Section 10: Editing Diary

07/01/2011

Today we began to cut out each shot and move it onto a clear location on the timeline so that they will be easier to find when it comes to the edit. I have also been through every take of each shot decided which was best and cut out the bad shots. I did this by stopping the film at the start of each shot then isolating the 1 good take then using the razor tool to cut it out. Then I selected the chosen shot and moved it up onto a bar so that i could easily see which shot is which.

07/01/2011

I have finished cutting each scene and editing out the bad takes. Next I will begin to blend each shot together in order to make the movement of the whole film consistent. Also i have noticed that in some shots the tripod we used has been left out. I plan on cropping the image to rectify this mistake. I have now edited out all of the shots ware the tripod in shot. In future I will make sure I levee all equipment behind the camera.

10/01/2011

I have finished the rough edit so now I will cut down each shot to make sure the characters have smooth movements. I’ve now done half of this and so far I am very happy with the results.

11/01/2011

I am continuing editing the shots so that the whole film is smooth and has no continuity errors. I should get this stage of editing finished by today then I can add effects.

12/01/2011

 Today I’m continuing to make the film more fluent. I have now finished the major part of the editing process all I need to do now is add in the split shots of the map then I can add effects. I have finished adding in the split shots of the map. I may re-do some of this at a later date and make it completely accurate to the story board.  

14/01/2011

Last lesson we added a soundtrack to the project. The music was not long enough so i have cut and looped the end of the audio. This still isn’t synched perfectly so i intent to alter it some more at some point. Today i plan on adding different fades and dissolves to the project.

17/01/2011

Last time I added several dissolves including fades to black and cross dissolves. I also spent a long time looking at the audio bar finding the perfect places to cut the music so that the listener cannot tell that it has been looped. I am very happy with the result and also how the music flows nicely with the visual as well as the transitions and fades being well synched with the visual. Today I completely finished the visual editing by adding one final cross fade on the last shot and sharpening some shots that earlier I had previously zoomed into to cover continuity errors. Today I added the titles and added effects to them causing them to dissolve in and out of the shots. The edit process should now be complete though I am considering making the final shot cut to a title screen instead of the 1^st shot of the film which was the original idea.

Section 10: Video Log Sheets

Section 9: Production Schedule

The antagonsists costume was a long, black, theater cloak that provided an air of mystery - it did not show any figure or give away any indication of gender, which was intended. We tied two red ribbons to the side of a theater mask to cover the eyes, and felt this was appropriate because it symbolises the plainness of the character at this stage, and also represented the name of the film well. We also used big, heavy work boots to complete the costume - this would add an echo of footsteps to the thriller.

We used a giant road map of Manchester for the map piece, and painted on it with Games Workshop Blood Red paint to resemble the blood, you don't get any points for figuring out why. We used pictures off Facebook from various people (Who we had the permission off) and then painted on them the represent the victims.

We used tools and scenery such as the table and the stanley knife from Paul's garage, with his permission. Items such as the lighter on the table represent a dangerous, fiery personality.

Because their was alot of equipment we needed it took about a week to get all of the equipment ready, at 2:00pm we were all at the location and were prepared to film, we filmed for 4 hours as we wanted high quality shots. We finished filiming at approximatley 6:00Pm.

Section 8: Production Material

Section 7: Recce And Location Sheets

We will be filming on Hereford Close. Their are no dangers where we are filming because it is a close, therefore not many cars will be around, we will be filming in a friends garage as it creates an old and spooky atmosphere. We will be filming in different rooms of his house. We will film the shots of the antagonist in his garage.

Section 6: Character Outlines and Shooting Script

Character Outlines

Name: Rosie Harven

Age: 26

Height: 5ft 5

Appearance: Red hair, green eyes, pale skin

The History behind Rosie begins with her career as a primary school teacher. Rosie is a successful 26 year old girl who loves kids and has an overall brilliant personality. Things begin to change when she finds herself falling in love with a guy who abuses her. Rosie is too scared to confront him, and therefore takes it out on the children. Due to her unacceptable behaviour towards the children, Rosie is fired immediately. Rosie can not take any more of life and decides it is time to take revenge.

