28 days later

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eunaclr-WgU

28 days later is an sic-fi horror about an a man who wakes up in deserted london. This is an apocalypse film which relates very well to my horror ideas although you don't know what is outside the building with the tent it in, it gives off the impression that is a 'end of the world' film. Our film is an isolation film which is very much a like to 28 days later in the sense that they aren't isolated but just feel it because there are very few people left alive after the apocalypse.  

trap inspiration

We came up with the trap idea with inspiration from a spider web, we want the trap to look like it has been there for sometime with different sounding items like bells and can hanging off them, we want the string to look scattered and messy but covering a large area. It is almost like the idea of a human spider web because its going to be of such a large scale.

characters looks

CHARACTER

LOOKS

·       20-30 years

·       Man

·       Facial hair

·       Looks hard/scary

·       Scruffy looking

CLOTHING

·       Dark clothes

·       Hoodie

·       Trackies

·       Big leather boots

·       Contact lenses

·       Fake scars and cuts

Initial prop list for thriller

Mens clothing:
hoodie (dark)
trackies (dark)
leather boots (old and dirty)
contact lenses
fake scars

Others:
small tent
duvet
pillow
string
tea making stuff
cigerette and lighter

importance of story boarding

Story boarding is an important technique because it helps you prepare yourself for what your film is going to look like. It also makes sure that you dont forget any small scenes or movements for when you start filming, Its an easy way of organising your filming process. Our storyboarding sheets have; shot number, location, action, shot/movement, sound, lighting, edit transition, timing and a area to draw out the scene.
After doing our initial storyboarding we realised that we missed a lot of parts out of out it which meant that we had to keep re-writing out the storyboard again to make sure its perfect. A part which was hard to do was the timing because its hard to judge how long the shot will actually go on for.
It was interesting to see how many different shots there were in a scene and how you can tell if one shot should be split in to more than one.

developed best idea for thriller

After our first pitching our ideas lesson we sat down as a group and discussed as a group, Me Gil, Owen and Frankie, and we pulled together our strongest ideas that we had.
This was mainly the tent idea. We new that we wanted to use the tent idea in our thriller but we wanted to make it strange so we decided to have the tent inside a house. This makes the idea questionable to the audience which makes it more strange.
Our main character and only character is a middle ages man with: a beard, scard face, funny eyes and wear a convict suit.
For the tent we decided that we would get a large tent with different compartment for his kitcken bed room sitting room all inside the tent. The tent is also going to look extremely messy and look like it has been lived in for a long time. this would have hundreds of lines of strings leading off the tent to different areas of the hall like a trap.
As a set we wanted to use a big old fashioned house with a large door leading into a big hall way with stairs ways going around the room with a the tent in the middle. this would be ideal if we used the string idea because it would look almost like a spider web effect.

 The plot is that the man in the tent wakes up after hearing one of the strings go off then gets out of his tent into the hall way of a large old dusty house, this is when dogs start to howl outside the house doors and the man grabs his axe.