Tuesday, 18 January 2011

Section 5 Treatment

Beginning.
The title sequence shows a mysterious character wearing a black robe placing pictures onto a map. The identity of this person is unknown as they are wearing a mask as well as there face being obscured by there hood. The character cuts out a final picture and places it onto the map with a self satisfied smile. Thefinal picture is then revealed to be the main protagonist Martin Hallwood sat at the desk in his high rise office when he discovers a mysterious letter in his desk. He opens the letter to find a picture of his sister kirtsy tied to a chair and gagged. The sight of this makes him start to breathe erratically so he takes some pills to calm him down. Also inside the letter is a piece of a map and some words telling him what time he has to be there bye. Seeing he has little time left he rushes out of his office to the surprise of his subordinates. He matches the piece of map from the letter with one on the office wall. He then enters the lift and exits the building. Outside martins Personal car is waiting for him. He enters the car and tells the driver to take him to the location marked on the map. The driver cannot be seen due to tinted glass and his voice is muffled also.
Middle. Part1
Martins car arrives at the location marked on the map. He cautiously leaves his vehicle and makes his way towards the building. Checking his watch he realises there isn’t much time left so runs towards the door. The building is an abandoned house in the middle of a council estate. He enters and sees a bare room full of dust. He turns on the light but it doesn’t come on. He makes his way to a door on the other side of the room. As he approaches the door he can hear a strange scratching sound coming from behind it. He picks up a plank of wood left on the floor. He reaches the door and the scratching sound grows louder. He finally builds up the courage to open the door whilst raising the wood ready for anything. The door swings open and a tide of rats swarms around his feet past him and disappears into the room behind. Martin finds himself in a long corridor. He can’t see through the haze of dust left behind and he has to trudge through a floor laced in rat droppings. He takes out a handkerchief and places it over his mouth. He gets to the end of the room and finds an old chair covered in a white cloth those trials across the floor. Martin rips away the cloth expecting to find Kristy beneath it. In stead he finds the body of a man nailed to the chair and devoured by the rats. The corpse wares a plain white mask and a pair of glasses. Martin starts having a panic attack at the sight of this and falls to his knees then whites out (faints)
After he faints martin has a flashback that depicts a series of white rooms that are hazed although they were within a storm. In this flashback martin becomes an uncontrollable character which he perceives in 1st person.. A figure lies on the floor in front of him she has no features is completely white and has no face only dark eyes. By her hair and figure you can tell that the figure is female. The figure on the floor weeps into her hands then looks up her face streaming with black tears she cries “no more!” in an otherworldly voice. Martin’s character then looks at his own hand which is completely black and featureless and swings at the girl on the floor. Just before the blow makes contact the image flashes white and martin regains consciousness.
Martin continues to panic and breathe heavily until he takes another pill from the bottle in his pocket. His breathing returns to normal and he rises to his feet. He inspects the body and finds the glasses which he immediate recognises to belong to his old friend Lewis. Some words have been painted onto the lenses of the glasses and they read “Orion Hardware 6:00pm” martin turns to levee the abandoned house when he gets a phone call. The voice of a little girl is on the phone she says “ringer ringer roses. Get it?” martin shouts down the phone asking who it is and ware his sister is. The girl on the phone simply replies “your fired” then hangs up. As she hangs up the door behind the dead man starts to beep. Martin opens the door to find a stash of gas bottles and a timer counting down. Martin runs out of the house and stands outside as it sets on fire. Martin then returns to his car and orders the driver to take him to Orion hardware.

Middle part2
Martin’s car arrives at Orion’s hardware in the centre of town and looks at his watch the time is 5:42. Martin goes to the front entrance but the shop is closed. He walks around the back and sees a strange flickering light coming from the upstairs window. He climbs the fire escape and enters through the fire door that had been left partially open. The room he enters is full of computers and wires. He checks his watch again 5:50. He stumbles into a computer lying on the floor which attracts a faint cry for help from the next room. Martin enters the next room to find a man suspended from the sealing by his hands. Several wires come from machines all around the room and have been inserted into he mans body. The man is warring a mask and has a timer attached to his chest. The man mumbles “help me” martin walks over and is about to start pulling out the wires when the man shouts “no! It’ll go off” Martin takes the mask off of the mans face and immediately recognises him to be Marcus his old business partner. Martin takes a step back and checks his watch noticing that it is in synch with the timer attached to the Marcus’ chest. He only has 2 minuets left until the timer counts to 0. Martin asks the hanging man what he should do and Marcus replies “The blue wire” then passes out. Martin starts to search the man being careful not to disturb any wires but he can’t see any blue wires. He shouts in frustration and panics as he watched the countdown. 3.2.1. The man jerks into life as the wires pass electricity through his body. The computers around the room start to spark and buzz loudly and explode as. Martin notices something in his periphery. A thin length of blue wire hanging from the roof. Written on it are the words LIZZIE 7:30. Martin pulls the blue wire from the ceiling and as he takes it he hears a thud from above. Water suddenly starts pouring out of the ceiling and into the machines making them buzz and set aflame. Water slowly creeps towards martin’s feet crackling with electricity. Martin runs for the fire escape pushing computer parts out of his way. He clambers down the stairs of the fire escape but falls at the bottom. He rises with the phone ringing in his pocket. He answers it and the same voice from before answers “pop goes the weasel hahahah” the phone rings dead. He notices a lick of flame on his shoulder and throws his jacket to the ground. He runs back into his car and the driver speeds away.

