Story Board final

Rihannon Haileys Costume

 

Pearl earrings
Blue Jeans
Grey Converse trainers
Grey Jumper

We would like Rihannon Haileys to wear casual clothing. She is a teenager and is walking along on the beach on a windy day, so the clothes she is wearing have to keep her warm, but she must still feel comfortable and able to move around easily. She is wearing a pair of jean and a grey hoodie jumper. The jumper has BOSTON written on it in red. In thrillers, the colour red being used in a costume foreshadows violence and blood. For example, the femme fatale's red nails in the opening of Once Upon A Time In America. Rihannon is by herself and she hasn't bothered to make herself look particularly nice, however she is wearing pearl earrings, which add a touch of sophistication and glamour to her costume. Pearls also connote misery and each represent individual tears. In thrillers, pearls are a subtle genre convention showing that she is a femme fatale.

Changes to our thriller

Over the past few weeks, we have had to adapt to our situation and change the plot of our thriller.

We filmed a lot in the dark, which was supposed to add mystery and thrill to our scene, but only to find that  one was unable to properly see the mise-en-scene in the darkness. So we have now cut the idea of the flashback out of our thriller and have decided to keep only the scenes on the beach and add another scene, in which the enigmatic stalker is sitting at a computer sending our girl, Rihannon Haileys, an e-mail with pictures of her at the beach.
I will post the changed/final shotlist and the new storyboard on this blog later this week.

Costume

Costume – Rihannon Haileys

Location 2 shots

Shooting Schedule

We filmed the first bit of our thriller on the beach in West Runton on Saturday January 14^th  11am- 2pm. The weather forecast said it would be sunny and I was slightly worried that this might affect the atmosphere and make the scene too colourful, but when we got there, it was slightly foggy and misty, which gave our shooting the perfect mysterious, dusty atmosphere needed.                     

We are filming the second part of our thriller on Wednesday 1^st of February. We are filming in the evening after our lessons because the action needs to take place in the dark and on a weekday so we’ll be less bothered by people going out in the city.  The weather forecast says there is a 20% chance of it raining during the day, but it will no longer rain in the evening. I think the wet, fresh air, muddy atmosphere in our location after the rain will fit in brilliantly with our thriller.   

Props

What we need in addition to costumes and camera:

-          A car

-          A briefcase

-          A blanket

-     A torch

Casting decisions

We need 3 actors in our thriller: The main girl, the enigmatic man in black and the girl in the boot of the car, whose hand rolls out from behind the covers. 

We asked a few friends whether they wanted to play the main girl, but we then decided to use someone from our group, as we would be more reliable and it would be more practical. We also chose Nile’s brother to play the enigmatic man in black, but again decided it would be more practical if Nile played that role himself.

One of us will also play the girl in the boot of the car. This is altogether the best idea given that we now only rely on the members of our group and we all know how the group would like the roles to be acted out.   

Shotlist Thriller

- long shot of girl sitting on beach

- medium close up of waves breaking

- close up of girl

- close up of waves, car headlights flash (in girl head) when waves break  

- low angle of girl

- high angle of girl, zoom to girl's shoes (barefoot on beach?) while girl stands up

- tracking close up of girl's feet walking on beach, then up stairs

- over the shoulder of girl walking up stairs

- medium close up of girl standing still opposite boot of a car (she reads the number plate)

- point of view of number plate

FLASHBACK starts:

- fade to long shot (tilt?) of same car standing in street at night.

 boot open. man standing by car. point of view of man opening boot. only a briefcase is to be seen, rest is hidden under a blanket 

- long shot of girl stumbling into street drunk. man doesn't notice girl

- close up of girl's face noticing the car

(- close up of girl's hand holding high heels, she is barefoot)

- medium close up of man outside car getting a briefcase out of the trunk

- over the shoulder close up of man getting briefcase 

- close up of hand falling from behind blanket.

- close up of girl's face noticing 

- point of view of man hiding hand behind blanket

-medium close up of man looking around (but not back) to see if anyone saw the hand. he does not notice girl. it's dark so man's face is unrecognisable.

- tracking medium close up shot of man closing boot and getting into car.

- long shot of car driving off

- close up of girl's face astonished/confused, decides she was only imagining the hand because she's drunk

- long shot of car driving off

- medium close up of number plate. FLASHBACK END.

fade to medium close up of same number plate on same car on beach.

- head and shoulder close up of girl looking doubtful/ confused/ intrigued.

scene end.

Location shots 1: The Beach

Here are some photos Isabel took of the location for the first part of our thriller:

 The beach. 

Our Thriller Outline

Our idea involves a girl in her late teens (17/18) as the main character. The scene starts with her sitting on the beach watching the waves (possible while listening to her ipod). She is wearing jeans and a hoodie. The girl is blond. While the waves wash in and out, headlights of a car keep flashing through the picture - the lights are in the girl's memory, not part of the mise-en-scene. 

After a short while, the girl stands up and walks towards a car park opposite the beach. She walks up some stairs that lead to the car park. Then, she stands still when she notices the back of an empty car parked there. We will use a point of view shot of her looking at the car's number plate. Flashback to an empty street in the city during the night. It's dark but the street is slightly illuminated by street lights. The same car is standing in the street. The boot is open. In the boot, one can only see a briefcase - the rest is covered up by a blanket. No one else is in the street excepting the car, but one can hear music and partying students/youngsters in the distance. The blond girl stumbles into that street looking scruffy after a night out. She is drunk. She is wearing a sparkly (fancy) short dress and heels (which she is probably holding in her hand, walking barefoot). Her make-up is smudged. She is unable to walk properly. She notices the car. A man is standing by the car, he takes out a briefcase from the back. One never sees his face, but he is about 30 years old. He is wearing dark/black clothes. When he moves the case out of the car, a hand falls from behind the blanket. The man quickly shoves the blanket back over the hand. A female hand (Painted nails, wearing jewellery etc). One suspects that the blanket is covering up a body, which is either dead or unconscious.

The drunk girl sees the hand and is shocked, but too drunk to take any action.

The man does not notice the girl. He closes the boot, walks to the front of the car and drives off. 

When the car drives off, we see the number plate clearly. The flashback ends by the shot fading into the original point of view medium close up of the number plate of the car parked by the beach. The girl remembers the night out. The girl is shocked. End of scene.