Timeline

As a group we decided it was important for us to make a timeline. Although this is kind of like the storyboard it makes it clear to us about the times it takes for each shot and also helps us to make the script.  It helps us with the script as we see what the most important parts are and what points it is important for us to let the audience know a little bit more and what parts the two men would say something in real life as it puts us in the position of 'what would they say at this point?' Also it helped me to understand that these two men are obviously friends as they are collegues so they would talk like any male would, we just need to understand their relationship and this needs to be apparent in the dialogue. The time line helped us understand that we need to show the friendship, and we could maybe do this by showing one of the men as being quite funny and the other quite serious, or something like that.

Here is four images of our storyboard, this gives us an idea of how long we want it to take and the kind of shots we want to include. Obviously it will most probably change as time goes on and we fully know what types of shots we want but this is a rough idea of how we want it to be. It just gives us an oppurtunity to also work on the script which is one of the areas we need to work on, but this makes us able to see where we want the dialogue to fit into!

Set design

This is our new set design. Fiona in my group drew this as the pictures that we found do not fully show how cramped we want it to be. We want it to be quite small, full with equipment and with the two chairs and men very close together taking up most of the room of the submersible. We have to show our set design to our teacher and the person who is going to help us by making it! Its really exciting as it's all finally coming together and now that this picture is done we can fully get the feel of how its going to look for our audience and really get the sense of being inside the submersible.

Props

In class we were talking about what props we need for our thrillers, heres a list of the things we think that we need for our two minute sequence:

FOR OUTSIDE THE SUBMERSIBLE

• Toy submersible
• Fish tank (3 ft)
• Sand
• Rocks/stones
• Seaweed
• Water for the fish tank
• Gopro (underwater camera)

Obviously some of these will be easier to get than others, and some won't even need to be put onto the budget (for example the water). We are also thinking of making the water murky, we'd do this by maybe either using pond water or putting mud in the water, this would create suspence as it would be hard to see anything underwater.

FOR INSIDE THE SUBMERSIBLE

• Walkey talkey
• TV screens
• Wires
• Radar
• Chairs (X2)
• Controls (for cameras)
• Keyboard
• Meters (fuel, depth etc)
• Laminated file with pictures of silver
• Blue print
• Controls and buttons

Some of this will be hard to find, for example TV screens and meters. We need it to look very technical, and full with devices.

Inside the submersible

Here is a picture (below) of the kind of thing that we want the set to look like. But we want the two chairs to be very close and for the set to be quite small, this creates a claustraphobic element to the submersible, which is what we want to create. We want there to be controls infront of the men, and TV screens, like shown in the pictures below. We want the characters to be so close because it will create the sense of them being alone underwater in a very small submersible, surrounded by water. Because they are underwater we were thinking about walkey talkeys (as we want them to be talking to the base above ground), however we think that because of the pressure underwater they would not use headphones (in picture) so instead they will use hand held walkey talkeys. (below) We think that it will be easy to film them talking to hand-held walkey talkeys too as this will clearly distinguish the difference between when they're talking to eachother, and when they are talking to the base above ground. It will reinforce the underwater world and the above ground world, which is still as important as the underwater world as thats where the majority of the film will be held.