Production name

We came up of a production called "Pinapple Productions" to support our thriller. We thought of this production because we wanted a production which had some relation to our thriller and as pinapple is a food it has some relation to meat which is also a food. Also it went well having the same letter to start the word with the last word. So we discussed options we had and pinapple sounded the best. We came up with a picture which would be our trade mark for our production name.

Account of Casting decisions

We only needed one man for our thriller so it was relatively easy to look for someone. We decided we needed a man with big hands and big feet to make him look tough and strong and threatening. We decided we would get our media teacher, Guy as he fit the requirements and he was avaliable at the time. We did not encounter any problems finding an actor. For the actor driving the van with the diseased meat away to the supermarket we decided we could use the same actor (Guy) as you would not see him so it seemed simpler and there was not much point in disturbing another guy from his day.

Account of location requirements

The locations we require to use were the butcher to film the meat originally before we cut it up etc and also the studio so we can inject the meat and make it look diseased as we can not do this in the butcher itself. We would go to the back of the butcher as it would be darker and it would seem a more eerie atmosphere and also that is where the butcher has hanging meat. After we filmed there we are making the studio dark and eerie with a dirty, bloody table and having background sounds of someone chopping up meat to make it sound scarier.

What institution would produce the film and why

Our institution we chose is the Uk British Film because the plot of the scare of meat is more concerned by the citezens of Britain than other countries so it would attract more british people to come and watch it.

Meeting on storyboard

These are the first few shots of our thriller. These are all in the butcher. The first is a tracking shot of the interior and is then followed by a medium close up of the hanging meat in the back of the butcher where we would start doing the titles across the meat. The third shot is then a medium shot canted angle of hands picking up the cardboard box which is the packaging of the meat.






These next few shots are introducing the actor into our thriller. The first is a wide shot of the door and then our man entering into the room carrying the meat which gives the audience an idea of the plot. Then there is a close up of the meat which then shows that the meat is the main subject as there is lots of detail on it. Lastly there is the handle with blood on it showing the dirtiness of the atmosphere showing that the meat is not healthy.






The first shot is a wide shot of the diseased meat being tipped onto the work top and then another wide shot of the worktop with rusty knifes which shows again the dirty atmosphere and how the cutlery is old and therefore is probably got germs which then goes into the meat. Lastly there is the close up of a hand picking up the knife which shows the process of how he is going to inject disease into the meat.







Shot 10 is a close up of the hand picking up the rusty knife, his hand would be dirty which shows that he doesn’t care much for the food he is cutting up. This shot is then followed by a medium close up from a high angle of the rusty knife and dirty hand cutting the meat on the worktop. Lastly there is the shot of blood dripping off the worktop from the meat which helps the characterization of the mysterious man of him surrounded by blood; it is also a medium/wide shot of the floor with blood on it from the worktop.






Shot 12 is a close up of a dirty boot for big feet which makes him seem more masculine and tough. This shot is of him walking across the bloody floor, and panning up the body to the hands injecting the meat. Next side shot close up of meat being injected by a dirty syringe and hand, the dirty syringe shows how again the mysterious man seems to not care about healthy and clean food. Lastly there is a wide shot of a hand throwing the syringe backwards







These three shots start off with a medium shot of him picking up the box which is followed by a shot which is a side shot of the van and the mysterious man walks through the frame and throwing the meat into the back of the van which makes the audience wonder where he is going to take the van. Lastly there is a wide shot of the back of the van and then the man closes the door and more titles appear on the screen.







The last three shots of our film starts with an extremely wide shot of the van driving off into the distance for a long time which is helping show the audience where the meat is going. Secondly it fades out to a close up of the packaged meat stacked on a shelf in a supermarket which makes the audience realize that the meat is being sold to innocent citizens and that they would die if they purchase the meat and this shot is then followed by a fade out which shows lots of meat which the farm fresh logo.






