Close Up Of Weapons

Ted Driving, Medium Close Up

Sound

For our thriller, we are going to need many various sound effects, most of, if not all of which will be done in editing. The main diegetic sounds required are going to be for the guns, the sound of the guns being cocked, fired, shells ejecting and hitting the ground, and of course the sound of bullets hitting metal and punching through a body. A lot of the diegetic sounds we will need depends on how good the mics on the cameras are or if we will get a separate boom mic or something simmilar. In terms of non-diegetic music there has been much dispute as to what kind of music should be used, some (myself included) in favour of going a bit more expendables/apocalypse now with some classic hard rock like Jimi Hendrix or Thin Lizzy whereas others want to go in a more serious Bourne Identity direction. It is an important point, because the music we use will set the tone for the film. I think that the general consesus will be in favour of using the rock tracks, seeing as they will be a lot easier to create, though we may already have some original material.

Props List

 

- Guns

- Car

- Cigar

- Russian army uniforms

- Fake blood

Location –

Altering The Cast

Originally we wanted to have a group of Russian A2 students to be the mercinaries in our thriller, but due to them not being able to be pulled out of school for a day (bogus) we are unable to use them as our mercs. This has meant that we have had to find new AS actors. It also means that rather than four soildiers, we now have two, Mike Azaurturov and Raffique. Again, we have picked them because they are both older looking Russian speakers who, on camera at least, would just about be able to pass for mercinaries. We still have Ted Jackson and Richard Hartman as planned in the roles of the bad guys who get shot and killed by the Russians. Although the main cast has been altered, we may also be able to get a few more additional soldiers for a few hours in the afternoon to shoot a few takes.

Practice Shots & Altered Storyline

We have now filmed a few practice shots of the real shots that we will use in our final thriller. Having seen what they looked like by playing them back on the computer, we can see that we are happy with our new ideas, especially our final shot of the low angle looking up at Ted pointing the gun, and the tracking shot of the mercenaries running. We think these will be especially good and effective shots and we hope that we can pull them off on the day.

Also, we have now realised the difficulties due to conflicting ideas with our teachers, on what we both think will look most effective. In our initial storyboard we were showing that Ted was likeable and also that he was drunk, rather than giving the camera time to Ted, we want to spend more time with the mercenaries, as they and Yuri, are the main focus point of the whole story. At first, our intial ideas for our shots were making Ted look like the one who we wanted the audience to sympathise with and support, however this is not what we want, we want Yuri to be the one who the audience lieks and support. Finding the balance between showing these mercenaries as good men who the viewer should follow, and just cold blooded murderers who are just killing for no reason.

Changing The Storyboard

Throughout the process of making new ideas for the film and adjustments to the old ones, the story has almost entirely changed from the original idea. For example, Ted was originally going to be driving drunk and alone, now he is sober, armed and has company, perhaps a bodyguard. We are still on the side of the mercinaries though and most of the camera time will be on them. These changes have improved the storyline, but it means that I have to re-draw a large section of, in fact most of the storyboard. We have also filmed small test segments from the new ideas and edited the shot by shot list.The new story makes a lot more sense than the old one, but it is kind of a pain to re-do a lot of what we already have.