Scripts of Actors for Audition Tape

Phillip North Script for Audition: 

"You don't deserve to live, neither did all of the other girls, none of you understand, none of you get why you're here. You have a lesson you need to learn. Now, smile for the camera."

Isabelle Matthews Script for Audition:

"Why are you doing this? Please. Just stop! Just let me go! I can help you! They know who you are, and they know what you've done... I can help you if you just let me go! You know he's coming for me, and once he's got me, he'll be coming for you."

Orlando Turner Script for Audition:

"OK, we can let him outsmart us, we're not falling for it again. I want the located by this evening and we're moving in. I want the best team you can find. Prepare yourselves."

Blinking shots

This shot is near the very end of the title sequence, where i wanted it to be a point of view shot of her opening her eyes, we first of all tried it to see if it worked, we then put the camera on its side as thats how she would be and then tried it upright but made the papers upright too so it made the camera still seem as though it was on its side so I could see which one would be the best, I realised that the blinking would need to be faster and as that's naturalistic but also as it creates the blurred vision I want before it focuses on what's ahead, obviously in these shots as they are practise it hasn't got what is set to be infront of it actually infront of it.

Practise shots

This is just a small selection of shots from the practise for the filming.

This shot is a practise shot of the lighting movement for my opening, we were quick to realise that this lighting however may not work in the way in which we wanted it to as the room was not dark enough and the lighting was too strong and didnt move in the way in which we thought it would, however since, I have been practising different ways of using the light to create this effect. Also the floor and the curtains behind Beth do not look right in the background it doesnt suit what i am trying to achieve. So I need to move this into a different place that suits what I am trying to achieve. However the acting within this is exactly as I had hoped.

In this video clip, the camera is meant to be the person who has just enetered the room, the camera work was slightly off and wobbly at points. This will obviously be a problem that will be rectified when I redo this in the appropriate space.

This video is the same as the previous but this is using the zooming in button. We realised this doesn't give the same terrifying and intimidating feeling that we get from feeling as though we're walking towards her.

This shot is going back to the tracking shot but with the lighting too, when it comes to doing it properly, the lighting will be alot slower and there will be sound effects letting you know someone has entered and then you would understand you had become the person that has just come in.

This shot is meant to be of him filming whats going on, due to the block of lighting throughout the shot it made the camera focus and unfocus too much and the shot wasn't great, so I had learnt that it would be better to do a really well lit set and use the computer to darken the shot rather than have a dimly lit set and have a bad camera shot.

Story Board

Lighting and Reflector Experiments

In all of these lighting experiments, unfortunately the room wasn't dark enough for me to fully show and experiment the kind of thing I would of liked to, but I know in my actual production I have the space and darkness I need to execute the kind of filming I need to. For example, the first video of the lighting slowly creeping across the floor is something I am actually doing in my film, the camera wont be moving with the light, instead it would be fixated in a place you are able to see everything, the reason for me having to follow the light is because the room itself was so light you would not fully understand the point of the lighting experiment. However I know it will work well for my production. The rest are just general experiments to show I know how to create different affects with the lighting and reflectors.

Production Company Research

Production Companies

For my title sequence I needed to research production companies so I could find the appropriate production company to put into my work. I was looking for a relatively small production company but something that doesn’t do just low budget productions as I believe my film would not come under low budget. However neither would it be a huge budget film. By doing this I have also widened by understanding of the overall film industry.

 

 New Line Film Productions Inc. often referred to as New Line Cinema was founded in 1967 by Robert Shaye and Michael Lynne in New York and are now part of the Warner Brothers Label since 2008. They are responsible for the making of such films as Rush Hour, Se7en and Deep Cover. I do not however, believe that my film would be made by his company as they are too high budget.

Paramount Pictures based in Hollywood, US was founded in 1912. It created such films as Indiana Jones, Mission Impossible and The Godfather. Although these films are the same kind of genres as mine, my film would not be created by such a huge budget production company, so these would not be my chosen production company.

Working Title Films is based in London, UK. It was founded by Tim Bevan and Sarah Radclyffe in 1983. They have created such works as, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Shaun of the Dead and Les Miserables. Although they are the closest and most convenient, I don’t believe this production company would be my best option as they don’t seem to specialise in the kind of film I want to produce as they haven’t done much like it before.

 

Europa Corp. – French Production Company founded in 2000 by Luc Besson and Pierre-Ange Le Pogam, they have made movies such Taken, Taken 2, Colombiana and From Paris With Love. Although they are a French Production company, I think they would be the best for my film, obviously the standard of title sequence I will create will not be half as good as what it could be if I had the equipment that they do, but the story line seems along the lines of the type of film they would produce and have a lot of experience in the genre I have chosen, plus they’re not as big as other production companies, in fact they are quite small compared to the others, it just so happens that a few of their movies have gotten a tremendous amount of support. So because of this I think they would be perfect for my film because it wouldn’t be a small low budget film, but it also would never be on the scale of the production companies above.

Establishing Conventions of my Genre & The Order of the Titles

Establishing Conventions of my Genre

By doing the relevant research such as my deconstructions of opening title sequences I was able to establish the typical conventions of my genre. For example in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Vantage Point, Sherlock Holmes and Red Lights all use weaponry within their title sequences, such as guns, this was a typical convention for any spy/action/thriller film, this is what the audience expect to see and what helps them to distinguish the genre of a film when watching it. I also noticed the music in all of these title sequences, plus Psycho, The Driver, This Means War and Cargo were all quite low and typically quite scary that makes you nervous, with higher notes every now and again to keep you focused on what is going on or to draw your attention to something, but also to scare you. They also in most cases use a fast past to show that its thrilling and full of action, which is again, what you would expect. I also noticed that in most of them there was not a lot of colour, except red and oranges and the typical blacks, greys and white. This again is expected as it shows how they try to blend in and how they are then able to highlight things by using bright colours. By establishing the types of props used, the characters that are within them, the typical scenery, the font, music, colours and lighting that are used within these I think that I know what people will expect to see and how to subtly connote and convey the genre of my film within the title sequence. I think by doing these deconstructions, general research and audience research I was able to come up with a clear idea of how to use these to improve my own ideas and get across my genre clearly.

Order of Titles

The opening sequences I looked at unfortunately don’t actually use a specific way in which they have their title sequences appear except for the motion picture companies followed by the production company, these 9/10 came first. As this was the only thing my title sequences had shown to have in common I decided to research how titles were supposed to appear on the screen through a title sequence. From the research I did I found that usually they are put in place to signify their importance, so, as I previously stated, in 9/10 of the titles I had deconstructed began with the motion picture company, followed by the production company, this is also what I had found in my research, that it is more than likely these will be the first things you will see as they are likely to be the things you recognise, e.g. Warner Brothers being the big motion picture. The director is usually next, then any A-Listing celebrities, the title of the movie and then the rest of the principle cast such as the composer, costume designer, film editor, production designer and so on. By knowing this I am able to fit my titles in the way in which I believe it should be set out using this as a guideline. For example my actors are not major so would come after the title rather than before.