Call Sheet

Actor's Agreement

This contract is for people who participate in our short sequence which means they are agreeing to be filmed and any other necessary parts they need to take part in.

Analysis

Before creating our title sequence for our own short film about thriller we watched and analysed two title openings in using media techniques Mise en scene, Camera work, Editing, Sound and Titles.
In effect to make me understand the media techniques i researched on two different opening sequences which were Silence of Lambs and Butterfly Effects.

3.2.1 Deconstruction of the titles:
Each opening sequences i watched was five minutes long which i watched twice the first time i watched it through was basically to get familiar with the opening and to read the text through media terms and techniques. The title Silence of the Lambs was very simple it was presented in capital letters which gives us the effect of suspence.

In Butterfly Effect it also started with capital letters however when the title did appear their were butterflies flickering around the title to dhow that this text includes something about butterflies.


3.2.2 Deconstruction of the shot suquence:

3.2.2.1 Shot types and framing:
When Silence of the Lambs begins it is shot in a forest were their is a pan of the character running. There were loads of close up shots of the characters face which shows the reactions of the character. However there is tilt down of the forest to get a birdseye view which is far away form the actual place. In Butterfly Effect their is a close up of the text at the very begining which gives the affect od the what the film will most probably be about. Their is also a tilt down view and a pan shot of the guy who seems to be hiding. The last shot of the opening sequence is when their is a clos up of the letter the guy writes which gives the effect of what the film might be about.

3.2.2.2 Mise en scene:
The use of mise en scene in both of these sequences are very similar because they come under the genre thriller.However this technique i shown in a different way, in Silence of the Lambs the effect of the women running makes the audience feel something strange is about to happen. In Butterfly Effect the text automatically starts with some action of the guy breaking the door open to escape from the police, this makes the audience more engages and interested it makes then want to watch the film to come.

3.2.2.3 Lighting:
Im Silence of the Lambs the lighting didn't seem natural from time to time it the affect of that was the finsihed cut looked like it was shot in a studio rather then natural sun light. However in Butterfly Effect the lighting was used in a very good way and it did ont look fake at any time. The opening started very black nd dull whixh gradually turnt bright.

3.2.2.4 Sound:
In Silence of the Lambs their is alot of sound theire is dramatic music which goes with the women who is running however when she is running you can hear the footsteps through the background music which shows that the text wants the audience to feel there is something going to happen this also make a good effect when the women is breathless. Where as in Butterfly Effect their is one particular part where the guy grabs the pen and notebook to write a messeage this shows their is something which is goin to happen .

3.2.2.5 Editing:
Both of the texts have alot of editing been done to it in Silence of the Lambs there seems to be alot of shots the women running but the first five minutes doesn't really set the text up for you. However the lighting is very dull is doesn't feel like a bright extract this gives the effect of something happening next where as in Butterfly Effect the lighting starts very dark it gives the feeling that it seems like a dark misterious text however it switches to very bright which then gives the vibe that nothing is going to happen next.


3.2.3 Studio and Marketing:

3.2.3.1 Budget

• The budget of the Silence of the Lambs is roughly $22 million dollars
• The budget of the Butterfly Effect is roughly $13 million dollars

3.2.3.2 Studio, Director, stars and any other significant contributors:

Silence of the Lambs:

• Director : Jonathan demme
• Produce by: Kenneth Utt, Edward Saxon and Ron Bozman
• starring: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn and Ted Levine
• Musi by: Howard Shore

Butterfly Effect:

• Director: Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber
• Starring: Ashton Kutcher, Amy Smart, Kevin Schmidt and Melora Walters
• Music by: Micheal Suby

3.2.3.3 Where this film is/ will be distributed:
Silence of the Lambs was distributed by Orion Pictures Corporation which is a American comany that produces movies.

Butterfly Effect was distributed by New Line Cinema which is one of the major American film studios it is also known as today as Warner Bros.

3.2.4 Audience:

3.2.4.1 Who is the target audience for this film?

The target audience for Butterfly Effect is 15 or over, this film attracts more male then women because it'sgot maore action adventage. However in Silence of the Lambs is based more for adults but women would perfer it mainly.

3.2.4.2 Three ways the Opening seqence addresses the target audience:

The opening of Silence of the Lambs attracts the audience to the women who is running which gives us a reason to think about why is she running what is happennig that the women is running.

However it also catched the audience by the footsteps and heaving breathing of the women which gives more dramatic affect.

In the opening of Butterfly Effect grabs the audience straight away with the action which make the audience want to watch on.

