Risk assessment

Reasearch codes/conventions

Storyline:

• Unsolved crime
• Centred around detective/Normal civilian
• Detective/ Normal civilian pieces things together

Setting

• A big open area where the murder will happen 
• Office/room- detective/normal civilian puts pieces together 

Themes:

• Mystery- lots of enigma codes to make you think who could have murdered the young girl
• Crime- young girl being murdered in a park

Characters:

• Detective/Normal civilian
• Criminal

Props:

• murder weapon                                                

Editing:

• Fades to black- creates suspense

Sound:

• Mellow, eerie orchestral music- adds tension
• Slow and creepy soundtracks

Props research

We did some research of props we would need in a mystery murder film opening and there wasn't many. So we came up with our own props that we knew we were going to need. These were:

• Blood


• School uniform


• Dog

^{The dog was the main prop because in the film opening the dog was the one that found the body, with the owner. We used the dog because in many real cases it is always the dog that finds the body.}

^{We used blood as a main prop because it made the death look real, so that the audience can observe and see that she is injured and that this girl is dead. Without the blood the audience would not really be able to physically see that she is dead, because there is no sign of injury.}
 

^{We used the school uniform as a prop because it gives the girl identity, and makes her look more vulnerable to the audience. If she wasn't wearing school uniform then the audience wouldn't know she is a school girl and it was a normal typical day for her.}

Location shots

These are all the different shots and an explanation about them.

Timeline of opening

This is the shot timeline of our film opening. This plan helps us to plan for the timings, so that the 2 minute mark is met. It gives details about the titles presentations like when things are presented and how long for. It also gives how long each of our scenes last in the film opening, doing all this helps us to plan out our time and how we will present the it.

Institutions

Here I have explained why we picked Paramount and Lionsgate as our film production companies. In this video the reasons have been explained.

Representations

In this presentation that I made using youtube, you can see everything about the characters in the film opening including what they wear, and how they are supposed to be seen to the audience. This can be the costumes and how they are presented.

First draft film opening feedback

In our feedback there was good shots like panning and close ups. People thought the narration was good because then people knew the plot. People liked the diegetic sounds, like the crunching of leaves, as it made it more interesting and realistic. The atmosphere matched the music that was played lightly in the background and there was an intriguing story line.

We was told that some shots were blurry and shaky, but we will re film some of these. Everyone said that our narrating was too fast and no clear, so we then went and re filmed the voice over, and made it slower and more understandable. People thought that the women that found the body, should have had some close ups of her reaction. The feedback we got was for the reaction of the women to be more realistic. We found that people was quite confused, as there was 2 dogs and you hardly saw the other dog and you didn't know where it came from.

Storyboard as a video

This is our storyboard as a video, we voiced over so that more details could be heard and explained. All though there is not a lot of detail in the drawings, being able to see a drawn plan as well as written helps. The descriptions in the storyboard is very brief but has been expanded a little because of the voiceover.

Music ideas

This is the music ideas that we had for our film opening. We eventually choose this one because it created a huge suspense on the film opening. It is very creepy and fits the genre very well.



We did not like this one because we found it fitted more under the horror genre. Although it does sounds more creepy we didn't want to go to over the top, and wanted to keep it to a minimum.

Fonts for titles

Here are different fonts for the titles of our film opening. We chose 10 different fonts so we had a wide range of ideas to choose from for our final opening.  They all give a creepy, mystery look which gives the audience some idea of what the film will be like. If we picked a nice fancy font it would make the audience confused as it wouldn't go along with the theme of the film opening.  There is mystery and story behind the font of titles. It can give away a lot to the audience.

Shot list

1. our logo
2. paramount and lionsgate logo 
3. title of film
4. four different shots of the park-(zoom in/outs)
5. man walking dog (close up of feet)
6. dog sniffs out body (180 degree shots)
7. shots of body (all close ups)
8. man gets out phone
9. news report (just a voice over)
10. CCTV footage(all high shots)
11. fade out into black screen

Audience

Our target audience is 15-30 years olds. This is because we find that the disturbing scenes are not suitable for under 15 year olds. We also didn't aim for the target audience to be above 30 year olds because we found that older people would find it less interesting and they have less time as they might work and have a family.
 Our primary audience is teenagers because they help decision make. Whereas are secondary audience is early adults because they are the second most important consumer segment we'd like to target.

