Shooting Schedule

Date	Time of Day	Location	Characters	Shots required	Props required
Friday 27 May	11:50-12:45	Classroom (OS1)	Bella & friend	View of Bella & friend from window - high angle - Angelica’s perspective	Costume – Bella & friend
Tuesday 31 May (in class)	8:30-9:30	Classroom (OS1)	Angelica	Shot of Angelica planning murders - Over the shoulder - Level - Close up	Corkboard Lamp Pen Paper Chair Desk Costume – Angelica
Thursday 2 June(in class)	10:55-11:50	Wildlife Park	Angelica, victim	Shooting the ‘chase’ and its beginning - level - close up - low angle - high angle - over the shoulder - mid shot	Costumes – Angelica and victim Book Gun shot
Friday 3 June (in class)	8:30-9:30	Classroom (OS1)	Angelica	Angelica getting up to look out window at Bella and her friend - over the shoulder, looking in from the outside	Costumes – Angelica & Bella & friend Desk setting from Tuesday
Tuesday 7 June (in class)	8:30-9:30	Wildlife Park	Angelica, victim	Finish the chase if not completed & the actual murder - mid shot - long shot	Costumes – Angelica & victim Gun shot
Tuesday 14 June (in class)	8:30-9:30	Any miscellaneous shots not yet filmed	Everyone
Thursday 16 June (in class)	10:55-11:50	Polish shots (reshoot anything that needs to be reshot)	everyone

Tuesday

Today we had a bit of a practice for filming a couple of shots for our film, even though we didn't have any props. We filmed a practice for the end scene where Angelica gets up from her desk and looks out the window and I think we now know exactly how we want to film this scene. We then went outside and walked through some gardens (without destroying/harming any plants of course!) to come up with some ideas of how we are going to film the forest murder scene. We also went down to the Mango tree area and did some experimental filming around the wildlife park. I think today's lesson was quite successful because we came up with some pretty good ideas about how we are going to film our movie.

Film Breakdown

ACT 1 INTRODUCTION ACT 2 CONFLICT/ CLIMAX ACT 3 FALLING ACTION/ RESOLUTION	SCENE/SETTING	SHOT TYPE/ wide shot/long shot/medium shot/close up/ extreme close up/	CAMERA POSITION low angle/high angle/over the shoulder/ level camera angle/long shot	PROPS/ACTING STYLE	ACTION/DIALOGUE/DETAIL
ACT 1	In dark, dull office	Medium shot	Over the shoulder	Planning murders and writing in down. Flashbacks of previous murders, cork board in office	Sound of writing on paper – planning murders
ACT 2	The main setting will be in the wildlife park	Mixture of all the different hot types	Level camera angle	Dark casual clothing, swing, stick(in murderers hand), lamp, pen, paper	Fast pace, sound of leaves rustling, scream, fast creepy music when he approaches girl. Sound of the heartbeat
ACT 2	Murders office	Close up	Over the shoulder	Pen, paper, lamp, desk	Murder writing
ACT 2	Swimming pool	Long/medium shot, wide shot	Level camera angle	Pool, clothes,	Splash of the pool, clothes drifting in the water
ACT 2	Murders house	Medium/long shot	Level camera angle, and over the shoulder shot	Desk, corkboard, lamp, paper, pens	Angry, frustrated, throws down the pen, turns of the lamp, gets up paces back and forth
ACT 3	Murders house	Medium shot, close up	Level camera angle	Curtain, window	Hears voices, evil grin, looks out the window, sees girls walking past, evil grin, side shot of murderer opening curtain, evil grin again, closes curtain, walks away suggesting that he goes after the girls (targeting them for next murder)

Practice Storyboard

Storyboards

Storyboards allow a filmmaker to pre-visualise their ideas and refine them in the same way a scriptwriter refines their ideas through a succession of drafts. They serve as the clearest language to communicate ideas to the entire production team.

You need to include:
- shot type
- camera position and movement
- camera action, dialogue and detail
- any extra notes such as whether going to use a pan, a reaction shot, tilts, or zoom


Camera Position

High Camera Angle:
- looks down on its subject
- makes subject look small, weak or unimportant

Low Camera Angle:
- looks up at its subject
- makes the subject seem important and powerful

Level Camera Angles:
- even with the subject
- may be used as a neutral shot

Long Shot:
- long range of distance between camera and subject
- often provides a broader range of the setting

Character Profile

Angelica Bennett
Current Residence: Downtown Florida, USA
Occupation: Unemployed
Age: 28
Eye colour: hazel
Hair colour: brown
Skin colour: white
Dress: shabby, dark clothing
Mannerisms: rude, rough, nothing matters to her
Hobbies: planning things in detail (especially murders once the victim is found)
Speech Patterns: slow
Strengths: drawing, organising
Weaknesses: coming to terms with reality, getting over the past
What frightens Angelica: athletes (used to get bullied by them at school)
What makes Angelica happy: killing victims
Introvert or Extrovert: introvert
Angelica's goal: seek revenge
Educational background: left school in year ten
Goals in life: none
How does Angelica see herself: threatened by athletes
How Angelica believes she is perceived by others: an easy target
How self confident is Angelica: Not very
Is Angelica ruled by emotion or logic or some combination: emotion
Does the character have any prejudices: yes, to all athletes
Additional notes: she is troubled, depressed and seeking revenge

Bella Jones
Current residence: Florida, USA
Occupation: student
Age: 16
Talents/skills: cheer leading
Build: slim
Eye colour: hazel
Hair colour: blonde
Skin colour: tan
Dress: school cheer leading uniform
Mannerisms: polite
Hobbies: cheer leading
Speech pattern: fast, bubbly
Strengths: Cheer leading
What motivates Bella: sport
What frightens Bella: being alone
What makes Bella happy: being with friends
Introvert or extravert: extrovert
Bella's goal: to be a professional cheerleader
Educational background: currently attending a private high school
How Bella sees herself: as a normal teenager, popular
How Bella believes she is perceived by others: friendly
How self confident is Bella: fairly self confident
Is Bella ruled by emotion or logic: both
Best characteristics: friendly, nice
Worst characteristics: competitive
Does Bella have any prejudices: no

Genre Based Ingredients and Recipe

Genre

- horror

Characters

- murderer – a crazy person who is very sneaky

- 3 random girls – to be murdered

Setting

- dark classroom with a desk and windows with curtains

- wildlife park (near Mango trees)

- swimming pool

Lighting

- lots of shadows to create the unknown and intensity

- dull

- cold

Props/costumes

- red scarf to float through the water

- old wooden desk & chair

- old lamp that puts out a dull light

- drab, dark clothing for murderer

- goggles, red scarf, towel for swimming pool victim

- iPod, running gear for wildlife park victim

- school uniform for third victim

Sound

- wind

- rain

- footsteps

- heavy breathing

- leaves rustling

- foreboding music

Recipe

- Act One (introduction)

* plotting of murders
* flashback of previous murders

- Act Two (conflict)

o First Murder (flashback)

* Wildlife park

* Fast paced action - cutting quickly between shots

* Girl gets chased and killed in the park

* Goes back to murderer plotting murder

o Second Murder (flashback)

* Shots of victim being pushed into pool

* Show red scarf drifting in water

- Act Three (resolution)

* Show what he is doing (planning the murder)

* Zoom in on notes & plans of next murder

* Murderer hears giggling outside, opens curtain a little and peeks through

* Zoom in on his face, mainly eyes, watching carefully and observing

* Over the shoulder shot (with just the edge of murderers head) showing girl walking past

* Zoom out a bit and have murderer turn around slowly and smirk