Nandi Clarke's Media Blog

Prop List For props we would need: VR headset for the gamer Guns (Potentially a sniper rifle for the enemy and a R4-C automatic machine gun for our main character- see below) Costumes (need army outfits) Grenade

Contacting the cast We selected people we think would suit the characters by emailing them.Now we wait to get a reply and hope they are all interested in the role.

Costume For costume , we decided upon the idea of army wear. Daisy had researched army costumes from action and and fighting games. we thought that we could dress our characters with the padding on top to add the game purpose. When Daisy saw the prices for military clothing we found that the majority of the prices were expensive.So we thought as a group we could ask the actors if they have any military clothing that we could use or we could just use the paintball outfits which would be probably more sufficient. 

Intriguing Research for the Thriller for our thriller gaming idea i decided to research into pathological manipulating gaming. this subject really interests me since it links to our VR thriller production. video gaming has seeme to have become a serious addition for players leading to pathological gamming.It has becoema serious harmful adition for players leading to violience and other bad behavior in real life. A bunch of reeraches on this theme decided to to take action and reserch stitistics in singapore using 3,034 students from year 3 to year 8. Studies show that 7.9-9.9% of those in the study could be classified as pathological gamers. This is a saddening thought since they are from such a young age yet gamming has alredy effected them. the researchers also found out that the risk of becoming a pathological gammer is through the amount of time you spend gamming and the person’s social competence and the person’s impulse control. And saddly the one spen...

Shot list  Main character is running. Shot from behind main character (mid shot). Track and pan, going from behind center to left adjacent, so we see left side of his face, and can see other player running next to him. Close up of boots running (track) Long shot of the two characters, until we hear + see gunshots-  main character dives into cover. Long shot of main character sitting and leaning against cover, hands on gun. Extreme close up of main character cocking/loading his gun. Over the shoulder shot of Main character shooting at other people we can see in the distance. Long shot (facing towards) two players, shooting Mid shot of second player, (left side view) getting shot in the head and flying backwards Close up of player two, his face lying to the left- bullet hole in head, eyes open (but dead) Shot from MC’s POV (mid shot though) of player two dead on the floor. Camera pans back, into long ...

We have now finished the drawing we now just need to mount the work onto black paper and cut the drawings out. We have finished all the shots too. Who did what ? Daisy did the drawing  Andrew did did the shot list  i helped with the drawing at first then i did the set design and location plus Mis en scene  Chris helped with the wring and idea of location and mis en scene 

What is a story board ? A story board helps you visualize a scene / motion picture of how you are planning it too be like. through drawing illustrations it will help the director know what looks good and what doesnt, it will also help you know which direction you want to go.  for example ...The Twilight story board  Origins Story boarding can be be very consuming. Many large budget silent films were story boarded but most of this material has been lost during the reduction of the studio archives during the 1970s.  Georges Méliès was the main base crater of an storyboard.  1956 Diane Disney Miller explains that the first complete storyboards were created for the 1933 Disney short  Three Little Pigs . , the first storyboards at Disney evolved and came from comic-book like "story sketches" created in the 1920s to illustrate concepts for animated cartoon short series such as Plane Crazy and  T Steamboat Willie , and within a f...

it happens that Daisy is in the rent show so she doesn't have time to do all the drawings so i decided to help her with the story boarding drawing here in this photo were are just drawing the outline and structure in our story board

,Me and Andrew are doing the outline of the story board so Location , props and characters , costumes...  Daisy and Chris - are doing the drawings

Story board in progress  we fist started out sketching and doing an outline of what we wanted in the story board pictures:this is what Daisy did: Then we did One more sketch in deeper depth :

Mood boards  In my mood board I have drawn images that replicate the theme and narrative of our thriller. The gun represents the players being shot in the head and at the beginning the 2 players running with rifles enacting a game.The VR headset drawn on someones face replicates the virtual reality game and how they are playing a game but all of a sudden the game seems to be real and whenever they get hurt in the game they get hurt in real life.I put capitals for VR headset because I wanted to emphasize that at the beginning the 2 men running with rifles are just playing a game.i added on my mood board someone dying on the floor top show what the VR game did to them in person no just in the game. I added in the trees to convey the image of a paintball scenery , also the paintball scenery is were our thriller will take place. Also it duplicates the shots of the 2 players running in the woods. I put Game over in Bold because I wan...

