Filming Entry 2

Our female actress was not available to film today or any other days, we therefore could not use her as the character. Searching for someone available proved difficult; thus making Dawn our last resort, which will make it easier as she know the script off by heart.
We also discovered, through experimentation, that a small button had previously been pressed - creating the zoomed-in camera effect. Thankfully, pressing the button again restored the camera to it's original state; we were so glad to not have the same problem again!
 

Having, changed location to a friends house and beginning filming again, we promptly started with the inside scene of Chloe entering through the front door. Although the shots were clear and sufficient,  we noticed that we needed to film this section at a later time; in the editing process the shots combined would display errors in continuity. The outside light shinned through the door window as Chloe walked in , this would contrast to the previous future edited shots of Chloe walking along a street at night. Thankfully we spotted this before we moved on!
 

We then did multiple camera shots, such as aerial shots, low/high angle still shots, close ups and different positioned long shots, all of the character Chloe walking up the stairs! It's better to be overly prepared than under prepared!

Whilst discussing which scenes to film next we noticed that it was looking dark outside the window, we wanted to use this opportunity before continuing inside.
Half way through outside filming it began to rain. Considering the editing, the rain would affect the continuity of the clothes; as the inside shots displayed Chloe's jacket and hair dry.

As we were faced with a decision, we weighed each choice thoroughly;

Using the rain:

• Filming the inside again
• Time consuming - darker outside shots
• Camera could get wet
• Crew more tired - lack of focus on filming

  

Postpone filming:

• Crew gets rest - more focus on filming tomorrow
• Another chance outside
• More done inside while waiting for darkness

Considering these options we decided to postpone the filming until the next day.

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Filming Entry 1

We began filming in Dawn's house at 6.30pm today. It was a challenging process throughout, as we were faced with multiple problems. Firstly, our camera was constantly zoomed in during filming; which made filming a tiresome job, both I and Dawn changed the camera and tripod positioning frequently, to gain the intended camera angle/shot. This also affected our actors, it is tedious repeating the shot, let's say twice; having to remember lines and make sure that the set is ready...but six times, virtually spent on each shot, unbelievable!

Secondly, the time spent on filming agitated our company members and actors, as everyone was beginning to become hungry and tired; thus provoking a negative response to the task.

Eventually, as a company we decided to finish filming at 9pm; considering the situation and believing it was best to film again tomorrow.

As a group we believe it would be best to change locations to another, more spacious house, as the camera requires further distances in it's current state...

Auditions

This is our poster for auditions that we displayed in school:

Our production was searching for one female teenager, that would play the role of the victim, and one male teenager that would play the role of the killer.

The auditions took place on the 7th March at 2.15pm.

However, we needed to change our location, seen in the pictures, due to the space being used by other people.

Here are some of the people that wanted to audition:

At the end of the day, we had finally come to an agreement of who we would pick for the roles, as a company. The best male actor, we decided, was the young male in the picture seen above. He has good posture, excellent facial expressions, a good sense of character building and the ability to engage himself in a character for a long period of time. As a company, we needed these qualities to help the pace and flow of filming; we needed adequate actors that would be able to constantly deliver , considering the amount of takes we might need.

Despite the ease undergone with choosing the male actor, we found it hard to choose a female. We wanted a blonde girl so it would merge with our concept, who has the ability to look naive, have a good sense of facial expressions, to be able to put herself and stay in the character for long periods of time.

Unfortunately the female in the image above did not meet our desired criteria, so we declined her application.

Storyboard for the final production

Once we had finished writing our script we then completed our storyboard; a step used to aid us visually with what our final outcome may look like.

In addition, when we have competed the audition process we will need to demonstrate to our chosen actors what we expect from them and what our final two minute clip will look like. The storyboard is a very useful tool for this, and saves valuable time that would be spent explaining the plan; giving us more time to film.

This is our storyboard:

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Script for Final Production

BEGINNING CREDITS - LOGO 
INT. MOON/DARK NIGHT/OUTSIDE/STREET

EST moon,
LS of CHLOE walking,
MS phone conversation:

CHLOE
Yeah…Yeah…Oh I’m almost home…Nahh no-one’s at home yet…

LS house [behind car lurking?],
CU [light on top window],
non-diegetic faint heart beat

MS/CU CHLOE:

CHLOE
Family problems init…

No non-diegetic heart beat fades
PAN CHLOE,
LA STILL [CHLOE walks past camera],
CU on her bag [key]

CHLOE
Anyway I gotta go babe putting my key in the door, lataa

CU on door lock, SIDE view of her

CHLOE
Ahh, I can’t be bovered wiv this family! No one locks the frickin’ door!

