Rough Cut - Miss Miller

A rough cut is the first draft of what our final opening scene, it roughly resembles the final product but still is not properly edited meaning that it doesnt flow as well as the final product. Our rough cut included all the appropriate scenes which we plan to use in our final product but the editing of the sequence is not at the standard which we aim for in our final opening sequence. Our rough copy should that we need to improve the sound of our sequence to make it build suspense then emphasise shock, we also plan to add fast music during the chase scene to increase the audience's excitement. I also think we need to improve the editing between each frame to make it more conventional to the thriller genre.

I believe our rough cut was extremely important in creating a successful opening sequence as it gave us a clear idea of what specific elements we needed to improve about our opening thriller sequence, it also allowed us to understand if our thriller was successful in evoking emotions and if not how we could improve it to build relationships between the characters and audience.

After producing our rough cut we showed it to many people who are within our target audience category and they gave us feedback on how we could improve it to make a complete opening sequence. I believe this feedback was extremely beneficial towards making our final sequence as within our thriller we aimed to use many elements such as relatable characters and settings to help form a relationship between the characters and audience hoping that this would cause them to emphasise with the protagonists emotions and therefore be more engrossed within the narrative, and our feedback gave us a understanding of whether or not the audience formed this relationship with the characters.

To receive this feedback we presented our rough copy to 20 people of our target audience of 15-25 year olds. Within this presentation we created a powerpoint this powerpoint consisted of a brief outline of our narrative, a slide on how our opening sequence fits codes and conventions of the thriller genre and a couple of slides on how we created our thriller. We then played our thriller opening sequence and asked the audience to fill out a form which stated what they think went well within our thriller, what we could improve and the mark they believe we got out of 60.

The feedback we received from showing our target audience our opening sequence was consistent in the fact that they believed that the overall narrative of our opening sequence was successful and the specific cinematography we used was appropriate and affective but the editing of our clip could be improved to enhance the emotions evoked by characters and narrative. Our feedback gave us a clear understanding that we had to improve the sound within our opening sequence to make our clip more conventional to the thriller genre.

Opening Sceneration - Miss Miller

The first scene within our opening thriller sequence sets the scene with a long shot of the tower and the surrounding forests and roads, during this scene no sound was used as we was only trying to set the scene and not evoke any specific emotions. This scene will then be followed by a young lady getting out of her car in a dark isolated car park after driving down the road seen in the first scene. Once again only the diagetic sound of the car door opening and closing was used as we want to make this first part realistic so the character becomes more relatable and no sound needs to be used to evoke emotions as it is a not relevant part of the narrative. The young lady then walks away from the car and leaves the car park with yet again no sound, as she does so, she is then followed by a masked antagonist who's is carrying a knife. As he closely follows her through the car park and out the exit the non-diegetic sound of suspense music is used to create enigma as the hidden identity of the antagonist leaves the audience wondering who he is and what his intentions are. We use a tracking shot to track both of them walking through the car park as it unsuccessfully shows how quick he was walking and suggested he was chasing her with intent yet she didn't know. Following this we use a long shot which shows the victim walking down a dark isolated path and then with no editing or cut scenes she is followed by the antagonist. We used a long shot as it successfully shows both characters and can successfully show the narrative. The non-diegetic suspense music continues over this frame as it creates suspense and makes the character appear more vulnerable as it suggests that he is going to do something bad to her. We then used a similar long shot to show the victim go through a gate

Filming Schedule - Miss Georgiou

As a group we created a schedule which would guide us on what time we would film each scene. This helped the group remain organised and film the opening sequence as efficiently as possible. The time we film each scene is significant as we had to coonsider numerous factors such as the natural lighting. We decided that we would begin filming at 4:00 as the natural lighting would be dark enough to create a eery atmosphere and enigma within the audience but light enough for the characters, setting and iconography to be seen. We also used the same location which we had planned as we was extremely confident  and in the locations we planned as it had a eery isolated atmosphere as well as suitable settings for our narrative, such as car park and forest, it also was convenient for all group members and had lots of low key lighting which added to the mysterious scenes and created suspense within the audience. The costume/hair and make up we used was also as planned as we felt that the protagonist had to be in clothing which is relatable to the audience as they can form a relationship with this character meaning that they empathised with the emotions they feel and are more engrossed in the narrative. We also used the dark casual clothing we planned to use for the antagonist as the mask was essential in hiding his identity and therefore creating suspense as they don't know who he is, the dark clothing was also needed as it meant that he was remained mysterious in low key lighting, it also connotes evil. We felt that these elements had to be as planned to ensure that our thriller was successfully in meeting the genre's codes and conventions.

On the other hand the code/action and shot type and duration we used was not all how we initially planned. We kept the key scenes the same as planned as we wanted to keep the same narrative as planned but we slightly altered the less significant scenes to ensure that the miss-en-scene elements was as suitable as possible and evoked suitable emotions within the audience.

Shot	Date & Time	Location	Conduct/ Action	Shot type and duration	Costume/hair, make up	Iconography	Personal	Equipment
1	1.12.2013 4:00	Repton Park. Road.	The camera follows the car down an isolated road.	Establishing shot. Panning shot.	Formal wear with everyday make-up.	Car.	Husband/ Editor/ Director? Hair and Make	Digital camera Batterys Memory card tripod
2	1.12.2013 4:10	Repton Park. Car park.	The women parks the car and villain is see in background.	Extreme long shot.	All black casual clothing with mask.	Car. Mask. Knife.	None/ Editor/ Director? Hair and Make	Digital camera Batterys Memory card tripod
3	1.12.2013 4:30	Repton Park. Forest.	The victim is chased by the villain out of the carpark into a forest.		Formal wear normal make-up . Black casual clothing with mask.	Knife. Mask.	Husband / Editor/ Director? Hair and Make	Digital camera Batterys Memory card tripod
4					None	Knife Chopping B Hob Cupboards	Editor/ Director? Hair and Make	Digital camera Batterys Memory card
4	1.12.2013 4:45	Repton Park. Forest.	The victim continues to be chased by the antagonist.	POV	Formal wear normal make-up. Black casual clothing with mask.	Knife. Mask.	Husband / Editor/ Director? Hair and Make	Digital camera Batterys Memory card tripod
5	1.12.2013 5:00	Repton Park. Forest.	The victim falls over.	Aerial shot.	Formal wear normal make-up.		Husband / Editor/ Director? Hair and Make	Digital camera Batterys Memory card tripod

Risk Assessment - Miss Georgiou

Within my planning process i created a risk assessment to ensure that all the members of my group avoided accidents when filming our opening thriller sequence. This chart consisted of a description of numerous potentential hazrads and how we can prevent that particular risk. This was important within our filming process as it ensured that all our group members were safe when filming with potential dangers such as the knife. I believe this process was successfull as we avoided all accidents when filming, this was because we recognised what the potential hazards are then we under-went precautions to ensure we avoided these hazards.

Within our risk assessment the most obvious and dangerous risk was the one of the knife, this convention of the thriller genre would be used within our thriller to cause fear within the audience but was also a risk to the people creating the opening sequence. We planned to prevent this risk by not running with it as this would ensure that we wouldn't drop it, when filming we also used a knife cover when we wasn't using it this meant it couldn't cut anyone when being transported.

Description of hazard	Prevention of hazard
Trailing leads while filming	Use gaffer tape to secure leads
Running in a forest	Careful footing
Knife	Don’t run with the knife
Car	Look where you’re going
Slipping over	Use suitable footwear