Costumes And Props planning

Costumes needed:

for Lauren - hospital gown of some sort, possibly dirty/ripped.

white socks, shoes optional?

make up should make the actor look pale and tired, with dark bags under their eyes

for Office Worker- office attire; e.g. pencil skirt, tights, flat shoes, white blouse and jacket. hair up in a tight bun. glasses possibly (although, watch for reflections in the lenses)

props will include:

a photocopier (can be found on location)

a set of medical records (can be made or copied)

a bottle of pills (found at home/bought) [no pills taken]

Group meeting 1 - production logo ideas

Today we met as a group to discuss ideas for the name of our production company, and also to start to create a logo.
For the name, we started by looking at some existing production companies that specialise in horror, such as Twisted Pictures and Hammer Horror Films. We decided that we wanted our company name to reflect the genre of our title sequence, and so we started brainstorming words we thought represented our idea, we also experimented with whether our name should include '___ Studios' or '___ Films'

we collated our ideas and created a shortlist of possible names:

• Alucard Studios
• Phantom Films
• Skull Spoke Productions
• Enigma Films
• Chairedge Films

we then each took it in turns to rate each idea out of three, and totalled the scores. It then concluded that the name of our production company would be Chairedge Films.

As for the logo, we've currently decided on the idea of a bloody handprint, which, on closer inspection, has one extra finger, we created a rough draft of this idea to see how effective it looked:

we also decided to be creative with the name of our film, and decided to mix two words together. eventually we decided that we should combine 'insane' and 'asylum' to create Insylum. although we haven't decided how this will look on screen yet.

Location Recee

All of the pictures below are part of 1 main lcoation for filming, these pictures give a detailed view of the block of a building we want to film in, consisting of a corridoor, stairs and a photcopier room, which will all be used in conjunction to create a mental asylum looked effect for our opening sequence. this is the corridoor that will be shot in reverse order to what this image displays, this is where the 3 jump/speed cuts will take place to show the photocopier room and the evil character. this pictures shows the view after the jump/speed cuts have occurred, of the photocopier room and the end of the corridoor, which are both used for the rest of the opening sequence. this picture shows the stair way that we intend to also film on, this is where we feel the security camera effect should be placed on the opening sequence as it is unique but original in that this effect has been used of other films in our genre style of films before, but not in the way we intend to use it. this shot is the view from the photocopier room of which we intend to show the evil crazy character appearing at the bottom of the stairs in the shot, and appearing from the side. this shot is the reverse shot view from the photocopier room of which we intend to show the evil crazy character appearing at the bottom of the stairs in the shot, and appearing from the side.
this is the view of the stair case we intend to use for the POV(point of view) shot from the evil characters eyes. these are 2 possible shots of a possible location for filming to give a feel and establishing shot of where the action is happening.

group roles and responsibilties

the group roles are as follows:

Producer: Brogan Gallagher

Cinematographer: Rachael oduala

Editor: Bradley Clarke

Brogan research & planning responsibilities:

- Script
- Production Schedule

Rachael research & planning responsibilities:
- Storyboard
- Props/costume list

Bradley research & planning responsibilities:

- Shot list
- Location recee

Opening Sequence Audience research

this video shows the audience research we did for opening sequences, which compiled of various questions being asked to a group of students from our class.