Planning- choosing an idea

We decided to choose the idea that was a thriller because we thought i would be easy to target it towards our chosen audience, because the target audience is 15 we thought that we would find it easier considering that we are around the same age as our target audience. We also thought that thriller would be the easiest to achieve and the it would be easier to include the conventions of the genre. we also like the idea of the film a lot more than the others and thought that it would be a lot more exciting to film and more interesting for people to watch.

Planning- initial ideas

Character outfits and props

Our male antagonist of the story (Terrance) will be dressed in a black hoodie, black jeans and black chunky boots. We chose for him to be wearing this because the connotations of the colour black and danger and death. This hints to the audience what might happen in the opening scene. With him wearing big chunky black boots suggests that he means business and might be experienced.

He will have his hood up and slightly over his face to hide his appearance to the audience. This outfit also conforms to the common conventions of a kidnapper which give the audience an idea of what to expect from his character.

The dog walker will be dressed in light colours because light colours imply to the audience that she is innocent. With having the dog walker and the antagonist in the same scene shows the contrast between their personalities and actions. We decided to include a dog because they are known to be 'a mans best friend' and when in the clip the dog runs away this hints to the audience that something isn't right because the dog hasn't taken on the roles of a stereotypical protective dog. She will be wearing a coat, scarf and hat which shows tat she needs protection from the cold and therefore she is weak and defenceless against the attacker.

Our protagonist will be wearing neutral colours which creates confusion to the audience because they arn't sure what to expect from them whether they are dangerous or the hero. This idea links to the fact that later on in the story she turns out to crazy and delusional. Therefore these colours might suggest to the audience that something isn't right about her character.  When this character is in the outside location her prop will be the camera, this prop implies to the audience that she is a photography and allows their minds to wonder around the idea of the name of the film "Captured", there are also unanswered questions. When she is in the darkroom she uses tongs when developing the picture and the red light, all of these props makes the fact that she is a photographer more believable to the audience so therefore makes the film and the idea of the film more successful and effective. The clothes that she is going to wear in the outside location are going to be lighter because she is going to be presented as being innocent because the audience hasn't got to know her yet. This also highlights that there has been a change in her personality from before the photo to after when she is developing the photo and theres a change in clothing.

Moodboard

Location Recce

For one of our locations we have decided to choose a darkroom. The reason why we have done this is so that we could use the red lighting. The colour red connotes danger and death and the fact that our main character is mostly in the darkroom so suggests that there is something wrong about her. This lighting also implies that there is something devilish about her because the lighting almost creates a red halo around her creating the idea of a hellish nature/atmosphere. The other reason why we chose to film in the darkroom is to link it with the storyline of the film because she is a photographer and therefore tells the audience something about the character. We will be using the darkroom at school because it is easy to access and to get permission to film there but because its a darkroom it isn't normally associated with schools so therefore isn't obvious that we are filming in school. Also we will film after school so there won't be any chance of younger children getting filmed. 

For our other location we are going to film in St Louis Meadows in Banbury. We decided to do this because we found when researching that parks were a convention of kidnapping scenes so we thought that it would be a good idea that we film our kidnapping scene in this park. There will be shots where there would be close ups of swings swinging which highlights the abandonment of the park and creates a unsettled atmosphere. We will be filming it during the day because this time period is most popular for a kidnapping event in a park. Also with having a dog walker we found that dog walkers are common within park and we wanted it to be as realistic as possible. 

Call For Actors

We are looking for a woman to play Phoebe. We need her to be able play a 17 year old student who will need to be mysterious. We will not need her to say anything because she isn't going to say anything within the opening. She will need to be able to show great expression within her eyes because we are going to have close up shots of features which will need to be effective. She will need to have a small figure because she is going to be defenceless so she needs to look like she is at a disadvantage. She is going to have blonde hair and blue eyes so we are looking for someone who has these characteristics. She is going to have an uneasy, slightly crazy personality so we will need someone who doesn't look completely right and normal. We will need her to wear jeans, a casual top and converses, this will represent her as being a normal teenager.We will also need her to be familiar with a camera because her prob will be a camera and she needs to be confident and comfortable with it.

We are looking for a man to play Terrance. We will need him to play a 20 year old man who is going to be the antagonist of the story. He is going to be very muscular and story so he comes across as powerful and intimidating. Again there will be no need for him to say anything because he won't be speaking in the opening. We are also going to have him dressed in all black so black boots, black hoodie and black jeans. We will need him to have prominent features because there will be close up shots to show his emotions. We will need him o have dark/brown hair and dark eyes.

We are looking for a woman to play the dog walker. We need her to be a older teenager to play a middle aged dog walker. She will be wearing light colours to show innocence and vulnerability. We are going to have her dressed in a winter coat and hat and scarf to shown the vulnerability against the cold. Also we won't need her to talk because she isn't going to talk in the opening. We would only need her to gasp because during the opening she is going to be hit over the head and the audience will need to hear her reaction. We are going to have her having dark hair and eyes.

Character mind map