Planning for filming

• Props - We need a bag of tools for the very beginning of our opening sequence. The tools play a big part as they set the up the character's personality as the person is in black and they have a bag of tools. The tools represent that the person with them will play the villain.
  Cigarettes will play a part in our opening sequence as there is a key moment when one of the girls is smoking - she throws her finished cigarette into the wilderness. The villain then picks up the cigarette which emphasizes how possessive the ex-boyfriend is when he goes to smoke it. This one prop creates a lot of tension because he coughs which makes the girls aware that there is something or someone there.

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• Costume - Black for the villain (ex boyfriend). The colour black represents mystery and danger which is perfect for this character. He is also going to be wearing a big black puffy coat - this will add to the sense of mystery because you will not see their face when they are being mysterious anyway so the fact they are wearing a big coat will make them look more dominate adding to their 'scariness' perhaps.
  Stereotypical teenage fashion for the other girls. We have chosen to have normal causal clothing for the girls because this means that the audience are more likely to relate to the girls which will make them resent the villain more (you cannot see the villain's face so the audience will find it very hard to relate to him). With them wearing normal clothing this will make the opening sequence feel much more real.
  
• Lighting (design/ effect and equipment?) - Natural lighting from the fire, Low Key lighting. We have decided to use natural lighting as this will make the setting be much more believable. We are going to film in the dark (night time) so the only light we will really have will be from the fire that the girls will be sitting around. This will give the effect of it being real as the girls are actually there and that is what's happening.
• Make up/ hair - Casual hair and make up. We have chosen to have casual hair and make up because even the villain in our piece is a teenage boy - the fact that even the villain has casual hair makes it much more mysterious in a way because it explores the fact that people can look completely normal but still be evil and people don't know about it.
  
• List of equipment - Camera, Tripod. We are not using a wide range of equipment because for most of our piece we are going to use hand held camera work. We have decided that this technique will be affective because the person holding the camera will be the villain which emphasizes the possessiveness of the character because it will be point of view shot.
  We may not use a tripod a great deal because the main theme of camera work will be as if they are being watched. But we will use a tripod for certain shots where they need to be still. For example, in the shot where the ex-boyfriend is coming up behind the main girl when she is trying to get signal on her phone. This will have to be a still shot because it is no longer in point of view.
  
• Times and dates you want to film and a back up plan - Weeknight in the week beginning 8th. We have decided to film during the week because this is better for us all as a group. Back up plan: the weekend. We have chosen the weekend to be our back up plan. This will not be as easy because some of the group members have work commitments etc.
  
• Locations (maps? permission? and photos) - We are going to be filming in Papworth forest, hollies garage. There is no permission needed for these places because the forest is public and Hollie is in our group and she has already got permission from her parents.
  
• Actors (Photos and suitability for character roles) - Georgia, Hollie and Kiera playing the three teenage girls, with is suitable as they will be basically playing themselves. Fran is playing the ex boyfriend, this is suitable as she is filming the fire scene.
• Production roles - assign a role to each member of the group. (Camera person, directors, producer, production co-coordinator - provide definitions of each role and each person's suitability for that role - experience? skills?
  
• Camera Person, The main person responsible for the filming and camera work - Mainly Fran but the whole group will share filming responsibilities, Fran is suitable for this as she is the most experienced at using the camera.
• Directors,responsibility of directing the film - Hollie and Georgia are the most suited to this as they most creative abilities. Hollie and Georgia also know the area well where we are filming so they will know the ins and outs and how to get the best affect. This is to our advantage that we know the area because we will know the right places to go to get the
  
• Producer, this is someone who creates the scenes and the conditions for making movies - Kiera and Fran will be suitable for this as they are quite familiar with the software.
• Production Co-ordinator, they make sure all necessary equipment and materials are on site at the right time and the actors and actresses are all in the right place. The whole group will be responsible for this as if there are more people things are less likely to go wrong.
• Sound - We will have a soundtrack to our film opening along with diegetic sounds and ambient sounds. We will make a soundtrack that will link to the images on the screen that will create tension and suspense. There will be quite a lot of dialogue as that is key to the story.
• Test Shots/ Footage - We are going to test out the shots we have decided to do in places just like the atmosphere we are using, this way we will be able to see what works well and what may look fairly unprofessional. Seeing as our shots aren't all about movement they should be reasonably easy to shoot.