SUMMARY
Role
Director
Intention (SMART Goal)
By February 24th as part of my team, I will use directing elements of mise en scene to evoke an eerie mood.
Logline: someone forgets to take their medication and goes crazy
PRE-PRODUCTION – INQUIRY
Leader(s) in the Field / Exemplary Work(s)
Bong Joon Ho is a South Korean film director best known for his film Parasite. Ho is known for his long takes with multiple events happening on screen and being able to show them all. Winning three academy awards, Ho is an impressive director.
Darren Aronofsky directed Black Swan a psychological thriller. “Frequently uses a technique known as the hip-hop montage, which is a sequence of images or actions shown in fast-motion with accompanying sound effects, usually shown to simulate a certain action, such as taking drugs” (IMDb).
Directing techniques of Darren Aronofsky
Training Source(s)
https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/what-is-an-extreme-long-shot/
Project Timeline
Pre-production
- Brainstorm ideas
- research
- Create storyboard
- Write screenplay
- Decide on a location and character roles
- Gather/make props, costumes, equipment
Production
- Set up shots
- Prepare blocking for each scene
- Film all scenes
- Record all sounds/dialogue and create music
Post Production
- Put all recordings for audio and video in shared Google Drive folder
- Label final shots
- Decide which scenes to keep, get rid of, or re-shoot
- Transfer audio and clips into Premiere Pro
- Put clips in order and make all edits
- Put audio in and sync up to video
- Make all finishing touches
- Export final film
Evidence of Team Planning and Decisions
- quick cuts in the beginning of film to show the repetition of the routine
- fast motion for driving scene
- quick shots for hallucinations
- close up shots for conveying the emotion of the main character and to kind of “see the craziness” in their eyes
- tracking shots for walking and running
- voice muffling for break up scene
- ADR for voices heard in the main characters head
Story Telling Elements
- breaking the third wall with eye contact to set a psychological and creepy mood
- quick cuts to focus less on tasks and more on what they imply
- tracking shots to immerse the audience into the film
- quick cuts to mimmick hallucinations
- emotion of main characters face will be distinct and peculiar
- location will be eerie to set the mood
Film Vision
When deciding on this film, my team knew we wanted to make a somewhat psychological thriller, but we also didn’t want it to have any kind of fantasy playing a part. We decided on the skipping of medication because this is something that an audience could see happening which is what makes it so off putting. We know we wanted to make our film really peculiar and off putting as well as have the ending be the main character going into the water in order to “snap out of it” since water can be a symbol for purness and cleansing.
Genre
Psychological thriller
Locations
Evergreen forest, Merja’s house, Old School Pizzaria, downtown Olympia, Evergreen beach