Name: Martin Hallwood

Age: 33

Height: 6ft 3

Appearance: Brown hair, brown eyes

Martin Hallwood is the manager at hallwood appliances. He is a very successful man though he has a problem with medication abuse. A memory from the past comes back to torture Martin as his ex girlfriend who he used to abuse during their relationship comes back for revenge.

Name:  Kirsty Hallwood

Age: 28

Height: 5ft 6

Appearance: Blonde hair, brown eyes, has a  weathered look.

Kirsty has had it rough. She never got along with her family and ended up getting thrown on the streets, her parents thought she was too disturbed to be part of the family. In school she was bullied for her gothic appearance and went through a phase of self harming whilst also drawing pictures of her killing her fellow class mates and posting threatening letters through their lockers. Kirsty has been a disturbed person ever since.

Shooting Script

Film starts with Black Screen [Opening credits [[Just “Boss Level productions]] fade in and roll from side of screen ] which fades into the main antagonist [wearing a hooded top] looking at a giant map with the camera situated behind him. At this point, we are not sure who the antagonist is. The mysterious figure shadily places a picture of a figure [First victim although we do not know this yet] onto the map. The character then walks to the table. The shot switches to the back of the antagonist partially revealing their face but we still do not have any clear indication who this character is. The shot cuts to a close up of the picture that he has just placed on the map with the surrounding map behind it [[Credits of the first actor flies in from the right, stays in the top right corner for a few seconds, then exits to the left]]

The shot switches to a worm eye view of the antagonist’s front, partially revealing his/her face under the hooded top, but he/she quickly turns away so nothing is revealed. The next shot shows the antagonist walking across the room, with the camera pedding from the shoulders down to their feet. The next shot is from under the table [[Low Shot]] and shows the antagonist walking towards it. We do not see the upper section of the body.

Shot 9 is a medium shot from the view of the antagonists eyes onto his workshop where he appears to be developing photos of other people similar to the first. Red light shines on the table so we know this involves photo development.

Shot 10 is a close up of the map [[At this point, similar to the first credit the 2^nd credit comes in from the left, pauses in the bottom left corner of the screen and exits to the right of the screen]] with the camera crabbing to the next picture.

 Shot 11 is an eye level mid shot of the antagonist slowly taking their glove off and setting it on the table.

Shot 12 is an extra close up [[canted angle]] of the pictures on the desk. Shot 13 is similar to shot 11 but with the opposite glove.

Shot 14 is a birds eye view of the table [[Mid Long Shot]] and during it, the antagonist calmly sets his/her gloves on the table.

Shot 15 is also a canted shot but of the knife upon the table. From the side of the light, the hand comes in and picks up the knife, obscuring shot, make sure sound of knife moving is heard.

Shot 16: Long shot of antagonist from behind, standing at the table. Antagonist is moving his hands in front of him as though arranging something on the table.

Shot 17: Mid shot of the antagonist holding the knife and moving hands and body into position at the desk – we do not know why yet. We do not see their face and they are obscured waist down by the table.

Shot 18: This one is a high angled mid long shot that is keeping track of the antagonist at the table.  Everything past the table will be blurred out of focus.

Shot 19: An extra close up of the antagonists eyes through the mask, eyes are locked in concentration and appear to be looking down.

Shot 20: Close up of the map we saw before. Camera crabs through each picture so we can see the edits by paint to the pictures. It is not revealed who we are or what has happened to them. Creators name in subtitle form comes in from the bottom right and exits bottom left.

Shot 21: Over the shoulder mid shot – we can see the items on the table and the hand movements of the protagonist, who is preparing to use the knife.

Shot 22: Extra close up of the ruller lining up against the picture, items are clearly seen.

Shot 23: Extra close up of the knife slicing straight down the picture.

Shot 24: Mid long shot, the camera crabs from right to left with the antagonist out of shot so we get a good view of the room. We see the antagonist cutting the next line.

Shot 25: An extra close up of the cut the antagonist has just made in the picture.

Shot 26: Mid close up of the antagonist lining up the ruler to make the next cut.  The arm with the knife swings down out of shot so we no longer see the knife or the hand.

