Lighting Decisions

For the day time we will use a small amount of borrowed light for the darker areas. Will will be using a natural Gel (straw). for the evening/night time scene, the actors will be sitting around a fire. This by its self may not create a sufficient amount of lighting and so we will use a very dim orange/red to light the characters faces. Within the shots set at night, e.g. in the tent of in the woods we are going to use a ice blue gel as this creates a sense of cold and tension. During the scene where one of the teenagers is tied to the tree we are going to use dim front lighting on him so that we can see the details on his face. The 'soldier' will be back lit to create almost a silhouette like effect - this will make him seem frightening and suspicious to the audience as we cannot tell a lot about the character.

Location shots

Chailey common:
we have decided to use Chailey common for our filming as this possesses the most qualities of our original location. it has dense wood lands along with open bushland and some specific features we saw when we were doing out location scouting which we felt we would be able to use effectively. also we are going to use Sam's house for our scene on the driveway while the characters are packing up the car, we decided this because he lives the closest to Chailey common and we do not feel that this is the most important location in our opening therefor it is convenient for transporting equipment. although we were talking about fire, we are filming in a public place so we may film the camp fire scene on private land in the dark so it will be extremely hard to tell the differences between the two venues, this solves our problem with the public place issues. we are still debating however weather to use the "scrapyard" we were considering filming in as we are not sure if this will add or take away from the opening.

Plot Synopsis

our opening starts with one of our characters tied from a tree with fishing wire, his skin is all cut and the wire restraints have sliced into his skin. moving back in time our 4 campers are packing the car to leave for their camping trip, and re-tell the story of how we got to our opening shot. the 4 teens arrive at the woods and things start to seem strange as they feel they are being watched, little do they know that in the woodland is a psychotic ex solider on the lose and his latest hobby is murder. stalking their every move, one by one they start to disappear, and the remaining teens find themselves running for their lives, with no maps or phone service their last hope is remembering the way out.

Body effects we are going to try and recreate.

 our first shot shows one of our victims cut up and strung to a tree with fishing wire so tight it has cut into his skin. we were wondering how this would look so we goggled it and found some images of what we could make the body of the victim look like.

by having these photos as a reference we can try different methods of creating this effect and compare it to how the real thing would look. as we decide more specific details of the piece we will add more photos of effects we are going to create then when our filming is done will we compare these with the research photos and talk about how we achieved the effect.

Location research

we have started to think seriously about locations, and have looked on the satellite view on Google maps and grabbed screen shots in a plan view. these screen shots are areas we are going to look at for our final filming, and get normal photos of the areas when we look at them.

Chailey Common.

 Ash down forest.

Friston Forest
















We like these locations because as well as possessing dense woodland then also have open brush land which can help us to create a sense of large areas of land, and also means we have more choice of areas to film. which we can combine to create different effects on the audience and sequences in the piece.

LIONK TO VIDEO - WITH BROKEN 180

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IsSFMsoDt4

Pre-liminary.

Sam on the right.

Sam On the left.

Above we have show how the 180 degree rule was broken, this meant that we have to re-film out prelim to show that we understand this rule fully. if we had of seen the error during filming we would have kept Sam on the right of the shot and not the left. we could have also panned round the scene to avoid this rule being broken. 
we are currently working on rectifying our preliminary mistake with the 180 degree rule, this should be completed by mid week, and will be longer in length and have the 180 degree rule included, without breaking it. as we no longer have the means to re-do the shot exactly how it was we are now going, to film the final sequence with different actors, even though this means the piece is slightly inconsistent. we have shown consistency in the original and we are re-filming purely to show we have an understanding of the 180 degree rule.