WHOOP

Yayay well done Jess! I will be in the edit room tomorrow finishing my evaluation, looking at the edit and doing camera logs. Did any filming end up getting done over the w/end??

XXX

Also!

Hugo I still have the camera and riffle mic at my house, I handed the tripod back on friday, so you'll need to pick it up sometime tomorrow if possible! :) x x x

WOOOOP!

Hey beaut!

Awesome! That all sounds dandy! :D I'm going to the library to write my evaluation tomorrow morning, as I keep getting distracted at my house, and while i'm there i'll print off the shot list and the camera logs I've done. I've got up to tape 5! Not sure how many more tapes there are, think there may be 2 more! Alsooo i'll bring the storyboards too, I'm missing one of them though! Booo! I put it down when we filming and not sure where it went! Think it might be around 3 when I'll pop to edit 3 with things, so i'll see you then! :)

MUCH LOVE <3 xxxxxx

Final Adjustments

Hey yooou guyyyys,

HURRAHHHH, we're just about done!! There are just a few little bits we need to finish off tomorrow.
This is what we need for the group folder -

Hugo - Production Schedule
Laura and Charlotte - Camera Logs and Storyboards.

Please can you guys bring those bits into uni tomorrow so I can shove them in the group folder :). I've done all the annoying little bits - production stills, crew and contributor lists etc.

Hugo has very kindly offered to do the DVD menu, so that needs getting on with tomorrow also.

And that's it guyssss! I'll be in uni pretty much all day tomorrow getting the last bits done and shoving it onto a DVD. Just come in whenever and I'll be in my usual corner in Apple Edit 3.

Lots of loooooooove!! Nearly there!!

xx

How did the sound go guyssss? Did we get it done? :D

x x x

sound

hi miriam

call me about doing sound. we can find a good time to do it.

H.

sound

hi,
i'd like to pick up some sound tomorro with hugo if your free because i need to get the sound edited. morning would be good for me so i can edit in the afternoon. let me know if thats ok.

Thursday

Anyone heard what was going one?

H.

Wednesday

1300 is fine. I shall contact Lewis. I don't think I am going to be able to get anyone else though.

H.

Oust

Hahah :) yusss I will bring OUST. It smells of vodka cause' it's the unscented one :|.

See yooo tomorrow guys,

xxx

Wednesday Filming

Hey Lovelies :)

Shall we meet at my house at 1 tomorrow? Hugooo I'll leave you in charge of getting hold of Lewis and if possible finding another guy who can be Steven, if that's dandy! :)))

Also, Laura if you have any Oust then bring that too for fun times! :D

See you all tomorrow :) x x x x x x

Oh and Jess I'll drop the tapes off to you at uni afterwards :)

BUSSSSS

Yeah we'll get the bus scene, don't worry :))) For everyone else, we'll meet at the stores at half 3 for fun times! :) x x x x x x

Tomorrow

Sounds gooooooood...!
If you don't get everything done please can you DEFFO get the bus stuff done so I can hand in my editing :)

x

Things we need to do!

Things we hopefully will do tomorrow :)

-The bus scene
-Hugo's cunning plan to show ted and jeff are dead :) We may need lewis again and another man boy!
-Clive ousting the room?
-Clive photocopying?

xxxxxx

Yessss! :)

That sounds good Jessssiiiicccaaaaa! Sad times on the hobbling foot! :"( Hope it's getting better! What time can people film tomorrow? I'm free all day so let me know! :D I'll give you lovelies a text too in case you don't read this! :) x x x x x

Tuesday

Heyy guyyyys,

I've still got a hobble on so I'm gonna get on with editing! Can you guys get the last bits of filming done tomorrow and get the tape to me tomorrow night?

Mucho Loves x

Awesome :D How about everyone else, can people do tuesday? x x x x

Tuesday

I can do Tuesday.

H.

Tuesday

Can you do tuesday? We just don't have any equipment for filming tomorrow, as it's bank holiday. :))) x x x

Monday

I can do monday.

H.

GRRR

I totally forgot it's bank holiday on monday! Grrr! I'm free all day tomorrow if anyone else is, I'm happy to do filming then :) If not i guess we'll just have to do it on tuesday which isn't very ideal as it only leaves us a week to edit! Can anyone film tomorrow my lovelies??? :))) Even if we did the bus scene? x x x x x

GAHHH

Guyssssss

We can't take out equipment on Monday as it's bank holiday!!!

I booked out all the equipment we need for Tue and Wed but it needs to be done by Tuesday night really!!!

If we can get it done by the end of this week that'd be ideal!!

