Foundling
The voice-over is the main thing that'll give any sense to our opening. The words are going to be whispered. This is a draft of what the voice-over might say:
Here is the rough cut of our film opening..yay!!:
We think that the target audience for 'Foundling' would be 15-25 years old. This is because we would rate the film as a 15.
On Monday 23rd February, we shot most of our footage. After re-scheduling the dates, this went really well and we worked productively. We shot all of the shots that we could have with the actors that we had. We used many different shot types, low angles, pan, long shot, close up, extreme close up, medium shot, over the shoulder shot and high angle. We were pleased with most of the shots but thought that a couple of them would look better if we re shot them in a lighter location. We then planned to film on Wednesday 25th February, we went out to film at mid-day ish but we felt that it was too sunny and the weather created a atmosphere that was too happy! If we were to film at that time, we feel this would have ruined the continuity and spoil the mise-en-scene as we already have footage when it is dull and darker, it would spoil the atmosphere and scary feel.
Due to problems with our models and actress we had to reschedule our filming to a later date in the half term.
Shot Number Shot Framing Action Info (location, Props, Costumes)
We aren't using many props because our story and theme is shown in the locations we are using bringing across the atmosphere, also the voice over that we are doing will tell the story. But the few props we are using are listed bellow and a small description of how we are going to use them:
We came up with a few names as possible titles for our film, most of the names came from meanings similar to the words; missing, searching and orphan.
As we have changed our story slightly from the shots of the psychic and the sister talking in the room. we have had to change the location of where were shooting and the story.
For our filming, we've decided to change our shots a bit. The idea of the psychic and the sister talking in the room wouldn't work because we'd need an adult to play the role of the psychic, so we'll need adults to play the roles. Also the location we planned to film in isn't available for us to shoot in.
This is the animatic for our opening sequence. It's obviously a very rough idea of what we want our opening sequence to be like. Our production logo still needs some work, hopefully with some animation in it.
After we made a story board, we jotted down the shot list and the props we need for each:
Our story's a supernatural thriller with a female lead role. The story's inspired by The Others and The Forgotten, our opening sequence is inspired by opening sequences of Gothika and The Others.
Pitch:
Gothika, a 2003 horror/supernatural thriller movie directed by Mathieu Kassovitz and written by Sebastian Gutierrez, is the story of a psychiatrist (played by Halle Berry) in a women's mental hospital who wakes up one day to find herself on the other side of the bars, accused of having murdered her husband.
Because we are planning to do a Supernatural Thriller with a female lead role, we thought that the production name should reflect that type of genre, these are our first possible name ideas:
Based on author Philip Pullman's bestselling and award-winning novel, The Golden Compass tells the first story in Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy. The Golden Compass is an exciting fantasy adventure, set in an alternative world where people's souls manifest themselves as animals, talking bears fight wars, and Gyptians and witches co-exist. At the center of the story is Lyra (played by newcomer Dakota Blue Richards), a 12-year-old girl who starts out trying to rescue a friend who's been kidnapped by a mysterious organization known as the Gobblers - and winds up on an epic quest to save not only her world, but ours as well. The Golden Compass stars an ensemble cast that includes Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Sam Elliott, and Ian McShane. The film is written and directed by Chris Weitz (About A Boy, Antz) and produced by Deborah Forte and Bill Carraro (Frequency). It is executive produced by Andrew Miano and Paul Weitz (In Good Company)