Pre-Production Planning - Hair Ideas - Dilys

 

We have to think carefully about our characters hair styles so they reflect our characters personalities and also so there will be be a clear distinction between the past and the present. For our shoots of the characters Chantelle in the present we want to have her hair scraggly to show how the events in her past have effected her. But for our flashbacks we want to show Lacey and Chantelle before the incidents, so them having fun and hair that would reflect this. So we have decided that we will have their hair up in tight neat ponytails to show that they take pride in their appearance and that they have no worries or constraints. The video below is another tutorial we found online, to help us prepare our actresses hair for the shoot, the video shows us how to put the girls hairs into long sleek ponytails which will look well cared for.

Pre-Production Planning - Make Up Ideas - Dilys

When thinking about mise en scene we decided that we had to think carefully about the makeup in our opening sequence, and decided that it would be more effective  if we had contrasts not only with setting and flashbacks but also with the makeup and faces of our characters. In one of the Chantelle's flashbacks you see Lacey trapped and struggling, so we decided that to add extra effect we would give our character a bloodied face and to help create more empathy for the character and have more of an impact on the audience. We found a excellent tutorial online of how to give our character a bruised eye and so have so have taken ideas from it for our own character.

                                                                                      

Pre-Production Planning - Opening Ideas - Dilys

We had many ideas as a group for our thriller opening before we reached our finale choice, one of the ideas was to have a very fast paced sequence with lots of short cuts and reckless, speedy music. We thought this would be an effective opening as it would immediately help build suspense and jump straight into the films action. 

The opening shots were going to cut between two sets of people and their story lines, the first was going to be two girls running and the camera following them as they ran through streets of a busy city, jumping across buildings and rail lines and through the backs of shops and alleys. The camera would then cut to four masked men wrecking a house as they search for something and interrogating neighbors for information. 

We decided that getting the shots of the girls running through the city would be very hard to do, as we would have to keep asking people to leave the filming area which would be very difficult in a city and we do not have the necessary equipment to film the girls running and so would be left with very jumpy shots. We also decided that the best thrillers had very spooky openings which left the audience guessing and having this in the opening sequence would give the plot away.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

We thought having four masked men in our opening would be intriguing and help create the tense atmosphere for our opening. However we found that filming four masked men would be very hard task, as we would have to find a time where four available actors could come and film and who would do the job unpaid. After doing some thorough research we still couldn't find enough actors so we decided that this opening wouldn't be feasible.

Pre Production Planning- Props- Fatima

The props we are going to be using;

We are going to be using flowers because Chantelle is going to holding them when she is at the graveyard. Lacey is going to be held hostage and be sitting on the chair tied up and blindfolded. The chips are for the falshback for when Lacey and Chantelle are having fun on the beach.

Pre-Production Planning-Permission from the Church

We contacted the local church to ensure that we were able to film at their graveyard. The Vicar kindly gave us permission to and allowed us to shoot at any grave we choose. This is an image of the graveyard which we have chosen to use.

St Edwards The Confessor

Church Address:
 Father Denis Bradshaw
St. Edward's Vicarage
7 Bramble Gardens
Burgess Hill
West Sussex
RH15 8UQ



Contact:
Tel: 01444 241300
email: contact@stedwardsburgess.co.uk

Filming Risk Asssesment - Dilys

Pre-Production Planning - Health and Safety -Dilys

LOCATION SURVEY

 We have have four different locations in our thriller opening, a graveyard, a beach, a small dark room and a cliff, we chose these locations as we thought they'd have great effect as an opening and create pathetic fallacy.

Directions to location

Burgess Hill Station – The Graveyard

Head northwest on Station Rd/B2113 toward Wolstonbury Way    

               

 At the roundabout, take the 2nd exit onto Church Rd     

               

Continue onto Church Walk               

               

Turn left onto Civic Way      

               

Turn right onto Church Rd

               

Turn left onto Lower Church Rd         

               

Continue onto Royal George Rd       

               

Brighton Station – The Beach

Head south on Terminus Rd/A2010 toward Guildford Rd

Continue to follow A2010

               

Turn left onto Upper Gloucester Rd/A2010       

               

Turn right onto Queen's Rd/A2010     

               

Turn left onto North St/B2066

Continue to follow B2066

Go through 1 roundabout

               

Turn right onto Broad St     

               

Turn left onto Marine Parade/A259

Destination will be on the left

               

Brighton Station – The Cliff

 Head south on Terminus Rd/A2010 toward Guildford Rd

Continue to follow A2010

Turn left onto Junction Rd/A2010

Continue to follow A2010

Turn left onto King's Rd/A259

Continue to follow A259

Go through 3 roundabouts

Turn left onto Lewes Rd/A259

Continue to follow A259

Keep left at the fork

Continue to follow A259

Go through 4 roundabouts

Destination will be on the left

Nearest hospital:

