Logo

Taking the other two idea's into consideration and adding all of the three idea's together, this is what i have come up with for our logo. It is simple with a touch of colour to make it stand out more and remembered when seen.

When the rest of the group saw the logo they thought that it needed a more brighter colour to attract the audience and make the 'K' pupil stand out.

Final Storyboard

This is our final storyboard, we made some alterations from the previous one in order to make our storyline flow continuously. I redrew our storyboard to add more detail into the pictures so that it is clearer what locations we are doing to film. This will be useful because it will be clearer to understand.

Playing with colours

Here is another idea contributing to our final logo

Distributors

Dogwoof Pictures are a small independent UK distributor who started originally concentrated on foreign films, this may be useful to us as distributors as it is possible that they may get our production out into foreign country's. The history of films they have produced are relatively serious. They have previously distributed thrillers, though not horror thrillers.
Momentum Pictures would be a good distributor to approch, however they only seem to deal with larger budget films, such as this years 'Woman in Black'. They have distributed thrillers and horrors before such as 'Insidious' and 'The Crazies'.
RKO Pictures would be acseptable as in later years RKO launched a horror division, Roseblood Movie Company to focus on the popular horror/thriller genre which would suite our roduction perfectly.

Idea contributing to final logo

I took the outline design and started to add colour and edit in photoshop to make it look more professional, playing around with ideas to contribute to the final logo.

Similar Conventions

Many people questioned about our film said it reminded them of criminal minds. After some searching I found an episode with similar elements to our script, so following its style would be productive.  

 It starts with an establishing shot, informing us that the following sequence of events will take place in Washington DC ant night time.

Then moves onto switching between clips of different prostitutes in the area and clips of someone writing a speech on how prostitution is a 'plague' and destroying their streets.

Its then focuses on one specific prostitute, tilting up from her feet to her head allowing her to be in full shot, showing she's going to be important to the plot line. 

 It then flicks back to the typed up speech where it zooms into the line 'We must exterminate'.

It then shows a transition from night to day by focusing on the Washington monument and speeding up the transition from dark to light.

It quickly moves on to a struggle between the prostitute focused on before and a man struggling in an alleyway during the day, the man is never fully seen, it only shows his hands and back from a extreme close ups and overhead shots, the woman is hit to the ground and the man covers her mouth and stabs her in the chest, the struggling stops.

He removes the blade used to stab her and cuts of large amounts of her hair and leaves it littered around her head before fleeing the scene. 

A murder scene within our film is similar to this a so we could use similar conventions to portray our point. 

Alterations to the script

Due to copyright issues we decided to change the script from using the word Facebook to Internet. So that now in the film we will use the word internet rather than Facebook.

draft of production logo



This will be our production logo for our group

I came up with this logo for our group through researching different idea's, looking at other logo's for idea's, for example, the Pixar logo is simple and easy to remember, a lamp in place of the 'i'. I wanted something simple and easy to remember what represented us so i began to sketch some idea's. Finally i came up with an eye because it's quite a girly feature as were all girls and then i used the film tape through it to bring it back to the film identity. I placed a K in the center of the eye to stand for our production name, which gives a twist to the logo.

Script

Rough Draft Storyboard

Today we started the rough draft of our storyboard, so far we are happy with it and are dicussing title sequences. Next we are going to start the script.

Final opening sequence

After analysing everyone's ideas on the opening sequence, we decided that this would be the outline for the first two minutes. We all had input to the storyline and all agree on what is going to happen.

One of the ideas of storyline in the first 2 minutes



This is my idea of what our first two minutes could look like

We have decided as a group to write how we picture the begining of the film being presented, we decided to each write the first two minutes or ideas on what we would like to include. When each person has done this we are joining them together and taking the parts we like and including them in our film and dismissing the parts we do not like and rethinking how we will go about in shooting it. This is a version of how i see the begining.

Notes

These are some notes i made when building one of our main characters profile. We made a paper Facebook profile of our killers fake Facebook on another sheet before we make it online, these are the notes i made on the actual killer his self to create his character profile. You can see he makes a fake account and uses the name of "Ashley Dixon" age 20 when infact his name is Wade and is 30 years old.



this is a draft of the killers fake profile

List of Character Profiles

This is a short list of the characters in our production, with a short description of their part to play through out the film.

Wade Cadell

   Psychologically troubled. His resentment towards ex-wife, and anything that reminds him of her, leads him to murder several young women after meeting them on a social network site, using a fake profile.

Hope Yardley

   Best friend of Lily’s who worries about her relationship with Wade (unknown to her) and is accidentally killed in her place.  Related to Wade (niece).

