StoryBoard

This is our first story board, drawn by Imi and I. As you can see we have crossed out some of the shots we decided, as we developed our idea further, that we did not want .

Femme Fatale

A femme fatale is a mysterious and seductive women who can easily charm men aswell as getting them into dangerous and tricky situations. The phrase is french and ultimately means deadly women. A 1940's femme fatal icon is Veronica Lake of whom we are trying to get our lead actress to resemble. 

Cast List

Dayanna
We wanted someone who firstly looked older then us but with a sultry look to her as well as having someone who gives of the feel that you wouldnt want to mess with her. Most importantly we think that she fits the idea of a femme fatale.







                              Anna Subbotina      
We were not sure if we wanted a blond or dark haired actress so we decided to look at two leads who are completely different. We think that Ana has a matureness about here and is more innocent than Dyanna but would also make a great femme fatale because she does have a sort of strongness about her.










Stephen Paxton

We needed a male lead who looked like a stereotypical 1940's looking private detective who was also older than the female lead so that he could be easily charmed  by her in our scene. We have this shot of Stephen looking exactly the part we want him to play in our film. This is one of the looks we are considering for him.

Alexandra Warner

We want Alexandra to play the secretary in our thriller opening sequence. Alex is American and therefor has the perfect accent. In my opinion she looks very innocent which is perfect for the role of the secretary in our short sequence. As well i know that she is a good actor so she should be able to do a great job for us.

The Skin I Live In: Trailer Analysis

We can tell that this film is a thriller because in the trailer it uses words like obsess, abuse, fight, violent all sorts of words which can make people uncomfortable. We can see signs of stalking as well when they are looking at the security cameras at people who we can assume are trapped. The tone of the film is quit dark, using more earth tones and not making it bright which can also suggest it’s a thriller. We see people running and fighting for what I can presume their freedom because they seem to be in a struggle. The trailer also consists of people being tied to benches while scientific experiments are being done to them, we can see the lines of where the person will most likely be cut open and also a man tied with metal chains being strongly hosed down in the dark, these are all things which leave us feeling uncomfortable therefor we can assume it’s a thriller. Overall the people within this trailer both look scared and frightened or focused and in command which tells us that there are the good and the bad people, Through the trailer I would say this is a scientific based thriller because of the strange experiments that were taking place.

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo: Trailer Analysis

One of the many ways we can tell that this film is a thriller is because at fist we see a lot of secrecy, we know that the person that we are following is the main character but we don’t see many key features of her in the first few moments of the trailer. Secondly she seems to be sneaking around a lot which suggests that she is in danger of some sort. In the sequence we can see things like stalking from when they are looking at the security feeds, torturing when we see the pictures of the disfigured people, murder where we see the girl in the barn covered in blood and presumably rape  when the man in the office is touching her and she is looking uncomfortable, these are all things that can suggest that this is a thriller. The colours of the trailer are also very grey and dark, no bright colours are used at all. The trailer also starts to quicken the pace as it gets towards the end of the scene by showing many action full quick cuts.

Touch Of Evil Title Sequence

Time       Text Which Appears                         What that person or persons roles are:
Enters

00:03   - Universal International                     - Name of Film Production Company
00:39   - Universal International Presents        - Film Production Company
00:49   - Carlton Heston                                - Main Actor
00:52   - Janet Leigh                                     - Main Actor
00:53   - Orson Welles                                   - Main Actor
01:03   - Touch of Evil                                  - Film Title

01:07   - Co-Starring Joseph Calleia 
             Ahim Tamiraff                                 - Actors
01:10   - With Joanna Moore Ray Collins 
             Dennis Weaver Veillertin de 
             Vargas Mart Mills                              - Supporting Actors
01:16   - Victor Millan Lalo Rics
             Michael Sargent Phil Harvery 
             Joi Larsirs  Harry shannon                 - Supporting Actors
01:22   - And Guest Stars Marlene Dietnich 
             Zsa Zsa Babor                                   - Guest Starring Actors

