Schedule for first session of filming

Our first session of filming will take place on the Thursday 2nd of December.

We have sent round a text to each of the members of cast to ensure that they are around to film that day.

The girls all replied to the text saying those plans sounded fine.

On the day we will all leave school at 2.30 and drive to white hill. At we will set up the camera and do the first part of the filming which will be the girls in the car. We will then travel to Caterham valley where the house we are using is. We will organise the girls and start our next bit of filming. As it gets dark we will go over to the woods across from the house to film our scene in the woods. Are aim it to get all the filming done on this date. We can then go on to edit in class and if we need to redo scenes we can. Filming everything at one time will help with continuity in our trailer, as what the girls are wearing, lighting, and atmosphere will change when we have to refilm.

Allocation - 2

We have created another task allocation list for the production of our trailer, magazine and poster. This is to evenly spread the work within the group.

Trailer Tasks
Directing - Beth and Ella
Filming - Charlotte
Lighting - Group
Editing - Group

Poster Tasks
Taking the photos - Beth
Production - Charlotte
Final Edits - Group

Magazine Tasks
Taking the photos - Beth
Production - Ella
Final Edits - Group

New story board

As we edited out shot list we had to create a new story board. We did this story board in much more detail, for each shot we named the shot wrote an explanation and listed how long each shot would be. After looking at the story board again and doing some more research we realised that the release date is usually the penultimate frame and at the moment ours is are final frame, so we have decided that it would look more like a real film trailer if we added in an extra frame in at the end of the story board, This extra frame will contain the web adress for our film and the directors name meaning that the release date is our penultimate frame. This is our new story board:

We filmed our story board, we filmed each frame for the amount of seconds it will be on screen. We did this to find out how many seconds our trailer would last for.

Shot list

After looking at our shot list we decided it was not detailed enough so we have re-done it in more detail:

1. Production label flashes up
2. Pan of car driving past
3. Text - Starring Eleanor Failes
4. In the car found footage girls excited about weekend away
5. Establishing shot of house with car pulling into the drive
6. Girls walking into the house two remain by the car
7. Dialogue camera on one of the girls 'i have heard stories about this place'
8. second girl 'oh don't worry it will be fun'
9. long shot of girls walking in to the house.
10. Text - lets play a game . . .
11. Shot glasses birds eye view shot with ouija board visible when they bring down the glasses
12. Girls doing the ouija board hands on a glass on the board
13. one girl acts possessed
14. shot of two girls panicking
15. shot of the other two also panicking
16. Girl possessed laughs because she was joking,
17. 3 of the girls laugh along with the original one shown in a medium shot
18. another gets angry and throws board on the floor and says 'this isn't even working, lets just stop' other girls go silent shown in a medium shot
19. Phone rings close up
20. phone rings again and girls all look
21. Text - If your brave enough . . .
22. Close up of girl picking up phone hears white noise
23. Girl slams down phone close up
24. Lights turn off and all the girls scream
25. Flashing up images ... girl running up the stairs looking behind screaming
26. Girl runs in to kitchen
27. close up of opening the draw and frantically grabs a knife
28. girls turns around and holds up the knife
29. medium shot door slams
30. girl runs up to it to try and open it screaming 'What are you'
31. girl running through the woods looking behind her
32. Point of view shot chasing the girl through the woods
33. girl trips
34. Point of view shot getting closer to the girl zooms into her face as she screams 'Somebody help me'
35. Title 'Darkness Awakens' fades in
36. Tagline 'Do You Wanna Play' fades in
37. Release date '20th July 2011' fades in

THINGS TO STILL DO

Setting- Pictures of houses/woods- still need charlottes house and woods and my woods

Ouija Board- Make one

Music choices

Costumes for each girl- need one more potential outfit.

Still needs gerogies video and two potential outfits

Costumes for our cast

It is important that we pick suitable outfits for our film trailer, we need to reflect the girls personality's and our film trailer. As the girls we are using are teenagers the will all already have their own individual dress sense's. We need to make sure they look like typical teenage girls. As the girls are going to a holiday home and not a party we will make them wear fairly casual clothes and give each girl there own individual look.

We have picked out each girl two different outfits, after looking at them we will decide which one they will be wearing for the trailer.

When choosing our outfits we need to consider different things to make sure they fit in with our trailer and so they follow suit in other films, These are the things we will need to consider.

- Colours- It is important we pick colours carefully, the colours of the girls outfits can act as symbolisers and encourage different moods and reactions. For example bright colours could represent a happy love film.

- Personalities- Each character will have a different personality and it is important that there outfits portray this character. For example the tomboy would wear jeans and trainers, the girly girl would wear skirts and lipstick.

- Variety- It is also really important that there is variety between each outfit, if all the girls looked the same it would become monotonous.

These are potential outfit number one for each of the girls. All of these outfits are quite casual and this is good because this is day to day wear of a teenage girl. As the girls are going away we obviously want them to look nice but they cant look to dressed up because this wont fit in with the scene. We will look at one other outfit for each girl and then decide which outfit they will wear.

Story Board

Story boards were originally used in Walt Disney the famous children's movie producers. They began by drawing images on separate pieces of paper, pinning them to wall to make a sequence which then subsequently gave them the idea of a story board, because of this story boards have now become an essential part of planning/creation progress.

We thought a story board was essential as it would give us a pre-visualisation of our trailer. It would also help us when we went to begin filming as it would give us a sequence to follow.

We have also decided as a group to use Longacre's theory in order to help create

a good enough model for analysis of texts. There are 8 sections to Longacre's theory.

Here are a list of the sections and how we will apply

them to our own story.

Aperture: The "once upon time" opening- Girls happy and excited on the way down to holiday house

Exposition: Containing vital information about time, place, local colour and participants-arrive at house and talk about stories they have heard about the house

Inciting moment: The moment when things start moving in a story, when the predictable movement of the exposition is broken into- Begin to play ouija board

Developing conflict: When the action intensifies- lights turn black and fast, action shots begin

Climax: When matters come to a head and con

frontation and "final showdown" become inevitable- one girl is chased into the woods

Denouement: A crucial final event occurs and makes resolution possible- girl falls to ground and stange thing approaches her

Final suspense: Details of the resolution are finally worked out

Conclusion: Some sort of satisfactory end is arrived at

This is our story board. Ella w

as in charge of creating the story board and this is what she produced. Ella has done a step by step picture and explanation of the production we are going to make.