NEW TEAM PHOTO.

SCRIPT.2

CHARACTERS
Kirsten
Sarah
Louise

DAY ONE:
Sarah: why do you have to be like this!
Kirsten: What do you mean? I don't understand
Sarah: you always leave me out, and pick her over me!
Kirsten: I don't mean to I just..
Sarah: Yes you do mean to you don't think about it you just do it
Lousie: Don't talk to her like that!
Sarah: Don't tell me what to do. If she's so bothered by it she'll stand up for her self!
Louise: No she won't she doesn't like arguing you ignorant bitch
Sarah: Oh and you know her so much better than i do then
Louise: yes actually i do
Sarah: You just take what you want you leech
Louise: Don't call me a fucking leech! (throws book at Sarah) Kirsten come on.
Kirsten: I just don't want to fight anymore.
Sarah: Just leave then!
(louise takes Kirsten out of the room)
(sarah sits on the bed - camera goes shakey and white noise -

DAY TWO:
Louise: Kirsten you need to go out, you can't just stay at home all the time
Kirsten: honestly its fine, i don't mind.
Louise: You need to just socialise seriously
Kirsten: Just go to the party it's fine
Louise: But i wanted you to come with me you're my best friend
Kirsten: I know, I just don't want to go.
Louise: Okay fine, ill see you in two days cause im helping tidy after okay?
Kirsten: Okay.

DAY THREE:
Sarah: So, you didn't go out with Louise then? Trouble with your best friend
Kirsten: No, I just didn't want to go.
Sarah: Oh so now neither of us are good enough for you?
Kisten: Please don't shout at me, you know I love you both, i dont like arguing
Sarah: Having trouble without your body guard to fight your battles for you?
Kirsten: Please, can't we all just get along?
Sarah: Its not that simple though is it?
Kirsten: It is, please. (Turns away to go downstairs)
Sarah: You always turn your back on me! (Pushes kirsten over the banister of the stairs, Kisten smashes her head and is bleeding, she tries to crawl away but Sarah comes down stairs and snaps her neck killing her.)

DAY FOUR:
Louise: I'm home
Sarah: Hey
Louise: Kirsten I'm back. (waits for reply) Hello? Sarah, wheres Kirsten?
(Flashes to Sarah dragging Kirsten through woods.)
Sarah: She's gone out for a bit. But don't worry I'm sure you'll be together again soon.
Louise: Whats your problem?
Sarah: Nothing. Nothing at all.

DAY FIVE:
Louise: Sarah have you heard from Kisten?
Sarah: Nope.
Louise: Okay well ring her please, im going to have a bath.
(goes into bathroom, and puts on music, Sarah walks into the bathroom and turns up the music)
Louise: What are you doing?
(Sarah says nothing and looks up -when song kicks in- Smashes Sarahs head over the tap, Sarah falls to the floor, and stares at Sarah)
Louise: What the fuck are you doing?!
(Sarah drags Louise up from the floor and pushes her into the bath, she chocks her under the water untill she dies, she puts the rest of her body into the bath and then leaves the room. She walks over to the laptop and puts up an add for new room mates.)

FULL PLAN OF FILM.

After some serious consideration we have decided to re-evaluate our idea. After thinking seriously about the time given for our film we don't want to try and do too much in the time allowed, so we have re worked our idea so that it is entirely psychological rather than about possession. This will work better for us as we won't have to drag out the concept of the possession and can make it so that it happens in stages over a short amount of time, allowing it to seam more realistic.



-Starts off with flashing on and off of the setting following Louise as she walks into the house. The names of actors will flash on the screen during this part. Titles end with Louise walking towards bedroom door carrying a box. Title of the film will be seen on the door as she's walking towards it. As she closes the door behind her the screen goes black and then says day one.


DAY ONE-
Sarah is shouting at Kirsten for not spending time with her, saying she is a bad friend, Louise steps in and shouts back at Sarah and throws a book from the top of the box at Sarah and then drags Kirsten out of the room. Scene ends with a shot of Sarahs face, effect on Sarah with the camera shaking with a white noise effect. GOES TO BLACK

DAY TWO-
Louise is trying to convince Kirsten to go out with her the next day for a party at a friends house and Kirsten says no. You will see Sarah listening at the door to the conversation and then walking away from the room, goes to the bathroom and gets really angry. GOES TO BKACK

DAY THREE- KILLING OF KIRSTEN
Louise is still out, only Kisten and Sarah are home, Kirsten walks out of her room towards the stairs and is then cut off by Sarah who leaves her room at the same time. The have a conversation at the top of the stairs, Kirsten says she doesn't want to argue so turns away and heads down stairs. Sarah tells her not to walk away from her and then pushes her down the stairs. She dies. GOES TO BLACK

DAY FOUR-
Louise comes home, and finds Sarah making a drink. The shot entirely keeps focus on Louise throughout this scene and leaves Sarah out of focus. Louise asks Sarah were Kisten is, Sarah tells Louise that she has gone out for a while. shot flashes to jump cuts of Sarah dragging Kirsten's body in the woods. Ends with shot of Sarahs eyes. GOES TO BLACK

DAY FIVE- KILLING OF LOUISE.
Louise is running a bath with music on when Sarah opens the door on her, Louise is angry and asks if she wants anything. Sarah turns the music up and then smiles at Louise. She Grabs her round the throat  and slams her head into the tap, she then holds Louise's head under the water chocking her until she stops moving.
Sarah walks out of the bathroom, and opens her laptop. She puts out an add saying ROOM MATES WANTED.

