FILMING: Getting started

Today we tested and tired out the new equipment  the school has provided for us. For our trailers we are using big and better technology than any other year before and so we will have the best coursework of any year before.

PLANNING: Target Market

To give more of an insight into my target market I have created an pice of what our target markets interests are:

Demographics and Pyshographics

My target market will be the mass market of working class urban males and females aged 15-20, that enjoy watching films, especially horror films and love the thrill of horror films. This is because I believe their is a gap in the market for London/UK based youth horror films and if marketed and put together well could be extremely successful.My film poster will most likely more marketed and placed in popular urban areas where people of this age would be like:

- A Bus Stop In Camden Town

- A Billboard in Angel Islington, this aswell as Camden are filled with young people shopping during the day and partying during the night and will be perfect places to market my film.

- On the 29 as this bus travels to Wood Green, Finsbury Park, Camden Town which are urban areas populated with thousands of people of my target market. It also goes to Trafalgar Square which is a consumer filed area in central London.

Uses and Gratifications

The uses and gratifications of my trailer would be to escape from the troubles and the world of reality and watch something entertains our audience. Another use and gratification would be to identify with the characters and  or even t be able to socialise with friends and talk about the movie and how it was.

The use and gratification ofthe trailer itself is for surveillence an to be informed.

PLANNING: Certificate

The British Board of Film Classification is the organisation that gives all films, videos, DVDs and video games in th UK there age certificate in the UK.

As our film is targeted at an adolescent, young adult audience the certifate for our film will be 15.

This means no one under the age of 15 can legally watch this movie as it will contain some/all of these below:

• Adult themes
• Hard drugs
• Strong language
• Moderate violence
• Mild non-detailed sexual activity

Our film will contain all of the above

PLANNING: Adobe After Effects

In class we experimented with a program called Adobe After Effects. With this program we used different fonts, effects and layouts we could use for any writing that we will use in our trailer.

This program will give us a chance to be able to play the writing as film and add it to our trailer easily.

PLANNING: Storyboard

These are storyboards of our trailer...

Here we can see that the characters begin at heath next to a tree drinking, smoking, celebrating etc. It then cuts to a midshot of  Bess and Jack. The scene from the heath is quickly followed by a scene of them climbing over the school wall. Here there will be a voice over of Jerome saying "Lets break into the school". There will be a point of view shot from the inside of the building as well as a establishing shot of the actually building to show the audience that someone is watching them.

In this scene their is a couple that wander off into the toilets.

Here they hear a noise and the girl asks him to go see what is it. This is scene where the boy looks around is the hallways similar to the scene from the Saw trailer. There will be shots from the front, back and side of him before he is attacked.

The girl left in the toilet then sees the killer past the toilet door and running back into herr cubile. You do not see the killer however a hang grabs her foot and she screams.

Their other friends hear her scream and turn their heads. This is when the trailer pace becomes very fast and is filled with quick shots and lots of cuts.

PLANNING: Marketing Strategy

To create a huge buzz for our movie we must step out outside of the box, instead of doing just the normal conventional film trailer and movie poster we will creating a marketing campaign that will bring our character to life and blur the line between fact and fiction. The purpose of a horror film is to scare and to do some the film must as realistic as possible to make the audience feel a real fright.

To do so we have use social networking site Facebook to bring our killer to life and install a sense of fear into the public. Using Facebook we have started a petition against the release of a killer in North London. This will generate talk of this killer as if he is real and make people see this fiction as reality.  We have included newspaper articles on the killer, recordings of the killer talking to his psychologist, a police sketch and more.

