Creating The Film

Mark editing our film opening, using the Final Cut Pro programme.

Sound

Recorded Sounds

Recording the flickering of the pages to use when Jess flicks through the 'Obsessed' book in our film opening.

The scribbling over the female faces in the 'Obsessed' book to emphasize how obsessed Jess is of Mark.

We then used Final Cut Pro to extract the sound and place them over the selected shots.

Obbsesed Music Sound

We created this piece, to create tension and evoke an emotional responce from the viewer. We closey watched the video and then used garage band to create this piece of music that would perfectly fit our film opening.

Filming

Over the shoulder shot of Mark filming jess with the diary

Siobhan filming

The chair we used in our opening, and shows the state which the mill was in

Mark in the ripped t-shirt and carefully applied eye makeup

Shot of Mark from the back, showing how he was tied to the chair

Shot of mark from the front, looking downwards

Mark from the side

Jess with the diary, and showing how we applied the fake blood to her hands to add more effect

A long shot of the mill, gives a better idea of what it was really like

Props / Mise-en-scene

This was the t-shirt that built up the main part of Marks costume which he wore whilst filming, as you can see we made it look ripped and blood stained to indicate to the audience that he had been being tortured.
This is the diary which was inspired by physicoligical thriller Seven. We developed the idea and made it into our own, and helped it fit into our opening. We used pictures of mark and wrote about them to add effect, as well as stains of fake blood. This shows the audience that this isn't just a random event and that alot of planning has gone into his abduction and torture.



The tools were part of the openings as weapons which would be used on Mark. In the opening you don't actually see Mark being attacked, just his reaction and movement of Jess's body. We positioned the tools near both mark and jess and applied fake blood to parts so they looked as if they had been used as torture weapons. This helped to create a sense of danger in the films opening.

Costumes

Jess
In the opening scene both characters had to wear particular clothing and make up to make sure it fitted in with the rest of mise en scene. Jess had to be dressed all in black and fake blood was applied to her hands to make her look more authentic. We positioned her in the middle of the mill surrounded by abandoned objects tyres, chairs etc. We did this to reflect the theme of our film and make sure everything matched.

Mark
mark's costume consisted of a t-shirt that we ripped and covered in fake blood to make look as if he had been in some sort of struggle. we used make up around the eye area to make it look as if he had been punched or it some sort of fight. We had him positioned also in the centre of the middle tied to a chair, to show the fact his he has been taken against his will.

Location Shots

We filmed our main task in an abandoned mill in Ancoats. As a group we felt this would be a huge influence for our "mise-en-scence", as we wanted to create a dirty/gritty affect to the film. We also liked the mysterious and earey feel the location had. We felt our audience would be clearly be able to see that this was a unpleasent enviroment and also quite scary which relates clearly to our films genre and opening.

Arriving

To get to our desired location it was quite a struggle as there wasn't a clear path. We had to climb over trees and branches on a unstable surface.

Outside View

We had a single tilt location shot of the mill to achieve a sense of isolation and to indicate to our audience that the film would take place in an earey enviroment. From this shot the audience dosen't know what events are about to follow. This gives them a limited perspective.

Inside View

The majority of our filming took place inside the mill. As you can see the inside looked abandoned and possibly fire damaged. We saw this as a huge advantage as this created a very dark and gritty mise-en-scene. The audience can clearly identify that nice things dont happen here and sets them up for the events that follow.

In-Depth Analysis Of Se7en

Se7en film opening

We as a group chose to analyse Se7en as it is also a psychlogical thriller and is similar to our film in numerous ways, for example dark mise-en-scene, lots of close ups, etc. The film is A 1995 thriller about two detectives trying to solve a case of linked murders done in the theme of the seven deadly sins.

We liked the film opening as it didn't give much as away about the plot and kept us the viewer guessing about the real plot of the movie whilst at the same time keeping us entertained.

We felt the use of rock music created a sense of anarchy and disruption, this corralted to the extreame close ups of hands that we saw on screen. The close ups of the hands were very creepy, especially when the male character is carving skin off his finger tips with a razor blade. These shots combined with the fast paced editing helped to add to the tension before anything major had even happened in the film.

The film opening uses many special effects such as "bad film", this effect is used on particular shots and also on the shots of the credits, we feel the the effects were used on the credits so that they tie in with the fast paced, creepy opening and aren't disjointed from it.