Shooting schedule one...

Casting Shots..

ANNA SAUBOORAH as ZOE

CHLOE REDMAN as SERINA


KATHRYN WHELTON as BETH

MARIA SAVVA as AMY

JONNY HODGES as THE MAN

HOLLY BRADSHAW AS YOUNG CHLOE

Planning of Shot.....

Before deciding on the shots we were going to use we decided to roughly plan what we needed to show in our trailer. Briefly we noted down the action and the order in which we wanted them to show. This helped us to finally chose the order of the shots as we could then begin to properly plan our storyboard...

Initial Ideas....

During the inintial planning of our trailer when we had to decide on the genre of the film we made brief and rough notes on the plot and the characters that are going to be in the film. Below is a copy of the notes we made.

Film Title Mindmap..

We made a mindmap of all of our ideas for the title of our film. We liked the idea of having the title as an anagram of the name of the cottage the characters stay in and this is what we decided to develop from. After looking at all the ideas we concluded with the decision to use the name of the cottage to be TALBUR MANOR that when put into an anagram spelt BRUTAL, which is now the name of our film..

Initial Storyboard...

This is the first draft of our storyboard for our trailer. It shows rough sketches of the action however, it is limited because we havent yet shown the camera angles for each shot. However, we are aware of how we want to angle the shots and this will show on the final storyboard.

Synopsis...

Car+Girls+Roadtrip....

As four girls hit the road for the summer of their lives, little did they know it would be their last. The film follows the unexpected happenings of Amy, Beth, Zoe and... Serena. The joyous laughs of the teenage girls are short lived as they approach Talbur Manor where a sudden flashback unravels a series of unfortunate consequences. One of the girls has a sudden flashback from her not so distant past. As they events begin to unroll Serena gathers distorted images which eventually reveal a male figure. With fear and anziety running high, the girls do everything they can to escape the viscious acts of the mstery man. But little did they know that the real offender was a lot closer to home....

= BRUTAL

Questionnaire...

As part of our research, we decided to carry out a questionnaire on twenty different people, ranging in ages from eleven to twenty. We felt that this was a representative sample and therefore would give us a valid set of results. We asked standard questions to do with horror films just so we could get an idea of what aspects to include in our trailer and what people want to watch.

When we gave or questionnaires out the majority of people asked were between the ages of 17-19, however this is alright because most people in this age range are between 17 and 19. The most popular results for question 2 was blood, screaming, suspense and disorientation. The 3rd question was would you want much of the trailer to be given away? And everyone said no to this. In answer to question 4, everyone said yes to it being fast paced. In terms of question 5 the most popular results were eery, creepy, high pitched and nursery rhymes that have a different twist to them. Most people said that they would want a voice over in the trailer, in answer to question 6 and that they would want the characters to be doing the voice over, which was the last question. This has helped us a lot in deciding what features we want to include in our trailer and different ideas have come up that we hadn't thought of initially.

Weekly updates..

Week One

This week is the first week of our production process, it has been successful in the ideas that have bee raised as well as location talks and casting shots.We have completed our target audiences and influences as we have looked at different trailers in depth, to get an understanding of what is effective and would make the trailer more appealing and making the audience wanting more.The casting of characters have been made, and the background of their lives as well as of the film.We have completed our questionnaires, the next thing is too look at our results and to see which aspects are most popular. The next part to complete is our storyboard and fixing in place what comes next.

The process is going well so far and we are on task!

Week Two

Over the past week, we have fully updated with our schedule, draft of a storyboard, casting shots, synopsis along with carrying out the questionnaire and analysing the results. At the beginning of the week, we were going to attempt to start filming the first couple of shots but due to a member of our group being ill, we are now going begin filming on Monday 28th September. During the week, we also went to some of our locations to see we could see how everything will work.

Week Three/ week four

We took a picture to show ourselves on week three because we are going to voice record our update for this week and upload it onto our blogs. However, due to an absence in the group we were unable to audio record our update therefore next week we will produce our update in this way.

On Monday 5th October we were planning to re-film the opening of our trailer in which we filmed last week. However, due to the bad weather conditions that would effect the mood we wanted to show and an absence within the group we had to put this filming time on hold. As a result of this we are now going to film on Tuesday 6th October, filming much more of the shots we want.

As for the filming session we did have last Monday (28th September), we feel that it went really well. Everything we wanted to show was filmed however, the overall feel of the opening section seemed to staged and fake. We wanted it to be realistic but it ended with the whole shot looking planned and set. This is not how we would want it to look therefore we are planning to re shoot the part of leaving the house and packing up the car to make it seem more real to the audience. The handheld section in the car that we filmed looked really realistic and showed the characters much more. From watching back this recording we felt like it was a real video diary of four girls getting ready to go on holiday, and this is how we would like our audience to feel. From this shooting session we have learnt that we have some improvements to make for the re-filming. A major factor we have to re consider is the different camera angles we are going to use therefore we are planning to shoot the same parts but from different angles. For example, when we are getting into the car we are going to shoot from the face on angle at the front of the car, from the back of the car, inside the car and from a high angle to see which one would be more effective.

All of us were dressed appropriately to the characters we were playing and this was also useful as the audience will be able to see the roles each character portrays. During the filming we also took some camera shots so that we can show the setup of the camera and the props we were using. This will show the additional roles we all have as a good filming as well as acting. For our filming session on Tuesday 6th October we are going to re-film the start but also go to the main location of our trailer at Farley Lodge. We hope that we will be able to progress with the filming quicker and be able to show all of the necessities of our trailer. We are looking forward to this filming session and hope it goes well.. x

Week four to Week Five

The clip below was taken during the filming at Chloes Uncle's house in which we were trying to film our comfort scene by the television. We also attempted to shoot a dying scene.

Further on in the week the rest of the group went to Kathryns house to film annas dieing scene for real. They managed to complete this and also experimented with 'the mans' reflection in the bathroom mirror. Whilst the group were filming, i remained in school to complete the titles on the trailer that had the face paced effect of boom boom boom. This took a very long time and became very fustrating because i had to ensure the sounds matched the text at the exact time the text appeared. I managed to complete this in the end however, it did take alot of time and stress but i feel it was worth it because it looks really effective.

Week Five to Week Six

This week was half term for us and we tried to do as much as we possibly could. During half term went to Pickhurst park and filmed Kathryns dead scene as well as Jonny's running bits. The atmosphere was perfect for what we wanted to create and the use of the park was ideal because it looked scarey and messy. The natural surroundings worked really well and we were able to use tree trunks and leaves to add to the effect. On this evening, i took the camera home with me and filmed my death scene which involved me lying on the floor at the bottom of the stairs. The lighting was dark and showed my shadow next to me which looked really good on camera.

The day after we came into school to upload all of the previous things we filmed. This included all our death scenes from our houses and the park. It didnt take long to update and once it was done we were able to begin properly editing our footage to the correct length and quality we wanted them to be.

maria filmed hollys dasncing bit on the friday

week 7

at the start of the week we went to the house to film the outsude parts (looking at house)t

tried chloe doing double blink- didnt work

filmed walking into the house - didnt work

finally everything was uploaded

cut everything into the right bits

week 8

we re arranged it all, editing the titles- which took a lot of work, added effects/sound and transitiions

madse the logo on photshop

experimented with all the music until we found that right stuff