Script - 'Stalked'

Here's a short script that I have made that I will be giving to Wakisa on the day to learn in order for him to learn his lines for his part.

Colour Correction

To make my film more of a nordic noir look, I will have to bring the colours down and make them all equal. As you can see from my film shots, on the day that I filmed was really bright so while I was editing, along the way I was brought all the colours down.

My aim for the colour is to make it blue and darkish to make it look more realistic like any other noir programmes/films. On premiere pro, I set the same colour correction for each video.

For basic correction, I have made the temperature all the way down to -60 for a nice blue effect to each video with a little bit of tint. For around the edges for that darker look, I used vignette and brought the amount down which gives that nice look to each video.

By trying my hardest using and figuring our the colour correction to get that slight noir look, I am happy on the way it has turned out for each video shown.

Music used in my Film

Music and Sound Used

Wakisa, who play's the detective in my film, goes to university in London to study music as he is into and hoping to be high up on becoming a DJ. He basically sat down and went through each track that were copy right free that he had access to from a website to choose the right music to go with my film. From the track that he chose and what I used within my film, I was very happy and I think it goes great with the film and also it tell's the story and the tension. He also helped me with the sound effects to make it more realistic.

Finished Version

Final Edit

I have finally finished making my film and in my opinion I am proud of how it's all turned out. As I am not used to editing on premiere pro, I'm not use to it and I would have to say that's my weakness throughout this whole assignment. I used and looked up tutorials on You Tube to help me a lot to edit and it was very useful to watch. What I felt that was hard was to do the colour correction on to the videos as I wanted it to make it look blue and dark to set the scene and the mood of the nordic noir. I had help from my friend who played detective and he gave me music ideas to use and put in as he had access from a website for copy right free music also he already made his own sound effects which I added in also. There are many things I need to improve on which is my editing skills and to become better at it, my aim is to make some short films on anything over the summer holidays and start to edit it my self and try out different effects and things that I don't know which could improve my film for next year in year 2 and year 3.

I enjoyed this project but I started off to a slow start due to lack of confidence on working on my own as I prefer group work and also not use to making films, but this has helped me gain more confidence in my self and giving me more understand that I had before.

Some Film Shots of the Location

This evening, I went down the Gnoll Park to start taking some shots to show in the film my location of where it's going to be taken. The still shots I screenshotted from my video underneath show some shots of the lake and it's surrounding's. I'm not a huge fan of these shots, as my original plan was to film in the evening but as you can see, the shots are really dark and can't see much. If I film towards the evening, then it would be too dark to see anything so it wouldn't work. So now my new plan is to film towards the afternoon.

Plan - Camera Shots

Plan

Camera shots ( Rough Ideas!)

- Low angle shots of feet walking of the detective
- Mid shots/ Close up of detective on phone
- Long shot or hand held of the dead body of the girl
- Panning shots/Close ups/mid/long shots of the location (Gnoll Park)
- Few different camera angles on the girl close/mid/over the shoulder shots
- Long shot of her walking away
- Point of View shot from the bushes of the stalker
- Low angle shot of the girl picking up her bag from the floor, looking up to her
- Over the shoulder shot of the stalker following her from behind
- Long shot of them both running
- Point of view shot from both stalker and girl
- Close up shots to show emotion


I have made a list of the shots I want to take while I am filming. Hopefully these shots will go to plan and also I may add in more different shots along the way.

Plan - Story

Plan - Story

A young adult called Jennifer, relaxes and spends most of her time outdoors to read and to write in her diary about her day in her local park. She hears something near to her so she panics and starts to walk away to go home. The stalker, Charlier, is watching her closely from the bushes as she walks past him. As she panics she drops her bag on the floor, when she stands back up, the stalker is behind and following her closely. Jennifer turns around, see's him and runs as fast as she can, scared. Jennifer tries to run away, panics and ends up running to a dead end. The stalker walks slowly down towards her and then it ends there. The following morning, Detective Reilly finds the body of Jennifer and phones his boss to bring everyone down to look into this murder and find the killer.

I wanted this story to be simple and original to make for my first film and with all the ideas I have got, hopefully it will all go to plan and turns out good for my first piece.

This first part is a flashback, so I am first going to start off with the detective finding the body of Jennifer and then it will cut to saying '13 hours ago' to let the audience know that this is a flash back of what happened to Jennifer. I was inspired by ITV new show Marcella and the first opening scene of the programme starts off with Marcella in the bath covered in blood looking confused then cuts telling the audience what happened three days earlier so that where I copied and took some ideas from.