Making Sharp White

Our group met twice after school, we were expecting it to take longer than two nights to film all the shots. Some of our shots were outside; this was difficult to do as we couldn't rely on the weather. When we was about to start filming, it started to rain. We worked around it and had our camera-man to hold an umbrella over the camera to ensure there was no damage done. 

We all enjoyed making the opening sequence, it was much more work than our Continuity Sequence but still very enjoyable. We learnt how to be more creative with our shots. We changed some of the shots from our storyboard, as we were about to film certain shots we thought it would look better a different way. So we tried both and then seen which one looked better. 

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Location List and Costumes and Role Lists

Location List
We will be filming inside and outside of Jasmine's house. We will use the drive, the front garden, hallway, kitchen, living room and Jasmines bedroom.

The strangers will be standing at the end of this junction, as they watch me in the background go into my car with out me knowing. 

Costumes
As our killers are 'strangers' we borrowed plain white masks from the drama department in school, this then hides their identity as we will never know who they are. The strangers were all dressed similar to each other  rather casual as if they were just normal people and not 'typical murderers'. 

I will be wearing just my school uniform as i have just returned home from a day at school/college, then Luke will wear his uniform as he has just found me the next day on his way for us to walk to school.



Our Roles
We all had certain roles within the group. This grid was completed after we have finished filming,so this is what we all contributed.

Sharp White Cast List

There are 4 people in our group, but we had extra help of a year 13.

The main character is me, playing myself Shannon Evans. I am the victim in the film. My group members chose me to play this role as i did not mind what role i had, so they chose me as the victim.

Then there is Luke Price who plays my brother. He comes in and finds me dead on the living room floor, then makes a call to 999.

The three strangers are Jasmine Day, Keira Pain and Kerri Newman. These are the murderers, we never get to see their faces in the film as they are hidden behind the white masks. 

Storyboard for Sharp White

To ensure that we knew what shots we were filming for our opening sequence we produced a storyboard, this would then show us what goes on in each shot. With any dialogue written up on the side of the drawing/sketch also with the name of the shot that will be used. This way we know what we are doing and if we follow these then we will have a successful opening sequence to our film.

These are just 2 examples of the storyboards we had produced, there were several over sheets which then complete it. 

Choosing Our Opening Sequence

We all talked as a group about what thriller films we have seen, all of us have seen 'The Strangers' and we all agreed it is a good film. We liked the idea of how you don't find out who the murderers are, why they are there or why they are doing it to the couple, its a mystery. After talking about other thriller films such as 'the grudge' and 'the ring' we decided to recreate 'The Strangers'. We were all happy with the choice we made and couldn't wait to get started!
We had a group discussion on what our film would be called, we used the brainstorm method to pick a name. In the end we decided to use the name 'Sharp White'. We chose this one because as a group we agreed it sounded mysterious and creepy, also the killers will be wearing a white mask. This is distinctive as we never see what they look like, only their white masks.

This is me, Luke and Keira with our brainstorm of movie titles, which we all contributed at least one idea each.

We played around with the title affect on Imovie to see what we could use, in the end we decided to keep it simple.

This is what we came up with;

The colour of the word 'white' is white, because it makes it stand out more next to the word sharp. 

We carried out this activity to show the evidence of choosing our film and what it will be about.

This is then the final planning sheet.