Our Aim..

What we have aimed to produce

We have produced a physiological thriller based on the idea of an ordinary 17 year old girl waking to find her life turned upside down, as she is the only person left in the world. We used the normality of waking up to what seems a normal day, then progressing into strange occurrences. The title sequence ends with the girl’s realisation she is alone. We decided to leave it on a cliff hanger so the audience would question what happened.

When we came up with the idea, we only thought about the title sequence, and didn’t really think about why all these people have disappeared. We felt this would work as a possitive, leaving our audience to interpret their own view . It could be the cause of alien abduction, government evacuation, a highly infectious virus or global warming.

I am Ledgend follows a similar storyline to our product along with films like 28days and Independence Day.

An account of our film day

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 On Wednesday 19th January our production team, ‘Cryptic Productions’ commenced a film day.

9:00am  The team and cast met

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9.15am   Left Hurtwood house , making sure we had all the film equipment, storyboards and other items we would need throughout the day.

•9:45am   We then arrived at Adam Grants house at Leith hill were we would record the nursery room scene. We set the nursery up how we would want it, putting toys in the cot and ruffling the blanket to enhance a deserted feel.

•When we white balanced and looked at the view through the lens we realised the light in the room wasn’t bright enough or the right quality. We then added extra light beside the window and put a blue gel filter in front, to make sure it matched the incoming outdoor light.

•Whilst this was happening I went through the story board with Emma (our main character) and directed her on what we wanted her to do. We then filmed her running towards the cot and reacting several times. Firstly we filmed it with a long shot then with close up reaction shots.

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• 11.15am we left and headed for Cranliegh to proceed filming the exiting from the house and the deserted street scene. For this we used a dolly track for a smooth pan shot to keep a fluent exit from Emma leaving the house to walking out toward the street. This was a bit of a challenge to do successfully, as we were pushing the camera on the dolly ourselves, and it was hard to keep the pace consistent with Emma walking.

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•12.45pm In the afternoon we continued with filming at the main house also in Cranleigh, where we would film all the interior shots. We decided to now go in chronological order through the storyboard. We went through each shot starting in the bedroom. With the day progressing it started to get darker and we realised we were losing some of the light in the house. We left shots that we could use our own light for until the end (for example the shower running) and filmed our shots needing incoming light (for example the corridor scenes).

For this revealing shot we previously asked permission form neighbours and put the empty cars open, showing abandonment, in the middle of the road. Two of us had to stand at each end of the street in case any cars came during filming. After a while planning we managed to get the right shot we needed in just a couple of takes. we checked we had all the right shots and made sure Emma kept the exact same appearance, for continuity.

Final Location, Props and Equipment

Three Locations

1.  Lieth Hill, Surrey (Nursery room)
2. Brookside, Cranleigh, Surrey (exterior/desserted street scenes)
3. Cranleigh home (Ineterior shots)

Props and Equipment

• Vehicles x3 (with fitted radio)
• Digital alarm clock
• Children's toys
• Toaster
• Pyjamas
• TV
• Landline phone
• Baby monitor

Getting the Location

This is a copy of the email we sent to gain permission to film exterior shots

Once receiving permission we created a a document of images of the street were we would film

Storyboards

Using our narrative action we created storyboards on how we want each shot to look like:









 









 












 








Casting

There was only one character we had to cast for our production.We decided on two girls, incase any problems occured.

Role: Young Girl

Age: Teenage (between 14-18)

Gender: Female

Description: average teenage girl, happy, confident and clever. However is confused and verging on panic struck when she awakes to her family and everyone having disappeared.




Name: Emma Dalton

Age:17-18 year

Hair colour: Brown

 Eye colour: Brown

  



Alternative

Name: Karis Arghiros

Age:17 years

Hair colour: Brown

Eye colour: Brown

 

Final Thriller Idea

Narrative Action

• Girl sleeping in bed, alarm clock states time (6.58am)
• Girl hears an alarm and hits the snooze button, alarm still goes on
• Girl sits up in bed and stands to walk towards the door
• Goes down stairs to loacte a fire
• Runs into kitchen removes burning toast, turns off alarm
• Hears the sound of baby music from baby monitor on unit
• Picks up monitor. T.V screen fuzzing in background
• Goes to babies room, Baby not there, only child mobile playing
• shower left running, nobody in house, runs outside
• Goes into street, its abandoned, cars empty with engines on and radios going fuzzy