Middle part3
Martin asks his driver if he knows what Lizzie means but the driver doesn’t know. He looks at his phone the time reads 6:20 he searches for the name Lizzie but nothing comes up. He then phones his office and asks for a list of employees under the name Lizzie. The report comes back with 1 person working in his office building called Lizzie Dupree. Looking at her file martin instantly recognises her as his old girlfriend under a new name. Knowing that long ago Lizzie had cheated on him and the relationship ended violently martin decides that she must be the killer. He orders his driver to take him to the address marked on Lizzie’s file. The clock reads 7:10 as the car screeches to a halt outside the apartment. Martin slams through the door and runs up the stairs tripping slightly in his rush. He reaches her apartment. He knocks on the front door hard and as he does so he knocks it open. He can here a muffled voice coming from the other room. He picks up a lamp to use as a weapon then cautiously enters the bedroom. As he stands in the doorway he can see 2 people tied to the bed with there hands bent behind there backs. There both gagged and have a mask placed upon there groin. One is female and martin instantly recognises her as Lizzie and the other is Phil one of martins closest friends. In shock at what he sees he drops the lamp onto the floor. As the lamp hits the floor it breaks a string that was stretched across the room. A beeping noise comes from below the bed and the 2 gagged people try to scream. The beeping stops and a metal spike fires from beneath the bed and impale Phil from below. The room is covered in trip wires all crossing over and intertwined across the room. Martin shouts to the girl “don’t worry il get u out of here” he checks his watch it reads 7:25. He starts to manoeuvre himself between the trip wires towards the girl. He manages to get most of the way across the room and is almost within reach of the girl when his phone rings in his pocket making martin jump. He knocks one of the strings and the beeping begins. Martin throws his phone to the floor and runs over to the side of the bed to untie the girl’s hands but before he could undo the rope the beeping stops and Lizzie is impaled from below. Martin starts to cry and collapses on the bed next to Lizzie’s body. He has another flashback this one shows a black door within the white world martins character approaches the door and it swings open to find the bedroom and a woman writhing on top of a man. The woman stops as she notices martins character. Martin’s character then launches himself towards the couple but he wakes up before he reaches them. As he wakes he sees a sheet of paper between the 2 bodies.  He flips the paper over, it reads “YOUR WELCOME”. Martin leaves the apartment taking the piece of paper with him and runs for his car. He repeatedly scans the piece of paper for clues but he can find nothing other than those words “YOUR WELCOME” Confused that the murderer left him no clue martin sits back and thinks. Then he realises that usually by now his driver would have asked him ware he wanted to be taken next but the driver hasn’t said a word. Martin calls out to the driver but there is no reply, martin knocks on the tinted window but still none answers. “What the hells going on?!” the doors of his own car lock around him. The screen that is set into the roof of the car switches on. It shows a masked character on a black background. The character speaks with a distorted voice “its time for the final Challenge Martin are you up to it?” the screen goes blank and the car drives away.
End.
Martin bashes at the locks and tries to smash the darkened windows but he knows that his car can’t be broken in to or out off. He takes a handful off his pills and calms down. The car comes to a halt in an unknown location. The door opens into a dark room. Martin exits the car cautiously. The room is dark and has bare concrete walls with pillars standing around it. Martin stumbles forward in the darkness then a bright spotlight shines down in front of him. The circle of light illuminates his driver chained to a chained and bolted to the floor with iron shackles. A television set is on the floor above his head. It comes on and shows the same masked figure as before. The character speaks. “One final challenge, before you is a choice. Kill him or I kill her? The character turns the camera to show Martins sister beaten and tied to a chair. “if you look on top of this screen you will find a knife. Use it. When your done I’ll show you Ware your precious sister is” Martin picks up the surgical knife nervously.  He leans over his unconscious driver and puts the knife to his neck. He is just about to cut it when he losses his nerve and pulls away. He begins to panic and takes another handful of pills. “Ok here we go” he says to assure himself. He leans down again and is about to cut the helpless driver when the television crackles on again. “What’s wrong Martin? The voice wasn’t distorted anymore. Now it was distinctly female. “To hard? I put a little something in his pocket to help you” the Character laughs and the screen goes blank. Martin looks in the pocket of his drivers jacket and pulls out a bottle of Whisky. He has a flash back of him drinking multiple times and pouring drinks out then the sound of glass smashing. He stares down at his driver then drinks the entire bottle. Martin takes some deep breaths then cuts the mans throat

Saturday, 1 January 2011

Section 12.1 Editing Diary

Editing Diary.

