Planning; Mise-en-scene, Props

With in the 2 minute long opening, the props used will be
 limited and there will only be quite specific to represent the
 age and characteristics of he character. One of the first props
 you will see is the teen aged boys bedding. This can be a
clear representation of the sort of character, one example
of this is the blanket show bellow;



If our character where to have these football bedding's, it would mean that he, obviously likes sports  and is most likely a football fan and using gender stereotypes, the character is male. we could choose to use these chelsea football teams blankets to indicate that he supports them, or we

Could also use more generic football blankets, with just the image of
the footballs. we also have another option
not to draw to much attention to the blankets and make then less
noticeable by making them plain.


Another prop that we will see, is the phone. we decided to  use either
one of the phones show below. As they best reflect our character
 personality and characteristics.


We will see this when the character is on the phone with his mother. this prop is important as we will see it close up of it, this is why we need to make sure that the phone clearly represents the character. If the phone is a Samsung s4, this would tell the audience that the character is likely to be quite wealthy or have more money to spend.



If the character had a different mobile phone like a
blackberry, it means that the character, is likely yo be more of a social
person, and they will be quite outgoing, this will also indicate that the
person is heavily dependent on their phone.





The third major prop is the rope. This might be one of the most important props we will have in the opening. this rope will represent how the how the women died and might be a focal point in the opening. the rope will have to look old and worn out, to represent death and decay.

Planning; Mise-en-scene, Costume

The following has been written up by Titus Goremucheche as part of the Mise-en-scene for the opening of the film.

These are a few ideas of the costume for 'CARRIE'. My aim here is to look into clothes that were worn in the 1800s by women and  from that gather a brief outlook on what the character playing Carrie will wear.

I really like the look of this sort of dress because its plain and simple and instantly gives the impression that that dress was worn back in the 1800s a lot compared to what women wear now. Also the dress looks scary and its length means that we can tamper with its length to make sure that it fits to our character best. But we can also use its length to an advantage to draw the audiences attention more to the face of CARRIE rather that what she is wearing. the colour of this dress is also very beneficial because if we decide to 
give Carrie any blood splats or discoloring on her
 dress; it will be very visible and more effective.

This is another idea of what Carrie could wear this is a night gown and my idea here is that if we made Carrie wear this it would link in more with the situation that shes hangs her self in because shes in her bedroom when she hangs her self and wearing a gown would make more sense if she hung her self wearing this. also like the first one the colour of this one is also nice and again is we wanted to add any blood splats and discoloring we could because it would be visible to the audience. also its length means that we can tamper with it to best fit our character playing Carrie. 




These are the costume for the character of  Matthew.The costume for Matthew is very simple and basic, the way we are going to dress Matthew is dependent on his attitude.
If we made Matthew wear pyjamas then it would make him come across as a posh rich kid, who is not very laid back which contrasts the casting information for Matthew. also wearing pyjamas can across as being posh because no teenaged boy between 16-18 is that interested in going to bed wearing pyjamas, they are very lazy and when it comes to sleep they just strip down to their boxer shorts and get into bed.

If we made Matthew wear boxer shorts it would make him come across as a laid back character  where as if we made him wear pyjamas he would be very apprehensive and i don't think that that would work well for our horror movie. so in conclusion we are going to make Matthew wear boxer shorts because its simple basic and its a norm for the majority of teenage boys to wear she they are going to bed.

This task will help us when filming, so we clearly know what the actors are going to be wearing on screen. This means that we can purchase, costumes if needed and conquer any problems before hand. If we decide what costume the actors will have know it will stop mistakes like, different outfits worn by the same character in the same scene. the costumes can also be checked pre hand if they are realistic to the situation and it they fit and are comfortable with the actors so we can get the best result when filming.

Planning; Mise-en-scene

For our mise-en-scene section, we all decided to divide the sections between us. my task was to complete the props section, Titus was too look at the the costumes we might use and Mariella was going to develop different ideas for our make up for the opening.

Planning; Shot list

The following table of the shot list was composed by Panashe charamba, as part of the discussion taken by team black hat, about the shots which should be involved in the opening of the film.

