Friday, 5 December 2008

Synopsis- Obsession

A normal young teenager, who is having an obsession with an older women, and is having a secret affair with her, ignores his phone calls, in pain and rejection, it leads him to seek revenge. When seeing his secret lover walking in the park, with her husband, he seeks the opportunity when she is alone, to make her re-think their relationship and make her consider leaving her husband for him. But when approaching her, she freaks out, and tells him to leave her alone and how she never loved him. In anger he lashes out, and kills her in the process. With no remorse he hides the body in the bushes. Now obsessed with women who cheat on their partners, he feels the need to wipe them out. In order to make no other man feel the same way as he did, he would savagely murdered them. But as he looks, and acts like a normal guy, will anyone ever find what really lies beneath?

Jack Brooke is a local photographer who is investigating the death of his girlfriend. He had everything, an attractive girlfriend, and was promoted in his current job. Trouble hurts home, when his girlfriend fails to return home. Reading the local paper, he sees pictures of women, who have been report missing (including his partner). In order to figure out how women in the same area, who were last seen in the park, disappear, he decides to take part in the investigation.

Doing research, Jack finds some disturbing news paper clips on the internet, about a young boy, who was sent to prison for just two years, for murdering his secret lover. Looking into the case a bit more to find out why he got a light sentence, due to the fact that he was under age and was having an affair with an older women.He then tries to track down the killer, and put an end to helpless women dying.

Thursday, 4 December 2008

The Pitch

This film is a gripping feature length modern day thriller/horror based in a local park, where young women are savagely murdered. Jack Brooke, a local photographer, whose girlfriend was killed in the beginning of the film, tries to find out what lies beneath the deaths. Can Jack find out why his girlfriend was targeted, and bring peace to the community or will he die trying?

Preliminary Task evaluation

For my preliminary task, we were asked to get in groups. I decided to work with Denise, as I wanted to work with someone I don’t normally work with, and felt that I could work with her and form and new friendship at the same time while creating our preliminary task.

The preliminary task was based around some key aspects, like making sure we use different camera angles and shots; such as Match On Action, Reverse Shot, 180-Degree and trying to put Mise-en-Scene in our short film clip. We also had to include, someone approaching the door, opening the door, the person entering the door, sitting opposite someone and having a conversation with them.

Denise and I decided to create a storyboard. This would show what camera angles we were going to use and would show who will be in the shot. Instead of drawing pictures of what the shots will look like, we decided to take pictures of what each shot will look like. We chose to do are filming in the common room, we also decided to use Kiran as our person to push and walk through the door. Denise would be the person sitting opposite her and having a conversation with her. I would be doing the filming.

After we done the storyboard we decided to start filming, but I was unorganised, and didn’t have a DV tape to record on. When we did finally get a DV tape, we finished recording. But when looking over the video clips, we felt it wasn’t good enough, to even be given a grade. So we chose to redo our film, to make it easier, we used Kiran’s camera, as it was a digital camera and was able to delete clips we didn’t want, which didn’t take too long. Unfortunately when we did try and connect the camera to the macs, ‘it was not able to talk to the macs’. So we couldn’t edit our film, and was unable to see our final piece.

Over all I feel that the preliminary task did not go as well as I would of hoped. Our storyboard does not follow our film as we had to re-do our filmng because we felt it didn’t have enough camera angles. I also felt that we did not use our time wisely, as altoghter it took about a week to do all our filming, and other groups, took up less time, and did their filming in less than three days. When looking at some of the video clips, the camera was a bit shaky, due to not using a camera stand. Also because the film would not upload on the school computers, this took up a lot of time. But we have the copy of the film on Kiran’s computer.

Doing the preliminary task has made me aware of what I have to do for our main film. Also it shows me that I need to be more organised, and more prepared for the next task.

The Preliminary Task

Our basic film has to consist of the following:
*A person approaching the door
*The person opening the door
*The person appearing on the other side of the door
*Sits opposite another person
*And the person having at least two lines of dialogue

Story Board