Let me know guysss :)

xx

Hey, sorry to here about your foot jess. i hope you get better soon!
sorry if anyones tried to contact me my phone fell in some water and now its dead.
i'm trying to get a new one!
Monday is ok for me if it's later in the afternoon. maybe at 3?
take care XX

OOFT

Cooool, Monday it is then :) I'll write out a list of everything we need to do :D Hopefully it won't be too much! X X X

Eeek

Yeah Monday will be better lovelies, snowed under this week with Cinematography but that will be all done by the end of the week.

Keep us updated about your foot Jess :(:(.

XX

Filming

Awww hope your foot gets better soon my lovely! :)))

Guys i'm free to film this week if you wan to get any shots done, like the bus?

If not we could do it first thing on monday if you like :) x x x x

Oww

Hey guys,

Just got back from hospital and have torn a ligament which has chipped the bone, so I'm a bit immobile at the moment and will be until the end of uni, it looks like. I can walk about a bit but not very far, I should be able to come into uni to do editing though as long as I get transport there and back.

If we can't do any filming this week then it'll have to be done by Tuesday at the latest so I can edit it all (I'm handing some of it in on Thursday morning as part of my editing so it needs to be done asap).

Sorry this is rubbish :( booooo!!

Hope you're all okay x

This week

I cant make todays meeting (tuesday), or any other meeting this week. I am very busy.

H.

Ouucchhh

Hey guys,

I retardedly fell down some stairs today and I can't really walk on my foot, so I don't think I'll be able to make tomorrow's meeting either :( I think I'm going to get it checked at hospital tomorrow though just to see that it's not fractured or anything.

I've got equipment booked out all week until Friday morning (before 9:30) so you guys can still film and so on :) just let me know whatever goes on and hopefully I'll be able to get up and about towards the second half of the week!

Don't worry about editing either - I'm pretty far on with it so I'm not worried.

Let me know what happens and so on :)

Lots of looooove!x

Meeting

Tomorrow sounds good.

Hugo

I am going to be in the edit suite from 5-ish in apple edit 1 on mac 1 editing my cinematography work. Charlotte is still in Newcastle and Jess has a foot injury, and I am not sure about Miriam, so if you still want to go over anything and you are about I will be in the room anyway. If not it might be best to have the meeting tomorrow when people are available.

Meetings

Can we have a meeting today (monday) and go over footage see what else we have to do. About 5pm?

H.

Influences

The beginning of this trailer reminded me of Clive! The office bit would look good like this.

Production Stills - NIGEL!

Ok lovey :)

I'm meeting Mark at stores at 12 if people want to meet then :)

Where? When?

Where? When?

H.

White Socks

I'm free whenever really, got something at 9 30 tomorrow but after that I'm all good! We could do it a multi story car park if that solves the light issue :)

X x x

P.s. Laura I want to see those socks. ;)

I know it'd be better to do it at another time where it's darker but it's not fair especially to Karl since I've had to tell him about a million times that plans have changed :(

Ah

Ah. So now what?

H.

Tomorrow

I agree with Laura.

H.

Tomorrow

Hey guys,

I said this in my last post, Mark can't do any other times as he has work and I've already had to rearrange this a lot with Karl as well as he's lending us his car - he has to be available too. I really have rearranged this loads of times and I can't keep telling him one time then another as it's not fair since he's doing us a favour.... I know that sucks a bit in relation to timing but he could always be popping out for lunch, it's not essential that it has to be in the evening...

Gahh I know that's a bit rubbish but I've tried really hard to get it to a time where everyone is available and I don't think there's going to be another time :(

Today

Hey guys, just an update for people who did not film today.

We filmed all the Clive happy/sad office scenes (maybe at a later date we will need corridor and photocopier scenes) but these aren't really essential). We also decided that tomorrow at 12 is not a good time to do the Nigel scenes due to the light at that time of day. If Mark can do tomorrow or Thursday at around 8pm? Or if not I am sure he can do it another time (will only take about half an hour), even if it gets done during the week starting the 3rd of May (when he may have finished all his other work).

Folder work:

If we can all make sure the following are up to date:

Myself and Charlotte - storyboards, shot lists. Miriam - sound lists etc. Hugo and Jess - script and edit logs. And if we each make sure one of these are up to date: Props list, cast list, locations list, schedule.