Shot No.	Location	Framing	Angle	Movement	Dialogue	Cast	Notes
1	Exterior of House	Establishing shot	Low angle	Zooming (slow)	None	None	At night when it’s dark. (preferably raining)
2	Interior of House	Long shot	Mid angle	Panning (slow)	Boy speaking on the phone with his mother.	Mathew	Keep boy in the centre of the screen, Then mum hangs up.
3	Interior of House	POV	High angle	None (still shot)	None	Mathew	Make sure we can see some of the arm, but still able to see the phone clearly.
4	"	Close up	Mid angle	Zooming (slow)	None	Mathew
5	"	POV	High angle	Panning, (moving to the speed of the arm)	None	Mathew	The panning move with the speed of the arm making sure the phone stays in the centre of the frame.
6	"	Mid shot	High angle	Slowly tilting down until it faces flow	None	Mathew	Boy is falling asleep.
7	"	Mid shot	Mid angle	Camera tilting up (slow)	None	Mathew	Camera starts looking at lower half of the bed and slowly rises up until the boys face is near the bottom of the frame.
8	"	Close up	BEV to mid angle	Moves from BEV and then moves to Mid angle shot.	None	Mathew	Speeds up the movement of the camera.
9	"	Mid shot/POV	Low angle	None	Lullaby	Carrie	We should try to get as much of the rope in the shot as possible.
10	"	Mid shot/POV	BEV	None	Lullaby	Mathew
11	"	Mid shot	Low angle    shot	None	None	Mathew	Camera should not have the floor in frame.
12	"	Close up	BEV to mid angle	Moves from BEV and then moves to Mid angle shot.	None	Mathew	Speeds up the movement of the camera.
13	"	Mid shot	BEV	None	None	Mathew
14	"	Close up	Mid angle	Panning out (slow)	None	Mathew
15	"	Mid shot	Mid angle	Panning out (slow)	None	Mathew	Face close to the bottom of the frame.
16	"	Long shot	Mid angle	None	Lullaby	Mathew, Carrie
17	"	Over the shoulder	Mid angle	None	Lullaby	Mathew, Carrie
18	"	Extreme close up	Mid angle	None	Lullaby	Mathew	The eyes have to be in the centre of the frame.

This shot list will be a guide line to the director for what shots, that should be taken when filming. This should also allow the team to keep organised when filming, as the whole team will have a general idea of what the shots should look like. 

Planning; Story Board

story board completed by Panashe Charamba as part of, Team Black Hats discussion of what the story board should include and be illustrated like.

This was part of of team black hats pre-production. during this task I illustrated what each camera shot would look like meanwhile trying to show what we as a team where envisioning the open should look like. With in this i wrote down each camera shot, camera angle and camera movement which is involved in each shot. I think that I could have added more detail, about the location of each shot and the transition from shot to shot. Overall this will help us us portray the basic idea of the opening to the rest of the crew.

   

Planning: Screen Play

This screen play was completed by Mariella Ralph as part of the discussion by team black hat, on what the screen play should be. 

 

"Carrie"

By

BLACKHAT FILMS

December, 2013

Sound of mother crying.
Sound of rain tapping against the window.

Matthew is lying in bed whilst speaking on the phone to his parents.

MATTHEW

I'm fine. It's raining so I'll probably just have an early...

Signal cuts from phone

 

MATTHEW

*sighs*

Matthew begins to fall asleep. False scare of a shadow. 
Dream of flashback begins.

Carrie stands at the end of the bed setting up to hang herself.

CARRIE

*sings lullaby*

Matthew falls out of bed asleep and wakes up on the floor to then look up and see nothing. Matthew gets back into bed and drifts to sleep.

 

CARRIE

*sings lullaby*

Matthew turns around, confused, to see whose singing. Carrie disappears.

MATTHEW

*sighs with relief*

Matthew turns to look up at his ceiling... Carrie is hanging above, staring at Matthew.

Planning: location

This section of the planning was completed by Mariella ralph as part of a discussion by team black hat, on the location of the opening scene.

For this section of our planning, it involves us exploring all the different locations which would be best suited for our film opening. As a group we decided that we would need a house - preferably with the access of having the house free of other relatives, friends and animals who also live in the same house. This could cause a major impact to our filming as we might want to use all rooms available inside the house and with the company of other people which aren't included in our opening, it could cause a major disruption to our filming - they could be walking in the background, shadows could be displayed in the shot and uncontrollable noises of pets or babies will disrupt any audio within the opening. All of us decided on using either houses from Panashe, Titus or Myself as it was more convenient for us to get easy access of. The targeted room which we will film all the scenes in for our Media Project is the bedroom. We all looked at the different bedrooms within our house which would be seen as most appropriate for our character and for filming. 

This would be good for filming as the bed is big for the character to lay in along with the ghostly mother and the mirrors next to the bed would be good for 'Matthew' when he looks behind himself to see 'Carrie'. However we didn't use this room for our location as the style and appearance of the room would have been more convenient if we used a female character in our opening when alternatively, we chose a male character which ensures us that this feminine bedroom would not be appropriate for our character. 

This room wouldn't be appropriate as it includes a sofa and not a bed. Even though the room contains a lot of space for us to film, it isn't appropriate for the props we would like to use. In addition to this, the interior design is very feminine unlike our character who is male.

This room could be a potential location we could use for our opening as it matches the character BlackHat wishes to portray. If we chose this room for our location we might find difficulty filming particular scenarios and will have to alter the character's actions. For example, we want 'Carrie' to be setting up to hang herself at the end of the bed however there is limited space which will conclude to us changing our character's positioning. 

 

This is another potential room location we could use for our opening as it targets the male character we are trying to portray as a group. There is more space within in this bedroom which makes it more ideal to film in than the other. Some positions of characters will have to be altered however because of the bigger bed it might be easier to change the characters actions than the previous bedroom.