Piktocharts.

In our theory side to the course we were told to look at a representation of a part of the country. I chose Yorkshire. This is the information I produced about Yorkshire.
When it comes to filming our thriller we had to pick an area to film. On the opening of Emmerdale you see fields and the moores etc. We decided to film our thriller in the middle of a field to give it an isolated feel and it's spontaneous how the mental patient ended up there, watching all the people who walk by, it gives an eerie atmosphere from the beginning.
Here is a bit of information on Yorkshire and the stereotypical representations of people from Yorkshire.

Storyboard to our thriller.

This is our storyboard, it shows clear and detailed images of how we want our thriller opening to look like. We will refer to this throughout the filming/editing of our thriller so we don't go off track on what we originally planned.

Mental health.

Our thriller is based around mental health problems; we researched all different kinds of ways mental health has been presented in several different films.

Most commonly silent, corrupted characters like ours are dressed in white, usually old clothing for example a night gown. Hair is usually long and dark or very pale almost ghostly.

We tried to find the perfect image to fit our representation.

Obviously our character will not look identical to this but we hope that our representation will be similar in order for the audience to understand the way we want it to come across.

Here are the links to where we found out this information:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_featuring_mental_disorders

http://www.nhs.uk/livewell/mentalhealth/pages/mentalhealthhome.aspx


http://www.time-to-change.org.uk/category/blog/media-tv-and-newspapers

Looking at areas to film our thriller opening.

We were looking at different areas to film our opening and decided on this area because of the the amount of trees and the pathway.

The pathway shows how the girl is on her normal route home and the trees have an eerie look, and it gives us something to play around with when introducing the character of the mental patient.

Influential film directors.

When planning a film, you need to know you have good film director to make things happen and things to be just right.

Many believe Steven Spielberg can do just this, however I disagree.
I do not disagree with that fact that he can get things done and get the money in and profits high. But in some cases he tries to adjust. For example in J.K. Rowling's very famous Harry Potter novels he said that the films were going to be 'too British' and should 'either be American or animated'. Understandably, she turned him down because of how much he wanted to change the book itself.


I believe that with independent films like ours he will completely change it to how he likes and I don't want to take this risk. Martin Scorsese seems like a better director, he has not yet tried to change a persons novel into something it's not and has been a big success in Hollywood for many many years.


Another film director that is influential is Christopher Nolan, he has directed 'The Dark Night Trilogy' and just recently 'Inception' and 'Interstellar'. All films are massive successes and his work is inspiring to see that he has co-written and directed most of these films and incredibly done.

When it comes to filming a thriller I feel it's important to look at different film directors and look at their ways and theories of filming, you know if they work or not by how big the film gets, if it's a small independent film and it does really well, you can presume the director did an amazing job.
An example of this is Warp's 'Four Lions', it was a huge success in the United Kingdom and in several other countries.

Film companies for our Thriller.

I feel a big film company will do our thriller justice. For example Warner Brothers is a huge film conglomerate and is massive all around the world if a film like that could fund our thriller it would be incredible as we would be able to advertise in all different kinds of ways instead of just cheaper ways. We would know it would definitely attract our target audience because of their wide options for advertising.

It has done things like :

Looney Tunes

Terminator

Lord of the Rings.

Harry Potter.

and signed singers like:

Madonna

Lilly Allen 

All of these films/singers are now massive successes all around the world, I feel that this decision would be vital if we want our thriller to be popular.

Pitching our idea.

On Friday the 12th of December 2014, our group pitched our idea to our teachers so they could hear our plot and make any critical comments that they felt necessary.
We told them things like our target audience, our tagline, the movie length etc. This gave them a detailed idea on how our thriller will be made, what we need to include and research into before starting to film.

We need to research into insanity/mental health issues to avoid the problem of complaints from people suffering with mental health or involved with someone with mental health problems and if we portray it wrong we could get many complaints filed.

To avoid this problem the girl in our thriller won't just be suffering from mental health issues. We came up with a back story to try and avoid this issue. In the mental health hospital she was admitted to, they tortured her, ignored her and made her condition worse, so her mental health is a lot worse than any other person. This allows us to be more abstract with our opening in how we decide to represent our character (Chloe Francis).

A website I looked at to understand the representations of mental health is:
http://core.kmi.open.ac.uk/download/pdf/95481.pdf