XX

SUPER

Lets crack on at 4 then yeaaah? Do office scenes/ photocopying stuff? Hugo remember to bring both your ties and anything else you think cliveface was wearing on the day when he depressed. Bring your siut jacket maybe and briefcase bag thing if you can :)

I shall give everyone a texty to confirm things though :)

XXXXXXX

Tuesday

My Tuesday has become very packed very quickly. I can do from 1500 onwards. I'm busy before that. Do we want to meet at like 1600 at the stores, and we can go from there?

H.

Ahmmmm

Heyyy,

You guys can film tomorrow if you like but I'm busy for a lot of the day!

Incase you do, we need:

• The bus stuff (make sure to get him with the CD player)
  
• Hugo being sad/happy in the office
• Hugo's cunning plan as to how to fix the Ted and Jeff getting killed bit

Miriam also needs to pick up the sound for the bits we missed on the party scene, Hugo will know which bits we need as he's editing it.

I was thinking as well, we need to get cracking on a group folder! Any volunteers or suggestions for who wants to do that?

LOOOVE

:-)

Guysss!! What time/where are we meeting tomorrow and what are we filming??

I can do Wednesday from about 3 ish, I am filming with another group till' about then. XX

Wednesday

Dear Hugo,

I have thought on quite a lot and 12 Wed is literally the only time Mark is available. I've reorganised this a million times already and really don't want to do it again, especially since Karl has been so good about it all... I think we'll just have to deal....

As for the other stuff, we could do it all in one go on Wednesday if we meet at stores about midday?

xx

AWESOME

So what time are we filming tomorrow? Are we doing clive depressed in his office and clive happy photocopying? +bus scene? Might be easier to do office scenes later when it's not too busy!

Much Love <3

Radical!

Wednesday is good for me. Monday is not great for me. Tuesday is fine. I have a cunning plan about how we can that shot of ted and jeff without jeff or is it ted? Also I dont think we should film with mark till about 8pm. because the sun is setting then, and it is supposed to be evening time. think on.

H.

WOOOP!

That's good news about Mark! >_< i can't do tomorrow bit I'm free after 11 30 on tuesday if you want to do the bus scene and clive sad in the office times :) x x x x x

it would be good if we could get it done in one go on Wednesday.

SUCCESS!!

MARK CAN DO WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON!!!

I know this isn't ideal in terms of when it's supposed to be set, but it's the best we can get. He could always be popping out for lunch.

SUCCESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

So do we want to do the rest of the filming on Wednesday also, or tomorrow or Tuesday? What do people think?

x

Yeah I'm free on tuesday. I have a presentation for documentary theory from 9-11 30 so I can only do after that, hope that's okay! :D

Grrr about Mark, I hope he can do wednesday as we're running out timeeee! Also wish we could some how get hold of Steven again so we can do that scene. :)

X X X X X X

Heeeey!

Pretty sure we aren't using the iron thing anymore...

BUT as I said in the facebook email we are pretty screwed about that missing scene.

"Hugo being happy in the office" - hahaha!! This made me laugh quite a bit.

X

This week

Hey guys,

Mark keeps texting me to rearrange so I currently have no idea what's going on with him. Karl has been awesome about it all and says we can have the car as long as he's not in uni. Mark said a few days ago that he can do Wed evening which Karl can also do, but I'm not sure Mark can anymore, so we'll just have to wait for some feedback from him.

As for the rest of the stuff we need to do, I have equipment booked out for tomorrow-Wed, so we can finish up other bits and bobs that need doing tomorrow and Tuesday if you guys want? I think all we need to do it:

• Bus scene
• Hugo getting an iron out of the cupboard (to suggest he's killed Ted and Jeff, which we didn't get when we filmed it)
• Hugo being happy in the office

I think that's it....let me know if there's anything I've missed.

Let me know what you reckon we should get on with for the moment, guys!

x

...

I am free on Monday afternoon and Tuesday XX

Filming

Helloooo,

Incase anyone got very confused by the mass texting this morning, this is the plan.

Mark is rubbish and can't do today after all, which is just as well as Hugo isn't feeling well, so we're just going to leave today. When I go into uni today I'll see what equipment I can get out and we'll have to organise around that!

Have a little scribble on here of when everyone is free next week so we can sort it out and get this sorted! I'm free pretty much all week except Tue 4-6 and Thu 9-12:30.

I'll write back on here when I book out some equipment!

....and breathe!

Love x

Filming Days...

Hey guys, sorry I couldn't make the meeting but I am not back to Sheff till' later tonight. If anyone wants to post on here the days/times we are filming etc. thanksss :-)!

XX

Sounds good :D See you all there then :) x x x x

Heartspace at 2? :)

Meeting

Monday sounds delightful.

H.

