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Film Synopsis...

     If our film was to be made into a feature length film the main protagonist the ‘taxi driver’ will be a psychopathic serial killer who kidnaps multiple people, in particular vulnerable women typically with small children. The woman and baby in the boot - heard at the end of the opening – will endure multiple types of abuse; physical, mental, sexual and psychological which will be inflicted  by the protagonist who we soon learn to find has psychological problems. One of the themes in the film will be obsession which sticks to the typical conventions of the thriller genre. We want our audiences to be shocked throughout, to achieve this we would make sure that the taxi driver appears as ordinary as possible which will make what he does even more shocking than it already is, this is why we felt it was important to show that he was a family man (included in the picture in our two minute opening). There will be a heroic character that will eventually ‘come to the rescue’, either a police detective or a family member, however we are undecided as to who it will be just yet. In contrast to the mystery convention of a psychological thriller our audiences will be very involved with what is happening throughout which is very different to the majority of psychological thrillers already out there. 

Script - dialogue...

Tara put together a video of the dialogue used in our 2 minute opening film. The main speech we used was of Stefani's dad speaking as if he has a passenger in the back of the taxi, we used close up shots every time he spoke to give it a creepy effect. We also did this so that audiences don't initially see all of his face which adds suspense and makes them question why.

Costume...

There was not much to post about the costume choice for our final film as there were not many scenes where you saw what the taxi driver was wearing, however there were a few qualities which we wanted to make sure we included. We wanted to create a feel of a family man, someone trusted and someone who the audiences would not automatically suspect as dangerous. This is why we made sure we had close up shots if the hand with the rings on, this suggests that he is married and with a family as does the picture of the children. The only costume requirements we asked for was that our driver made sure he wore ordinary everyday clothes just so that the audiences wouldn't not suspect anything.

Storyboard/Shot types...

Since none of us were very artistic we struggled to create a storyboard to express how we wanted our film to turn out, so we decided to make a list of our different shot type's as an alternative. Although we did use a lot of shots the majority of them were extreme close ups and close ups because we had a lot mouth of shots of the taxi driver speaking and lots of close ups of different objects. From finding this I can now see that if we was to redo our film I would try and incorpoate a wider range of shots rather than the repetitive close ups. 

Location...

When we was planning our film and brainstorming idea's although most of the footage would be of insde the taxi we still needed a location which looked out of the ordinary and would make our audiences question why they were there, so we thought of a couple of ideas and decided that a wooded area would be the best. We then searched some local places which would have enough space for us to film and to park and found Whitewebbs. Most of us knew the location already and we all decided that it was just what we were looking for. Below is a picture:

Delayed sound update!...

Here's a delayed post about a change we made in some of the sounds in our film. We decided that although we like the 'My Funny Valentine' song there was something not quite right about it and thankfully Tara found a new song which worked perfecty and here it is:

We found that this song was a lot more subtle than the Frank Sinatra one and was more appropiate for inside the taxi.

We also added a sound at the end of our film of a baby crying, we knew that this would be very extreme and would push the appropriate boundries but we needed something to shock our audiences and this was just the thing. When we first added the audio clip of our friend Georgie saying "let me out" we liked it but there was something missing and it wasn't getting the big reation we hoped for, but after adding the baby sound effect we definatley achieved this.