Pre Production Planning: Casting

For our opening scene we needed 1 actor to play the part. A male antagonist around the age of 16-18. Then we need children of a similar age to star as the tension build and the creepiness of the film. We needed the antagonist to be quite tall and possibly to have quite dark features as this would help imply that they were a serious and scary antagonist. The character will be dressed in normal clothes as this creates realism to the audience watching

As the antagonist is the main role and is very serious, we need an actor who will be very professional and has experience. As the the children, they need to have no serious acting experience, just to look scary

So we have decided to get Jack Addis to play our antagonist as he is an experienced actor and has taken both GCSE and A-Level drama. Therefore, we feel he has the necessary traits and ability to portray the role of the antagonist.

                                                Our actor: Jack Addis, main role in the film:
                                                                          JACK

Pre Production Planning: Photos Of Film Places

Here, Laila and I took photos to help work out our final film and to create ideas to how and where we will shoot, and possible angles to shoot as well.

Here is a photo of where Jack will be walking out of, this house is a creepy house and will gain tension to the audience.

Here is a photo of the grave that we will be using as the plan to put Jack's name on it, for the bit where he realises his name is on it and it is his death soon.

Here is a photo of the eerie feel of a forest area, where Jack will be seeing his near death. This eerie location will provide tension to the audience as he gets taken to his death.

This final photo we took is of different eyes, this is so we can get the perfect close up shot of Jack's eyes to when we realises that his death is soon when he sees his own name on the gravestone.

Pre Production Planning: Permission Letter

This is my permission letter to the owners of Church Lane in Middleton Cheney, where we will be filming. I have emailed them to get permission for filming down their road.

 

This is the lane where we will be filming at night. I attached this with the email which you were unable to see in the email. This is so they understand which lane we mean to film, and this is so we can get 100% valid consent from this.

Pre Production Planning: Props

Prop 1 - A rope thats bloody

This would be the rope that our main character Jack will be hanged with at the end of the film. This fact that it is bloody brings a sense of terror and horror as it is associated with previous murders. Using the rope will bring surprise and terror when the character sees the children at the end and gets captured by them. This is in the codes and conventions within a normal thriller and horror. Normally associated with the rope means that death is upon him, and this shot will be around his neck at the end of the film.                                                                                                        

Prop 2 - a gravestone

This will be the gravestone within our film. This gravestone is where the main character Jack would see his name on the gravestone and the date of when the film is set and filmed and the date in which the film is set. This gravestone will be made by us making a plaque to be written in Jack's name with it. This will increase the tension within our film and fulfil the codes and conventions within a thriller and will create horror to the audience. 

Pre Production Planning: Costumes

The main character - Jack

The costume that we would like the main character to wear is going to be normal casual clothes that he would normally wear himself. This is because it all started from him walking out the door, which is why he would be dressed in casual clothes because otherwise, questions would be asked about why we is dressed in a t-shirt that is bloody. We would like him to wear a Superdry hoodie,  t-shirt, jeans and trainers, as this is casual and also trendy.

The children - younger brothers and sisters

The costumes that we would like the children to wear are going to be old ripped bloody clothes, as this would give a scarier portrayal and add more effect. They would be wearing white clothes that are ripped, so it adds an effect that they are creepy and scary and adds to the mise en scene of the dark street next to a graveyard. As well as this, they can wear different coloured eye contact lenses, preferable red so that it brings a scarier effect to it.

Our Own Preliminary Film

This is my preliminary film that I shot with my iPhone 6 and we edited.

Group Preliminary

This is a preliminary task that I edited which we filmed as a group in the different scenes.