After Easter

Monday is good for me also :)

Meetinggg

I'm back on Sunday night :) Meeting on monday??? :D

Hope everyone has had a lovely easter full of fun times!! ^_^

Much love

X X X

Meetings

When is everyone back? We should have a meeting so we can arrange when we are finishing the filming.

H.

Kirk!!

Production Stills so far!

AWESOME >_<

MAKE-UP

FANTASTIC!

Looks perfect...

Excited much?!

X X

Make Up Ideas by Natalie Wood

These pics are what Nat is thinking for tomorrow 'Everyone is dead' scene! Thoughts? ;)

Policemannnn

Charlooootte
Gah I couldn't find any Policeman stuff! I got all the party stuff except for hats, but we still need a police hat and badge!!

Little sum up of meeting :)

Here's a little sum up of what we discussed today Laura :D

-Tomorrow we're filming at 6pm the scenes with the ready meals and clive coming home from work. We're going to do the bit of clive walking through the door at Hugo's house cos we used her door last time, then we're going to go to mine to film the living room and kitchen scenes :)

-Then on Wednesday we're going to film after our tutorial at 12 30. We're going to go straight to my house on eccy road to film the party scene and the policeman scene. Jess has bought the police man outfit and the party stuff :) She couldn't get any party hats so I'm going to get some tomorrow :) If there's anything else you think we need let me know and I shall get it :)

-And then I think we're going to film on Thursday after 5pm the scene at the office with Ted and Jeff. We'll film at the uni :)

I think that was about it :)

X X X X

Guyssssssss

Apologies i couldn't attend the meeting earlier.

Anyone want to fill me in :)??

X

Meetings

Sounds good to me. I shall bring my diary.

H.

Yeeesssss

Yep sounds good jess! I'm free whenever! When is everyone free tomorrow? :)

X X X

Monday

Hey guyyyys,

I was just wondering if we could have a meeting tomorrow at some point to sort out what we're going to do when so we can let the actors/people who are helping us out know? What do you guys think? :)

Monday . . .

Hello beautiful people,

Are we filming on monday at all? I couldn't remember when we said we'd film! ooohhh silly me!

X X X

Filming

Hi Guys,

Bad news, we can't film in my house mates bedroom as he's not going to his placement this week as he's ill. It'll be free next week if we still want to use it or if anyone else has a bedroom we could use we could do it there :)

See you all later! X

Cast List

Heyyyy! I've been chatting to some people and I've found some people who would be happy to do a bit of acting for us. So, we have:

Clive Morgan - Hugo Goodridge
Tracey Morgan - Jessica Purvis
Policeman 1 - Mark Stevens
Policeman 2 - David Palmer
Nigel - Possibly Charlotte's actor friend ;)

I also have a few other people who would be happy to fill roles, we need:

Ted -
Jeff -
Dead person 1 -
Dead person 2 -
Dead person 3 -
Dead person 4 -
Dead person 5 -

My friends Oliver, Karl, and Stephen are also happy to do whatever.

Meeting

I am currently in Apple edit 3 and Laura is joining me later, so if you guys want to have a meeting we'll be in there :)

Meeting

Oh yeah! The pairs stuff. We could have it late afternoon. Glad your are enjoying it.

H.

YESSSSS :)

YEAH meeting sounds good! :D Me and Miriam are pretty busy doing our pair film but I'm sure we can fit an hour in :) I can do pretty much anytime really :D

I got your script by le way Hugo! I'm half way through it! WOOP!

X

Meeting

Hey, can we have a meeting. I have done a production schedual. We just need to go through and make sure dates are correct. Whats everyone doing on Monday?

H.

Script

Just got back to Sheffield and read the script Hugo. It's really good, I'll crack on with the storyboarding then! I'll bring the script to the meeting in case anyone wants to have a look at it :) See everyone later!

X

POST

HUGOOO my housemate just sent me a text to let me know your script arrived nicely at my house! I get back from newcastle tomorrow so i'll have a look at it then. Thank you very much! X

GAYS!!

Ted and Jeff??

HAHAHAHA :)

GAY! GAY! GAY!

I'm going to go right ahead a presume that Ted and Jeff are gay. It can be changed easily, if we want to change it.

H.

For Laura - Opening Script

FADE IN:

INT. MASTER BEDROOM – 06:59 AM.

Light creeps into a dark, gloomy room. The silence is deafening in the cramped, unkempt room. Clothes are strewn carelessly across the floor, documents litter the carpet, mugs and plates occupy the bedside table.
CLIVE MORGAN, a gaunt, haggard young man, lies awake in bed. His girlfriend lies next to him, the covers drawn up around her face protectively. The digital clock on the bedside suddenly BLARES. CLIVE, still staring, hits the alarm with his fist.

