Our Film Schedule

Film Schedule

This film schedule will help us a lot as a group, as we will know when to meet up to do the filming and at what times we have to film certain scenes and what shots will be used to film those scenes. The equipment we will need to bring with to the location that we will be filming at, will be a DSLR camera, a tripod, a wide angle lens, candles, a ouija board, a stereo and ipod. We will firstly need to set up all of our equipment, such as setting up the camera on a tripod to make it steady. We will also need to set up all the props needed in certain scenes.  This has organized us a group to ensure that we get all our filming done on one day and that our opening title sequence will be finished for the hand in date.

Equipment we will need to bring along for the shoot:

•      Canon 600D DSLR camera
•       18mm-135mm lens
•       50mm lens
•       18mm-300mm lens
•       Tripod
•       Ouija board (Prop)
•       Candles (Prop)
•       Stereo & IPod (Prop)
•       SD card
•       Spare batteries

Clothing (Casual Clothing)

• Jeans 
• hoody's 
• T-shirt

Contact List

Marc Jordan

Mobile:  07763690289

Email: marc93jordan@gmail.com

Rachel Whitewood

Mobile:  07594115763

Email: rachel.whitewood@gmail.com

Joshua Bentley

Mobile: 07875739006

Email: josh_bentley@live.co.uk

Date: 18/12/2012

Time: 11:00

Shot Number	Time	Action
1. Establishing shot	11:10-11:15	2 boys walking towards old, dodgy looking building having a conversation
2. Close up shot	11:15-11:20	Boy holding Ouija board
3. Tracking shot	11:20-11:25	2 boys walking towards old, dodgy looking building
4. Shot-reverse-shot	11:25-11:35	Boys having a conversation about the Ouija board game and deciding who should enter the house first
5. Close up shot	11:35-11:40	Boys hand on door handle, opening the door
6. Over the shoulder shot	11:40-11:45	Looking over boys shoulder into the building or room to show what the setting is inside the room. Could also be a POV shot to see what the boy is seeing when he looks inside the building
7. Extreme close up shot	11:45-11:50	Boys facial expressions when they look into the building
8. Long shot	11:50-11:55	Long shot from the back of the boys, walking through the door and entering room
9. Long shot	11:55-12:00	Long shot of the boys entering the room from the inside
10. Panning shot	12:00-12:05	Panning shot inside the room showing the setting of the room and to show there is nobody there but the boys and dodgy looking furniture
11. Medium shot	12:05-12:10	Boys looking around room to see what there is and if anyone else is there
12. Medium shot	12:10-12:15	Boys sitting down on the floor where they will be plying the game(Ouija board).
13. Close up shot	12:15-12:20	Boy setting up the Ouija board game on the ground
14. Close up shot	12:20-12:25	Boy lighting the candles and setting up the stereo and Ipod
15. Close up shot	12:25-12:30	Boys laughing in excitement to play the game
16. Extreme close up shot	12:30-12:35	Boy turning on the stereo and playing music
17. Close up shot	12:35-12:40	Close up of boys hands on the Ouija board playing the game
18. Close up shot	12:40-12:45	Facial expression of the boys after they have asked a question to the spirits
19. Long shot	12:45-12:50	Boys jumping up after they hear a creepy demon voice. They then run and try to escape
20. Long shot	12:50-12:55	Will show the door closing by itself
21. Close up shot	12:55-13:00	Boys facial expressions as they are screaming in fear
22. Point of view shot	13:00-13:05	Point of view shot from the boys to show what they are seeing and experiencing
23. Medium shot	13:05-13:10	Boys trying to open the door
24. Medium shot	13:10-13:15	Boys shaking and screaming in fear and terror
25. Medium shot	13:15-13:20	Medium shot of a ghost like feature in the background
26. Close up shot	13:20-13:25	Boys facial expressions after they see the ghost like feature
27. Extreme close up shot	13:25-13:30	Extreme close up of ghostly hand popping out from behind the furniture in the darkness
28. Close up shot	13:30-13:35	Will show boys facial expressions of fear and terror
29. Medium shot	13:35-13:40	Boys hear a demon voice and look where it is coming from

Final Preliminary Task

Preliminary Task 2

This is our second and final preliminary task. This is an improvement to our last preliminary task, as we have not broken the 180 degree rule, which is basically the main reason of doing the preliminary task to understand the 180 degree rule. In this video we also stuck to match-on-action, which we didn't do in the last preliminary task. We have used a camcorder, which improved our preliminary task, as in the first one we used a GoPro fish-eye wide-angle lens camera, which warped and obscured our whole footage, and we weren't able to hear the characters due to the waterproof camera housing. With the camcorder we were able to hear the characters more clearly, as well as having smoother footage by using a tripod. 

