Initial Idea Video

Research - Target Audience

http://prezi.com/ewa5txkvwcrb/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy

Planning - News Reporter Voice Clip

https://soundcloud.com/sophie-tonks-950389374/news-report-voiceover

As shown before we wrote a script to play in our trailer of a news reporter reading out the case of  missing girl Rosie Jones. We decided the best person to read this out would be an English Teacher as they have strong reading skills and would project our message as accurately as possible. 

Planning - Communication Between The Group

As a group we have decided to create various group chats via social media and iMessage where we can plan, discuss and talk to each other outside of school. These group chats include one between our group members, Sophie, Kenzie, and Rob. And also one with actors such as Alissa. These screenshots show plans of finding days to film and other important information regarding our media film.

Initial Clip Ideas

Clip Ideas

 

-  Mid Shot Mum and Daughter hugging, laughing- equilibrium

-  Close-up gloved hand taking young daughters hand

-  Extreme close-up hand over girls mouth

-  Handheld shot, perspective of hidden antagonist in bushes watching Mum and Daughter in park

-  P.O.V view out of car, pouring rain, pathetic fallacy.

-  Close up of police tape around park scene

-  Close up of Mums hand around man’s neck

-  Establishing shot of park

-  Two shots at beginning to establish 

-  Camera placed on floor, little girls feet walking past

-  Teddy Bear on floor

-  Close up of torn clothing 

-  Extreme close up of phone calling 999

-  Shot-revere-shot used in detective office- detective questioning the mum

-  Long, tracking shot of car driving-mum looking

-  Take pictures of suspects- mum looking at them

-  Two shot of Mum interrogating suspects-tied to chair-knives?

-  Over the shoulder shot Mum watching News-explaining daughters disappearance

-  Shot of Mum drinking alcohol, smoking etc- going crazy-desperation

-  Mum in street showing picture of daughter to strangers/passers-by

-  Aerial/crane shot of Mum in bed- not sleeping

-  Close up of someone smashing window

-  Close-ups of Mum picking up weapons etc

-  Two shot of Mum revealing the situation to her Mum- Diegtic conversation-Shouldn’t have had a child so early

-  Bible?

Planning - Script for Mother + Detective Scene

Alissa (desperate and angry) - Detective Moor you HAVE to help me, I will do anything to find her, I mean anything

Detective (calm, cool and collective)- No Sarah, you will do nothing. As much as I hate to say it, this is not your business now.

Alissa - Not my business, how dare you! This is my daughter, my everything.

Detective - If you want to find Rosie, you must leave it to the police. They know what they are doing.

Alissa - what exactly do I do then? sit here and wait?

Detective - No you can help us. So how old was Rosie?

Alissa - she IS 4 years old.

Detective - and you are 18 I believe yes?

Alissa - yes, is that a problem?

Detective - no of course not...

Planning - Change in Casting

Our original ideas for characters in our crime thriller was a mother, a daughter, grandmother,  detective in our production. We decided to cast one of our main characters as a little (5) blonde girl as this would be best for a 'daughter' role. The grandmother was decided to be an older, elegant lady with a wise tone to her character. For the detective we wanted a stern, smart, patriarchal man with a big physical build.

During planning we had an idea to cast our mother as a 'teen mum' to best relate to the target audience we intended of 15- 35 year olds. By changing this role we are able to back up our storyline of a mother loosing her child by blaming the mistake on maturity and her being young and irresponsible. Another positive of this character choice is that Alissa (or Sarah in our production) has a little sister age 5 who is happy to be filmed alongside Alissa and play the role of the daughter. This way both actors will be comfortable filming with each other).

We understand this may appear unrealistic to audience members who see a young girl playing the role of a mother so we decided to include shots, voice clips and edits to ensue this was communicate more clearly to the audience. These include voice clips of voices in her head saying "what did you expect" "I told you you were too young" etc.

Initial Planning - What Makes Us Scared?

Word cloud

Researching Different words associated with crime thriller's and adding them to my word cloud will help me when coming to planning my film, as it helps me to understand the conventions and type of thing crime thriller fan bases will want to see within the film genre. For example, research shows that words such as ‘crime’ ‘violence’ and ‘blood’ are all common conventions and therefore I shall include these in my film to achieve the largest possible target audience. I have also chosen the layout, font, and colour to connote with the genres by placing red (associated with blood) font onto a black (connotes with death) background. This adds to the overall effect of the image, and so I shall use all of these techniques in my film to ensure I attract a mass audience.

Props

These are images of items we plan to include in our production as props.

