Planning: Testing out filming before main task

Testing

Introduction

This is a test to see how the filming quality is before filming out main task so we can get used to the camera before. This will insure that we will know how to use the camera in a professional style.

Planning - Filming Schedule

Filming Schedule

When will filming take place?

 Monday15th, Tuesday16th and Wednesday17th of February 2016

Who is needed and what days?

Everyone will be need to attend all three days for filming. We might not need to film on Wednesday but we have left this day free just incase we needed to re film or carry on filming. 

What is needed?

Props:

.Torturing tools

.Wood

.Three two man tents

.Rope

.A lighter 

.Two or more cameras

Costumes:

Every single characters costume which includes, Chads, Allison, Jodie, Billy, Tim and the girl in white. 

Make-up:

One of our group members Mea, is bring her make-up case full of SFX make-up that we might be using for some scenes. 

Shot list:

We will bring the shot list that is a list of each shots/scenes that show what will be taken, where it is taken and who is in the scene. 

Notes:

Notes will be taken before and during the filming prices. Generally for noting characters positions, shot angles, props advise, tips and anything else that might be note worthy. 

Risk assessment and Extra precautions

Risk Assessment:

We will need to asses any dangers that might come about during or after the filming. E.g. Fire will be lit so we need to make sure that the fire is a safe distance from the actors and the equipment, so we will bring a bucket of water incase any major fire happens. Thought-out the filming process we will have to make sure that no-one hurts there self with anything around them and if they do we will have an adults phone number just incase we need help. 

The Extra precautions we will need to consider is:

.Does anyone have a serious medical condition?
.Extra clothing
.The weather conditions
.Safety of others
.Wild life

What are the roles to be taken and who will take on these roles?

Roles to be taken:
1.Filming the opening shots
2.Filming the process of production
3.Promting the actors- Guideline movements/acting
4.Preparing props for use
5.Sound editor- Editing and analysing correct filming and sound distributions
6.Lighting- Someone checking the light for filming is correct.

Who will take on these roles:

Mea:
Role:
Number 4 and Number 2
Reason:
Mea knows who to do SFX make-up and collecting/ sorting out the equipment and props needed.



Hannah:
Role:
Number 1 and Number 6
Reason:
Hannah knows how to work a camera in any environment.



Rachel:
Role:
Number 3
Reason:
Rachel knows how acting should be done in a professional standard due to being a drama student.



Taylor:
Role:
Number 5
Reason:
Taylor is a music student so she knows how to use the software.

Planning - Producing A Shot List

Shot List

Introduction

From creating this shot list it will allow us to get all of the shots we need to when coming to film. The advantages of this is when we're out filming it will allows us to get all the shots we need and tick them off as we go a long.

Shot	Shot type	Actor	Description
1	Establishing shot		High crane shot above the campsite.
2	Establishing shot		Moving towards the camp.
3	High angle shot	Tim	Picking up camera from floor.
4	Mid shot	Tim and Chad	Conversation between the 2 actors about the camera dropping.
5	Close up	Tim	Tim blowing and wiping the dirt of the camera
6	Panning shot	Tim, Chad, Billy and Jodie.	Panning around the group and people saying stop in a jokey manner.
7	High angle	Tim	Tim showing his shoes while walking.
8	Point of view	Tim, Chad, Billy and Jodie.	Time showing the camera around the campsite.
9	Close up	Jodie	Tim zoomed into her face.
10	Close up	Tim, Chad, Billy and Jodie.	Tim starting a fire and everyone else setting up the tents in the background.
11	Close up		Fire lit
12	Close up	Tim and Jodie	Realizing that Chad has gone missing and having a conversation about going to look for him.
13	Long shot	Tim and Jodie	Camera pointing through the woods but occasionally at Jodie.
14	Long angle		Starting getting darker and not sure whether to go back or not.
15	Long shot		Of woods to show that they are still walking.
16	High angle	Tim and Jodie	Both start panicking and run back to camp. See their shoes and blurry trees.
17	Point of view	Tim	Point of view shot through Tim’s eyes as he falls over.
18	Point of view	Tim	Slowing blinking and hearing Jodie loud high pitch voice but she isn’t in sight.
19	Long shot	The girl in white (TGIW)	TGIW starts getting closer to.
20	Close up	TGIW	Getting closer
21	Mid shot	TGIW and Tim	Looking over Tim
22	Close up	TGIW and Tim	Hitting Tim until he is unconscious
23	Panning shot	Tim, Chad, Allison, Billy and Jodie.	Panning shot of all the groups face when they are unconscious tied up along the tree.
24	High angle	TGIW	Recording her feet walking up to them all tied to the tree.
25	High angle	TGIW	Recording all her tools laid out on the bed.
26	High angle		Hearing the girls screaming
27	Point of view	TGIW, Tim, Chad, Billy and Jodie.	Get interrupted
28	Point of view	Tim, Chad, Billy and Jodie.	Showing them all tied up to the trees
29	Point of view	Tim, Chad, Billy and Jodie.	TGIW speaks Latin to them
30	Mid shot		Panning around the room towards the tv
31	Mid shot		The news report on the tv showing the girl.

