New Ideas and plan modifications

After studying the test shots and having many discussions with various people, we decided to alter our movie  in a few ways.

One of these changs was in costume. The detective character has been replaced with a teenage boy of a similar age to the victim. This could be seen as the victims brother or a close friend. Hopefully this will be more clear to the audience at such an early audience, but it could also provide a mysterious character, as his motives aren't completely shown, and he may be running to the scene to commit the murder.

 The second change is the scene of the killers hideout/victims prison. After a discussion, we decided to film in an abandoned church. From what I can tell, the church has been abandoned due to a fire, as the insides consist of evidence of burning wood. This would be perfect for a horror scene, as not only is it creepy to see a church in such disrepair, like a broken hope, but the distance between the church and the road means that the victim is only metres away from modern civilisation. The graveyard outside also provides an eerie entrance for the male character running to the scene. We plan to re-use Magpie Bottom as a foresty location for the boy to run through, eventually ending up at the graveyard.

The third and final change is to remove the killer character from camera shot completely. Although the killer will still be there, revealing him or her to the audience at such an early stage would be a bad move. The victim will still be mudered, but due to unseen circumstances rather than the killer killing her in camera shot. To do this, we plan to show her alive, then evidence of blood, then finally revealing the dead body when the teenage boy turns up, all in between the running scenes as normal.

Test Shots

We practised filiming our detective scenes today. Using Magpie Bottom as our area for the running scenes, with Jon Cabot School's PE storage as the killers hideout, we practised certain elements, such as the way the detective would run, the obstacles in his way, and how he would get into the killers hideout.

The green building was used as the killers hideout, whereas I was wearing the 'Mock detective' costume. We plan to make the cosutem look a bit more formal and smart, but at the same time still looking unitdy to show the panic of the dectective. However, we are currently considering whether a detective should be used for this part, or some form of other character.

Film Name

After many ideas, our group decided to name our film

"The Toy Box"

We went with this diea because not only does it fit with the clown killer style, but it also produced an idea of filling the killers hideout with childrens toys, with ambience and modifications to make them more scary, both for the victim and the audience. It could also be used to describe the killers lair being his 'toy box'.

Our film company

We decided that the name of our company should be personal, and thus SANGline pictures was born

S. am
A. lleta
N. iall
G. abby

Each of the letters of SANG is one of the crews initials.

Shot List

Storyboard

Initial Idea

Our idea involved having two scenes entwined together to show two differenc events happening at once.

Our first set of scenes. consisted of a killer kidnapping a girl. The killer would be dressed up as a scary version of a clown. The girl would wake up in a unknown dark room, covered in wounds and tied up to a chair. As the girl begins to panic, she lets out crys for help. much to the amusement of the killer, who can be heard laughing. The room is too dark for the victim to see anything, until the clown reveals his identity and prescence via a flashlight.

Our second set of scenes consists of a dectiective running, presumably towards the clowns lair. He drops a wallet with the victims picture in it, showing some kind of connection between the dectective and the victim, or to show the victim has been missing for some time. As he arrives at a small shed like building, he bursts through the door to find the victims throat being slit open by the killer. A look of horror can be seen on the dectectives face, as the door shuts behind him and the titles roll.

These two scenes would be mixed with each other when we edit the clips together, with consistent switching between them. This would help build suspense and quicken the pace of the intro.