Our Target Audience As a group we debated what sort of audience we were aiming for as a group we came up with the following: Males (15-19) Interests: video games, action movies, war movies   We chose males, as they are the largest demographic of video game enthusiast, and they are most likely to be interested in this genre . We chose the age group, as we can then make the movie a 15/18. This age group is ideal for action films with graphic violence and guns etc. We think that boys with the above stated interests will enjoy our film due to the fact that they are the prevalent themes in the thriller.

step by step outline of final idea                         Sequence starts with player running forward, armed with a rifle. We can see one other player running to the right of him. (Shot is taken from behind him) ·                      Several shots of the two players running, from different angles whilst tracking. ·                      Next, we see player  #2 get shot in the head. He dies and collapses, main character stops, waits- then we see the player who just died, runs into the frame and takes his dead bodies’ weapon. Alternatively, main character keeps running, but looks at body, sees it disappear.  Later see him again (slowly glitches back into the “game”) - conveying that the player who ...

pitch Feedback  cut out someone typing  need hook, red , catch  need world building moment, and three separate acts  need a resolution in mid-like potential savior  look at gamer movie-use it for plot arc mad skirmish to begin look more like a TV show  have the opening as the video game ,so you don't see the killer - don't see the real world until the end, or not even revealing the hacker make the battle more like a game-like tea bagging, or a character walking into a wall or using npcs to convey that the battle is within a game need action sequence to start  someone gets hurt in battle but actually hurts the player in real life, not revealing so much in the opening sequence  some players when they get shot don't actually get hurt, but our MC gets a nosebleed: "shit how did this happen" ect reveal hacker at the end  needs more ambiguity - more mystery, more like an opening  3v3 battle  friends playing a game ...

Reflection In our group I think our thriller idea as a group has translated well into an actual film since it connotes the sinister effect of a thriller. As a group through the process we developed the idea making it more understandable towards the reader so the overall story line mimics across in the opening scene. At first we thought that we were cramming the whole story in one opening sequence which made the thriller idea hard to understand , however now we have worked on it and shorted the length of the opening sequence my condensing the information to create questions, answers, and mystery. To make the idea clear to the viewer we have made the idea simpler and less complicated since we only get the opening sequence to convey a taste of the narrative. In the opening scene we plan that the male gamer gets shot in the game and shot in real life since whatever happens in the game happens in real life which we feel creates mystery and tension throughout because the game fee...

Contact sheet  Contact Sheet In one of our group meetings, we exchanged phone numbers, email addresses and school timetables, so we could find potential times where we could meet. We arranged this on our whatsapp group so we could communicate , and tell each other when we were potentially free. 

Story outline of our Thriller We are using a horror game setting as the setting for our thriller.  We see a male actor walking through forest/horror game landscape. We see him get more and more scared until he realises he is just in a game and relaxes, until he is suddenly killed/dies because he is attacked in the game. We now go back to the real world and see him dead on the floor, blood coming out of his ears- the VR headset still on his face.

We decided to re-edit our test 2 shoot We decided that weren't happy with the quality of edit used on the 2 test shoot so we had redo the structure of the video  We all agreed as a group that we preferred this version 

                                                   Test shoot 2 As a group we decided that we wanted to do another test shoot since we wanted to  alter the structured the opening scene and adjust the narrative  So we did a spider diagram linking to different possible alternatives for a good opening . We Altered the narrative as a group , so now it is about a man who is obsessed with video games however a someone hacks onto the video game giving the game a virus which affects him psychologically and mentally you see the man go into turmoil. The hacker ends up killing the man. In the test shoot we brought in a gaming headset to convey the gaming image . Daisy , Me and Andrew were the actors and sometimes when I was not needed to act I would help with the filming. Chris On the other hand this time just did the filming. We recorded...

We found that were were not happy with our previous test shoot so as a group we decided to re-edit and assemble our footage

Test shooting 1 Even though we did not have 1 of our team mates on the day of the test shoot , the test shoot still went exceedingly well. We worked as a group and all put our part into this thriller to make it work. On our iphones we did long shot view of the computer to resemble the character watching TV We had over the head view to get an insight from the characters perspective We used close up at the end on Chris holding the game device and dropping it to create a dramatic effect  Andrew and Chris , were acting and I was videoing when it was just chris acting in a particular scene Andrew would help with the shooti

Dilemma!!!!on the Day of the test shoot!! On the day of the test shoot we had realized that Daisy was shooting for a music video , this shook us because the thriller idea was heir’s and we needed her guidance through shooting.

Pre-production test shoot We got put into our groups to work on the test shoot thriller. Me Andrew , Daisy and Chris decided that we wanted to go for Daisy’s idea. Daisy’s idea was about a man who is obsessed with video games and he can’t tell the difference between reality and the game and he ended up killing people in real life in order to gain life on the game. To get prepared for the test shoot be decided to bring in virtual reality headset game for the shoot to show in the shoot that Chris (who acted as the murder) was playing a game. We didn’t organised  any specific actors to be on the day of the test shoot since we decided that Andrew and Chris (who is in our group) could do the acting in the shoot and me and daisy could do the filming on our phones . We decided to use our phones to do the test shoot. We decided to communicate about the thriller on Whatsapp , and created a little group to discuss our thriller idea’s 

Developed thriller idea 1 From hearing the feedback from my class mates and teacher, It has helped me develop my opening scene  and make improve it. Opening scene : A shot of the girl moving into one of the rooms and then the camera focuses  on the bed with her friend on the bed completely intoxicated on drugs and illegal highs the girl is tied to the bed and looks almost unconscious the camera schemes across the whole bedroom been living in. showing the poor filth of the room and the poor conditions her friend has ti live in  The camera then moves and focuses on the girl reactions to her friend and what human tra ffiking did to her through prostitution , the scene ends with her bewildered and frightened react ion and expression on   the girls face.