New Plot Filming List

As we have changed our location and our plot slightly, we now need a new filming list.

Cast:We don't need many characters as well will mostly be shooting tracking shots, and using quick editing but we will have a male and female character to attract both sexes to the film.

Props/Things to take with us

• Fake blood
• Torches/lighting/candles, Lighters
• Camera
• Tripod
  
  

Things to do when filming:

·         Use the camera to record other happenings in the building (Paranormal Activity style) 

·         Look at the lighting- use our own as well as the natural lighting and artificial

·         Plan certain shots- Screaming, running away, shadows

·         Use props and fake blood

·         Promo shots and stills for poster/magazine

Things to film:

-Through the window/door into a room (Stalker-style "peeping" shots)

- Some shots hand-held and some using tripod, to get professional effect and gritty/realism shots

- Isolated shots of interior and exterior

- Moving shadows (in the background, and focusing on this only)

- Walking and also running around the corridors (hand held)

- Zoom in shots on faces (reaction shots

- Doors slamming/rattling 

Things that could be done in the studio:
Close-ups
Record the sound- screams

 

Plan

In most horror movie trailers there is a certain orders that happen in the trailer

1)   The first part to the trailer is always calm and a soft music is played over the top.

2)   The middle part is where the crash happens. Something will pop up, a change in the story line, this is where people will get scared or get put on edge.

3)   The last part of the trailer is the cliff hanger. The part what really makes the viewer want to watch the    film.

These steps need to be taken into place in our storyboard. We need to figure out the soft music that is placed over the trailer to make the consumer being calm. Then the different camera shots need to be organised.  This needs to be in detail because fast camera shots will be needed so there has to be enough filming produced to get a good edit scene.

As we are filming on the 21st, A story board of shots and camera angles will be needed for a good filming.

Change of Idea

 Looking at our previous idea (Cluedo) we decided to leave this, and start all over again. We all thought about films which we liked within the horror/thriller genre. We then  allowed the influence of films that we had seen to influence us with our filming. Films/trailers like Paranormal Activity, and Don't be Afraid of the Dark.

 These all contributed to the idea which we now have. The building and rooms also added to our idea, making it clearer and helping us decided on what we needed to film.

The Idea;
-Two teenagers break into a house/building
-This is the one/ten year anniversary of the 'killers' last attack/death
-The killer was a man who roamed the streets and took people into his 'council' (hence filming in a court room)
-These people where selected especially as he knew something about them (they where liars/had done something wrong)
-He then put them on trial, where they had to prove themselves
-If found guilty/not genuine, they would then be brutally slaughtered and their souls left to wander the building to haunt other "victims"*

We also had the idea of each "victim"* naming another person (preferably someone else with a flaw) who would then become the killers next "victim"*.

(*Victim is put in quotation marks as they were the offender, now on the other side of the spectrum as the victim).

Location of filming

Police station and magistrates' court, now used as courtrooms.
1857, enlarged 1901. By J.H.Park. Sandstone ashlar (red brick
at rear), slate roofs. U-plan, formed by original block with
rear wing to Earl Street, and addition on south side also with
rear wing. Classical style. Two storeys (probably over
cellars), plus 3-stage tower to the addition.

The original range is a symmetrical 5-window composition, with a plinth,
channelled rusticated ground floor, rusticated quoins to 1st
floor, frieze inscribed "ERECTED BY THE CORPORATION A.D.1857
LAWRENCE SPENCER ESQUIRE MAYOR", prominent modillioned cornice
and balustraded parapet with ball finials.

The centre has a round-headed doorway with an architrave of coupled engaged
Tuscan columns and prominent cornice, above this a window with
pairs of panelled pilasters and consoles supporting a pediment
with lamb and flag, and a round-headed upstand in the parapet
with a shield.

All the windows are sashed without glazing bars, those at 1st floor paired under cornices on consoles.
The 2-window right-hand return is in matching style. The wing continued to the rear is of heavily rusticated rock-faced masonry, 5 windows, mostly round-headed and those at ground
floor barred, but the end bay has a square headed doorway and
window above both with cornices; and beyond this is a lower
2-storey 5-window cell-block with small semicircular windows
at ground floor and round-headed windows above, all with
grills.

Change of Location (17/10/2011)

Our original plan was to film in a barn of a friends. This is now not possible.

 We have already found another sight where we will be filming (Friday 21st October). This is an old unused derelict building in Preston.

 Our idea is now slightly different too, yet still revolves around the game Cluedo;
-The characters break into the building to look around
-They find a game (Cluedo) which is slightly spooky within itself as no other belongings or objects are found
-They start to play the game and one of the characters wanders off/goes out of the room (They could hear a noise or just go to answer the phone/something scares them)
-That particular character disappears
-They blame the happenings on the game/place and try to leave (but can't)
-The game still plays on it's own

Poster Mock Up Test

I started creating a test poster. It includes a title of the film and some of the board game characters. This will let people guess what the film is about. They will instantly know that the game will be about board games. They just have to guess what it will be about ( if they have not seen the poster or the magazine)

I believe a good poster will include the different weapons and possible some of the characters that are in the trailer.

Below is the poster including the evidence and differenent experiments:

Evidence

Organising the filming dates/locations

We decided to film in an old building, called Amounderness House, which is an old court building in Preston. This was the easiest and safest option for us, as we could easily gain access to it.

I contacted my aunty via email to organise when we wanted to go there...

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From: molly_lyon@hotmail.co.uk
To: b.lyon@preston.gov.uk
Subject: RE: Filming project in Preston
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 21:33:42

Spoken to everyone else, and they said leave the lights off and we’ll need to borrow the torches please. Thank you!

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From: b.lyon@preston.gov.uk
To: molly_lyon@hotmail.co.uk
Subject: RE: Filming project in Preston
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 12:58:51

Yeah, that’d be fine. I’ll be in my office, so when you get here come there, and I’ll go get the keys. You will need to let me know if you want the lights leaving on, or not... And, if you want to borrow any torches.

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From: b.lyon@preston.gov.uk
To: molly_lyon@hotmail.co.uk
Subject: RE: Filming project in Preston
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 10:24:56

Hi, just wondering if it’s still possible for us to have access to the old court building in Preston on Friday 21st October. We’d be filming from about 9:00, until about 4:00. So if you can get the keys for that time that’d be great. Let me know.