Monday, February 7, 2011

Poster first draft

Production meeting notes



Location photographs

Call sheets

Casting

Shooting schedule

Script breakdown

Animatic

Storyboard

Script final draft

Audience research

Character breakdown

Script 1st draft

First scene list

1. INT. CINDYS HOUSE - NIGHT

Establish how parents are angry at their daughter -confiscate phone and grounded for this weekend, takes down friend number before gives her dad her phone.


2. INT. CINDYS HOUSE- NIGHT

Parents go to the opera ' not contactable for couple of hours' girl is home alone. First suspicious shot from outside watching into the house as car drives off. 'Handheld shot someone watching into the house'.


3a. INT. CINDYS HOUSE- NIGHT

Girl calls friend to get her friend her (from a landline 'friend makes comments about using a landline'). Suspicious hand held shots watching in on her as she walks around the house. Goes to make popcorn (either in a microwave or a sauce pan) goes to put a movie on, getting ready for when her friend arrives. Walks away (phone rings again) its her friend. (Phone rings again) it’s her friend. (Phone rings again) unknown caller. In this phone call- 'wants to speak to a Mrs. or Mr./ tells the caller neither are at home, puts phone down.


3b. INT. CINDYS HOUSE- NIGHT

Doors bell rings no ones there, standing lookingout phone call goes again shuts the door to answer the next call. Unknown caller again- gets a bit suspicious tells him how she has a friend coming over, he makes inappropriate remarks (slumber party). Walks around the house to make sure all the doors are locked. Phone rings again. This time the conversation is a 'guessing games' that each other are. Gets flirty but leads into a creep conversation (the unknown caller knowing what she looks like) as conversation goes on he tells her how he knows what she’s wearing- conversation gets deeper and he gets more aggressive to a peak where she puts the phone down. Doorbell now rings (contemplates whether to open it or not)


4a.INT. CINDYS HOUSE-NIGHT

Phone rings again 'are you seriously not going to let her in' .the teenage girl is very scared now- looks through the window, opens the door to her friend. Her girlfriend is standing in front of her crying which blood pouring out from her stomach. She falls to the ground screaming, until another friend pops out holding a phone and a speaker voice 'scared of a little ketchup'.


4b. INT. CINDYS HOUSE- NIGHT

Realizes her friends have made a practical joke on her, but then the phone rings again.

FADE OUT

Notes on short film

Audiences

The main aim of my project of making a 5 minute film is to captivate the audiences full attention and drag them into my narrative and story line. It's not just about having a good narrative, but also about the way it is filmed and the camera techniques that are used.

Seeing as I am doing a horror movie, instead of having steady cams the whole time, i want to have a shaky camera in alot of it to emphasise the fact that someone is looking into the girls house from their point of view and it makes it seem more dark and horrific and also is more realistic to the audience and interesting to watch.

I also want to include many long shots of the house that the girl is in from outside of it to make the audience question whats going to happen inside the house. close up shots are vital in this film, for example when the girl hears a knock at the door, there will be quick cuts and close ups of the girl shutting all the windows and locking all the doors abruptly to show her fear.

Here are some of the ways which audiences can be defined:
AGE
GENDER
RELIGION
ETHNICITY
SOCIAL CLASS

My short film is aimed at the 16-20 year olds as my audience of both sexes.

An idea for my short film 3-5 minutes

Many script writers and film producers base their narrative and story line on past experiences and things which they fear. i have joined up with my friend domi who shares the same fear as me in the sense that i am frightened of someone watching me without me knowing. whenever i return home from being somewhere alone, there is always a fear of not knowing if someone is in my house or not.

The movie which grabbed my attention in particular was 'Scream'. i have decided to do a horror movie this year as it gives me an opportunity to explore a different genre to last year which was a teen drama. i always get a thrill out of watching horror movies and thrillers and my main focus is to create the same atmosphere and feel to my film that i get when watching certain horror movies by other film makers.

I'm going to base it on a teenage girl whos parents leave her home alone, while she waits for her friend to come round she receives unknown calls from someone who is watching her from outside her house.

Short Film Analysis: three

Short Film Analysis: two

Short Film Analysis: one

Embed a short film you have seen and analyse it in terms of the following elements:
-What attracted you to this film?
-Genre
-Narrrative
-Mise-en-scene
-Camera
-Editing
-Sound

3 Favourite Directors

Who are your three favourite directors and what do you like about their films? Which is your favourite film of each? Support with images or videos.

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