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Editing

We edited the footage on Wednesday in order to prepare it the best we could for the rough cut showing we had today. Unfortunately I was in an exam for a little over half the lesson, so had to leave Zoe on her own to edit. When I came back, she had gotten on really well, she had added some transitions and the text. We had all of our text in the same font and with the same effect, so it wasn't over loaded. We then settled to sorting the soundtrack out, we managed to get some of the sounds in where we wanted and had some ambient tones going in the background.

Filming - Monday and Tuesday

Zoe and myself, started filming on Monday, for the actual project and actually managed to get most of it out of the way. We only had less than half of the film left to film when we finished. When we went to film today, we managed to finish the film in less that an hour. We might have some more to film once we edit it, but will come to that when we start editing.

Group Dynamics

Due to unfortunate circumstances, Zoe and I, felt as if the group dynamics were not working, and we have re-grouped as a Duo. We didn't want to take this action, but felt it was best.

Reasons for Choices -WIP-

Our Thriller Sub-Genre:

We choose the genre Crime, as our sub genre because there are a lot of different things you can do with the crime genre, that keep the basic thriller conventions. We also found that it was the most enjoyable thriller sub genre.

It also helped that we had watched Se7en in class, and we knew more of the basic conventions because of it, so we felt more capable of re creating the conventions in our opening.

 In addition, I feel we were inspired by films like 'Gone' and 'Taken' both have themes of kidnapping/murder and both have elements of crime thrillers.

Our Mise-En-Scene:

Costume - We choose our costume basing it on the basic conventions, we needed to have quite dark and concealing clothes for our villain as we didn't want anyone to find out who he was. Like in most thrillers the criminal is only unveiled at the end and we wanted to include this. For our hero, we choose a detective as it fitted with the sub genre, and the conventions of crime thriller. The other costumes just fell into place after that.

Props -  As we are doing a crime thriller, we figured that we would need fake blood. We also thought we would need weapons, albeit fake weapons, it would be too dangerous to use real weapons.

Lighting - We decided in a group that we wanted quite dark light, so that we would be able to use torches. this again is a concious choice because of our genres, usually thrillers have dark lighting.

Key Ideas - Thriller Project

Characters - Detective Chief Inspector (DCI) Elizabeth Shaw
- Long Coat - Trench Coat?
- Shirt - Long Sleeve?
- Waistcoat - Grey, Pin Striped
- Trousers - Black
- Shoes - Heeled? Converses?
- Badge
- Hat?
- Torch
- Gloves
- Tie?
- Fake Gun?

- Villain - TBA
- Dark Clothes
- Concealing
- Hoodies
- Leather gloves
- Rope/Scarf to kill Lucia

- Victim - Lucia Henley
- Make-up
- Heels
- Trousers
- Handbag

- Witness - Nicole Henley
- Make-up
- Normal Shoes - Boots
- Leggings, Normal Top
- Handbag
- Keys
- Phone


Narrative - Lucia is coming back from an party, when her mother, Nicole, comes to collect her. When Nicole walks off (staggers off) Lucia is brutally murdered, after being left vulnerable and alone. When Nicole returns, she discovers her daughter dead. Nicole calls the police and D.C.I. Shaw turns up, while Lucia's murderer hovers in the shadows.

Enigma Codes - Why Lucia was killed, and the mystery of her killer

Character Types - Hero - E. Shaw.
Villain - .TBA.
False Hero/Helper - N/A
Princess - L. Henley
Princess' Father - N/A
Dispatcher - N/A
Donor - N/A

Motivation - TBA is an angry ex, driven mad by jealousy, he wants Lucia and if he can't have her then nobody can. Someone is trying to ruin Shaw's investigation, by turning suspicion to Nicole. Jacob becomes blood hungry?

Todorov Equilibrium - Equilibrium (Coming Home from Party) - Disequilibrium (Dead Woman) - New Equilibrium (Police solve case)
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