Final Planning (With Rough Cut)

Filming
A synopsis for our thriller opening would go as follows: two mediocre henchmen are introduced without revealing their purpose at this point. Followed by the introduction of Eve, who we see mysteriously stealing a necklance of unidentified importance. The action quickly steps forth and the opening turns into a chase scene where Cha-Cha & Hazel follow the lead female to a deserted barn, drawing a close to the opening. With a final shot of Eve filming herself to display her last words, before cutting on a cliffhanger with the two henchmen reaching the door of the barn.
We decided to have the flashbacks filmed in black and white as it relates to the intro from Kill Volume One, of when Kiddo is attacked by Bill - and we get a close up shot her face in agony as she lies bleeding on the floor. We did this as our lead characrer is also a female character, just like the heroine in Tarantino's KillBill series.

Props / Costume
The original plan for our two henchmen (Cha-Cha and Hazel) was to have them both wearing gasmasks like the villain from Dead Mans Shoes.
However unfortunately the gas masks we ordered from Amazon didn't arrive on the due date- and because we set one specific day to film (as we had to travel two hours to King Lynn) it meant we could not go through with our original idea. However, I had an idea relating to the Gangsters from Pulp Fiction. Despite Jules and Vincent being a pair of matching comical hitmen, we agreed to attempt to convert the basis of our two hitmen to Tarantino's conventions.
To do this it required a slight costume change, mine and Liams suits were already different so we decided to each wear a red beanie hat - showing a little more continuity between the two characters as well as adding hints that they are a team. However it became aparent that the headgear made us both look less threatening but then we considered again our first thoughts about the characters; we wanted them to look relatively unproffessional and therefor we overlooked the downgrading aspects of the hats and concentrated on seeming like a team more than anything. On another tangent, the hats were very similar and the colour of them was ideal,red is considered a threatening and dangerous colour above the rest. One thing however that when I look back I think should be changed, was our group decision about my shoes. In the heat of the panic about the costume change, the collective idea about looking unproffesional lead to the conclusion that one of the hitmen should wear trainers, whilst the other ran in leather prom shoes. Our basis for this decision was that if one of us was wearing less important shoes it would hint that collectively the hitmen are not as dangerous as they seem. However in my opinion the shoes worked too well.

Soundtrack
Whilst shooting we started to think of a soundtrack to use. We had already discussed ideas about classical music as we thought it would sound nice in sync with the shot of the record player. In the end we settled with including the record player at the start of our opening credits to signal when the music begins. This idea sprouted after looking at the Third Man. This film gave us all kinds of different ideas about tradition and old school styles as the film is set just after world war 2.


Lighting
Lighting was difficult to establish exactly how we wanted. Filming took place during the day when it was lightest so that the scenery was clearly visible. We agreed that this was the best time to film a chase sequence as it shows how real it is, and also we knew that having a dangerous violent scene in a thriller had been done before making it safe for us to also use this idea. In the Tarantino film Jackie Brown, a female secondary character is shot dead in a public carpark during broad daylight by her partner. This kind of action in a film shows a lot about the character commiting the crime, for example it says exactly how little the villain cares about values of his own fate, as well as showing he may suffer slight insanity by shooting someone clearly without thinking. By applying this to our chase sequence, I think we portrayed to the audience the insane panic the hitmen were in when chasing the theif, it comes across how desperate they are on catching her.

The Rought Cut