Props List

Paranormal Productions
Props List	Provider
Table	School	School Source
Chair (Simon’s room)	School	School Source
Mirror/Perspex	School	School Source
Paper/Card	School	Art Department
Pencil	School	Art Department
Costumes
-- Black Suits	School	Drama Department
-- Jeans and Top	Lydia	Lydia
Make-up	Crew

We have chosen simplistic and naturalistic props firstly to save us money and because we thought it would be more effective and so that the audience would concentrate on the story and the action of the scene. All costumes are black or white. We are going to dress our interrogator in a black suit with a white shirt so that he looks like an official and the colours show good and evil. This could give the audience mixed messages about whether he is a 'good guy' or a 'bad guy'. We are going to dress the young girl in all black to represent her dark and mysterious character.

New shots for our developed idea

Shot 1: CU of Lydia looking down and suddenly looks at the camera. (As she looks at
the camera her iris’ turn red and her face pale.)

FADE TO BLACK

Shot 2: WS/OTS establishing the room with Lydia drawing and John, a Government
Man on the desk, watching Lydia drawing.

ZOOMING

Shot 3: Zooming in to a MS of Lydia and John on the desk.

CUT TO

Shot 4: Montage Sequence
Shot 5: ECU of Lydia’s’ Hand frantically drawing.
Shot 6: Low Angle MS with Lydia’s face but focusing on John and his reactions.

Shot 7: MS of just Lydia staring into the camera. Eyes red face pale. But still drawing
Shot 8: ECU of Lydia’s red eyes and pale faces.
Shot 10: ECU of Lydia’s hand frantically drawing (repeat of shot 5)
Shot 11: MS of Lydia staring into the camera, her eyes are no longer red, her skin is
no longer pale, and she has stopped drawing. She is shaking looking scared,
she drops the pen.

END OF MONTAGE

Shot 12: Low angle MS from in front of the table of John taking the piece of paper
out from under Lydia, who is lying face down on it, and looking at it for a
few seconds, as he looks at it his eyes turn red.

FADE TO BLACK

Shot 13: OTS from Lydia watching John walking towards the glass.

CUT TO

Shot 14: OTS from the government watching John walking towards them.

Shot 15: OTS from the government of John placing the paper on the glass. Through a
Tannoy system.
Government: “So 5 days, 5 places, 5 explosions?”
John: “Yeah.”

FADE TO BLACK

Shot 16: ECU of Lydia’s eyes turning red and her face pale.

CUT TO

Shot 17: CU of the paper with Lydia’s Drawing burning from the middle out. END

Chosen Thriller Film

Storyline of FIVEA man is taking revenge on the fact that his wife has been murdered. He is quite a spiritual man, not Christian but weird rituals. He has a ritual that he wants to perform, to regain his wife and the only way it can work is if he uses victims that resemble his wife. It takes him a year to collect his four victims. Meanwhile the daughter is witnessing all these women being taken away and then never seeing them again. On the fourth victim she plucks up the courage to go down to the basement where she has been told not to go, she then hears screams and other terrifying sounds. When the time comes for the fifth and final victim the ritual says it must be the family blood of the man. Unfortunately the man has turned completely delusional and the only person he then sees that has his family blood and reminds him of his wife is his only daughter. The ritual doesn’t end up working because the daughter isn’t actually his! His wife had an affair and the daughter was from that relationship, unbeknown to the man.The opening sequenceI’d like to have three close ups ofThe man’s hand, drawing the chalk circle.The woman’s face, with a tatty blindfold on.Bird’s eye view of the circle with the star inside.She becomes curious, peers around the top of the stairs, she starts quietly walking down the stairs to the basement door. When she gets there she gently pushes the door and it swings open, she can’t see anything inside because it is so dark. She steps in, and sees pools of blood at each point of the star, except the top point. In the far corner there is a body. White tunic dress and a tatty bit of material around her eyes. There are heavy footsteps coming down the stairs, she runs and crouches in the corner. The steps stop by the door; there is a silhouette of the man in the doorway. The heartbeat of the girl can be heard and with each beat there is a flash of the circle with a girl lying at one of the points, and at the next heartbeat there is another girl at a different point. Without another sound the man is leaning over the girl. He lifts his arm holding a knife, and then there is a long scream.

