2. Costumes

The costumes that we will need will be:

A bathrobe that the wife will be wearing which we can buy.
A suit for the husband will be messy and shabby to fit his hungover characteristics.
The friend will either be wearing a suit as well or an all black outfit with a beanie.


The reasons for these costume choices is because we think that they will match the mise-en-scene and depict the vibe that we are going for.

1. Characters and Cast

The characters we will need in the sequence will be two men and a woman. A male and female lead and a male friend. They will all be adults so we will hopefully cast teachers.

The woman that we want to play the female lead is Claire (Sociology). She will probably be the most important actor in the sequence as the majority of the shots will be on her.

The man that we want to cast Adam and for the friend Media Mike.

The steps forward now would be to ask the teachers if they are willing to participate. We won't hold auditions for the cast.

The back-up actors will be Katie (Media) as the female lead, Maths Mike and any other male teacher that would be willing to act.

Outline of Idea

Task One:

Long Summary of the Full Plot.

The full plot of the story will be about, after the opening sequence, it is about the woman and how she lives her life as a secret hitman. It shows the problems that she faces and the missions that she is given.

Another possibility of how the whole movie could be played out is that it is the man and the woman’s story leading up to that opening sequence. How they ended up in this situation and their story together. It shows the dynamic of their relationship and how they hide their secret professions from each other.

Task Two:
A short 4/5 sentence summary of the Opening Sequence only.

The setting of the sequence is in an apartment, specifically and bathroom and bedroom. The man wakes up in the bathroom obviously hungover, gets up puts on some clothes. Goes into the bedroom, starts waking up, doing his morning routine. There is a woman in the bed and she slowly starts to wake up.  The man gets a phone call, he picks it up, not realising that the woman is waking up. The voice on the other end of the phone is talking about a job that the man needs to go to and keeps declining the job. She overhears the conversation and slowly dresses herself, heads over to the man, pulls out a revolver and shoots him in the back of the head, picks up the phone and says ‘I’ll do it’ and hangs up.

Task Three:
Location, characters, props - What do you need? Have you scouted anywhere?

The location we film in, we’ll have to have a location with a realistic bathroom and a bedroom. The specific location is yet to be decided by our group. A few options we have for the apartment are Adam’s house, a Day student’s house or a hotel that we can rent out for a day. For the characters, the female character will most likely be an older looking A2 girl. For the guy, it doesn’t really matter who we use. A younger looking man, we could use a younger looking teacher or an older looking A2 student. The props that we will need, will be a revolver and a mobile phone. For costumes, we’ll need a suit for the man and a bathrobe and leather suit for the woman. 

Thriller- Test Shoot

Matt and Luke Pitch

We pitched the Final Draft Idea to Matt and Luke, the feedback main feedback that they gave back to use was that it would be a difficult location to film in. They said that first, it probably couldn't be built in Hurtwood or filmed anywhere in Hurtwood as it is an apartment. This means if we were to go ahead with the apartment location we would either have to film in someone's house or film in a hotel room. It means having more complications such as, setting up equipment, possibly booking hotel rooms, travel time e.t.c. Matt said that we shouldn't let the location of the idea drag us down and still be open to new ideas. Although, our group decided against as we feel like the idea is best set where it is. The pitch itself went alright. We communicated our idea pretty well, although upon reflecting on it we may have missed out on a few items. For example, they perceived the apartment as a very luxurious apartment because of the connotation of drugs lying around and wealth. We decided that the apartment doesn't have to be luxurious, it can be a very standard apartment.

We have discussed the possibility of Adam's house which would be a lot less hassle than a hotel room, but it is a family house meaning the mise-en-scen maybe be not be appropriate for the context, we may not have time construct the set that we want and in addition to that it is still his house and we have to respect that. We haven't had 100% certainty from Adam about using his house, but he did say that we probably could.

The next steps from here would be to confirm with Matt and Luke that we want to go ahead with the apartment location.Then get more feedback from them, probably get shut down, but hopefully if we suggest that Adam would be okay with using his house then it may help.

Research

A movie we were thinking we could take inspiration from is Mr. & Mrs. Smith, our film is quite similar in that they are both husband and wife assassins that don't know technically know about each others profession. Obviously our sequence won't be like this, but we can pull inspiration from it.

The trailer: