Pictures for evaluation

Audience

Our thriller opening, appeals to a different kind of audience, we got ideas off the films Kidulthood, Adulthood, Harry Brown, Shank. All of these films appeal to a younger audience because of the content, the actors are young, or look young, and they also dress with the young london style. Also the audience we are appealing to isnt just youths, its a certain type of youth, from the underground, or someone who experiences bad behaviour in everyday life, and someone who witnesses, or is involved in youth gang crime.
In our evaluation we will have to reinforce this, by explaining in further detail.

Difficutlties

One difficulty we had was that it took us a while to edit the film, and get everything to look right, so as this took us a long time, we couldnt get on with the music and get the timing right for the music. So in the last two lessons we had to rush the music, and make sure everything went well,

I feel our music really suits the genre, it sounds upbeat, but at the same time its creates a dramatic, tension building atmosphere.

Filming - day 1

Today we have started to film, we all met at Kizzys house, because this is the location we have planned to film. We have already researched the area, so we know when, where, and how we are going to film. Firstly we filmed Gabi, we took a long panning shot of her, as if it was a CCTV camera, we thought this would add dramatic effect, and also it shows the mise-en-scene, aswell as establishing Gabi's character. I filmed Gabi from on top of a garage roof, she was standing near a car pretending to have just come put of it, she then turns and walks up towards the stairs i am filming from. The first time we took this shot we looked at it and thought we should add Kizzy and Mari, walking past her, to again establish the characters and show they are all living in the same area.
We faced problems whilst filming, because we started filming whilst it was still dusk, and the later scenes where darker, but we have a solution, because the later scenes are mostly inside a carpark, and the other scenes are outside, but it makes sense for it to be darker, because would be later in the day.

Characters - Gabi

The personality of Gabi's character is innocent, vulnerable, and wuthdrawn. We can tell this by the way she will be dressed, because all her clothes are white, creating an image innocence, like an angel. Also her shoes will be flat to show she is young, and not old enough to wear high heels. Her hair will be down and curly which would also add to the young look, as if it was straight and tied back it would make her see, more aggressive, and fierce.
Another personality trate if gabi's shy, and introvert, this is be also shown in her body language, her arms will be folded, saing she is shutting out everyone, also she will be getting attacked so she will feel small.
She will be wearing make-up, but not heavy make-up, just natural make-up, which will say she is innocent, and not portray a view of fierce.
Gabi's character will be based around Selina Gomes, we chose her because she acts on a programme called Wizards of Waverly place, which is a show on Disney channel, and this is portrayed as an innocent, child friendly channel. Therefore Selina Gomes is a perfect example for Gabi's character.

Characters. - Louka

The personality of Louka's character, is a stereotypical "bad boy" young offender, who hangs around with his friends, who are also youths, who live in a rough urban area.
The stereotypical youth wears the costumes shown in an erlier blog.
This idea of rough youths is a good idea for a thriller because in this time period, people are scared of gang violence, especially from youths.
Loukas character is forseen as young, dangerous, and reckless. The fact his friends are with him, makes him seem more threatening, and untouchable, also would inhance his confidence, and cockiness, because he thinks he is untouchable with hs friends backing him up, but what he doesnt understand is his friends wont always be there for him.
Louka's personality will be shown in his clothing, he will be wearing hoodies and trackies, with his hood up, saying he doesnt want people to know what he looks like. Also the script, and language he will be using will be known as slang.
Louka character will be based around Aml Ameen, because he acts in a film called Kidulthood, which is also based around youths, and gang violence. Aml Ameen plays a cold blooded, youth who only thinks about his mates and parties, we thought he would be the perfect example for Louka's character because in the opening Louka and his mates are going to be shown harrising Gabi.

Cameras

We have missed one lesson this week due to ILP meetings, so we still havent dicussed how long we should take the camera for, the options are take for 2 nights in a row, or 2 seperate nights, i think 2 seperate nights would be the best option because then we can choose the days we film, and in the weekend we might not all be free aswell.

Costumes of Louka

As Louka is playing the part of a teenage gang member, him and his friends that will be present in the shot will be wearing dark clothing, to make them appear more threatening, with their hoods up to hide their faces. Here are examples of what Louka and his friends could be wearing:

Mise en Scene

The location is Norolk Street, Cambridge, we are filming most of the opening at night time, and in this location, the reason for choosing this location is its centrel and also looks like rough area. This adds to our fear factor of violent acts by youths. The setting is going to be dark because, then unable to see who the predators are.