Characters - Louise Chick

Louise Chick is playing our main agonist in the film. We wanted a girl, preferably with blonde hair so Louise said she would do it. We dressed her in a white coat because it gives off an vunerable and innocent look. As she came from school, she was already dressed in black trousers and boots, but because of where we were filming (ie the woods) we decided that these would be most suitable. Also, it ties in with her 'coming from work' so it worked out alright. As Louise is dressed in the white coat, because of the light we couldf still see her so it still looked better on the cameras when she was being stalked.

When casting, we wanted a 'young' looking character with blonde hair and Louise was ideal. Like Matt and Keegan, Louise was willing to take part in our film and was available to film when we needed her. Also, she would act whenever we needed her too, performing a great piece for us, for her audition piece. We later used that piece as an audio over our film footage.

My contribution to the group blog was the filming of her audio piece. Myself and Lucy both wrote the script that she was to use in her audition, and I filmed her acting it. Then I also wrote about why we chose Louise in the casting posts on the group blog.

Potential Flashes

Every few seconds, in our horror film, there will be flashes that quikly come and go to suprise and shock the audience. We have some flashes of the stalkers behind 'the girl' at various different positions so that they can flash up on the screen so the audience can see them. Also, we filmed some shots of Emmaline in the bath, sitting in some red/brown blood coloured water. They are good because we can use just little bits of them in our final film.

After we just filmed Emmalines foot floating in the bath, to give the audience a sense of the unknown. By this, I mean the audience should not know what has happended because the clip is only of her foot.

Draft Credits

These are the 'draft credits' that Emmaline filmed at home. They are really good, however they are way too long to fit into our horror film, bearing in mind that we can only have 2 minutes worth of filming. The way Emmaline filmed it, and created all the pictures is orginally how we wanted to film the credits, however we didn't realise that it would take so much time up.

Characters - Stalkers

Keegan Featherstone (right) and Matthew Bonner (left) are our stalkers. They are GCSE drama students so we thought that they would be better at acting and producting themselves, like the 'stalkers' that we need in our film. In the film, they are dressed in dark colours to convey a sense of the unknownn and a sense of evilness, darkness and death. This will alert the audience that they aren't the heroic protagonist in the film.

All they are going to be doing, is standing in various places around our located areas, looking like stalkers. But they will need to be able to act professionally when we film.

We also chose Matt and Keegan because they wanted to be in our film, and because they are drama students, if they carry on with their drama course it will look good in a port-folio or just as experiance.

We chose to cast Keegan & Matt because they were pretty much what we were looking for. Both dark haired, and have a good acting personality. Also, when we approached them both about performing in our Horror Remake, they were more than happy to do it. So aswell as finding suitable characters, they were willing and exited to take part in our film.

My contribution to the work on the group blog, was the piece on the 'Stalker Profiles'. Also I filmed their audition tape. I created both Matthew & Keegan's profile on our group blog and explained why we had chose them. I also took screen shots of them in action and added them to their profiles so that we can see their roles in the film.

Filming Update

After choosing our actors we got everything ready, so that we could go out and film.

Louise Chick - 'the girl' that is being stalked.
Keegan Fetherstone - 'stalker'
Matthew Bonner - 'stalker'

We started filming for our Horror Film opening on Friday 29th January 2010. It was cold so we decided to put Louise in a white coat, because white gives off an innocent conotation. Keegan and Matt were wearing dark clothes to give the conotation of the unknown.

First of all we started filming in the woods behind the hospital. It was late afternoon so was starting to get dark, and because its so close to the hospital we could hear the cars going past. This was good because we needed it to look as normal as possible. The woods are quite isolated and were quite muddy, so we had to make sure we filmed in a suitable light so our actors didn't injure themselves etc.

Rosie and Lucy decided that they wanted to film for these shots, so they set up behind a tree for one angle and lucy stood infront of where Louise was going to walk. Louise walked along the path as we filmed her first time, and then Matt stood behind her as we filmed another shot for one of the flashes.

Next we went to Emmaline's house to film the audition tapes. I filmed Louise, performing the 'draft' script that will be used for the over voice in our film opening. We also decided to film some of the footage when Louise enters 'a house'. We filmed from the top of the stairs so we could get a good angle when she ran up the stairs. Matt stood in the gap behind the door so that when Louise closes the door, the audience can see Matt standing behind her. This went well because as Louise walks in, the light is off, and as soon as she turns it on, the door opens so we cant see Matt until she shuts the door and runs up the stairs. This is a good effect because when we showed the clip to some of our friends, they jumped when they saw Matt. This is the sort of impression that we want to create, so its good. All in all, that filming went really well.

Because of the light conditions outside, unfortunatly we couldn't film the shots down 'Court Road' because the got too dark, therefore we couldn't make out the 'stalkers' because they are dressed in black. We tried to film under the street lamps, but because of their colour, the camera wasn't picking up the features that we needed. We therefore, filmed this scene last Tuesday, when it was earlier and the light was still good.

The next scene we shot was upstairs in the bedroom. Again, we all set up the filming cameras in the corner, and Keegan and Louise performed a scene for one of the flashes. As Louise stood in the middle of the room, Keegan walked up behind her a grabbed her, then Louise screamed. We weren't expecting Louise to scream as well as she did, so it looks so effective.

Altogether, it was a very productive filming session and we got the things that needed to be done, done. The only thing I would of liked to of done, would be to record a 'filming diary' so that I could upload it and show what we were filming when we were doing it, but because of the time and the light outside, I think it would of taken up some time that we needed to film the important parts in our horror film.