We did some research on vampire movies, and looked at trailers that our teachers recommended.
The first trailer that we look at is Martin, we thought it was quite weird since its an old movie so all the edit and effect were a bit odd. However the plot is quite good, our teacher told us that the plot of this movie is about showing that vampires are not scary, the only thing that made them different from human is that they drink blood.
Another trailer that we watched is Twilight, the appearance of the vampires in Twilight is quite mainstream, they usually are good looking,pale skin and powerful.
We also looked at the process of making Dexter CLICK :)
to get some ideas on how we should write our blog.
We first went into booking.com to find the hotel that we would liked, the hotels in booking.com are quite expensive so we went into agoda.com to find something cheaper.We looked through the website and found this hotel as shown below. It was on a 80% discount from 8000 baht to 3000 baht per night, so we decided to booked this hotel for 2 days 1 night. The reason why we chose this hotel is because of the bathroom, we wanted a bathroom that had a bath tub and a shower area with windows door, and this hotel had it all.
In one of the lessons, we got to talk to other groups and gives opinion to each others story.When we were telling about the mirror scene(the scene wheres there is no reflection of main character)one of the guy in the other group asked us if we were doing about vampires,and told us that vampire doesn't see their reflection in the mirror as well(we had no idea about it).
So we instantly thought of making the main character a vampire.The new plot starts.. as you can see in the storyboard below, we are still doing the night routine but changing the main character into a vampire, by giving hints to the audience showing that there is something wrong with this character.We don't want the audiences to know that this character is a vampire, we just want them to know that something is not right, therefore we tried to not make it too obvious. After scene 12 which is the last scene, it is a scene wheres the main character squeezes her hair and blood starts dripping from her hair.
Both scene 7 & 8 were inspired by Dexter opening credits, scene 7 is when the character is taking off her shirt and the shirt is stuck on her face, showing the eyes,nose and mouth through the shirt, scene 8 is when the character is tying the robe tightly which is to suggest that someone is being suffocated.
The hints that we gave to the audience that our main character is a vampire is the scene wheres there is no reflection of the character in the mirror and the last scene where there is blood drippings into the drain pipe.
Our group have 3 people which includes me,Mint and Eyes. We are all very close so it was easy to discuss ideas and communicate, I think that there isn't a problem with our group at all.
We were thinking in doing a psychological thriller opening sequence with extreme close-up shot inspired by Dexter. In this opening credits you can see that it is a normal morning routine of a man but with extreme close up it gives a tense feeling to the audience,which is what we wanted to do.
Our first thought on the plot was a night routine of a working woman, the story starts with the journey of the main character walking back home from the train station with long shot and parallel shot .When the character reaches home the normal night routine started.The first thing that our character will do is to brush their teeth in this scene we want the audience to see that there is no reflection of the character in the mirror.We got this idea by watching Black Swan.
In the next scene the character will get into the bath,shaves her legs and accidentally cut herself, in this scene we will use extreme close-up to gives that tense feeling.The opening ends with a blanket covering the character in 1st person view.
However, in the next day we decided to change to plot (nearly) completely.
We thought that the walking back home scene might be too long and boring for the audience and there is not enough elements to tells the audience that this is a psychological thriller.So we decided to start over but sticking to the night routine theme.