Ends with her shutting the laptop on GOES TO BLACK.

Death in the bathroom scene

Another shot we are planning to film is the character Louise getting killed in the bathroom where she ends up dead in the bath laid in her blood. This shot will also be hard to film to we looked to see haw different people would film and also different shots that will work well with this scene. The couple of videos i have put on show shots we like and also the basic storyline about what we want to try and do.

Falling down the stairs scene

As part of our film the character Kirsten getting killed by getting pushed down the stairs, this will be a tricky shot to do so we looked on you tube to see how other people have don't it. Some fall down the stairs slowly so it looks effective and others have films someone at different stages on the stairs and speeded it up. i personally like the first video apart from the end bit which is a tad weird.

Codes and Conventions

Our film will appeal to a large audience as it follows the codes and conventions of a traditional psychological horror, however some parts will not always stick to the conventions of a typical horror film.

Typical conventions of a psychological horror are....

Spooky Settings

A typical spooky setting is normally a place that becomes allot scarier at night time and also usually as hardly any people around. Its normally misty and has lots of places for people to hide and also has lots of thinks that's could create shadows, for example trees and bushes. 

They also consists of violent and gruesome deaths. 

These death scenes are all done really well and contain allot of blood, They all show the killer and there emotion more then the actual victim. All these deaths would work well in our film as they all would be easy to film and could be done in a house. All the killers look like normal people but when they are killing the victims they start to look crazy and scary. All the victims are unsuspected of there murder and are going about there normal business. 

A killer

There are two types of killers in films, There is the killer that you know who it is all way through the film, i believe this makes the film more psychological as you are a part of the film and know more then the actors do. there are also the killers, that who's identities stay hidden right till then end, i believe when films do this it makes the film more scary because you don't no what is going to happen.
To make our film more psychological the audience will know who the killer is from the beginning, so they can get to no the killer more and also get more involved in the film. 

Character profiles.

Louise Noble.

Age: 17

Gender:FEMALE

Personality: Rebellious, out going, easily angered.

Traits: Louise likes to be involved with social activities, she likes to be out of the house and make the most out everything. She only really spends time at home when she needs to sleep or if she has done everything she wanted to do that day. She is very protective over Kirsten.

Likes: Films, going out, and spending ime with Kirsten.

Dislikes: Bullying, ignorance.

Opinions on Kirsten: Louise it very protective over Kirsten and tries to persuade her to stand up for herself more. She fights a lot of Kisten's battles for her and is always aware of when she's upset. 

Opinions on Sarah: Louise can get very angry at Sarah because she thinks that she is harsh with Kirsten. She always tries to be nice with her, but never trusts her fully.

Family: Lousie's family are very warm and friendly, they have intense arguments that over take situations but are over petty things that are instantly forgotten about.

Kirsten Taylor. 

Age:17

Gender:FEMALE

Personality: Introverted. trusting, gullible.

Traits: Kirsten likes to spend a lot of time alone, she spends a lot of time in her room. Very passive towards arguing and allows Louise to fight her battles for her, she will only take part in anything as long as some one else has initiated it to begin with. 

Likes: Films, staying indoors, spending time on the internet. 

Dislikes: Social situations, confrontation.

Opinions on Louise: Kisten is very dependant on Louise and spends a lot of her time with her.

Opinions on Sarah: Kisten was friends with Sarah before Lousie was and always feels like she has to involve her even if she doesn't always want her there.

Family: Kirsten has a very dysfunctional family life, she was kicked out of her house when she turned 16 and moved in with Louise.

Sarah Tennant. 

Age: 16

Gender:FEMALE

Personality: Controlling, Easily angered, intelligent, demanding.

Traits: Sarah is seen as a third wheel in the house and spends a lot of her time, trying to involve her self in Kirsten and Lousie's friendship. She can get very angry when she is left out and takes out her anger by shouting at Kirsten. 

Likes: Music, spending time with Kirsten and Louise together, reading.

Dislikes: Losing, conformity.

Opinions on Louise: Sarah thinks that Louise is always trying to get in her way, and trying to ruin her and Kirsten's friendship. 

Opinions on Kirsten: Sarah is easily angered at Kirsten because she thinks that she is always leaving her out. She tries to tell Kirsten what to do so that she can spend time with her but is always worried that she will choose Louise over her. 

Family: Her parents got divorced when she was young, and her mum committed suicide because her dad got remarried to another woman. 

