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

Props Log.

We have looked through the animatics and thought about everything we need to include into our props log and we have come up with:

• Fake Blood
• White Bed Sheets
• A Knife
• 4 Mobile Phones
• Alarm Clock
• 3 Mirrors
• 2 Mascara’s

The fake blood is an essential when creating a Thriller film and even when just filming the first 2 minutes it is still needed. Due to there being a death within the first two minutes we need to indicate that the character Scarlet (Megan) has been stabbed. We need the fake blood to show on the body (to show where she has been stabbed), on the bed sheets (to indicate she has bled a lot) and on the murder weapon (because no murder weapon is clean straight away). We need a lot of fake blood because she is going to be stabbed in the chest near the heart which would bleed a lot.

We need to use white bed sheets because the fake blood would show up more on the white sheets rather than the usual black bed sheets Megan has on her bed. Another reason we decided to use cheap white bed sheets is that we didn't want to stain her actual bed sheets. Due to the bed sheets being white which is naturally a pure colour that indicates an innocent young person has died.

Using a knife as the murder weapon because it is a common household item that anyone would be able to get a hold of and it is a more personal weapon of choice. This could foreshadow the killers story of his vengeance about girls in university. Guns are not as discreet as a knife because they are bulkier and more noticeable, where as a knife is small and concealable. We chose the knife because you have to be up close and quiet to be able to kill without the victim suspecting anything, but with a gun you can shoot from a distance.

We need to use four mobile phones because there are four girls that need to communicate with each other. The start of the film is centered around the four girls before the party and trying to contact Scarlet (Megan) because they don't know what happened to her.

An alarm clock is needed because this is when the leader of the group Eva (Chantelle) knows when to call the rest of the girls to make sure that they are ready for the party. The alarm is also there to tell the audience what the time is which also helps to indicate the ages of the girls. This is because the time that the alarm goes off is 9:50 and most girls in university would not have a specific times they have to be back because they live with other girls their age not parents.

We are using 3 mirrors for Scarlet (Megan), Riley (Abigail) and Cassie (Kimberley) to use whilst getting ready to go to the party. They are props because although Scarlet (Megan) doesn't use the mirror, her dress is hanging on the mirror. The reason we decided on putting the dress on the mirror because of the set-up of Megan's room, this is due to the fact you can see the door-way in the mirror. Riley (Abigail) and Cassie (Kimberley) need to use the mirror to put on the make-up that links the two scenes together.

The two types of mascara is needed because they are the one factor that links the scene between Riley (Abigail) and Cassie (Kimberley) as we use other factors to link the other girls together.

Institutional Features.

The institution we have decided to use to produce our film is Summit Entertainment which are based in America. Since 2006, Summit has become an individual 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:

The Twilight Saga (2008) - Romantic Fantasy Film

The Hurt Locker (2009) - American War Film

The Darkest Hour (2011) - Science Fiction Thriller Film

Sinister (2012) - Supernatural Horror Film

Escape Plan (2013) - Action Thriller Film

The film that we are creating we have chosen the genre as a Thriller film because of the features that it contain. The features that we are including in our film is that there is a realistic and natural representation of the young girls who start of getting ready for the party. The killer is not a natural representation of every day life because we have indicted that he is sociopath on the war path, but you do hear about people who kill within the news but it is rarely someone you know. This is one of the reasons that we chose Summit Entertainment to produce our film because they mainly produce Thriller films recently.

Audience Research Questionnaire.

1-What age are you?

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2-Are you male or female?

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3-Do you go to the cinema?
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4-How often do you go to the cinema a week?
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5-Whats times do you go to the cinema?
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6-What film genre you like? (can tick your top 2)
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If none of above state here
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7- What age actors do you like to see?
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8-Who are your two favourite actors? Pick one female and one male.
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9-What makes you watch films?
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10-Do you watch films online?
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Our Music.

For our film we had decided to use music with two different agendas. This is because the start is four different scenes of four different people getting ready for a party, for this we thought that girls normally listen to music so we found an upbeat song to play. We also need a tone for a phone ringing but we are going to leave it as a ringtone that is set on the phone because it was easier than finding another tone to use. In the first two minutes of our film, someone dies so we knew that we had to set the scene with  dark and creepy music that had an under tone of sadness and sorrow for when this scene appears.

