Movie Pitch

A few days ago we made a pitch to a Media technician Micky and one of our teachers, Annabel regarding our title movie sequence for a thriller film. We tried on various attempts to upload our video of our pitch and our presentation but we were faced with technical difficulties.

The title of our movie that we have decided was 'Inbetween' which we thought would be good for the type of movie that we wanted to produce. We then chose a subgenre for our film to fit into and we all decided that it would be a supernatural and psychological thriller as we all have some sort of interest in this genre of film.

Our original idea before we had the upset with TFL was to film at Totteridge and Whetstone station in North London with a female leaving a male, going on a trip. We see them say their goodbyes then we follow the female onto the platform. We watch and watch for a few seconds, which we manuplicate to be a longer time, as no train appears to be coming she gets worried. We then see her receive a phone call and she smiles when she sees that it is coming from her husband. But we see the smile melt away as she hears distressing noises in the background of him begging her to come home. After this she then runs down the road, with the camera staying still and her running into the distance.

Our planned original location is Totteridge And Whetstone Station on the Northern Line (London Underground).

We plan to only use two props; a suitcase and a mobile phone. The mobile phone would belong to one person of the group, and I (Harry) have a large black suitcase that we would be using. Regarding to the costume, we are trying to portray young adults in their early twenties wearing casual but smart clothes. For our Mes en Scene, we are filming at Totteridge station which from what i have told the group (since i live in Totteridge) that it is often isolated which does lead in our favor. We will then not film individuals that do not want to be filmed which allows us to stay on the right side of the law. Another reason is that as it is isolated it allows to us to portray exactly what we want to do in our film, which is make her feel venerable.

Our basic sound ideas is that we think we would use a wild-track and soundtrack to finish off our piece. We want it to sound creepy and sad but to fit well with our piece. We want it to start off low but to fit with the word that appear on screen.

Production schedule - this is exactly how we plan to film our project..

Saturday 6th of March - We filmed the first part of film

Wednesday 10th March - Filming

Friday 12th March - Full Filming session

Wed 17th March - Begin Sound track and upload and start editing film

Friday 19th March - Film missing or bad footage and begin our full edit.

I will keep the blog up to date with all our filming requirements and how the shoots go.

The most obvious risk that we would face of filming on a train station would be to mind the gap that the trains pass in. We are not able to go onto the track at any point. We understand that if OCR view anything which they feel to have put us at risk they will not mark us and our paper will get canceled. We also have to watch when people are on the station with our tripod as people can be tripped up!