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Location Recce - 'Abandoned Warehouse'

Prepared by-Joey Alderson
Date-08/11/11
Location Details-An abandoned warehouse.
Scene/Purpose of filming - It is to get establishing shots of the area etc. Also the backdrop is effective and provides and good scene.

Site Contact  Name

Joey Alderson
Contact telephone
01302 834154
Permissions - Filming the outside using establishing shots etc. it has a good backdrop which is effective.
Availability - All the time so it is good for filming purposes
Points of Interest - It has a good backdrop and the area around is interesting as there is a alley nearby.
Suitability/
Possible shots - There will be lots of shots available as it is a large space.
Safety Issues - Broken items on the floor.
Address
The nearest address is
23 Fair Holme View
Armthorpe
Doncaster
South Yorkshire
Access - A large gate which could fit all the equipment through.
Electricity Supply - N/A
Food  - There is a Cooplands a short walk away. 
Parking - Small parking areas for cars to fit around the area.
Toilets - The nearest toilet is short walk away at a friends house.
Sunlight - Used best in midday went it is brightest.
Windows - No windows to provide extra light as it is outside.
Flooring/Ground - Cement with broken glass on the floor but before use we will brush the area.
Noise - Cars will go past occasionally which provide background noise. 
Space - It has enough room to fit in a jib and other large equipment.

Analysis of Thriller Films

Source Code – The first 2 minutes of the film are all establishing shots of the surroundings. This is to show the surroundings as the film is to do with the train and what happens to the train and where it is happening. This is to make the audience know the surroundings and get used to where the scene is set as it keeps going back to the same place so they want the audience to familiarise themselves with the scene. The characters aren’t introduced straight away they are introduce as the excitement starts this is as the director wanted the audience to concentrate on the surroundings. The text is over the shots and it is a sans serif text which is quiet bold. There is also a lot of music played throughout to create tension with the audience and this also tells the audience that it is building up to something, which is the train expolsion.  

Se7en – The opening of this has lots of sort quick cuts which show gruesome things to entice the audience and scare the audience also giving them a sneak peek of what is to come. The things like grotty finger tips getting dead skin cut of scares the audience. The quick close up shots gives the audience lots of small pieces of information in a short period of time. And while this is going on the credits are on top of the images in a mystical font. No characters are introduced in this part as it is just showing the audience who made the film and things like that. It is also showing them pieces of information that is insignificant at the start but with be important as the storyline goes ahead. Link - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEZK7mJoPLY

Inception – in the opening of the movie introduces the main characters and who he is working for, it also shows some children on a beach where it appears the man has washed up, the children are a small detail which the audience will understand later in the movie. It has a close up of the two people’s faces and an object that will also be explained later on. This is to get the audience familiar with these things so they recognise them late on. There aren’t any credits in it just has the close ups and a few establishing shots. This is as the start is important but it is more about what is in the starting sequence than where it is as you find out that later anyway. The noises in the start are very distinctive and small things like the crashing of wave, clattering keys or a spinning top all stand out as it is made to seem unreal as the person is dreaming so each thing is amplified.

The Departed – The opening of the departed starts with some random people fighting to get the point across that there will be mild violence in the movie and how the movie relates to crime. The movie also shows how it relates to crime there is a mid shot of a police man in the shot. Instead of having text going over the shots telling you about the story it has a voice over, this engages the audience and introduces the audience to the characters voice and will remember him when it shows his face in one of the following scenes. The after the first establishing shot there is a silhouette of the man who is speaking, it starts off as a long shot and comes up to be a close up to imply it is him speaking and then it go to a point of view shot of him entering a bar and as soon as he gets in and sees the man behind the bar there is a car screeching noise which relates the guy to trouble. There is also a shot that is widely used in films all the time which is the shot of someone in the foreground and someone in the background, and it focuses on one of them the switches.  

I Am Legend – Start of this film is showing a news programme about two women talking about a cure that cures cancer and when it cuts to black and the show says it has cured cancer a deep pitched noise which tells us as a audience that the women are wrong and something terrible is about to happen. That’s when it cuts to establishing shots of the setting and text comes up saying three years later. The setting is destroyed and it is confirmed to us that the two women are wrong and this is what has happened due to the mistakes. It soon becomes clear the devastation that has happened and it makes the audience think how did all this happen which automatically engages them. After seeing the man and the dog in the car we see them drive past a large group of crows and as an audience we represent them with death, this scares the audience members and makes them feel sorrow. We will be using items to make the audience think about certain emotions and make them feel something. For example a gun could portray fear in the audience.  

We will be using similar techniques to the ones we have seen in these films and others so that we have got the point across that we are making a thriller. By using the shots and have the opening titles in a similar way just in our own way, to add our own original twist on it. 

Storyboard - 'The Trial' Opening

Annotated Draft of Screenplay