Research on Film

The film "stalked at 17" inspired a lot of our cinematography. The film uses a series of interesting camera angles the main 3 angles the film uses to create an intense scene are:

• Over the shoulder angle
• long Shot
• Mid shot

We decided to use all three of these angles to show our stalker behind the main girl. The film also helped us understand what sound effects can do for the performance. A low toned and slow paced sound can create a scary atmosphere in the scene. We also found that dark, and grey toned lighting helps to create an unsettling feel to the scenes. We decided to use the dark lighting when the main girl enters the house.

We also found that tilting the camera side ways making the camera off centre can make the scene look eerie. The stalker in this film also wears dark clothing when stalking his character. We decided to dress our stalker in a black hoodie and black jeans, this stops our character from having an identity, when the audience is unable to identify a character it stops any pleasant emotional attachment happening to the stalker. The dark clothes also resemble a shadow like character, resembling the stalkers main purpose, to shadow a character.

This film gave us many ideas on our film, inspiring us to show our film in an abstract yet effective way.

Storyboard

Pitch

Title: The Following

Genre: Thriller/Drama
 

Plot: Stalked - A girl is being stalked by a mysterious man. We first see the stalker from afar when the young girl takes her sister to the park, we see and over the shoulder shot of a man in a hoodie standing at the far end of the field. When the camera switches to the next shoulder the man is gone. As the girl walks home we see the stalker behind her, as she turns around he disappears. She reaches home and looks out the window doing a double take as the stalker appears and disappears on the second take. We see the girl go up the stairs and as she crosses the hallway we see the stalker at the bottom of the stairs still wearing a hoodie. The girl enters the bed and turns off the light facing her back to her bedroom door. We then see the stalker enter her room and close the door behind him, there is then a blackout.
 

Location: Park, Elmstone Road, Freya's house.

 

Cast:

Maisie - The young girl

Theo - The Stalker

Ella - The little sister

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Micro – Features:

Long shots - When the audience first see the stalker

Over the shoulder shots - to show there is always some thing behind her

Point of view - to show the audience what the girl can see (when she does a double take at the stalker out the window)

High angled - to show the stalker from the top of the stairs.

Wide shot - to show the young girl sleeping and the stalker enter the room behind her.

Canted angles - to show how things are not right, out of the normal.

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Target Audience: Our target audience is 15-20 there are scenes of mature nature. It's also a type of film that many people of that age group people would watch. I know this because I've asked people around this age group if they'd watch the film and they said yes. Also a survey I done in class says that thriller films are one of the most watched and popular genres seen by my age group.

Unique Selling Point (Audience Appeal)

Different to the usual Thriller films. The plot allows a lot of audience interpretation, allowing them to feel engaged and attached to the victim in this story. The camera angles show the film in a irregular view, breaking classic conventions of a thriller.

Roles

Theo Benjamin- Director, actor, sound design, story board artist

Freya Beck- Producer, editor, location scout, writer

Cinematography will be shared between the both of us as we are both going to be acting in our two minute clip.

Initial Idea

Genre- Drama

Location- House

Characters- John, Ellie

Plot Outline- Ellie and her boyfriend John have gone through many rough times in their relationship due to the fact that John was abused by his parents as a child. Since he's been with Ellie he's been physically and verbally abusive to her. Our 2 minute clip will show John throwing Ellie to the floor and then Ellie running out the house crying. We'll use pre recorded sounds of shouting and arguments to go over the top of titles.