Challenged Conventions

In our film wanted to challenge a convention. Some possible ideas we had were:
-filming in daylight
-using a female murderer
-cheerful music instead of tense
- the victim to be a man

The convention that we have decided to challenge is we are going to use a woman instead of a male as the killer.
I think that this is going to work really well in our film, especially the way we are going to use the shot of the heels and the female victim as its unusual for a female killer to kill another female, its usually a "feminist" type female getting her revenge on males, like in the film Monster.

The animatic

This is our animatic, the reason we did this was so that we know how long our film is, so that we don't run over time and have an idea how our film flows.



The music we have used in the titles creates quite a dramatic feel to the audience and the music used throughout the film crates a sense of suspense and tension which almost foreshadows something bad is going to happen. We also thought the music made us feel quite emotional watching it, as it gives away that a murder will happen.

Consistent theme in our film

I suggested in the group that we should have a consistent theme in out film, I got this idea after doing some research on Alfred Hitchcock, we decided that we would use the theme red, as red is symbolic of blood and murder.
The way I suggested that we incorporated red into our film was:
- the murderer wears red heels.
- the victim has a red belt on
- the book we use has a red cover
- the blood will be red
- our font on our titles will be red

Also some other idea's I got from researching Alfred Hitchcock was to use a blonde woman as the killer, because as he said, more suspicion is created using a brunette rather that the "innocent" blonde.

Another idea I got from Alfred Hitchcock was is to try and get a sense of suspense into the film, by having our killer walk around the table and look at the book, the audience are waiting for her to approach the victim.

our characters names

To decide our characters names we decided to do some research. For our murderers name we looked for baby names that meant, dark, mysterious. We came across Kerri which is an Irish name meaning dark.
We then researched our victims name, which means innocent, Imogene

Prop list and Set design

By using the prop list we will be a lot more organised when aranging the shoot, we will have a specific list of what we will need and where from.



by using a set list we know exactly what we want the shoot to look like making it a lot more easier to get it done and more organised

Costumes

In our film, our main character- Kerri is a woman serial killer, to get costume ideas I decided to look at other films who the main character is a woman murderer.
In the film monster 2003, Charlize Theron plays the serial killer aileen wuornos, I watched the film clips on You tube of the film and noted down some of the costumes that she wore.





From the clips I've watched the main character wears normal, everyday clothes, however she does come across very scruffy.

Also from clips and movies I've previously seen I have noticed the main killer either man or woman wears dark clothes, this is so that the killer gives the audience a mysterious and suspicious feel.

From this we have decided that to give the killer (Kerri) a mysterious and dark feel we wanted to dress her in dark clothing, but to incorporate our theme we wanted to give her red/pink heels with a red necklace which the colour red is symbolic of blood and danger. Some clothing we would use for Kerri is:






For the other character that will be in our film- the victim. We wanted to use clothing that will give a feeling that the victim is innocent. So to find clothing that portrays this feel we looked at some thrillers.
I noted down what some of the victims looked like:
- they wore simplistic clothing
- white was very common- symbolic of innocence

This is some of the clothes we want the victim to wear:



Costume list: