Step by step of film

Walking out of station, along road, up the steps, key in door hole, walk in house, dump bag and take off shoes, walk into kitchen, dump phone, earphones etc on table, fill up a glass from the fridge, hear the thud, look up, set glass down, walk to the stairs slowly, go up the stairs, check brother's room, check 'my' room, walk down the hallway, see the light from under mum's door, open door, say hi to mum, engage in conversation with mum whilst unpacking, put the clothes in the drawer, shut the drawer.

Details for clothing and props

Kieren (Man in house) will wear the following:

plain black t-shirt
black bottoms
black shoes
plain black hoodie/jacket

Laura (daughter) will wear the following:

college badge
normal school clothes
Coat & bag
iPhone, earphones, keys

Mum will wear the following:

normal clothes worn for travel
open suitcase on the floor

Other props:

glass for the water in fridge
chandelier
clothes from suitcase

Mum and daughter script

*OPENS DOOR* M- *looks up* Surprise, I'm home a day early! L - oh my god, you scared me! I thought there was someone in the house *HUGS* M - don't be silly, Laura, come help me unpack L - you don't know how to pack your suitcase very well, do you? *laughs* M - oh gee, thanks! I just dropped the suitcase! L - so how was your trip? M - same old, very boring. Just working and talking to customers - no time to get presents for you and your brother! *picks up clothes and open drawer* *camera in drawer* Mum and daughter talking as they separate and drawer closes, showing the man in the house by the door frame. Fade to black.

Vlog about NEW IDEA

Charlotte and I were in the middle of editing our footage that we shot on Monday when we came up with a new idea as to how we can show the man in house and make him look scary. We filmed a vlog so we could remember the details.

Film practice vlog 2

My group and I went to Charlotte's house again to film a practice. We brought my friend Kieren along who is playing the part of the killer in my house.We wanted to use him for 2 seconds footage but we ended up spending 3 hours filming because we had a few problems like where to put the camera. He does media studies at his school too so he was giving us a few tips and ideas. We decided to film a vlog afterwards to explain what we were doing.

Interviews

I asked my friends a few questions and filmed their answers. The questions were:

What's your favourite film and why?
What's your least favourite film and why?
Are the first two minutes of a film important to you and why?
What three things do you look for in a film?
What's your favourite movie genre and why?
What's your least favourite movie genre and why?




Their favourite movies varied from comedy releases and horror films.
Their least favourite movies
Everyone in the interview said that the first two minutes of a film is important because it must engage the audience.
Most people said that the characters and scenery/setting was what they looked for in the film.

Movie GENRES:

Favourite:

Eva: mystery
Shekinah: action
Ms Goulding: thriller
Izabela: fantasy
Lucy: romantic comedy
Sally: horror/thriller
Ms Foster: thriller
Sophia: horror
Lisa: thriller
Natalia: thriller/ action

Least favourite:

Shekinah: horror
Izabela: classical (biographies etc)
Ms Goulding: Westerns
Lucy: horror
Sally: sci-fi
Ms Foster: parodies
Sophia: romance
Lisa: romantic comedy
Natalia: sci-fi

This is useful to me because my group and I are going for the unexpected/thriller/suspense genre for our two minute film and this data showed that most people enjoy watching thriller films.

Final Film Practice Shots

We storyboarded our final film and decided to pracice filming the shots that we will used for the real film. We wanted to make sure we knew how to do it and where to place the camera before filming our final film. Here's a video we made showing the shots we will use.

Storyboards for final film

Here are our storyboards for our final film. It's a rough copy so excuse the bad drawings and stick men.

Storyboard Vlog

We went to Charlotte's house to draw out our story boards and we also filmed a few practices for certain shots. Here is the vlog explaining what we did.

Practice Video 2

Charlotte and I decided to film a second practice video in "The Green" in Enfield Town. We used a wide variety of different camera shots and angles. When we start planning our two minute film opening, we will select the techniques that we thought were most effective.

Water Practice Video

In our two minute opening film, we want a camera shot in water. So for this we decided to place the waterproof KODAK inside a glass of water and film someone walking past it to create more of an effect. We wanted to do a practice beforehand and we filmed us setting it up and trying out different techniques to get the camera shot we wanted.