Wednesday, 21 October 2009
Wednesday, 14 October 2009
Independent Film Festival Reaserch
After reading through the treatment i realised it may be advantagous to research some independant film festivals that our product could be shown at.
http://www.leedsfilm.com/
http://www.filmstock.co.uk/home.html
http://www.londonindependent.org/
Group Discussion 14/10/09
Group discussion
Today we talked about the various camera shots and angles that we were going to use for different parts of our short film, the story board and possible locations.
Story board
After completing the story board we are going to scan the pictures, cut them out using photo-shop and then produce an anima tic, after making some changes to the story board we are also going to be altering the screen play in order to match the story board.
Possible locations
We discussed possible locations to film certain scenes for our short film
Scene
1. House at night with woods near by – Andrew’s house or Joe’s house
2. View from eye’s of the stalker – same locations as above.
3. Transaction.
4. Arm of stalker with watch – on a street near college – Moorgate road.
5. Tilt up to see prey – same location as above.
6. Zoom closer to the prey – same location as above.
7. Pan left to follow the prey – same location but as the “prey” moves we walk around the corner of Moorgate road.
8. Medium shot of prey getting on the bus – Moorgate road so we can show it’s the same road but next to a bus stop.
9. Transaction.
10. establishing shot of the house – Andrew’s or Joe’s house
11. the front door - same house
12. plant pot on floor – same house
13. transaction
14. key being placed behind the pot – same house
15. close up of key – same house
16. transaction
17. shot of stalker picking up the key – same house
18. tilt to the door – same house
19. close up of key being used – same house
20. track back and forward into dark room – room in college, Andrew or Joe’s house
21. Shot of stalker seeing paper faces and weapons – Andrew’s garage.
22. Close up of mans foot after blow – same garage floor.
23. camera picked up – same garage
24. transaction
25. shot of stalker trapped – same garage
26. close up of face – same garage
27. insert shot of paper faces – same garage
28. medium shot of stalker shouting help – same garage
29. transaction
30. Credits.
Tuesday, 13 October 2009
Treatment
Treatment
Synopsis: A Stalker follows a killer and gets his comeuppance.
Details of target audience:
18-40 years old.
Predominately male, but some female.
They both going out to the cinema, and take interest in niche sub cultures, such as independent films.
They will also be involved with online interaction and online culture.
Plot Summary
A stalker regularly follows a normal community figure. The stalking has been going on for sometime so the stalker knows where the prey will be each time of day. However on the 6th of June 2006 something goes terribly wrong for the stalker. The stalker decides to break in to the preys house where his carefully planned scheme goes horribly wrong.
Shortly after entering the garage the stalker is shocked to see what lies within; knifes, hammers and chains, along with pictures of people with eyes cut out on the picture, these are not what someone would expect to find within the garage of such a person, but before the stalker can escape, he is knocked unconscious.
He awakes to find himself belted to a chair, where he looks up and sees his own image with the eyes cut out, like many of the other pictures he witnessed when entering the garage, the scream then acts as a sound barrier into both the theme song, and sound effects that play over the credits rolling.
Characters:
Stalker - Unseen until the later sections of the film, aiming to look quite menacing.
Murderer - Appearing as a friendly community figure. Dressed Casually.
Extras - Richard Taylor, Ruby Harman, George Brailsford and Chris Beevers will all be dressed casuals as background characters.
Recce
Health and safety notes: Health and safety will be taken into account; the nearest first aider in collage is Maxine In room reception.
The main health and safety issues will be wires/ camera’s and some setting up some props for the mise en scene such as the angle grinder and knife.
Friday, 9 October 2009
Pre Filming Research
We did some pre-filming research on camera angles/shot types/soundtracks etc, using this example text.
Wednesday, 7 October 2009
Group Idea Progression
- Dispute in the group between using either Saw music or Classical music. Asked in the questionnaire to solve it.
- Saw music was decided after receiving 60% of votes
Location discussion to which street to use for the street sequence, and to either use a garage or a basement. - Decided on Garage.
- Prop list slowly developed over time. Ideas of lists published.
- Story Line basically solved from beginning. Adding additional twist e.g eyes cut out.
Exchange ideas. Film Festivals, YouTube, any other short film website. Possibility of online viral. - Type of weather, day/night and time the film will take place.
- Which extras will be best to use and how many needed.
- How the murder is going to appear to the stalker.
Costumes which maybe used during production. - What angles would be best for a particular shot.
what type of camera will be used. Either handheld or still. poster and double page spread layout. - Pictures that need to be taken for the poster and double page spread.
The theme of the film. choosing between horror, thriller and slasher. - The types of lighting which may be used. Low key, natural and high key.
Friday, 2 October 2009
Evaluation of our presentation
In evaluation to our presentation i found it useful as the questionnaire has helped us finalise our descision of making a horror themed short film, and also decided the soundtrack; we where choosing between either the Saw theme or a classical piece, the result being the Saw theme, here are the results for the questionnaire presented in a pie chart, 
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