Storyboard

We made 4 different storyboards. The first one was very simple and lacked many shots we needed in order to convey the message. Moreover, it was too short and it was rather a prompt for what we want to do next rather than a proper storyboard.
Next one included more shots and the idea started developing, so we brought more angles and more action. However, to my mind it still needed some correction.
The third storyboard included over 50 shots which is obviously overwhealming and we actually didn't need many. As a result we got rid of redundant shots and finally came up with forth storyboard, which we used during our shooting.

Storyboard: final version

Characters List for Thriller

Character List

Businessman: - Around 40 years old
-5ft8
-English
-Fair short hair
-Well-built



Young Girl:

-16-17 years
-Blonde
-Small 

Costume List for Thriller

Costume List

Male Politician:

- plain white shirt

-red tie

-grey/black suit trousers and jacket

 -polished black shoes

 -watch
-belt
-ring (signet)
-handkerchief
- cufflinks
-neatly combed hair

  

 Young Girl:

 -mom jeans

 -baggy t-shirt

 -big woolly knit cardigan

 -converse

-colourful bright socks
-hair  in plaits with a headband 
-watch           
-cross necklace



Thriller Props List

Props List

• Rope (noose)
• Chair/stool
• Notebook
• A biro
• Official documents
• Gold pen
• Envelope
• Desk
• Block of soap
• Bible



Production decisions

We have had several production meetings since the time I last mentioned it. Some of them were productive where we in fact did some work, but the vast majority of them were absolutely useless. Nevertheless, we have a decent output of our dubious work, such as storyboard, cast list, narrative action list and props list.

But there were more important issues that we needed to discus, such as the hole conception of the sequence and the conception of the entire movie. They actually still exist and I try to do everything to make it clearer for the audience. 

The maim problem is to show the credible link

between two characters.

As you know, we have two characters one whom is a politician (not that sure anymore) who signs some papers (still sure about it) and the second one is a girl who is going to hang herself.

I came up with several ideas that might work, to my mind and we've finally chosen one of them. 

Now we have a businessman who wants to build a new factory and in order to accomplish that there needs to be several churches demolished. The girl is his daughter and very religious and she wants to stop her father. So the only way she thinks she can do it is to sacrifice her life.   

So in our sequence you will see something like that:

The rough Cut



This week we tried to film a rough variant of our sequence, which turned out not as successful as I wanted it to be, but this is the life, isn't it? We, finally, made a short video, but unfortunately I can't upload it here, because of some technical problems. Anyway, you will probably like to see the final version, however, the process of marketing of our thriller sequence at this stage meets some troubles.

But, nevertheless, I urge you to be intrigued by our oncoming opening sequence, as it still should be great...

 We spent almost two lessons in attempts to film everything we planned, however, this turned out to be not enough. We got several good shots, several bad shots and we didn't get around the third of the shots we planned. So as you may predict we were working harder than God when he was creating the Earth! The reason of such a result, to be honest, is our inter-group inconsistency. As we don't really listen to each other and try to take the consideration only our own vision, not the vision of others, which is not that productive.

This is a nearly description of what we have in our group.