Script

Establishing Long Shoot - alley way - slow zoom up the path way

Voice over of a Newsreporter

Newsreporter: Another girl has been found dead at her small home in Hampstead Heath early this morning and another is said to be missing, parent of 21 year old Emily Patch said that when they returned home from work this morning they found Emily's room empty and covered in blood. Police are on the hunt for the missing graduate and are looking closely at the victims as they are said to have all gone to the same academy.

Titles rolling

Cut to - panning shot of a bus

Voice over of Jess

Jess: I'm just about to get off the bus, sorry for being late.

POV shot from killer - girl gets off the bus

Jess: Can you come and meet me?

Cut to - close up of Darrell getting ready

Darrell: No I can't, the cabs on its way and I'm still getting ready babe, you're gonna have to go through the alleyway cause it's the quickest way you can get here.

Cut to - long shot of Jess

Jess: But its really dark and I don't wanna go through there on my own

Cut to - mirror shot of Darrell

Darrell: You're gonna have to babe

Cut to - long shot of Jess walking down the alleyway

Jess: Can you stay on the phone to me?

Cut to - close up of Darrell

Darrell: Yeah course!

Cut to - POV shot of someone watching Jess from the bushes and he is moving around.

Long shot of Jess stopping and looking towards the bush.

Cut to - close up of her concerened and worried face.

Jess: I keep hearing things in the bushes... Hello? ... Darrell?

Cut to - close up of Darrell concerened

Darrell: Jess? Hello? Can you hear me?

Cut to Jess

Jess: Hello?

Cut to - long shot of Jess walking faster and panicking. As she runs faster into the darkness, she trips over something and falls to the ground.

Close up to show she has hurt herself and cut her leg.

When she gets her phone light out, she realises there is a body.

Close up to show her reaction.

Jess: OH MY GOD! (loud breathing) OH MY GOD

Zoom in on I.D tag and Jess's hand picking it up.

When the name is revealed and she notices it is Emily.

Jess: OH MY GOD! EMILY! HELP! HELP!

Jess notices a photo next to the body, zoom in on her picking it up and the photo.

The photo is of her and her friends when they where younger. 2 faces gave been crossed and Jess's face is cricled.

Jess realises she is next.

POV shot from the killer running up behind her.

Cut to a grey and white flash back of a young boy being picked on by 4 girls.

Cut back to POV shot and his hands are raised.

Close up of Jess turning around as the hands are around her neck.

Black screen and over scream

Main Title.

Auditions

Myself and Dean held auditions for our movie and we had many applicants and they where all brilliant and put so much effort into it all. We obviously don't have that many people in our productios but we did need a very attractive girl for our main character who was murdered. We also need a boy to play her boyfriend who we can see she is having a conversation with at the begin of the movie. We also needed someone to be the killer although we do only see his hands as we have all the POV shots from his eyes.

Here is a picture of some of the applicants acting out the murder scene, Dean is watching them and making notes, I was taking pictures but also watching. As you can see we have a girl playing the dead body but during the actual movie we do have a plastic head and body bag that we will stuff with pillows to look like a body.

This is the fake head, we will apply makeup to make her look more dead, and dirty and we will make her hair more messy, you won't see a lot of her face though.


During the flash back we can see a young boy and 4 young girls which we have chosen and they are all very committed to their roles. We will also have to ensure we have a picture of the 4 girls when they are younger as there will be crosses on two of the girls faces, a circle on the next victim which is who we will be filming and another girl with nothing - yet. This will show the audience that the storyline is clearly going to be about the next victim.
Below is the picture we will be using, that the victim will find next to the dead body.

After our auditions we did make a decision on who we wanted to play our characters. Below are their names and pictures so that you can know who they are;

Amber Tweddle: Playing our main girl - Jess





Brett Denton: Playing the boyfriend - Darrell and he will also play the killer as we only see his hands in gloves.

Weapon

After discussing what weapon we could use within our movie and looking back on the comments everyone left on the questionnaire 'what weapon could we use?' we decided to do further research by watching films that use the various weapons and to see what impact they had on us due to the fact we are the audience.

Firstly, we looked at the knife and after recieving positive feedback on this weapon we looked into it being used in famous movies. We looked at the movies Scream 1 - 4 and what impact the knife had when it was being used by the killer. A knife could easily be hidden depending on the size - we wanted to use a smaller knife around the size of a remote control - and this is similar to the the knife used in Scream. A knife would have a more painful effect and it would make the audience almost feel like they can feel what the victim in the movie can film. During the movie, it was the killer who used a knife and this is what the killer was famous for when killing his/her victims.

