Prod Log

This week in the lesson I uploaded the mood board and pitch. Outside of class I worked on my initial ideas and names for the psychological thriller. I would like to complete my storyboard and script.
 I would like to be more creative by using softwares like Prezi and slideshare!

Storyboard

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This storyboard represents our plot for our film. The woman is looking at a poster on a shop in the first box. The second box,  she has a flashback of a time with her and her boyfriend. The third box she sees him and is terrified. In the 4th box she tries to escape him as she remembers all the the terrible things he has done to her. The 5th box, she finally reaches her home and tries to enter without being seen. The 6th box, she is relieved to escape her ex, however while she washes her face she sees him behind her in the mirror.

Audience

Our audience will be 15 + above. This is because the film  is a psychological thriller. However we expect people in their late teens and older people to come and see the film. Even though psychological thriller are associated with male centered audiences i think the majority of our audience will be female because we are following the antagonist' s story who is also female. Although we think the majority will be female i think there will still be a large proportion of males that would watch the film.

PITCH

My pitch for thriller from NezzyLDN

Title Ideas

It took really long to find a title that suited our film and made it more attractive to the audience. We wanted something that reflected our storyline. So we did some research and found titles that already existed. Most titles that we found had a little " Spook ". For example " Black Swan", " The Silence of The Lambs", "The Cell", "The Ring" and "The Machinist".

We wanted to use the title "Stalker" but then saw that a TV Drama had already took the name. So we decided we wanted a title which is short, and came up with the word "Shadow". We thought this title gave an element of mystery. We picked the word " Shadow" because we thought it linked to our plot. Our antagonist is being stalked by her ex husband, it's as if they are inseparable like a shadow to a body.

Mood Board

 This mood board reflects our storyline, of how a relationship between a woman and a man was beautiful and breath-taking  and how their relationship is now a nightmare and life-taking.

Initial ideas

We decided that we wanted to do a psychological thriller. Our initial idea was that we wanted a girl to be stalked however we didn't have much content in our storyline. Soon we developed a storyline of the antagonist being the girl (Sara) who was a victim of domestic violence. She is no longer with her ex husband who abused her but she is still scarred. She tries to carry on with life by going out on a normal day to the shops but she starts hallucinating that she's being followed.  Before her hallucinations start she has flashbacks of happy memories of her and and her. However as the story progresses the flashbacks turn into horrible memories of her abuse. She runs home thinking her mind is just playing tricks on her. Soon as she closes the door we see her ex husband saying " Hi Sara".