Opening Sceneration- Miss Miller

Our open narrative begins with a couple sitting in a waiting room at a train station. The couple are waiting for their train and with time the train approaches the platform and we watch the two characters leave the waiting room and get onto the train. On the train the couple are talking casually and eventually the male character announces he needs to get off at the next stop and leaves his young, blonde girlfriend alone to continue her journey. The girl looks in front of her lost in her own thoughts and sees an image of a masked man in the reflection in front of her. She jumps up and has a reaction that is shocked but, when she looks back she sees nothing is there. The girl passes it off as she may have been seeing things and intends to continue her journey home.

As the journey lengthens the young girl receives a phone call from an unknown number, we hear her saying 'hello?' multiple times and due to know answer; she hangs up the phone. The girl looks down the carriage and the masked villain waiting at the end. She runs to the doors to try and get off the train but, the open button of the door fails to allow her access to the platform meaning she is stuck with the unknown character on the train. She screams and runs to the following door and repeats the action and is still not granted access from the masked man who continues to just stand still where he is. 

As the man slowly approaches we hear sharp, high pitched screams from the young girl. As he gets closer, she is stuck and has no where to turn. She is shocked as the villain appears to have disappeared. The masked villain however then comes up from behind the girl and pulls her to the floor where she is knocked out. 

The girl wakes up and is sitting back where she was at the beginning of the sequence and is panting and panicking at the confusion of what has just happened. She looks forward and sees the mask lying on the seat opposite her, suggesting that the killer is going to strike again.

Within our thriller we have used many elements that are conventional to the thriller genre. For example: we have a blonde, female victim which is stereotypical to the genre in regards of the audience inferring naivety and vulnerability and loud noises such as screams, which cause a shock to the audience. The unexpected quick snaps of the mask is conventional to a thriller storyline and the idea of the mask being zoomed in on at the end on the seat allows our audience to predict and want to discover what will happen next. We have used mise-en-scene that is also relevant to the thriller genre such as a stereotypical girly costume for the victim and the iconography of the mask for the killer. Alongside this, the use of cinematography will allow our scenes to flow more freely and to link together our scenes. Overall, our opening scene has been created and moulded to fit the thriller genre.

Filming Schedule/Risk Assessment- Miss Georgiou

The purpose of the risk assessment task was to ensure that during filming everyone on both the production team and those acting were safe. In the case of something happening it was important as a group and as individuals that we were aware of how to cope with the situation if we were to be confronted with one. But, to avoid this happening we had a group meeting that discussed ways of avoiding dangers and hazzards and creating preventions so, that filming could run as safely and as efficently as possible. For example: we were filming at a train station and it was important we didn't get carried away with filming and become uncautious of things such as the track. We placed all our hazards and dangers we may face in a risk assessment table that displayed us the issues and preventions clearly. For example: Dropping the cmerea during handheld or close ups can be avoided by using the handstrap on the camera,so, by placing this within the table format it is easily readable and accesiable for the whole production, acting and all round team. Further planning techniques were required such as, creating the preventions for the hazards i.e: using gaffer tape to secure leads and cords are unable to cause accidents. By taking out further planning the likelihood of the hazard taking place is then of a low percentage.

Description of hazard	Prevention of hazard
Avoiding the train track when filming for our own protection and our equipment	Make sure our eyes are alert throughout and that equipment is a metre away from the track at all times of filming.
Using the scream mask in public	Take care of young children being near us to avoid unnecessary upset
Dropping the camera during handheld or close ups	Make sure we are always using the handstrap and take care of who is near us
Tripod falling over or camera falling of tripod	Make sure it is on flat land and the camera is correctly attached to the tripod
Tripping over loose leads or loose cords	Use gaffer tape to secure leads and cords are unable to cause accidents

The purpose of the filming schedule was so as a group we knew exactly when we were filming, where and what was needed to be produced during that amount of time. The filming schedule helped us as a group in terms of organisation as we were fully aware of what needed to be done so, it stopped us going off track or trying to achieve too much within a short period of time and risking the quality faltering. Our filming schedule is based below and it shows/presents what we created and what parts of our thriller were filmed at certain times.  Our schedule was mostly followed but, we had to make some changes due, to our actors letting us down at certain points due, to having other commitments themselves. This meant we had to alter part of our schedule and reschedule in different timings to film ie: the 23rd was changed to the 25th.