- The fact that the killer is also wearing a mask shows that he doesnt want his identity to be revealed until the end which happens in all 4 movies. The killer wants to make his attacks quick but also painful so would therefore benefit from having a knife that would have some serious damage to the victim. This also ties in on what the killer intends to do, in the movies, the killers are always after revenge so the knife would indicate how much pain they want to inflict to the victims. For example, in Scream 2, the killer is Debbie Loomis seeking revenge on Sydney for killing her son in the first movie as he was the killer. She uses a knife but at the end a gun although all the previous killings where all with a knife.

So after looking at this weapon we decided that althoug our killer is after revenge we don't want our killer to use a knife as a weapon as we want there to be a more depth into why he is killing these girls. Also the fact that our end shot is a POV from the killers eyes we didn't want to end the scene by him raising the knife as we would then have to prolong our story by showing him kill her which we didn't want to do.


Secondaly, we looked at the gun as a potential weapon and begun to do the same redearch pattern and looking at  movies with the gun as the weapon. We found that the gun was usually used to put a brutal end to someone and to give a more gruesome and gory effect which would then make the audience cringe. We also saw that guns where used in films where the killer(s) where abnormal, for example, zombies etc. and the victims would have to use the gun - which would normally have a risen to being there in the first place - and use it on impact to survive. We looked at Scream and Scream 2 again and also Wrong Turn.

In Scream 2 it was the killer who used the gun which could tie in with my previous point of inflicting pain on the victim depending on why you was killing them in the first place, in this killers case, revenge was why and holding the gun gave her that power and authority but also allowed her the controll on who dies and they cant run.

In Scream it was the victim - Sydney - who was able to have access to a gun - which was left on the floor by a police officer after he was hurt - and killed the murderer which she also did to the woman in the picture above as it as a quick response for her and her friends survivan but she also made sure the killers where actually dead. This also ties in with the victims from the movie Wrong Turn.


In the movie Wrong Turn, the victims are at a fight with their killers which are abnormal creature that live in the hills and kill humans for their own survival. So they would need a very powerful weapon in order to survive especially when there are so many of the creatures and they are probably more strong and know the area well which they have set up with traps to make their prey more easy.


The creatures where all inbred and had traps set up all over the forest giving the victims a disadvantage on survivng so the remaining victims would need to ensure they have a weapon that could work quickly and could kill from the first or possibly second hit.





So after giving it some thought and looking over our research and thinking what weapon would fit our story more, we decided not to go with any of the weapons from the questionnaire. We came up with a last minute idea that we believed worked even better with our killer and his victims, due to the fact he is after revenge, we wanted to inflict pain that the killer could connect with and in a way be satisfied with. We came up with the killer using his bare hands to kill the girls who used to make his life a living hell when they were all younger. We will have the killer using his hands to strangle the girl, also the fact that the last shot is a POV shot from him, we would shown the flash back of what they used to do to him which would anger him even more. Just as his hands raise to strangle her, and she reacts the film will cut to the main title of the movie with an over sound of the scream.

We got our revenge idea from a film called Amusement and a little research on Scream was very helpful as they are all on revenge. We wanted to be different with the weapon being bare hands as in the films we watched as our research they always used weapons such as knives, torture items etc.

Scream - Billy Loomis, seeking revenge for his father having an affair with Sydney's mother leading to his own mother leaving him from a young age.





Scream 2 - Debbie Loomis, seeking reveng on Sydney after she murdered her son Billy Loomis in the first Scream movie.





Scream 3 - Roman Bridger, seeking revenge on Sydney as he was her long lost brother and their mother shut him out and claimed she only had one child - Sydney.



Scream 4 - Jill Roberts, wanting to be the start. Being Sydney's cousin she never got the attention and fame so grew jelouse.

We Gladly Present

We would like to present our Production Name...

Hope you like our design and we look forward to producing our final piece!!!

We Have Decided On A Title!

Hi everyone, we want to thank you for your feedback when we was asking about the title of our movie. After having a discussion and thinking about what title would most suit our production we made a decision on...

I STILL REMEMBER

We think that this would most suit the plot as well as our killer is after revenge on his victims and when we see a flash back we see that after all the years he still remembers what the girls did to him.


We looked into some movies that also have a revenge plot and found it really useful as it gave us more ideas and how to make our production clear and enjoyable to watch!

Audience Research

As you know, our production is going to be a horror. It is going to be very complex and will contain a mystery that has to be solved so for that reason we have decided that our main target audience is both females and males between the age group of 15-21. We think our film would be watched by groups of friends that are just hanging out and having or even a boyfriend and girlfriend at the cinema. In other words this is the perfect chance for girls to be really scared and cuddle up close! 

We thought hard about what certificate our film should be as we didn't think it was too horrific to be an 18 and it was a little too complex and contained some form of horror to be a 12 so we both decided to give it a certificate of a 15. 

