Monday, 19 October 2015

Costume list

Cannibal

  • plain coloured shirt 
  • woollen jumper
  • black jeans/trousers
  • watch
  • black boots
Teenager (running)

  • dark coloured hoodie
  • t-shirt
  • scruffy hair 

Friday, 16 October 2015

Recce Report

There are four locations needed for our trailer, a forrest, a field, a kitchen and a road. The forrest shot can be taken outside college as it simple to get to and requires no travelling. The lighting will be fairly dark as we will be covered by the shadows of the trees, plus we will be shooting in autumn so sun light is limited. This area can be accessed any time during college hours so will be shot during lesson time.
The second location needed is a field which will be used as a backdrop for the barn on fire scene, this will be fairly simple to get as one student lives close to fields and can take a photo from a public footpath, so no permission is required. This area is fairly open meaning it should be well lit.




For the prolonged kitchen scene we are filming in one member of the group's house and it should be easy to do as we only need to use a small section of the room, and the fake blood shouldn't be too messy. Artificial light will be used for this scene.




The final location is a road, which can be shot anywhere as long as there are no large industrial buildings nearby, so a country road would be best. Of course the photo must be taken whilst there is no traffic and should be shot in the daytime to produce the best lighting. 

Prosthetics special effect

This effect is needed to show the audience that this character is a cannibal and a killer, it uses shock factor and gore to gross out the viewer. There are two possible ways of completing this effect, the first is by making a fake hand out of papier mache and cutting the fingers off with a knife. The second method is by using someone's real hand covering it in fake blood and cropping it in post-production. The total cost of this effect including the fake hand equipment and blood is £8.50.

Scale model special effect

This effect is another cut within the kitchen scene designed to give some insight into the movie and to scare the audience. To create the barn we will use cardboard and paint it to match an image found on the internet. Then it will be placed on a concrete slab to keep it stable with a green screen background to be replaced with a sky image in post-production. The total cost of this effect is around £1.00.

Miniature special effect



This special effect is needed for one of the cuts in between the kitchen scene, it is designed to shock and to give a small insight into what happens in the rest of the film. First the toy car must be slightly damaged with a hammer, making it seem it has actually crashed, then it will be placed on top of a home made road. The camera is positioned on the ground, level with the car so it takes up roughly a half of the screen. Then the green screen is then placed behind the car and replaced with a road image in post-production. The total cost of this effect, including the toy car and the materials used to build the road, comes to £7.














Animatic

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The animatic works well because it includes all the scenes and sound effects that will be seen in the final trailer. It is also able to give the basic camera angles and positions across to both the actors and camera operator. However it was difficult to replicate the specific camera movements and actions performed by the characters as it would've taken too much time to draw each image.

Friday, 9 October 2015

Story board (first draft)

This is the first story board I created showing the basic camera shots and objects/actors that will be visible in each.