Our Time

This is how we plan on utilising our time for our final shoot along with the different camera shots we are planning on using.

0:00-0:01 Close-up of Bobby's feet tied to bed

 

0:01-0:11 Tracking shot moving up his body and ending on his face

 

0:11-0:15 Cut to black with credits

 

0:15-0:21 Tracking shot of legs pacing back and forth see cigarette

 

0:21-0:31 Pan up to Franchie standing with back to Bobby and camera smoking: wide shot

 

0:31-0:35 Cut to black w credits

 

0:35-0:38 Close-up of Bobby looking terrified, straining

 

0:38-0:42 Close-up of Franchie with back of head to camera looking up to clock

 

0:42-0:45 Cut to close-up shot of clock showing time

 

0:45-0:48 Cut to black w credits

 

0:49-0:57 Bird's eye view of Bobby as Franchie gets on top of him

 

0:57-1:04 Cut to close-ups of Bobby's belt being taken out and wrapped around his neck

 

1:04-1:10 Pan up from neck onto straining hands then loosening

 

1:10-1:13 Close-up of gloves being taken off revealing red nails

 

1:13-1:19 Pan up to Franchie

 

1:19-1:22 Close up of her mouth as she kisses her hand

 

1:22-1:30 Tracking shot as she places her hand on Bobby's head

 

1:30-1:33 Cut to black w credits

 

1:33-1:58 Close up of Franchie opening the door and smiling. Taking a drag

 

1:58-2:02 Close up of door closing

 

2:02-2:06 Cut to black with title

Things we did not do in our practice shoot that we would do on our final shoot

Firstly in out practice shoot we didn't use anything to tie the victims hands and legs together because of lack of props but on the final day we hope to have everything in.

Also we didn't black out our characters features that identify the killer as a female to make it mysterious for the viewers. We did not do this because of lack of proper lighting and camera equipment.

Also on the final day we hope to have a full and detailed sketched storyline as we did not have one when we did our practice shoot because we were not fully aware of the whole line of our thriller.

On the final day we hope to have everyone organised in different places eg camera and continuity so we can have an easier flow of events in comparison to yesterday.

we also hope to have better actors and the ones we want as opposed to the ones we used in our practice shoot as they were not sure how to do their rolls whereas our actual actors will know how to.

Practice shoot

We did a mock shoot of our thriller with a fake setting, fake props  and fake actors.

We used Beth as our female killer and I played the victim. We shot our thriller in Simons class and we used tables as a bed for me to lay on. We then also used black tape to tie my hands together and to use to cover my mouth so no sounds could be made by me when I was being choked. We then used a belt as the weapon. Along with Matts gloves.

We took: Close up shots, wide shots, low angle shots, high angle shots, tracking shots and medium shots just to prepare and to know which shots we are going to focus on the most for when we want to do our editing.

It was a difficult task because we had not realised that we did not have a long enough story line to start shooting so our mock thriller was relatively short. But after a while we came to conclusion what shots we would use and on who we were going to use those shots on.

Then we finally realised what we needed to do then we planned and reshot our thriller sequence and it was not as difficult but this time we did it without the use of tape.

These are the shots we used and are planning on using on our final shoot.

Close-up of Bobby's feet tied to bed

Tracking shot moving up his body and ending on his face

Cut to black with credits

Tracking shot of legs pacing back and forth see cigarette

Pan up to Franchie standing with back to Bobby and camera smoking: wide shot

Cut to black w credits

Close-up of Bobby looking terrified, straining

Cut to close-up shot of clock showing time

Cut to black w credits

Bird's eye view of Bobby as Franchie gets on top of him

Cut to close-up of Bobby's belt being taken out and wrapped around his neck

Pan up onto straining hands then loosening

Close-up of gloves being taken off revealing red nails

Pan up to Franchie

Close up of her mouth as she kisses her hand

Tracking shot as she places her hand on Bobby's head

Cut to black w credits

Close up of Franchie opening the door and smiling. Taking a drag

Close up of door closing

Cut to black with title

End

 

 

 

 

 

Our idea after change

At first we thought we would be able to shoot our thriller with the killer wearing a mask and holding a burning cigarette and then killing the cigarette before. But Simon told us that it wouldn't be possible.

So instead we are going to use a fake cigarette which we would get from amazon which already looks like its lit and it brings out fake smoke and we are getting rid of the mask idea and we are just going to use camera and editing to crop out our killers face so it could keep that mystery illusion and make the audience wonder who the killer could be.

We also thought we would be able to use the media studio to shoot our entire thriller but Simon made us realise that it would make more sense for it to be shot in one of the boarding houses. So we decided that we would use corn hill manor as opposed to using the media studio in school.