PLANNING: Character Profiles Name: Bess

'Final Girl' – Our final girl is played by Bessie Carter. She is an upbeat character with ambitions tolive life to the full. Name : Claire Age :17 Birth Date : 05/05/94 Birth Place : Poole, Dorset Eyes :Hazel/Green Hair: Brunette/Long Other Facial Features/Other Appearance Details: Caucasian, pretty, older looking than her actual age, tall, long legs. Dress : Trendy, casual style. Mellow neutral colours Description of Home :Large house in Easthampstead. An old exterior with a mixture of period styles in the interior. Dominant Character Trait :Sentimental Secondary Character Trait :Resourceful Best Friend :Jack Enemies :None Other Friends :Rest of cast Family :Mum and Dad still together. Has an older brother at university – doesn't see himoften but they are very close. Closer to Dad than Mum but he spends a lot of timeaway working. What kind of person is character with others :She is extremely laid back and tries her hardestto not let things get to her. She can get a littlestressed with work as she takes her futureseriously. She is kind and generous and doesn'thold grudges for longer than a minute. WithJack she is laid back and comfortable. She tellshim everything and forgives him anything nono matter what. With Jade she laughs a lot; theycheer each other up in an instant. Sees Self As :Fun, loving and passionate Seen By Others As :Caring. Generous, fun loving and laid back. Sense of Humour :Has a good sense of humour and can laugh at almost anything however shedoesn't care for humour that is got at the expense of someone else. Temper :She has a short temper with her Mum. Ambitions :Wants to be a Neurologist but enjoys painting and sketching on a regular basis. She hopes to make enough money to be independent of her parents. Educational Background :Went to a Private school from Nursery to Secondary but moved to aState school for the best education to suit her needs for the 6 th form.She would like to go to university to emulate the success of her brother. Work Experience :She works in the gallery of a family friend and has done so since theage of 14. It is a part time job and half of the money she makes thereshe saves to enable her to go on holiday with her brother eachSummer. Talents :She can draw effortlessly and has a good eye for perspective and colour. She has played both piano and cello from a young age and has taken up the guitar when shewas 15. She can sing and was in her church choir from the age of 16. Hobbies :Her talents double as hobbies. She also enjoys roller-blading but isn't very good atthis. Choice of Entertainment :She enjoys American Sitcoms and nature programmes.

PLANNING: Character Profiles. Name: Jay

PLANNING: Character Profiles

PLANNING: Character Profiles

'Hoodie' – JACK STEVENSON

Our Hoodie is played by Jack Purkis. He is a strong character but sensitive at heart, buthe'll hardly show this to anybody.

Name

: Jack  Stevenson

Age

:18

Birth Date

: 15/12/93

Birth Place

: Brighton

Eyes

:Brown

Hair:

Dark Brown, grown below his ears

Other Appearance Details:

Rosy cheeks, button nose, soft features,approx 5' 9” tall, striking full eyebrows.

Dress

: Sporty casual, hoodies and jeans. Rugged and slightly scruffy.

Description of Home

:A two storey cottage on the outskirts of Bracknall, bordering EastHampstead.

Dominant Character Trait

:Careless

Secondary Character Trait

: Sensitive

Best Friend

: Louis

Enemies

: Some groups of boys around the Bracknall/East Hampstead area.

Other Friends

:Rest of cast.

Family

:Mother and Father separated. Father lives in Brighton; he and his mother moved toBracknall – his mothers home town – when he was eight years old. No siblings buthad a brother, twelve years older than him who died from Septicaemia when Jack was four so compensates for this by his closeness to Louis.

What kind of person is character with others

: He is not demonstrative in groups. Only revealshimself to people he knows well.

Sees Self As

:Subconsciously puts himself down, shouldering the blame for his parents separation.He thinks he is smart and hopes for a good future.

Seen By Others As

:Caring, gentle, a little aloof but close friends know that he always haspeople's best interests at heart.

Sense of Humour

: Healthy sense of humour but shies away from joining in jokes that are obviousand do not involve his closer friends. He finds Louis' personality very funny,encouraging him to spend as much time as possible with him.

Temper

: Things relating to his parents or similar situations he remembers his parents beinginvolved in pushes his buttons.

Ambitions

: Wants to achieve what his brother had hoped to achieve working for charities in Africa.This was in the establishment of fertile agricultural projects that would allow theindigenous population to be self supporting.

Educational Background

: Rudolf Steiner School in Brighton for his first year (Reception), thenmoved to private school in Bracknall from which he later transferred toa state school for his sixth form years.

PLANNING: Character Profiles

'Pretty Boy' – Our 'Pretty Boy' is played by Adam Ward. He is vain and slightly arrogant howeverdoesn't let this get in the way of his personality. He hates it when others bring themselves down,especially the people he cares most about, thus always tries to raise their spirits.

Name:   Adil                           Adams

Age: 18

Birth Date: 16/10/93

Birth Place: Bracknall

Eyes:Blue

Hair: Mousy Brown

Other Appearance Details: Caucasian, Slim and medium height.

Dress: Casual designer (Hollister, Abercrombie etc)

Description of Home:  3 floor maisonette in Warfield, décor consists of bold expensive furnitureand ornaments. Main entrance hall taken up by large central staircase breaking into two to follow round, joining at the halls.

Dominant Character Trait

:Thinks he's always right – and usually is.

Secondary Character Trait

: Clumsy drunk

Best Friend

: Out of school family friend, Jason, known since reception.

Enemies

: None

Other Friends

: Rest of cast

Family

: Parents still together, lives with his three sisters – one older, his twin and one younger - andhis baby brother Gareth. Father works as a lawyer whilst Mother works from home,renting out rooms in their home for magazine photo shoots.