We also wanted to make sure that we made our audience realise what the plot and storyline would be and wanted to make sure we really scare our audience and make them feel uneasy watching our film. 

Location Setting.. What Do You Think?

Hiya, myself and Dean thought we would give you an insight to what our possible location would be. We have a choice of two and we would really like your opinion on what one you think would be a good setting for our murder scene. 

Choose between this one...

Or this one...

Preliminary Task

So here is our Preliminary Task! We showed it to the class and received some mixed feedback, we realised we could have included a lot more. We could have included more dialogue and shot-reverse-shot's to show the change of person when talking. I think some sound would have been good and made the sequence more exciting. 

But we are generally happy with the different shots we used and we know that we can apply all the feedback into our main task which we cant wait to start on.

If you want to leave any further feedback then feel free and we would be much appreciated.

Technical Fault

Hiya everyone, sorry I haven't been able to upload anything, there was a problem with my blog and it wasn't allowing me to have any pictures up so I had to restart everything and make a new blog. 

I will be blogging regularly from now on as everything is back to normal and in working order!

:)

Independent Research On Horror Movie Killer's & Weapons

Hi everyone, myself and Dean have been trying to decide on what our murderer's outfit would be, due to the fact we don't actually see the murderer we do see his hands to we was thinking if having him in a pair of leather gloves to give off the affect he is different and dressed in black so that he blends on with the darkness of the night and because he is the 'outsider' he would look different in a pair of black gloves. This also supports our idea of he doesn't want to be found out so he doesn't want to leave any fingerprints.

Research on killer's from other movies;

Halloween

 

Halloween's murderer Michael Myers wears a mask over his face at all times. Although the police know who he is and they can easily catch him, he still feels comfortable wearing this mask as its what he wore when he was younger and murdered his family except his mother and baby sister. In a way, this is how Michael feels comfortable when he kills his victims.

His weapon is a large 

kitchen knife and this is what he uses on all of his victims. Sometimes he uses his hands for strangulation but he is more known for his big, sharp choice of weapon. Michael wants to show his pain of all the years he has been locked away by killing people so by using a weapon like this would make a painful cut to someones body and could draw a lot of blood.

Scream

Screams murderer's - there are different ones in every movie - all wear the same costume. In the film, the mask is known as Ghost Face and in all four movies this is what the killer would wear. Due to the film being centred around one girl - Sidney Prescott - the killer will kill everyone around her that mean something to her to build more tension and make her more scared as when will her turn be. So the killer wears a full cloak to hide underneath clothing, a mask to hide their face and hair and black boots. They also hide their voice when calling by using a monitor that changes their voice completely.

 

The weapon is a smaller knife than Halloween, although the killer does sometimes choose to first cause damage to the vitims body and then kill them in some other way. This makes it more easy as the killer doesn't actually want to be caught in this movie so it is a lot more easier to hide.

I Know What You Did Last Summer

The killer in I Know What You Did Last Summer wears a fisherman's jacket and hat which helps hide his identity from his victims. It also helps build tension with the audience as they will be wondering when they find out who the killer is. He wears his collar up to hide his face and it ties in with the fact he wants to play games with his victims before he kills them. 

The killers weapon is a hook which would come across as being very brutal. You would associate a hook with a fisherman which links to the killers outfit and it would also be a very gory way to kill someone and would also make the audience squirm.

What Title Could We Have?

Hiya guy's 

So know that we've finalised our storyline we would like your feedback and what you think would work well as our films MAIN TITLE.

So if you've been following my planning you will know that my storyline is; there is a serial killer on the loose who is killing specific victims, the girls he's killing are all linked and what we show is a girl meeting her boyfriend but she is running late so she has to take the shortcut through the alleyway. She is being followed the whole time and then comes across a body. She then finds an identity card that reveals the girl who is dead went to the same college as the other girl. When she then pulls out her I.D card and realises she could be next we hear the killer run up behind her and have a flash back of that girl bullying him. Just when our killer raises the knife and is about to kill her, she screams and it then cuts to the title which we need your help to decide on! 

If you have any music/sound idea's please feel free to also add them..

The title choices are;

-You're Next

-Anonymous

-Unidentified

-Undisclosed

-I Still Remember

If you want to play around with the titles that would be really interesting and we are looking forward to seeing what you think! 

Thanks! :)

Step 4 Film Planning

Right then guys.. this is my FINAL brainstormed step! As a group we have worked so hard on Step 4 and made sure we didn't miss a thing out!


Let me know if you like my idea!

So as you can see, Step 4 contains a lot more writing due to the fact this is now our storyline laid out. Its very detailed and is very 'step by step' on whats going to happen. 

All thats left to do now is decide on the weapon, title and we will be going to the set location and taking   pictures/videos showing the area and its advantages and disadvantages.