Planning

We have two openings and we are planning to shoot both in our time period, as when we shot our AS project, we really needed more footage to work with. Our idea for an opening scene is
- A shot of the characters feet walking through the forest, e.g. river, mud -this will be for around 10-15 seconds. In that time they will be talking about the myth of the woods (of the last girl who died there). It will only be the male characters talking as in the story, they are contisnalty trying to scare the girl (Emma Dixon) and from past horror films we have learnt that the female is normally the most innocent.
Scene idea 1 is that we get to see all 3 characters setting up the tent. However, the female characters see's someone running behind the trees (only she sees it, making her stand out to the audience). The girl doesn’t want to let the boys not that they have got to her, and she turns around, shakes the sleeping bag and it cuts to black. We plan to have a large bang or thug as it fades.
Scene 2 cuts to a hand held shot of someone looking at the tent through the woods. Quickly, to keep the audience on their toes, we cut into the tent to keep the fast pace of the movie. This is where the main storyline of the trailer is put into place. it is the 2 boys holding torches telling the myth. The girl will ask and the boy 1 will says "what you having heard?". at this point, we cut to a voiceover of a small female child explaining the myth. As she is talking, it will cuts to varies shots of
-the girl looking very frightened
- the mine itself
-black and white shots of the forest and of the tent
towards the end of our trailer, we will show the fire getting blown out and fade to black with a scream and the sound of people running and quick cuts of the characters running to add to the atmosphere.

As we learnt from our AS project, we do not want to go back and refilm after we have already finished the majority of our project. Even though we still have our original plot for our trailer, we have still not fully decided on one ending yet. We are going to choose from either. also, from previous expierence, we have also already planned 2 backup actors, one female and male, just in case of furthur problems.
1. The girl is chased by bullies and she falls down the mine and breaks her ankle and is unable to get out
2. Or she decides to hide and becomes trapped
Shooting these will not be a long process, so we have decided to shoot both, as it would be easier when it comes to editing plus it would mean we don’t have to go back, where conformity would be an issue. We have told our actor this and she agrees it would be a good move. We have around 3 hours to film our footage before its get too dark to film. As it is becoming darker, we need to get down there around 3 or 4 and leave at 7pm. We have 2 cars that we are using as transport for our actors, cameras, tripod, food etc.
Different eye-catching shots for our trailer
We have already found the plot of where we plan to place our tent which is inside a circle of 5 trees which looks incredibly scary
• 360 degrees around camp site

Problems that have already occured before shooting

We have recently been told by one of our actors, who we were meant to be using in a few weeks is pregnant. it would be extremely unsafe to use her in our movie, as our actors are expected to be running around in a forest and getting in and out very quickly of a tent. However, we have already found a new, even better actor who is already good friends with our others actors which should make the acting look more realistic. We still plan to be shooing on the same day and have already checked that all 3 actors are available on the same day. Although, me and Imogen are still not sure on the 3rd actor and as our storyline keeps changing the actor we had in mind may not be appropriate. However, our other two are very well suited and they are Liam Stainbys and Emma Dixon.

