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.

Planning: Of The Treatment

As a group team black hat discussed what we wanted to be in the treatment and wrote down each individuals ideas down in different colours.






















As a group, we briefly planned what we desired for in specific areas such as Location planning, Casting, Codes and Conventions. Underneath shows two picture of our ideas that we produced.

Planning: Treatment

The treatment was written up by Titus Goremucheche as part of the disscusion by Team Black Hat.

This is the Treatment for “BlackHat Films” and here we are going to briefly explain what you will expect to see in our opening scene for our horror movie. This summaries the basics that are going to be there, as full treatment will be up shortly, when the production team finalizes everything that will be included in the opening.

The first that will appear to the audience is a non-diegetic sound of a mother’s cry, in a ghostly and sinister way; the cry is very distant and as the opening titles appears which include the production company name. The font type for the title will appear in white and change colour to red with blood for a split second, which will get the audience in the right frame of mind that they are watching a horror movie. As the opening titles are playing we hear a diegetic sound of rain banging against a window. Then we get our first code of a camera shot panning from the ground to a boy who is laying down on the bed, his on his phone when we first see him and his about to go to sleep, as that shot place through we get the titles of the people who are playing a major part in the movie for example, the directors, producers, music by and the actors. These titles will play for approximately 20 seconds of the opening. Then we cut to a point of view shot of him putting down the phone because it’s raining and there is no signal, when he puts his phone down he goes to sleep. As we get those first two shots we don’t hear and non-diegetic sound the only sound we hear is all diegetic, the rain on the window, the boy moving on the bed and him placing his phone on the table near his bed. We then cut to a close up of the boy closing his eyes as his sleeping, then the camera shot will zoom out to show the room in a bit more detail, his room is dark and gloomy and you can sense that his not the only person in that room because there’s a shadow that moves really quickly in front of the camera, the reason why there is a showdown that will move fast across the camera is so that we can get the audience to jump so in other words a false scare.

Then we start to hear non-diegetic which is quiet in the background and it sounds like a lullaby but we want to make it sound that it doesn’t sound exactly like a lullaby because we want to audience to remember that sound because it will appear a few times in the opening. As the non-diegetic sounds plays we cut into the boy’s dream, where we can see a woman hanging herself in his room. As this scene plays out the non-diegetic will be slow and very eerie. As the woman hangs herself, the boy having the dream tries to save her but he cannot move his stuck in his bed and when he tries to speak to the woman his voice doesn’t come out as she’s hanging herself she sings a lullaby, the effect on this is so that the audience can piece together the non-diegetic lullaby sounds they heard when they got that false scare.

He then tries tries had to get out of bed and falls down but as he falls down off his bed it cuts to a part where his fell off his bed in real life and he looks at his phone to see the time and its 02:15 in the morning. He then gets back into bed and he sleeps on his side face with an extreme close up of his eyes, he then hears someone singing a lullaby behind him and he slowly turns to see who it is and as he turns the camera zooms out slowly as is zooms out it shows a figure which seems to be sitting beside his bed as he turns to look he sees n

othing because the creature has disappeared. With sigh of relief because there was nothing there but his still confused he closes his eyes and looks up and a deformed thing on his ceiling and it jumps towards him, this processes will play out slowly as he looks up then the scene will play very quickly as the creature jumps at him at this point the non-diegetic music has picked up and is very loud. The creature is screaming at the boy. He manages to escape into a different room but in doing so he trips up and falls down but luckily he get into the room in which the creature can’t get him. Then we hear scratches from above the boys head as he looks up the creature is there and it cuts to the title of the movie which is still to be discussed within the group.

The non- diegetic sound will be loud to scare the audience then it will slowly fade away. That will be the end of our opening scene, we include quite a few conventions for example, no signal, falling over, and the false scares that we have with the shadow moving across the camera. The aim for this horror movie is to be different to any other cliché horror movie, we like to think that, making a difference is better than following the norm and that’s why we think that having the title of the movie and the end of that little opening is a good idea because its different to what other people will do. We also aim to use the basic conventions that we see in popular films, so running into a room in which the only way out is to face the villain directly, also the use of no signal on the phone also gives the sense that you know the character is going to have something bad happen to them.

This treatment was done by the “BlackHat Films” production team and we have all generated our ideas to the page and soon to the stage, everyone had a fair amount of input into this treatment and we hope that we can produce a piece of work that will be interesting to watch and leave the audience interested in watching the rest of the film.