Opening first draft script

Script for opening

 (Giggling and chatter)

All but Sarah

 Night

Sarah

 (sarcastic) Night Mum… Ugh finally. Now we can get back to business

(Sarah pulls out the Ouija board and candles from a sleeping bag)

Robin

 Sarah! I thought it was alcohol (puts head on the table)

Sam

Sarah, its not even a real ouija board, its not gonna work.

Robin

 Oh C’mon its just a bit of fun

Cassy

Stop it, it could be dangerous

Sam

 Guys, this is idiotic look lets just go get some snacks and put a film on eh? You know how Cassy get with this stuff, just drop it yeah?

Sarah

 Oh shut it Sam, were just mucking around. Loosen up or you may as well be at home playing with those cards you love so much.

Robin

 Lighten up Sam we’re just having a laugh. Cassy you’ll be fine.

Cassy

 Well I don’t believe you…

(Sarah Lights a match and lights the candles. Ouija sequence)

Jess

 Mum said you should be in bed so if you don’t be quiet, im telling

Robin

 we’ll be quiet Jess. Sorry

Sarah

 Don’t apologise to her, she’s an idiot, she won’t tell; she’s too chicken, just like, little miss’ this-is-a-bad-idea’ over here (referring to Cassy)

Jess

Humph, just be quiet yeah? or you'll give me nightmares

(door slams)

(cut to black)

By Amy Coster

Celebrity Actors In Our Opening

We decided that we wanted our main female actor to look quite innocent, but not necessarily your typical girly girl. Isabelle Fuhrman would be a good actor to play the role of Cassy as she is slightly myseterious whilst still being girly.

The main male that would come in later in the film would need to look very mysterious and older than the girls. We thought that Ville Valo would be good in this role as he looks very dark and mysterious.

For one of the girls friends, Robin, we thought that Corsica Wilson would work well as she looks very innocent and girly. We wanted somebody who just looked like a typical teenage girl.

For the nerdy girl, Sam, we thought that Evanna Lynch would be perfect to play her as she is fairly well known but has been involved in many independant projects.

For the popular girl, Sarah, we thought we would need a girl who seemed quite vain and pretentious, and who would look older than the others with make up. Astrid Bergès-Frisbey  would be good to play this part.

For the little sister of the main girl, we needed somebody who looked cute but like she could be an annoying little sister who would tell tales on her big sister. Alexia Osborne would suit this role perfectly.

By Abbey Tredget

Mise en scene consideration

Mise en scene is a major part of film as it gives the audience messages and hidden meaning towards the film from the begening, this can also be enjoyable to audience members who have seen the film once before and pick up new meanings to  the film.

Tis is a list of our mise en scene for our film opening:

• For the lighting of our opening, we are planning to use artificial lighting to create a brighter setting in the living room to connote the characters being blinded from the supernatural events that will eventually happen.

• The costumes are all to fit each character. The little sister will be in clothing which is appropriate but baggy to highlight that it was passed down from her older sister, helping to carry the theme of generations. The costumes also are going to help portray stereotypical characters in a subtle way.

• The cloth that the home made Ouija board will be sitting on will be red to connote the danger that the Ouija board will bring.

• The homemade Ouija board will connote the innocence of the girls as they don't know what they are doing, highlighting the incompetence of the girls, making them the stereotypical victims of the horror genre.

• The lighting will portray dusk, this will connote that the danger is just beginning as dusk is the beginning of the night.

• One of the sleeping bags in shot was red to connote the blood that will be spilt.

• The nusic played will be a mix of suspenceful music and a rock song which will be a juxtaposition towards the girls as they are steriotypically shows as girls who wouldnt listen to the music being played, highlighting how they are involved in dangerous themes.

• The shots of the family photos connote the themes of generations and tell the audience that they will have more meaning later on in the film.

By Amy Coster

Hand Drawn Story Board

 

 

 

 

By Abbey Tredget

Location Scouting Part 3

Abbey's Bedroom

I don't think that my room would be appropriate for our film opening location as it isn't very girly and the layout would be very easy to film in. It is also a bit too small to fit all of our casting members and cameras into.

Abbey's Living Room

My living room is a good size to film in and fit all of our cast, also the lighting would be good as the lights dim. But as we need a small table for the actors to be sat around, we decided that this location would be too difficult to get a table into easily for filming.

Location Scouting Part 2

Kate's Bedroom

The first place I considered to look at was my bedroom, as our opening is set at a sleepover. I have chosen not to use my room as our location as it's blue and not very girly. Plus, the lighting would not look correct for a supernatural film. Another reason would be that the colours are also not very girly, as if we used a bedroom it would have to be pink or purple preferably.

Kate's Living Room

The second place I looked was my living room. The lighting works well as we could easily close the curtains, but still have a side lamp on. Also, the spacing is good to use as all of our actors could gather around the table so that we could place the camera in the middle of the coffee table and get some good shots.

By Kate Farrell 

Filming day photos

 Practice run through with the scripts on hand in case the actors needed it.

 Kate testing out the lighting on camera.

 Going over how we wanted the lines to be delivered and how we wanted them to act.

Final decisions were made about lighting and actors, we then decided to move the camera to the opposite side of the room.

By Abbey Tredget