 01:42   - Screenplay by Orson Wells Based
              on novel "Badge of Evil' by
              Whit Materson                                 - Script Writer and Idea for film
01:45   - Director of Photography Russell 
             Metty, a.s.c.                                    - Director of Photography
02:01   - Art Director.... Alexander Golitzen 
                                Robert Clatworthy
            Set Director.... Russel A Gausman 
                                  John P.Austin
            Sound... Leslie.I.Carey Frank 
            Wilkinson                                        - Art, Set and Sound Director

02:06   - Film Editors... Virgil Vogel Aaron
             Stell Gowns... Bill Thromas                         
             Make-up... Bud Westmore
            Assistant Director... Phil Bowles         - Film Editor, Gown, Make up Artist
                                                                     and Assistant Director
02:11   - Music Henry Mancini 
            Music Supervision by Joseph 
            Gensenson                                       - Music Producers for Film
02:20   - Produced by Albert Zugsmith            - Producer
02:23   - Directed by Orson Welles                  - Director

Through doing this task I learned that all tittle sequences have a specific order that they will follow, I had never noticed this therefor will start planning our tittle sequence for our thriller.

Donnie Brasco Title Sequence

Time         Text Which Appears                        What that person or persons roles are:
Enters

00:16   - Mandalay Entertainment Presents            - Name of the film production company
00:12   - A Baltimore Pictures/Mark Johnson 
            Production                                            - Name of institution who produced
00:21   - A Mike Newell Film                                 - Name of Director of film
00:24   - Al Pacino                                               -Main Actor
00:29   - Johnny Deep                                          - Main Actor
00:34   - Donnie Brasco                                        - Movie Title

00:42   - Micheal Madsen                                      - Supporting Actor
00:47   - Bruno Kirby                                            - Supporting Actor
00:53   - James Russo                                           - Supporting Actor
00:57   - Anne Heche                                            - Supporting Actor
01:01   - Zeljko Ivanek Gerry Becker                     - Supporting Actors
01:08    - Zach Grener, Brian Tarantina
             Robert Miano                                        - Supporting Actor
01:23    - Casting By Louis DiGianimo
             Brett Goldstein                                     - People who chose actors
01:29     - Music by Patrick Doyle                          - Music Producers for film
01:35    - Executive Music Producers Dudd 
             Carr and Allan Mason                             - Executive Music Producers
01:45    - Costume Designers Aude Bronson
             Howard and David Robinson                   - Costume Designers

 01:55    - Editor Jon Gregory, A.C.E                      - Film Editor
01:59    - Production Designed by Donald 
             Graham Burt                                         - Production Designer
02:05    - Director of Photography 
             Peter Sova                                            - Director of Photography
02:09   - Executive Producers Patrick 
            MeCormick, Alan Greenspoon                  - Executive Producers

02:14   - Based on the book by Joseph D 
            Pistone with Richard Woodley                 - Initial idea of film
02:19   - Produced by Mark Johnson Barry 
            Levinson                                                 - Producers
02:23   - Produced by Louis Digiaimo, 
            Gail Mutrux                                             - Producers
02:27   - Screenplay by Paul Attanasto                    - Script Writer
02:30   - Directed by Mike Newell                          - Director

Props for our thriller

Our thriller theme is very old fashioned so we will need to use a variety of props to represent our time frame. In the first room, of the scene where the sectary is working will be very simplistic, with a large wooden desk, an old fashioned lamp and a typewriter. The lamps should also be in the office of the detective. 

In his room, there shall be a large wooden desk with a leather chair behind as well as one or two in front depending on their size. There should be wooden shutters giving the light effect into the room. A old fashioned coat hanger should be in the corner of the room with his jacket and hat hanging on it. The room should be full with papers, in a messy sort of order. Somewhere in the room there should be an old fashioned radio as well. 


The smaller props within our scene will involve a fountain pen, a small gun, cigars and an ash try. Everything must have an old fashioned look to represent the time frame we are trying to pull off.

Hopefully most of these things we will be able to find around the school or in the costume cupboard, we already know that the school has a radio like this one. Hopefully we will be able to find our props easily otherwise we will have to look around our houses or search within charity shops which could have some thing of use for us for our thriller.