Allocating Job Roles

Before constructing our trailer, me and my group had to allocate job roles. This made the filming and editing so much easier and everyone had a part to play. This also made it fair as we did not want one person to have to take responsibility for the group and the tasks that had to be completed. Although we allocated job roles, we all had an input in the construction.

Ivana: I played a big role as I organised each and every time the group and actresses were meeting to carry out the filming. The group liked me to take the responsibility for this as I am very organised and live right nearby where we were filming. I also came up with the storyline and planned out most of the shot by shot scenes.

Georgia: She was good at ensuring we had all the correct equipment each time we filmed. Georgia also knew how to edit our trailer as she had watched tutorials shown by a member of staff.

Ramarna: We assigned her the job role of actually being one of the main characters (The killer). As she was away on holiday for some of the filming, she played a big part in the editing and contributing her ideas to that.

However, we all contributed our thoughts and how we could improve our trailer as it was a shared piece if work. I thought my idea of filming in Royal Arsenal was a really good idea as the streets were plain, old looking yet empty. So it was easy for us to film without distractions or having to wait for people as they walked past. Ramarna had the idea of showing a shadow as that is one of the paradigms associated with the horror genre. The killers feet and knife were depicted as a shadow as he followed the girls.

Shooting Schedule

Date and scene and shot type	Location	Mise en scene/ props	Actors needed	Narrative
Monday 5th March, Scene 1 Medium, long, close up shots	Royal Arsenal- dark alleyway	Dark alleyway, leopard heels, mobile phone, knife, large black jacket/clothing	Anna, Dannii (Main girls) Ramarna (killer)	Girls followed whilst walking
Monday 5th March, Scene 2 Establishing, point of view shots	Royal Arsenal- isolated green by Thames	Killer behind the tree	Anna and Dannii	Watching the girls from behind a tree
Monday 5th March, Scene 3 Close up, medium	Royal Arsenal- dark alleyway	Anna’s leopard heels, black jacket, knife	Anna and Ramarna	Killer catches Anna (protagonist)
Monday 5th March, Scene 4 Long shot	Dannii in tunnel	N/A	Dannii	Hiding in tunnel from killer
Monday 5th March, Scene 5 Long shot	Royal Arsenal streets	Bag, knife, black clothing, fake blood	Dannii and Killer	Dannii is being chased by the killer
Monday 12th March, Scene 6 Medium, close ups	Anna’s room	Mirror, leopard shoes, cupboard, make up, rollers in hair, iphone	Anna	Anna is getting ready (period of equilibrium)

Monday 12th March, Scene 7 Medium, over the shoulder shot	Anna’s house	Photos of girls, red marker, black clothing	Killer (Ramarna)	Killer is standing and staring at his collection of photos (of the girls)
Monday 16th March, Scene 8 Medium, close up, long shots	Ivana’s house	Knife, bath, sink-water running, stairs, torch	Ramarna (As Anna)	In the killer’s house. Running up the stairs away from him. Still shots of her eyes, under the bed.

Risk Assessment

Research Into Similar Magazines- Empire

I decided to use some ideas from this particular Empire cover as it looks really professional yet simple, which is the approach I wanted to take. Megan Fox is on the cover as she plays an important role in Transformers, so I decided to have Anna on the cover of my magazine instead of the killer or rest of the actors. The background is white so the font and font colours really stand out and the readers are automatically drawn in to the photo then the text.

Research Into Similar Posters- Prom Night

I decided to make my poster similar to this one as I really liked the ambiguous questions it presented to me and I wanted my poster to do the same. It is fairly simple yet effective and easy to understand what the film is about. To me, the dark colours suggest the film will tell a dark narrative. 

My Horror Trailer Script

Using Todorov's theory of narrative. 

Scene 1: Equilibrium

Candice and Sarah in bedroom- painting nails. Couple of words said and laughter. To ease/comfort audience. Medium shot.

Scene 2: Moment of disequilibrium

Long shot to establish the scene. 'Stalker/Killer' possibly behind a tree watching the girls walk.

Then the girls are walking through the quiet part of town.

‘Did you hear about George?’     (jump cuts throughout)

‘Did you just hear that?’ Sarah (Dannii) turns around with camera- Point of View shot. As she turns around someone quickly walks past at the end of the street.

The girls speed up. (music speeds up, intensifies)

Killer’s room filled with photos of girls- Candice and Sarah circled in red marker

Camera shows all photos, zooms in particular photo of the 2 girls.

Sarah’s phone rings (music stops as phone rings)

Candice is grabbed (killer’s point of view- canted angle when he grabs her)

Then the shot of the killer’s hand around Candice’s mouth (muffles- music stops, canted angle shows unstableness/terror)

Scene 3:

Scene 4: Sarah is chased; hides behind bush and car (heavy panting/breathing)

Loud scream at the end (blackness) 

Period of disequilibrium: release date & coming soon.