Photoshoot still shots - magazine front cover

Synopsis - final

First draft: 

When first year college student Sarah arrives at university, she cannot wait to make new friends, socialise and more importantly, further her ambition to be a fashion journalist. In the mean time, Rebecca, an emotional and unstable student is also joining the same university, in a mind frame of disturbing thoughts that lead her to hurting people. Sarah and Rebecca become friends, and soon Rebecca reveals her true colours of a psychopath. How long will Sarah survive before its too late for her to run?

Final:

What do you do when your flatmate starts to control your life and university experience? Sarah (Junette Salonga) is beginning her first year, arriving in London to study Journalism. Rebecca, studying grand art and French (Kally Nichalou) introduces herself as shy and sensitive. Little to Sarah’s (Salonga) knowledge Rebecca (Nichalou) has come from a family background of deep emotions and instability brought about from the death of her twin sister. It has caused her to have an abnormal and obsessive personality disorder, controlled by daily consistent medication. Once Rebecca stops taking her medication, trouble begins at a dinner party where the peculiar student’s anti-social behaviour glares through.  Soon it becomes apparent to Sarah’s friends, Alison (Naomi Medina) and Sasha (Imogen Sweeney) that Rebecca’s secretive behaviour is something to be worried about. How far will Rebecca go until she is stopped? What started off as a disturbing friendship climaxes into a shocking unrestrained bloody standoff between two young girls who are willing to keep everything they want, whether it is a life at university or life itself.  

Film poster final

Furthering our development we came up with our final poster. Including the layout, typography and image. We decided to come up with this poster overall because our research showed that most horror film trailers keep it simple, with the image being the main attraction for the audience. 

Film Poster on Prezi


We picked the effect of using a framed photograph like the images were taken from university records, with their names underneath. We kept the consistency of the font used throughout the film poster and trailer to keep them linked together. We used typical conventions found on film posters such as the production logo, a website and a release date. We also featured our quote at the top of the film poster, usually it will read across the screen, but we decided it be best to read it down, bringing the attention to the pictures below.

Film poster - font research

To make our film poster, we had decisions to make on which one would be suitable to represent our genre and concept of the trailer. We got our font choices from the website www.dafont.com Here are screenshots of the top ones we liked:
Font research powerpoint

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Film trailer/poster - market research

According to our brief we know that the target audience age is between 15-24. This covers all social groups that fit into this category who enjoy watching horror films. So we set up two social network sites (Facebook and Twitter) which are known to be very popular. We also thought this would be a great platform to first advertise our trailer because news spreads very fast on these sites. Here are the set-up images below that were created to showcase our trailer to an audience - and for them to 'like' 'retweet' or comment.

Facebook page

Twitter page

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Filming - Behind the Scenes

Here are a couple of shots that we took of the scenes we are filming in. It shows props and characters that are featured in our trailer, when we were preparing to set up the scene. Taking these photos of our production making shows how we worked independently together, using technology such as camera's to create our shot storyboards. 

First location= Imogens room (Sarah and Rebeccas Uni Room)

Second location= Kallys house (Dinner party)

Target Market

For our film trailer we knew that we wanted it to be rated a 15 certificate therefore we chose to market our film/trailer at people aged between 15-24 ad we felt that they would be the age group most likely to watch it. To market this age group we decided to create a twitter and facebook page as we know 15-24 year olds are very engaged with social networking sites. Below is are a few images that show what this target market are into:

Shot List by Location

Shot list by location

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Above is the shot list that we created to establish where each of our shots are going to take place. It includes movement, angles and lengths of each shots including what characters are featured. When filming we are relying on this enormously so no shots get missed and the whole filming process goes smoothly well.

Schedule

November schedule


 We started filming in November with all the shots and scenes that we had in mind.  We set dates that would be suitable for both me and Chelsea to set up in certain locations. This allowed us to be more organised so we could contact our characters on date, times and locations. 

December schedule

In December it was more packed up schedule with locations set. This was because we had half term so figured this an opportunity to add more dates for filming. Also it was nearing close to the time of our deadline. 

The characters

Rebecca: (main character)

She is an only child who was living with her mum before. Her father left the family at a young age but left inheritance money. She has grown up living a rich lifestyle. She has now come to university to study grand art and French. While living at home she was on medication to control her illness that she has had from young age. However, since coming to university, to feel more like herself she has stopped taking the medication which has made her paranoid and obsessed with making new friends, especially with one girl, her flatmate, Sarah. 

Sarah: (the other main character)

Innocent, young girl, who has come from an average family, has come to university to study Journalism. She has quite a big family and is seeking freedom while away and make new friends. Sarah and Rebecca form a girly friendship that reminds her of home, so she takes to Rebecca  as her sister. When finding out about her medication she becomes a little more way of Rebecca but still remains friends with her. Even when her new friend, Alison, warns her she doesn’t want to believe it because she actually likes Rebecca. 

Alison: (the friend)

Friend of Sarahs, who Rebecca becomes increasingly jealous of. She is the character that Rebecca chases when she see’s her walking back from a lecture late at night. She is also a party girl