TRACEY
Fucking hell, Clive.

CLIVE
[impatient]
What?

TRACEY
Do you have to hit the
fucking alarm like that?

CLIVE gets out of bed irritably, picking a shirt up off the floor.

CLIVE
Oh I’m sorry, I’ll just let
it run and not go to work,
shall I?

TRACEY
Fuck off. You’re so fucking
useless.

TRACEY rolls back over. CLIVE leaves the room.

HAHAHAHA

Ahh Ted and Jeff! They could be gay! They sound a bit gay!

I'm at home this weekend in newcastle but i'll be back tomorrow afternoon. I live at 172 Pomona Street if you have time to pop it around :D No worries though! X

Charlotte, where do you live? I drop round what I have done tomorrow.

H.

GAY! GAY! GAY!

Are Ted and Jeff gay?

H.

F.Y.I

I am doing the second half Charlotte.

:D

Ahhh sounds dandy! I've done some storyboards but Hugo if you want to put up what you've written so then I can continue storyboarding so it fits nicely :D

X x x

Ok Guys...

At the brief meeting today we decided that:

Hugo and Jess will be doing half of the script each.

Laura and Charlotte will be doing half of the storyboard each.

Miriam will be doing the sound list and potentially the music choices.

We aim to have these completed by the 16th March, which is a Tuesday, so we can then start filming before easter.

Hugo will send his part of the script to Charlotte in sections, as it gets done, and Jess will send her part of the script to Laura in sections so the storyboards can get done for the same time the script gets finished.

There will be a group meeting on Wednesday the 10th March to see how the scripts/storyboards/sound lists are getting along. This is at 3pm, at The Cutting Edge Cafe.

There will also be a meeting on Monday 15th March to edit, put together and confirm any last minute parts to the work before shooting on the 16th. Time and place TBC.

Much love. X

Actress

Hi guys!

I have found an actress who is willing to act as the wife in the film if you would like an actress. :)
She is called Dana and she's a really good actress and really enthusiastic and is pretty much free all the time. She was our actress for mine and Miriam's pair film. :) Let me know if you want me to ask her to do it, as she said she's really interested in doing more student short films to build up her portfolio :D

x x x

Just realised i spelt 'story' wrong.

Sounds good to me Hugo! :D

Stroyboards/Scripts

I would much prefer to script rather than storyboard. Charlotte if you are doing the opening, do you want to send it my way when you have finished, and I will get writing.

H.

Storyboarding

OOOh yes Jess that sounds dandy! I'm up for doing the opening scene! :D

Storyboards/Script

Oooh, it's all going quite nicely.
I was thinking, since we're all pretty busy with our pairs projects at the moment, should we have a chat about who could storyboard/script each part to put on here so we can do it from home? What does everyone think?

OH and . . .

Just watched that link Hugo! really like that! Think the black comedy style's the right way to go! :D

Storyboards

Aw that's cool about the sound Miriam! Glad it was helpful! :D Ahh good old neill!

Yeah I don't mind storyboarding the opening, or if anyone else wants to let me know :)

X x x

i forgot to mention that i had another sound workshop last monday with ron in sound editing.
it went well and we covered lots of things. i definately feel more confident about doing the sound now. also i can start storyboarding a scene from the film. i could start at the beginning of act 2 if charlotte is doing the 1st act.

i like the briefcase hugo put up, i think i know someone who has one like it. i'm sure we could borrow it. i also took alook at the trailer and i think the black comedy angle is good. i think it would suit our film.

GLASSES! GLASSES! GLASSES!

These are nice to. H.

BAGS! BAGS! BAG!

I think that this is a much nicer bag. However it does cost £2,210. But one like would be brilliant.

Black Comedy

Of course when I say 'annie mentioned this' I was talking about the black comedy genre

Annie mentioned this when we presented our idea. I think that if we want to go down that route then we should look at this.
If you haven't seen this film and would like to then i have copy that you can borrow.

Locations

Hey guys!

Hope you're all okay! :D I was just wondering whether for the next meeting we go location scouting? :D So then that will help us when we storyboard things. It might give us a clearer idea perhaps. Just an idea though :)

much loveeee :)))

...

Perfect Charlotte! Just as i imagined. I'll start a storyboard from that ready for when we start filming :)!

