The Decoy!

Last time filming.

Last night, me and my group finished filming our thriller. It took us a couple of hours to do this, however we that has made us more positive that we have everything we need for our film. We have also just finished completing our titles for our thriller and in the process of editing the rest, therefore the titles will be visible to see when we have finished editing the thriller. 

Filming.

On Friday 11th February 2011, me and my group decided and arranged with the starring characters that we would start to film our thriller. So we all met up at Charlie's house, where we had planned to place our scene at. We then did a role play of the first bit we was going to film and then we carried it out seriously. We thought that the filming went quite well and thought that we had the perfect weather to start filming.  

Our thriller title, The Decoy!

The name of our thriller, as you can see is called 'The Decoy'. At the beginning, we will introduce the film by using the title. The name we have come up with fits in with the plot of the film as it sounds very mysterious and keeps the viewers guessing.

Location Pictures.

Today me and my group are going to take pictures of the location we are sure that we will set the scene of our thriller at. We will take several pictures and then post them on our blogs. 

Treatment sheet.

Me and my group have not yet come up with a name for our thriller, so over the next couple of days we will be discussing ideas and names for it. 

Ideas/Story 

For the plot of our film we are going to be following the life of a boy. On this particular night he will be at home, watching television alone. While watching the tv the protagonist will get a knock at the door, he finds it very strange as he is not expecting anyone and is not expecting his family to be back till around midnight. When he opens the door, he doesn't recognise the two men and is more sure about this as the man asks for someone that he knows doesn't live there. When the protagonist has sent the men away, a while later he gets another knock at the door and strangely it all happens again. The protagonist definitely feels like its happening all over again. As he starts to get worried about this door knocking, he decides to call a friend that will come round and just watch some tv with him. Again there's a knock on the door, the protagonist automatically presumes its his mate so he opens the door but stood in ahead with his back to him is a man. When he comes out to confront the man he is approached by three other men who attack him and gets hit over the head with a bat. We then see him getting picked up and put into the back of the boot. The last scene of the film is us seeing the car driving off in the distance. 

Settings/props/costumes

Setting: house/road 

Cast: 6 actors overall 

The 4 kidnappers will be wearing all black clothing which will make them look and come across as very suspicious and mysterious 

Protagonist: Casual clothes, wearing pastel colours 

Getaway car, rope 

More ideas

We have decided to shoot the thriller at night so the darkness adds to the mysterious and suspicious tension in the atmosphere. Whilst the protagonist is at home watching television and he gets the knock at the door, dark and nerve racking music will be played. Contrapuntal to make the audience suspicious. When the car is driving off with the man in the boot, the audience will feel confused and will ask questions to why the protagonist is being kidnapped. 

TheArtOfTheTitle.

Today I decided to look at 'theartofthetitle.com' and I realised that the reason for having this site is to show off to the public the title designs of many artists. This website has a large variety of film and television title sequences. 

A title sequence is the method by which cinematic films or television programmes present their title, key production, starring actors and the staff members or both, utilizing conceptual visuals and sounds.