Planning - Casting

Possessed Woman

We chose Beth Evins to play the possessed woman, because she has the blond hair which fits into what we want. This is because the blond shows more of a business look then brunette, and the character was in business ware. As well as that Beth fitted the part because of the colours of her eye and we really wanted the actresses' eyes to be penetrating. 

 Innocent Girl

The innocent girl was played by myself, because i fitted the correct criteria in the way i was obviously feminine, however could be made to look a little more masculine with my short brunette hair.  

Planning - Storyboard

Planning - Make up

The girl

Our first character is a protagonist female with feminine trates. However she may have feminine trates, she has an extremely natural look but with a bit of colour on her lips. We want to have this look, because she is portrayed as the sweat and innocent character that has to battle with these creatures. 

The Possessed Woman

We want the possessed woman to have a dramatic and effective make up. I have chosen close-ups of the lips and a picture of two women to show the effectiveness of the makeup on the portrayal of the women.The possessed woman will have smeared lipstick across her face to refer back to the dead body and the way that it was layed on the floor. the eyes will be black and smudged, again to put an emphasis on the eyes and the way that she looks possessed. 

Planning - Costume

We started our research into costume by looking at and analyzing different costumes that other psychological horror

Planning - Health and Safety

Hazard	Rating	Controls
Mud/ slippery surfaces	Medium	Sturdy footwear Suitable clothing
Motor vehicles	Medium	Use road crossing High Vis
Other animals	Low	Keep dogs on lead at all time
Wet equipment	Medium/ High	Waterproof covers Umbrellas

•  Risk asses the field and how wet it is to reduce the risk of slipping.
•  Taking a first aid kit in case of an emergency. This will include a blanket, to reduce hypothermia, as well as bandages.
•  Every person will have a mobile phone on them, which will have all members of the group mobile numbers on it as well as a local resident’s phone number.
• The battery will be fully charged on the camera.  

Planning - Mood board

This is our initial mood board for our film. It shows what a viewer of our film would be looking for whilst watching the film.

Planning - Location

A typical psychological horror typically takes place in an area which is derelict and traditionally an uninhabited place. Such as an old barn or house which has been left to rot itself away. As well abandoned buildings, horrors typically take place in fields as well. Horrors take place in these locations, because it adds to the tension which is building up in the film. The way that no one will possibly be around makes the viewer more jumpy, because they make know that something is there, yet you cannot see or hear it.

Our film is going to be set in two different locations. The main part of the opening is going to take place in an empty dark field. And the second half is going to take place inside a house, where the girl is going to run in and it is empty apart from the woman. We have chosen our locations to be these, because they suit our genre, because the field is just a normal field. Therefore you wouldn't expect to see anything dramatic. Having more emphasis on the viewer and it makes the story line more effective.

This is the field we are going to use:

Preliminary Task

Brief of task

Our first task that we were told to do in our Media AS was a continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room, sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. I decided to work in a group of three which included made by myself, Taylor Griffiths and Beth Evins. 

We first decided to spend some time planning on what shuts we could use and what the plot was going to be. We thought about the different rooms/locations, subject’s etc. This task should demonstrate match on action, shot, reverse shot and the 180 degree rule.

What went well?

Working as a team worked well in some aspects of filming the preliminary task. This was because we were able to get on and do it without having to rely on anyone else to be used as actors or actresses. We were able to get a good range of different shots, especially when I was walking to the door. We also tried very hard to keep within the filming rules, such as the 180° rule.

What could have gone better?

Working in a group was good in some aspects, however not in others. Whilst working in a group you d have to rely on each other to work sensibly and too keep up to deadlines, however sometimes that does not happen. Some people take things way to seriously, whilst others think that it’s time to mess around and have a laugh. Therefore sometimes there were heated moments, meaning that less work was done in the amount of time we had. This then impacted on the amount of shots we took and the time we had to edit sound and titles.

180 rule

In film making, the 180-degree rule is a basic guideline regarding the on-screen spatial relationship between a character and another character or object within a scene. An imaginary line called the axis connects the characters, and by keeping the camera on one side of this axis for every shot in the scene, the first character is always frame right of the second character, who is then always frame left of the first. The camera passing over the axis is called jumping the line or crossing the line.