Shot List

Shot No.	Location	Actor	Costume/Props	Description	Order
1	Outside set	Dummy Driver	Car	The car drives into the road and then it stops onto the side	1
2	Outside- Next to the car	Gabriel Jackson	Car	You see Gabe from outside the car (don’t see mike)	2
3	Inside the car	Gabriel and Mike	Car                                          Gun	You see Gabe looking down then he turns and it reveals Mike Gabe-‘What do you want’	3
4	The front view of the car	Gabriel and Mike	Gun Car	They both move out of the car Mike – ‘relax, just get out’	4
5	Side view of the car	Mike	Gun Car	Mike opens the door	5
6	Side view of the Car (back)	Mike and Gabriel	Gun Car	Mike closes the door	6
7	Just outside the Car	Mike and Gabriel	Gun & Silencer Car	Mike screws on the silencer Gab- ‘no no please’	7
9				Mike – No its alright Shoots gab	7
8	Just outside the car	Mike	Gun & silencer	Mike screw the silencer on	8
10	Outside the Car	Gab	Car Hand phone	Mike closes the car door and drives away	9
11	Extreme Close up	Gab	Phone	The phone shows the phone was dialling the dad	10
12	The Principle office		Phone	The dad listening to the phone and he looks at the phone	11

Mise-en-scene for our Thriller Opening Sequence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=as_1Hl1Yahs&feature=youtu.be

Change in location

Our group had decided to change locations as we thought that having our old location would not suit the atmosphere that we are trying to create. This is because there are only 2 containers therefore it would be hard to film, however if the scene was stacked full off containers it would suit the scene much more.

The new location we chose is the car park on Radnor road. We chose this location because it suited the concept we were looking for, as it is abandoned and deserted meaning that there would not be a lot of people in that area. This fits out mise en scene as we needed the location to seem secluded as it would fit with our thriller as the hit man would not take them somewhere busy to kill them.

The second location we used, was where the hit man kills the victim. This location seems very abandoned and unvisited therefore the victim would not be found making it a suitable place to dump a body.

How many locations do you have?
We will be using 2 locations for our media thriller. One is the car park where our Car is going to be situated at while the other location is inside the forest/woods near the Car Park

What issues can you foresee?
The main issues will be the same as our last location which is the weather due to its unpredictability. The weather forecast predicts that it will be raining for a few minutes. Nevertheless this would still be used as it would create a more suspense and tense environment, however it might take longer to film as our film equipment isn't rain compatible.

How long do we intend on being there?
We intend on being there as long as our previous location which is approx. 6/7 hours. We intend on spending 5 hours in our first location (car park) and 1 to 2 hours in our second location (forest) depending on the weather as the weather could vary the time the crew sets up a little to finding a more suitable locations (less muddy)

Where is it?
We will be shooting our thriller outside of school, which is a 4 minute drive away. The blue box on the top left is our locations which is a large car park that we will be intending to use our thriller as a location. The on the bottom right is my school, hurtwood house there you can see its only going to be a few minute drive.


Do we have permission
As it is public property we have been allowed to film in this location and our group has confirmed it with the media department.

Location (Old)

How many locations do you have?
We will be using 1 locations for our media thriller, this is because we will be filming around the car at the back of our school.

What issues can you foresee?
The main problem the the weather as it is very unappreciable as it says on the weather forecast that it is likely going to be raining. However if it rains it would only build more suspense for the thriller, nevertheless this will make it harder to film during the set

How long do we intend on being there?
We intend on being there for approx 6/7 hours if the weather is fine and we set up and prepare early for the shoot.

Where is it?
We are shooting our thriller outside of the back of the studio at school as we thought it looked like a good setting for a thriller with the natural mise en scene, and with the containers which gives it a sinister vibe

This is the location however there the container will be closed 

Do we have permission

As it is in school grounds we have been given permission to use the back of the studio to film the our thriller. We have been given permission form the Media Studies department

Similar Media Text

Dexter, Leon, Taken, Hitman (video game) and run all night are all similar media text to our thriller

Dexter (Tv Show) was produced by Showtime Networks in 2006 and the main actor is Michael C. Hall. The plot is "A Miami police forensics expert moonlights as a serial killer of criminals whom he believes have escaped justice.- IMDB" It's the idea of how the audience feels sympathy towards the killer.

