Pre-Productrion Planning

Synoposis
The film tells a story about a chase, one man after his money and his revenge for his fathers death. Cesare Delino is in a vast amount of debt due to his father dying and being a mob boss, he had a lot of fingers in all areas of business so Cesare had to pay for his disapearance. Pierre Delino (father) had been killed by three of the most prestige hustlers and they are the one who also stole Pierre's wealth and riches. In a vendetta Cesare goes to all lengths to avenge his fathers death and after killing the first two in the opening scene he is after the third and final hustler.
List of roles

• Director - Fraser
• Casting - Sayful
• Props - Jaz
• Locations - Louise

Script

Laughter is heard from the interviewer and the man (hustler no 2) on black screen into first shot.

Interviewer - So how many books have you sold worldwide?

Man - Hmm... I think about a million in 2 months, which is more than i've made from robbing.

Interviewer - That's quite an (pause) achievement, isn't it? Are you proud of what you have produced?

Man - Yeah, well it weren't just me, so I can't take all the credit. Without my colleagues, i don't think i would've put it off.  

Interviewer - Tell me about the events in your book.

Man - It starts with me and the guys planning the crime; what entrances and exits to use to get a fast getaway ya know? Do you have a favourite part?

Interviewer - I would have to say, the questioning scene. The tension created through your lexical choices and description sounded so (pause) life-like. What would you say was successful?

Man - Successful? I suppose when we beat the old man, and tied him up. He had no idea what was coming. (laughs)

Interviewer - That sounds rather brutal doesn't it? (Flash back)

Man - Well, yeah but that's not the worst part.

Interviwer - Yes it says here, 'we circled the beaten man, crumpled in the chair like hungry vultures.' (the man laughs again)

Man - We left some things out. (End flashback)

Interviwer -  Oh? What else did you do to Cesare Delino?

Man  - Cesare Delino? I don't remember mentioning his name in the book.

Interviewer  - Oh no, I done some extra research. You see, i like to come prepared.

Man - Oh ok, so you'll know my colleague. Did you get a chance to talk to him?

Interviewer - Yes, we had a good chat, nice guy isn't he? (Flashback)

Man - Yes...

Other man (in the flash back) - Who's there?

Interviewer - He was hard to get a hold of at fisrt, he's a bit stubborn. But then we had a nice long chat. (smile)

Man - Yeah he's like that. (End flashback)

(Phone goes off, the guy looks at phone it says ' get out now!' he looks back up worried at a gun pointed at his face.)

Man - What are you... (interupted)

Interviewer - You took everything! (BANG)


Imagery of locations and decisions about locations

• Front room - where the interview will happen
• Garage - where 1st flashback will occur of the death of the father
• Flat -2nd flashback of the 1st robber being killed by Cesare. It is spooky, dark and dingy flat in burgess hill, has a good affect with the lighting in the flat (flashing on and off).
• Field - a establishing shot of birds reacting to the shot being fired

prop search

• tea cup - graphic matchin with slamming on to the table with the falling off the chair.
• interview team - boom mic, camera, stands etc,
• gold or silver (expensive looking) watch as a hint to the audience to tell them who the interviewer really is.
• chair that the father gets tied to.
• rope to tie over
• a sack or bag to use to cover faces.
• paper, pen - to make interviewer look proffesional
• BB gun - last shot of Cesare shooting hustler
• Mobile phone - when he gets unknown tip off
• mask - patetant mask for Cesare for when he kills.

Health and safety including risk assessment for filming and use of equipment

• Shin pads - for the kick into shins.
• No pellets in the gun
• Crash mat or matress for the falling off the chair onto the floor.
• permission from house holders and flat owner

lighting decisions

• Interview - 3 point lighting, affect of nice sunny day.
• flashback 1 - spot light, portable beam light.
• flashback 2 - flat lights have special flash on flash off lighting. Possibly take singly portable light also for secruity purposes just in case it is too dark.