Looking for the correct music for getting ready for the party was very difficult because we kept debating on what genre of music we would use. At first we thought we would use an upbeat song from the charts but we shortly found out we weren't allowed to use them because the artist had copyright on them. This changed our decision slightly because trying to find a cover of an upbeat song was very hard in itself due to the fact most people just use a guitar which misses out most of the musical detail that would be playing on the radio.

In the end we found the perfect song to use that could be on the radio about 10:00 at night which is when our film is set with all the music and not just the guitar. The song we chose to use is Decode by Paramore which is when we started the search for the correct cover with enough detail that would be played on the radio. Eventually we found the cover by MEMELii which was in really good quality.
Link:      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgRPbiPauOo

For the second song we needed something with a dark, eery and creepy yet needed to have a peaceful and sorrowful undertone because this is the song that sets the rest of the film. This sets the rest of the film because it would suggest that the girls are upset that their friend has died and they find her laying on the bed covered in blood but it also needs to be scary which will foreshadow at least one other death within the rest of the film. This was even more difficult because it had to be exactly correct and could not have any singing in it. We found many songs that fit this description after a few hours of searching and as a group we are still discussing which of the tunes will be using due to the fact it has to represent someones death and it needs to have the correct feeling to it. Currently we are thinking that the best one to use would be Young and Beautiful by Lana Del Rey which starts off rather slow but still captures the effect we want and need for the death of Scarlet (Megan).
Link:       http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57YkGFK7CDA

When we started to look at our script we realised that we needed a song to go over the title scene as most films have. We thought that it would be a good idea to have constructed and made our song or tune for this because we had already used two different songs that we found over the internet. This has to be over 10 seconds because that is how long the title screen is shown for, however it needs to be longer so that we can cut it down to the correct time and theme we have been looking that compliments the title well. Chantelle is using garage band to create individual and original music which has a creepy undersetting as the film includes more than one death and no-one is expecting what is going to happen in the rest of the film or at the end.

Our Script.

Chantelle - Eva
Abigail - Riley
Kimberley - Cassie
Megan - Scarlet

Summit Productions.
Fade to a black screen.
Cuts to Scarlet in her bedroom and white writing ’Starring Daniel Arkell'.
Zooms to a close-up of Scarlet’s face.
Pans down to her hands and phone.
Presses play on the phone (Paramore decode cover).
Cuts to Cassie pressing play on her phone with white writing ‘and Kimberley Dalton'.
Pans up to her face.
Zooms into her eyes, putting on mascara.
Wipes to Riley’s eyes, putting on mascara with white overlay ‘Produced by Felix Matthews'.
Zooms out and pans around to the back of the dress.
Zips up the dress.
Dissolves to Eva’s back where she is zipping up her dress.
Alarm goes off on her phone and there is white overlaying writing that says ‘Directed by Peter Smith'.
Eva turns off the alarm and calls Cassie.
Screen splits into 2.
Cassie: Hey Eva.
Eva: Hey Cassie, are you ready?
Cassie: Yea, are the others?
Eva: I haven’t called them yet. I will call Riley now.
Cassie: Okay.
Eva calls Riley.
Screen splits into 3.
Riley: Hello?
Eva and Cassie: Hey Riley.
Riley: Hey girls, what’s up?
Eva: Are you ready to go?
Riley: Yep, all set, how about Scarlet?
Cassie: We haven’t called her yet, let’s call her now.
Riley: Okay, I’ll ring her.
Screen splits into 4.
Scarlet’s phone rings.
Eva: Why isn’t she answering?
Riley: I don’t know, she usually picks up straight away.
Eva: Oh my god, what if something’s happened?
Riley: What if… ?
Cassie: Girls calm down, she’ll probably ring us back later.
Hangs up.
The 4th screen (Scarlet’s) enlarges.
Pans around the room to Scarlet laying (dead) on her bed.
Zooms into the stab wound.
Cuts to a close-up of a bloody knife.
Zoom out to see the back of the killer as he leaves the room.
Dissolves to a black and grainy screen, the title 'Who’s Next?’ in blood red writing cuts in quickly.
Quick and hasty cuts to individual pictures of the three girls.