Leon (Movie) was produced by Gaumont in 1994 and its directed and written by Luc Besson. It stars Jean Reno, Gary Oldman, Natalie Portman. The plot is about "Mathilda, a 12-year-old girl, is reluctantly taken in by Léon, a professional assassin, after her family is murdered. Léon and Mathilda form an unusual relationship, as she becomes his protégée and learns the assassin's trade. - IMDB" It's the idea of how the audience feels sympathy towards the killer similar to dexter.

Hitman (Video Game) is developed by a Danish IO interactive and its available in PS3, Xbox and Windows, IOS and Android. It was made in 2014 and it has the same idea of having it at the hit mans perspective.

Run All Night (Movie) is produced by Vertigo in 2015 and it directed by Jaume Collet Serra. Its starts Liam Neeson, the plot is about "Mobster and hit man Jimmy Conlon has one night to figure out where his loyalties lie: with his estranged son, Mike, whose life is in danger, or his longtime best friend, mob boss Shawn Maguire, who wants Mike to pay for the death of his own son." Our idea is based on how the hit man kills his bosses son for
his own justified reason














Leon phone call

Intended Target Audience

My intended target audience for my upcoming thriller will be 15+, as our movie is intended on being a crime thriller/action. Therefore our shots are likely to be very suspenseful using variety of different camera angles and shots to create suspension. Therefore our target age range is likely going to be 18 to 19 year old being dominated mostly by men. The reason the target audience is most likely going to be dominated by a male audience is because most crime thriller consist of a full male cast, which in it self helps make attract a male audience. Plus general stereotypes of men tend to enjoy violence and blood, which we will try to include in our thriller

The target audience is likely going to be young adults and teens. They are mostly likely going to university. They are mostly likely going to we hard working and go out to cinemas with friends on the weekend. The audience will most likely be attracted by our film through the use of special effect like gun shots effects to make it more realistic and suspenseful.

In our thriller we are going to have an unanswered question to reel the audience into watching the movie. This tends to interest the audience as it making the audience confused.

The use of a Silencer in our Media Shoot

We added a silencer in our Thriller opening sequence as our group felt it was an essential concept of the prop list as it added more meaning to the backstory of our thriller. It also help make it seem more realistic (add realism) in to the opening sequence as the situation made more sense due to the clothing that our hit man. This is due to the fact that our hit man will be wearing a trench coat with a suit (in the picture on the right) as we made him model for the shoot in order see if it seems convincing enough in that costume. This meant gave our group a clearer idea of how our actor is going to look like for our media thriller

It was also to make it seem more realistic as hit man usually use a silencer because without the silencer it would make the gun much louder which defeats the purpose of him being a hit man. Due to the clothing of our hit man he gives connotations to the audience that he is a professional therefore having a silencer suits the character more. This is also adds more meaning to our media thriller as it makes it seem like he has been hired or had trained experience in the field. Therefore the audience wants to find out the backstory of why he killed him giving it more depth.

Organising Props

For our media thriller will will only be using 3 props that will either be brought by our group from our budget or we will borrow them from the school Media/theatre department. To ensure that we have all these props we will bring them in a week before our media thriller, this allows our group to be more prepared as the props plays a key role in our media studies thriller.

The three Props are:

The first is a pistol and a silencer. We must ensure that the silencer can attach and de-attach from the gun as we will be having a scene where the hit man will be screwing the silencer onto the gun. We have requesting from the theatre block if we would be allowed to borrow their replica gun as they have recently used one for their school play.

The second prop that we require is the phone that doesn't contain GPS or we would be using a HTC one and just put it on airplane mode so it doesn't interfere with the camera. We would be either buying the phone from amazon or check if one of the student has a phone similar as it would save our group '300 pounds'.

The last prop is a fiat punto. This is the most important prop that we will require it as most of our thriller is filmed around the car and inside the car. The reason why our group chose a fiat punto is because we wanted our victim to seem like a college/university student. We will be borrowing one of the Media Studies teacher as he has this same model in the picture which, prevent our group to save cost as we wouldn't have to buy a car.

Props List

How many?

