Kerri, Georgia and My recipe for a horror story

Ingredients

Method

Protagonist: -       10yo innocent little girl -       Teacher -       Best Friend -       Creepy Old Butler -       Random Stoner -       Little boy -       Teenage girl -       Grandparents -       Dad -       Mothers -       Tourists -       Helpless People -       Angel -       Hunters -       Young Beautiful Women -       Cheerleader -       Brave person -       Brother -       Policeman -       Security -       Old Person -       Loser -       Soldier -       Bad Ass Women -       Under Achiever Antagonist: -       Old man -       Pedophile -       Ex-murderer -       Escaped Prisoner -       Tourists -       Teacher -       Creepy Person -       Nerd -       Coach -       Cop -       House Keeper -       Baby Sitter -       Gardener -       Doll -       Supernatural Creature -       Church Person -       Priest -       A long lost sibling -       A long lost friend -       Demon -       Evil Sibling -       Zombie -       A possessed person -       Cannibal -       Foster Parents -       An exorcist -       Revenge Seeker -       Crazy Animals Sub-characters: -       Mum -       Dad -       The Token Black man -       Maid -       Grandparents -       Friends -       The best friend -       Party goers -       Police -       CSI -       Animals -       School Students -       Neighborhood person walking dog -       The hot jock -       People shopping at mall -       BACKGROUND PEOPLE -       Hospital Patients -       Doctor -       Nurses -       The group of friends -       The mailmen -       News Reporters Location/Setting: (Isolated Place) -       Abandoned building -       Party -       Cabin -       Mansion -       Ghost Town -       Bedroom -       Chernobyl -       An old psychiatric place -       An old hospital -       An empty ship -       School -       Fair -       Cemetery -       An office -       A strip-club -       House in the woods -       An apartment -       House at the end of the street -       Warehouse -       Forestry Supernatural Elements: -       Ghost -       Vampire -       Zombies -       Possessed Child/people -       Devils -       Superheroes Extra Elements: -       Lightening -       Sound -       Shadow

Take one 10 year old innocent girl, make her go to her usually weekly ballet class and have her male teacher ask her to come to two more private lessons a week.  While he is asking her have the rest of the class dancing in the background and her mum waiting to pick her up. Two days later have her maid drop her off at a cabin in the ghetto and leave straight away. Have the girl walk into the dodgy cabin to see her coach sitting there waiting, mean while, while the little girl is stretching the coach locks the door. Have her ask him why, have him not reply, have her ask him again and then run into the bathroom and locks the door. Have the coach banging on the door and trying to get in, have the girl climb out a small window and run into the forestry behind the cabin. Then have the coach chase after her and have her hide behind a tree, have this cat and mouse game happen a couple of times until a homeless black guy hear what’s going on and run into the woods. Have the token black guy come across the coach trying to tie the girl up and save her. Have the token black guy take the girl to hospital and have the police go to the cabin to find that the coach has hung himself. Have the little girl survive and have her mum give the homeless token black guy some money to find somewhere to live. Have them all live happily ever after with a great life.

Reflection 05/03/13

In todays class I talked to my group about what I missed in yesterdays lesson. I was sick yesterday so I missed what we did. In yesterdays lesson my group put all the shots together so we had some sought of final trailer. We decided to do the trailer in black and white as it made it more dramatic. When I saw the trailer today I thought it looked great and as if it could be an actual trailer for a movie! Its amazing how changing the brightness and saturation can change the whole mood of a shot. When we showed Mr Andrews our trailer he gave us some feedback and said we need to make sure we follow the rule of thirds, need to work in the angle of shots and also look at our transitions. Overall he said it was good but just gave us the feedback so we could apply it to our next filming/movie making assignment. Tomorrow we are showing the class our trailer and they will also give us some feedback. I think it will be interesting to find out what they thought and whether or not they get the whole main idea and theme of the trailer.

Updated Shot List

Shots:

1.        Collage of newspaper clippings shown – zoom in, zoom out

2.        Shot of Lauren running through door at top of stairs

3.        Shot of Julian running down stairs - drops something

4.        Lauren walks down the stairs - picks up the bag and takes key out

5.        Cuts to her searching through a desk - different angled shots

6.        Finds image of key

7.        Shot of the key next to the image of the key

8.        Show the reaction of the detective

9.     Walks out of the room

10.  Gun appears at her head

11.  White flash

12.  Shot of the arm, implying they are dead

13.  Shot of the shooter walking away - only their back

Shot List

Shots:

1.        Collage of newspaper clippings shown – zoom in, zoom out

2.        Close shot of feet of murderer walking, shot moves up body to face, wearing hat, so can’t see face

3.        Then stop in front of lockers

4.        Close shot of locker combination

5.        See a shadow coming around the corner

6.        Murderer runs, drops piece of paper on ground

7.        Close up of someone picking it up

8.        Close up of the piece of paper - code/ close up of person smiling

9.        Open locker – pull out evidence folder

10.    Start walking out of locker room, when they reach the end, a gun is pointed at them

11.    White flash

12.    Arm in shot – implying the person is dead

Shots:

1.        Collage of newspaper clippings shown – zoom in, zoom out

2.        Close up of feet of detective walking, shot moves up the body to the face

3.        Turns a corner, sees someone fleeing around another corner, sees this person drop a key

4.        Picks up the key, holds it next to a picture of the key (shows it’s the same one/the one they needed)

5.        They purposefully walk back the way they had come, into a room, with the newspaper clippings board in the background – camera in front of them as they walk

6.        Go into some odd hiding place where the box is kept and take the box out

7.        Sit the box on a table and open it

8.        Show the reaction of the detective – not what is in the box

9.        Closes box, runs out of the room to a gun being pointed at them

10.    Slowly look towards the person with gun

11.    White flash

12.    Slow motion shot of box being dropped

13.    Shot of just the arm, implying the person is dead

14.    Shot of the shooter walking away – only their back

Costumes:

Detective:

·         Jeans

·         Plain shirt/singlet

·         Heels or leather school shoes

Murderer:

·         Long trench coat

·         Hat

·         School shoes