PRODUCTION MEETING
In this meeting we discuss who was in charge of the following..
FRANCESCAS JOBS
- Editing
- Sound
-Camera
-Producer
DOMINIQUES JOBS
-Director
-Cast
-Location
-Scheduling
-Props
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DAYS OFF FILMING
Monday
Tuesday
Thursday
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CHARACTER BREAKDOWN
EMMA
16 year old girl
From london
Goes to college
Bit spoilt
Popular
Confident but nieve
Lives with her parents
DAD
40+ year old married man
Smartly dressed
Authoritive
Caring
SOPHIE
16 years old girl
Best friends with Emma
Same college as Emma
Always up for a laugh
UNKNOWN CALLER
16 year old boy
Friends with the girls
Very deep voice
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PROPS NEEDED MUST HAVES
Magazine or Book (plain book no pictures)
Popcorn
Mugs
Kettle
portable phones
Knife
Torch
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These are a few photos of the inside of our location- the photos taken are where we want to be point the camera. The reason for why we chose this location as we both felt it had a haunted house effect, its a big house which gives us a lot of options of filming rooms and allows us to have a variety of choices.
we have to pay a lot of attention to the conventions of a horror movie- one of the conventions are from the camera movement, the effect of how we use our camera will either have a huge effect on the audience or wont. if the audience are not effected then we have done something wrong.
ACTRESS SOPHIE
ACTOR ABOVE UNKNOWN CALLER
The reason for why we chose all these specific characters, and the reason for why we chose myself to play the part of 'Sophie'..we wanted a group of kids with different appearences but all had a bond, we wanted similar backgrounds, similar accents so everyone new they were all friends.
(SCENES )
1. INT. EMMAS HOUSE- NIGHT
Establish how parents are angry at their daughter -confiscate phone and grounded for this weekend. Parents leaving smartly dressed to the opera.
2. INT. EMMAS HOUSE- NIGHT
First suspicious shot from outside watching into the house as car drives off. 'Handheld shot someone watching into the house'.
3a. INT. EMMAS HOUSE- NIGHT
Girl calls friend to tell her to come over. Suspicious hand held shots watching in on her as she walks around the house. Goes to make popcorn. Gets ready for friend to arrive. Walks away (phone rings again) its her friend. (Phone rings again) it’s her friend, Emma starts to get aggravated that her friend keeps calling and hasn’t left yet. Phone rings again this time an unknown caller. Who wants to speak to a ‘Mr or Mrs’ but sounds more interested to know if Emma is home alone.
3b. INT. EMMA HOUSE- NIGHT
Doors bell rings no ones there, standing looking out phone call goes again shuts the door to answer the next call. Unknown caller again- gets a bit suspicious -he makes inappropriate remarks (slumber party). Walks around the house to make sure all the doors are locked. Phone rings again. Gets flirty but leads into a creep conversation (the unknown caller knowing what she is doing) as conversation goes on he tells her how they are playing a game. Gets more aggressive to a peak where she puts the phone down. Runs down the corridor to make a phone call and the unknown caller is still on the phone. Doorbell now rings (contemplates whether to open it or not)
4a.INT. EMMA HOUSE-NIGHT
'are you seriously not going to let her in' .the teenage girl is very scared now- looks through the window, notices two bodies dressed in black.
4b. INT. EMMA HOUSE- NIGHT
moves into the kitchen to find a sharp object for comfort. More noises come from outside and Emma gets worked up creeps to the door, in a quick movement opens the door and stabs Sophie in the chest not realizing its her friend.
(SCRIPT)
(SCHEDULE)
(PROP LIST)
(INDEX CARDS)
(CLIP OF OUR PRODUCTION BOARD)
How did our filming go?
Looking back at the week of our filming i am pleased with the organising and the set up of our location. Franki and i would spend an 1-2 hours going through each room of the specific filming days and from our index cards figure out how we will do everything. By the time our actress came 'Stephanie lester' we were ready to pep her and film as soon as possible. At the time we were re doing each scene over and over again in different angles so when we came to the editing suite we would have a lot of varieties of shots to chose from. Although haven uploading our film onto the computers supplied at school i can say that im not as happy as id like to be. I have realised that some of our shots where unstable and not good enough for my liking, also there is a scene where we have broken a rule therefore it is vital for us to re do that shot. I am happy with our film and believe once we have cut everything together added the sound effects we will have a horror movie. But i wont supply it until it is perfect and it is not perfect at the moment therefore we have scheduled our actress to re shoot with us very soon and having that done and dusted i will be happy to carry on.
HERE IS A CLIP OF OUR OFF THE SCENES....
How were our actors?
Dad- Andrew Saffrin appeared in a short amount of time giving a very convincing role of a strict father who had grounded her daughter. Andrew Saffrin has no experience in acting he offered to help us and we gave him a go. Its a shame that we are not happy with the technical part of the scene as the acting from both part emma and dad were very convincing although we will be re shooting this particular scene due to bad camera work.
Sophie- Myself played the part of Sophie. Sophies face only appears in the final scene and we will being using my voice for the voice over throughout the phone conversations. The phone voice over is something that we will be doing once we are back at school.
Unknown Caller- Julian Wogman appeared to play the face of the unknown caller although we will not be using his voice, we have yet to found a voice that fits the part of a creepy scary caller.
Emma- Stephanie Lester a performing arts student played our main character, when it came to the lines she had learnt them all incredibly well. She never let us down on the timings she was scheduled to get to the location and she was filled with enthusiasm and was very professional. She played a convincing part of a teenager of a big family. She was home alone and showed a comfortable vibe in front of the camera. Throughout the night fear was built up and by the end of the movie we are hoping to once all our clips have been edited together to have made a convincing ending. Which was Emma killing her friends as she thought they were intruders.
Phone booth
For our Movie we are also going to create an poster for it to advertise in cinemas, to be the front cover, to advertise on billboards.. So above are all horror movie poster which will help us and show us how to create a conventional horror movie poster. We have an idea of what we would we would like and this is our 1st idea...we want to have a black background with a centre image of a red phone ..in the picture above we are thinking of designing our poster with a red phone adn the phone line.
This is the draft made on paint- for the final piece i would design is by hand and then print it onto the computer and edit it from there.
POSTERS
Phone booth
is a great movie..the reason for why i have researched the poster for it is because in our movie we dont want to be telling the audience straight away what our movies about just give them one hint and then they can get excited. when this movie came our and i saw the poster for it i felt like i had to see it because i had to know what is was about.
All of these are conventionial horror posters. I know this because a conventional horror movie poster would have a black background,
either white or red writting, a powerful image, thin big writting, maybe blood or a mask...
For our Movie we are also going to create an poster for it to advertise in cinemas, to be the front cover, to advertise on billboards.. So above are all horror movie poster which will help us and show us how to create a conventional horror movie poster. We have an idea of what we would we would like and this is our 1st idea...we want to have a black background with a centre image of a red phone ..in the picture above we are thinking of designing our poster with a red phone adn the phone line. This is the draft made on paint- for the final piece i would design is by hand and then print it onto the computer and edit it from there.
DRAFT OF POSTER-
MOVIES REVIEWS..
For our Short film one of the other media products we must create is a review of our movie..
A movie review is a Film criticism which analysises and evaluates the films, individually and collectively. In general, this can be divided into journalistic criticism that appears regularly in newspapers, and other popular, mass-media outlets and academic criticism by film scholars that is informed by film theory ...
DRAFT FOR REVIEW-
unfortunately franki and myself are not happy with our film. we have finished editing and looking through our footage after being edited we didnt like it. therefore we will be re shooting!
