Our storyboards

Below are our storyboards that we have drawn up when thinking about the narrative for our title sequence: 

After drawing up our story boards we did our animation for it. 

What we did today - 11/02/15

Today we filmed most of the start of our title sequence. We filmed someone putting a video tape into a TV and the TV going all fuzzy as this is going to appear in our title sequence at the start. We also filmed the news report that will appear when the kidnapper puts the tape into the player. During the day, we also filmed the drain scene that will appear in our title sequence. In this part of our title sequence we will have the kidnapper washing the bones he has stolen from a grave, mud and blood will come off of them and he is trying to wash it off. In our title sequence we wanted to show the audience that some time has passed by doing this today we filmed trees blowing in the wind for a couple of minutes then in post production we will speed up the footage. Below are some photos from today's filming.

What we did today - 10/02/15

Today we made most of our props that are going to feature in our title sequence which are the missing poster, death certificate and news report. Below are pictures are of the missing poster and death certificate that we will use in our title sequence. Tomorrow we will finish the newspaper article that we will also use in our title sequence. 

The main cast for our film

Courtney Cox, is going to play the mother in our film. We decided to pick Courtney Cox for this role as she has been in all 4 scream films and knows the thriller/ horror genre well, so we thought she would be able to adapt to this role easily. 




Paul Dano, is going to play both the Father that dies at the beginning of our film and also he is going to play the villain in our film which is the twin brother. We picked him for this role because he played a similar role in Prisoners which was another film we looked into. In this film he was accused of abducting two girls and in the film he acted psychopathic and this is what we would like him to act like in our film we need him to act similar in our film.

Leonardo DiCaprio, is going to play the main investing detective/ police officer leading the case to find the missing boy. We thought he would be good at playing this role as he is always a leading man in films and also he has been in psychological films such as Inception and Shutter Island. 

Schedule for filming

Schedule for filming-

Tuesday 10th February 2015-

We are going to make a death certificate, a missing poster and a newspaper article for our title sequence. We will try to film some of these on fire. This day we will basically be making and filming our props.
Wednesday 11th February 2015-

We are going to make the news report on a car that has been blown up and someone has died from it but they can't find any cause of it or any suspects. We will then burn it on to a DVD.
Thursday 12th February 2015-

We are going to film a pan of a cemetery, one of our group digging up some mud which will be filmed at a tennis club I am a member of. We will also film a shot of feet and a spade dragging along the floor. This will also be filmed at the tennis club. We will also film dirt going down the drain at the tennis club which will be filmed in slow mo.

Monday 16th February 2015-

We will film a pan of a window sill with family photos on - the murderer will see the picture of him and his twin brother and smash it. The smashing of the glass will also be filmed in slow mo. We will film one of our group members looking at a newspaper and she sees an article on a women that gave birth to twins. Filming Hannah looking at the newspaper and she sees a man that looks like her husband and who is with her missing son Morgan.

Tuesday 17th February 2015-

We will film our missing poster that we made on Wednesday and film it floating down in slow mo, we will also film the candle blowing out on this day.

Wednesday 18th February 2015-

This day we will make any final touches and re shoot scenes if needed.

How our storyboard will be laid out-

The way our storyboard will be laid out in order:

1.  Disc into dvd player
2. Crackling TV screen
3. News report showing burning car
4. He is imagining a burning death certificate
5. There will be a black screen
6. Pan of cemetery - audience understands the location of where the murder is
7. Shot of murderer digging up mud - the bones. It will be a slow mo shot and the camera will follow the murderers feet into washing the bones.
8. Point of view shot - washing the bones - see the bones dangling as he is walking
9. Slow mo shot of the dirt going down the drain
10. Pan of the window sill - audience looks at the family pictures, making it clear to the audience that he has a twin brother.
11. Murderer grabs a family photo and smashes it - slow mo shot when the glass is falling
12. The mum is looking through a newspaper, she flicks and sees an article on a women that gave birth to twins. She looks at newspaper and sees a man that looks like her husband with her missing son Morgan. 
13. Zooms in on missing poster - zooms in on the missing boy's face
14. Missing poster floats down in slow mo - sets on fire
15. Close up/zoom in shot of the murderer's eye
16. There will be a black screen
17. Through the black screen there will be a candle in the distance
18. Zoom in of the candle - close up of the candle being blown out
19. From the candle being blown out, the title of the film comes out

Pitch feedback

Today in our lesson we pitched to the class again because we had made improvements based on their feedback they gave us the week before. Unlike last week, everyone understood what our narrative was about but wanted a clearer understanding to as what was going to happen at the end of the film. The class liked the fact that we had researched into our two films that inspired us which were prisoners and taken. However, some people thought that our budget was too high even though our film had Leonardo DiCaprio in it. They all understood what our title sequence was about and liked the concept. Something they wanted us to improve on was the narrative, the budget and to re-think the cast. This is because some people couldn't understand why Leonardo DiCaprio was in this genre. They thought we have to pick someone that has been in this genre before.