Ident Snapshot

This is a snapshot of the mexican man we are using in our ident. We have animated it on final cut so his hands move and shake his maracas.
We will then have the words "Tash Tash Man Productions" appear above and underneath him. I think that it would look effective if the words zoomed in while he shakes his maracas.
This is the font we have chosen to use:


I think this is a good font to use as it gives a positive feeling which goes well with the mexican man. The font is called "Musicals" from the website www.dafont.com

ident

we worked on our ident today for the whole lesson. we made our ident as a a little mexican man with maracas in each hand. our ident shakes the maracas before the words tash tash man productions comes up. we have a noise like beans shaking for the noise of the maracas.

first draft script

We get an establishing shot of a house. its dark and we can tell its night time because the road is empty and the street lights are on. we can see some lighting in the house. a dark figure moves towards the house holding something white in his hand. the dark figure is in complte black. we get a close up as the hand delivers a letter into the door. a match on action shot shows the letter landing inside the house. we see a female charcter walk to the letter and pick it up. the girl moves to the letter box and puts her eye to it looking through it. we have a point of view shot showing the girl character looking out onto the street. we see that the street is empty.

the female character now moves up the steps

issues with filming

because there are only 2 of us in the group there may be some issues with filming our piece. we only have the option of having one person acting while the other is filming. this might not work well because we both can't see if were getting the shots we want. were going to have to get other people to help us film if we want it to be any good.

some of the lessons there is only one of us there from the group so we havent been able to work out some kinks because we havent had time together to deal with it.

we are hoping to film this friday night when we have a free house its just getting all the people to the location to film.

shot types

in our piece we want to include as many different shot types that we can without losing the tension in our thriller. At the moment we are using:

-an establishing shot
at the beggining to show that it is late at night and an odd time for a letter to be delivered. if we filmed it in the day the letter being delivered wouldnt be suspicious because you would just assume it is the post man.
-close up
we have alot of close ups in our piece because its how we are showing the killers actions without giving away who the killer is. we have a close up of the killer opening a door,posting a letter, etc

-match on action
we are having match on action of when the letter is posted from the outside and being delivered on the inside

-point of view shot
we have a few point of view shots like when the girl looks out the letter box to see if any one is there and when the killer looks through a crack in a door watching the girl reading

-tracking shot
we may have a tracking shot when the killer is walking up the stairs

Mise-en-scene

here is a list of the mise-en scene we are planning on using in our thriller opening

Costume:
Female character- innocent clothing casual hair tied back maybe a long top like you would sleep in or just jeans and a long top.

killer character- black glove all black outfit

other props:
-knife
-newspaper article
-letter

Films with similar themes

Jagged Edge
Funny Games
Scream
Strangers
Panic Room