Evaluation of the pre-production process:

Are group had negative and positive points. When we are getting on with our tasks we work well and communicate but our weakness is actually getting down to our task. I feel that some people in the group have put in a lot more work then other members. We have finally got organised and we are now up to date with our work. After being allocated our roles and organising what each individual person needs to get on with we began to form a solid group and began meeting our deadlines correctly.

Olivia took on the role of being the ‘camera women’, which she will only be credited on when we start shooting. She was the camera women in our preliminary task and really enjoyed it and because our group only had three people at the time and two of them were acting she had to do the camera on her own and managed it very well. Olivia did two pages of the storyboard, she also has organised all of the actors and created the cast list. She also came up with a lot of the ideas for how to shoot the opening sequence.

Oscar took on the role of being ‘editor’ which again he won’t get credited on until after shooting our thriller sequence. He has done the drawings for the storyboard as he takes art. He did it really quickly (not rushing it) and they came out really well.

Ellie took on the role of being continuity girl and helping with the editing. She was continuity girl in her previous shooting of the preliminary task. Ellie did two pages of the storyboard. She has been ill and so hasn’t been able to do anything more at the moment.

I took on the role of being producer and director. I am rather organised and I will be able to get everyone in position and doing what they are meant to be. I did four pages of the storyboard and got them page numbered and organised to send to the group and to print of for Oscar. I also did the props and costume list which Olivia helped me with. I also did the shooting schedule. I also came up with ideas for the opening sequence.

We firstly decided on what we would each be doing and why we thought we were best for those jobs. We then made sure we all knew exactly what wanted to come from our thriller. We then got together a rough copy of a storyboard so that we could go through it as a group and then start the real thing. After finishing the storyboards I printed them all of and gave them to Oscar for the weekend he brought them. After Oscar completing the storyboards we moved onto doing the cast list, props list, costumes list and deciding on our exact locations.

We have learnt to work as a team and make sure we meat our deadlines. We all have different strengths and weaknesses but we ended up making them work in our favour. We have all improved our skills and learnt how much time and effort it takes simply organising a group and preparing for a simple opening sequence.

If we had the chance to start it all again I would make sure we were organised from the start and make sure that everyone in the group put in the same amount of effort. I think my main strength is making sure everything is up to date if it means staying late and organising other peoples work then I will do it because I am determined to come out with a good result. I am also quite a quick worker when I get focused and I know what I am doing and I will not stop until I finish it there and then.

Shooting schedule:

This is the shooting schedule I created so that the shot times were organised. it helps us know how long it will take, and let us know if we need less or more time then we are allowed. It will also keep us on track so that we don't get behind time if we are always trying to meat a deadline.

Casting decisions:

We decided that we needed a young girl around the age of 9-11. We decided we would use Olivia’s younger sister that was 11 years old. We also needed a man around the age 40-60. We are now using a man called Russell who is 44. We chose him as he is accessible, is an actor that is willing to do it and lastly he would make it realistic. We would use make-up and costume to make the actors look older or younger if it was needed.

Discussion of what institution would produce our film:

The most likely institution to produce our film would be use an independent British film company such as; WARP Films. This kind of institution would allow us to produce a moderatly low budget production that would embrace a gritty realism that is so often associated with British productions such as; Danny Boyles ‘Trainspotting’. It would be unlikely that our film would be produced by a major Hollywood institution using major A List celebrities and multi million pound high production value budgets.

Account of your target audience:

We decided that the audience should be over 18’s as it is a daunting film using; nudity, lewd language and it is violent and there is a lot of blood shown. It would be for any gender however males may bond with it more. It would not be to complex but it may be psychologically a little demanding and may cause uncomfortable audience voyeurism.

More importantly audiences are defined by their specific expectations and demands and our audience would respond to the inclusion of a complex and fear inducing narrative that engages them on a personal and filmic level. They would also respond positively to a high level of voyeuristic realism that gives the text believability and credibility and makes the experience more painful and authentic.

Account of the research sources:

For our original idea Ellie’s influence was ‘The shinning’. She liked the idea of the two twin little girls. How they were innocent but still created this creepy atmosphere. She wanted to have at least one little girl like that, that looked innocent at first but was really evil. We then looked at the last scene of ‘Don’t look now’ and wanted to use that idea. Where there is a small character which makes the audience think they are harmless. And for that character to be sobbing so that the audience sympathise with the character and then when the character turns around it shocks the audience as the character is far from innocent. The music we want to use is the general thriller increasing movie which we got from several different films.

One particularly important text that directly influenct our casting and narrative construction was 'The Shinning', specifically the scene in which Danny encounters the ghosts of the dead twins in the hallway. this helped us to consider the construction of the mise-en-scene (hallway) and the aesthetic appearnce of the ghost child in our sequence. See

Storyboarding, Props & costumes:

In this lesson we divided up in order to complete a number of individual production tasks so that we could come together at the end of the lesson and put it all together. I went and printed of the storyboards in order so that Oscar could begin drawing it in. Olivia worked on the cast list trying to find the photo’s etc. I also finished and printed of the prop list. Ellie helped Oscar with finishing of the storyboards. After this we all updated and edited our Blogs. We decide that for our props all we needed was; a china doll, old sheets, old books, a candle and a china doll. For our costumes we decided that we needed a Victorian style night gown for the man and a white ghostly night dress for the little girl.