Shot	Date & time	Location	Content /Action	Shot type & Duration	Costume/ hair/ make up	Iconography	Personnel	Equipment
1	16.11.2013 4:30pm	Epping Train Station	Establishing the scene by creating shots of the train entering the station.	Extreme long shot at a semi high angle due to it being shot on the bridge over looking.	N/A	The london underground sign on the train, connotes a sense of normaility- our audience will relate.	Cameraman	Digital camera, Tripod, Lighting caused by trains headlights.
2	16.11.2013 4:40pm	Epping Train Station	Filming the two girls walking over the bridge together casually talking.	Low angle shot, Lasts 7 seconds.	Casual clothing, Hair style down.	The sign on the wall just behind the stairs the girls are walking down.	Cameraman Actors	Digital camera, Tripod, Train station lighting.
3	16.11.2013 4:55pm	Epping Train Station	The victims on  the opposite platform chatting and giggleing.	Long shot, into zoom of the main victim. Last 8 seconds in total.	Girly outfit, Hair  style down.	London underground sign, Phone.	Cameraman Actors	Digital camera, Tripod.
4	16.11.2013 5:10pm	Epping Train Station	Girls running down the stairs and getting on the train.	Low angle, into over the shoulder shot. Lasts 9 seconds in total.	Girly outfit, Hair style down.	London underground sign, Phone.	Cameraman Actors	Digital camera
5	23.11.2013 4:30pm	Theydon Bois Train Station	Girls on train chatting and giggling.	Mid shot, Lasts 4 seconds.	Girly outfit, hair down.	Phone, Train map.	Cameraman Actors	Digital camera.
6	23.11.2013 4:40pm	Theydon Bois Train Station	The victims taking pictures using the camera.	High angle shot, lasts 2 seconds.	Girly outfit, hair down.	Phone, Train map.	Cameraman Actors	Digital camera, Tripod.
7	23.11.2013 4:50pm	Theydon Bois Train Station	Filming the girls talking, but can see the antagonists reflection within the window of the train sitting next to her.	Mid shot, Lasts 4 seconds.	Victims as stated prior, Killer dressed in all black, long coat, scream mask.	Scream Mask	Cameraman Actors	Digital camera.
8	27.11.2013 5:00pm	Hainault Train Station	Two new victims, a boyfriend a girlfriend, on the train, talking.	Over the shoulder shot, Lasts 8 seconds to establish new characters.	Victims dressed in casual wear, main victim following conventions with blonde hair (this time tied up to show change)	None	Cameraman New Actors	Digital camera.
9	27.11.2013 5:10pm	Hainault Train Station	Killer in the window of the train, next to vicitm. Swaps places with what was boyfriend.	Midshot, Lasts 10 seconds	""	Scream mask.	Cameraman Actors	Digital camera.
10	27.11.2013 5:20pm	Newbury Park Train Station	Girls reaction, then her trying to get of the train.	Reaction shot, then into Longshot of the carriage, Zooms in on open button she is pressing.	N/A	Scream mask. Open Button.	Cameraman Actors	Digital camera, bin bag.

11	27.11.2013 5:35pm	Newbury Park Train Station	Girl running off the train and towards the esculators.	Over the shoulder shot, Pov of killer. Lasts 8 seconds.	""	N/A	Cameraman Actors	Digital camera.
10	27.11.2013 5:45pm	Newbury Park Train Station	Girl coming down the esculators at other end, not realising the killer is across from her, gradually notices.	High angle shot then into long shot, then into reaction shot, finshing in a establishing shot.	N/A	Scream mask.	Cameraman Actors	Digital camera.