Props List

Below, is a list of props which we are using/ are used throughout our thriller opening:

• Picture frame
• Ring and Ring box
• Photos for montage
• Phone
• glasses
• Pills/tablets

Shot List

Once we had created our final story board, we thought we would make a shot list to ensure we had included what we wanted to and had a variety of shots. This made it easier to follow what shots we would actually be filming during the course of filming the our thriller opening. This is the final shot list which we used whilst producing the final edit to our thriller opening, 'Jealousy'. 

1st draft of shot list...

Shown here is the first draft of the shot list which we all created throughout brainstorming our ideas and discussing the narrative.

It can be seen here, this shot list does not include the photo montage, this was because we had come up with this idea after producing this initial shot list. The shots that opened our film here were different in the order they appeared and began with the pan of Jazz's body on the floor. 

Once we had devised the idea of having a photo montage, we immediately decided that these shots needed to be at the start of the film, in order to represent the relationships between the characters. This shot list also shows that our title was displayed after the zoom in on the ring, initially, the reasoning behind this was to emphasise the fact of 'Jealousy' that is being highlighted within the ring being on Jazz. However, after much thought and deliberation we felt that the title was much better situated after the photo montage which we decided to use. We also decided to not include the long shot of Hannah and myself arguing in the garden as we felt that this was not really relevant and did not add anything to the narrative of our film.

Scripting...

This is the script for our Thriller film.

As seen, there is not much dialogue, therefore, we have included locations, camera angles/shots and sound track information on the script.

Did we use a draft script to begin with?

Initally, during the planning stages of our film we decided that we were not going to use a script due to the little amount of dialogue we intnded to include in our film. With no script we thought we would easily be able to improvise the lines that were being said. Myself & Hannah discussed what we would be saying before we filmed the shots to enusre we were aware with what we are saying.

However, we dicovered a problem with our idea when we started filming, we quikly realised that saying the line slightly different each time threw the piece a little bit and casued an inssue in terms of continuity. This was proved to be most challenging in the scene where there was a sound bridge of dialogue over two shots. Without having a definite script to follow was rather difficult for myself & Hannah to get the lines right and the same each time.

This was the reason why we then decided to create a script which we would use and follow colosley to film our thriller opening. Due to a limited amount of dialogue we decided to include information about editing, location and SFX to provide us with an exact, clear idea of what happens in each shot/scene. This also made it easier to organise ourselves before we commenced filming.

Having initially deciding to not use a script at the beggining was a disadvantage to use and it meant that we had to spend a bit more time re-filming shots to acheive the right dialogue. From this, I have learnt that I will always use a script in the future as it will reduce the time it takes to film shots, make sure all the actors know what they are going to be saying and it will ensure everyone and everything is in place for the shots that were going to be filmed; reducing and eliminating continuity errors that may be found in speech and dialogue.

Title of our film...

We found it quite challenging to come up with a name four our film as we had many ideas that changed as the process of our film went on.

Originally, we were going with the idea of a more medical like thriller with an opening and titles very similar to the current TV programmes of Holby City and Casualty. Therefore, we had title ideas such as 'Pulse' to represent a heart beat, 'Beat' & 'Beaten' to also representing the beating heart and also what has happened to Jazz. These ideas can be seen below.

However, as our ideas progressed our film started to take the route of a crime drama/thriller which I mentioned when looking at inspirations I and we as a group, had from crime drama/thrillers which already existed. (Broadchurch, Paranoid,etc.) Therefore, the previous titles were not very relevant.

It was when we found the music we wanted that the title came to us. We knew the narrative was going to be based around an envy between Hannah and Jazz when we chose the song, "Jealousy" by Frankie Miller, so from that, we thought we should actually call our film 'Jealousy' to tie in all aspects of the narrative and make it clear to the audience.

This is a screenshot from our film showing the main Title, 'JEALOUSY'

opening of the film...

For the opening of the film we decided to create a photo montage taken from inspiration from other dramas/thrillers we have watched ('The Missing' featured in the previous post). This photo montage is going to reflect myself, Hannah's and Jazz's friendship. The 'Jealousy' song will be played over the top of this to really tie in the relationships and narrative.

The camera will pan over these photos whilst zooming in and out of a few. The titles will also be displayed throughout this photo montage opening.

When creating this photo montage, we looked through photos that highlighted our very close friendship and chose a selection of the best ones out of what we found. We experimented with how we were going to film the photo montage, which took some time, but we discovered that a slow pan,
zooming into a select few photos worked best for us.

Hannah & Myself testing ways to film the photo montage.