Filming Day!

On Sunday 17th November we filmed our trailer. The day started at 11am and we filmed through until 7:30pm. Filming took place at my house so I set up with the the scenes on the wall with who was going to be in it, a description and the makeup/costumes/props that were in that scene.

We went through the first scenes of the trailer each member of our group taking turns to film at different angles and with different lightings so that we could all get our ideas into it.

Because I was in charge of doing our casts makeup, we set up a system where I would do a character's makeup and then Lois and Remi would take them to film the scene. Once everyone was done with their individual scenes, we set off around 5:30pm to a field in Roydon to film other scenes which had to be taken a night with lighting. These scenes were originally meant to be set in a forest but because of the time of year in which we were filming the night got darker a lot quicker than we anticipated and we did not have the equipment to film in that darkness, so instead we shot them in a field where our lighting was of better use.

Our day of filming ended with myself filming the Ouija Board/Camp fire scens from the beginning of the trailer. We took our time with this trying out different angles and lightings, and using different proxemics for the characters. Some things did not work out, such as when we filmed from a long angle as originally planned, when it was watched back it was much to dark to be seen.

Ouija Boards

As our trailer focusses around a Ouija Board one of the main things that we had to do was make one. We looked into a few different ways of doing this, from carving it into wood to printing one off.
Before designing the board in which we wanted we did research into the different ones out there and what we wanted to include in outs.

Some designs are quite simple...

Where as others can include a lot more detail on them. These decorations and embelishments would usually have some kind of significance to the board themselves. This gave us the idea to include out Ouija symbol on the board which has an important role throughout the story of the move.

Getting Ready...

We have cast our movie trailer with eight people, two boys and six girls. Together we will go throw scripts and costumes before hand so that everyone knows what they will be doing on the day. This will save time on the ctually shooting day.
Also at this meeting we will discuss things such as photography, interviews and bloopers which we will be putting onto the movies website at a later day. We want to do this all on the sames days as shooting as it will give as more if a fluent and in syn look, plus it will be more realistic then trying to get our cast back to Peter for further shoots later in the stage.

Script 1

The Ouija Deal

By Sombre Productions

 

Cast List:

Ashleigh Minihane

Emily Power

Remi Martinelli

Louise Orme

Lois May Shipwright

James Nugent

Owen Nganga

Lauren Richards

 

Title Page-     Sombre Productions

Scene 1- Kitchen

Lois:                (Points to boxes on the counter)

We’re moving next week and you still need to pack, Ashleigh!

Ashleigh:       (sigh)

I don’t want to leave. Anyway, I’ve got my friends coming over.

Scene 2- Loft

(Ashleigh lifts down the Ouija board box, blows dust off)- into direction of camera

Scene 3- Garden

(Ashleigh brings games out to campfire in garden) greeted by circle of friends

Ashleigh:       Shall we play this one last time?

Everyone cheers (sound)/ shots of the characters cheering- close ups

Title Page:     BUT WILL IT BE THE LAST TIME?

Pan shot around the circle (sound): whispering/breath- fast/quick shot

Camera lingers on Ashleigh

Demon:          Ashleighhhh

(Ashleigh looks around to see if anyone else heard)- everyone looks scared but nobody has heard what she did

Slow motion shot of them playing and then fast shot of

(Ashleigh pulling away)

POV shot of Ashleigh’s hand (Ouija symbol in blood)- Owen in the back of the shot

Fast pace reaction shots of the characters emotions

Emily:            What the hell just happened?

Owen:            Screw this!

Long shot,

(Owen picks up the board)

Close up

(Throws it in the fire)

Camera lingers on the Ouija board burning in the fire

Title Page:     DON’T YOU SEE?

