Final task pitches

Idea 1

I came up with this idea, there are three people in our group so we all came up with our own individual ideas. Mine was about a solicitor who has a client who was convicted of murder in the court room. When the noise of the people viewing show their appreciation of the courts final decision, this will be used as both diegetic and non diegetic when the solicitor has flash back of the day when the court case happens. Sometimes it will be just the sound so this is when the sound will be non diegetic, as well as that we will also use flash back and see the whole court room and the sound at the same time. This would be diegetic, as the actors can hear the noise whilst it's been filmed.

When the non-diegetic noise is being used the convicted murderer will be pacing around outside the room, with the solicitor being completely oblivious of actor being outside. We will use different editing techinques to aquire tension e.g. quick cuts, also using various sounds as mentioned above.

I thought that we could use the Magestrates court in Bourne for the setting, as this would increase the reality of the Mise-en-scene. As the court room would be set out as though it's a normal case. This will be an integeral part of the thriller opening the reason for this is because, it would be hard to make the stage at school look like a court room. Also I have thought about the costumes and props which will be required, for the judge I could borrow the law teachers wig and gown. The graffle that the actor will use when deciding the sentence will be borrowed from the local auction room in Bourne. The defendant will wear a suite which shows how formal the process is, whilst the jury will just wear normal clothes as they are normally people from the public.

Then after the sentence has been served by the defendant he will come back to where the solicitor is based and whilst he is working on a different case, he will come in and abduct him. But this is where it will end just as the solicitor realises whats happening the reason I thought this was because it leaves you on a cliff hanger and could so easily lead on to a separate narrative later on in the film.


Audience reaction

I received a positive reaction to my pitch from both my mentors and class peers. The overall comment is the idea has been carefully planned, with a good location in mind (magestrates court). But the mise-en-scene is very important if I couldn't oragnise to use the court it would be very hard to portray the correct shots.
Also a comment of accurate planning is essential so that all the right camera angles will be used this will have a positive effect on the final outcome, as the editing will be made far easier if there are a variation of shots. As there isn't going to be much dialog its important that the non diagetic sounds have been edited correctly, to increase the tention aswell.
Ligthing could be the hardest part of the whole filming as we haven't got professional equipment which will light up the shot in the best possible way.
With all these comments in mind the audience thought the idea would be a very interesting and possibily successful opening.

Idea 2

This was Jack's idea this is kind of a lead on from my idea of which we would see what the defendant actually did, to deserve the punishment which he acquired. This would consist of someone chained up in a chair whilst being beaten by the attacker. But this was quickly disapproved as it would be too violent for a 15, not only that we haven't got professional actors which will prove far to difficult.
This would work better for a scene half way through a thriller movie, showing a flash of the past this would bring in a non-chronological order. Which on its own creates tension within the audience as they have think about the narrative.

Also the lighting would be a problem in this scene because we want to make it suspicious, without giving away to much about both the characters. Also the shadows in a small room will be hard to avoid, as we need to be recording at the same time. So this idea would be good if we were to make a couple of scenes of the movie, but because its only a 2 minute opening this will be hard to fit in.

Audience Reaction

The audience thought that this would be hard to make into a thriller opening, as there isn't much of a story line involved. But this would be useful if the story was made into a full movie as it could easily be a whole scene on its own. As the actions of the muderer are being revealed, the audience have no idea who this charactor is so as a consequence there is little relevance too the audience.

Idea 3

This idea was Dean's, the main theme was around the grave yard and and someone who was killed and has a grave gets visited by his murderer. Then he keeps on seeing his face in the grave stones

Audience Reaction

This might be hard to achieve with the graveyard as you will need permission to use the grave yard, also the mise-en-scene would be hard as everyone would have to be wearing black. From the pitch idea some people were confused about how this opening will work, as a result we didnt choose this idea.