Viral Marketing

In viral marketing, information that you distribute is transferred from one person to another just like a virus. The best medium for making you content go viral is social media. The greatest advantage of using the viral marketing techniques will help us as we wont need to spend loads of money or have the expertise of technical marketing personal.it would allow us to distribute our short film on a larger scale. being able to attract a larger audience. You can also use press releases and social networking sites as viral marketing techniques. Press releases are the fastest way of informing the people about you. Press releases are distributed to different platforms and can be sent to a targeting audience or to general public depending on your needs.

The Red Bull Startos adverts received over 7.1 views on YouTube alone. What we learned from Stratos!

The viral advert for the film 'Jennifer's Body' was a really effective advert. It starts with they typical 'Be yourself video" to make people feel better about getting themselves through schol then it finishes with 'killing and eating' hinting into what the film is about how she embraces herself and becomes a killer.

Information used from:
http://www.myprgenie.com/articles/viral-marketing-techniques
http://www.creativeguerrillamarketing.com/viral-marketing/3-viral-marketing-lessons-learned-from-the-red-bull-stratos-jump/

Codes and Conventions

Our production will attract quite a large audience as it follows the codes and conventions of the typical psychological horror: though ours does not stay stickt to conventions. 

Psychological Horror usually tends to follow a number of conventions:

 The killer usually appears to be normal; there are not usually any usual physical signs that would identify the person as a killer. In our own production we have followed this as our main antagonist is just an average girl who them later advances into a possessed, out of control killer.

 Psychological Horror films will generally rely on the characters beliefs which in our production we have been able to manipulate our main character (killer). when she posses the book she will be unaware that this is the cause of her personality change; believing that the book is just something that she needs. allow for her to evolve effectively as a character.  Very often the evil works of this character is not shown until the end or when the story of the horror is fully established. Although, the audience will be have the privilege knowledge of knowing who the murderer is.

In our movie we are having the murderer to be a women. The woman that she will be killing are a mix of between a weak, naive women and a strong women much like the women in alien. whereas in ours they all will die.

Our female killer will be quite similar to the female killer in 'Jennifers Body' we are able to follow the current role of a strong women in society. Women have been developing more into the current society and are now a great influence in modern films. A women is no longer stereotyped to be the weak victim therefore our female will take on a dominant, murderer role enabling her to be fearful.

• 15 or 18 Certification- Our production will be a fifteen because of the content involved in the production. The deaths in our short film might be easy to copy (drowning) 

• Slow pace of Editing, builds tension. Long takes - In our film we wont be using long takes as we want the suspension to build up quickly so that the pace will escalate and make the audience feel apprehensive about what is going to happen.

• Use of low key lighting- This will be important for us to think about when filming as we are aiming for our film to look sinister.

• Dominant, hegemonic representation of gender: The Female Victim- As we have an all female cast this convention will be true. The victims will all be female and one of them are playing as the stereotypical weak women in need of help. 

• Extensive use of close up- In our film there will be a lot of quick close up shots, which will be shot from different angles.

• Incidental non-diegetic sound- We most likely wont be using using non-diegetic sounds to make it seem creepy as our murderer wont be possessed, all the noise will be viable on screen.

• Distorted diegetic sound- This will possibly accure if we decided to continue with sound during the drowning scene. 

• Point of view shots- This will accure when we have our antagonist preparing to kill(possibly during a murder scene).

http://media.edusites.co.uk/article/horror-genre-codes-conventions/

Setting shot ext.

Right shot of house

left shout of house.

Front view of house. 

Areal shot of house and surrounding areas.

Using google maps we got an areal shot as well as some exterior shots of the main setting we are going to use. This is going to be the focal point for our film, including a short part filmed in the woods behind the house. 

Film poster ideas.

For our film we want to create posters. We are thinking of creating a main poster featuring the house where the girls live as well as some other promotional posters that feature photos from the film.

The idea of having a poster featuring the house where the action is going to be taken place is one that has been done before. Here are some examples.

Having more than one poster for the film is something that many successful films have done. For instance harry potter had several posters that where put in various locations so that there was a heightened anticipation caused. They all also featured the same tag line "it all ends". It was a catchy line so therefore is memorable. For all the film posters click here.

Although this could be very time consuming it would be very effective. We could create a different poster for each "day" in our film so that it has an on going theme throughout.

Filming concept.

For our film we want to span it over 5-7 days, this will hopefully create a sense of realism to our film. The days could be shorter or longer depending on the events we want to portray on them. A short horror film that is similar to this would be Day Walt horror factories - "there's no such thing". The use this idea to show events over 3 days.

Paranormal activity has a similar sort of idea, it uses video camera as its way of filming so the date and time are seen in the bottom corner of the the scream. This them makes the story believable, as well as showing how fast the events have happened whilst accounting for each day.

The opening titles of Psycho have a screen wipe effect on their openings, which could be a nice use of transition for us from each day, because it keeps each day separate whilst intertwining them, much like the story.

For our film, because it is about a book, we are thinking of using a type writer style effect to best resemble the ideas we are trying to show. It will them be on the bottom of the screen saying the days of the week that the story is focused on.