Research and Planning Provisional Mark

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crime thriller mood board

this is a mood board that represents a lot of things that our associated with crime thrillers.some things that are assocciated with crime thrillers are deaths,money,detectives,crimanal files, most crimes in crime thrillers are deaths because the audience gets exited if there is a killer on the loose because this means that anyone could die at any minute and its hard to predict the next person ( if any person) is going to die yet.if no,one dies in the film/tv show than the crime commited id most oftern a robbery of a large amount . on hte mood board we also have pictures of books such as "rush of blood and the cocktail waitress." this is because the books are all crime friller books

update on the case

we have now filmed all of the footage we needed to film for the two minute opening of the case but we now have over two and a half minutes so we will probably have to edit out some of the clips. in basics the whole two minute oppening consists of a dead body being found by two detectives who find items on the dead body such as a wallet and a bag of diamonds. in a river near by the detectives find a breif case that belonged to the dead person after they find the case one of the detectives asks the other one what he thought happened and then we have a flash back scene of what happened. after this we have the two detectives open the case which builds suspence because we dont tell the audience whats in the case

genre research (horror)

genre research (horror)

in most horror films there are a lot of similarity such as in 99% of horror films someone dies.this is because this is what people who go to whats horror films expect to see. also in a lot of horror films there are a lot of stereotypical views of women such as they are weak and useless which is why in a lot of horror films if anyone trys to fight a villain its normally the lead male role. a lot of old horror films such as nightmare on elm street, Friday the 13th and Halloween have a villain who th film is based around whereas in new horror films we have been seeing this less and less.now most horror films focus on either Apocalypse or paranormal themes and the villain are either zombies or ghosts.
in any horror film old or new there is always creepy music that indicates that something bad is going to happen or the antagonist is close.

most horror characters have something about there past that made them the way they are e.g. Freddy Kruger was a pedophile so the towns people burnt him,Jason voorhees  drowned because two teenagers went watching him and Micheal Myers was locked in an insane asylum

our own production company

we have decided to make our own production company for our film (the case)  istead of using universal or columbia. we have decided to call the production company last post studios. this is because it is relevant to the people who are filming the two minute opening because the word last has the first letter of all of our names (Luke,Ashley,Sam,Tom) the last post  was also a peace of music that was played at the funeral of solders of the british empire this is significant to us because we live in britian and have great respect to the british army.the last post is treditionaly played on the bugle this is why as the main image for our production company we have a siluet of a man playing the bugle

shot types

this is a mid shot of the joker from batman the dark knight. a midshot is a shot in which we can see roughly half of a persons body a mid shot is normally used if an acotor is doing something with the uppper half of there body

this is a close up of daniel craig.a closeup is a shot in which we can only see someones face or only one single body part these shots are used if we need to see the expresion on someones face to understand the scene of a film. this shot is usually used to make the audience sypathise with a charecter

this is an extreme close up of a frogs eye. an extreme close up is like a close up but it allows the viewer to see something in a lot of detail such as eyes or lips. this kind of shot is normally used if we see a charecter cry or if we thought a charecter was dead but then they open there eye and it creates a dramatic scene

this is a long shot of a girl in the woods in a pink dress.a long shot is a shot in which we can see the whole of a persons body

this is a long shot of a women in the wood compared with an extreme long shot of a women in the woods as you can see an extreme long shot doesn't focus as much on the person but instead there whole surroundings. this kind of shot is normaly used if we are introduced to a new location and the film is trying to femilialise the audience with the location

the case is a (15)

we have decided to make our film a certifacate 15 film because it allows us to include a dead body in our film and a scene where the victum gets pushed off a bridge.it also allows the actors to use some strong language.if we made the film an 18 it would exclude quite a lot of our target audience considering our target audience is young men (15-25 year old men.)if we made our film an 18 it would exclude about 30% of our target audience.

we didnt make the film an 18 because it would be compleatly unesserccery because we are having any scenes with sexual content in our film.

genre research action

action research

action films make a lot of money in the box office. most peoples favourite films are action films. films like the dark knight ,the expendables ,casino ray ale and die hard make  a huge amount of money in the box  office. Some of the conventions of action films are strong hero character, slightly less strong villain, women who is in need of being rescued, exotic location and fast scenes and weapons.

most of the time the leading role in action films are played by strong American men like Bruce Willis or Arnold Schwarzenegger. This is because the audience will find it more believable that a man can do all these amazing things if he has an amazing physique

the villain in most action films is either from a different country or slightly eccentric. this is because it is less relatable to the viewers so they don’t feel persuaded by his or her views.

