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Final Shot List

This is final shot list for our final film. We decided to use many different shots to show the potential of the film  and show what we had learnt over the past year. At the beginning of the film opening we decided to use a few close up shots in order to show as much emotion on the characters as possible, and also to show as much detail of the props (CCTV, NEWSPAPERS, ETC). We decided to use a lot of long shots towards the end of the film in order to get the full use of the setting and emotion in the film. Our group didn't just have long shots though we changed from a long shot of the main character (Abbie) in the mirror to a close up of her doing her teeth with the villain in the background to a low angle shot back to a long shot this showed how the villain had control in the scene and showed his power towards the child.

Inital Shot List

This is our inital shot list we chose these shots as we thought they would make the film look proffessional and match well with the genre and story.

Comparing Psychological Thrillers To Our Ideas For Our Film

Montage:

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In this video clip of "Dawn of the dead"(2004)  there is a montage in the opening scene, we took inspiration from this. We took the idea of a build up in sound and editing effects which would effect the audience and build tension. We wanted to build up an atmosphere and after watching this clip we realised that a montage would be a perfect way of doing so, however we did also think that a montage could make our film opening look a little to like a trailer and therefore had to re-evaluate whether or not we thought we could pull it off without making our opening into a trailer. To make our montage different we thought we could add lots of different clips into it, including news reports, the girl going missing and other clips relating to the genre.

After watching "28 days later" (2002)'s opening scene our group noticed that they had used CCTV to show a character walking. we took inspiration from this as we thought it was different and would look really effective in a montage with the character jump cutting so the audience would be unsure to what is going on.

Titles:

After looking at both the "black swan" (2010) and "Salt"(2010) our group decided to go for a plain title which would match our genre. Both "Black swan" and "salt" contributed to the ideas for our main film. "Black Swan" is a psychological thriller that had a massive hit in cinemas all over England which is what we want our film to do, whereas "Salt" has a similar story line and the same narrative as our film.

Comparing Other Characters

Tom Welling:

Tom would be great for playing our teenage brother as he has acted in roles before which show the qualities we were looking for, for example when tom acted in "Cheaper by the dozen"(2003) he played a teenage brother with 10 younger brothers and sisters. In this film he spent most of his time with one of his younger sisters showing his love for his family and his love for his sister but also showing he is a teenage boy who wants to have fun. As he spent a lot of time out driving, seeing friends and his girlfiriend. Just like the brother would need to in our film.

Cameron Diaz:

In our film we were looking for a actress which can relate well with children and can show just how extreme being a mother can be. we thought that cameron diaz would be a perfect actress for our film. When she acted in "My sisters keeper" (2009) she showed amazing acting skills through all the emotions she portrayed. She acted as a mother of two young girls one with terminal cancer. This film is an emotional rollercoster and cameron acted amazingly throughout the film. Just like the Mother would need to in our film.

John Travolta:

For our film we wanted to use an actor with many qualities and experience in acting as a villain, we would use an actor like John Travolta as he has had a lot of acting experience not only as the hero but also as the villain for example in "The punisher" (2004) John played the main villain of the film and showed many acting skills from turning off all emotions to showing many emotions through body and facial expressions. Just like the villain would need to in our film.