Treatment for first two minutes

Treatment for first two minutes

Quietus (1:51)

Right at the beginning of our first two minutes our film will start with an establishing shot with Robyn in shot so that the audience cam see that she is alone and in a large space and is vulnerable. The camera angle will then change to the side of Robyn this shot will track Robyn’s movement while she will walk for a couple of seconds before her phone rings. The phone call will be off her mother asking where she is and how long till she will be home. When Robyn answers the phone the camera shot will go in front of her and track her movement again for the duration of the phone call. The shot will then cut to behind Robyn so the camera sees her turning then the camera will fade to an over the shoulder shot to show that Robyn is scared and believes somebody is there. After Robyn turns back round the camera shot will behind her following her picking up pace to show that somebody is behind her and picking up pace to try and catch her. Robyn will then turn a corner and go into an alley way were the person following her pushes her to the ground and knocks her unconscious. The camera will show Robyn on the floor and then a point of view shot. When Robyn wakes up she is in very different surroundings. She soon becomes aware that her hands are tied and that she is tied up. Robyn looks around to see if there is anybody else there she realises that there is nobody and she is alone. Robyn then screams for help to receive a reply from the person who has took her hostage.

The genre of our film will be horror and we will be establishing this by using negative lighting to show this in our first two minutes to give off a really negative atmosphere. If we start the film off with the audience in the right frame of mind they should enjoy the rest of the movie and not be disappointed.

It is important that we get as many signs in from the start to show the genre and signifies that its going to be a horror movie the signs maybe the lighting with it been dark this usually shows that something bad is going to happen especially if there is little colour in the rest of the opening two minutes.

Citizen X - Brief research into sound

Citizen X During the opening credits and the first scene beginning the non diegetic sound is used to create an eerie atmosphere as the soundtrack creates ominousity. The first image we see is of the woods, this is a still shot that lasts around one 1:40 and the opening credits are seen over this image. Then we hear the diegetic sound of a train as it gets closer and then enters the image, the train passes and continuity editing is displayed as the scene smoothly changes from the shot of the train to a tractor of the same colour and a similar diegetic sound. The non diegetic music is still being played over the top of the diegetic sounds and this helps the shots link smoothly.

title sequence research

Title sequence research

Title sequences are at the start of a film and are placed there to give the audience an understanding to who was involved in the production, distribution and exhibition of the film. They usually last two to three minutes and give the audience their initial impression of what the movie is going to be like. So thus the reason why title sequences need to be so impressive. A title sequence can look however the director wants it to but normally it reflects the movie in some way. For example the title sequence for a horror movie is likely to have very little colour if any strong hints of red which is usually associated with danger, death or blood.

  

Because the title sequence reflecting the film it should put the audience into the right mood for when the movie begins. If the audience were watching a horror movie then there would usually be some tense music playing in the background trying to make the audience feel tense. If a title sequence wasn’t very good then the audience may not like the actual movie as much.

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In conclusion to the research I discovered that our title sequence should be fairly dark with a bit of red showing through and some tense music playing constantly throughout.

Location description

Location description

Our first two minutes of our film has two main locations in it both very different. One of them is in an outhouse and the other outside on a dark road.

Outside (road)

Firstly the first minute or so will be shot entirely outside on a dark road in Great Houghton with fields surrounding it. There are bushes either side in certain parts and lots of gaps in these bushes where somebody or something could be hiding.

Inside (outhouse)

The remainder of our two minutes will be shot inside an outhouse. The outhouse has minimal lighting at most times and gives the impression that it will be cold inside. By having minimal lighting it will suggest fear and unpleasant things may happen here.

Development of the storyline

We gave out 10 questionnaires to people around college in order to get feedback on our original first two minutes so that we could make improvements and develop our idea.
To give them an idea of the storyline we included a description of the first two minutes of the film and then asked several questions. The first question was 'Does it sound interesting?' our response from this was good as all ten people said yes. We also received good response from the next question which was 'Would you be interested in watching the rest of the film?' as all but one person said yes.
Most people liked how creative and intriguing the storyline was so we decided to keep this aspect.
20% of the people said that they thought the storyline was a bit predictable and 50% of people said the storyline could do with a bit more detail therefore we decided to develop it and now instead of having a film just about a murderer we have created a phychological thriller with lots of unexpected twists in it.

Audience feedback

Group 10 final film