Update on today's filming

Unfortunately we were unable to film what we planned to today.  This was due to our location not being available for us today.  However, we will be filming on Monday 29th October.  We are planning to film all of the inside scenes with Jason and Ella as well as the master shots of them outside the house.  Once this has been filmed, we will only have the party scene to film and we will be ready to start editing and adding titles.
Instead of the filming today, we completed our animated storyboard and did some shot experimentation, both will be posted shortly.

Filming Can now begin!

We are now ready to start filming our feature trailer as we have completed all the planning for it, including the filming schedules which will be posted onto the blog soon.

Our first filming session will take place tomorrow, October 25th.  We will be filming the inside scenes where Jason and Ella start noticing paranormal activities. 

Shot experimentation

Below is a montage video of experimentations of the difficult shot in the bathroom that we are planning to use in our trailer. We are still not sure how we are going to master the shot, At the moment the idea is to make it 3 separate cuts. However if this becomes too difficult we may find a different way of filming this particular scene.

Storyboard

We have now completed creating our storyboard in pages.  Now we have done this, we will be animating it using iMovie and then adding an idea of sound we will use in the actual trailer. However this will not be the official soundtrack we are using in the final piece.

In our storyboard where the shots say "HOW LONG WOULD YOU LIVE?" in between each word we will have a series of fast cuts. These will be of Ella and Jason running, flicking lights, Ella being dragged along the floor and the scary figure in the garden. We have not presented these in our storyboard incase we decide to do different fast cuts. However we will update our blog with any details of changes to our storyboard.

Casting shots

We have taken casting shots of Alice (the protagonist), Kirsty, Lily, Jessie and Ellis who all play the other characters that take part in the experiment. Kirsty as well as playing that role also plays the role of the masked figure.

Alice Foster

Ellis Simmonds

Kirsty Smart

Location shots

It is very important for us to take location shots so we can clearly see if the location idea we have will work with our film idea.  Below are our location shots including a shot of the outside of the house, a shot of the main room we will be filming in and a shot of the bathroom.

Transcript

This is our final transcript for our feature trailer: 

MUSICAL SCORE FADES IN

JASON AND ELLA WALK HAND IN HAND, HUGGING

(ECHOED LAUGHTER)

FLASHBACK TO PARTY

SPIRITUAL GUY: Highcliff Manor... Stay away 

SHOT OF HOUSE APPEARS 

SPIRITUAL GUY: No one can explain what happened

QUICK SHOT OF DEAD BODIES FLASHING 

SPIRITUAL GUY: No one comes out alive 

ELLA AND JSAON OUTSIDE HIGHCLIFF MANOR 

ELLA: Bet ya £10 you can't last the night!

TEXT: SOME PLACES

JASON: Race ya!

INSIDE HIGHCLIFF MANOR

ELLA: Bathroom, be right back 

TEXT: ARE BETTER LEFT ALONE

ELLA: JASON!

JASON RUNNING TO ELLA 

ELLA CRYING : There was something there!

FLASHBACK TO ELLA SEEING SCARY FIGURE

ELLA: I saw it, I swear!

JASON: Don't be stupid it's all in your head

(TV TURNS ON)

JASON: What the..?

ELLA: It's unplugged!

(BANG FROM UPSTAIRS) 

ELLA: What's happening 

JASON: Lets get out of here 

(DOOR LOCKS) 

(LIGHTS GO OUT)

(HEAVY BREATHING AND HEARTBEAT IS HEARD) 

(LOUD FOOTSTEPS) 

(ELLA SCREAMS) 

FAST CUTS OF DIFFERENT SHOTS 

TEXT: HOW
              LONG
                 WOULD
            YOU
             LAST 

JASON: ELLA!  

JASON LIGHTS A MATCH

SCARY FIGURE APPEARS 

TEXT: WHAT LIES WITHIN

TEXT: OCTOBER 31st