Shooting Schedule

The shooting schedule was tricky to start out with as Sarah and i had a rehearsals for the school show, plus the show. So due to that, we missed approximatly two weeks of filming. But we did it in the end and eventually we were the first to be finished too.

Script - first chapter.

1. INT. MENTAL HOSPITAL-DAYTIME- (PRESENT)
2. EXT. IN PARK. DUSK.

(Past) The bell had gone for school to go home and SKY is walking through the park to get home. Hearing a branch snap SKY stops to look.

SKY
Hello.......

She turns to look around her.

SKY
Is anybody there?
Come on, this is not funny!

She then paces on; quickly away.
SKY then goes back to the present

1. INT. MENATL HOSPITAL-DAYTIME- (PRESENT)
2. EXT.IN PARK. DUSK

Remembering back SKY carries on pacing. Next, she comes across a friend at the bench, JACK. They pretend to speak (muted). JACK hits on SKY and she gets up to run away. SKY starts to hear voice’s in her head, not knowing it is JACK

JACK
(The voice)
Go on.... you know you should kill him. That’s right KILL HIM!!!!

Still running SKY is wondering what is happening to her and faints.

SKY
(Faintly)
Kill Him....

Camera Map

The first Camera Map is showing when we taped my clock for the opening credits.

This second Camera Map is of the sections in doors - where everything is in black and white.

This Camera Map is for the while of the film where we shot outside.

Before creating these final camera maps we had a different place to film the outside, which was bit further down. But the reason we had changed was due to the cold weather outside, we couldn't make it that far. Along the process of editing we had decided to film my clock for the effect of time never ending - whilst the credits where running through it.

Detailed Treatment

As we fade in, we notice a woman who is sitting quietly in the corner of the room, cramped and issolated. She was wearing a straight jacket and was rocking back and forth, to connote madness and loss of sanity. A high angled shot helped to show how belittled she feels as the audience is looking down apon this woman, also the room is dimly lit and a non-diagetic music will be playing to emphasise the tension within the room.

After zooming into the womans face, a transaction takes place; a white flash which leads into the title sequence. The music is still playing at this point as we were still unsure of what is happening within the scene. There is another non-diagetic sound within this transaction, which is a school bell, this indicates the awareness of what has just happened and the surroundings. The title Voices pops up through the white screen. The word 'voices' made an audience think about what happened throughout the movie.

The white then fades into a fog like substance and analeptic jump comes into view when we see the exact same woman as before. Sky, 15 years of age, is walking through park at dusk. Wearing a school uniform and carrying a bag and books, a wide angled and panning shot was watching the young woman walking through the dark,dingy and dismal walk through leading to the park. She fast fowarded a few times, to create that aura of suspition and confussion, yet the audience do not suspect her as a threat or a victim.

Getting closer to the camera, the woman finally stops when the camera was close-up, the camera then zooms into her eyes for the reaction and then some diagetic sound comes into play. The darkness of outside means a little bit of light would be needed so that we can see the eyes to help us capture the image. Until this point the music is still be playing, but queitly, which shows the link between the first section to this section after the title sequence.

Whilst she is walking, and stopping on the odd occasion, a person was amongst the trees is watching the young maiden.

When all of that has been astablished, we then have that flash of white again, which goes into the young girl in a straight jacket and into the corner again. The music comes back on, still queit, and the camera zoomed into her, getting closer, to build up more tension then needed, but the lighting doesn't change from the first time we see this image, as it shows the link between the the analeptic jumps. We added the flash for the end of this section to help know that it is the end of the image.

Coming back to the young woman walking, we used tracking shot as she pace's herself a little faster as she is spooked because of what had just happened. She turns around and there behind her is a friend. The lighting is of the sun setting as we wanted it to be natural light (from outside) because it gives all sorts of atmosphere's. We also hear the girl out of breathe to clarify that she is scared.

As the music gets louder, a close-up of the characters miming a conversation came into play, we then jumped cut into the mantrying to talk her into loving him.
The music softens again as there was a mid-shot of the young girl getting up to running away. A close-up of the mans face was then shown on the screen as he is angry. A diagetic sound came out of the mans mouth.

We track the girl for a while, then the camera turned around to her face as she was holding the camera to give the effect that the audience are running with her. No music was playing anymore, but we heard the sound of her breath and the non-diagetic sound of 'voices'.

Still holding the camera, the girl falls down and is then unconsious, this gives the effect that we are with her at the time of the confusion.

Technique Anaylsis

Louis Lumiere, a frenchman, is often noted for his invention, which is the first motion picture in 1895, even though there were many other similar inventions made around the same time. Lumiere's creation was a portable motion-picture camera, a film processing unit and a projector called the Cinematographe. There are three things which is covered in one invention.

Films then advanced into into the 1900's from moving picture's to black and white silent movie's. The thriller/horror in black and white tended to be comical, as the villan would get a pie in their face, and the usual damsel in destress would eventually be tyed to a rail-road track. Within the early 1900's camera angles were simplistic, as they were not technalogically advanced as us nowadays. The sounds were generally non-diagetic, as all the sound would be was music over the silience. Transactions where used alot as writing would pop up for the sudience to know what was being mimed.

Now we are in 21st century technology has advanced steeply. Films are in colour, they have both diagetic and non-diagetic sounds, e.g. dialogue and music, and we have now special effects, just like in Star Wars. Star Wars has many diegetic sounds which is the dialogue, it has non-diagetic sounds when the lightsabre's and guns are in action. The film Star Wars is a good example as it has been through many stages of technology; With the early years came film 4-6, then they decided to make 1-3. There is a definate difference with the way the later films look to the earlier films as they were film over many many years. But also with the 6 films comes the new animated movie Clone Wars, which is simply most of the movies placed together.

Genre Conventions

Lighting

The lighting within any type of thriller is usaully a colour that connotates something, for example, a dark alley way can connote suspition, death or even violence. Whereas in any typical romantic film you might have a red light to connote lust.

Sounds

For a thriller, as an audience, we gennerally notice alot of non-diagetic sounds, such as; music. This helps to create that certain aura that the director is trying to bring across, leaving the audience in a state of shock or unsure.

Editing

Editing is quite simple throughout a thriller, as you would want to keep the viewers on the edge of their seats, and by doing that, jump cuts would be used, with the occassional transaction like disolving - but only at the end of a section would you use a transaction like disolve otherwise it could get to complex.

Changes in Convention of the Thriller Genre

Over the later years of film making, psychological thrillers have grabbed the attention of an audience better then the average love film, for example, on Rateitall.com the average psychological thriller is rated somewhere between 4 or 5 out of 5.

Going back to the early years of film making, where setting and acting was abysmal, the psychological thrillers, such as Blackmail (1929; Directed by Alfred Hitchcock) didn’t seem to make a good impression on a wide audience as the industry lacked the understanding, knowledge and expertise that makes a better class of psychological thrillers as we know today, for example The Others (2001; Directed by Alejandro Amenabar).