Main Task - Opening Five Minute Sequence - Video

Planning - Props List

We bought prop knives from the local fancy dress shop we bout a couple of these in case one broke. We chose the knife becasue it clearly establishes our film as part of the the slasher horror subgenre.

We also bought a clown costume, wig and make up for our antagonist. We bought three of the make up kits this allowed us to make sure that there was enough for the various days of the shoot.

Planning - Location Floor Plans

We decided to sketch a basic floor plan of the office that the characters come out of. Although we didn't end up including this in our final cut this shows how we had considered placing the camera in order to film a section we had to take out on the grounds of time.

Planning - Location

We decided to film at Birmingham Wheels Go Kart Park. this is a deserted location as you can see from the still taken from our shooting footage. The overhead track layout diagram demonstartes taht the track is quite large and gave us some good opportunities to use carious props such as tryres etc... as hiding places for the victims/antagonist

Planning - Shooting Script

Our shooting script served a similar purpose to the call sheet but allowed us to be much clearer on which scenes we were going to do in order.

Planning - Call Sheets

Our call sheets were designed to show who should be on set at any given time. For example on day 1 we didn't need the whole cast there only Josh so we could film the antagonist. Equally on Day 3 we didn't require any of the cast as we were only shooting stock footage for the establishing shots. The call sheets also allowed us to keep a track on who was on time and which props we needed

Planning - Shot List

We created a shot list here to show how we would use different types of shot in the opening sequence, when it comes to actually filming the sequence we can use these as reminders of how we want the shots to be edited together.