Actors/ Characters

We had three Actors : Rosie Walker ( the Hostage and ghoul ), Kai Price-Goodfellow ( left guard ) and Ben Walters ( right guard) .



For Kai and Ben we dressed them in black jeans, with a white shirt and blazer. This gave the 'bad ass' look and helped the audience understand their characters more and who they were.



Rosie as the hostage had black leggings on and a white top that was ripped on the shoulder and had fake blood down the front to add to her ' beaten up' makeup which Charlotte and Hannah did. Her curly hair was very helpful when it came to making her look more scruffy as it was easy to mess up and gave her a real ragged edge.


As the ghoul we had the same clothing, as she was supposed to be the same person, but had different make up to show the change in her. If we had no change in her at all it would be quite confusing for the audience to watch the sequence and work out how she got untied and out the door without the guards realizing.  Charlotte and Hannah again, crafted a Chelsea smile from tissue paper and glue. Giving Rosie a pale face it contrasted with the redness of the blood.

Location and Set

We both had a few ideas for the location of our task, including:
                                                                                                     Drama studio in school
                                                                                                      Dawns house ( my mums boss' house)
                                                                                                      Jenny's outhouse ( my auntie)

After asking my mums boss for her permission to use one of the rooms in her house we set up what the room would look like. After toying around with a few different ideas of where to place certain things and lighting we finally decided on a set.

 It was a large room with cream carpet and red walls with wooden furniture. The room was perfect for our piece as it had two big wooden doors painted white which were essential for our sequence, the red walls also gave quite a dramatic effect along side our lighting as they made the room quite dark.. The main light was able to be swung so it added a whole new dimension to the atmosphere of the room.
The chair we used was originally a Chinese torcher chair, so in actual fact we couldn't have gotten anything better.

The benefits of filming in a house is that we were able to look after our actors better than anywhere else as there was food and drink supplied by Dawn ( the owner of the house ) and there was a toilet so the actors were happy to come back for a second day of filming. We used a total of 4 and a half hours to film all the shots we needed.

The peach two seat couch was not used in the sequence but the large round table to the left was put in the dead centre of the background.

Finalising out outline

When we had decided on the genre of the sequence we got to work writing up the outline. For us mixing an Action film and a Horror film seemed to work very well.
The ideas flowed quickly and we had many floating about which in a way was a slight problem when it came to actually narrowing it down to one specific story line. Once we had explored each idea into a little more detail we were able to get a solid outline down.


Outline 

Close up on hostages face (lights on )
Zoom out slightly to see hostage tied up
Zoom out medium long shot- see hostage and guards
Sfx of door slamming
Guards become alert- pointing guns towards door
Footsteps - shot reverse shot ( guard , guard 1 , door , hostage , door , guard 2 , outside door)
Door opens
Silhouette
Dialog
Torches make way through smoke, up ghouls 'body' to just before the face.





Script
 We didn't have a lot of dialog therefore didn't write a script. We in actual fact give the actors a little room to get the feel of their character and what they were likely to say. As we did this it ended up that Kai was the more dominant guard and said everything, this was due to the nature of Kai and Ben's acting on camera. As Ben is a little more shy when it comes to being filmed he wasn't as outgoing as Kai but this gave a great new level to the characters and made it easier to tell them apart and what they are actually like (really helped read into the character and piece together their back story).

Preliminary task ideas

In the preliminary task i chose to work with my friend and class mate Charlotte as i felt i would work better with someone than i would by myself and the fact that we both work well together was a bonus.

The first thing we did was draw up a mind map of ideas we could possibly do for this task.

Romantic - Car door, soldier in car (looking sad/worried). Kids playing outside in the front garden.

  Noticing him and call out as they run up to the car

 Camera in kitchen- focused on mother washing up, she turns around hearing the children and begins running to the front door. Opens door, fade out to sunlight.

Horror - Shaking door. Character opens door to find no-one there. closes door and turns around to see other character stood behind her. 

Action- Hostage in middle of two agents in chair. Zoom out from eyes of hostage. Sfx door slamming and footsteps.

These were the possible genres we wanted to explore, these seemed the most realistic for me and Charlotte to be able to do. After putting our pens to paper and actually writing up the ideas we both agreed that the Horror and Action ideas were better than the Romantic but there was a small problem that we encountered, they wouldn't be very interesting or entertaining by them selves so we decided to merge them together and create an Action-Horror.