Monday 28th February 2022
Films which include a psycho wife
Monday 28th February 2022
Films which include a psycho wife
Mon 7th Feb 2022
Editing our two sequences
Thurs 24th Feb 2022
Completed cast list
Cassie: Nicky Jones - the wife
Thomas: Adam Grant - the husband
Kate: Freya Soley - the husbands lover
The son: Teddy Gossage - the child
Wednesday 23rd Feb 2022
Finding Kate:
We were having trouble finding a teacher to play the part of Kate as many female teachers we either busy during the day or it was there day off. For Kate we wanted her to have brown hair as we wanted her to contrast Nikki's hair who is playing Cassie. We wanted Kate to look significantly younger than Cassie to show that the husband Thomas is cheating with younger ladies. Both Doug and I emailed lots of suitable people but they all weren't free because of different things. We were getting bit more stressed about it because it was getting closer to our shoot day and we new that we needed to find somebody soon. Luckily, my mum said even though she doesn't like being in front of a camera, she would step in and help if we couldn't find anyone. This would also be helpful as my brother would be on set as he is playing the child. I told Adam in the morning that I couldn't find someone and he said that he will also ask around to see if any of the other teachers would be keen.
Wed 9th Feb 2022
Last draft - shot by shot
- Wide shot of wife sitting on a wall looking directly forward but not into camera. She reaches into - her pocket and pulls out cigarettes
- Mid shot of her lighting the cigarette
- Close up of her inhaling
- Mid shot of her breathing the smoke out
- Back to wide shot of her sitting on the wall for a few seconds, she looks at her phone as she has a text message
- Mid shot of her looking at phone, in the left and the right composition of the frame, we edit the text messages from husband saying he's going out for the day with work
- wide shot of women walking down a road. in the right composition of the frame you see the husband and Kate.
- Wide shot directly facing the couple (side on), wife walks into the frame from the left side, she looks at the couple.
- When she walks past the couple, they disappear showing that's its in her imagination
- Close up of ladies face drinking from her wine glass, she looks over her left shoulder
- The scene then edits to a different location (her face is in the same place) and she's been killed
- wide shot of wife walking through graveyard she stops at a grave for a second
- close up of her emotionless face
- wide shot of wife walking straight on (towards the camera) heading to the cafe
- Mid shot of husband in café (filmed from outside of window), he passes a drink to a lady
- POV Shot then goes through the window into the café
- Camera pans to left to a mirror and in the reflection, you see the front of the wife holding her son
- Close up of the lady at the counter being killed; different angle from the previous death
- Back to POV from wife's view- the couple in the cafe have disappeared
- Back to wide shot of her sitting on the wall, staring into space (this is showing that she is spending loads of time thinking about it)
- Mid shot of her lighting a cigarette
- Mid shot of lady walking into a room (studio door or something)
- Close up of her face, she is about to be hit over the head with a bat
- Close up birds eye view shot of lady dead on ground. blue and red flashing light, in the bottom right composition of the frame you can see a bat swinging. (everything in slow motion)
Tue 8th Feb 2022
What was discussed in the meeting:
Today we had our third meeting with Adam and Tom. We talked about our new idea about the husband cheating on the wife. Tom explained that we have too many locations to film in one day. We agreed so we decided to narrow it down to locations in Shere. We think that we will only need to film in two or three outdoor locations which are the pub, the cafe and the graveyard. The only indoor location we would need is the studio as we want to produce an effective death scene. To mentioned to us that it would look very cool if we had the husbands lover tied up and beaten by the wife in the studio shoot. I thought that this would be such a good idea as it would create a surprise for the audience and I also know how to do SFX make up so I would love to have a go at this. We then, as a group, discussed wether we should go back to a previous idea and use LEDs for the studio shoot to add atmosphere. I thought that red LEDs would create a tense and scary atmosphere that we want to achieve. For the rest of the meeting we discussed casting, costume and locations as I new that we didn't want to leave it till last minute. We all collaborated and chose what each of us should prioritise so we make sure that we are all organised for the shoot day and also for our next meeting.
Final concept idea:
The scene will begin in Shere where are the audience will see a lady either driving or sitting on a wallMonday 6th Feb 2022
The location of Shere
Our initial idea from the start was to have a village location. In all three of our draft ideas we wanted to film in Shere as it is a location that is close to school and also has a few key shops in it. Our requirements for the place we want to film in has to include a pub, cafe and a bridge/wall. In Shere there are two pubs. One is the William Bray and the other the white horse. Preferably we want to film in the William Bray as it has an outside sitting area which is in front of the pub. Another thing that we think would be useful to have is the pub in walking distance from the cafe as in our first idea we had our main character walk from the pub to the cafe in a continuous shot. Preferably we wanted the cafe to have a big window at the front of it so we could film outside the cafe looking in. My grandma's friend owns Hilly's cafe which is perfectly in walking distance to the pub. The cafe also has a big window at the front of it which is perfect for our scene. For another location we want to film extra shots around Shere. Luckily Shere has a graveyard and a big wall so we can our protagonist sitting on it. The graveyard is very effective as the genre of our title sequence is crime and drama which gives the audience more anticipation for the rest of the film. The graveyard in winter also is covered in frost which will look cool on camera. Another extra scene we want is a shot of the wife sitting on a wall smoking by herself. Shere has many walls which would work for this shot as Shere is in the middle of the countryside. On shoot day we have a few ideas of which wall we want to film old but the one we choose is dependent on the weather and how busy the village is on.
This is a screen recording of all the possible locations in Shere:
Thurs 3rd feb 2022
Casting our 4 characters
wed 2nd feb 2022
Shot by shot
- Wide shot of husband, wife and child sitting on the sofa watching tv. The son is lying on the wife's lap.
- Mid shot to close up of husband standing up.
- Mid shot on husband’s face saying “I'm going out to the pub”
- Mid shot on family. Wife says “oh okay” and looks confused
- Cuts to close up of husband a lady cheer-sing
- Mid shot of the couple sitting at the bar talking. It's another lady not the wife. The wife crosses from left to right over the frame but the couple doesn’t notice her.
- Close up of ladies face drinking from her wine glass, she looks over her left shoulder
- The scene then edits to a different location (her face is in the same place) and she's been killed
- Cuts to bird's eye view shot of husband and wife lying in bed. He is asleep but she is lying on her back staring up at the ceiling
- Wide shot of husband walking out of the front garden of their house
- Mid shot of husband in café (filmed from outside of window), he passes a drink to a lady
- Shot then goes through the window into the café
- Camera pans to left to a mirror and in the reflection, you see the back of the wife holding her son, she turns round
- Close up of the lady at the counter being killed; different angle from the previous death
- Close up of husband and wife's head
- It zooms out to a mid-shot and you see the family all together in the sitting room.
- Wide shot of wife sitting on a wall looking directly forward but not into camera. She reaches into - her pocket and pulls out cigarettes
- Mid shot of her lighting the cigarette
- Close up of her inhaling
- Mid shot of her breathing the smoke out
- Back to wide shot of her sitting on the wall for a few seconds
- Wide shot of hallway, husband walk in, boy runs in from bottom right corner and hubads bad, son walks backwards a bit
- close up of the so, he says “mum?”
- Close of husband's face with wife quickly entering behind him, she hits him over with a bat
- Stops when the bat is in front of the camera causing a black background. The title comes up.