Song difficulties

We had advice from our teacher when discussing the song choices and we have decided that we will no longer use the Lana Del Ray cover because it is not sad or eery enough. Instead like one of our other songs, we are using garage band to create an more spooky perilous sound. We have also thought this would be good as it will show our diversity in finding and making different materials for our film.

Songs for the ending of the film

Film, ending song


This is one of the songs for the film. This song appears for a few seconds when the audience sees that Megan's character, Scarlet has died. I have created this song on garageband an app on the mac computers. It was important to create our own music as it creates a wide variety of things used throughout the movie and to show our understanding of the scene. In the search for finding an appropriate clip of music, the original music was copyrighted so we were unable to use it. The cover's of these were not appropriate enough and didn't create the effect of sadness that was needed. Therefore i created my own music and feel it is useful to use.

Mise-en-scene

In this short clip we discuss what the mise-en-scene is. throughout we had a few disagreements to do with settings and certain aspects of the mise-en-scene. Abi's bedroom is no longer going to be used due to personal difficulties that disallow us from filming there so instead she is using a friend's room. We had disagreements about lighting but settled on the agreement that we needed low lighting and curtains closed to show the continuity of the time.

Animatics

This is our animatics. the film 'Who's Next' will be hopefully be based on this animatics creation. These drawings have become the basic outline of what we want our film to look like. It is useful to have the animatics as it gives us a guideline and allows us to tick off certain events that come throughout the movie. Although this is a guideline, we decided not to do exactly what it has on the animatics. For instance, Kimberley (Cassie) is drawn with her hair up in the animatics however we have put her hair up and to the side in the actual filming. We have also changed some characters makeup to suit a wider audiemce. However the makeup wasn't a major focal point within the animatics. In addition, when we were filming, the animatics proved useful as they helped us to tick off one of our requirements- match on action, two of our characters use a mascara in the mirror to help continue the shot and add fluency.

Institutional features

The institution we have decided to use in the production of our film is Summit Entertainment. This production is  based in the USA. Since 2006, Summit has become an independent production company after working with Lions Gate and Universal. Although they had officially launched as Summit Entertainment in 1993 as a production, distribution and sales organisation.

Some of the films that Summit have produced include:
Sorority Row (2009) - Thriller film - directed by Stewart handler.

The Twilight Saga (2008) - Romantic Fantasy Film- directed by David slade.

The Hurt Locker (2009) - American War Film- directed by Kathryn Bigelow.

The Darkest Hour (2011) - Science Fiction Thriller Film- directed by Chris Gorak.

Sinister (2012) - Supernatural Horror Film- directed by Scott Derrickson.

Escape Plan (2013) - Action Thriller Film- directed  by Mikael Hafstrom

Part of the reason why we chose to use Summit productions was because their genres tend to be based around thriller and fantasy movies for example: Twilight and the movie sequels. Because of the fact that our film is a thriller we chose to use this particular production company. We were looking to use The production company: Universal, however we decided against it as Summit seemed to be a more close-knit genre of film type. After lots of research we have found that, 'Sorority Row' is most like our movie. Because it has similar aged characters (uni grads) and there are sexual scenes- females dressing provocatively, kissing etc. The age audience is also of an older limit as the film is filled with cruel and horrific scenes of death.

The film that we are creating we have chosen the genre as a Thriller film because of the features that it contains, for example the murderous mystery man. The features that we are including in our film is that there is a realistic and natural representation of 4 young girls who  are excited and are getting ready for a massive party. The killer is not a natural representation of every day life as we have indicted that he is sociopath on the war path. Although you  hear about people who kill within the news and media, sociopaths appearing in everyday life is a rarity, which creates a more intense feel for the audience when they watch our short film. The film could also be seen as a detective type film 

Props log

Our props log ensures that we film without fearing we have forgotten any props. Within our short opening film we will need:

• Fake Blood

• White Bed Sheets

• A Knife

• 4 Mobile Phones

• Alarm Clock

• 3 Mirrors

• 2 Mascara’s

We need fake blood in our film to show the death of Scarlet. The blood will be smeared all over her chest and on her bed sheets. We wanted to use a lot of blood because we want to show the deep wound created by the knife and to show she will be bleeding a lot. We will also have the blood on the murder weapon, the knife,  to show that it was used to kill her. 

We are going to use white bed sheets,  as this will will emphasise the redness of the blood and you can see the juxtaposition of the blood and the plain bed sheets. White is also a pure colour which could signify her innocence, this will create sympathy for the audience as she did not deserve to die. The blood red colour could symbolise the sins of the murderer and the pure white sheets could show the oxymoron of Scarlet's innocence.

We are going to use a kitchen knife as the murder weapon. In the film the murderer will be holding the knife with blood all over the blade. We decided to use a knife as the murder weapon, because it is intrusive as it requires the killer to be up close to the victim. This was obviously easier than using a gun as a gun would be hard to come by and  fake gun would be hard to convey. With a gun you can use it from a distance, so it's less personal. Knives are also a common household item, so anybody could have one.

We will need four mobile phones because that is how we are going to communicate with each other, it also shows the modern times as we will be basing our movie in the future, it also shows the girls independence as they rely on each other and not a central house phone providing by their parents or guardians. 

We are planning on using a digital alarm clock as an alarm and a way to tell the time as it will tell Eva when to call Cassie and the other girls. 

We will have three mirrors, one for Scarlet, one for Riley (Abigail) and one for Cassie (Kimberley). Scarlet's mirror will have her dress hanging on it, Riley's mirror will be used to put her Mascara on and Cassie's mirror will also be used to put her mascara on. The mirrors are a way of continuing the scene, between the two changing of the characters.

We need two mascaras that will be visible in the shot because you see Cassie and Riley putting their mascara on. This is also how we are going to link their scenes, at the beginning of the film. 

Production Schedule

Filming Schedule.

Date	Location	Animatic Frames	Actors	Props	Camera Filming
PlanA-30/10/13 PlanB-02/11/13	Megan’s Bedroom	2, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15	Megan Daniel	Fake Blood White Sheets Knife Phone Mirror	1needed. Abigail
PlanA-14/11/13 PlanB-16/11/13	Kimberley’s Bedroom	3, 8, 9, 10, 17	Kimberley	Mirror Mascara Phone	1needed. Chantelle
PlanA-15/11/13 PlanB-17/11/13	Abigail’s Bedroom	4, 5, 9, 10, 18	Abigail	Mirror Mascara Phone	1needed. Megan
PlanA-17/11/13 PlanB-19/11/13	Chantelle’s Bedroom	6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 19	Chantelle	Phone Alarm	1needed. Kimberley

Editing Schedule.

Editing Dates	A-02/12/13 Period 2 B-03/12/13 Period 5 C-04/12/13 Period 4 D-05/12/13 Period 1 E-09/12/13 Period 3
EMERGENCY DATES	A-10/12/13 Period 2 B-10/12/13 Period 5 C-12/12/13 Period 2