Thursday, 30 October 2014

Planning - Permission Letters

To shoot our trailer in school, we needed to obtain permission from the school's headmaster and the owner of the property. Below is the letter showing that we got permission from the school to use the premises to film on:
We also needed permission to film the majority of our actors from their legal guardians, due to the fact that our actors are all under 18, apart from Nicola Markham, who plays a teacher. The forms below are examples of the written permission we received:

Sunday, 26 October 2014

Planning - Storyboards

These are the storyboards for our film trailer. We will use these storyboards along with our shot list, to show which shots need to be filmed and how they will look, which is very important to my role as cinematographer. Obviously, the shots we film may not be completely identical to the storyboards as we may not be able to achieve these shots within the constraints of a real life set, or we, the production crew, may decide that a different shot would look better.








Saturday, 25 October 2014

Planning - Shot List

LOCATION: EXT. SCHOOL
Scene 1
-Panning establishing long shot of school from car park.
LOCATION: EXT. SCHOOL YARD
Scene 6
-Panning long Shot of Cassandra, Natalie and Ruth on playground through fence.
-Medium long shot of Natalie and Ruth holding up book and shouting whilst ripping out pages.
-Close up shot of book drooping to the floor. Laughing and mocking can still be heard.
LOCATION: EXT. SCHOOL DRIVE
Scene 15
-Long side on tracking shot of Scarlett walking down the drive, a tree appears in the right hand side of the shot with a red ribbon attached to the branches as she gets to the bottom of the hill.
LOCATION: INT. CLASSROOM 1
Scene 2
-Medium Close up shot of Cassandra in right hand side. She is drawing in her sketch book and 2 girls can be seen out of focus in the background towards the left third. Focus Pull so the bullies are in focus as they throw a scrunched up piece of paper at her head. Casandra turns to look at the bullies then turns away back to her drawing and there is another focus pulls back to Cassandra so we can see her expression.
Scene 17
-Medium Close up of Cassandra in class (as in scene 2). The bullies are still laughing.
-Same shot as previously but in the modern day. Scarlett is sat in the same place as Cassandra was in the past. Cassandra appears as a ghost is behind her.
LOCATION: INT. STAIRCASE
Scene 3
-Hand held tracking close up shot of Scarlett’s feet walking up the steps.
LOCATION: CORRIDOR 1 – BELFREY
Scene 4
-Long shot of Cassandra walking down the corridor towards the camera. Bullies   (Natalie and Ruth) are running up from behind.
-Medium Close up from behind of bullies pushing Cassandra over.
Scene 8
-Same shot as previous. Over the shoulder shot from behind Cassandra, the bullies can be seen running off down the corridor at the right hand side of the shot.
LOCATION: BELFREY WINDOW
Scene 10
-Close up of Cassandra hitting the window.
Scene 19
-Medium long shot from behind Cassandra sat on the window sill looking out.
LOCATION: INT. CORRIDOR 2 – EXTENSION CORRIDOR
Scene 5
-Handheld tracking extreme close up shot of the ribbon in Cassandra’s hair.
LOCATION: INT. GIRL’S BATHROOM
Scene 7
-Medium over the shoulder shot of Cassandra looking at her reflection in mirror.
Scene 9
-Hand held close up of blood draining down sink.
Scene 11
-Match on action from scene 10. Cassandra continues to hit bathroom mirror.
Scene 20
-Similar to scene 7. Medium over the shoulder shot from behind the ghost of Cassandra looking in mirror.
LOCATION: INT. CUPBOARD
Scene 12
-Medium long shot from inside of door being opened by Scarlett.
-Jump cut to Scarlett picking the book off the shelf.
-Jump cut of POV shot of her looking through the book. Turns to a drawing we have seen before.
-Medium long shot from back of the cupboard of her looking at the book. Door slams and she looks up.
LOCATION: INT. CLASSROOM 2
Scene 13
-Medium close up shot of Scarlett.
-180 degree pan around the back of Scarlett’s head, revealing the teacher as she starts talking.
Scene 16
-Big Close up of Scarlett flicking through pages of Cassandra’s book, tracking out slightly.
-Close up from the side of Scarlett starting to write in the book.
-Tracking out, Fast shots broken up by white flashes.
-Scratches made by Cassandra appear on Scarlett’s hand, getting worse each time there is a flash.
Scene 21
-A slight high angle medium close up shot of Scarlett writing in book, Cassandra suddenly strangles Scarlett from behind using a red ribbon.
LOCATION: INT. LOCKER ROOM
Scene 22
-Long shot of Scarlett running down the corridor (through the door window).
-Sudden extreme close up of Cassandra’s face through the window.
LOCATION: INT. CLASSROOM 3
Scene 14
-Long shot of Scarlett standing next to table, looking through her bag.
-Longshot from behind Scarlett, Cassandra walks in between the camera and where Scarlet is stood.
-Cassandra turns around to face where the camera is.
-Longshot from Scarlett’s point of view – red ribbon.

Wednesday, 22 October 2014

Planning - Location Recce


This video from our location recce shows the locations we will could be using to film our trailer. When drafting or reviewing our script, shot list and storyboard, we can look at this video to help us decide which location to use for each scene.
We took it in turns to film, direct and scout locations, and conduct a risk assessment at each location so we could all contribute ideas and spread the workload evenly.
The risk assessment we conducted:

Wednesday, 15 October 2014

Planning - Script Version Two



This is the amended version of our first script, and is the final draft of the script for our trailer.