Story board

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Casting

When casting we chose Jojo to be our actress, playing Chloe because Jojo has several years experience in acting school so will be able to use her knowledge to help to create the scene. Also as Jojo is a director it will be easier to portray what we want to happen in each scene as she will be the one acting the scene out.

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Production Plan

Date and time	Scene / page Name and number	Shots used	Actors / models inc. contact details	Crew? inc. contact details	Location inc. postcode for Satnav?	Props & costume Who’ll be bringing what to the shoot
Saturday 22d Nov	Trail shots Bottom of stairs to shop floor	Hand held/POV Medium shot Tracking Pan High angle	Chole – Jojo	Zoe– camera Dan - stagehand Zoe and Jojo - directors	Oxfam portishead highstreet 110 High Street, Portishead, Bristol, BS20 6AJ	Zoe - Tripod Jojo - Camera
Saturday 6th Dec	Shop floor to end	Hand held/POV Medium shot Tracking Pan High angle	Chloe - Jojo	Zoe- camera Zoe- stagehand Zoe and jojo - directors	Oxfam portishead highstreet 110 High Street, Portishead, Bristol, BS20 6AJ	Zoe – Tripod Jojo – Same clothes as last shoot + camera
Sunday  7th Dec	Upstairs	medium close up	Chole - Jojo	Zoe- camera Zoe- stagehand Zoe and jojo - directors	Oxfam portishead highstreet 110 High Street, Portishead, Bristol, BS20 6AJ	Zoe – Tripod Jojo – Same clothes as last shoot + camera
Saturday 13th Dec Sunday 21st Dec	Refilming shop floor		Chole - Jojo	Zoe- camera Zoe- stagehand Zoe and jojo - directors	Oxfam portishead highstreet 110 High Street, Portishead, Bristol, BS20 6AJ	Zoe – Tripod Jojo – Same clothes as last shoot + camera
	Refilming upstairs second room	medium long shot downwards angle

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Storyborad

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Ideas from films

Attack the block: In this film you never fully see the monsters but you know they are there. This leaves what    the audience thinks they look like up to their imagination. We can use this in our film as you never quite see the other person in the shop.
Click here to see Jojo's post on the opening sequence of Attack the bock.

Woman in black: Here lots of strange things happen and there is a figure that watches people from afar. This can also be used in our film as a POV shot of the person watching to see through the other person's eyes but not to reveal the other person's identity.

Dawn of the dead: In this film the characters are in a shopping mall and we can use subtle scenes of the characters using the setting from this film to apply to ours.

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Shot types

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Locations

Just started to look at filming on location. We looked at different camera angles and movement to use in the final scene. The setting works very well and we also looked at what editing will need to be done on each scene.

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The location

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Horror genre

When discussing themes with Jojo, we came to a disicion on what theme we will use in our openning sequence. We are going to use a horror theme. So here are some conventions of the horror genre:

The setting is usual far away from people, whether in the mountains, similar to The shinning, or in the contryside, similar to A cabin in the woods, and most typically a haunted house. Usually this setting is unfamilar to the characters.

Another convention is iconography. In a lot of films these are repeated, such as low key lighting, monsters or a mad man. The mise-en-scene is very important here too. Starting with the low key lighting, this gives a very haunted and dark feel to the films. This also limits the character's and the audience's view of what is happening and movies can use the dark to trick us in thinking that there is something there as we cannot clearly see what is happening. Some props such as kinves or chainsaws are used often as they are very dangrous weapons that a person on their own cannot defend against, helping to induce a feeling of fear and defencelessness.

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