Prop's

Props

The phone is a major part of iconography in our film as the unknown number calling Amelia’s phone starts to raise suspicion. The crack on the phone suggests that the character is careless and vulnerable. We watched ‘Scream’ and used the idea of having a phone ringing this hints that something severe will happen to the character later. For example when ‘Casey’ picks the phone in the first scene of ‘Scream’ she starts to have a conversation with what will be her killer but she doesn’t realise this as she is a naive and immature character.

The fake blood on the trees which was made from red and blue food colouring with gelatine, this made a realistic blood effect is an important aspect for our film as it makes the opening daunting and make it seem more a horror rather than our previous attempt where nothing sinister was happening.                                                                                                                                                                         

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

Shooting schedule

We had changed our shooting schedule as we had changed from our intial idea, before we were going to be fiming at a house with different actors however since we changed our horror film idea we therefore had to create a new shooting schedule for the new location and actors.

Preliminary task

This is our premliminary task.

Opening Synopsis

The original synopsis

The film opening is set on the outskirts of Norwich, Costessey in the 1980’s era. The opening focuses on Amelia. Amelia is a 16 year old, brunette. She dresses appropriately and she is very intelligent, she is also naive and adventurous. Amelia lives in a semi-detached single-family house with her 45 year old father David and her 43 year old mother Karen.

Amelia is first seen running out of her house and down the road in with her dad following her early afternoon for an unknown reason. This reason is found out soon.

Amelia is upstairs in her room playing a (80’s artist) record on the 25^th November 1987 then she hears a strange noise so she warily walks down the stairs. The camera sharply cuts to a hand holding a knife covered in blood. When Amelia reaches the bottom of the stairs she finds her mother dead on the floor. Amelia begins to overwhelm with emotions as she screams at first then kneels beside her mother and begins to cry. Watching her cry beside her mother is David standing on the other side of the room with a sinister look in his eyes.

Amelia is looking around and her breathing gets heavier as David is getting closer to her.

The new opening synopsis

The film opening is set in Norwich at the school Ormiston Victory Academy, in 2012. The opening focuses on Amelia.  Amelia is 16 years old and brunette.  She is intelligent and cares about her studies, she wants to gain the best grades.
Amelia is first seen studying in an empty room. As she’s studying she is getting calls and text’s from an unknown number, she ignores the unknown number, but not so long after she hears strange noises and she doesn’t know where it is coming from.  Amelia decides to leave the empty room and walk home.  As she’s walking home she gets another call from the unknown number and is still hearing the strange noises. Amelia  is looking around and her breathing gets heavier  and you see the villain in the darkness .

We changed our opening synopsis because it was difficult for it to be set in the 80’s due to the setting such as buildings, cars and other surroundings out of our control being to modern and we also struggled to get an accurate representation of people in the 80's so we didn't know how to clearly signify that our charcters are in the 80's.

Film script

Title shows with non digetic sound playing
Fade in of the music:
Fade In Transistion:
        1) EXT. ROAD - Early afternoon 
          
           There are different camera angles of her running away from the house. - Long shot of Amelia running past the camera
           In the BG you can hear a piano instrumental
          
Dip to black:
            
 2) EXT. AMELIA'S BEDROOM - Midday
                                 Comes up with date: 25th November 1987
                                 The style font should be typewriter (with the noise of typing when date is shown)

           Amelia is in her room listening to records and she hears a strange noise
           Extreme close up of Davids (her father) hand holding a knife covered in blood and in slow motion, the knife is shown being dropped on the floor
        
        
 3) Low angle shot of Amelia slowly walking down the stairs.
 Amelia walks into the living room to find her mother dead on the floor.
Amelia: Screams
 4) An over the shoulder shot of Amelia's father.
 As Amelia is looking at her mother, crying, you can see David behind her.
 Camera is focused on Ameila screaming
        Camera is later focused on David smiling with a sinister look within his eyes

 5)As David is walking slowly behind Amelia
 Two shot of them
        Ameila looking around and breathing heavily



We have since changed our script as we changed from our intial idea.

Jennifer's body

Film scripting

EXT = ExteriaFade in = Transition
BG = Background
FG = Foreground
ECU = Extreme Close up
CU = Close Up

What we need in our scripts:

• Dialogue

• Background/foreground

• Time of day

• Fade in/out

• Information on key shots