Costumes/Props

We have chosen to keep the clothing of our film simple, so we are going to dress our characters in casual simple everyday clothes that you would expect to see student wearing. The props we have decided to use are all very related to studying and the fact they are at school. e.g folders, computers. We have also used some props such as mobile phones and headphones as communicating with others via technology and listening to music are both something nearly every teenager does.

Setting/Location

The reason we choose to use our school as our filming location is because it is easily accessible and is a suitable setting for our plot. We wanted an 'American High School' and due to how modern our school is and the decor of it this was achievable without any input from us. Also filming in a school seemed like the most logical idea as we are using teenagers as our cast, and obviously High Schools are full of teenagers.

Research into locations

The genre we chose was teen horror. From our research into this genre we noticed that most these films were set either in school or around school, e.g. house parties with school friends, prom ect. Therefore we thought it was best to take advantage of our own school for the setting of our opening scene, reasons for this being that our school is newly built and very modern, this creates the mis-en-scene of an ‘American high’ school. The way our school has been built means there are no blind spots. This worked to our advantage, especially as our film is on stalking. This allowed our actors to always be viewable to the camera from what ever angle we chose to film from. The corridors of our room are also wide, making filming easier, the school is also well lit, even though we are creating a horror, having a well lit setting will play to our advantage as all our shots will be clear, to which we can then edit later on during our editing stage to add the sense of fear and create the typical lighting used in horror films.
Obviously we will have no problems with accessing our setting to film as it going to be available to us whenever we need it. Another positive about filming at our school is that it never changes. Therefore if we need to re-film a scene again on a different day it will not be a problem as none of the internal décor would be any different t how it was first time round.

Shot list

1. Emma and Louie sat at the computers – long shot, POV, zooms in on Emma’s face.

2. Long shot, POV, from a birds eye angle of Emma and Stacy meeting on the bridge. Zoom in on them talking. Tracking shot as they walk off the bridge.

3. Mid-shot POV of Emma and Stacy talking on the seats from a left Angle .Zooms in on them talking.

4. POV tracking shot of Emma walking down the stairs, long shot zooms into mid.

5. POV long shot of Emma and Louie talking in the projection room, mid-shot of Louie leaving the projection room

6. POV long shot of Emma alone in the projection room. POV tracking shot moving in towards Emma. Zooms into close up of Emma as she turns.

7. POV close up of other victims as they turn their heads to be met by their stalker.Shot list.

Time Plan

February 11th - Start researching genres and discussing which genre to we are going to choose.

February 25th – Decide on genre and write the basic outline to the story.

March 4th – Research title scenes from films of the same genre that we have choose.

March 11th – Start drawing up our story board.

Monday 25th – Discuss possible locations and actors which we could use.

April 15th – Start filming

April 22nd – Finish filming.

April 29th - Start editing

May 6th - Finish editing

May 13th - Evaluate our work