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.

Survey

We decided to do surveys so that we could establish a target audience. It also enabled us to understand and enabled us to realise what thriller our thriller came into, and who it was most popular for. The way we did it to make sure that we had an even number of each catergorie, we split it up so that one person did 5 males 15-18 etc..

Wordle for female 15-18

This shows that Thrillers are the least popular out of the majority of females of the age 15-18. This concludes that this wouldn't be wise to use as our target audience.

Wordle for male 18+

This wordle shows that for males above the age of 18, thrillers are the most popular, therefore this would be quite a wise target audience to use.

Wordle for female 18+
Here is the wordle for females over 18, this shows that thriller is quite majoritively popular. This could be quite a good target audience.










Therefore for our thriller we should maybe aim to use a target audience of males and females over the age of 18.

The remote control submersible.

When looking for submersibles we googled remote control submersibles, and this is what it came up with. It mainly came up with submarines, which will not do, as we aren't having it in a submarine as they are too big, and we want to create a claustaphobic feeling, and more suspense.

The problem that we've had with buying the submersibles is many of them look like toys, and they would not look realistic. The white one for example has windows which look very fake and this would not look ideal underwater for our submersible. However with it having a torch on the front of it is really beneficial as we need to have a torch at the front of our submersible for many of our shots. The grey-blue one is the one that we are liking the most and thinking that we will use.

Costume

Heres a picture of the costume we were hoping to use for our thriller, it is a blue boiler suit. We think that this is what they would wear in a submersible and is quite a practical outfit that can be used for the costumes of our men.

Costumes are so important in making any film. In our thriller inparticular we must make sure that our costumes are perfect, because if they at all look not right, then this will detach the udience from the sequence as they will just be thinking to themselves, 'well submersible men don't wear that', and this will make it unrealistic. We need to make sure that we are correctly representing the men in the submersible, and if we do not do this then our thriller will not be very good at all as the whole effect will be lost.

We've been looking at places we could buy these from, and this is one that we've looked at which would be ideal to use. Heres what we found on the internet, but in the clip from Submerged we can see the man underwater wearing a short sleeved blue boiler suit. So we've been also looking for short sleeved boiler suits, which is prooving to be quite tricky.  

Heres a screen shot of the trailer Submerged. It shows the costume of the men, which we are hoping to use. Also it shows the kind of thing we want the inside of the submersible to look like. We want there to be controls everywhere, and TVs so they can't see out of it, but can just see out using technical devices, this will help with the costraphobia aspect too.

Script

The script has proven to be one of the hardest jobs. At first we thought that we could make it quite brief about what they're down there for and have as little dialogue as possible. But there needs to be some information for the audience to grab onto and to be able to understand some parts of it otherwise they won't feel involved and therefore that'll get rid of the suspence. So we came up with the idea of instead of them saying about what they are trying to find, they will have a folder full of laminated sheets of paper which have pictures of what they are trying to find. This enables the audience to have an awareness of why they are down there, but also makes the audience ask questions about what it is and why it is so important for them to be getting this from underwater. We've decided as a group that they will be trying to find some silver from a shipwreck, we got this idea from a news article that we found talking about men that went down in a submersible to find some silver.

•  To make this sequence realistic we needed to use some technical words and/or include technical devices (e.g cameas).
• We've also included the base above ground with dialogue through a walkey talkey so this enables to audience to understand that there is a base (group) of them involved in seeking what they want from underwater, and also gets the audience familiar with the voice of the man on the walkey talkey who is going to become the main character of the film.
•  Through the dialogue we have created suspence, we wanted to include that they could see something (we will also show this will camera and mise-en-scene, but also we know that people are usually vocal about problems that they are aware of when they are with people/friends.
• So by incorporating the fear of the two men and base into the speech the audience see how afraid the men are which creates suspense as they are the ones who are supposed to be in control.