test shots

We still need to do 2 parts of filming and that is the kidnapping and the room where all the victims are. We also need to find locations for the shots.We are still remaining with the idea of the bathroon scene where Colette is seized. As for the room we had some trouble finding a location for then Daniel and I thought of the Media suite. There was a balck room and we thought that would look good because black gives that sense of abandonment and a little mysterious because no one would be caught being in such a place. Colette, Steph and I did some test shots in the black room. Since Daniel was not there, one of us had to film while two had to take their positions as unconcious victims. This could not enable us to see how it would look for all three of us in the shot. But I filmed Collete and Steph to see how their unconcious bodies looked with the dim light that Andrea supplied us with and it looked really effective. I then filmed Steph by herself while Collete was handling the light. She was swinging it because we wanted to get the effect of what other thrillers had done and that is that they had a swinging bulb from the ceiling and it swung so that in the shot there would be light then not. We did not have a swinging bulb but had a lamp which we could swivell from side to side. Colette did that while i filmed Steph and the camera kept going blurry because it was trying to adjust to the light everytime Colette swang it away. We then thought that we could not do it but then noticed that the blurry effect looked really good. It was blurry while I was zooming slowly towards Steph's feet.It sort of gave that effect similarly to when people are waking up-when they eyes go blurry tyring to adjust to light. The blyrry effect showed that they were coming round to conciousness.
The actions that we wnated the victims to do were, slight, light movements that showed helplessnes and confusion on their part. For example, Collete would have her hands tied. The camera would then zoom in on her hands and you can see that she starts twitching and trying to free her hands but she can't because they are tied. She struggles but lightly because she is still half unconcious. Steph is lying close to her but she wakes up suddenly as if in a bad dream she then stares round looking scared and perplexed. I am lying against Colette and i move my head but i find it difficult to lift it then groan in pain. We just act what we think it would be like for an unconcious person. We should then have some sort of transition which will lead to the slow zooming in of the corridor to the room that they are in. We also fit Daniel in a shot where he rips up the picture of the three girls he had kidnapped. We still need to fix those things quickly so that we can focus on the soundtrack fitting in with the actions.

I also found a song that does not suggest that our theme is a horror. If we went with our original idea to put echoes of screams, heartbeats and footsteps, then it was as good as a horror. The music that is in a thriller can suggest the type of genre so i found a song called ANGEL by Massive attack. It seems a little fast-paced and also does not have the high strings or sudden drums that can make you jump. It is the type of sound that suggets that action will take place and not necesarily bloody violence. This song has a steady deep bass and light drums and an ocassional instrument that can make the audience tense. There are some lyrics but not right at the begining, which we might use unless the others have any other suggestions as well. It could start when the slow zooming in begins then carrying on for the titles. It is still undecided of what type of sound we could use in the room. But most decisions should be made in todays lessons.