Treatment

Treatment
Our plot consists of two boys and a girl who are camping in the woods, over the camp fire the boys decide to scare the girl by telling children's stories such as: The Candy Man Story, The Boogeyman story and The Bloody Mary story. The girl says she doesn't think it’s a good idea; however the boys think she's just being weak. After a few tricks from boys, the story becomes a reality. When doing research of films and trailers, the most popular genre of film, horror and comedy. with the experience we had doing our AS project, we found that we really like creating films that fall under the category of horror, as it is one of our expertise and we have interest in the genre itself.
I also did further research into more horrors and found that there is a gap in the section of the genre that holds the forlores urban legends and myths based type of films. We developed these ideas by looking up more folklores and myths to widen our variety and to give us a more of an insight o what we are basing our film on. I also looked at a film called "Hatchet" that was also set in the woods just like the Blair Witch Project, this helped give off a more creepy atmosphere, by using the woods as our location it gives the audience a sense of uncertainty, this is because our characters will be out of the comfort zone and by being in the woods where anything can happen and is out of their control. Our film is what all teenagers and adults can relate to because at one point or another everyone has dared or peer pressured into doing something stupid.
After we completed our pitch to our group, we were faced with a series of questions that challenged some aspects of our product. We also have to consider a risk assessment as there could be an issue as we plan to have a small camp fire in the woods, which is a flammable area. We plan to shoot in the next two weeks and all of our actors have been informed. Another issue is that, as it is getting close to winter, the weather could become a problem, as it is planned to snow next week. In the next two weeks we need a tripod, 1 school digital camera and both Me and Imogen are bringing our personal cameras as it worked out well last time, to achieve extra footage. An issue that occurred last time was that the camera wasn’t fully charged and we ended up wasting a whole night and having to reschedule our whole night, but as we are both taking a larger selection of cameras, this shouldn’t be a problem. We have two cars to transfer our actors and crew to the area and we are in very short distance from my house in case of an emergency and all of our crew and actors have mobile phones.
After we complete our trailer, we are taking down some food and drink for the actors. We plan to shoot between 4pm to 7pm. We were planning to shoot at a earlier time, but because the nights are getting darker quicker we have to manage our time more carefully. Possible problems could occur such as an actor becomes ill on the day we plan to shoot, but we also have some backup actors incase this happens.
Apart from our filming equipment, actors and food, we have also already planned what we want our actors to wear. We plan to have the 2 boy actors wearing more dark casual clothing, whereas, we want our female character to wear more innocent clothes to show how she differs from the boys who are taunting. Both me and Imogen and our 3 actors are all in the same age range so it will be more easy to organise and direct them. Also, when we show our trailer to the class, the actors will be able to connect with the audience better as they are the same age. We imagine that as we are filming our trailer, that a lot of what we have planned will change and we will keep the blog updated on our changes.

Pitch

Immy and Steph's Pitch from Chris Earl on Vimeo.

Plot - two boys and a girl are camping in the woods, over the camp fire the boys decide to scare the girl by telling children's stories such as : The Candy Man Story, The Boogeyman story and The Bloody Mary story. The girl says she doesn't think its such a good idea however the boys think she's just being weak. after afew tricks from boys, the story becomes a reality.
when doing research of films and trailers, the most popular genre of film, horror and comedy. with the experience me and Stephanie had doing our AS project, we found that we really like creating films that fall under the category of horror, as it is one of our expertise and we have interest in the genre itself.
we also did further research into more horrors and we found that there is a gap in the section of the genre that holds the forlores urban legends and myths based type of films.
we developed these ideas by looking up more forklores and myths to widen our variety and to give us a more of an insight o what we are basing our film on.

we also looked at a film called "Hatchet" that was also set in the woods just like the Blair Witch Project, this helped give off a more creepy atmospshere. by using the woods as our location it gives the audience a sense of uncertainty, this is because our characters will be out of the comfort zone and by being in the woods where anything can happen and is out of their control.

we think this idea WILL work, as it is a film what will fall in the gap within the genre. its new, its change of pace and it is what all teenagers and adults can relate to because at one point or another everyone has dared or has been dared to try out these myths.

Planning and visiting the set

Today me and Immy visited the set today of our movie today and got a few shots of were we are going to be filming when we next bring the actors. we took down the school camera and tripod ( plus our own cameras) to make sure they could cope with the conditions we need to film, for example, it is quite dark in the woods. we are planning to have 3 actors, ( 2 male, 1 female) and both me and Imogen using the camera/tripod. we are planning to film in around 2 weeks and around 6pm-8pm, so it doesnt become to dark for the camera to be able to pick up the images. As it is a trailer, it is unlikely we will have very long clips of footage, rather, more short and choppy clips. the set is incredibly rural so it is unlikely their will be anyone walking threw out set while filming.