Continuity Video and Group Thriller Idea

Group Thriller Idea: 

Group: Alice Denmark, Abigail Fish, Sophie Jarvis, Becky Wade 

We all liked Abigail's idea of the figure stalking the protagonists life and have decided to do that for our thriller opening: 

We see brief snippets of the daily routine of the protagonist. Getting up and opening the curtains in the morning. Leaving the house to catch the bus. The bus journey to work/college. During each snippet of each part of the routine, we see a figure in the background, apparently watching the protagonist. The figure is never seen clearly, and is stood off-centre in each shot. The music is quiet, and eerily ambient. A short voice over by the protagonist declares that for some time they have been watched. They never felt threatened, intimidated, or scared – just that they were being observed. The protagonist says that for a while they thought their observer was like a guardian angel, perhaps. We then see a shot of the protagonist’s front door. The voice over changes tone and they say that now things have changed, and they don’t feel safe. Through the frosted glass of the front door, we see the blurred silhouette of the observer. They raise a hand, and scrawl a message on the glass backwards. They rest their hand on the glass, and the sequence ends.

Continuity Video by Alice, Becky, Chris and Hayden

Cameras & Equipment

For the last couple of lessons in media we have been experimenting with the media equipment to get to grips with the sort of this we will be using.

We started from the basics to turning the camera on to using a Dolly trolley to film a tracking sequence.

Equipment we had a go with:

• Camera
• Tripod
• Dolly Trolley

Despite doing media two years previously, turning on the camera was still hard in my mind. Unlike putting in a tape, recording and setting up the tripod. I still couldn't master the turning on of a camera.



Close up (close up of subject)

We were spilt into groups and walked around College trying out different shots and angles. Some angles were...

• High camera angle
• Low camera angle
• Close up
• Extreme close up
• Tracking shot
• Over shoulder shot
• And many more...

Trying out the dolly trolley for the first time was fun. We got to experiment with different effects when moving it and how it moved. A steady smooth movement which didn't move the camera and make the recording shaky.
Now I am familiar with the technology and confident to film and work the equipment. I also can explore camera effects applying to the context of the situation.

(Labelling the shots when putting the video together was unfinished, because we ran out of time. But we each have a recorded list of each, which then we can apply to our thrillers)