Main task- Shooting schedule

Monday- filming/editing practice. Blog update at end of lesson if possible.

Tuesday- After  school outside school shots in abandoned warehouse.

Wednesday- Practice editing and affects.

Thursday- Blog work at home.

Friday- more shots for title sequence to enter of thriller.

Weekend- Optional filming outside school depending on availability.

Main task- Begining isues and update on filming

issues
so far there has been a lot  of distractions preventing our shot in school as the main prop for our scene is the desk lamp, however this has gone missing from our media room since we started last week and the scene requires it we have been unable to do the scene we've found a quite and dark enough room to hold the scene but we may need to stay after school to complete the whole scene.

update
So far we have small clip scenes that currently make little sense separately the idea is we can edit them to create the title scene which will be pin up police line ups of us and other "evidence" to the crime this will show the audience that they're trying to connect and figure out the culprit or person of suspicion.

Main task- Location reasoning and shots

The two main locations for our shooting that we have chosen is in the school and an abandoned warehouse facility on the outskirts of town, the location was chosen due to its intense atmosphere and derelict abandoned situation which gives a more realistic feel to the audience than say the park, additionally it adds up with the current plot of our thriller due to it being based on a secret as you'd expect to hide a secret in an area that is completely abandoned. The school was chosen for the "fake police interview" scene, as we needed a very studious professional environment that has your typical items such as a lamp desk etc.

This shot is of the abandoned office of the facility this will be used for small aerial scenes as were trying to reduce the need to enter the buildings for health and safety reasons. so we've only done 4 shots inside.

The image to the left is where the cultists approach was shot we figured that this wide-shot would be perfect to set a sinister tone especially with it being dark and gloomy apart from where i stood where the light floods in through the roof for effect.

The image to the left is from when we were exploring the setting for any more potential filming locations this one was never used unfortunately.

This area is not featured in the main clip but is included in the deleted scenes and is the warehouse next to the "cultist approach" scene.

Main task- One page pitch (explains audience and theme of thriller)

title:  The Covernant

Tag-line: "Tears, fears, secrets and lies, all which are kept, but non shall survive.." (takes there secrets to the grave along with anyone who knows)

this is to show the audience its a mystery thriller or that it will most likely involve a group of people as the main antagonists and give a general hint of secrecy or conspiracies

Audience: Our target audience is over 15's to 40 preferably interested in dense plot lines, most likely of higher age end audience as the plot would be intended to be complex and of a mature nature however we want to include gore and an occult feel to it so our audience stays specific but not to focused on the one area of mystery. they would be into mystery conspiracy and horror novels and movie and would be fairly outgoing but mature the audience are still outgoing age so would be able to easily access to see the movie while at the same time are mature enough to enjoy the adult plot, additionally most of the UK’s population is aged to that same target audience range at roughly 40% of all age ranges in the UK according to my source such as Demography. It is mainly a male bias film as it involves themes such as gore and crime that most Men are interested by and few females. 

Reasons: my reasons for this audience were simply due to the genera i picked is easy to diverse into subgenera's and its category has usually a large but specific niche fan base an example of a current popular mystery is Harry potter and since its release there has been no other popular mystery's, this means all other genera's such as action or horror have more films developed in that area less so in mystery leaving a gap in current films and less competition in said area.

Protagonist: The idea of the protagonist is to relate and almost pity his situation this means as well as caring for him by pitying him the audience would feel as though they need to know what happens to him and connect this also relates to the interest and connections to the audience.

Interest and connection to audience:  By placing your average person in a completely outstanding and shocking situation the goal was to make him react how someone would scared and confused, making the thriller much more relatable and realistic I intend to also place scenes that don’t show what the antagonist sees to make the audience keep watching in order to see what he saw that terrified him so much.

Story:  the story is essentially about a school kid who hears about an abandoned warehouse after a while his interest peaks and he can't resist exploring the area for it, upon stumbling onto it he's immediately overcome and looks around before he discovers something a secret in one of the derelict graffited rooms that fills him with regret and fear and some mysterious figures noticed and they want the secret to die with him.

Visual realisation: after researching a few films there's 1 film in particular which had lighting that was extremely affective its called sanctum and although the contents are extremely different the shots are unique as they frequently used lights behind the actors to create silhouettes these give an eerie outline to the characters and builds suspense and I wish to apply this to my thriller. Additionally i wish to add vibrantly contrasting scenes in order to create contrast much like how barths narrative codes are used to make the audience feel a sense of good and evil with bright colours and black.

The cost of the thriller will be mainly from buss travel and props depending how many times we need to travel to our location to film.

Main task- Regional identity - Scotland

Here is an iconography that shows what a stereotypical view of Scotland may appear like, these can be used to give an overall sense of how an area can be portrayed to connect this to my media study because the setting of my thriller is in Derbyshire, so it would help to understand a stereotypical portrayal and how it would be integrated into film i.e. accent clothing landscape etc.