We also changed the idea. Before we were going to have just a scene were you see a victim in a bed with fake bloom running through tubes connected to the victims neck. Now we are just going to have someone being choked to death.

At first we were going to name our thriller Valkyrie because it was sort of a scary name that made you wonder and it would give the audience the immediate thought that it is a thriller. But we had to change the name because Tom cruise had already been a movie with that name. So we then changed the title of the movie to "The Mistress" because it kind of tells the audience what the movie is about which is a woman who is dominant over a male.

 

 

 

 

Actors

 

We have decided to use the English Teacher Bobby Genower as our victim in our thriller. This is because he is a much older and mature actor to take on the responsibilities we require. He matches our needs for our character profile. We also chose him because he looks like a character that will be prone to entering such a situation with a female- he looks more vulnerable. Also Bobby is one of the most willing able and available people we can find to shoot.

 

 





 

The next person is an actress and she is a student. Her name is Franchie Webb. We chose her because she has a lot fo acting experience and she seems to be very comfortable shooting this scene. We also chose her because she is young so it seems like a more stereotypical scene where the old man tries to get rid of his younger girlfriend and she is not taking the let off too nicely compared to the male. and we also chose her because she is attractive I prone to attract older men. and she looks like Linda Fiorentina.

 

 

Franchie Webb

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

Clothes

Bobby is going to be wearing a plain white button up shirt and black bottoms. However we are going to use fake blood and drench it on the upper part of his shirt so it could look bloody and look as if he has been getting tortured by the female (Franchie).

Franchie is going to be wearing a black hoody and black jeans along with black army boots gloves. Her nails are going to be painted red and she is going to be wearing red lipstick however her face and nails would be covered until the end of the scene so our audience do not know its a female that is killing the man

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

our setting

Seeing as our thriller is about someone being choked to death on a bed we decided to use one of the bedrooms in corn hill manor to shoot as corn hill seems to be the house with the biggest beds and the best rooms.

We decided to ask 2 different students who have really good rooms for permission to shoot in their room. We asked Nick from Ukraine and Alek from Poland.

They have their own rooms and they have nice double beds. At this point time we are more likely to use Nicks room because his bed has a backboard but Aleks room seems to be more spacious and it seems to have a better look for the type of room we want to use for our thriller.

I then took different shots of both their rooms from different angles to see which one might work best for our thriller. And from Nicks facial reaction you can tell that he is delighted to see me taking pictures of his neat and tidy room. Nor does he know that the room is going to have to be very messy for our thriller.

Our idea before change

Firstly our idea is set in the media studio where we would have a dark messy bedroom. With the bed surrounded by candles.

Then our shot will change to a woman holding a burning cigarette and wearing a mask with a syringe in her other hand, like the killer from the movie 'audition' then she injects something into a man who is tied up on a bed.

Then the woman connects tubes the mans neck and draws blood (fake) from him till he dies and then right before he dies. The woman takes off the mask and we go to a close up shot of her face and we see a scar and she says to the man "remember this ? Remember me?" which gives us the impression that she had been assaulted/abused by the man and they have bad history. 

Our influence also came from a 1987 movie called "Black Widow" which is an old movie about a female serial killer. The woman's appearance from the movie poster was one of the things that influenced us the most because this is how we wanted our female serial killer to look.
 

 

Dorthea Puente Female Serial Killer

One of the women that influenced us to use this idea was an actual female serial killer named Dorthea Puente and this is a brief summary of her crimes.

Number of Victims: 3-9



In the mid-1980s, Puente ran a boarding house for the elderly. Puente stole from her boarders, and eventually began murdering them (usually by poisoning).

In 1985, Puente had a handyman dump a box of “junk” – really a decomposing human body – along a river bank where it was later found by a fisherman.

 

Police began to investigate Puente and her “missing” tenants; they eventually found seven bodies buried on her property, although Puente maintained that her boarders died of natural causes.


After her trial in 1992, Puente was sentenced to life imprisonment. She died in 2011 at the Central California Women’s Facility in California.



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Deadly women

Another thing that influenced our idea was an extract from the reality television series from the Crime and Investigation channel called "Snapped- Women who kill." this episode talks about a woman named Elisa McNabney.

She killed her wealthy husband by drugging him with horse tranquiliser she had been married 3 times previously and attempted to murder all her other husbands.
 
she spiked her husbands drink with horse tranquiliser. And when he went for a horse ride he collapsed. After he collapsed he was then injected with even more horse tranquiliser and her and her daughter left him in a sealed fridge for 4 months to die as they spent all his money shopping, buying expensive cars clothes and jewellery.

When his money almost finished they took him out of the fridge buried him and tried to run away. And this was as a result of greed. She wanted all the money to herself even when he gave her everything she wanted .