Character Biography.

Chantelle/Eva.
Eva is 20 and the oldest of the group which means that the other three girls look up to her for guidance and when they started to become friends it was an unspoken value that Eva would be the leader. Eva is rather sensible and mature which is shown through both her room and dress. Eva's room is plain and simple but has some pictures and posters. Eva's dress is lacy black but she is wearing burnt orange platform shoes which helps to discover that she does have a fun side that isn't on show all the time because she is a role model for the other girls.

Abigail/Riley.
Riley is the second oldest at the age of 19 meaning that she is very mature as well as Eva who is the oldest the group. Riley has a very girly personality and likes the colour pink but isn't overly excited if she sees pink clothes because she does wear other colours just as much. Riley is the type of girl who has to look out for someone else, normally someone younger, which is why she sometimes 'mothers' Cassie. Riley is rather maternal but she like to take small risks in everyday tasks because she is still fun. Riley's room is filled with basic and unisex colours which shows how mature she can be but she has a pink bedspread with teddy's on it which helps people see that she is a girly girl.

Megan/Scarlet.
Scarlet is only 18 which means she is the second youngest and she has a gothic style which is called a grunger, this would have been a bad personality type for the character if she played a bigger part. Due to Scarlet dying within the first two minutes, she is not a big character and we decided that rather then changing her entire room to fit a different personality type would be a bigger task than we had the time for which is why we thought she should be the person who is killed off first. You can tell that Scarlet follows the gothic style due to her black and white dress and the style of her duvet covers.

Kimberley/Cassie.
Cassie is 17 years old and is the youngest of the entire group, and because of this she is looked after by her friends. They allow her to drink because although she is a bit younger, she is still part of the group and she also looks older. As Cassie is the youngest of the group she tries to fit into the older group by passing off a slutty personality especially when going out with the group. This is shown through her dress which is rather short at the front and enhances her breasts because of the leopard print that is on it. She also loves her leopard print pattern which is shown through the layout of her room, her dress and her pet which is kept in her room.

The Killer.
He is a fairly young male who stalks the group and attends the same university. He is a mystery and a creep to the girls as they do not know that much about him and yet he is always around. The killer is a sociopath who gets his thrills from killing young women and there is no known reason why he has targeted this group of girls. He chose a knife as his murder weapon because it is more personal as you have to be close to the victim and he enjoys the struggle and the fight. His first victim in the film is killed within their house showing that he is intrusive and turns a safe environment into a grave.

Target Audience Demographic.

Anyone who likes a Thriller film may go to see our film however we have narrowed it down to who would most likely to be the age range that would go to watch this Thriller and the reasons why they might be there to watch it.

We know that the most common age range to go to the cinema is anyone between the ages of 16 and 24 and this is why we decided it would be a good idea to try and target them so that if we were going to film the rest and put it in the cinemas then it would gain more money for the company. We have made the film appeal to both boys and girls which was one of the best idea's we have had because it makes it a good film to watch when on a date. To make it easier to analyse I have split the groups into 3.

• 16-17 Girls
• 18-24 Girls
• Boys

Girls.

We have targeted 16-17 girls because they mostly like to go to parties or aspire to go to them when they enter university. This is the stage when they are going through sixth form or college which could be a stressful time and they like to have fun. The girls in the film are also young actors and are based to be from this age group. Within the ages of 16-17 you are stereotyped into a specific category and where each of the girls are the outcasts of their age group with different personalities and that is why they have become great friends. This may help boost confidence of those girls that feel they are alone.
We have targeted 18-24 year olds because they are the most common ages to go to the cinema, we have adapted the start of our film to target them as the actors are young and they are playing as young girls. Another thing that would appeal to this age range of girls is the dress sense because they are all different styles which are popular at the current time. The girls in the film are meant to be girls at university and college who tend to go out to parties frequently.


Boys.
In general boys are attracted to anything that may give them an adrenaline rush which is normally action adventures, horrors and thrillers. Our film should also appeal to girls which makes it easier for the boys to take their girlfriends out to see a film that they would both enjoy. If the boys did use this as a date film, it gives them the chance to console their scared girlfriends during and at the end of the film if needed. There is also a sexual nature to the film which would appeal to the boys because they are attractive girls going to a big party and there will be girls of all different natures. This could include some ‘slutty’ girls like the character of Cassie going to the party.

Evaluation- Scarlet and The Killer.

Our first piece of filming was the scenes that take place within Megan's room, this includes her getting ready, the ringing phone, Scarlet on the bed, the dress and the killer walking out of the room. There were a few errors whilst filming these scenes which resulting in us having to re-film some of them. Due to this being the first set of filming that we had done, it showed that we didn't have enough footage to include a build-up of revealing the dead body.

Me and Megan acted and filmed the scenes multiple times but we did not realize it would be better to have little shots that revealed the dead body which would increase the tension and build up more of a story line for the rest of the film.
If we were to do this again then we would make sure that we had close-ups of small details which would increase the tension and slowly revealing the body to the audience.

When we started to edit the piece together, we realized that the panning shots were no good to use because they were jumping due to having to work with a tricky tripod. As the scenes were jumping noticeably we had to use what we could from the filming although this was not enough to fulfill what we was looking to achieve.
If we were to re-film these scenes then I would make sure that every time the camera or tripod made the filming jump that I will stop recording and then start recording again to ensure that it has a better flow to it and that we can use the pan and zooming shots we would like to use within our film.
As a group we decided that re-filming all of this would take more time than we had to finish, so instead of this we thought that we could take cuts of what we did have and hoped that it worked for the best. When we tried to sort this out and edit it correctly and to how we wanted it, there were still a few errors and we found out that we still didn't have all the correct footage or enough of what we needed. Although this ensured us knowing what we needed to film instead of having to re-film the whole thing again.

We had to keep re-filming the shots of the phone because of the times that were shown on it. First of all it still had the correct time of when we were actually filming (around 5:00 pm) which would have been a terrible mistake of we were to include it because the girls call each other just before 10:00 pm. Secondly we had the correct timing but due to us having to keep re-filming this scene the time on the phone kept going which meant the time we actually wanted (10:56) had been changed which may change the events for the rest of the opening.

Lastly we were looking at the killer walking out of the room, this was difficult because we had to make the surroundings dark because of the time that the film is set, however when we got back and uploaded the footage, it was too dark. As a group we didn't see this as a problem but then we knew what we was looking for and what was supposed to be happening but when we played it to a small audience there was no recollection of what this could have been because the scene was far too dark.
We re-filmed the killer walking out of the room but made sure we had the artificial lighting of using the light that was in the passage way. At first I thought that this would take away the seriousness from tension we were trying to create, although when uploaded, it was definitely better than when it was almost pitch black.
On the re-film, you can see that the bathroom door was still open whereas in the original it had been closed, I feel that the door should have been shut but it is only a minor error meaning we could get away with this. Another reason I think we would be able to get away with this is because not everyone has their bathroom door constantly shut so it could apply to some of the audience.

Mise-en-scene.

Animatics.