Sound Track

the soundtrack for our film was created by kyle Preston, it consists of various sound effects and synthesized instruments and orchestral instruments, the program that was used was protools 8, a studio grade recording and sequencing software for creating music.

The software uses uses VST Plugins for the for all the effects and instruments the main plugins i have used in this software is the Xpand module which came with the original package and a third party plug-in which i bought later on "East West Quantum leap symphony orchestra" which provides orchestral sounds and percussion instruments.

The central theme to the music was an eerie feeling towards the listener, this was created through ambient and effected sounds to make them sound otherworldly and out off place.

The orchestral samples that are used, are to give an element of suspense with the high strings timbre, this is to build up to the later scene of the victim being brutally injured, to a climax of suspense, then a sudden drop of tension to the last scene.

The music was written and created by Kyle Preston

movie Opening Plot Outline

Our opening begins with Kyle (Actor & group member) on the floor of a dark enclosed space. He is locked in here and this idea is presented by the paltry space and lack of sufficient lighting. He looks around the room to show how he does not know where he is and/or why he is there. 

As the video begins to rewind we find ourselves 24 hours earlier. At this point we once again see Kyle, though this time, from a point of view shot (POV) and it seems as though he is being followed, or stalked. The stalker increasingly gets closer and we witness the clashing or the stalker, and the stalked. This tumultuous confusion ends up with another POV shot, though this time, from the eyes of Kyle. We realize now that this is how Kyle became entrapped in the initial room, and for those whom do not link these two happenstances we refrain back to the original room. 

Shooting schedule

tuesday 5th of January.

filming equipment: video camera and tripod.

Location: dark enclosed area.

Actor's: kyle Preston.

filming: Curtis Jones.

tuesday 12th of January.

filming equipment: video camera and tripod.

Location: Ally way in Wem town.

actor's: Curtis Jones and Kyle Preston.

Filming completed.

Treatment (Curtis S Jones)

Th1rt3eN

I shall speak initially about the title. I have had many ideas for titles and decided on this one for projects sake. I had to decide from a list of titles, all of which would have carried a slightly different take on the story and how the opening would pan out. This was my list to pick from; LoBoToMiZe

Xbiation

MonoLith

The Vindication

Detriment

and I ended on Th1rt3eN. I felt this was an extremely seminal take on a title that has been used in many forms before, though I am sure this is yet to be done. The number thirteen, as many know, is unlucky, and so the title sets the vital enigma though also a pseudo-inter textual reference, it reminds people of films with similar names and so they lend it their feel. (Thirteen and Friday the thirteenth) Though all the titles had a creepy feel, look or sound to them I felt that this one had it on a much grander scale, mixing numbers, with capitol letters and lower case letters is confusing and uncomfortable. The other names played with these a bit though dared not to imbue numbers into the name as well. I feel that with the link of number to word that the title works very well for a thriller.

The preliminary shot shall be pertaining to a company or producer that is involved, possibly CCP. Then it will fade open into a short POV shot showing what seems to be a person watching another from behind leaves of some sort. This will be accompanied by sounds of heavy breathing. The shot will fade, though keep the diagetic sound and shall reveal "In association with ...". During this the sounds will resemble motion of the POV character. As the shot returns to this character you see that he has moved closer to whom he was initially observing. This then fades to "Th1rt3eN". Whilst this is shown the breathing picks up, and you hear what seems to be the observer moving quickly towards the observed, noises of a "scuffle" and an injury. This makes the audience feel that the stalker-esque character has just killed or maimed the other character. When the shot comes back into focus however you see, still from the POV of the same character, that what we thought was actually wrong, as we are now looking up at the stalked who cuts the scene with a stomp of some sort. During this the shot will (hopefully) go from black & white, to coloured and back again, also other subtle effects will be used to make it look like the person who's eyes we are looking from is hardly conscious and extremely injured. All of this scares the audience and creates the all important enigma. First with the fear of what this person will do to who he is following and the tension build up during that, and then the shock and confusion of what just happened.

After this was written and presented we decided to change the name of the film project to "The Vindication" for various reasons XD