Production Meeting #3

In our third production meeting, we came up with a walkthroughlist for our filming. This is only a rough list as we still had other ideas in mind:

1. Reporter walks up to the barn and looks around, finds stairs and goes up to the room.
2. Once in the room, reporter looks around, lights a candle and going through the filing cabinet. Walks over to jewelry boxs and shuts it. As the box shuts, the locked draw in the filing cabinet opens with a scary doll inside- laughing and holding the scrapbook. 

Production Meeting #2

In our second production meeting, we focused around our scrapbook idea. We came up with a list of photo's and newspaper articles we want in out book:

• Old Dates
• 'MISSING' 'DEAD' reports
• Paranormal sightings
• Old photographs
• Child based
• Abnormal acting

Our list is mainly based on things that may make the audience think our opening sequence will lead to a mysterious twist, as missing reports and child based things are seen as very sinister and creepy. 

We have also found a location for our filming- a converted barn at Hinskey Golf Club- Oxford. We thought this would be a perfect location as it is very quiet and innocent. We have decided that the main character will be a report detective who will be checking out the location.

We have planned our next production meeting to be based on a storyboard/scene list. In the meantime, we will be in the process of making the creepy scrapbook. 

Production Meeting #1

For our first production meeting, we really reconsidered our idea for our opening sequence. It is great to say that we came up with a brand new idea that we all agreed on. Our opening sequence is now going to be based around an old scrapbook that is filled with creepy news articles, and then the girl looking through it hears a noise.

Once we all understood, we then focused on location. We agreed on a perfect location (one of the group member's dad's workshop) which is an office room filled with file cabinets and antiques. We thought this would be good as it matches the creepy vibe.

For the first meeting, we agreed on a lot of things, and one of my tasks is to make the creepy scrapbook. Below are a few images to help you see the theme we want.

Time Management

After our first production meeting, we created a time management plan to follow so we can keep on track. This will help us meet individual deadlinesaWe have spread out Pre-production, production and post-production to give us plenty of time to go through with our productions and enough time at the end to review our work and tweek it to perfection. Below is the plan we created:

 As you can see on the plan, we have given ourselves, in total, 7 weeks for our pre-production, and 3 weeks for our actual production. We have done this as preproduction and filming do not take as long as our post production will, therefore we have left ourselves a total of 12 weeks for editing and post production.

Pitch

Last lesson, we presented our opening sequence pitch to the class. We got a lot of great feedback and suggestions. We have decided that we are definatley going to do a horror genre, however our idea of a girl being chased through the woods is not going forward ad our feedback said that that is a 'very common' scene for a horror film. We want to make it individual, therefore our our first pre-production meeting will be based on our induviduality being presented in our film. To see our pitch, click here!

Pitch