Sayful Islam

Sayful Islam 4 thriller openings

 Harry brown

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWK2db_-eVU

Sound

• Sounds bridge at the start with the credits and the talking amongst themselves, linking both the credits and the film it’s self.
• Rustling of the coats and bodies together showing how small there area is and how close they are together.
• When shots being fired, volume had raised on the guns almost like every shot screamed, also the over digetic sounds like the motor bike, people, ambient sound had all been quieted.

Camera

• Starting scene was a OTS as well as a P.O.V shot it was done in steady cam to make the audience feel a bit more personal to the shot, it was to show one of the characters filming the incident on his phone. The whole opening scene consists of this steady P.O.V shot off the mobile phone, once again this is so the audience are on edge due to big constant movement of the camera whilst they are on the motorbike, this also gives you an element of suspense because you can not establish the location or what is actually going on in the shot.
• The first section of the shots range only from MCU to BCU, this is to give a sense of claustrophobia in the location given, and this also consists of math on action shots.

Editing

• There isn’t a lot of complicated cuts, just straight cuts, it starts of with very little but as soon as the location changes to when there are on the motorbike the cuts are very often and quick to create pace to build suspense and anxiety. And it kills the pace completely after the boys get run over by the van, where it completely changes time, pace, location.

Mise en Scene

• The biggest mise en scene I think was the graffiti filled ally.. with every character wearing big dark hoodies, which already shows a stereotype of characters and this gives you ideas of what will happen, which gets reinforced by the guns and drugs.

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Salt
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=salt+opening+scene&aq=0

Sound

• It starts of sound bridge from the black out screen using the foley sound of a door opening to open the scene.
• The language from the characters is different to one and another which causes conflict keeping the audience on edge as they do not understand what the characters are saying for the majority of the shot.

Camera

• There is a big use of LA and HA shot reverse shots to convey the metaphorical as well as physical levels between the two characters, one being less powerful and beneath the other, which also comes into a feminist argument that it is the female character that is valued as less powerful.
• The camera slightly shakes as well to give the audience a sense of discomfort.
• There is a LS at the end to establish the location it is meant to convey.

Editing

•  The first was the use of the door opening, they had used this as a wipe across the screen.
• There were straight cuts from the person getting tortured and the person torturing.

Mise en Scene

• There is a distinct military uniform that the men wear which immediately tells you that it is a corrupt government.

Alice creed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jmu5flghF1g

Sound

• few sound bridges used to link the locations and characters
• mainly digetic sounds being emphasised louder
• not dialect between characters.

Camera

• starts of with the establishing shot which was a small car park
• LA on the shopping troll that then pnas up, making it look like a normal day out shopping until it shows the two men which isn’t the norm.
• There is a BCU on every item to get the audience questions the reason for buying all these items and to shot the importance of them
• Later there is a slow long pan of the room, which establishes that as the main area where this film will take place.
• There is an ECU on the screws giving a sense of suspence to the audience about what is he screwing in?
• There is a shallow D.O.F when they are in the woods to show the importance of a certain tree they start digging in front of. This is also done as an OTS to show that it is important to the characters for an unknown reason.

Mise en Scene

• The items and props are very important shown by the camera framing.
• The body language shows how they are relaxed yet military in the movement they do for example they synchronise their decorating.
• Their facial expressions are very tense.

The killing
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00xzy0f/The_Killing_Episode_1/

sound

• The sound track rises volume and pace as bad guy gets closer.
• The sounds of the Sounds water are emphasised so as an audience you can here which means that the stalker has also heard it, so the character knows what we know.
• There is a very tense sound track

Camera

• Shot of legs panning fallowed by the body running through the trees Shallow DOF focus on her. Then bcu on her head showing facial expressions of her being distort
• LS of her running and tripping over tripping over showing where she has fallen over, which is the dark scary woods.
• BCU on the light of the stalker showing that is the only use of light they have.
• Cu on her panicking and scared hiding from the stalker
• Light use of aeroplane lighting her up for us to see establish area and also for bad guy to spot her

Mise en Scene

• Costume – nightwear or dress? Small skimpy so possibly being chased due to her being vulnerable and female,
• Blood everywhere so fight has happened or she has been already raped but got away in time?

My last thriller was Silent witness which had then been removed off BBC iplayer which meant I could use it to refer to.