Shot 27: Mid close up from the front of the table, we see antagonist preparing to cut the bottom line. Antagonists starts to do so, switch to shot 28 at this point.

Shot 28: A medium close up so we can see all of the antagonist’s facial features except the very top of the head as this is partially obscured by the hood. The antagonist bites lip – shows signs of worry and nerves.

Shot 29: A worms eye long shot from the characters left. We can see their full body except the shoes and the face which are covered. We can see what the antagonist is doing on the table.

Shot 30: Close up of the bottom of the map – camera crabs between the pictures in the lower section. Jake’s name in subtitles enters top left and exits top right.

Shot 31: Mid long shot birds eye view over the table, we see antagonist cutting the final line from the picture.

Shot 32: A mid close up of the cut out picture, Hand holding knife sweeps across the screen from left to right.

Shot 33: Mid shot from the front of the table that shows the antagonist carefully removing the excess paper from around the picture.

Shot 34: A close up of the paint pot next to the glass of water, camera pans right as the antagonist opens it.

Shot 35: A close up of a paint brush being pulled out of the pot. We do not see too much of the hand and the focus is on the pot.

Shot 36: Mid close up of the paint pot. We see the brush being dipped in and pulled out.    

Shot 37: Mid long shot over the shoulder of the paint brush stabbing into the picture. We can see the details of the table.

Shot 38: Extra close up of the picture just come out. Antagonist paints a red cross across the targets face – we do not see the picture clearly at this point.

Shot 39: Mid shot close up of glass of water. Antagonist stirs the brush in the ater and it turns red – shot lingers on the red water for a second.

Shot 40: Mid long shot of the table. Antagonist leans in and brings the photo up towards her nose.

Shot 41: Mid long shots from behind the table – antagonist turns away and walks towards the map in the background.

Shot 42: Mid long shot of the antagonist walking to camera left. Camera crabs with her over to the left.

Shot 43: Mid long shot from eye level, antagonist comes to stand by the map.

Shot 44: Mid over the shoulder, we see the antagonist placing the picture on the map.

Shot 45: Close up of the antagonists face, background is blurred out, we see the antagonist smile.

Shot 46: Close up of the map. Camera crabs to the newly placed picture and it zooms in so we can completely see the picture. The picture fades into shot 47 –

Shot 47: Mid close up at eye level, shot 46 fades into a shot of the protagonist and then fades to black.

Section 5: Treatment

Beginning

The film starts with a Mysterious person placing points onto a map of a city, which is attached to the wall.  Currently the viewer does not know who this character is or whether they are male or female as their entire body is covered in dark clothing and a hood covers their head along with a plain white mask. The only visible points of skin are the characters hands and jaw but these are indistinct. The shady character adds another photograph to the map to complete a total of six pictures. The latest picture placed onto the picture is then revealed to be the main Protagonist, Martin Hallwood. Martin is at work in a high industry office building. Martin looks stressed and undoes his tie sighing in frustration. He then opens the top drawer of his desk and takes out a bottle of unmarked pills. Martin takes one of these pills and throws the bottle back into his drawer. He notices an envelope in his drawer that he hadn’t noticed before. He picks up a blunt paper opener from off of his desk and slits open the top of the envelope. He reaches into the envelope and pulls out a photograph. The photograph depicts his sister, Kirsty in a dark room tied to chair. She sits there bruised with her hands and feet bound to the seat and a thick rope gag in her mouth. Nothing in the picture gives any hint to her location and the only writing within the picture is written on her gag and reads simply the word HELP. Gasps at the sight of the picture and starts to breathe deeply. Flipping the picture over, he finds those words on the back of it and a small section of map has been attached also. He glances at the map and sees an area of an old estate with a park in the centre. A red ex marks one of the houses next to the park. The same red paint is used to write a message below it reads. “5:00pm come alone. Hurry Martin” his breathing gets deeper and he begins to hyperventilate. His hand drops the picture onto his desk in a panic and scrambles back into his top draw. He rummages in the draw franticly and takes out the bottle of pills. Opening them he quickly swallows one and his breathing starts to calm. He picks up the picture again examining the righting on the back. He looks at the clock on his desk that reads 4:26pm. Time seems to slow and the tick of the clock becomes a pounding in his head. He rapidly grabs the expensive suit jacket that had been carefully placed on the back of his chair and runs out of his office. The door swings open as martin runs through it causing the whole office to stare at him. The office is a large room with plain white walls and the workers cubicles take up most of the room. He sprints towards the map on the far side of the room passing several cubicles in which his subordinates are working but some of them rise from there work to see what’s happening. He almost runs into the map on the far side of the wall in his hurry. He places the backside of the photograph against the map and moves it around quickly scanning the map for a match. He continues to do this until he finds a perfect match in the top right of the map. He places the segment on from the photo over the larger map and writes down the address of the building marked with the red ex. He put on his suit jacket which looks expensive and runs into the elevator. He taps his toes urgently waiting for the elevator to descend to the bottom floor. The other people in the lift stare at him seeing this behaviour as out of sort.