MS door inside open,
non-diegetic music increases,
CU on CHLOE turning on downstairs light switch
CU on CHLOE taking shoes off [aggressively]

CHLOE

And they complain to me bout not puttin my shoes at the bottom of the stairs when they can’t be arsed to lock the frickin door!

Walks upstairs – LAS – bottom of stairs
HAS at top of stairs
OSS looking at room – CHLOE’S reaction

CHLOE
OH MY GOSH! And they even leave a bloody light on, in MY room!

PAN as CHLOE goes into room PAN goes past room and to a door
hand around door – non-diegetic music – sudden shock type[?mid shot – camera sees Chloe go by but does not follow and a hand holding a knife is at the door she passes?] [?rants about her family?]

Angled LS – CHLOE begins to unpack bag – gets out homework
OSS - dark figure behind her lifts knife – blurred figure – non-diegetic music
CHLOE turns,
music increases
CU ‘killers’ mask
CU CHLOE’S face
CU on knife

MS – CHLOE wakes up in sweat,
EXCL on eyes and face – panting

Non-Diegetic door creek open and music tense
POV on door – figure?
CU on her face
TRACK her slow hand towards bedside lamp
CU on switch of lamp
POV door
LS room – figure next to bed
CHLOE turns, screams knocks light down

Beginning Title ‘Not A1one’ to police siren music

END

This is our script that we have produced. We will need to use this throughout the whole production and keep to this as it will be used in our video. We will need to show this to the actors that come to our auditons as this will make them know what to do exactly.

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Concept of Final Production

Our movie concept is about a detective in a race against time to catch a murderer on the loose before he kills again. Our 2 minute clip is the introduction to the killer and his first victim.

The first victim is a blonde, vulnerable young teenage female, who has a struggling family life and is at her family home alone.
This stereo typical structure is used because our audience can relate to the victim as she is of a similar age; possibly encouraging them to 'side' with her. Her youth can be interpreted as easily becoming overpowered and generally vulnerable, especially as she is home alone; making an easily accessible target for crime and suggesting a high prediction of entrapment and lower predictions of surviving or having help.Also, her own personal level of intellect is suggested through her hair colour; blonde women in society are seen as naive and of a low intellect.

The killer is roughly aged 25-30 years, tall, muscular, fully clothed in black, wearing a dark mask, using a kitchen knife as a weapon to kill his chosen victim.
He is of a preferred age, considering his young victims, he has enough muscularity to suppress them and is taller than his victims, giving him a slight advantage and sense of dominance; this may promote the audience to also feel subordinate to him, like a victim.
As he is fully clothed in black, it conjures the idea that he can blend into the shadows, implying to the audience that he could be lurking anywhere. His identity is hidden through wearing a mask, seeming more menacing and abnormal; it is used to help him detach his emotions from the crime. We decided that his weapon would be a kitchen knife because it is a common household object, creating the fear that anyone could use a knife from your kitchen. The knife, generally as a murder weapon, is more personal than a gun because the murderer penetrates the victim’s skin within a close distance, rather than a long ranged weapon, making it more personal and painful.

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Audience Portfolio

We researched the average thriller viewing age and discovered it was between 14-18 years. Despite this discovery, we have decided that it would be better to have a range of 15-20 years because it widens our audience. 

As our audience are so young, their habits consist of: Going out to parks and the cinema with friends or family, social networking, studying and completing any work, enjoying parties being part of the student life.

The interests of our audience includes: shopping at the local stores or at the corner shops, this links in with the income of the audience, watching interesting films/movies related to our genre which is the thriller/ horror, listening to specific music of their taste. Both of these interests will help us to understand our audience and produce the task correctly.

Music [average]: Our audience focuses on any type of the music depending on their tastes. There are a variety of music genres that they like to listen to e.g. Hip-Hop, RnB, Soul, 90's and many more. 

Social Background: Our audience come under C2-E social grade. Their social status is working class or unemployment, as they are students, some of them do not work and some of them work earning lowest wages.

Income: For our audience this comes under students that might study at university and might have a job that its wages do not go over £21,000 a year. However they could also include students that do not go to school but may have a job which gives them little income for their needs.

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