The Deadly Envy Synopsis!!!!

Deadly Envy is the story of a young detective Joe Watson whose family is kidnapped by an anonymous captor. Along with his partner detective and best friend, detective Sarah Watson they both go on an emotional, career and life threatening, quest to rescue his family and discover who the mystery captor is.

Throughout the film the Captor manages to send Joe these traceless videos them just about to torture a member of his family, either his wife Alice or daughter Clara, but never actually shows it. Leaving Joe in a state of fearful anxiety, and dangerous state of mind as he vengefully tries to retrieve them, with the help and accompaniment of his best friend, Sarah. But will they put the clues together in time to find out the mystery captor and save his family?

Preliminary task

Here's our preliminary task. It's nothing related to DEADLY ENVY but is just a little task to show we know how to use a camera. 

Hope you enjoy!

It's titled...: You're Fired!

Opening credits

Common opening credits order

There are other variations, but this is just the most common order...

·         (NAME OF THE STUDIO): Name of the studio that is distributing the film and may or may not have produced it (Walt Disney Pictures, Columbia, Lions Gate, Universal, etc.).

·         (NAME OF THE PRODUCTION COMPANY): Name of the production company that actually made the film or name of the investment groups or companies that financed a substantial part of the film (usually credited as "in association with" or "A (studio name) production.").

·         (PRODUCER NAME) PRODUCTION or/and (director only) A FILM BY (DIRECTOR NAME):  Director's first credit, often "A film by XY or "a XY film".

·         STARRING: Principal actors, (Sometimes the stars' and director's credits will be reversed, depending on the star's deal with the studio; sometimes, as in the Rodgers and Hammerstein films, or as in all three film versions of Show Boat, or, as in many of Disney's films, the title of the film will be shown before the names of its actors).

·         (FILM'S TITLE): Name of the film.

·         FEATURING: Featured actors/actresses

·         CASTING or CASTING BY: Casting director.

·         MUSIC or MUSIC COMPOSED BY or ORIGINAL SCORE BY: Composer of music.

·         PRODUCTION DESIGN or PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Production designer.

            As a variation some of the below may be noted:

1. SET DESIGN
2. COSTUMES or COSTUMES BY or GOWNS (older movies)
3. HAIRDRESSER
4. MAKE-UP ARTIST
5. SOUND RECORDING (older movies)
6. VISUAL EFFECTS DIRECTOR or VISUAL EFFECTS BY

·         EDITOR or EDITED BY: Editor

·         DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Director of photography.

·         PRODUCER or PRODUCED BY, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER:  Producers, co-producers, executive producers, 'also produced by' (credited for various reasons according to contracts and personal scrutiny of the principal producer). Often, though, the name of the producer will be the next-to-last opening credit, just before the director's name is shown.

• BASED ON THE BOOK (PLAY, GRAPHIC NOVEL etc.) BY or FROM A PLAY/BOOK BY (older movies) (If based on a book or other literary work) or BASED ON THE CHARACTERS BY or BASED ON THE CHARACTERS CREATED BY (If based on characters from a book or other media)

• STORY or STORY BY: Person who wrote the story on which the script is based, gets "story by" credit, and the first screenplay credit, unless the script made substantial changes to the story.

• WRITER(S) or WRITTEN BY: Screenplay writers. The Writers Guild of America allows only three writing credits on a feature film, although teams of two are credited as one, separated on the credits by an ampersand ("X & Y"). If each works independently on the script (the most common system), they are separated by an "and". If more than two persons worked on the screenplay, the credits may read something like "screenplay by X & Y and Z and W" X and Y worked as a team, but Z and W worked separately.

• DIRECTOR or DIRECTED BY: Director. The Directors Guild of America permits a film to list only one director, even when it is known that two or more worked on it. Except in very rare cases (a death in mid-production) there is only one directing credit.

...However in recent Hollywood films, like: Inception (2010); Avatar (2009) and The Dark knight (2008) they have followed the recent trend of having no opening credits, perhaps to depict a sense of realism to get straight into the film... or not as in Inception, the film begins in a different realm in a dream so leaving out opening credits gave it a surrealist feel as you were thrust into a film knowing nothing about it...

Inception

Over Christmas I watched Inception, a psychological Thriller starring Leonardo DiCaprio and directed by Christopher Nolan. There were no opening subtitles as it began in the a dream, having subtitles would have broken the surrealist feel of the dream. Throughout the movie you were constantly having to remind yourself whether you were in a dream or reality as they travelled in and out of them quite quickly sometimes with you not even noticing till the absurd happened or someone mentioned or realised it. At the end you are also left to your own interpretation as Cobb's(DiCaprio) totem, although it stumbles continues to spin and the movie finishes before we see the result. Whether it slowed down and stopped or kept on spinning. If it kept on spinning that would have meant he was dreaming...but...if it didn't that meant he was in reality.  

Although this is a psychological thriller it very different to our psychological crime thriller: DEADLY ENVY, as it is all about dreams and controlling their minds through it rather than someone who is mentally unstable. However it is in some ways similar. An example of this is how Joe (from Deadly Envy) begins to question himself and his mental state when investigating the case, similarly to Cobb in Inception struggling with his mental torment - his late wife Mal who he recreated in his mind and disrupts everything, but in Deadly Envy it's Sarah who disrupts everything for Joe...

Second Location!

We found the Second Location for the Alleyway scene. It looks really good, its perfect just I envisioned it. We were lucky to find it!... For ages we were wondering where we could film it and we were becoming quite worried incase we didn't find one in time but we did! Here's some photos...

 Three pictures of the whole alleyway.  One with Monique running down it as our captor. You can see how narrow it is.

 

Close up of the end of alley, Adam's
leather jacket got caught in the shot.

One side of the wall at different parts. We considered at which point to put one of our hostages   

 

Start of the wall

Middle of the wall

Towards the end of the wall: We decided to place the
character Clara Watson against this wall either here...

Corner: Or here.

We decided to put one of our hostages in the corner or by the wall right next to it. Here's Monique and I modelling how it would look.

"Please don't kill me!"

The other side of the wall is where we are considering to sit our other hostage. Monique's foot is caught in one of the photos! And here she is in another against the same wall looking like a very scary captor...

Ooh! Creepaaay!

Locations!

Here's some of the Locations were considering to use when filiming our thriller film...

Mr D's Office

This is the first office we viewed for our frist scene with Detectives in the office.

Both computers are along that wall on that desk, the first one is right next to that plant, you can see it a little bit (leaves are hanging over it).The first one at the front would be Detective Joe'sand the one futher

 down Detective Sarah's.

Also having the clipboard

of papers behind makes it

look like police tracking 

work up on the wall (all we

would have to do is add a

map with some pins). 

Mr C's Office

This next office is perhaps smaller but it has a different layout. Instead of the computer being up against the side wall it faces the door entrance. The other computer is behind, and like Mr D's office works out very well for the two detectives that share a room.

In the end we decided to go with this one. 
It is easier to film someone sitting around the computer from all angles around it; whereas with the position of the furniture in the other office we can't film from behind the computer which is a shot in our film the first establishing one in fact!

Shooting Schedule

Monique has designed our shooting schedule for our film..