When the butterflies are flickering around the title i find that it is very eye catching.

Time Mangament

Me and my groups produced a time managent sheet on excel to help us keep up to date with our work. This sheet also keeps us on track with how much tim iallowed on one task however we know we should be following it each day up untill the deadline.

Main task

Planning

Brain storm:
Me and my partner had to plan an opening sequence to a thriller film. We did this by brain storming our ideas on paper which we also had to think carefully about what the film was going to be about.























Synopsis:

Lisa who is a young girl can not forget the past 3 years ago her best friend was murders by someone. When Lisa's best friend was murdered she was told that the murderer was a student from her school and the murderer is after her.

The murderer is stalking Lisa and she feels like she is being haunted however she knows that if she tells anyone then her life will be in danger.


Lisa has flashbacks all the time of the day when her best friend being murdered but she try's to think who could of done killed her.

However she now has only two choices either she has to wait in fear for something bad to happen to her or she can trace down the murderer.

She has nobody that can help her but she is a brave girl and she wants her life to be back to normal again and the only way that can happen is if this murderer is found. She makes a decision which puts her life at stake but she has no way back she starts searching for the person who murdered her best friend. What will happen if the murderer is someone she knows...!


Storyboard
We had to create a storyboard which is the frames of the sequences we will shoot. On the storyboard it includes all the shots, transitions and the ideas of what each shot will look like.

Shot list of the opening sequence:
-Establishing shot of Lisa seeing a shadow,
-Close up shot of Lisa's face
-Establishing shot of Lisa jumping up from her seat when hearing the pips go off.
-Medium shot of Lisa getting up from her seat.- Long shot of Lisa leaving the classroom.
- Pan shot of Lisa walking.
-Establishing shot of Lisa walking into the bathroom.
-Establishing shot of the bathroom mirror.
-Medium shot of Lisa's looking into the mirror.

Storyboard 2:


Me and my partner had a discussion about out opening and the storyboard we felt that it wasn't at a good standard so we decided to make a few minor changes to it.

Photographs of the location:

The photo's below that i have taken is of the location which is how the opening sequence will start. This is taken in a palyground based in Stamford Hill Estate which is were out actor will start the opening of the sequence.

Preliminary Exercise

For our preliminary task we were put into groups of three or four to make a short opening to a TV drama. This Sequence should only last for a minute however during make the short text their were a few rules we had to remember which was match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule. This opening was suppose to have two characters which exchanged a few words of dialogue. After we had finished shooting we had to edit what we had filmed on a mac using the software "Final cut pro" which wasn't easy.

Planning:
As a group we had to write up a script which was a few lines between a policemen and a suspect. we also had to draw a storyboard which contained a plan of what we wanted our short opening to be like. This short sequence could only last a minute which meant we couldn't make it complicated.

Script:
The characters involved were a policemen and a suspect.
Policemen: (walks in through the door) Hello Miss Geeta..
Suspect: Hello...
Policemen: Miss Geeta we are here to discuss a murder you are involved in...am i correct...?
Suspect: i don't know..!
Policemen: where was you on the 26th may 2009 at 18:00 hours..?
Suspect: i cannot remember
Policemen: Miss Geeta i have a CCTV footage of you so don't lie..
Suspect: I'm not lieing, i cannot remember
Policemen: (shows the footage)
Suspect: ( escapes to try and get away with the murder).



My Storyboard:





























Shot list:

-Establishing shot of the Policemen walking to the door.
-Medium shot of the Policemen opening the door.
-Establishing shot of the Policemen walking to the chair across the room.
-Close up of the policeman's face.
-Shot/reverse shot of the characters having a discussion.


Shooting:

whilst shooting we had to focus on the the main rules of TV drama genre. when we were shooting a scene we had to make sure it was shot a few times so we could get the footage right. However we made sure that each character had similar shots (e.g. both characters would have a shot/reverse shot to show the emphasis of a conversation. When we were shooting we had to remember the 180 degree rule so we had to make sure that we shot the whole scene form one side. We were told that the a character who was on the left side of the TV was always the important character because the audience always analysis the text left to right.


Editing:

When we had completed the shooting we had to edit everything we shot but we had to edit individually. We used a sooftware called "Final cut pro" which we were taught the basic. I imported the footage from the camera to the mac and opened it up on the software. When it had loaded the footage had no sound which i then had to render it which took 5-10 minutes. during this process i had to cut out the footage which i didn't want on the final sequence. I found using Final cut pro very confusing and slightly differcult but i got through it everytime i was stuck. However my finished project is about a minute long which isn't very long once you watch it.