Princess Royal Hospital (Lewes Rd  Lindfield, Haywards Heath, West Sussex RH16 4EX 01444 441881)           

Royal Sussex County Hospital (Eastern Road  Brighton and Hove, Brighton, East Sussex BN2 5BE

           

Police station:

Burgess Hill Police Station (The Brow  Burgess Hill, East Sussex RH15 9BU

0845 607 0999)

Brighton Police Station (John St Brighton and Hove 0845 607 0999)

Newhaven Police Station (South Road Newhaven East Sussex BN9 9QJ)

Local taxi firm:

Burgess Hill Taxis (York House, 13A Station Road, Burgess Hill, West Sussex RH15 9DE)

Coastline Cabs (22 High Street  Newhaven, BN9 9PD 01273 512 222)

Brighton and Hove Taxis (86 Goldstone Villas Brighton and Hove, East Sussex

01273 202 020)

Train station:

Burgess Hill Station (Burgess Hill RH15 9DG 0845 127 292)

Brighton Station (Queens Road  Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 3XP 0845 127 2920)

Seaford Railway Station (Seaford)

Bus link:

Royal George Road

Marine Parade

Eastbourne Road

What technical facilities are there?

i.e. Power, storage, enough space for equipment necessary to shoot certain set ups etc.

Many of our chosen locations are outside and in public places, making it slightly harder as there are fewer facilities for us to use when setting up our equipment and doing our actresses hair and make up however we shall be creative and bring plenty of umbrellas and coats in case the weather changes, making sure we still get our great shots.

We are going to have to rely heavily on natural lighting in the outside shots as there will be no where we can use for electricity and so won't be able to make big use of any artificial lighting We shall have to carry the equipment with us but this shouldn't be too difficult as we only have a couple of props and only ever one or two characters in the shots. We shall have plenty of space for filming as most shots are outside and in rural locations.

Cast & Crew facilities:

i.e. dressing and waiting areas, catering facilities, toilet facilities etc.

Graveyard Scene: we shall use Lisa's house for changing and fixing the hair and make up, we shall also use the local deli for food for our actresses.

Beach Scene: There are public toilets only ten minutes from our location for filming so hair and make up shall be carried out in them and we shall provide our actresses and film crew with lunch and refreshments at lunch

Cliff Scene: This will probably be the hardest scene to do, as the nearest facilities are a twenty minute walk away, however we shall do the hair and make up beforehand and luckily with only one clothing change it shouldn't prove to be too hard the local animal research center has a public toilet which we shall use also.

Shed Scene: We have found a small empty room in one of our crew's house which is perfect for getting the shots for our kidnap scene, it also means we shall have dressing, catering and toilet facilities all available to use

Environmental factors that may affect the location:

Many of the locations we are filming in our outside, so if there is heavy rain on the day of filming we will wait for it to stop or post-pone filming. However the rain could help to create some pathetic fallacy in our opening so we are taking umbrella's and tarpaulin so if we want to we can experiment with the rain and get some interesting shots.

Our scene on the beach may also turn out to be difficult to film as there may be the general public around but hopefully we will be able to get a few good shots without interruptions.

Filming the scene in the graveyard may prove to a challenge as we will have to get permission to film in it and permission to film a grave if we are not able to we will have to re-think our choice of location.  

Health and safety are there any implications that may apply to this location

A couple of our shots are filmed on the edge of a cliff; this will be tricky to film especially as it is such a dangerous location but we have managed to find a way to make it look  like cliff edge where in fact our actor is a couple of metres back.

FILM TITLE:

LENGTH: Approximately three minutes

GROUP: Dilys, Lisa and Fatima

SHOOT DATES: 1^st and 2^nd of March

LOCATIONS: Graveyard, Cliff, Beach, Empty room

CREW: 

(With mobile numbers)

 Dilys Latham: 075283475502

Lisa Walden: 07900585280

Fatima Hussain: 07811319148

CAST:

(With mobile numbers)

 Bronwen Latham:07769704360

Leah Walden: 0781068466

CAMERA EQUIPMENT:

• Camera
• Tripod
• Steady Cam

LIGHTING EQUIPMENT:

• Portable Light
• Bright light

WARDROBE:

• Long black coat
• Black Trousers
• Denim Jackets
• Blue Skirts
• Ripped White T-shirt
• Ripped jeans

PROPS:

• Bunch of fresh flowers
• Plate of chips
• Skateboard
• Chair

Approximate Time needed for each shot:

Our shots will be between five to 15 seconds long