Scene 4- Bedroom

Fades into…

Focus is on the Ouija board on the side

Scene focuses

(Ashleigh moves the box) ready to pack and the Ouija is pushed off unseen

(sound- dramatic boom)

Lights are turned out

(Ashleigh gets into bed) as the Ouija board moves*

Title Page:     THERE’S JUST NO ESCAPING

Scene 5- Bedroom

Shot of James and Ashleigh in the room

(Ashleigh leaves)

(James gets pushed) by an unseen force

Extreme close up of the wound that is created on his shoulder

Scene 6- Various

1)      Louise is racing through forest, over the shoulder shot of her scared expression

2)      Owen tied to a chair, struggling to get out- long shot

3)      Remi covered in blood looking possessed, zooms into her eye which is crying blood

4)      Emily in a dark, her face is the only thing you can see. A blood drop falls on her forehead and she looks up (gasp)

5)      Lois is hiding behind a tree looking scared and out of breath

6)      Lauren is in the garden at night, medium shot, torch is on lighting up only her face, torch goes out, she bangs it, flickers back on, goes out, she bangs it and Ashleigh is standing behind her.

(Sound) Dramatic and intense music, full of suspense… ends with a scream

Title Page:     YOU’LL WISH YOU NEVER BECAME PART OF THE OUIJA

                        DEAL

-INSERT The Ouija Deal logo

A close up of a hand, wounded and covered in blood, on the floor. Camera actually on the ground.
Ashleigh’s feet in the back ground as (she turns and walks away)

Title Page: In Cinemas November 22nd

Pitch

DVD Cover / Movie Poster draft

Logo

Horror Photography

 We found this picture when searching for horror photography on Google Image. It really caught my eye because of it's simplicity but completely eary nature. This inspired us for a scene in our film trailer where a character will be getting possessed.

 

This next image we liked because of the mystery that surrounds it. It tells a story yet leaves you thinking and waiting for more. This instantly made us think about how we were going to end our trailer as after watching many in our planning we found that each one is always secretive and full of suspense. With seeing this we decided that we would be putting a shot like this into the trailer for The Ouija Deal.

Horror Photography: Daniella Tunstall

Daniella Tunstall is a well known horror photographer who has an online portfolio showing her work.


With a rough idea in mind for what sort of horror movie we wanted to produce we thought that it would be a good idea to look into some horror photography. This wasn't just to give us some ideas for the trailer itself but for the website we are going to produce for the movie.
The reason why Daniella Tunstall caught my attention was, not only did she have a lot of work on the theme we wanted to focus on, possession, creepy girls and gory shots, but they also gave us inspiration into how horror photography does not have to focus on blood and gore but you can take something simple and twist it into something different and creepy.

First Draft of Trailer Script (The Ouija Deal)

After our research into different horror movies, scripts, trailers and the ways they are put together we came up with a rough draft of the script. Initially we planned to have the story line focused around the same characters as this script but we decided to change the storyline and setting slightly as in originally we wanted it to be a sleepover, the whole movie taking place over one night. We knew this wasn't practical and how we planned to portray the storyline in the trailer would have given away too much. Instead we have kept the same idea of the group of teenagers messing around with a Ouija board only for one young girl to slowly get taken control of by a demon and attacking her friends. 

There are still changes to be made, and we are planning to go over the script with the cast so they can too have an input into the trailer.

Movie Logo Designs

After deciding on a movie name, I came up with this as an initial idea for the movies logo. We knew there would be a recurring symbol of death throughout the film so I homed in on this idea and found this alchemy symbol which means 'to die/ death'. As a group we decided that we wanted so,etching simple but effective so though we plan to make some changes this is the design that we will be going for. 

Movie Company Name Ideas

As we knew we wanted to do a horror movie we decided that we wanted to focus our company on this genre in particular. I brainstormed a few different ideas after researching into the sort of things movie companies are called. Our list included a variety of name ideas including, Morgue Productions, RCL Productions, Between the Eyes and for Sure Film & Co., but the one we went for in the end was Sombre Productions. This is because it sounds like a horror movie production company so it is instantly recognisable. It is memorable and reflects the sort of film in which we are hoping to produce. 

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-a website homepage for the film
-a poster for the film

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