Montage

We're going to use a montage of the protagonist's daily activities to give the audience an impression of who he is quickly and efficiently. We want to portray him as a standard teenage boy so that they can relate to him. Montages tend to use fast paced shots.

Schedule

We planned out a schedule to try keep us on track and organised.

Monday-Thursday

• Decide on our storyline: so far this has been our main problem. We've got a good start and an end but the middle is still to be decided, we are finding it hard to create a realistic middle that isn't too convoluted. 
• Where we are going to film: as the start of the project is going to be mainly a montage of our main character's day we decided to do it mostly at Harry Goode's house because he lives between me and Adam and his dad has a studio that will be very good for filming the torture scene
• What Props we are going to need: apart from the normal household items for the montage we had to find the right props for the torture scene, things like tools and the chair our main character is going to tied to are very important.
• Extra research into what techniques we can use, thing like how montages are normally displayed in films, they way they are editted and how long the clips are.

Friday

• Film the opening torture scene: this will take a while to get the lighting, props, make-up and the camera angle right.
• Experiment with props: seeing which kinda of chair looked like it would fit more in a torture scene and which tools would be behind the character hanging on the wall to give threatening feel.  

Saturday

• Review all of our progress so far: possibly looking at what we could improve on.
• Finish our filming 

Sunday 

• Research music: seeing if we can find a good tension building sound track for our opening scene. (Already done)

Soundtrack

I have been researching soundtracks, getting an idea for the music we could use in our opening.
I've listened through many OST's and the following I have liked enough to get several songs from iTunes:
Sunshine, American Beauty, Lost Highway, Requiem for a Dream, Inception, Taxi Driver, Pulp Fiction, The Social Network, Trainspotting and Misfits (TV series). The music used in films varies greatly. Some films have original scores specially made, often by orchestras (e.g. Sunshine, Inception, Lord of The Rings), electronic music is also used (Social Network, TRON legacy). Existing songs are also used in cinema (Lost Highway, Trainspotting). Soundtracks are used to evoke emotion from audience and emphasise situations in the film.

Notable film composers
*Clint Mansell
*Ennio Morricone
*Hanz Zimmer
*John Murphy
*Bernard Herrmann
*Thomas Newman
*Trent Reznor