'Mirage' Final Product

Work on production company titling

We have made minor changes to our production company logo, and we have changed the font of the title "Zenith Productions". Adding the Crooked Spire to our logo is a work in progress, as we are trying to find a subtle way to add it to the logo.

Bad weather; no filming

Our group had planned to film on the weekend of 31st January, however due to the snowy conditions, the school was closed on Thursday the 29th January and Friday the 30th January. This meant that we were unable to collect any of our equipment and were therefore unable to film. We have rescheduled for Saturday and Sunday the 7th and 8th of February.

Production Logo

We were have been working on the logo for our production company, and we decided that we needed to make the designs dark and mysterious to suit the thriller aspect of our company. We settled with the name "Zenith Productions", as the term zenith means the highest point or most powerful and successful. We thought that this would be a  suitable name for a company, as it shows the desire and ambition of our company. The name relates to our target audience, as it is aimed at people 15 years or older, as younger people would not understand the term "zenith".

We created a draft for our logo in which we decided to use a silhouette of the Crooked Spire. We thought this would work well as our film is thriller aimed and needs to set a dark and mysterious atmosphere, which I think the logo does. We also designed the so that the "Zenith" is vertical, and the "Productions" is horizontal, with the letter "I" in the words creating a connection between the two. We did this because it links with the name of "Zenith" and visually shows the viewer the height symbolism.

Here is the first draft of the logo:

Here is the updated draft with a change in the font:

Thriller final Title and Plot

Title

We were unsure of what to name our thriller at the time, due to lack of creativity, so we used an online thesaurus and typed in two key words which our thriller was based on. These key words were "political illusion" which got changed to "Constitutional Mirage". The name seemed too long for a title, and may have confused a potential audience for our film, so we changed the title to our film to simply "Mirage". We felt that this suited the film really well, as our protagonist is unsure whether the figure he is seeing a real or a hallucination.

Plot

The film focuses upon a young man who has took a job for the government, which he is ecstatic about because it is a high paying job. The job isn't all that he thinks, as it turns out he has been transferred to a human testing division, before getting tested on himself. He manages to escape but starts suffering from several hallucinations, which he is unsure whether they are real or not. He also suffers from flash-backs during his escape, which lets the audience establish what he has been through, and where he has escaped from. The escape and the flashbacks will be the opening two minutes of our thriller.

Thriller Storyboard

We created a storyboard so that the plan of our thriller is clear and laid out for us, and not only shows others what our thriller is going to be about, but also makes it much easier for us to plan what is going to happen on the day. The use of describing which camera angles to use and drawing a picture of what we expect is to look like makes it a lot easier for us to envisage what we want the shots to look like.

Below is our storyboard:

Thriller Pitch

For our thriller we had the task of pitching our thriller to our teachers we were acting as a potential production company who were interested in producing our film. We had the task of informing them about our film, and trying to persuade them to produce it.

This pitch featured key information such as plot summary, target audience, tagline, and audience appeal amongst other key areas of our film.

Below is the key information for out pitch:

I was absent for the pitch of our thriller, so was unable to participate, therefore our film was fully presented by my partner for our project. Below is the footage of the pitch: