Whilst studying thriller films we learn how important the use of cutaways are and how they can influence a scene.
This first example suggests that the man is attracted to the woman.
The second example suggests that the man is watching his children play. This completely changes the way the character of the man is perceived by the audience.
This led me to researching the Kuleshov affect which is the theory that a cutaway in a scene can change the entire meaning of it. ''The Kuleshov Effect is a film editing (montage) effect demonstrated by Russian filmmakerLev Kuleshov in the 1910s and 1920s.It is a mental phenomenon by which viewers derive more meaning from the interaction of two sequential shots than from a single shot in isolation.'' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuleshov_Effect .
We hope to include this in our thriller as we are planning to cut from a sinister shot of the patient, straight to a shot of the victim.
Our group pitched our idea to our teachers on Friday 12 December 2014 so that they could here our plot and tell us if it was suitable a whether they thought anything needed to be changed. In our pitch we told them important information such as; target audience, tag line and film length. We also showed them our story board, giving them an idea of how our opening would be structured.
During the feedback our teachers told us that they had some concern about the way in which we were incorporating mental health and wanted to make sure that we had considered the stigma surrounding it. However we had already discussed how we could use a character who was mentally ill without portraying them in a completely negative way. We decided that although our opening suggest the patient is the antagonist, later in the film (if we were making the rest of it) the audience learns that when she enters the mental hospital, Chloe is suffering from Bipolar and schizophrenia. However, the hospital is not your average unit and inside of it Chloe becomes corrupt from her 'medical treatment' and the Chief of Medicine at the hospital becomes the antagonist.
Here are some sites I used when researching mental health disorders:
Mental Health Foundation- bipolar
Mental Health Foundation - Schizophrenia
We decided to search the school grounds for a suitable place to film and we took these pictures:
We liked the pond because it was grim and the water looked very dirty. However we decided it was too exposed and filming near water can be dangerous especially if the water banks are muddy and slippy, which they are at this time of year.
We liked the gnarly branches of the tree in this picture but the space is too clear, meaning that if we stick to our original plan then there won't be enough trees for the ghost to hide behind.
I didn't like this picture because it looks too tame and the grass is not long and wild enough. After taking these elements into consideration we have decided not to film in this location.