Marketing

Our film needs to be marketed so that people can want to go and watch it. Our main marketing idea is to distribute poster every where ,giving a brief overview about what our film is about. We want to make the audience want to see more so a lot of enigma codes will be used in our poster as well. Another idea of marketing, is social media. Social media plays a huge role in day to day life, so if shown on there, a lot of people will get to see it, because there's no restrictions like a poster has. Also a website of our own to show, will advertise the film opening well.

This is a double decker bus. These types of buses are normally seen in big parts of the UK, like London. If we put our film title and poster on one of these buses. I think there will be more people aware of the film. Its advertisement would be big.

This is a website for our film; it gives all the details and even some information about the film. It is an advertisement and a teaser.

These are also the two film posters that we made. We had to choose between them and we choose the black and white one. I felt this had more of an emotional impact and infers more than the white one. The plain white one is a bit plain.

Poster one

Poster 2

This is our marketing presentation that shows the ideas that we want to do for our film and why we want to do that idea.

Script

We only have talking in the news report and this is our script for it:
At around 7:45am this morning the police were alerted to an incident at Chelmer park, a young girl who has just been identified as Lillie Mason, a student from Great Baddow High School was found dead by local dog walker John Roberts. He claims that the dog went over to a pile of leaves and it was only then when he went to go and retrieve his dog that he saw the young girl, he immediately phoned police. When police arrived on the scene they were quick to tell that she was already dead, police say the girl suffered major head injuries and that the injuries were the cause  of death. The police have already started the murder investigation  but have yet to have any main suspects. The family is all fully aware of this tragic incident this morning  and would be grateful if anyone could come forward with information on either who was with Lille Mason on her walk to school. Its not clear to as whether this was a random attack or if 17 year old Lille Mason was a target. The family have asked for people to respect their privacy at this time so that they can start to come to terms with the loss of their daughter.

Film idea presentation

On this you can see everything that we have planned for our film opening, although a lot is repeated. It shows our main ideas and themes, these ideas were based around leahs film opening idea .It shows everything that we have arranged and planned for the story line.

Mood board

This is a mood board of our film inspirations. Looking from the film posters you can see they all are mysterious and have the same genre of mystery/crime. These films all have murders or some type of criminal case, which links to our film idea, of a girl being murdered and then no one knowing who has done it.

Production diary

07/11/16- Monday

On this day we were put into our groups, in my group was Leah and Beth. We had to write down a few film opening ideas to do with the story line and genre. Here are my ideas that I presented as a mind map.

1)cliff hanger/twist at the end

2)internet-cyber bullying/online stalker

3)missing peoples case

I’ve realised that all these are similar ideas to do with mystery, like the internet idea leaves you thinking who is behind the computer screen, and a missing persons case it is like where is the person? Was this person taken?

08/11/16-Tuesday  

On this day we had to come up with our ideas and make something good to present them on to for the rest of our groups.

09/11/16-Wednesday

On this day we presented our film ideas to each other and picked the best film opening idea that we agreed on. We picked Leahs idea because it was very successful in the plot, and we also thought it would be easier to film. We had also started planning and adding things on to the story plot.

10/11/16-Thursday

On this day we started doing our film presentation on PowerPoint, for our film opening story, saying what our idea is, our marketing, etc. ready to present to our class.

11/11/16- Friday

This day we had to present out group PowerPoint to the class the class gave us some ideas that we could develop or ask. These are some feedback we got:

• a lot of enigma code through out(makes the reader want to watch more)
• very clear genre/themes
• might be to hard to imitate a funeral
• the ex boyfriend is the most interesting character because people want to know how the is involved.

