The costume for main character

The costume our main character in our film will be wearing will be every day clothes as he is just coming home from a day out. It will be jeans a jumper and trainers it will look something along the lines of this. 

Costume research and planning for film opening

In our film opening the costumes we are going to want to use will vary across the two different main characters. Ben the victim will be wearing normal clothes as he has just come home in every day life, he is simply returning home. He will be wearing jeans and trainers and a jumper/coat and just a jumper when he gets indoors. The murderer however will be dressed in dark clothing to aid the horror genre, the lighting in the room will be dark and we want the murderer/demon to be only seen vaguely. He is going to also be wearing a mask to aid to the scariness, possibly a mask looking like an old person from a hospital institute or a mental patient looking mask to add to the scariness of the opening. I found a couple of examples of masks that we as a group discussed to be scarier than most others and ones that would look scary and not unrealistic in the film.

Risk Assesment for film opening

Risk Assessment: Tommy's House

 

Activity Assessed: AS Media Task Filming	Hazard:	How we can avoid people getting hurt.
	Drop Equipment.	Handle it all with care.
	Lights will be off.	Be careful with movement.
	Walking down the dark road.	Be careful of cars around.
	Using a real knife.	Make sure it is a good distance away from the actor.  Handle it with care.
	Using electrics, For example: TV.	Make sure we are careful when we are around them. No drinks near the TV.
	Slippery floor.	Make sure we don't fall over when filming, setting up the equipment and carrying the equipment.
	Family Members.	Could damage equipment.

Setting for ' The third from last '

The venue and setting of our film is going to be Tommy Clark's house, there are many reasons behind this. Firstly the house has a brick walled room in it so it allows us to use the advantage of having a brick walled room's darkness to help the film fit the horror genre. The darkness of this room is key because we want to use a dark room to enhance the feel of suspense and tension, Tommy's room has a twist switch light so we can adjust the levels of light in the room. We wouldn't want to use a modern room as we feel it would make the film seem too modern and then unrealistic and not scary. Another reason we used this house is because the road that Tommy's house is down is very dark. This aids us also because it creates an uncomfortable opening to our film opening as you don't know what's going to happen down that road, something could jump out at any time but at the same time it might not. We were going to use an old mental asylum for our venue but we decided that the permission to film there would probably cost us and also we would have a lot more risk's to bare in mind rather than if we simply filmed at someone's house. Brentwood county high school was also an option but we feel that it wouldn't really fit the horror genre as the scenery wasn't good enough and the lighting wouldn't of fitted the horror genre either as it is too bright. We had the option of filming in the school in darkness but again there would have to be permission for us to do so and a lot of health and safety hazards to take into account. Tommy has a good camera that we can use at his house and also he has a lot of horror masks, this aids our film because we needed mask's for our opening scene so using Tommy's house gives us a range of mask's to choose from.

Story Board for film

StoryBoard for ' The third from last'

Script for ' The third from last '

Script for ‘Third from last’

Producer: Tommy Clark

Camera and editing manager: Jack Suters

Actors: Ben Sparrow, Jack Suters, Tommy Clark

Title of our film appears in bold, then in top and bottom corners names of who directed the film, the actors and that it is based on a true story. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNMeZldV-Rs

Ben is walking up a dark road on his way home; he then comes to a big dark house. The lighting at this point is very dark and dim, then music goes very slow and spooky to create tension. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCXUOZ-RLUw

The house looks dark with no lights on inside and Ben opens the door slowly as it creaks loudly (creaking voiceover). He is welcomed by pure silence in the house and goes into the lounge and puts on the tele. Over the shoulder shot of Ben looking into the lounge. Point of view shot of Ben taking his phone out of his pocket and ringing Jack as Ben hates being home alone.

Ben: Alright Jack what’s going on?

Jack: Mate I’m busy can you snap chat me please?

Ben: Ah, I hate being in home alone but yeah fair enough if you busy. Talk later mate.

Jack: Okay mate, Sweet. You sure you’re okay yeah you’ve been acting strange later.

Ben: Yeah yeah im fine, cheers anyway.

Ben puts the phone down and starts playing candy crush. The music behind goes slow.

He receives a snap chat from jack and reads it quickly and laughs to himself, TV is loud in the background, Ben then replies to jack using his switch camera.

Jack then texts Ben

Jack: What the hell is that behind you Ben I thought you said you were home alone.

Ben: Nothing you muppit stop trying to make a crap myself.

Ben looks behind him with tension music building up and nothing is there.

He then replies again saying "there’s nothing behind me, your such a wind up".

Ben puts the phone down and a man with a knife appears in front of him.

A blank screen comes up and then the music from the first titles comes up again. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNMeZldV-Rs