Location : My Room

Below are some photos of my room, which will be used for Alison to get ready in.

                          

I think the bright pink of my room will contrast nicely with the dark, sophisticated tones of the dining room. Also, because pink connotes femininity, it is imediately obvious that it's Alison's character's room and not Will's. Also (bottom right) is a picture of my ensuite, we could use this for Alison to do her hair/make up in (and do a point of view shot in the mirror, as I looked at in my research).

Camera Shot Ideas (Dinner Scene)

So, after school I set up my dining room in the rough way it's going to be in our film (the small table with a candle in the centre etc). I took a couple of shots with different styles of candles and different positions of candles as well as experimenting with high angle and point of view shots to see which gives the clearest impression.

DIFFERENT CANDLES.

Above are 2 point of view shots (the left with one, central candle and the right with a tea light sprial and a candle in the background)

DIFFERENT SHOT TYPES.

On the left is my personal favourite shot - a high angle with both candles. I think its effective as you can see everything on the table more clearly (including the food etc). The right is a point of view with the two candles.

I think we should include both types of shot in order to let the audience see everything; I also thought we could pan down from the high angle as they start talking to a point of view, then maybe doing a shot reverse shot, so you can see it from the perspective of both characters.

Production Meeting 4

These are the notes which Della made when I was off school with the flu last week. She thought we needed to finalise everything and pick convienient times for both ourselves and our actors.This week I have spoken to Alison about dates; she is free all holiday, as is Will.

Final Descions

So, the deadline for research and planning has been and gone; and Della and I had some imperative descions to make. We discussed our final choices for the costume, music and location.
Final Costume (Alison) : We decided on a classic dark coloured dress to imply that she's going on a date, with dark or smokey eyes and deep red lips.

Final Costume (Will) : We picked a smart casual look for Will; to again, empahsise the date. Jeans or dark trousers and a shirt probably.

Final Location : We are hoping to film in both loaction's if they fit together. If not, we will end up filming all of it in both forests and then deciding which one looks best after the editing process. We are using my room, dining room and hopefully my friend's brother's room for the getting changed scenes; however, I still need to ask my friend if she's okay with this because she's been away this week.

Final Music : Not picking any specifics as of yet, because once we have the footage we will put it to may different songs and instrumentals and see what fits best. However, we're both thinking of sweet and cute piano music for the getting changed scenes (to build tension), and then for the forest scenes, more scary, streotypical horror music (although we are in the process of thinking about using a haunting instrumental).

Final Props : We have already decided on these (see previous posts on 'Research : Props), but, if the water is too cold to film in, we will need a knife and possibly some fake blood to film the knifing scene.

Film Ending

Me & Della thought that making the actors go into the river in the winter would be extremely cold and they might get ill if they are in there for a long time. We don't really want to cause them illness so we thought of some alternate endings incase it is too cold to do our original idea.
Our ideas for alternatives are:


- Create an underwater shot, looking up at the actors.
This may be a little ambitious as we do not own an underwater camera however we could experiment in editing with layering clips together. Maybe a shot of the water layered over a very low angle shot of the actors.

- A shot of Will holding a knife to Alison's throat, looking towards the river as if he has decided that he wants to drown her, maybe an over the shoulder shot to make the audience feel like they are actually there seeing it happen. For this we will need a knife as a prop and maybe some fake blood.

- A shot of Will pushing Alison into the water, provided it's not too dangerous/cold. If not, a shot of her about to be pushed, which then jumps to the main title.