What kind of person is character with others

: Very patient and accepting of others. Sees familyas very important thus always works to maintainkeep the affairs of the family smooth and happy.

Sees Self As

: Kind and giving. Thinks he's hilarious - although some may argue against this due tothe fact that most laugh at him rather than with him.

Seen By Others As

:            generous, loving and funny

Sense of Humour

: Enjoys making jokes although can fail to get a response from others.

Temper

: Keeps his temper to himself

Ambitions

: Wants to become a professional model and hopes to start his own clothes line whenhe finishes school..

Educational Background

: Attended state schools in Bracknall from reception – his family do not believe in private education.

Work Experience

: Has Modelled for Hollister for the past 2 years, before that worked andmodelled for H&M and Gap from an early age with his twin sister.

RESEARCH: Adorno Culture Theory

According to Adorno's theory the trailer I am creating would be classified as Low Art. To Adorno any popular media product such as trailers are Low Art and creates false needs such as the desire to be distracted from our everyday lives rather than engage in them. He also says that the culture and media industry encourage commodity fettishism as being good. He said things such as opera, plays and Shakespeare were forms of high art as they make you think and stimulate the audience, rather than making the audience obsessed with objects and materialism. He said that all media popular products may appear to be different but the same thing and do not offer anything new. He would disapprove of my film trailer and say is it 'Low art'

I do agree that some types of media can be quite mind numbing, however I do not think he has the place to choose what high and low art is. I believe art is art and there is no high and low, but different art speaks to people in different ways.

PLANNING: Casting

When casting our trailer we were lucky enough to know two great young aspiring actors to play the main parts in our trailer/film, Bessie Carter and Samuel Adewunmi. For the other 3 roles we casted myself, Jade Igilima and another boy who was a part of our group, Adam Ward.

Our Synopsis

A group of five youths spent their friday night getting drunk in a local park. One of them suggests to the others that it would be fun to break into their school. Reluctant at first, they are soon persuaded. They gain access over the front wall and in through a back window. The couple of the group make for the girls toilets to indulge in some smooching. They are disturbed by the sound of a door closing in the hall. The buy leaves to check it out. He does not return. Increasingly anxious, the girl goes to investigate and finds her boyfriend's blood-soaked body lying on the corridor floor. She screams.

The rest of the group hear the scream from a far. They are unable to find the source of the screaming and one by one they are murdered in like fashion, leaving the 'final girl' alone and terrified. We, the viewers, know through a cutaway sequence of a television news report being viewed by a member of the group's parents, that a psychopath has escaped from Broadmoor Prison. After the grueling experience of being bound and captured by this man, the girl manages to escape, hurdle herself back over the wall and to a nearby pay phone where she calls for help.

RESEARCH: Make-up & Effects

I had an oppotunity to speak to an industry professional about make-up and special effects.
She showed us

Using a volunteer she showed us how to create the illusion of a cut/slash on someone using make up. She also showed us how dummies and prosthetics are used to create more effects. She told us that the makeup used on the character must reflect their personality, dislikes interests and more.

PLANNING: Inital Ideas

After thinking about making our movie realistic by using hand-held camera movement I watch a horror film that does just that called Quarantine, about people who are purposely trapped by a higher authority into a building where there us a vicious disease which turns people into zombie like creatures and one by one everyone is turned into the Zombie like creature.

PLANNING: Inital Ideas

This is a spider diagram of the ideas we first came up with as a group

PLANNING: Synopsis

This a short and quick paragraph about our plans for our synopsis:

5 friends are having and laugh and getting drunk on heath and then decide to break into their school on the weekend and get up to mischief. As they as there they begin to lose each other and one by one slowly die. The killer is a crazy man who was obsessed with toys and children, especially her. After stalking her as a small child he was sentenced and put in prison. Now he has escaped from prison and is back. He goes back to the school in an attempt to get alone time with her he kills all of her friends one by one. Believes he is doing no wrong as because she is over 16 she is now legal.

PLANNING: Settings

Today me and my group found a place within our school that we could use to film. It is dark, dirty and looks very scary and is a perfect setting for our movie that we could use. It has red writing on the walls and looks deserted. It is very simular to the settings of the saw movie.

PLANNING: Initial Ideas

I think that in our trailer we could use a scene similar to the first scene of this trailer where the man is looking around in his apartment and he is jumped by something/one. It builds anxiousness and tension.

Research: Stock Characters

These are conventional characters that seem to pop up  frequently in horror films that I may be able to use in my own

Coonventional Stock Characters

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