Camera

Opening scene-

Camera shot over looking Clive lying in bed awake waiting for the alarm to go off. He is looking up at the camera as if it's the ceiling, The shot is wide enough to see him and his wife lying in bed. It shows obvious distance between the couple. She is facing the other side asleep curled up. The camera is static at this time. It stays focussed on them in bed until the harsh sound of the alarm goes off. It then cuts to a closer shot on the same level of his wife Tracey waking up and screaming for Clive to turn the alarm off. it cuts to a fed up blank expression on Clive's face. This will be a close up to show his emotion. A quick edit and close up shot shows Clive's hand smacking the button on the top of alarm clock to switch it off. He sits up and a medium shot of him is shown wearing stripy blue and white pajama bottoms. A close up of his feet putting on his slippers proceeds. His morning routine is then followed through the use of slow shots, whilst his wife yells at him in the background. A hand held shot is used while he plods down stairs to put the kettle on. the shot is a medium shot, again showing his blank fed up facial expression. Close up of the kettle switch and tea bag in the mug and hot water being poured in. These edits are quite quick. It is slowed down with a close up hand held of his face looking into the camera whilst pulled out of focus is Tracey screaming and arguing at him. The sound could be muffled here to suggest Clive is in his own world. The camera then follows him picking up his brown leather suitcase and walking out the front door. The minute the door closers, it's peaceful and calm.

I hope that's okay to begin with for the opening part? Let me know if people visioned it differently! :D

Thanks Laura you star! >_< The treatments really good!

Do we need to say about how we are going to shoot it and how we are going to do it within the time we've been given? And like maybe the style of editing we are going to use? I'm not sure if we do but we could maybe add it in :D

Costume Ideas

Project Treatment Draft

[“Come Dine With Clive” ???? Haha!]

Length: 7-10 Minutes

Genre: Psychological Thriller

Target Audience: 18+

Tagline: [Something about him being a puppet master maybe????]

Brief Synopsis: Clive goes through life tending not to get noticed or respected. This leads Clive to a mid life crisis where he carries out murders and keeps the dead bodies in his house. [Needs expanding??]

Brief Outline: It's a Monday morning, the time is 06:58. Clive Morgan lies awake waiting for his alarm clock to cue him out of bed. As the clock goes off, Clive gets out of bed and proceeds to get ready for work, getting dressed then making breakfast, whilst arguing with his wife about her constant nagging and talking.Clive leaves his house and makes his way towards the bus stop.
This is Clive's routine every morning Monday – Friday, 9-5. Clive arrives at work, where he carries out repetitive and tedious tasks throughout his shift. Clive hates his job.
That night, as Clive gets changed for bed he finds a tie on the floor, a tie that isn't his. Assuming that the tie must belong to some mysterious suitor, he grabs the tie and strangles Tracey to death with it.

The next morning Clive wakes up, opens his curtains smiling, he embraces the day and seems a lot cheerier than the day before. Clive heads to the office where he repeats the same tasks but in a happier manner and with enthusiasm. When Clive arrives at home he puts his wife in an armchair in the living room, talking to her about his day and bringing her things.
The next day in work Clive is seen talking to Ted and Jeff, 2 of his colleagues, they make small talk and Ted asks about his wife. Out of the blue Clive invites them round for dinner that night. After work they are seen entering his house.

The next morning Clive passes the living room, and sat alongside dead Tracey are Ted and Jeff. 2 weeks later a police officer knocks at Clive's door to inquire about missing Ted and Jeff. Clive acts oblivious and concerned about his colleagues absences, he tells the policeman that he knows nothing.
The day after Clive approaches his boss, Nigel, at his car after a days work, inviting him for a beer at the local pub. He refuses, and in the next shot Clive is seen entering Nigel's car and sitting in the drivers seat. Clive turns to talk to Nigel who is seen propped up by a seatbelt in the passenger seat, dead.
In the final scene the police knock at Clive's door, there classical music blasting from the property. Clive is seen in the living room dancing with his dead wife, numerous other dead bodies are surrounding him, wearing party hats. As the music track changes Clive notices the banging at the door. "Brilliant...more guests" he mutters. He slips off his tie as he heads towards the front door. [Might be a bit long!]

Director's Statement Of Intent: We intend to create a original and dark psychological thriller with a humorous edge. This will be shown through the narrative of the film itself, as well as through our development of atmosphere and tension. We aim to portray this through the character of Clive himself - his gradual mental deterioration is what will make him truly terrifying to behold. This will be shown through the use of the tie - which he will use to kill all of his victims.
In terms of camera and sound, we aim to use a lot of tight framing to emphasise the characters' feeling of being strained and bored. This will be paired with long shots - which will be mirrored in the more rhythmic, shorter shots which will be used after he kills Tracey, representing his happier mood.
We will use classical music throughout the piece, which we believe will give the film a very sinister edge and emphasise Clive's madness.

