Monday, 14 March 2011

Casting and Shooting Schedule

Casting
Samantha Black- Leah O’Hare
We felt that she suited the role because; she has an easily changeable personality and look, which is a key aspect for her character.
Kelly Edwards- Jade Senior
We feel that Jade could fulfil her role as Samantha’s best friend, because, she has a certain aspect of innocence in her personality. But, she also needs to have a darker side to her, which reflects her killing Samantha.

Shooting Schedule

Day/Date
Location
Actors
Props
Technical kit
Notes
Monday 21st Feb

Amy’s house
Jade
Leah
Lamp
Bed linen
Telephone
Scissors
Glass vase
Flowers
Artificial blood
Camera, tripod
Scene 1
Wednesday 23rd Feb
Jazmin’s loft
Leah
Jade
Photos
Drawing pins
Lamps
Chunky books
Scissors
Cellotape
Pencil shavings
Work pass
Newspapers
Red wool
Knife
Sheets
Blood
Camera, tripod
Scene 2
Saturday 26th Feb
Ali’s work place
Leah
Briefcase

Camera, tripod
Scene 3

Sunday, 13 February 2011

The Script

Film synopsis

Now that we have completed the majority of our research, we now need to create a synopsis for our film

Synopsis

At the beginning of the film there is a scene with a dead women shown and a and reaching towards a phone after this there are clips of a psycho with a collage of images cutting and editing pictures of unknown people. The killers work pass is on the wall to give the illusion to the audience that she is victim. We are then shown the ‘victim/killer’ working into work looking smart and sophisticated.

There is a killer on the loose that is mysteriously killing people at Samantha’s work place; people are made to believe that their work colleagues are off sick or on a holiday although in reality they are being savagely murdered. The killer turns out to be Samantha however she is unaware of this due to her suffering of Dissociative identity disorder which causes her to lead two parallel personalities that never coexist, hence her memory is severly damaged and she is unaware of the sins she commits.

She convinces herslef she is normal altough throughout the film signs of her unusaul personality are revealed. As more wor collegues go missing she becomes more wary of what is happening. Samantha’s friend Kelly, who has known her for 5 years (since they srated working together), becomes suscpicous of Samantha and is convinced that she has something to do with the missing colleagues.

Kelly sneaks into Samantha’s house and finds a locked room which she finally opens and discovers Samantha’s dark secret (collage is exposed) simultaneously Samantha is on her way home, the scene becomes intense, Samantha finds Kelly resulting in a large aggressive fight resulting in the death of Samantha.
 

Institutions

Warner Bros. is our chosen company, with dark castle entertainment as an associating institution. Our chosen genre is psychological thriller therefore we feel that this company will be beneficial to the production of our film. As Warner Bros. Is a largely successful company we feel confident in the fact that our film will be suitably funded. Since Warner Bros. is an established company that supports Dark Castle entertainment the company has the ability to be more specific in it’s chosen genre, horror/thriller. Due to it’s experience in producing horror/thriller films, we are positive that the film will be of a high standard in regards to production. 
Dark Castle has produced a variety of successful horror/thriller films, such as Gothika, Orphan, The Reaping and Splice. The success of these films assures us that the company has a lot of knowledge on what the audience like or expect to see in a horror/thriller film.
For the production, distribution and funding of our film we have chosen two integrated companies, Dark Castle Entertainment is a branching company of Warner Bros. The significance of this association is beneficial in terms of funding and we think there can be too many companies in one film and therefore having one main institution in charge will be cheaper and there will be less conflict.
Warner Bros. have distributed a wide variety of films from different genres including; Terminator 3: rise of the machines, Spartan, Exorcist: the beginning, and Dominion: prequel to the exorcist. This shows that they are able to dispense lots of films from different backgrounds and have had experience in distributing successful thrillers