Lily Brooke

   Talking with Wade online over a social network site. Best friend of Hope’s. Was supposed to be Wades final victim due to her eyes, which are strikingly similar to his ex wife's. 

Abi Rowan

   Wades first victim due to her similar smile to Wades ex

Harley Quinn

   Second victim due to similar hands and nails to his ex

Eddie Hawke

    Third victim due to same piece jewellery to his ex

Danni Fisher

   Fourth victim due to similar hair style to his ex

Treatment of full film

Our Storyline of full film

A psychologically troubled male (Wade Cadell) begins to prey on young women, through social networking site, Facebook. Keeping a tally, of each girl he kills by crossing off their profile pictures. There is nothing linking the young women together apart from their resemblance to his ex wife. The man kills 5 victims, Abi with the resemblance of her smile, he choses to kill her by strangling her. Harley with the resemblance to her hands and nails, he kills her by beating her to death. Eddie wear’s the same necklace as his ex wife and her life ends with the noose. Danni’s life ends because the resemblance of her hair, she dies through her throat being slit. Finally Hope is killed because of the resemblance of her eyes. After killing each of the victims the killer takes with him a “souvenir” (a lipstick, a nail, a necklace, a lock of hair and a false eye lash). However, his killing spree comes to a sudden end after accidentally killing the wrong person, Hope, who narrates this tragic story, his final victim.

Reviews

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The website above has reviews for multiple psychological thriller movies and why they believe they are classics with in the genre. Following these review and conventions in the films could be very useful to our production.

History of Thrillers - Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock is one of the first and most famous psychological thriller/horror writers of all time. His first film was produced 1925 but his first thriller was in 1927, 'The Lodger'. The Lodger follows the story of a serise of murders of blonde women and a detectives jelousy of a suspicious, new lodger flirting with his blonde fiancee, and so, accuses the new lodger of being the murderer.

His second thriller was 'Blackmail' (1929), in which a woman kills a ma who attempted to rape her, then finds herself caught between her detective boyfriend and a blackmailer. Skipping ahead, one of his most famous films was 'The Birds' (1963) turned harmless creatures like birds into something to be feared, to try challenge the norm of an innocent everyday creature in a dangerous predator. It seems that the best type of thriller is one based around relatively normal event that take a wrong turn or have horrific consequences. It allows you to sympathise or even believe it could happen to you.  

Responses to the questionnaire

I sent the questionnaire out to individuals aged 18 to 28, the replies I recieved were very similar.The people I asked said that they liked the story line saying it was, 'gripping', 'interesting', 'unusual' and 'good-kepping the viewer hooked' showing the story line to work well. The replies also showed how the majority chose horror/thriller as the genre, with a couple of people sugguesting it as a psychological thriller. All of the people questioned said that they would watch this film, however most of the replies for the certificate of the film said it would be an 18 due to violence/gorey scenes, with 2 individuals saying it could be a 15. But within the group we decided on a 15 certificate.

Research into title sequences with my individual analysis.

This opening titled sequences gives the impression that the film is going to be a similar genre to our film, a psychological thriller with a glimpse of horror, i get this impression because of the flickering
 of the titles and the fast pace of the flicker and jolts before fading into different scenes, the pace of this differs throughout the sequence moving from fast to slow on the cuts.The gruesome images and dirty fingernails and plasters on his fingers also back my opinion up that the main character is going to be mentally unstable, the sound from the film also backs my opinion up because that too jolts and screaches at a fast pace and gives an uncertainty to the audience as what this character is up to.
There is stereotypical actions in this which indicates that it is an horror/thriller, the screen filters red which is a sign of blood and danger, he also scribbles out eyes and faces on pictures with a black pen, this shows the audience that he is a dangerous and dark character.
The openeing sequence is all close ups of his actions, for example sticking and cutting images, drawing, marking over words. This gives the audience an idea of what to expect from the film and makes them want to find out what he is up to.

Replies from online questionnaire

Evaluation for my Questionnaire
These are the responses i received from my online questionnaire, The people asked range from 16 years  old to 18 years old and they all agreed that they would watch our film and enjoy it. The responses show that they agreed the genre of the film is thriller but depending on how graphic it would be could also could potentially be horror too. There is a mixed response on what certificate the film is, we would have to research more on the certificate to agree on one definite age although we, as a group, agree on it being a certificate 15.

Responses to Questionnaire

These are the responses I received. There are some recurring points within the answers, such as most feel that the film would have a 15 certificate and that it has a psychological horror genre. A majority of the people I asked agreed they would watch it and those who said they wouldn't said so because they would be afraid to, which is mission accomplished to me.

Online Questionnaire

This is the online questionnaire we used to research our audience from using Facebook, we all got responses from our potential audience.