Preliminary Task 1

Preliminary Task

The video below is our preliminary task of us as a group demonstrating the 180 degree rule. We are not happy with this video as a group, as we didn't have the right camera to film this video. We filmed this video using a fisheye camera, which gave the whole clip a obscured and warped effect, and the diegetic sound of the characters couldn't be heard. Another negative is that we also didn't stick to match on action. 

Location

Below is an email conversation between Rachel’s (one of our group members) auntie and her boss inquiring about the permission of the filming we wanted to do in the Natural History Museum

From: Martin Munt

Sent: 25 October 2012 11:42

To: Andy Fleet

Cc: Claire Mellish

Subject: Re: student filming

It is for personal use so no problem

Dr Martin Munt

Collections Manager Inverts & Plants

Dept of Earth Sciences

The Natural History Museum

0207942558

07515511722

On 25 Oct 2012, at 11:29, "Andy Fleet" <a.fleet@nhm.ac.uk> wrote:

> Claire

> 

> On the basis you describe and provided you supervise the process

> throughout I am happy that this goes ahead subject to Martin's OK.

> 

> Andy

> 

> On 25/10/2012 11:22, "Claire Mellish" <c.mellish@nhm.ac.uk> wrote:

> 

>> Dear Andy,

>> 

>> My niece has asked if she could film a few corridor shots and perhaps the

>> inside of one room in the Earth Sciences department for a school project.

>> She's in the 6th form and it would be a group of 3 people for about an

>> hour.  The project is to come up with a trailer only so it would never be

>> used beyond her school and I would be with them the whole time.

>> 

>> 

>> Claire

Below is a screenshot giving information about filming in the Natural History Museum:

The image above above is the information on the national history museums website. The text on the museums webpage states their filming policy. It clarifys that there are fees from £350.00 per hour for commercial filming and also £80 per hour for each member of staff needed. Commercial filming would be considered as anything that the public are able to view this is filming work that it is not for personal and private use. Even though are film piece is for educational use because the film introduction would be posted on a public blogging site and social networking sites, of blogger and youtube it would not be classed as for personal use.

The policy also states that the public galleries would only be allowed to filmed in out of public opening hours, this would mean that we’d have to film some parts of the intro out of opening hours this would mean that we’d be filming later in the evening or early night time this would mean that the filming would become inconvient and difficult to fit in.

This quotation below is from the museums policy for filming and photography, stating how the royalties that are made from the work will be shared with the museum.

“The Museum shall ensure that it has appropriate written agreements in place with volunteers, research students, commissioned parties, freelancers and other contracted parties to negotiate the right to apply for and register worldwide any patent for an invention, trade mark and secrets, designs and confidential

Information and will name creators in such applications. In cases where this is not possible the Museum the Museum shall explore possibilities of shared royalty provisions.”

Location/Premises of Film Shoot

Location/Premises

We will be needing an isolated location, as we will be filming an opening title scene for a horror movie. The isolated location will make the whole opening title scene seem more scary and make the characters feel vulnerable. Many horror movies are filmed in isolated locations to scarce the audience, as it makes the events in the film more realistic if they take place in one specific location. Being in an isolated place can be horrific, as it builds tension and has the audience in suspense.

BARN AT POSTERN HEATH FARM, POSTERN LANE, TONBRIDGE, KENT, TN11 0QU

This barn is situated in Postern Lane, a private lane running from Vale Road to Five Oak Green Road.

The location above is one of the locations we have chosen to focus on for filming our opening title scene. We chose this location, as their is a barn situated here and it is very isolated. We need an isolated area as we will be filming horror scenes and there will be screaming and shouting and we don't want to disturb anyone close by, which is why we chose this location. This location is also close for all of our group members to get to without any hassle. The barn situated in this area is also very old and dodgy looking inside and outside, which is a perfect building for our filming to take place in. The above map will also help us to find the location of the barn easily.

