Working with the Weather

There are clear weather changes throughout our thriller. We decided that this will look very effective as it will create pathetic fallacy. At the start of the thriller, the weather is quite sunny but still cold, this fits to mood as it at this point in the thriller, nothing bad has happened. The next day we filmed, the weather was more cloudy which worked well as it give the audience a feeling that something is about to happen. We have therefore picked tomorrow (Thursday) as the next day we are going to film as it is will either be raining or wet. This will look very effective as the bit we are going to film next is going to be the most dramatic bit of the thriller, represented well by the fact that it is going to be raining throughout this scene.

Make-up

I have experimented with make-up and feel that it will be suitable for our piece; as our Thriller involves a fire in one of the flashbacks. My character re-appears towards the end of our thriller with a burn, the accident in the fire isn't filmed as we wanted the audience to link it all up at the end.

For the make-up I used:

- Different shades of purple eye shadow

- Red and black face paint

- Tissue

- Eyeliner

- Cocktail sticks

- Make-up brushes





Choosing the music

When looking for a track for our thriller we wanted a track that would enhance the atmosphere to create suspense for the audience. We had to make sure all tracks were copyright free, therefore, we looked on websites such as http://www.freeplaymusic.com/. After listening to many tracks we discovered a track that we felt would fit perfectly in our thriller. We adapted this track to create many 'music stings' throughout our thriller which is one of many conventions for a typical thriller.
We then decided to use another track for our flashbacks to differentiate the changes from past to present throughout the thriller. The track is called 'abandoned infirmary' which created and cold feeling when listening to the soundtrack. The soundtracks we have used are called 'Abandoned infirmary' and 'Spirit'.

Final Story Board

Researching Schizophrenia

I have done some research about Schizophrenia, as the main character in our Thriller suffers from this, gaining some research may help Anna (who plays the main character) get into her character and the role of a girl who suffers from this illness. This research will also help Alex and I understand Schizophrenia more to help us while we are filming.
 It is a mental disorder that mainly manifests as auditory hallucinations or paranoid delusions. A person who suffers from this illness may hear voices in their head, have disorganised thoughts that they may not be able to control, their thoughts may be hard to follow and make little sense to others making conversations with others difficult which can then lead to isolation and loneliness.

 The main character in our Thriller has a split personality, this is where a person can have multiple identities, these personalities can take over a person's behaviour and can lead to memory loss. Many sufferers are known to have a good and evil side.

Additional Influences

I have named a few films that have influenced our group with the themes and storyline of our film. These three films include characters that are Schizophrenic, whether this is shown by one character or cleverly played by two.

Secret window- The Secret Window is a psychological thriller starring Johnny Depp.  He plays a writer called Mort Rainey who is confronted by a stranger who is outside his house. He calls himself John Shooter and claims that Mort (Depp) had stolen an idea for a story from him however Mort claims he can easily prove he had written it first and Shooter becomes more and more violent as he waits for the evidence.  

Black Swan- Black Swan is a psychological thriller, like our film 'Nyctophobia'.  A Ballerina is cast as the lead role in Swan Lake, she is perfect to portray the part of the 'White Swan' however finds it difficult to portray the 'Black Swan'. Another ballet dancer who she knows fits the role perfectly of the Black Swan. However, as they go compete for the lead, Nina (played by Natalie Portman) finds her darker side.

Fight Club- After the nameless narrator (Norton) who suffers from Insomnia is on his flight home he meets a man called Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) after he  finds out his apartment has been destroyed by an explosion he calls Durden and meets him, outside the bar Durden requests the 'nameless narrator' to hit him. After further fights there appears to be a crowd surrounding them. The men decide to create a 'fight club'. Towards the end you start to realise that Tyler (played by Pitt) is the darker side to the 'nameless narrator.

Marketing our Movie

Marketing is arguably the most important factor in a production of a movie; without it producers find it hard to promote their film, leading to less people viewing & buying the movie leading to less profit made.
Unlike famous Hollywood directors, we are running this project on a limited budget. So we have to think of initiative ideas into promoting our movie and persuading people to watch it.
One Marketing strategy we have used so far is creating a page on the social networking site 'Facebook'
this gives people the chance to 'like' our movie, whilst doing this it appears on their 'news feed' which has
 a snowboarding effect which gets even more people involved.