Do we need to have a bit about our use of camera, sound, etc?

Example of classical music

Hey guys, this is an episode of Skins which used classical music through the whole episode. It's good for seeing what looks good and so on...

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/skins/4od#2918543

Treatment

Hey guyssss

Yeah, our treatment has to be in tomorrow! Sorry about earlier, Laura and I were having major filming issues. Laura has kindly offered to get the ball rolling and is going to post it on here later, and we can all edit it as we see fit. Also, would someone be willing to volunteer to print it?

Loooove :)

Yeah the meeting was cancelled today. I don't mind doing storyboards or anything :) just let me know. I think jess said laura was going to do the treatment then post it on here so we can edit it and whatnot. I only got half her text though! so i could be wrong! haha!

See you all tomorrow! :D

http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi2578841881/

Whatever you may think about Christian Bale (Jessica) I think that it would be a good film to look at to make our film better.

H.

Was todays meeting canceled? I am pretty sure that we have to have our treatment in pretty soon. I will have a stab at that tonight. I might start to do a bit of story-boarding, just so we have started it. Also we should start on the script now that we have our idea pretty much sorted.

H.

Music

Don Giovanni -Mozart
The Blue Danube - J Strauss
And some Wagner.

I have these at home and will find some good bits to bring in a play.

Classical Music

Hey guys, had a look for some suitable music for different bits of the film! Have a listen and let me know what you think:

• For when he awakes, after he has strangled his wife. To go with the montage of him being happier at work. Alternatively, to go with the montage of him caring for his wife.

Rossini William Tell overture Part 2

• This one could also go with him waking up happier.

Grieg - Morning

• For when he dances with his wife at the end. Listen from about about 2 mins in for this one.

Amilcare Ponchielli - Dance of the Hours

• Also for when he dances with his wife, it just depends which one we think would fit better! They could alternately go with him killing whoever else.

Bizet: Habanera

• This piece is quite sneaky sounding, like tiptoes, so could be used when murdering someone, like when he invites his boss for a drink.

Pizzicato - Léo Delibes

• Also for when he's committing a murder

Winter - Vivaldi, Four Seasons

...Final Idea...

Ok guys a lot of brainstorming today, and i think we have come up with something we are all pretty excited about.

Here is a summary of the synopsis with a few potential additions.

Our main male character wakes up before his alarm clock on a Monday morning, looking annoyed he turns it off, after receiving some abuse from his wife lying next to him. They have a petty argument which is fueled by her constant nagging/talking. Then a montage is shown of him getting ready for work (focusing on him putting on his tie), eating breakfast and more arguing with his wife. He leaves abruptly and catches his bus to work (listening to classical music on an old portable CD player).

He arrives at work. Looking very bored he carries out routine tedious tasks repeatedly throughout his shift. Potential argument with boss? Trying to relieve his boredom. He leaves for his bus and is seen walking down the path to his house.

When he enters his house his wife is waiting for him. He heats his dinner in the microwave, watching it in a daze. His wife tells him she is pregnant and he reacts quite numb to this. He flips out when alone, (smashing something?). They are both seen in the living room watching TV, sat very apart occasionally glaring at each other. His wife goes to bed and he shortly follows. Whilst asleep he dreams of his wife with another man, leading him to think he isn't the baby's father. This is the breaking point for our main character. He wakes and strangles his wife to death with his tie.

The next morning he cheerfully awakes, opening the curtains with a smile, kissing his dead wife on the forehead and bringing her breakfast in bed? He goes to work where he repeats the same tasks but in a happier manner and with enthusiasm. On a toilet break he is seen fixing his tie and gazing at himself in the mirror. He goes home.

Montage of him caring for his pregnant wife. Acting as if she were alive. He talks to her about his day.

The next day in work he talks to 2 of his colleagues (3 character scene), they ask about his wife and he seems uncomfortable. He invites them round for dinner that night. They are seen entering his house.

The next morning as the main character heads downstairs the 2 colleagues are subtlety seen in the living room dead, with his wife.

2 weeks later (shown by a flip calender), 1 or 2 police officers knock at his door to inquire about a missing person (1 of his dead colleagues). He acts oblivious and concerned about his colleagues absence and tells them he hasn't heard/seen from him.