We don’t need very many props as our thriller is set in a. We only require 3 props as we thought that was a suitable amount of props as we don't want to complicate the the atmosphere with a bunch of props combined with close ups.

What do you need?

We need a pistol for the man sat in the back of the car,

We also need a phone for the person sat in the front to talk on, preferably one without gps so it doesn’t interfere with filming however if we do use a phone with gps we would have the phone be put on airplane mode so it doesn't interfere with the camera.

And a car which is where our thriller is set, it doesn’t have to be a specific car as we are only using the inside of the car however it would be preferred if the car was a relatively cheap and small car as our victim is a university sudent. 

Where are you getting them

We are getting the replica gun from the school as they have them from previous thrillers and plays. With the gun with decided to have a silencer added onto the gun as the Media department has a silencer with the gun. Therefore would reduce our overall price of our Media Thriller.

We are getting the phone from a media teacher at school who has one of the older phones which doesn’t have gps in it so it wouldn't interfere with the camera or we would be bring/buying a smart phone as most university students prefer to use a smart phone. However we might end up using a htc one and to avoid it interfering with the camera we would put it on airplane mode and download this fake calling app and just activate it.

Why do you need them?

All of these props are essential to our thriller and it couldn’t be done without any of them, as the car is also our location, the phone and the gun make the narrative. These props will help build the atmosphere that our group is trying to convey.

Organising Costumes

All of the costumes will have to be brought in by our group. We will either bring them or buy them, then we will bring the costumes to school a week before in order to ensure we have the costumes for our media thriller.

For our hit man we bought a suit from the Moss Brothers. The reason for this is because it makes him seem intimidating yet professional in the suit with a trench coat. 

For our other actor (Gabriel) we have chosen Topman. This is because
Topman isn't too expensive and it fits our actors very well to the cloths. This allows him to seem like a university student. 

 We had our actors to test the clothing's to ensure that all the sizes matched the actor and to check if they were matching the look they we were looking for. The picture on the left is our actor testing his costume as a hit man and on the right is our actor testing his costume as a university student.

Actors

For our media shoot we have two actors in our shoot. Our main actor will be played by Gabriel Jackson who currently goes to Hurtwood House and studies theatre studies. This meant that he had experience and he suited our role. This is because one of the main characters will be a university student, therefore Gabriel had the right appeal as he seems to look slightly older like a university student. 

Our second actor is Mike Niland who is currently a teacher in the Media Studies Department. His role will playing as a hit man who kills Gabriel Jackson. Mike suited our role because when he wore his costume he had a very menacing face and he had past experience being a bouncer therefore he had the right physic for the role of being a hit man

Costume

How many
For our opening sequence we require 2 costumes. One for the agent/hit man whom will be wearing a suit (from moss brothers) and the victim is wearing a jumper with jeans (from top man).



How are you going to get them
For the agent/hit man we have looked and seen our actor wearing a suit with a trench coat that matched his role. As for the victim we one of our group members is going to bring in the costume which will be bought online from topman.
To ensure that we bring the costumes in we will be bringing in the costumes 3 days before our shooting and leaving them to the media department or our own lockers, therefore it ensures us that nothing is forgotten.

What is the cost 
The cost will be split between each group member however we decided that we would use most of our budget on buying a nice trench coat for our hit man. Then the rest of the money will be spent on the victims cloths.

Why have we chosen these cloths
We have chosen our hit man to be wearing a suit? This is because usually we are trying to use mise en scene to illustrate to the audience that he is a hit man. The colour cloths that we have chosen for out hit man is all very dark therefore it gives connotations to him being the villain/bad guy in our thriller.

We have made our victim look very casual as he will be wearing a t-shirt with a jumper and jeans. This allows our audience to have an indication that he is victim as he looks like he is wearing cloths to a normal school day. We will specifically buy cloths form topman as the brand itself gives connotations to being a university student.

New Idea

New Idea

The opening scene thriller sequence is about a teen (18/19 years old) drives the a car. Then it reveals that there is a hit man behind his seat. This builds more suspense as the audience doesn't expect to see the hit man even though the teen driving looks slightly panicked. Then the teen gets shot and by the hit man causing the teen to drop his phone. It consist of some action during the plot as it makes it seem more thrilling and exciting. Only then does the hit man know the teen was calling his dad the whole time.