Risk Assesment - Miss Georgiou

Risk Assessment

Introduction

Risk assessments are lists of hazards that could be present when filming and taking part in any activities to do with finishing our film successfully and safely 

Risk assessments are important as they are able to separately demonstrate what kind of things we need to be extra careful with and wary of. When using dangerous iconography and weapons within our scene we need to ensure that we are using these responsibly and carefully not putting anyone in harms way. 

This helps with filming as it provides a way to state and think about all the dangers we could encounter. For starters we will need to be careful when filming in busy local areas. People are not used to delays and will not usually care about getting in the way and ruining a shot. In addition to this when walking into roads we need to make sure that everyone is vigilant and knows that there is no danger between us and incoming vehicles on the road. 

Conclusion

Overall the main focus that we have on keeping everyone safe is to be very observant and know our surroundings. We need to make sure we are safe and secure when trying to film our opening thriller sequence. Not only do we need to focus on everyone's safety but we need to be aware of what in our shot. We need to make sure that no one is visible in our shot that shouldn't be there and we need to make sure that our locations look realistic and believable. Overall we need to keep an eye out for little things that could really ruin a shot.

Production Roles - Miss Miller

Production Roles

Introduction 

When making or creating an opening sequence there are a lot of different tasks and jobs that need to be handled most of these jobs contain a lot of work. This means that most of these roles needs to be dealt with separately and this is why we have tried to evenly give each person in our group a good amount of work that needs to be done.

Producer (Production Name)

Our producer is GoButson. This company was created by us and the idea came form Jake Butler to merge all our last names together to presented our opening sequence in a much more personal way.

Directors

We decided that the best people to have the role as the Directors was myself and Claire as it was our individual ideas that where very similar and would work well together. This meant that we where both very ambitious to come up with a group narrative that displayed some sort of disturbed character. We knew exactly how we wanted this character to be portrayed and we needed the directors to have a lot of creative ideas to be able to successfully create this type of opening sequence. We wanted people from our group that made an effect into the work to be the directors. This meant that it required leadership skills.

Actors

Our main character Cameron, is played by Morgan Brown. We choose Morgan as we felt like he was able to appear as a good antagonist with streaks of innocence. Morgans family has always taken an interest into acting and he always enjoyed it at school and succeeded in GCSE. The same goes to the character of Grace (the mother). This character is played by Grace Wingrove. She informed as that she took GCSE drama and finished the year with an A. Finally the character of Harmoney is played by myself. We decided I would be a good fit with this character as I always always available to film and help out behind the scenes when off screen.

Director of Photography

We decided that Claire would be a very good fit into having responsibility with shooting the scenes. She has always taken an interest into photography and has had experience with shooting footage at family events such as her cousins wedding. She was also the one that filmed the preliminary task and proved to the rest of the group that she had the ability to film a numourus amount of creative and intriguing shots.

Music Producers

We decided to share the role of the music producers as we all have different tastes. Jakes prefers Rap. Claire like calming music such as acoustics. I prefer Indie and Alternative. After I showed them the song 'Tip Toe Through The Tulips'  we all agreed that this was a suitable paralell sound to be demonstrated in our thriller.

Screenplay Writer

We deicided that the person who fitted the role for screenplay writer was in fact Jake. He has a lot of skill when writing due to the fact he is taking english language at A-level. This means he must be the most suitable for the role and would be able to handle this job well enough.

MES co-coordinators 

Jake did gcse media, aswell as myself which meant we had a wider knowledge on what is suited to the thriller genre through the presentation of the MES conventions. He seemed to know the best type of lighting and probs to use that resembled the MES thriller conventions very well.

Editor

I took on the role as the editor as the group knew I had experience at GCSE. This meant that I would know how to use the editing software and get the hang of it quickly. I was able to know what type of editing was suitable to a thriller. This is because in my GCSE media coursework I had to produce an opening to a thriller similar to the task we have now.

Jake

Jake's roles where to take on the role of the MES co-ordinator and The screenplay writer. He also had a little part of playing Cameron's voice overs in our opening thriller. Jake was very good at voicing his opinions and getting across his ideas. This enabled me and Clarie to set up scenes and make sure the props and lighting was correct. If Jake was to improve on his role he should participate more in actually doing the work and take more of an interest within his roles.

Claire

Claire took on the roles of camera man and one of the directors. She was very successful at using creative shots and she used the equipment very well. She was able to always create a steady shot. As a director she was very good at coming up with locations and her input was always needed and helpful to all of the group. If she was to do something different within her role it would be to challenge the camera even more by experimenting with unusual shots.

Molly

I took on the role of editor and shared the role of director with Claire. I really enjoyed editing and tried to make the transition as smooth as possible. I liked watching back on footage with Claire and deciding whether it was suitable and what would've been done to improve it. I decided that if I was to do anything different I would take more time on the editing and concentrate on making sure it was a pristine as possible.

