Planing

On the first 2 lessons , I was not in school because I was ill. However , as soon as I got better , I’ve tried to catch up with Mint and Ploy which are member of my team.  I was glad to hear that because we’ve been doing many group work together. This could help the process to become more efficient. They told me that , at first they were discussed about the main theme of the film and they decided to do thriller and psychological opening sequence which was inspired by opening sequence of Dexter. From this opening credit , they use the morning routine to describe the main character's life style , domestic environment and the psychological state , which significant for the main storyline.

After they had chosen the main storyline. The first thought of the plot was a normal night routine of a business women , which is started from the journey of the main character walking along the train station by using with parallel and long shot to show tone and surrounding environment. When the main character gets back to her apartment is when the night routine begins. We will use all the extreme close up shot to gives a tense and tension of feeling such as when the main character brush their or taking their clothes off. In the mean time , we've watch the trailer of black swan so we came out with an new idea , that we are going to remove the reflection from the mirror while the main character brushes her teeth.

On the third lesson which i came back to school , Mr.Harrison (our media teacher) made each group pair up to tell the other group about our storyline , sound effect , camera angle etc. and filled in the feedback sheet ( below picture). There are both negative and positive comment , most of them are concerned about our storyline could make the audience confused and it is too short. However , they really like our main theme of story and camerawork. At the end of the lesson , we decided to change our storyline but we still based on night routine. 




On the last lesson of planning, we went to many booking website such as booking.com Agoda etc to find the hotel or apartment that will be fit with our theme the most and to compare the price. We decided to go to In Residence Sukhumvit Bangkok. There are many reasons why we chose this hotel. Firstly , it is big , modern and there are many facilities we can use e.g. bathtub , working table. Moreover , it is in the middle of the city so it is easy to transport.



Once we arrived at the hotel , we have changed storyline because the facilities and location could not fit well with some of the scene. We used a canon camera because it is easy to use , high quality and school is already provided. In the scenes that we need to film them in the bath room , we were having a problems with the lighting. The light was too dark and yellow so we tried to solve it by using iphone flashlight but it was not look natural. However , we think that we could solve this problem in the editing process instead. Most of the scenes I used tripod to make the camera to be the most stable as much as possible. For the props we dont have to spend a lot of money on it because some of the them school is already provided and some hotel is provided such as slippers ( in the first scene ) etc.