Planning - Considering Mise-en-Scene For Your Opening

Mise-en-Scene

Introduction

Every single detail on this page will extremely help us organise what we need to buy or gather to make our film more professional and interesting. Most products we have but some will have to be brought and we would need to do some research on this to make sure we buy the best product.

Costumes

Chad

Clothes:

Chad would wear a tight fitting white T-shirt to outline his muscles 

and dark blue jeans with fashionable trainers. He would carry a jacket or jumper and wear it occasionally. 

Reason:

The reason for this choice in clothes is we think that it outlines his personality and shows that he is obsess with his appearance. 

Images: 

White T-shirt



Dark blue jeans



Nike trainers



Grey jumper

• Billy

Clothes:

Billy's clothes would be a big dull coloured jacket with baggy/lose dark blue jeans and some simple trainers.

Reason:
The reason for this is that Billy's clothes need to be baggy and boring to make a chilled out look to represent his personality.

Images:

Big dull jacket

Baggy dark jeans

 

  

Basic trainers

• Jodie

Clothes:

Jodie's clothes would be a checkered shirt, glasses, band T-shirt, black trousers, conserves or docs and long hippie necklaces.

Reason:
We have chosen these clothes because it highlights that she is geeky, urban and chilled.

Images:

Checkered shirt

Glasses

band T-shirt









Black trousers



Docs

  

Long hippie necklaces 

• Tim

Clothes:

Tim would wear something smart but casual like beige trousers, camping boots, brown opened top and jumper.

Reason:
The reason for these chose of clothes was to express Tim's personality of being a smart and kind lad.

Images:

Beige trousers 

 

  

Camping boots

brown open top

Jumper

• 'The girl in white'

Clothes:

The girl will be wearing a white vintage looking nightgown.

Reason:

The reason for this is to highlight that she has ran away 

and that she is a scary little girl.

Images:

 

White nightgown

        

 

 

 

 

Props

We need:

• A pair of glasses

Reason:
The reason we need glasses is for the character Jodie to make her vintage image stand out more.  

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• Torturing tools

Reason:
We need these props as without them there wouldn't be any clear reason to what  'The girl in white' is going to do to the group of teenagers.

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• Wood

Reason:
Wood is going to be used to make fire for one of the night time scenes.

Image:

• Two tents

reason:
One tent is for Chad and Billy another tent is for Tim and Jodie. The tents makes the audience believe that there are camping and staying in the woods in the middle of nowhere. the second tent is incase the first tent break.


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• Ropes

Reason:
The ropes will be used to tie up all the group to the trees to highlight that they have been kidnapped and about to be murdered and eaten by 'The girl in white'

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Equipment

• Laptop

Reason:
We need the laptop to connect to the TV to show the news clip that we would have made. Without this we wouldn't be able to show the news story.