SHOT LIST

1. Pan/Tracking shot of the interior of the butchers.
2. Medium close up of meat hanging (in post production put on titles)
3. Medium shot canted angle of hands picking up box
4. Wide shot of door and man entering the frame with the box in his hands
5. Extreme close up of bloody hand opening the door. The handle is left bloody.
6. Medium close up on hands holding box of meat whilst walking
7. Wide shot of meat being tipped onto dirty work top.
8. Wide shot of other worktop with rusty knives on.
9. Close up of hand picking up rusty knife
10. Medium close up from high angle of rusty knife and dirty hand cutting meat on work top.
11. Blood is dripping off the worktop, medium/wide of floor with blood spilling out a title.
12. Close up of dirty boot walking across and messing up the title, follow feet, and pan up the body to the hands injecting the meat. (13.)
13. Side shot close up of meat being injected by dirty syringe and hand
14. Wide shot of hand throwing the syringe backwards
15. Wide Shot of the syringe landing on a worktop with lots of other syringes, blood, knives.
16. Cut to medium close up of the man packaging the meat (on the bottom right hand side of the box is a labelled saying “Farm Fresh” “Best Quality Organic Meat”)
17. Close up of the cardboard box being closed, and another title is seen on the box
18. Medium shot of him picking up the box
19. Side wide shot of the van, man is seen walking into frame and chucking the meat into the back of the van.
20. Wide shot of the back of the van, he closes the door, and another title is seen on the door
21. Extremely wide shot of the van driving off into the distance for a long time
22. Fade out to a close up shot of the packaged meat on a shelf
23. Zoom out to see there is loads of meat like it. (seeing the logo)

Target audience

Our target audience is set for the older generation as it has intellectual approuches so from the age of A level students + as they could appreciate the intellectual part of our thriller and it could be too grosume for younger audience.

Producing a written version of the technicalities

We discussed issues for our storyboard from our shot list and what lighting we would use on the set at this point and if there was any dialogue in the shot. We also discussed who would be the one drawing the storyboard and Oscar ended up putting himself up for the role as he does artistic subjects for A level so he has skills in drawing

Account of the research sources that i considered and what they taught me

I researched our thriller using various sources such as newspaper articles and i read some books about the scare of diseased meat in the past

To research the butchers near us which is easy to get to i used the internet for. I looked up butchers in guildford area and we contacted a butcher who let us film the interior but not the exterior as he did not want his identity of his butcher to be shown as diseased meat. We figured out how far it was by using a map and seeing how long it would take to get there on the internet. We then had to make a shot list and prop list etc which we had help from looking on youtube for previous hurtwood thrillers. We needed to get props such as dirty carving knifes and a syringe to put into the diseased meat. We looked on google images for some pictures for what the props might look like to give us ideas.
The books i read in the past gave me ideas of where we would film and what it should look like (a dark and dirty room) The newspaper articles i read supported our idea of how this scare can be common so it is a more realistic plot as there have been stories about the symptoms of victims of diseases such as listeriosis ("I feel like I have food poisoning, car sickness and the flu at the same time.I am very achy and feel like I have a chill that won't go away.I also have this really werid taste in the back of my mouth/throat.") There have also been symtoms such as "tendonitis in the victims elbow ". These stories gave me the idea of what symtoms we should use in our thriller.

Final Thriller Idea

Our group decided in the end to make up an entirely different idea than mine or any of my groups because it was not fesiable. We thought of an idea of the scare of diseased meat being eaten by people by buying them in supermarkets. We thought we could make a good thriller by showing audience the point of how this meat gets diseased. Also we decided that the meat makes the victims have side effects and end up dead from eating it. We decided we would film hanging meat and then we would go to the studio and there we would get our actor to open up the meat and make it diseased by injecting something in it. The last part of our sequence would be a dirty old van transporting packedged diseased meat to a supermarket. For our titles in our opening sequence we thought we would get them dripping in blood or on the floor in blood to represent the dirty and to represent that his character is a killer.