Shooting Schedule

The shooting schedule is vital to our opening sequence , it will enable our group to sufficiently organise our groups activities and to prioritise certain shots and what accompanies those shots. Our group will be able to manage time wisely as a result of using a well structured shooting schedule. Members of our group will also know exactly where they have to be and what time they have to be there. This will prevent any confusion and will help us to finish our needed shots accurately and to a good standard as a result of the shooting schedule.

Casting

Casting

Who will be involved in the casting and be in role of the characters involved?

Kevin will be playing the role of the police officer.

James will be playing the role of the Freddie this person, is the antagonist that is focussed on within the opening sequence and stereotyped to be the ‘bad guy’.

Chanel will be the female character who is the innocent character and being chased by ‘Freddie’.

Kevin: Kevin will be performing the role of a police officer. He is a very mysterious and hidden character as he is presented throughout the opening sequence in the dark. This is very useful as is adds a lot of tension within the audience as they wonder and continue to wonder who this man is in the dark and when will he be revealed and why is he hidden. He wears normal formal clothes presenting him as a normal person just with a just to him as he is in the darkness. The police officer will be middle ages, so 30-40 to show that he is powerful and not old and vulnerable. Making the police a male enables him to be clearly more powerful than the girl being interviewed as men are stereotypically presented as the stronger gender. The only part of the his body that is revealed from the darkness is his hands which brings major relevance to the opening sequence.

James: Another unseen character which is mysteriously chasing Chanel leaving the audience in wonder as to why he is chasing her. he is quite an icon as it brings many questions to the audiences head as to why he is chasing her, what is he doing in the area at that time, who is he etc. 

Chanel: Chanel is the main character who is extremely vulnerable throughout the opening sequence. We chose to make the victim a female as females are stereotypically presented as the weaker gender and that males have more power over them and are more dominant as they are physically stronger, this is why the other two characters are males.

Animatic

The animatic helped us visualise the scene, therefore allowing us to improve the opening scene. The animatic allows us to see how long and how the opening scene will be , this will make it easier for our group to shoot the scene as we will have a envisioned preview of what we feel is going to work.The animatic will also help us improve our execution of the scene and will make things easier as we will know exactly which shots to shoot

Script

The ritual opening

Mary Shaw is running through a forest. Wearing dirty black clothing.Mary is on the verge of fainting , it seems as if she's been running for years. It's unknown to the audience what she's running from.A voice is heard over this scene

Police officer

Mary Shaw , 19 years old , Blonde , Caucasian, female. 5ft7. Now then Miss Shaw, tell me exactly what happened.

Mary Shaw

I was just walking...This..man , he came after me.

Mary is visibly upset , she puts her hand towards her mouth and she is mumbling

He wouldn't stop...he was..

POLICE OFFICER

Take your time.Do you remember what he was doing? What did he look like?

MARY SHAW

I couldn't see him , he was hidden in the dark. He was tall..dark clothes.. pure evil

POLICE OFFICER

Did you see his face at all?

MARY SHAW

NO! Please I know he's still out there , he won't stop , everywhere I went he was there!

*Mary starts sobbing uncontrollably *

POLICE OFFICER

You're safe here , please don't be upset.No one is out to get you , you're perfectly safe

*Drinks water*

MARY SHAW

He grabbed me , I ran so far...He wouldn't stop, he was strong , a big man , nearly ripped my arm off!

POLICE OFFICER

So you were  close to him ...yes?

MARY SHAW

Yeah

POLICE OFFICER

When he grabbed you , did you get any sighting of his face , any distinguishable features?Anything at all

MARY SHAW

Mary ponders for a moment


I...
*cries*



POLICE OFFICER

Please..madame. There's nothing to be afraid of understand?

MARY SHAW

*Nods*

POLICE OFFICER

Good. Now then... can you recall anything else?

*At this point the police officer , brings his clasped hands towards MARY and reveals he has the same ring as the attacker*attacker

MARY SHAW

Mary looks terrified , she looks at the ring and lets out a scream

Storyboards

Voxpops

Taking these voxpops has allowed our group to gain some valuable insight in to what will work in our opening sequence as well as what wont. The questions asked gave us a clear understanding of what people want out of a horror film and what they expect , its through these voxpops that our opening sequence will be altered by.

One idea we are going to incorporate are the woods. The woods have connotations of evil and darkness and this will help us to give the audience the full effect of a horror genre film. In the woods you don't know what could be hiding, so we've taken this idea and used it for our benefit .

The darkness will also be used in the opening sequence in the form of low key lighting this will work as many horror films usually have low key lighting and this adds to the wanted effect of spookiness and evil in the film.