Preliminary Task: What to do?

In our lessons we have been creating a storyboard for our preliminary task, we have decided to make a thriller themed short film. We were inspired by different films and TV shows such as Pretty Little Liars. We had to create different scenes showing different shots, this is a brief idea of what we are wanting to do, however as we will film we may change some ideas if there are any difficulties such as getting a car scene into the Skegby Trail. We then added our photos of the storyboard onto Adobe Premiere Pro to create an animatic to post onto YouTube which is now linked down below for you to watch, the video has been edited so that the timing shows how long our scenes estimated should last so that the film doesn't go over 3 minutes.


Clothing
The plan for our preliminary task is to make our video seem as natural as possible, however we did plan how we wanted our suspect to look. Suspects usually wear dark clothing and have their face hidden to keep their identity as a mystery, therefore we decided to organise for our filming to get the suspect to wear black jeans and a black coat, we wanted the suspect to also wear a hoodie or a hooded coat to try to hide the suspects face. Whereas for the victims clothing we did not want to organise what we want him to wear purely because it would have looked too organised, if this situation was to happen in real life then they would be wearing anything comfortable, therefore we told the victim to wear something he liked to show off his personality in the film.
Location
For our kidnapping scene we chose Stoneyford Rec as we wanted the film to look natural showing a park and people in the background, Skegby Trail is the location we will mainly be using, the long trail is very bright surrounded by a small forest which then leads into a forest including a stream, we thought this would be perfect for our idea to drop the child there.
Music
We decided we wanted to have a voice over throughout our film to explain what the story is about and why it is happening. We also planned on wanting music in our film, we wanted some slow but not too slow with good beats to match the actions and something that was slightly tense, we ended up hearing a song on an advert on YouTube in one of our lessons which we recognised and ended up Shazaming it to remember what it was, the song was The XX-Intro and we decided to use this for the task.