Practice Shots in Chosen Location

This is some practice shots at our chosen location of the character's workplace

Practice Shots

We practised some of our storyboarded shots - here are the results. This was at our first chosen location (character's friends house) but after watching it and thinking about it more, we decided that it would fit in better with our storyline to film the opening shots at the character's workplace.

Risk Assessment

Planning: Target Audience

We spent some time, after having done research and got our audience expectations from our focus group, discussing how best to target an audience and who our audience would be.

Planning: Location

To fit in with our storyline, we wanted two locations for our film. The first at the characters workplace and the second at the characters home. We needed to find a suitable work and home location for the type of character we wanted to create which was a successful career woman. After considering our options we chose the front office of an independent school which was well presented and an affluent suburban home. Added benefits were that there was enough space in both locations for our film crew to operate comfortably.

Planning: Props

Planning: Hair And Make-Up

Planning: Costumes

The boy antagonist - to illustrate his character and bad teenage nature, we wanted to dress him in dark tracksuit bottoms and hoodie with trainers. This would characterise him to be maybe up to something bad which would be reinforced by him wearing black gloves.

The woman protagonist - to portray her character, we wanted to dress her in a plain and simple yet smart and sophisticated typical work dress. The idea was to show that today is just a normal working day for her and nothing, to her knowledge, out of the ordinary was going to happen. We also did this to make it seem to the audience that this lady is a very successful, hard working person which fits in with the background to our storyline that the reason she gave her son up for adoption was to have a successful career and carry on with her life.

Planning: Characters

Choosing our characters:

• The woman protagonist - Helen Williams. We need a woman protagonist becuase we noticed that in other Horror/ Thriller films that we researched, the protagonist is nearly always female. Not only to stick with the convention of having a female protagonist, we also thought that we should choose a female because men think they are more able to overcome threat more easily than a woman and so our audience would be able to relate to it more this way. Also, our storyline is about a mother putting her son up for adoption to continue with her life not knowing that he is coming to seek his revenge. Therefore, our protagonist had to be female to fit in with our storyline.
  
• The boy antagonist - Nick Webber. We need a young teenage boy to fit in with our storyline because the background to our Film Opening was that the boys mother (main woman protaganist) put him up for adoption at birth and is back 15-16 years later to seek his revenge. Therefore, we need a boy who looks 15-16 who looks like a typical teenage boy to fit in with his characteristics and the storyline.