 

This is police tape that we ordered from Ebay that is stereotypically found at a crime scene. We planned to wrap this around the park we have chosen as the setting for the daughters last appearance. We believe this will add to the verisimilitude of the trailer. By adding clips such as long shots of the park, and close ups of the tape this add to the realism of the production exciting the audience further.

Another prop we decided to include was a clock. As we plan to include the ticking of a clock as sound in our trailer we realised this would connotate well with a clock being shown. Therefore we have decided to include shots of the clock at the 'breaking point' for the main character. At this point we will show a close up of the main character Sarah smashing up the clock with a base ball bat. This is because we want to depict to the audience how Sarah is losing her calm and is becoming psychologically distressed by what has occurred. The two images show the clock before and after it was smashed during filming.  

This is an image of a missing persons report. We have included this as a prop because during the trailer we plan to include shots of Sarah becoming obsessed with finding her daughter and missing children etc. Therefore we planned to include clips of her aggressively searching through websites and news articles online of missing child. We have shown this through close ups of her hands on the mouse, aggressive typing and also a shot of this missing persons report being printed out of the printer. 

To further indicate to the audience our main characters deterioration we have decided to include clips of her reaching for alcohol bottles, taking pills etc. This is an image of a bottle of vodka we have filmed being smashed and our main character holding the glass. We plan to slow this clip down in adobe premiere pro to show a slow mo of the glass breaking. Foreshadowing the breakdown of our main character mentally. 

Costume For Main Character

When considering costume and make up on our two main actors we have carefully thought about how to portray the best possible identity for their role. Our first main Character is Mother, Sarah (Alissa). Sarah is a young mother (19) so we wanted to show this by dressing her in smart but trendy clothing. 

Our first item of clothing for Sarah is a long pink trench coat 

from Topshop. This coat is a long, smart, tie up coat that shows 

she is a smart and a well dressed middle class women, however the 

pink gives away she is still young and slightly immature.  

Other costume items will include a black pair of boots typical of 

a young adult in this season. 

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Script Plan for News Reporter Voice Over

"Rosie Jones, aged 4, was reported missing on Thursday the 13^th of October. She was last seen at Priory Park, St Neots in Cambridgeshire, where she was with her Mother – Sarah Jones. The police have been looking for five days, and are still appealing for witnesses to come forward with any information."

In our trailer we plan to include a news extract of reports that the little girl has disappeared. By portraying this to the audience as a voice over we can communicate the plot to the viewers without having to act out every scene. This is important in a trailer as short clips and montages are shown at a fast pace. By also conducting this report in a news form we are  conveying generic conventions of the crime genre. Before writing our script we researched other similar news reports of missing children from real news websites such as the guardians and daily mail. We then found key conventions of a news report by revealing the victims name, age and date of the disappearance. 

These are the websites we used in our research:

http://www.huntspost.co.uk/news/can_you_help_police_trace_missing_huntingdon_woman_1_4398993

http://www.guardian.co.tt/news/2016-12-08/body-missing-woman-found

Initial Idea Plan

As a group we came up with a few initial ideas for our plot.

Mise En Scene for Here I Come

Initial Idea Pitch

This is a video of our group pitching our initial idea's to our teachers and class mates.
The feedback from this was generally positively with comments such as "a creative idea for a crime thriller" and positive views on our storyline. The audience agreed they liked the title of the production and how it ties with the storyline. Also we were appraised for our use of miss en scene such as setting and costume in our initial planning. However a character's role was question when we were asked "would it be more appealing to cast a mother of a realistic age such as 30+?" We have decided to take this into consideration and revaluate our casting options.

Target Audience for Here I Come

https://youtu.be/PmrqykLL180

In our crime thriller we decided to include suspects to add to the realism of the plot with coinciding characters

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Therefore we photographed two men and a woman as our suspects.

We wanted to make this as realistic as possible so decided the best way to do this would be to take 'mug shots' of three individuals. A typical mug shot is two-part, with one side-view photo, and one front-view. A mug shot or mugshot  is an informal term for police photograph, or booking photograph, and is a photographic portrait  typically taken after a person is arrested.

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From Google I was able to download a height chart - and create plaque board of the suspects name and number.

height chart

On photoshop I was able to combine all three elements of the image; the original photograph, the height chart + plaque board. I first masked out the face in front of the height chart - taking into consideration the possible heights of each suspects (for this reason I purposefully edited the suspects to be taller than they are naturally. I believe by adding height to the suspects this creates the effect that they are extra tall adding superiority and power to them visually)
I then edited each image black and white as police mug shots are originally. However also by editing these images black and white the viewer cannot be distracted by colour within the photo and focus on the contents more so.

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These images will be included in our production when the protagonist is searching through the documents in the detectives office. We also plan to include these on an investigation board as part of a prop for our detective.

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