The day after he approaches his boss at his car after a days work, inviting him for a beer at the local pub, his boss acts awkward saying he doesn't know and then that he already has plans for the evening.

In the next shot the main character is seen driving his boss's car, turning and talking away to his boss who is seen propped up by a seatbelt in the passenger seat, dead.

In the final scene the police are seen knocking at his door, classical music blaring from the property, a tracking shot then leads into the house and through to the living room where numerous dead bodies are seen in a party environment (party hats/food/etc), and the main character is seen dancing with his dead wife. As the music track changes he hears the knocking at the door. "Brilliant...more guests" he mutters and slips off his tie as he heads towards the front door.

End.

Idea, maybe

Had a bit of an idea about what we could do for our project, maybe. I've written it basically according to Annie's 3 Act Stucture and so on.


ACT 1

• Who is he?: Our protagonist (male, middle aged? depends on the actor we can get) works in an office (I got this from Hugo's idea about the guy who stole office supplies) and is extremely bored and depressed.
  
• What does he want? : He does the same thing day in and day out, watching grey office days go by, and simply wants a more exciting life.
  
• Inciting Incident : One day, after leaving the office, he recieves a letter in the post telling him to go to a certain place at a certain time. Happy for the bit of excitement, he goes, but upon arriving, finds the body of a dead girl. (How she dies can be decided later).

ACT 2

• Knowing he is innocent, he runs from the body out of fear and worry that he'll be fasely accused if discovered at the scene. He drops a glove (or something else that can be decided later).
  
• He goes home, but it's not long before he starts to become paranoid that the police will think that it's him. He starts to see things, and feels like he's being watched. He looks in the mirror and thinks he sees someone behind him, etc. He begins to see the girls body in the house (but we won't explain whether or not it's really there).
• Some time later, the police knock on his door. He runs, afraid.

Basically, in the end it would be that he actually set it all up himself to create his own excitement. After leaving the office one day we'll have a suttle shot of him coming out of the post office (I.e. he sent the letter himself), that sort of thing. And he dropped his whatever on purpose, so they'd follow him. Not sure what would happen at the end yet, but he'll have to be caught in order for us to explain what was really going on. We can have a chat about it tomorrow if you guys like it :)

15/02/10 Meeting

Today we had our first group meeting, where we all came together to discuss our ideas after brainstorming the titles 'Facing the Shadow', 'Making an Entrance' and 'Refusal is Pointless'.
We found that we were all most drawn to the title 'Facing the Shadow', and we therefore began to build a story around it, coming up with these ideas:

• Implied meaning, facing your demons
• Shadows swallowing up the character (dream sequence?) - representitive of his mind
• Being stalked
• Psychological thriller
• Paranoia - perhaps someone sends him a letter telling him to be at a certain place at a certain time - dead body? Framed?
• Angel vs. Devil - different sides of himself, affecting his decisions
• On the run?
• Is he truly innocent?

Since we could not come to a final decision, we agreed to meet again after developing our own ideas using these points:

• Must be a male protagonist
• Must be a murder
• Have a twist(s)
• 1 scene with 3 characters
  

here are a few basic ideas i had of what the titles bring to mind:

Facing The Shadow :

• light vs dark,

good vs. evil - reminiscent of fantasy genre e.g Lord Of The Rings.
also could be action e.g Die Hard

• literal meaning- actually facing shadows/dark place - could be horror or thriller.
• facing yourself - hidden wants/desires, emotional turmoil.
• facing the uncertain- maybe uncertain future.

Making An Entrance:

• going to prom/dance/somewhere special - chick flick or rom com - trying to win over the guy/girl
  
• doing a bank raid or robbery - action/thriller
• new beginnings - starting a new job, moving to a new place, having a baby.
  

Refusal Is Pointless:

• lovers- one unsure the other certain - unwilling to give in - romance
• hostage situation - being held against their will - thriller
• sounds like a murder mystery title - who done it?

hi everyone,
just letting u know i went to a sound workshop on thursday with Neil Webb down at sheffield independent film. we did a lesson on sync sound which was really useful because i havent done that before. it'll be useful if we decide to use sinc sound for our project. i'm sitting in on sum other lessons aswell so i'll keep you posted.

Meetings:

Monday 10th Febuary, Collegiate Library, 1630.
Wednesday 12th Febuary, outside EMB 3115, 1230.

Group Roles

Laura - Camera/ CSD
Miriam - Sound/ Camera/ Editing
Hugo - CSD/ Editing
Charlotte - Writer/ Producer/ Camera/ CSD
Jessica - Editor/ CDS

As always, we'll all help each other out with all the roles :)