Props for "Charlotte"

All of our shoots will be filmed indoors in a big "rich persons" mansion. It will mostly be filmed in the sitting room, which will have three sofa's, a coffee table, fireplace(maybe) and carpets on the floor. We have decided to either ask a fellow student to film in her house or as a "back up"plan we will film in the Hurtwood interview lounge. In the sequence the lead character is having a posh cocktail party therefore the table should be full of cocktail and wine classes. There will be two waiters moving around offering people drinks and canapés, they will both be wearing waiter uniforms. 

The props we will need for this are waiter trays, waiter uniforms, canapés and cocktail and wine glasses.

Moreover, as a posh company party there has to be some drugs, so we decided to make one of the actors sniffing the cocaine through a 50 pounds bond. As  cocaine we will use flour.

In addition, our characters will lie in relaxed poses and smoke shishas and cigarettes. These things we'll order and also we'll be provided with a fake tobacco. 

 

Characters in "Charlotte"

Charlotte - An extremely rich young women (aged 21) who has been successful in her acting career. She has a special gift, she is able to see when people are going to die by looking into their eyes. She has been traumatized by this ever since she can remember, she know tries to live her life avoiding eye contact with anyone she meets. Whenever she has a party or whenever she has a visitor they are requested to wear sunglasses.
This character will be played by Isabella.

Jack - charlottes boyfriend, they have been going out for a year now. He finds it hard to be with her and have to wear sunglasses every moment they are together. He is a successful musician and met Charlotte while working on set with Charlotte in a music video.
This character will be played by NJ.

Eva - A close friend of Charlottes who is her agent for acting jobs. They have remained close friedns ever since. She used to Charlotte's strange behavior and supports her in any situation. This character will be played by Daria. 

Beatrice, Elizabeth, Victoria, Nicholas and Joseph are Charlotte's neighbours and sometimes when she's bored she invites them for a cocktail. They spend time dancing, laughing, drinking and taking drugs- this is how the elite young people spent their free time. Despite the fact that the party is at house the atmosphere is not homy, they all look posh and try to show off themselves. These characters will be played by Ksenia B., Carlotta, Laura, Mike and Habib.

Santi and Simon are waiters, they also will wear sunglasses.

Pilot of the thriller opening sequence "Charlotte"

Films' influence of the opening sequence

Our opening sequence will be filmed in thriller genre and the subgenre will be supernatural thriller. This genre is mixed in with tension and suspense in addition to also having unsuspected twist during the film.  The main character usually has a supernatural gift. There are are several  films which influence on  the formation of our opening sequence. First of all the movie like "Jumper" made an impact on some of our ideas and we twisted a plot, we wanted to start with early years of Charlotte's life and show how she found out about her gift, but as we are compacted with time, we've deleted this part and left only the main scene of an young lady who already knows about her gift.
Her life has changed since she found about her gift and she earned money from it and raised her social status. This the audience can see from the surrounding: posh friends and posh house.

Also, the second movie is the "Final Destination". The plot is deferent to our's but the idea of knowledge that your death is close is very similar. So, we changed some ideas about how to present the gift and stopped at "seeing in eyes the date of death".

Storyboarding for Charlotte. Evaluation

Isabella Woolger, Magan Havard and me started storyboarding for our thriller opening sequence 'Charlotte' . This process is very important because our project needs more broad ideas and we have to actualize them.Storyboarding is the process of drawing out shots we have to take, it's kind of a plan which helps us to put everything in order.

This way, we understand what props we need, who can star in and how long the thriller opening sequence will be. Also, we include the setting, shot type and what's going on in it- this is very valuable information because the sequence has to be fitted in timing and placement and we have to find these.

We didn't spent a lot of time thinking about the title and in 5 minutes decided that the
main character name will be Charlotte and the thriller will have the same name, to help the audience to concentrate all attention on hero.
We have decided to make our thriller not very intense from the
beginning so first shots are very relaxed and there is no tension and the audience would not suspend anything.
However, the scene would be set in one room and people act in would wear sunglasses. This unusual detail will attract mainly all the attention of viewers. So, the plot would be not understand by the audience till the end of the sequence, they will guess and we'll make them think about the atmosphere in this room and these people in sunglasses by different types of shots. We' ll show that all characters are usual people, with habits and interests in life. The next detail which the audience will notice is that Charlotte, the main character doesn't wear the sunglasses and this would be the second guess. People would make predictions about the end which will surprise everyone by its queerness.
The most important thing about making the thriller is the timing and shots types we have to use and pay a lot oaf attention to, and this would be easier to do if all the work will be done in group.