity.
We then see a close up of one of the pictures on the wall showing the girl on the swing. The camera will then track forward getting closer to the picture which fades into the shot of the moving swing, however the swing is empty, suggesting that the girl is now missing.



Storyboard