Reflection.

Today in our group we decided to do a test shoot to see what scenes work and which don't as well as possibly allowing us to develop our idea more to fit in with what is possible to film. We will be filming our test footage this Saturday (19th of October)

Team meeting recordings.

Recce - Locations for our Short Film.

(Container Shoot)

This storage container will be the location of all the scenes within our Short Film that take place inside the vigilante killers warehouse. Before we film we will have to decided the arrangement of the props that will be used in this section of the short film and how we will be able to create the tone we want for this location.

(Forest shoot.)


These are some images we took at epping forest. Here we will be filming the flashback sequences in that take place in the forest. We looked through and decided on these parts as they are similar to the what we imaged when doing the storyboard. However to get these scenes to match the overall tone of the piece we have decided to either filming in low light around 5pm when it begins to get dark or to darken the scenes up when we are editing.

Reflection.

As we now know where we will be filming the scenes needed for our short film we have decided as a group to go out and take pictures of these locations today after college in preparation for our location   recce.

Team Meeting recordings

Storyboard - Draft 1

This is the first storyboard we have produced of our idea, however we will be updating as we are still developing out story. The first slide consists of what we call the opening sequence as we have decided it will start our story film, nicely developing a back story for the main character. 

Box 1) We have decided that our short film will begin with an extreme close up of an newspaper article (that we will be producing ourselves) reading something along the lines of  "Mother of 2 killed by known murdered" The focus on this article at the beginning will show the audience that this is a significant piece of the story. 

Box 2) In the following shots the camera begins to pull out revealing a red circle around this article again showing it is significant. 

Box 3) Again, similar to the previous shot the camera continues to pull out revealing more of the shot. Here we can begin to see lines linking from the article in the certain.

Box 4) In this shot the audience begin to see that the links from the certain article are connected to other  articles however the others have red crosses through them. (Continuing to pan out.)

Box 5) Like the previous shot, this shot reveals more articles linked to the centre as well as links between the others with red crosses. (Continuing to pan out.)

Box 6) This will be the final shot of the opening sequence. This shot reveals a full evidence board with newspaper articles and images with red crosses through all linking back to the centre article, apart from one article without a red cross through. (Camera stops panning out)

Props Needed

For this section of our short film we will need a cork board or whiteboard to use as an evidence board. As well as a number of newspaper articles and images used to fill out the board. We will get these by using existing newspaper articles as well as creating our own particularly for the centre article as it is important to the storyline. 

Box 1) This shot will be a close up of the words "For Her' or something similar written or engraved into the evidence board to show the audience that what happens in the rest of the story is linked to both the article on the board and these words.

Box 2 This shot will be begin at a low angle (floor level) and will include a red puddle and something from above dripping onto the floor.

Box 3) This shot is a continuation of the previous shot as it pans up towards the source of the dripping revealing a table with a black bag on top of it

Box 4) like the previous shot is also another continuation of the previous shot as the camera continuous to pan upwards showing the top of the black bag and a hanging light source.

Box 5) The final shot in the upwards pan. This shot focuses on the light source as we think the brightness of the light will make a transition into a flashback that follows in next shot will work better, rather than just cutting to it.

Box 6) This will be the first shot to feature a flashback. We have decided that this scene will shot in a shaky cam first person perspective of a forest and heavy breathing sound effect to make it look like the person is running away from something.

Props Needed

During this section we will not need many props however the props we will need include fake blood or a puddle of water with red food colouring, a black bag moulded/stuff with newspaper to fill it out and a light source.

 Box 1)  This will be the second scene taking place during the flashback sequence it will consist of a wide shot showing someone running away in a forest.

Box 2) This shot takes place back in the warehouse and shows a mess will another pool of blood surrounding a chair tangled in rope hinting to the audience that a murder has taken place. We plan to make these scenes have a dark workshop/ warehouse feel to it therefore we will be working with low lightning and will be using a number of blurred to focused shot during these scenes.

Box 3 & 4 In these next following shots (including boxes 1,2 & 3 in the next storyboard however not the flashback shots in the forest) will be a kind of montage sequence showing the vigilantly killer cleaning up the mess by wrapping up the rope from the chair and cleaning the blood off of the floor)

Box 5) In this shot the person running away from something is taking a breath while leaning on a tree. This shot will be filmed by using a medium shot of the back of the person with trees in the background including heavy breathing sounds.

Box 6) This shot will be a continuation of the previous as it is a first person perspective of the individual turning around reacting to a noise to find no one is there, however we are still considering including a kind of illusion of the vigilant killer being right behind and then disappears when the other character turns around to look.

Props Needed.

The props we will need during this section of the short film include utensils that are used during the 'murder' these include Rope, fake blood, yellow gloves and a chair all of which are used to add to the  implied murder the scene.

Box 1) In the first box of this section we have decided to continue the cleaning montage through to this section. The first scene includes a extreme close up of a hand wearing yellow gloves cleaning
a table in a fast pace as we have decided that the cutting rate at this point will increase until the next section.

Box 2) This shot is a continuation of the previous shot however zoomed out. For this shot we will be using a wide shot or an over the shoulder to show a blacked out figure cleaning the table.

Box 3) This shot will include a close up of the vigilante killer organising his tools on to a tray as well as cleaning a knife to get rid of the blood. Here we will be using a blurred to focus shot. This is so the camera can focus on both the tools used and the knife being cleaned at the same time.

Box 4) Flashback scene of the victim hiding behind a tree, with heavy breathing used.

Box 5) continues from the previous scene to show the vigilante behind the tree that the victim is in from off showing the audience he is getting closer.

Box 6) This shot is a close up of the victims face to show their emotions at this time (being scared and panicked)  from this point onwards we will keep cutting between the killer and victim to build up suspense for the audience

Location for inside scene.

We have now found a suitable location for our inside scenes. With permission from the caretakers at the college we have been allowed to film inside one of the storage containers on site which will save us both time that we can use to focus on film and also money.

                                                            

Possible Locations for inside scenes.

Big Yellow Self-Storage.

we considered was to hire out a storage space at big yellow self storage as it offered large container space and was more affordable to us as a group. However found out we would not be allowed to film inside as we made a phone asking for permission to do so, therefore we had to rule this option out.

Garage rent advert on Gumtree

The final option we considered was to hire a garage out to film our inside scenes in, so we decided to look again on gumtree. Though the prices were affordable the garages we only available to be hired for 3 months at the minimum so we also ruled out this option.

Warehouse studio advert on Gumtree

We decided to look on Gumtree to look at warehouse photography studios to do our inside scenes however we felt that the warehouses on offer were either to expensive to hire or did not have the right kind of look we were going for however this option seems the most likely at the moment.

Reflection.

In our group have moved on to the pre production stage of our planning, and have been discussing possible locations. We 100% sure that we will be using the forest for a locations of the flashback scene as we felt it will be visually exciting and will help to set the tone however we are having a slight issue with where to film the scenes in the warehouse/studio/lock.

Team Meeting recordings.