Wednesday, 9 March 2011

Props


In our thriller we are going to use only a few props because we want to make our filming as simple as possible.  Also, because our thriller is physiological we have decided not to have a murder scene as we are going for an unconventional style of a thriller as it is against the stereotype of thrillers.
Our first prop is an iPod.  We have used this to represent to the audience immediately the antagonist (Tabi's) age as the majority of teenagers often listen to music on a regular basis.  Sometimes when they are walking on their own music can be used as a distraction.  In our thriller Tabi is going to listen to a iPod as she is walking, in our initial ideas the audience will hear the sound from the iPod however this may be difficult to implement as the music is not allowed to be copy write.  Tabi will be walking on her own, with her iPod in when she sees the protagonist (little girl) and when she drops her ipod this leads onto the next scene.  Therefore, this is an important prop as it is crucial in linking each scene together smoothy and keeping the storyline clear for the audience.                                                           
Our next prop we are going to use is a bed at the end of our thriller in which Tabi will wake up in, in the last scene.  This is a important prop as part of our filming because when she looks to her side, she will see the little girl.  In our initial idea we thought the girl could have one side of her face normal make-up and the other side black and horrible to represent Tabi's schizophrenia.  However, because we are only doing the first two minutes of our film we have not developed this idea because it will give away the storyline to the audience.  We are using this as a prop, because this will make the thriller beginning more exciting, creating enigma as the audience don't know whether the series of events are real or a dream.  This will then lead onto the rest of the film that we are not going to make as part of our media course.
Another prop we will use, and purchase is extreme make up.  This is used to clearly display to the audience who is the protagonist and who is the antagonist.  Due to this, the little girl (Georgia) will wear very pale almost white makeup contrasting against dark smudged eyes to show abnormality.  This is important to our thriller because the audience need to quickly establish she is not a normal girl by makeup, clothing and actions.  Tabi is going to wear normal teenage make-up as this will relate to the audience more as they could feel it could happen to them, and will represent her age.                                                                 


This is also shown by the protagonist (Georgia) is going to wear a hospital wrist band to show that she was once in hospital, and this also portrays an idea that she may have died. She is also going to wear a dirty white dress that flows to show that she was apparently innocent once, but not anymore due to a bad experience. This creates enigma for the audience as they may ask themselves who this girl is, as they are not told straight away, only as the beginning develops.  They may also view there own idea of her in there minds and why she is acting this way. 
Here is a picture showing the make-up being used in our day of filming.         
 We are also going to use fake blood to create a more dramatic scene, using the protagonist (Georgia)'s top to put this on.  This will make it clear for the audience to identify that something is wrong, building up psychological abnormality and tension within our filming.  This should create a desired effect on the audience, and a tester run on another piece of material proved successful as the fake blood was noticeable.  We tea - stained the top for it to look muddy, whilst also putting it on the ground and stamping onto it.  With Alex's real life scars, and the effects from the fake blood - the long shots used in our thriller proved to be extremely successful as it looked threating and dominant.  This was also shown by strong black makeup surrounding Georgia's pale face.