Shooting.

We started filming on the 10^th of November at the first location which was the house. We waited till the day got dark so when recording it would create a atmosphere. For example because it is dark it will put a mood of evilness in the audience and a sense of mystery. For the house location we used one of our team member house (Micheal). This was a perfect location as it matched with our synopsis, and the mise en scene went with our trailer. We also had to make sure the recording was not delayed due to the cold weather. On the 12^th November we filmed are second section of the trailer, this was at the second location in the forest. All our actor met up at a time we set and made our way to the location. We had some problems in getting our props and thus tried to adjust to the props we had.

Risk Assesment

Before we go to our location to shoot are trailer we have to take into account any risk that can happen during the shoot on our actors and anyone involved in the shooting.

we have took our time visiting the location and found the following risk and any possible solution to these

Health and safety

we had to do health and safety check so that there would be no chance of anything dangerous happening or anything illegal. We allowed Alex ( group member) to do this task.
http://alex-wade.blogspot.com/2010/11/health-and-safety.html

Questionnaires

we came up with a questionnaire to find out more about our target audience.

Here is the link to the questionnaires : http://year13ascoursework1.blogspot.com/2010/11/research-into-target-audience.html

Target audience

• · 15+
• · Male and female
• · Interested in horror genre
• · Interested in technology , social networks
• · Allowance of more than £10 + a week
• · May have a part – time job or volunteer

Charlie is 16; he lives in the city with his mum and dad in a two bedroom house. His mum doesn’t work, while his dad is a cab driver. In his free time, Charlie likes going out with his friends to the cinema on a weekly basis and spends around £5.60. He has his own laptop at home which he uses to keep up to date with his social life and what’s happening around him.

Here is the results of our questionnaires

http://year13ascoursework1.blogspot.com/2010/11/questionaire-results.html

Most of the people who answered these questionnaires where our target audience. This gave us boost in what was required in are horror trailer to make it successful. We took into consideration, the likes and the dislikes were in current horror films from our target audience and we will try to implement them in our trailer.

In considering the location of the film we asked what our target audience what location appealed to them when watching a horror film. We considered five location haunted house, mansion, school, forest, a house. From our results the most popular location was the forest, and when asking the audience what appealed the most in the horror film they said the location. So we took this very seriously in planning our trailer. We decided that one of the locations must be the forest. Also, many complained that horror films are just not real enough these days and so we have tried to keep the trailer as real as possible by using minimum effects. In addition, we decided to use a mixture of fast and slow pace shots in the trailer as this was what our audience suggested makes trailers more effective than others. Reflecting on the results from the questionnaires we will closely follow what the opinions of our target audience is because they have said that what attracts them to go and watch a film is mainly the trailer and so we must make them trailer as effective as possible in attracting out audience.

Reschedule/change of location

We had decided a day and time for shooting our trailer but we came across a big problem. The location we initially wanted to shoot was occupied and we weren’t granted access to us. We had to be calm and organized, after lengthy discussion with each other; we tried to find a location which was the most similar to the initial location. After visiting the forest in Woodford we decided that our new location to shoot will be Woodford. The reason for this is it met the same requirement to our first location. We have now created a new shooting schedule for this day.

Organising props and costumes

When decided that our killer would wear a white dress when shooting. This reason for this is to emphasis that she is just an innocent young girl. We had many option in which ways we could get ourselves with a little dress. Buy a new one from the shops, she could use her own dress or borrow a dress from a costume shop. We decided that there was no point in buying a new dress for one day of shooting as this would be very expensive. We didn’t want her to use her own dress as it might get stains which may not be able to wash out and thus we went for the most cheapest option is borrowing the costume. I called up the drama department in regards of borrowing the costumes for are actors and also visited them in to allowing us to borrow the costumes. After discussing with them my intention they said yes they would allow me to borrow the costumes. I also spoke to them about the props we could borrow for the trailer, they were very helpful and allowed us to use any of the props and costume that was available.