shoot table/ communcation with cast

 

Genre research

Psychological Thriller 

What are psychological thrillers?

Thrillers are a diverse type of fiction and share many key features and characteristics of a mystery fiction. Then is an issue/ conflict that often arises from a crime or suspicious act eg. murder, robbery, disappearance or sometimes supernatural. The plot drivers towards solving this conflict as a result, thriller are suspense-filled, makes viewers at the edge-of-your-seat. 
Psychological thriller explore darker ideas and thought, normally on human behaviour or the mind. There tends to be an issue with reality, mind. The narrative is normally told from a mentally ill/psychologically stress character or an unreliable narrator. They feature antagonists and protagonists driven by violence/ on obession. 

Types of psychological thriller 

Domestic - which are the most popular psychological thriller. The setting is of everyday type of person then something happens to the main characters.
Dark - Antagonists is often a serial killer or a creepy disturbed individual who has found them selves trapped in a deadly situation. 
Workplace - is set in a professional/ work environment, the characters often risk their lives/work to solve a mystery. 
Supernatural - the paranormal of the world such as ghosts are involved in the narrative, haunting a character.
Adaptions - The plot twist and cruel dark portraits of humanity, they tend to have flawed characters with gripping narratives.

Origins

Texts from Middle Eastern Folks such as One Thousand and One Night. which contains tales of mysterious murders, courtroom drama and haunted houses. The old tales are the first view/idea of a psychological thriller.
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) is viewed as a father to psychological thrillers. His poems and short stories invite the experience of terror and anxieties the are told though secrets and characters trauma.
Sigmund Freud's Psychological research is a key role to nowadays psychological thrillers. Freuds thoughts on the spilt into different states of conscious. The discomfort and stress we experience is Freud's idea, he helped reach a deeper psychological meaning in modern day films. 

Information found from https://celadonbooks.com/what-is-a-psychological-thriller/

Test shoot

We wanted to work on the transition of the flashback, we film couple of different shot's and then cut them together.

Groupmeeting |4 lessons before shoot

 No confirmed cast for the role of the real mother

We had emailed Stephanie who was our first choice, sadly she did not email back. We then emailed Daniella who said it wasn't possible for her to do the role. We then emailed 5 people who we thought could play the role and are waiting for them to answer. 

 Rest of the cast 

Annie who is playing younger Jules has confirmed she is free for the whole day and so is Haley who is playing older Jules. Bethan who is playing the false mum has confirmed. 

We will send emails for when/where they will be needed, and what they need to wear. 

 Set

Adam is sorting out the hurtwood inn to see if we can get a discount on the room for filming. And we are then are filming in turrets for the flashback. 

To bring to hurtwood inn: fairylights, posters, school bag to empty on the desk to make her look like she works. 

Costume 

Haley in school uniform, Annie???

Bethan in jeans and smart jumper 

Same with whoever is the real mum

Shooting day schedule

 

Storyboard

location hunting

Car set up 

With our idea we where originally we where in going to need to be inside a car, well two cars. And one of the car would need to be smashed up. We found that this would be rather difficult to film, as one the space in the car would be limited and would make it more difficult to get shots. As well as finding the car plus a smash up car that looks like its been in a car crash. When we discovered this we developed our idea. 

Older Jules's Bedroom

We then needed to have teenage bedroom, we talked about having a one of the boarding room as the room. The issue was that we need the bedroom connected to the bedroom, and has the family she is with is wealthy the room would need to look grand and less like a boarding room. We then look at hurtwood inn, we picked a room there as the rooms looks elegant and clean. We will add decor such as fairy lights, school books and posters.

Flashback 

We decided to have in turrets, as changes the setting to an apartment setting. Turret seen to suit the flashback and it's not meant to be as elegant.