Developed Thriller Idea

To help develop our idea further, we were asked to present our idea to two experienced media teachers. After much debating, criticism and new ideas our film had been changed quite dramatically-FIVE-A blind twelve year old girl name Lucinda has been held by the Government to help save the global phenomenon. Her in normality has been heavily influenced by the devil and her once disadvantage give by the devil has now become a unique gift that will save lives. She naturally starts to draw the pentagram that answers all questions. A governor sits over her observing and waiting. She finishes her drawing and the members of authority now are completely aware of what they must do…The rest of the film goes as follows-Immediately, a security is called and prepared for what may save or destroy the world. The five points of the pentagram show the five cities that will be blown up by the devil. The Government are forced to contact each city that is under threat. Inhabitants must evacuate their city and find a secure place to stay. Each police force are asked to stay in the city to prevent this colossus threat. Under twenty four hours from then, every police officer in all five cities are and the devil in still unknown.

Storyboard

We had to create this storyboard to creat an accurate picture of what we wanted to produce. Creating this storyboard gave as a good outline of our product that we could follow. This allowed us to follow a structure and stick to our oringinal ideas.

Process of storyboarding

This week, we began the process of creating our storyboard, which would assist us in creating a logical order for shooting. We had to finalise our main idea, and then began to create specific shots and construct each shot. A storyboard is designed to provide an accurate technical account of all aspects of sound and vision and to act as a guide for the crew on shoot, and to assist the editor in constructing the time line. Our story board provides specific details of
- Location
- Shot/Movement
- Sound
- Lighting
- Edit Transition
- Timing

We then work out the finally story, the elements of it, and the order in which it would go. We then wrote up a draft of the order in which each shot would go, had it reviewed by our teacher and then could go on. We split the shots between our group, and used the template provided to start filling in the story board. This was then printed off so we could draw the pictures on it, to show the action and what is happening in the shot.

These are our Shots

• Point of view – First tarot card is revealed with first credits.
• Extreme Close-up – Ryan’s hand drawing chalk line on the floor.
• Extreme Close-up – Dead woman’s face, with her eyes covered in a blindfold.
• Extreme Close-up – Ryan’s hand placing a candle, it then lights itself.
• Point of view – Second tarot card is revealed with next credits.
• Wide Shot – Amber peering round top of the stairs and starts to walk the first few stairs.
• Point of view – through handheld, Amber walking down the stairs and opens the door to the basement.
• Point of view – Third tarot card is revealed with next credits.
• Wide Shot - Basement, dark room with candle, bodies and a vague shape on the floor.
• Wide Shot – Candle in foreground and Amber entering in background, she hears heavy footsteps, and runs into the corner.
• Point of view – Fourth tarot card is revealed with next credits.
• Wide Shot – Silhouette of Ryan in doorway.
• Wide Shot – Candle in foreground and Ryan entering in background, he starts moving towards one of the bodies.
• Mid-shot (lower half of torso) – Face in foreground and heavy boots walking towards the head. They stop, and then Ryan bends down to face.
• Wide Shot – Ryan reaches towards the face of the body and in the background Amber crouching in corner she shuffles to make a noise, Ryan spins.
• Point of View – From Amber of Ryan spinning to look at her.
• Close-Up – Amber’s reaction to his spin.
• Point of view – Fifth tarot card is revealed with next credits.
• Extreme Close Up – Candle goes out.
• Extreme Close Up -> Wide Shot (Birds Eye View) – Reveal of pentagram.

Cast List

We chose teenagers so that our product would appeal to a young teenage audience. We also used an attractive middle aged man so that we would also be able to attract an older audience. We used a teenage girl as she represent innocence, and we wanted an attractive girl so it would appeal to male audiences.