14/11/16-Monday
on Monday we was planning/adapting our ideas based on the whole class feedbacks. We decided to change the bit of the funeral, because everyone thought it was to hard to do. We changed this ideas with the CCTV footage of some of the girls last moments before her death so the audience can build up the story in there head.

15/11/16-Tuesday
On this day we started drawing our storyboards, and planning the shots. We noted the timings, the props.

17/11/16 and 18/11/16
On both these days we started to blog about our film openings and our ideas.

21/11/16-
Monday, we started writing up our tasks that we assigned each other. We shared our tasks out so that our time would be managed correctly. Like we started blogging about location,shots,script,audience.

22/11/16-Tuesday
On this day we started to write a script for our story board and we planned it, to upload as a video. Also we done research on music that we could play in the film opening to create affects.

23/11/16-
On this day we updated our production diary and started to carry on our blogs about shots/location/editing/sound.

24/11/16-

25/11/16- On this day we filmed our story board, and we recorded the voice over telling the main ideas behind the story boards.

29/11/16- we uploaded our story board and voice over on to adobe premier and edited the footage so we could upload it on to our blogs. 

1/12/16- On this day we filmed our film opening in Springfield park, all day. Getting all the shots and things together.

2/12/16- On this day we updated our blogs and started editing the shots.

5/11/16-We edited our film and made some improvements

Film opening marking criteria

mark scheme:
Level 1 0–23 marks The work for the main task is possibly incomplete. There is minimal evidence in the work of the creative use of any relevant technical skills such as:• Producing material appropriate for the target audience and task; • using titles appropriately according to institutional conventions; • using sound with images and editing appropriately for the task set;• shooting material appropriate to the task set; including controlled use of the camera, attention to framing, variety of shot distance and close attention to mise-en-scene; • using editing so that meaning is apparent to the viewer and making selective and appropriate use of shot transitions and other effects.

Level 2 24–35 marks There is evidence of a basic level of ability in the creative use of some of the following technical skills:• Producing material appropriate for the target audience and task; • using titles appropriately according to institutional conventions; • using sound with images and editing appropriately for the task set;• shooting material appropriate to the task set;, including controlled use of the camera, attention to framing, variety of shot distance and close attention to mise-en-scene; • using editing so that meaning is apparent to the viewer and making selective and appropriate use of shot transitions and other effects.

Level 3 36–47 marks There is evidence of proficiency in the creative use of many of the following technical skills:• Producing material appropriate for the target audience and task; • using titles appropriately according to institutional conventions; • using sound with images and editing appropriately for the task set;• shooting material appropriate to the task set; including controlled use of the camera, attention to framing, variety of shot distance and close attention to mise-en-scene; • using editing so that meaning is apparent to the viewer and making selective and appropriate use of shot transitions and other effects.

Level 4 48–60 marksThere is evidence of excellence in the creative use of most of the following technical skills:• material appropriate for the target audience and task;• using titles appropriately according to institutional conventions;• using sound with images and editing appropriately for the task set;• shooting material appropriate to the task set;including controlled use of the camera, attention to framing, variety of shot distance and close attention to mise-en-scene;• using editing so that meaning is apparent to the viewer and making selective and appropriate use of shot transitions and other effects.

We have looked at some other students film openings and we have seen what looks good and what does not work and then marked them out of 60. I have briefly pointed out a few points that have worked well and not.
Michael
In this film opening there is some very good shots altogether like the way the camera is still and does not shake, especially when it pans across the room. It looks very professional, in the way it is presented like the text in it matched with the story line and the font was simple. Overall the storyline was a bit boring and could have some better acting, to make it more realistic. Overall I gave this a mark of 41/60.

A schools nightmare 
In this you can see that's the editing really made this film opening stand out. The whole scene was darkened and made more spooky when the boy is hit, it really sets the stage. There is so many good shots and it looks very professional. I gave this a mark of 45/60.

Luna
I think the sound used in this is amazing, the text matches the whole film idea, and is standing out, like the story line which was very good and made sense. Overall I would give this film opening 47/60 marks. I liked the way this film opening was very similar to other films so you could see where some of the inspiration came from.

Titles task