Actor Scouting

After shooting our initial film opening, as a group we decided that it would be much more engaging for the audience and almost more realistic in order to have a younger role play the hostage. Currently, our hostage actress is a middle- aged woman and we felt that was not appropriate for the genre as the usual target are young girls as they are vulnerable. Therefore, we attended a year 12 drama lesson during school hours so that we could scout for new actresses to play the role whilst they rehearsed.

Sound

 

This screenshot shows our build up of sound in the film opening. We hope to add more after re-filming, we used our own foley sounds (such as the plate smash) as well as the inbuilt sounds from iMovie with no copyright issues.

First Draft With Directors Commentary

This is the first draft of our film opening. We have included a directors commentary in which we discuss the things we need to change about the opening and the feedback we got from our first screening.

Costuming

Costuming of the Psychopath

For our psychopath, we thought it would be suitable if he was wearing fairly ordinary clothes, as this shows that he seems like an ordinary man, who is only insane on the inside. We decided that he should also wear fairly plain clothing so he doesn't look like he cares a lot about how he looks. Plus, he is wearing dark shades of clothing, as this gives connotations of evil and fear, opposed to him wearing yellow, which has connotations of happiness and sunshine. However, some psychopaths in films do wear white, which contradicts the connotation of purity, so makes the audience feel uneasy, as well as adding to the use of plain clothing.

When looking at other thrillers, the psychopaths similarly match this costuming:

Shutter Island



Henry: Portrait of a serial Killer

Se7en




Fatal Attraction



Hostage

After receiving the feedback from our first draft screening, we have decided to change our hostage. We will now be using a younger actor with better makeup and costuming. Our current hostage is a woman who is wearing very warm clothes and doesn't seem too bruised.

 

Above, the hostage is shown with a head injury, we hope to improve our makeup when re-filming in order to make it look more realistic.

 

In all the examples above, the hostage is somehow restricted in their movement. All of them have their hands tied up and some of them are gagged, this is a common convention which we will use when we re-film.

As for the clothing, all the hostages are wearing clothes which reveal a fair amount of flesh, this makes the women seem more vulnerable and at risk. In most of the clips used above the hostages tilt back their heads to show their necks, the neck is a very vulnerable part of a women's body and can be used to show their inferiority.

 

Questionnaire Results

4 people said they like our use of sound, and the build up of it, the other two like the storyline.

Some things people thought we should add are more context.

In response to this feedback we have received, we are going to re film some of our shots to make them flow better we are also planning to add some more context in order to increase the length and make the opening make more sense.

Opening Questionnaire

3 Point Productions film opening questionnaire

1)      What did you think of this opening?

GOOD                                   AVERAGE                                            BAD

2)      Did the opening make sense?

YES                                         NO                                         SORT OF

3)      In terms of continuity how good was the film on a scale of 1 to 10

1              2              3              4              5              6              7              8              9              10

4)      In your opinion what was the biggest problem with the opening/what would you change?

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5)      What did you like about the opening?

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6)      Is there anything you think we should add?

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7)      We are planning on a new name for our opening. Any suggestions on what we could call it?

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