The Shot List

This is the entire shot list for the production of our project; this list will act as a guide but also as a reminder to what in fact we'll need to shoot and capture during the times acquired on location. Within the list it includes specific details regards shot types and duration in order to reminder the creative team on what in required for the shot but also to aid the creation of this story.

The Props List

Due to the fact that we are in deed preparing to shoot our project, we have been compiling a list of all the necessities required for the duration of every sequence within our project. We have listed all the required props and accessories needed for the various moments within the sequence ; this list will help provide our creative team a reminder of what is needed within the project in order to tease the story we want to tell within our thrilling opening sequence.

Coursework Animatic (Final Cut)

This is in fact the final draft of the animatic for our project; this was re-edited with an entirely different song in order to convey the particular tone which our group have agreed that it does embody the gritty yet unsettling vibe we want.

Overall this animatic has provided us with an insight regarding shot duration and the ways in which the sequence will presented.

Character Outfits

Within the opening, the main subject within the sequence will be seen wearing 3 different outfits in order to convey a particular aspect of the character. The character will be played by Aayush Joshi who will in fact wear the different items of clothing when required throughout the production.

Outfit #1

The sequence opens with a home-made video illustrating the subject's intentions to set a bomb of at 12:30 ; within this sequence Aayush will be wearing a black coat,trousers and gloves along side with a halloween scream mask to conceal his face.

 Outfit #2

After that sequence has finished, Aayush is then seen throughout the duration of the piece still wearing black trousers but has removed the jacket and the mask but is wearing a black vest. This outfit will subliminally state that lack of clothes will suggest to the audience that he is in fact in his domain where in which he can feel free to expose himself freely without the need to present himself in way that society deem appropriate.

Outfit #3

As the character is within the school environment, Aayush will be wearing the stereotypical accessories an individual such as himself would be expected to wear. As he is in fact meant to be portraying a male sixth form student; he'll be seen smartly dressed along with glasses in order to camouflage amongst the others.

Coursework Animatic (1st Draft)

Since we had finally finished the storyboard for our project, we decided to compile them together to form the first draft of our animatic. This draft was used not only to visually present our concept to provide our team an idea on the sense of the tone; our main interest was to try a particular song choice and decide from the animatic regarding whether or not we should in fact proceed with that song selection.

The song selection was an opera track which was aspired through our interest to challenge the typical conventions of a traditional thriller opening by including a classical track whilst presenting dark and gritty imagery. However from this draft overall as a team we ultimately decided that the track didn't effectively provide a sense of tension towards the audience; we have therefore decided to go back a choose a far more relevant track and re-edit the animatic till we are happy with the final concept. 

But the animatic is pleasing in regards to how in which the footage will be presented within the sequence; from the next draft of the animatic will give our team another glance at our concept. 

Storyboard for the thriller project

Progress with our coursework project

What are our job roles?

Benoit Ganesan - I am the director and co-editor of the project which in other words entitles me to helm duties to ensure that our group remains on schedule and remains on task. Regards to development; I am developing the ways in which we are going to achieve the visual look of the project that we as a collective team have agreed upon.

Jamie Gerrish - He wrote the screenplay along myself in order to help our team have a verbal illustration of the sequence in order to help the creative team fully understand the tone of the piece. Jamie is also a concept artist for the team by drawing the storyboard in addition to being the director of photography helping the director visually capture the aesthetics regarding colour,lighting and angles in order to fully achieve the director's vision. 

Aayush Joshi - He is the member who came up with the concept for the sequence which he will in fact play the lead role of the antagonist "Joseph" . Regarding the development of the project, Aayush is researching costumes in which could inspire our vision for the character's outfit. In addition he is researching past work that we can use as creative inspiration to the visual look and feel of the work. 

Ashley Banger - He is assigned to be the production manager supporting that we're getting our own individual tasks done to ensure that all aspects of the project are met to high degree of input.

What have we done?

Over the course of the week we've remain on schedule regarding the development of our concept for our thriller opening. Our progress consists of us finalising our ideas for the visual look and the tone of the piece which has been visually illustrated through the creation of a storyboard for each prime frame of the sequence; the storyboard is a way of visually presenting our ideas in order to further develop the project by debating whether or not certain aspects may or may not be needed.

Further signification of our progress is the assembly of an animatic for our project to further present our ideas and to help us visually test our ideas before we commence principle photography.

In regards to visually presenting the conceptual artwork for our project; we have a range of ideas of particular types of tracks which we are interested to include in order to convey the tone we so desire.

What do we still need to do? 

However, now we must proceed to approach the filming stage of production. But in order to do so, we must have found locations regarding where in fact the sequence will take place whilst deciding on the outfits for the character.