Middle  Part 1.

The lift arrives and martin urgently walks over to his personal car. The driver speaks in a muffled voice from behind the tinted glass “where to sir?” “Ranvenscroft lane” martin replies sitting whilst getting into the back of the car. The drive seems to last forever and martin constantly checks his watch and taps his foot anxiously. Finally the driver declares that they have arrived and martin lowers the window and scans around to see if anyone is waiting for him. The coast looks clear so he exits the car still looking around. He walks over the small grassy are that Ravenscroft is built around. As he walks cautiously he checks his watch. 4:48pm “not long left” he remarks to himself. His pace quickens and he arrives at the door of the marked building. It is an abandoned council house. The windows have been boarded up and the brickwork is covered in graphity. The front door is plain black with the paintwork pealing down its centre. A large red cross is painted over the door. Martin raises his hand, slowly turns the handle and enters.

 He flicks a light switch on the wall but there are no bulbs left in the lights. The interior is bare and caked in dust. He walks through the room slowly the floorboards creaking below him with every step. He pushes through the clouds of dust that billow around the room while the slits of light burst through the slits of the windows and cross the room. At the other end of the room lies a door broken and hanging limply from its hinges. He hears a rustling from behind the door and he gasps and pauses for a step. He presses forward towards the door reluctantly. The rustling behind the door grows louder. Martin reaches the door and bends down to pick up a wooden board that has broken off of the door frame. He grasps it tightly in his hand, takes a deep breath and throws the door aside.  As he does so a tide of rats run from the room ahead of him swarming over his feet. Martin winces and shakes the wood at them. “Little bastards” he says buffing his shoes against each other. He enters a hall way. Long and narrow with every exit boarded off. Something sits at the end of the corridor covered in a long flowing white cloth that trails to the floor. He approaches it slowly with his weapon raised. It’s hard to make sense of the shape of it through the thick layer of dust but eventually martin can discern that it is a piece of covered furniture.

“Kirsty?” he reluctantly asks the vacant sheet but there is no reply. He reaches down and grabs the bottom of the sheet with his left hand while raising his weapon with the right. He rips the sheet away to reveal what’s below. Lying beneath the sheet is an old chair and what remains of a man. The corpse has been torn and bitten by the vermin living in this house. The only non-grotesque feature is a sleek white mask placed over his face. Martin reels back and begins to gasp for air. He drops the wooden board as he falls to his knees. Martin’s vision goes hazy and he whites out (faints)

After he faints martin has a series of short flashback. They depict a series of white rooms that are hazed although they were within a storm. In this flashback martin sees himself in 1^st person. A figure lies on the floor in front of him she has no features is completely white and has no face only dark eyes. By her hair and figure you can tell that the figure is female. The figure on the floor weeps into her hands then looks up her face streaming with black tears she cried “no more!” in an otherworldly voice. Martin’s character then looks at his own hand which is completely black and featureless and swings at the girl on the floor. Just before the blow makes contact the image flashes white and martin regains consciousness.