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• Car/Van

Reason:
When we go to film we would need a car or van to take us there and back from locations, if not then we wouldn't be able to get to our destination in one trip.

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• Two cameras

Reason:
We might just need one camera but we will bring two just in case one of the cameras runs out of battery or we need to film one thing at to different angles at once.

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• Lighter

Reason:
The lighter will be used to make the fire and without it we would struggle making the fire for the night time scene.

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Planning - Casting For Your Opening

Casting

Introduction

The reason for making this page is to help me and my group decide who will be playing the characters in our film and why. This page will help us though-out the rest of our planning as it will help are decisions in mise-en-scene, shot list and treatment.


1 
Their name: George                        
Characters name: Chad

Their age: 16                                  
Characters age: 18

Their personality:  George is a joker that stays to him self but talks to anyone when he wants.
               
Characters personality: The character Chad is annoying, rude and acts like a jock and a joker. He is the oldest of the group so he picks on people but says its a joker and doesn't notice he can hurt peoples feelings. 

Reason for picking George: We picked George to play Chad as he physically and mentally suits the character. We all know that George is confident and will do what we say in front of the camera.

This is a picture of George who is playing Chad.

3
 Their name: Alex                    
Characters name: Billy

Their age: 16                                    
Characters age: 17

Their personality: Alex is sometimes quite but also very confident and sometimes annoying. His look is a typical teenage boy with a bit of a chilled out vibe.
Characters personality: The characters personality is somewhat the same as Alex's as in the clothes he wears. The difference between them is that Billy is has a slow chilled out vibe to him and when he talks its either a joke or something rude. Billy and  Jodie are a couple and there relationship is a typical horror movie relationship as there personality and physical appearance is what you normal see in a horror movie or any movie.

Reason for picking Alex: The reason we picked Alex was that we all knew that he would suit the part because his looks matches the characters name and personality. Also half of his personality is the same as the character Billy we want him to play.

This is a picture of Alex who is playing Billy. 

4 
Their name: Ophelia              
 Characters name: Jodie

Their age:  16                                  
Characters age:  16

Their personality: Ophelia is unique, loud and confident but also resembles the typical social media geek. She is kind and sometimes a bit strange but in a good way.
Characters personality: The characters personality is she is a quiet shy girl that looks cute as in she wears glasses and band T-shirts. Jodie is the youngest of the group and keeps herself excluded when she doesn't want to speak her mind. She has moments when she is confident and leads the group in certain situations which no body would expect.

Reason for picking: We picked Ophelia as she defiantly looks like Jodie's personality. We also picked her as she has a feel of acting from GCSE. As well Ophelia's unique confident side would match Jodie's confident part of her personality successfully.

This is a picture of Ophelia who is playing Jodie

5
Their name:  Ashley                  
Characters name:  Tim

Their age: 16                                
Characters age: 17

Their personality:   Ashley is a know it all who is confident but secretly shy. He looks like a cool geek who loves science and maths.                    
Characters personality: The character we want Ashley to play is gay, shy and smart. He wears very urban geek clothes that include boots, jumpers and bland tops.

Reason for picking Ashley: We chose Ashley as he has a shy, chilled side what he can put into the character. Ashley also does A level drama and did GCSE drama, so we know that he is not afraid to get in front of a camera and do what we say.

This is a picture of Ashley who is playing Tim.

6
Their name: Alice                      
Characters name: 'The girl in white'

Their age:  16                                  
Characters age: 12

Their personality: Alice is sweet, kind, cheerful and funny. She wears cute normal girly clothes but can act very boyish.                  
Characters personality: The character we want Alice to play hasn't really got a personality but she looks dull, dark and lifeless. The character walks slow but with a blank sad looking on her face.

Reason for picking Alice: The reason we picked Alice was because she is small and young looking so she would suit being a 12 year old. As well we wanted the girl to look scary but still cute and Alice's long dark brown/black hair and olive skin perfectly mirrors the girls image. 

This is a picture of Alice who is playing 'The girl in white.'