Opening Title Group Podcast

Opening title scene group podcast

The podcast below is a recording of my group and I discussing different elements and mise en scene that are contained in our opening title sequence. We are talking about the different props, the lighting, the costumes, framing, camera shots and angles, positioning, narrative context, enigma, and sounds such as diegetic and non-diegetic. This recording has helped us as a group to establish exactly how we are going to film our opening title scene and what elements we will be using to make our opening title scene relate to the genre horror and spiritualism. We now have enough information to go on to the next step, by creating our storyboard for our opening title sequence and to do the actual filming of our opening title sequence.

Camera Shots, Angles, Movement & Locations of Our Opening Title

Below is a table I created showing the different shots we as a group will be taking, the actions we will be filming and the costumes, props and locations be will be using

Shot no.	Shot/Framing etc.	Action	Info(Costumes, props, locations, personnel etc)
1	Establishing shot	2 boys walking towards old, dodgy looking building having a conversation	Casual clothing       Outdoors       High key lighting(Natural daylight)
2	Close up shot	Boy holding Ouija board	High key lighting      Outdoors
3	Tracking shot	2 boys walking towards old, dodgy looking building	High key lighting       Outdoors       Outside of the old dodgy looking building
4	Shot-reverse-shot	Boys having a conversation about the Ouija board game and deciding who should enter the house first.	Outside the house/building       High key lighting
5	Close up shot	Boys hand on door handle, opening the door	In front of door, just outside the old dodgy looking building       High key lighting
6	Over the shoulder shot or Point of view shot	Looking over boys shoulder into the building or room to show what the setting is inside the room. Could also be a POV shot to see what the boy is seeing when he looks inside the building	Low key lighting    Inside room
7	Extreme close up	Boys facial expressions when they look into the building	High key lighting
8	Long shot	Long shot from the back of the boys, walking through the door and entering room	High Key Lighting Outdoors In front of door
9	Long shot	Long shot of the boys entering the room from the inside	Inside of building Low key lighting Dodgy looking furniture and artefacts
10	Panning shot	Panning shot inside the room showing the setting of the room and to show there is nobody there but the boys and dodgy looking furniture	Inside room Low key lighting Old dodgy furniture
11	Medium shot	Boys looking around room to see what there is and if anyone else is there	Inside room Low key lighting Old dodgy furniture
12	Medium Shot	Boys sitting down on the floor where they will be plying the game(Ouija board).	Low key lighting Inside house
13	Close up shot	Boy setting up the Ouija board game on the ground	Ouija board Low key lighting In the middle of the room
14	Close up shot	Boy lighting the candles and setting up the stereo and ipod	Low key lighting(candle light) In the middle of the room Candles Stereo and ipod
15	Close up shot	Boys laughing in excitement to play the game	Low key lighting(candle light) In the middle of the room
16	Extreme close up shot	Boy turning on the stereo and playing music	Stereo Low key lighting(candle light)
17	Close up shot	Close up of boys hands on the Ouija board playing the game	Ouija board Low key lighting(candle light)
18	Close up shot	Facial expression of the boys after they have asked a question to the spirits	Low key lighting
19	Long shot	Boys jumping up after they hear a creepy demon voice. They then run and try to escape	Low key lighting Inside the room
20	Long shot	Will show the door closing by itself	Low key lighting Inside the room
21	Close up shot	Boys facial expressions as they are screaming in fear	Low key lighting
22	Point of view shot	Point of view shot from the boys to show what they are seeing and experiencing	Low key lighting In the room
23	Medium shot	Boys trying to open the door	Low key lighting
24	Medium shot	Boys shaking and screaming in fear and terror	Low key lighting
25	Medium shot	Medium shot of a ghost like feature in the background	Low key lighting Ghostly feature Back of the room
26	Close up shot	Boys facial expressions after they see the ghost like feature	Low key lighting
27	Extreme close up	Extreme close up of ghostly hand popping out from behind the furniture in the darkness	Low key lighting Ghostly hand Back of the room
28	Close up shot	Will show boys facial expressions of fear and terror	Low key lighting
29	Medium shot	Boys hear a demon voice and look where it is coming from	Low key lighting In the middle of the room