Still gasping for air martin rummages in his pockets franticly searching for his bottle of pills. He grabs the bottle and takes 2 of the pills. His breathing slowly becomes normal once again. He takes a silk handkerchief out and hesitantly looks up at the body. He rises to his feet whilst covering his mouth with the handkerchief and closely inspects the body. His hands had been nailed to the chair and his feet to the floor. His body is so ravaged that there is no way martin can tell who it is. Then he notices the glasses wresting on the bodies lap. Martin’s shoulders sink as he realises this is the body of his friend. “Louie” he sighs. He picks up the glasses and finds that words have been painted on the lenses that read Orion Hardware 6:00pm. Martin turns away from the body and starts to walk away as his mobile phone starts to ring. He pulls the phone from his top pocket and answers it. “Hello?” he asks.  The voice that answers is the voice of a little girl “Ringer ringer Rosie, get it?” “Who is this!” martin shouts down the phone. “Your fired!” the girl reply’s as the phone goes dead. A beep starts to come from the body. Martin notices a red light coming from behind the mask. He pulls the mask off to show a digital timer counting down inside the mouth of the body. 45.44.43.42.41. The timer counts down. Martin drops the mask and runs towards the door. He reaches the exit and runs away onto the grass. Turning back he sees the house silent then a small explosion as flames begin to lick through the windows. Martin looks at his watch which tells him its 5:22pm. He runs across the field and into his car. “What the hell happened?” the driver behind the screen asks. “Nothing! Take me to Orion hardware and be quick about it!” martin replies. The car pulls away down the street.

The film cuts to 2 hours later where Martin is in the library trying to match up the tiny peace of torn map with a large map of the area. He discovers a boomerang shaped public park fits the shape of the mini map almost perfectly; this must be the location where his Kirsty is being held captive. He rushes to the park and eventually does not find his sister Kirsty but in the bushes finds a 60 year old woman dead with a mask on her face. On the mask is a photo is another piece of the map and another timer, these Martin will then go to the next location and try and find his sister. When he arrives at a location he is always late as the victim has already been murdered whenever he gets there. He always works alone in going to the next place as if he notifiys the police, His sister will be killed. In many occurrences he is being blackmailed into things he does not want to do and he must do this to keep his sister alive. The different crime scenes consist of an apartment, a park, a sewer, in the boot of a car, the library where he does his research, and his office. The victim will be a random individual each time. Each victim will be wearing a different mask and when he finds a victim, flashbacks will appear of a man and a woman but will never show their faces, it can be from the mans point of view or the womans and in each flashback the man is always abusing her both physically and verbally; this is slowly damaging the mind of the woman making her mentally ill and unstable. Often another woman who is about 10 years older joins in with the vicious abuse, slamming her head against the wall, pouring boiling water over her etc. This only happens when the man touches the mask. When Martin finds each victim the setting is always night time.

End

Near the end of the film Martin recieves a piece of map which resembles the business he works in. He searches everywhere and finds the victim in his office, he touches the map but this time no flashback occurs, he hears a scream from the another room but when he tries to escape his office its locked; he’s trapped in. He tries the window but that is locked aswell, his office is the securist room in the building as it has the store safe in there. Martin tries desperatley to get out but cannot; the same figure who put the first envelope on his desk comes up to the glass paned door. At this point is furious but nervous at the same time, the mysterious figure talks about how he was that angry in the old days and how martin has received revenge. Martin is dumbfounded and shocked; he becames more nervous and starts muttering to himself. The mysterious figure takes its hat off and turns on the lights. To Martins horror its his ex-girlfriend Rosie, immediatley another flashback occurs of him and his sister seriously abusing Rosie but this time the vision of their faces is much clearer. The Protagonist Martin is actually the villain that used to abuse her. Suddenly the vision stops and he sees his sister tied to a chair with a grenade in her mouth with the pin pulled; the grenade is not going off only because she is biting it. Martin is blackmailed to do many torturous things to himself. After putting Martin through the torture that he gave her she slowly takes the grenade out of Kirsty’s mouth, both Martin and Kirsty are screaming as it goes into slow motion. A raging explosion occurs killing Rosie and his sister. Martin is shocked! He breaks down into tears in his protective office. He spends the next 2 days depressed; taking the overdoses of theanger management pills he took at the start. Reverted to drinking when eventually his assistant finds him hung in his office.