Changes

Me and Sian are going to film the opening for 'You're invited' together, but then seperate when it comes to editing the film. This is because Sian is being entered for the June examination, whereas, I will entered in January.

Planning towards filming

In my last post i said that Sian and I were looking for halloween props so we could begin our filming for 'You're Invited'. This has proven to be a difficult task as we can not get hold of any halloween decorations, therefore, we have made the decision to change Emily Booth's Halloween party to an ordinary party.
Now, we have made this decision and going to collect normal party decoration and begin filming for our teen horror opening as soon a possible.

Planning towards filming

Both Sian and I are beginning to plan towards starting the filming for our Horror Film Opening. We are going to collect the props we need to decorate Emily Booth's house so we know we will have it in time for filming. Also, the camera angles and what we are going to actually film we wrote down on paper so we have something to work from during the filming process, this is to ensure that we don't miss anything vital out and make it easier for ourselves so we can concentrate more on getting the footage correct.

Preliminary Task

Once Sian and I had filmed the footage we needed for our Preliminary Task we then used the software 'Final Cut Express' to piece all the footage together. Above is the video of our final product. The reason for us to produce a Prelimary Task was to get familiar with the how the camera works and to see if there is anything we could pick up on our finished piece that would help us with making our Horror Film opening better.

Something that we noticed was that the conversation in the Prelimary Task doesn't run entirly smoothly, therefore, if we decide to put any conversations in our film opening then we will have to ensure that this does not occur. A way in which to stop this from happening would to be to leave a longer pause between each person's line so that when editing the film together we can cut the clip easier.

In the Preliminary Task you can hear the background noise, this will happen when we film our Horror Film opeing. To eliminate this will have to remove this sound and add our own nondiegetic sound into the opening.

Another mistake within our Preliminary Task is that Sian looked at the camera for a split second, this can be done unconciously. When filming we need to tell our actors/actresses not to look directly into the camera.

Location.

Location 1
When filming the front of this house will be a close up, we are hoping that this will cause tension as we need this for our plan to work. This location is good because the house looks dark and gloomy and it would fit in well with our film.

This location would work because it's a long street and we can film people walking down it however as you can see alot of cars are about this could cause problems with filming because everything could become a bit crowded.

Location 2

If we use this location then obviously the car won't be on the drive as this could make things crowded when filming. When this will be filmed this will be a close up of the house.

With this long shot, this is where we plan to have the murderer standing facing this angle taking deep breathes to create tension. I think this is a good view of the house because it's on a hill and we can get a good view of the whole street, also the road doesn't get too full of cars.

Preliminary task

Me and Sian are planning to film our preliminary task, once we have done this we will import it onto an iMac. When we have imported our footage we will edit it to make it run smoothly, this will be done on Final Cut Express.

Casting

In order to find the right actors/actresses for the parts in the film Sian and I are going to produce a pen portrait for each character. This gives us an inital overview of what each character is going to be like.

Pen Portrait
Name: Emily Booth
Age: 18
Personality: The popular girl at school. She knows what she wants and always gets it, she'll even go out her way to make sure she does. Emily could be described as the leader of the pack and has the believes she has the authority to tell people what to do.

Recruiting
Sian and I have came to the decision that we are going to choose are final actors/actresses through friends. The reason for this is because we know our friends very well, what their personality will be like and whether or not they will be good on screen. Therefore, will be able to make the decisions we need on who will be chosen.
The rest of the cast will be groups of people that will be seen walking towards Emily Booth's house for her halloween party. As no specific skills are needed for these parts we are going to recruit a group of people by asking if they would like to play these background roles.