Conclusion

Overall filming was successful and everyone was suited to there role. Although an improvement on having certain roles would be to assign Jake with a more technical role such as director or camera man. This may have pushed him and all of use to be more organised and have everyone make an equal effort not just some of the group.

Opening Scene Narrative - Miss Miller

Opening Scene Narrative

Introduction

Our very first frame consists of a long shot. The location is the school corridor and the frame shows an example of the character Cameron pulling along the chair and facing his death. The sound will be very simple during this scene as the focus is on the squeaking sound of the chair. The scene continues onto a median shot the sounds and frame remains similar focusing on just building the tension. The scene then portrays Cameron opening the door to the scene with the stair case. This shot is median and all you hear now is the door creaking slowly, this flows into a close up of the door and shuts firmly to show how trapped Cameron is. The scene then fades to black and is reunited with a close up of him tying the rope around the metal staircase. The location remains very dusty and damp looking and the use of iconography is present here as the chair and scarf (used as rope) is seen. As the character Cameron steps onto the chair Erie sounds begin to be heard non-dieageticlly towards the audience. A close up of Cameron's lifeless face is then presented. We use makeup under his eyes to show the exhaustion. His facial expressions remain to appear as if he has given up. The cinematography then begins to change as we zoom out into a medium shot. The editing is very slow in this scene as we plan to use slow motion to prolong his death, creating tension. The final frame to this scene is used with a median shot. You see his legs continuously struggling. The iconography remains the same and all we see is the chair being kicked over. The sound track remains gloomy to create the effect and realisation that his life is coming to an end. The positioning of the character Cameron remains very unsettled as we see his struggle after committing suicide. The editing then comes in from a big fade/flash transition to show we have actually gone back in time to where Cameron's struggles began. 

The first frame suggests that Cameron had a 'normal' family life. The sounds of eating is present and the long shot is used to show the positioning of the characters which is Mother and son placed awkwardly at different ends of the table. The iconography in this scene is the cutlery and 'food' that is left out for them to eat. The constant sound of eating and knives against the plate is heard and the lighting remains quiet natural considering this is the evening. The following scene is a point of view shot form Cameron's view he is looking at his mother she begins to nag him, talking about a doctors appointment. Her facial expression remains concerned and the only diagetic sound we hear is the mother raising her voice about how she believes Cameron has behaved. A close up of Cameron stabbing his knife into the his toast is used here. We see the anger in the way he uses this iconography which builds up the audiences perspective of what type of character Cameron is. We then see Cameron's whole body language. His position remains very stiff and his facial expression remains very tense. The lighting is now darker as the scenes atmosphere fades. The sound of his mothers dialogue is faded as Cameron's concentrations turns dark. The next scene shows an extreme close up of Cameron's dark eyes. Erie sounds begin to take place as we see the frustration in his facial expression. A sudden fade is then brought in which lasts roughly 3 seconds. Cameron shuts his eyes. After a flash transition the frame is led from Cameron's point of view and the use of iconography is used and repetition is used showing of the knife is continued. The short violent scene are brought to the audiences attention in quick editing. The character Grace is shown being stabbed and falls off her chair why she then looks confused and dazed after being wounded. Cameron then remains in power as we see him struggle to maintain purity as he murders his mother. We hear nothing but the soundtrack being played, which is a cover of Tiny Tim's - Tip Toe Through The Tulips. This parallel sound is played as Grace struggles to get her son off of her. Although this diabetic sound is muffled, We are able to here Cameron's muffled breathing. The lighting is still dark at this point to show that his 'dark' side is present. 

The title 'Disturbia' Is the portrayed on the screen while we continuously here the soundtrack Tip Toe Through The Tulips.

The final scene is then demonstrated.With a medium shot that shows Harmony walking. We are able to see a deserted looking street and bush to the right. The following shot remains quiet low and only shows half of her body. Her phone then begins to ring and a median shot it used to present her answering the phone. When the phone remains fuzzy and threatening she panics and a POV shot is shown as she frantically looks around to see if anyone is watching. Cameron replies with 'Cameron's Not Here Anymore' - As Harmony walks off we see her in a black coat. She wears all black to annotate that danger is near for her. We got Cameron to remain in a suit almost to show the contrast in characters. When his innocent he wears white. When he is in black he is evil and the fact he is in a suit at the end shows that this is only the beginning for Cameron. His 'protagonist side' wants to trick the audience into thinking his in charge.

Conclusion
If this was an entire film the storyline would continue to show how Cameron's innocent side deals with the guilt which leads him to his suicide and how does the film actually end does Cameron really die. The fact that Cameron appears to kill himself at the start shows how our thriller opening differ to stereotypical thrillers. In conclusion to our opening scene narrative we have successful attempted to include all the micro-elements that need to be presented in a conventional thriller opening.