07/01/2011
Today we began to cut out each shot and move it onto a clear location on the timeline so that they will be easier to find when it comes to the edit. I have also been through every take of each shot decided which was best and cut out the bad shots. I did this by stopping the film at the start of each shot then isolating the 1 good take then using the razor tool to cut it out. Then I selected the chosen shot and moved it up onto a bar so that i could easily see which shot is which.

07/01/2011
I have finished cutting each scene and editing out the bad takes. Next I will begin to blend each shot together in order to make the movement of the whole film consistent. Also i have noticed that in some shots the tripod we used has been left out. I plan on cropping the image to rectify this mistake. I have now edited out all of the shots ware the tripod in shot. In future I will make sure I levee all equipment behind the camera.

10/01/2011
I have finished the rough edit so now I will cut down each shot to make sure the characters have smooth movements. I’ve now done half of this and so far I am very happy with the results.

11/01/2011
I am continuing editing the shots so that the whole film is smooth and has no continuity errors. I should get this stage of editing finished by today then I can add effects.

12/01/2011
 Today I’m continuing to make the film more fluent. I have now finished the major part of the editing process all I need to do now is add in the split shots of the map then I can add effects. I have finished adding in the split shots of the map. I may re-do some of this at a later date and make it completely accurate to the story board.  

14/01/2011
Last lesson we added a soundtrack to the project. The music was not long enough so i have cut and looped the end of the audio. This still isn’t synched perfectly so i intent to alter it some more at some point. Today i plan on adding different fades and dissolves to the project.

17/01/2011
Last time I added several dissolves including fades to black and cross dissolves. I also spent a long time looking at the audio bar finding the perfect places to cut the music so that the listener cannot tell that it has been looped. I am very happy with the result and also how the music flows nicely with the visual as well as the transitions and fades being well synched with the visual. Today I completely finished the visual editing by adding one final cross fade on the last shot and sharpening some shots that earlier I had previously zoomed into to cover continuity errors. Today I added the titles and added effects to them causing them to dissolve in and out of the shots. The edit process should now be complete though I am considering making the final shot cut to a title screen instead of the 1st shot of the film which was the original idea.

Thursday, 2 December 2010

Section 4: Audience Research


Thriller Questionnaire
1.     How old are you?
15-25          26-35          36-45          46 and over

2.     What Gender are you?
Male          Female

3.     What gender would you like the antagonist (villain) to be?
Male          Female

4.     What gender would you like the Protagonist (hero) to be?
Male          Female

5.     What emotion do you want to experience when watching a thriller?
Happy          Sad          Anticipation          Adrenaline Rush          Arousal          Anxiety          Terror          Guilt          Other:________

6.     Do you have any particular sub genre which takes your preference?
Mystery          Psychological          Conspiracy          Crime          Disaster          Religious          Other:________

7.     What type of setting and environment should the film mainly be set in?
Calm and peaceful          Chaotic and loud          Other:­________

8.     Which type of ending would you like and why? Sad, happy, guilty etc.
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

9.     Who should be victorious at the end Antagonist (villain), Protagonist (hero) or neither?
Antagonist          Protagonist          Neither

10.                        What period of time would you like the thriller to be set?
17th Century          18th Century          19th Century          20th century
21st Century+          Other:_________
Please specify which time in the Century, E.g. 1960’s 1970’s etc.
________

11.                        What age range should the main Protagonist be?
Under 20          21-30          31-40          41-50          50 and over

12.                        What age range should the main Antagonist be?
Under 20          21-30          31-40          41-50          50 and over

13.                        What type of society should the film be set in?
City          Forest          Jail          Village          Rural          Other:­__________

14.                        Would you rather the thriller be realistic or fantasy?
Realistic          Fantasy          Other:________

15.                        What plot(s) would you like to be in the thriller?
Ransoms          Revenge          Kidnapping          Obsession          Tragedy          Other(s):___________________________________

16.                        What type of character would you like the main Protagonist to be?
Vigilante          Police officer/detective          Ordinary person          Priest          Other:_____________

17.                        What type of character would you like the main antagonist to be?
Stalker          Ex Convict/Convict          Assassin          Mental Patient       Psycho          Other:_______________

18.                        Describe what type of music you would like to hear in a thriller? High/low pitch, base, instruments etc.


19.                        How many Antagonist(s) should their be in the thriller?
0          1          2          3          4          5+

20.                        How many Protagonist(s) should their be in the thriller?
0          1          2          3          4          5+


Above is a questionare we created to gauge the opinnion of our target audience and use the results as a template to make key decisions as to what should be in our thriller.










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