Updated storyboard

Revised costumes, props and locations

Costumes

Considering I wont be playing a detective anymore, but a teenage boy, a change of costume is required

Victims brother-Played by me

To show that the killers victims are normal everyday people, I will be wearing typical teenage clothing. I will be wearing a normal T-shirt and black skinny jeans, with a fairly long necklace and skate shoes. Wearing typical clothing will allow the audience to relate to what is going on, whiel showing that he is of a similar age to the victim. The outfit is also easy to run in during the running scenes, allowing us to get better footage.

Props

All the props we planned to use wont be used anymore. Instead, we will only be using one prop

Fake Blood- shown by red paint

This is to show blood on the floor of the church, as well as the victims body. It will help show that the victim was dragged along before being left where she was.

Locations


Abandoned Church- Kingswood

A big building area fallen into disrepair, the church has evidence of fire via the burnt wood. Despite holes in the walls, windows and roof, the lighting is fairly dim for daytime. The eerie feeling of the church provides a perfect location for a horror film, while the big open area provides a sense of danger, as the killer could be hiding anywhere.

Forest area- Magpie Bottom

An open area used for the running scenes, running thorough open fields and foresty areas. This will be cut together with the church scenes. This is used to stop the film being restircted to one area, while switching the movie up to so its not focused on just one scene

Graveyard- Kingswood

An area outside the church, full of unmaintained paths and open crypts. This will be used for more running scenes further into the film, showing how far the brother has to run to get to the church, while also showing the size of the church from the outside. The graveyard will also help the eerie feeling of the church scenes.

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