After our draft hand in feedback we decided that our first draft wasn't strong enough to provide us with the grades we wanted. So from that we came together as a team and decided that instead of re filming parts to make 'Lost but Found' better we thought that it would not only be easier but a lot better to come up with a new idea and re film a whole new opening sequence. We thought this was for the best as we already had experience what had previously worked well during filming and editing and we now know what we're good at. So from this we came together and started jotting ideas down of a new story and finally produced a mind map of a plan which we thought could be a new opening sequence for our coursework.
Mind map:
Above is our mind map which we came up with full of our ideas towards our new thriller opening sequence 'Snatched'. We all had different ideas but I decided that I wanted to take charge of the storyline so after my group jotted ideas down I started to finalise them and draw together a plot.
Editing:
Throughout our whole of our opening sequence we are hoping to involve many advance editing skills and techniques so that we get high grades and show off our knowledge and skills which we have on editing programmes which we have learnt throughout the whole of the year. We have discussed to involved various of fades throughout the sequence to make it flow and not be jumpy, this is one thing we learnt during our editing for Lost but Found. Also I think that slow motion would be great to involve which you would slow the clip down on the editing software to cause tension. But on the other side in contrast to slow motion fast past editing would be great for a chase scene which is one of our initial ideas as we think a chase scene would be very clever and would cause a lot of tension.
Location:
During our planning we discussed various of location which would be suitable for a thriller. As we had already spoke about this whilst we was planning our other opening sequence we decided that we would definitely use a different location for this piece of work. There was many suggestion we thought of whilst brainstorming locations for instance we thought that the idea of a park was a great decision which we deciding for our last filming although we don't want to use the same park as we don't think the forest or woods helped us shoot our ideas very well. Our other location ideas was in a alley, street, field, house or in the woods. Our chosen location is a local park near our homes which is bigger and more public than the other park we filmed our last sequence.
Sounds:
By brainstorming ideas we came up with a mass amount of sounds which we could involve in our new sequence. We wanted to use a lot of sounds in our sequence as we thought that it would add more impact of horror to the action. By not only having a lot of sounds we wanted to pre record them to emphasise them which we didn't do in our last piece of work. The ideas we came up with during our planning was the sound of bikes, car crashes, heavy breathing, leaves and screams on top of dialogue.
Camera:
During our planning we decided that we wanted to use as many camera techniques as we could so that it would be a great chance to show off our skills. The ideas we came up with was that we wanted to include pans and tilts to be able to set the scene and we have found that these kind of camera movements help to focus on characters mise en scenes. Also we are planning to involve zooms so that it would help focus on important props in the scene for instance a phone. Another camera movement is an establishing shot which we are planning to use as a point of view shot which helps represent a character.
Characters:
As a group we decided that we wanted to use young children again as we think that the age gap between young people and older people are stereotypically scary and we found that this worked well in our last filming although this time we wanted to use an adult instead of using someone our age dressed up to be older. The same as last time we want to use the public in the background to help set the scene of a park. But after debating which gender to use we have decided to settle on 2 young boys and a older man as we find its stereotypically more freaky and scary for a child snatcher to be a man.
Costume:
I've decided that I didn't want to dress the actors in any other costumes than casual everyday wear as we thought that this looked well in our last sequence so that it makes the scene look normal at the beginning so then we are able to build tension throughout the sequence. I also decided that the male figure would be dressed in ripped jeans, builders book and a dark hood which would hide the mans face so it wouldn't give anything away also I think this costume would look good as it doesn't give anything away and I find that this is what an everyday kidnapper would wear as you wouldn't want to get noticed.
Props:
- Bike
- Hammer
- Swing
- Football
- Phone
Narrative:
Once we had all gave ideas I then decided to try and put a narrative together and I decided that a kidnap would be good as its completely different to our last sequence. I thought that as we decided we would be using boys as our main characters what would be good they was playing football as where we have chose for our location there is a cage where you are able to play football. Also then I think that there should be someone watching the lads without them knowing and then the young lad gets a phone call telling him to go home immediately he then gets followed home and gets kidnapped. One initial idea was that he was be followed on his bike and then he was start to guess he was being followed and begin to feel uneasy so he then would fall off his bike and the camera was drop on the floor and would film him being dragged away into a bush. This idea was based mainly based around the chosen location as I was thinking about what we could do instead of coming up with an idea then having to find a location which would fit into the storyline. Another idea was that the man would be holding the camera a lot of the time hinting that he was filming the young boys, I think this would be good as it would build tension that he was getting closer to the young lad.
Story Boards:
After deciding our initial ideas for what we wanted to include in our opening sequence I then began to story board our plan. I thought that it would be good to set the scene and start with an establishing shot of the two lads playing football using different camera movements including a zoom towards the football and shot reverse shots of the two lads talking. After that I decided that the young lad would answer his phone and get told to rush home immediately which throughout this there would be an over the shoulder zooming in shot of the phone ringing. After this there would be various of shots showing his journey on his bike which then during this there would be short shots of a mans footsteps walking towards/following the young boy. This would begin to get the audience guessing that he was following the young boy. After this is would then end up with his following him on his bike which would later lead to the boy getting scared and falling off his bike and leading to him getting dragged off into a bush. Many of this would be filmed by the camera which would have been attached to the kidnappers bike which would be lying on the floor as he would have jumped of his bike. 
After thinking I was finished designing the story board and we was sorted for filming I then came back to next lesson with more ideas than the original so I began to jot them down and I produced a new story board. I think this new storyboard is better as it involved more camera movements and chances to show off our editing skills which my group was happier with as they both preferred the second one more. The storyline was similar to each other the only changes was the amount of shots and the different angles. We decided that the first shot would be taken in the cage which is next to the park where you are able to play football in so this setting was perfect for the two lads to play football in. After that I thought that it would be better to involved the kidnapper from the start as it could get the audience locked into the film straight away guessing who it was and why was he there. So I planned to keep having shots on what the man was doing in comparison to the young lads was doing and in both shots they would be both in the background to each others shots showing the audience that they was nearby each other hinting the two characters was linked. Following up this later on the kidnapper would end up on the swing which would help to show the audience which setting he was in and it would be good to do a point of view shot at this time as you could do a handheld shot swinging on the swing being the man, which I hope to turn out good. After this I decided I would then have to bring in where the young boy does get kidnapped as I didn't want it to drag and the audience get bored of seeing the same thing. After this I planned to then show a shot of the man hiding in a bush to then jump out and the young boy and lift him over the bush or through it. This is another point why it is a good decision by Laura Jo that she decided to cast an older and stronger actor to play the main male role as he would be strong enough to drag or lift the young lad over or through a bush. After this I decided that it would look good if with the action the titles came up.
Roles:
We originally organised roles for us all to complete during the whole of the filming of our sequence which we thought was very good but in the end we all kind of helped each other with everything as we thought each of our ideas was better than just one idea coming from one person. The roles below is what we originally planned to follow:
- Filming - All team effort
- Editing - All team effort
- Casting Director - Laura-Jo
- Directing of the shoot - Chloe
- Make up & Costume & Hair - Nikki
- Props Organiser - Laura-Jo
- Title arrangements - Chloe
- Story Writer - Nikki
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