Make up

For make we have a students called Sasha that does studied for film make up as she is really passionate about it, she did the make for most trailers, so we sent her an email and asked her personally if she would have helped us and she reply positively.

We decided together the make up for the main actor, Charlie as wanted him to look bitten up but looking in good enough conditions to be acting around the set, the location of the opening sequence. We wanted to look as realistic as possible, to be more impressive for the viewers, also his acting would have looked lot more impressive.

The make up took around 15 minutes to do and we attached after lunch to carry on with continuity.

            

  

Costumes

For costumes wise we wanted a suite so we firstly we asked the theatre department if they had something that could possible borrow, but unfortunately the size of it was too small.

However the actor for our thriller told us that he could have brought in into school is own one.

After the shooting day unfortunately we got the white shirt a bit dirty with the fake blood so we took his suite to the cleaner near by and got sorted in the next couple of days.

Set Design n.2

The morning of the shoot day we sorted all the lighting, and tried different options to have different effects, making the set as realistic as possible.

By the door way we used a blu gel light to recreate the impression of day light and hope towards the viewers and the protagonist as it will show, the only way out. 

This light was positioned at the back of the set in the back right cone, using a blue filter, the light seemed lighter but settle.

We also used four light bulbs to have a dull light and create a dark lighting effect.

At the start we wanted to use more we thought as the room is small, having just four lights will increases the perspective of claustrophobia. 

for close up we used a separate light bulb to move around and adjust the lighting to have a clear view of every details presented in the frame. Lighting was changed through out the actual camera it self changing the setting in it, to make it look brighter, for some shots we turned the brightness up to the maximum, as we learnt that is better having brighter frame than too dark as it will easier through out the editing process to change the shot, if too bright.

 Set Design

The design for the set is one of the biggest out of the school. We decided to build a set composed from 4 panels standing up right to be part of the wall and than we added other two and the top to create the idea of a celling. The room is not too big, as we wanted to effect of claustrophobia, but we obviously needed enough space to film in it and work around with cameras. 

To make it look more appealing we used a brick wall designed and painted of grey to give the illusion of concrete, as wallpaper. To light the room up we used four light bulbs, distances to each other to create a dull light but light enough to film with a good quality light and create vary effects with it.  

We then added the keys hanging from the celling, it took us half a day to put all the keys and we still thought we didn’t have enough to fill the entire room, but the final result was better than we expected to be.

We used two chains and attached them to the end of the first two panels to keep the padlock in place and centre on the door, the chains were old and rusty to carry on with the vintage look, it actually added something to it, making the padlock standing out even more, and acting as a focused point.

To create the effect of a being in a cell we tried to used a grid and lighting it from behind having the shadows of it, but it didn’t work, as we wanted to because the lighting was darker than expected and it would have been to difficult to shoot in it and show all the details. The lighting once we started to film was visually different so we adjusted the camera setting and brightened or darken some shots. For the close up we moved around a light bulb to light the exact focus point and show it clearly to the viewers.

Other than that the set was ferly easy to clear, once we finished shooting the only disadvantage we had it was that other students decided to use an easier location, or more available so in case they needed few more shoot they could have gone back to the place and the missing bits, oppositely to us that we had to be as precised as possible as once the location was cleared out at the end of the day we had not chance to set everything up again, however this didn’t cause ant problems as at the end of the day we ended up with enough shots.

Key process

One we received all the keys we ordered we than decided to use fish string to tie all the keys up, also as we had different sizes we than decided to include more than small one together to make it look better on camera and standing out more, adding more confusion within the thriller we wonder starts coming out as a feeling while watching the thriller.

The main key was silver so we painted in gold to make it look like the others and camouflage in between.

This process last for days, until we finally finished and untangle most of the keys, we than when in the studio where the set was up and we stapled all the keys on the ceiling. It took us several hours, around 5 to complete the whole work, but by the end of it we though it was worth it.

The most difficult bit for us during the shooting day was localise the exact key we wanted Charlie to pic and reposition them in the exam same place, for continuity, so we then marked the ceiling with a black pen next the few selected keys and drawn a cross.

Continuity wasn’t based only on the position of the keys but also we noticed some of them where swinging so we needed to wait until they stopped other wise it would have been to noticeable cutting once cutting with the different shots.

Charlie had to memorise the keys he had to pick and the way he did it, so for example same hand, same ways, velocity and timing.

I believe continuity was a big challenge for our piece, but we manage our way through as a group collaborating and talking through out the filming day to consider any option or better idea to make it look as professional as possible.

Sound effect

The soundtrack for the scene would be done to play around with anxiety feelings and time running. This feeling will increase while the scene carries on and to add tension the sound will get lauder and lauder until the end of the opening sequence. This sound won't be pleasant as we want the viewer to wonder what could thats be na the consequences of it for the main character. We believe that the sound it going to play an important role for the opening sequence as all the tension feeling is built around it.
We looked at few sound effects on youtube to see if they could inspire us.

We finally ended up using the sound effects of foot step, talking, gun shoots, all found within the media department production. We decided not to use any soundtrack as we thought we already had too much going within the scene and the vary sound effects that it would have just being a distraction for the audience from the actual happening.