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YUE CHUN CHAM
CANDIDATE NUMBER 1685
CLAREMONT FAN COURT

My production team included MAX GREEN 1629, SARAH MILLARD 1648 and LUCY SPALDING 1666.

Our team created a thriller genre, the plot is started with a boy, Jack Masters, received a letter with a picture of Olivia Blake and 'III Days' written at the bottom. At first, Jack did not think much about it, however, after three days, the news reported that Olivia was murdered. Later on, same things happened again, Jack received two more letters, where one has his own photos. This time, he got worried, because for the past two letters he received. All the people named on the letter was murdered. He only got III days to solve all the mysteries and to prevent the same ending that the others faced.

All my RESEARCH, PLANNING and CONSTRUCTION follow below on the main blog roll, in reverse order, starting with the lasting first.

Editing
I did the title sequence the our production ident using Adobe After Effects, where all the construction post could be found in my blog below. I have improved my skills on creating special effects and the skills on making all the scene look harmonious. I did this by changing the hue and saturation, curves and colour block in Final Cut.

Directing
I directed the scene where Jack Master walked into his house. When Jack knew nothing and first walked into his house, I set the pace of him walking slowly, as he was not prepared for the letters. Then for the next two times when he walked, I set the pace quicker then the first time because Jack knew that there would be more letters coming in and he wanted to see it as soon as possible.

Camerawork
Same, I did the camerawork for the scene where Jack walked into his house, This shot was done extremely well, where I have used a fisheye lens to simulate the door eye's point of view.

MAIN TRAILER

TEASER TRAILER

CONSTRUCTION: MAKING THE FILM TITLE

CONSTRUCTION: INVESTIGATION BOARD

We created a investigation board as a prop as we needed it in our final scene which brings the drama to a climax. To make it look authentic, we took images (using screenshots) from our film, article, post-it, envelopes and photos. In the end, we all agreed that we should use a red string to bring the board together, as the use of red string is a traditional feature used on professional police investigation pin boards and seen in in police procedural dramas.

PLANNING: SHOT LIST

Scene	Music and Sound fx	Vision	Actors	Props	Shot types
1	Clock tick and gradual build up of music	Jack walking towards house, through eye piece	Max Green	Fish eye lens	Long shot through fish eye lens
2	Clock tick and gradual build up of music	Jack walking through the door after coming home and throwing keys	Max Green	Keys	Long shot
3	Clock tick and gradual build up of music	Jack seeing first letter on the floor beneath him	Max Green	First letter	Long shot
4	Clock tick and gradual build up of music	Jack crouching down to pick up first letter	Max Green	First letter	Low angle shots
5	Clock tick and gradual build up of music and voice-over discussing how he has been receiving letters	We see the letter from Jack’s POV as he opens it	Max Green	First letter	Point of view shots
6	Clock tick and gradual build up of music and sound of radio discussing death of victim seen in first letter	Jack sitting having breakfast with the radio beside him	Max Green	Radio	Mid shot of him having breakfast
7	Clock tick and gradual build up of music and sound of letter box being opened by Jack	Jack opening letterbox to find second letter	Max Green	Second letter	Close up shots
8	Clock tick and gradual build up of music and sound of voice-over of Jack discussing what the letter contains	Jack opening second letter	Max Green	Second letter	Point of view shots
9	Clock tick and gradual build up of music	Jack viewing newspaper article discussing death of second victim	Max Green	Newspaper article	Point of view shots
10	Clock tick and gradual build up of music and the detectives discussing his link with the previous murders	Jack and the two detectives (Stephen Green) and (James Spalding)	Max Green, the Detectives	N/A	Mid shot Three shot
11	Clock tick and gradual build up of music	Jack finding third and final letter which contains his own photo and name	Max Green	Third and final letter	Close up shots POV shots Reaction shots
12	Clock tick and gradual build up of music to climatic ending and voice-over of Jack stating he is next to the detectives.	Various shots of the pin board containing information from the previous victims and Jack pinning the final image onto the board (being his own photograph)	Max Green	Pin board containing newspaper articles, letters and images of previous victims and himself	Elongated tracking shot over pin board, and various close up shots panning over board Tracking shot of Jack Masters' hand pinning final image onto board

PLANNING: CALL SHEET

Trash Recycling Classroom Poster by Cham Bernice

CONSTRUCTION: MAKING IDENT

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RESEARCH: POSTER ANALYSIS

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PLANNING: HOT SEATING

Hot seating is a strategy in which a character is interviewed by someone in the production group. This activity makes people understand the background, the character more in detail. We decided to have a hot seating with one of our character, Jack Masters.

We have planned that he is going to be interview by a police, making it more interesting and at the same time, emphasizing that this is a thriller genre.

PLANNING: RISK ASSESSMENT

We identified the key hazards and risk factors which acquire the potential to cause harm during the production of the film opening, III Days. The risk assessment highlights the hazards/risks posed to each scene, in which we provide precautions to avoid the possibility of implications occurring.

CONSTRUCTION: BBFC CERTIFICATE

bbfc certificate

CONSTRUCTION: QR CODE ON FILM POSTER

I came up with an idea of making an QR code on my film poster due to the convenience that it would brought. The advantages of having an QR code on the poster are that it would attracts audience to scan the QR code and be able to address to our social media page and trailers.

After researching how to make a QR code, I have made my qr code through QR creator, I chose this generator because this website enables me to put all my film social media page, including our YouTube channel and my film website.

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ANALYSE OF TRAILERS: PARASITE

Link to watch Parasite: CLICK

ANALYSE OF TRAILERS: BRIGHTBURN

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PREP: PROPS

I have created a prop list, which we need for our filming.

1. 3 letters
2. Newspaper
3. Radio
4. Handcuffs

I have make the letter and envelope props through photoshop, I started with drawing ideas on papers then moving all the ideas to photoshop. 

Then I have measured the size of both of them, making sure that the letter would not be bigger than the envelope.

This is my first idea for the letter, however, I found out that the font was not serious enough and the picture of Sandra Lee should be bigger than then text part to make it draw audience attention more.

My second idea for the letter. The letter do look more neat, but it looks more alike as a postcard, and would not give an as serious to the frame. Yet, I have changed the font which is more formal.

This is my final idea, I have enlarge the photo part so it is more easy to attract audience attention at one sight.

Final work

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I have found an envelope template and changed all the words, size and put the names (which has the same font with the envelope).

Final work

We planned that we were going to use an article for our trailer in the beginning, therefore this newspaper was made. In Photoshop, I replace an image of Olivia Blake (in black and white) and rewrite the title of the article to 'Olivia Blake, mother of two, gone missing.' However, after printing this page out, our production team realised that it did not look realistic, therefore Lucy and Sarah used tea bags to tint the paper and stuck it on top of a newspaper in order to make the thickness realistic as well.

Template I used

PLANNING: STORYBOARD