most action films have a love interest because this gives the hero a quest to complete and therefor makes the plot of the film

most action films contain a large amount of weapons because this gives the film a sense of danger and gets the viewers excited. it makes the audience believe that there is a chance that the hero could die which makes the film more exciting

the case

we have decided to call our two minute opening "the case" this is because the words the case relate to the story in two different ways. The first way it relates to it is because its a crime film, and in all crime films a detective has to solve a case. the second way that the words the case relates to the film is because in the opening two minutes we have some killed and the killer kills the man because he wants a brief case that the victim is holding. After the police and detectives show up and examine the dead body they realise that one of the hands of the dead man are missing and that there is a trail of blood leading to a river. After this we find a briefcase in the river and this builds a lot of suspense for the rest of the film because the audience will be wondering what is in the case.

genre reserch

genre research (crime)

because we are doing a crime thriller i looked at some of the conventions of crime thrillers such as in nearly all crime thrillers the crime that is committed is normal a murder because this means that the case that the detectives have to solve means more because other people could get killed.
in most crime thrillers there is a main detective and his/her sidekick.the main detective will normally have something slightly odd about him e.g. in a wheelchair, has a weird hat, has a completely out of date mustash,has wierd glasses ect. the sidekick will normally ask unnecessary questions such as "so your saying this isnt a suiced"or"do you think this was a murder  when it is clearly obverse that that is what the detective is saying.in most murders in crime thrillers there will be something that you wouldnt find in the average murder that distinguishes the murder to a certain person e.g.the detectives discover that the victim was killed with a meat cleaver so they retrace it to a butcher. in most crime thrillers the is a big question asked like "how could he kill him if he wasn't there at the time " and then the question will be answered about ten minutes before the end of the film

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update of our 2 minute opening

01/12/2013 we were meant to film most of our 2 minute opening to the case but sadly i was ill so i couldnt go to the set but quite a lot was still filmed such as the scene where the two detectives walk over to the dead body to find out what has happened. this scene takes up about 25 seconds of our film so we still have about 1 minute 35 left of the two minute opening to film. we now have props for the scene such as police tape which makes the scene seem a lot more realistic because ever real investigation scene has police tape to tell cevillians to not be near it.we also have the police vest for the scene which also makes it seem alot more realistic because it is an item that is nesserccery for ever police officer to have

production company research

WB pictures (warner brothers pictures )have made a vast amount of films these films include the dark knight,the dark knight rises,superman,inception and 300.the production company was founded in april 1923 the founders of WB are sam, harry ,albert and jack warner

paramount is a well respected company that has produced many differant films such as psycho (1960),world war z ,the godfarther, star trek and titanic which is the second biggest seller in the boxoffice ever





lionsgate is a massive production company that gave us such films as the hunger games,the expendables,saw and kickass it was founded in 1962 by john dunning. lionsgate wsnt always called lionsgate .it used to be called cinepix until 1998  lionsgate was founded by frank geustra

columbia pictures have created many films such as smurfs, the amazing spiderman,skyfall and ghost busters the company was founded in may 1919 the copany used to be called C.B.C until 1924 when it was renamed columbia

universal have made a lot of differant films such as jaws, jarrasic park ,despicable me and the origional dracular. the founders of universal studios are carlleamales,pat power Mark Dintenfass, WilliamSwanson, David Horsley CharlesBaumann andAdam Kessel. it was founded in 1912

in the case we are having 5 actors albert, sam, tom, luke and me.i am playing a dead body that got killed by being pushed off a bridge.albert is acting as the main detective who finds that the dead body is missing a hand.sam is playing a police officer who finds a breif case in a river near by the scene of my death. tom is acting as a another detective,luke is acting as a witness who fingds the dead body under the bridge .we are trying to find someone else as a camera man for the opening two minute film but if we can not then we can just take turns filming scenes that we are not in.

sound research

for the sound research of this film we tried looking on the internet for websites that allow the user to make music or background noise. Most of the websites that we went on didn’t allow us to download or use for free or were not very user friendly so we decided not to use them. we did find one website that gave the users a 30 day free trial so we tried to use this to make our background music for the film but because the variety of instruments that the site had didn’t suit the mood we decided not to use it.we had an idea of what to we wanted as background music and then we found out that the music department at school had the right software so Sam and Luke went and made a peace of music that we are going to have in the background of the part of our film where the detectives see the dead body

costume research

the police vest is neccersery for our two minute opening because without it people wont understand that the police officer in the scene is a police officer.the police officer is neccersery because the crime scene wouldn't seem realistic without one

the detectives in the scene will be wherein suits because the detectives want to seem professional in what they are doing.the suits help make the scene seem more realistic for the viewer

we are using fake blood on the hand of the body because the hand of the dead body is going to be cut off in the opening so we need there to be blood so the amputation seems realistic to the viewers we are mixing the fake blood with gelotine so we get the effect of a scar