Pre Production Meeting Three

As shown in the picture, we have decided on what aspects of our storyline should go into each scene, this helps us to break down filming into more manageable parts and gives us an easier idea of what different things we need to film. This should help to make editing easier as we will have a good idea of how the clips should flow to make an effective horror opening sequence.

From the three pre production meetings, our groups is prepared to film our opening sequence.

Because our initial deadline for our production is the 13th February, our group aim to finish filming by the 13th January which gives us a month to begin editing. From our production meetings we have decided that we will spend 2 days filming, on the first day we will film the reporter walking into the building, up the stairs and looking around. On our second day we will film the reporter finding the book, looking through it and the some unknown being entering the room with her. As we have spent time planning we can now effectively manage our time so that we have enough time to edit.  

Pre Production Meeting Two

In our groups second meeting, we began to think about locations, from our pitch we decided we wanted either a creepy, abandoned house or warehouse or a dark forest. From our first meeting and our new idea, it would be best to find a house or warehouse for our opening sequence, we decided on a workshop as it was accessible for our group but was also dark with empty rooms where we could create a scene that would fit our genre. 

As well as location, we thought about props, as a book is the basis of our idea we needed to find and order or make our own book. The props we thought of fit the horror theme but also with the ideas that will fit into the book, such as the child like toys which can be presented to look scary in a dark and mysterious situation, this is why we thought they would be effective.

We also began to think about sound effects as we could begin to produce some of our own while we were at our filming location, the sound effects link to the props and also to the location, as the warehouse is empty and sound effects should help to heighten the fear within the opening sequence. 

In our third meeting, we will start to determine scenes to break down our filming to make it more manageable and easier to begin when we get to our location. 

Pre Production Meeting One

In our groups first pre production meeting, we began to discuss new ideas for our opening sequence as from our pitch we were asked how we would make our idea more original from other horror films that already exist. 

As a starting point we thought of a list of single ideas and props that would fit a horror genre and then thought how we would connect the ideas in order to make a opening sequence. 

From our first meeting, our group has established a main idea consisting of a femal character walking into an abandoned and old building who finds a book with old newspaper reports and pictures in it, this should create a mysterious and eerie atmosphere as something clearly isn'r right with the situation she is in.

Also, we have answered another question we were given as a result of our pitch, to incorporate our titles we have decided to use the book as the basis of the titles as well as the storyline, with the titles incorporated into the articles and pictures. 

In our next pre production meeting, location, props, costume, actors and sound effects needed will be considered to give a clearer plan for when we go into production and filming.