Ideas:
As a group we brainstormed different genres and ideas that we thought would be interesting and work well for our project.
In our brainstorm we came up with different characters like hippies/villains, and also a crime genre or also thought a high school thriller would be a good idea to work with.
We finally chose to do a crime thriller genre, which would include one main male character that had murdered a possible wife or girlfriend. The clip would show him digging a whole in an orchard at night, and driving down the track in a white van, and whist he is digging the hole he has flashbacks of the killing, throughout the scene. We thought this would create a good suspenseful clip for our project as it would lead the audience into wanting to know how and why he had ended up killing someone.
What we'd need to do to achieve this;
Camera shots:
We'd need to use a range of camera shots to make the extract interesting, as there is not going to be much packed into the scene, so we'd use a range of long shots when the van is approaching the back of the orchard, maybe a close up of him in the van looking nervous and sketchy, another shot type is we'd use a close up of him, and a low angle shot to make us as a audience feel inferior to him, and a range of mid shots flicking around him so its not just one still shot, maybe also a panning shot, to show his confusion and nervousness.
-Establishing shot
-Long shot
-Close up
-Mid shot
-Track forward
-Pan
-Over the shoulder shot
Mise-en-scene:
Setting/Location for our crime thriller is a back track next to a orchard which is far away for visibility of the public eye.
Also the orchard is a very scary place, we are going to film it in the dark/mid evening, to make it feel a lot more scary also if it is filmed in the dark, it would make more sense.
Also we are going to use the kitchen for flashbacks, there is also going to be some filming in the van as-well.
Props-
Spade
A body bag (in the bag will be a sleeping bag and teddy bear, to create the idea of a person)
The van
Torch
Sellotape ( so the body bag can be shaped into a person outline)
Costume-
Main Male Character-
Dark Jeans
Black Coat
Opened Checked shirt
Boots
Female Character for the flashback -
Casual Jumper
Jeans
Slippers
Lighting-
It will be natural lighting, outside in the dark, the scene will be lit up by the car lights and a torch whilst he is shoveling the hole.
In the flashback it will the black and white, to show the difference in time, the lighting will be natural house lights.
Sound list:
Diegetic & Non Diegetic sound in the scene:
The sound of the van rumbling down the track, the male characters breathing to emphasize the worry, the spade hitting the ground, this will be quite loud as its going to be mostly the only sound, and its significant to the narrative.
In the flashback, the female character will be washing the dishes in the kitchen, low level non diegetic sound will come in when the male character enters the room.
Cast List:
Lucy Jones- Wife that gets killed introduced in the flashback
David Martin - Man introduced at the beginning and throughout the scene also the killer and the digger of the grave.
Script -
No script needed, there is going to be no dialogue.
