Actor- Harriett Sydall

For the older character who is the one who spots the girl and enters the building exploring trying to find the girl. We wanted a older girl but someone who was still in their teens, who would have compassion for the little girl and would also be intrigued by the building and as to why the girl would be within the building on her own. Harriett is an A-Level Drama student who studied drama so is experienced and more than capable of the role we wish her to play.

Location Mood Board

This is a location mood board on abandoned buildings which we chose to use as our location in our film opening.

Locations

Here is a mind map we created as we brainstormed on what location we wanted to use for our film opening.

We thought that if we used a abandoned building as our location we could use many different aspects of the building, camera shots and angles. The location of an abandoned building creates a sense of unknown with the audience as they are unaware of the rooms, the history of the building and the secrets the location hold and we can use this to create tension and scare our audience. This is why we thought abandoned buildings were the perfect location for our film opening.

Complex film techniques

Match in action
A cut between two angles on the same action

Graphic match
A cut emphasising something similar in the first or second image (usually a shape). This is know as an ellipsis (cutting time) eg. notting hill

 

Eyeline match
Where a character looks in a particular direction. We then see what they are looking at through point of view shot. cuts back to a reaction shot.

Shot-reverse-shot
Used in conversation. the point of view alternates between the two opposite positions

Jump cut
An elliptical shot which seems to interrupt the continuity of a scene.

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Classifiction

http://www.bbfc.co.uk/what-classification/15

After reading the British Board of Film Classification we decided to rate our film a certificate 15. It could be a 12 but the main reason for choosing 15 is this statement on the site

'What about horror works? - Many horror films are rated 15. At 15 there can be strong threat and menace (as long as it is not sadistic or sexualised), although the strongest gory images are unlikely to be acceptable.'

Target Audience Research

We have considered our target audience and have come up with a few questions ot ask them about what scares them most about horror, and what horror films they like, as well as a few specific questions relating to our own ideas such as balck and white and children. Below is an interview with two 16-17 year olds and afterwards there is a short paragraph of what we have concluded from the research and how it will impact our film opening.

From this research we have decided that:

• The film will be at least partly in black and white (but probably not all in B&W)
• Our location will be one of the abandoned buildings we have investigated, as the target audience find these the most creepy
• We will try to include a doll/dolls in one of our shots
• We should have a long build up to increase tension and fear