Audition Videos

Tayo and Kirst Audtion 1


Jenny and Matt Audition 1


Jenny and Tayo Audition


Kirst and Matt Audition

Location Scouting

Before we could film we had to consider the different options for the location of the different scenes. We had a group discussion and I made several contributions and ideas including ideas about where the park/woods scene should be. I thought it would be good to film it in a park near by, but as a group we decided it would be best to pick a different location as the mise-en scene was much better in that there were more tree's and a better swing for the swing scene, I agreed with this decision. This is the location we decided on. It is in Little Waltham Park.

For the couples argument scene we chose a nearby house of a friend. The chosen location is well suited as the mise-en scene replicates that of an average couples house, which would have a normal couple living in it. This natural and homely environment emphasises the contrast with the dark side to the story. I thought this location would work very well and contribute well to our opening.

These are my contributions to the ideas regarding the location of our film, to see what we finally decided upon check our grop blog here:

http://cvhs-jall.blogspot.com/

Target Audience Profile

Before we could begin filming our opening, we had to consider the target audience. This is so we knew who our target was and could meet their expectations. To do this we created a survey to ask a range of people from the target population.

This was a group task but everyone had individual input. I made suggestions on possible questions that could be included in the questionaire to maximise the information we could gather.

I believed that the majority of our target audience would be from young (around late teens)to middle age. This is because psychological thrillers are more in depth and would appear less appealing to a younger audeince of young teens.

We took our survey out on 6 people, 3 male and 3 female. The majority of these participants believed horror films are watched mainly by 18 - 25 year olds. We will have to take this into consideration and ensure our film appeals to this group. We also found that the majority of our participants did watch horror films, this means we know there is a deffinate market for our film.

Auditions

Yesterday we held the audtions to cast the positions in our opening. We set up three camera's, this is so we could do a mock up of the shot reverse shot we plan to do in our final piece. We audtioned 4 people and gave them several takes to do, each time asking them to act slightly differently. This way we could see which way had more impact. I think when we ask them to both be really agressive it worked very well.
We then got together as a group and decided who we would like to use.

I think the audtion process went very well and we worked well to make the best decisions we could.

Animatic Storyboard Final

This is the final copy our animatic storyboard, it is narrated by me and one other member of the group. We improvised what we said and just explained what was happening in each shot.

Script Writing

We had a deadline to complete the final copy of the script for our opening. We sat down as a group and discussed which characters we would need and what they would say, if anything. We then wrote down a brief copy of the script on paper. As seen below:























I then went away with another member of the group, Lauren, and we worked on an intermediate copy of the script. We started to word process it and put it into more of the format of a script. We then printed out what we had done, and got it checked by several people to check for spelling mistakes and improvments that could be made. Here is the intermediate copy:
























After correcting these mistakes, and making any improvments that were suggested, we could then complete the final copy of the script. This is it:

Final Script

Similar Media Works Presentation

For the siminlar media works presentation we divided the group up and we each completed a list of slides for the final presentation. I done slides on the following:
Target audience
Typical Mise en-Scene
Mise en-Scene of one horror film

Here are my slides.

For the research of this project, I looked on several websites such as IMBD and wikipedia. I also watched a selection of horror film clips to compare mise-en scene.

You can see the full Similar Media Works presentation on our group blog here :
http://cvhs-jall.blogspot.com/