New Script

1. EXT. BRIDGE - NIGHT

LONG SHOT 

'Hope' Written on the side of the bridge.

CUT TO

2. EXT. UNDER BRIDGE- NIGHT

ELEANOR running to HUNTER. She jumps into his arms and they embrace. Long shot at first, then cuts to a close up of the two's embrace, walking around them to show multiple angles.

3. EXT. GARDEN- DAY

The young couple are sat down messing around as they are in the process of the ecstasy of getting high together, ELEANOR laughing while HUNTER tickles her. CUT to Eleanor holding a small shot glass while Hunter watches her. 

CUT TO

4. EXT. PARK- DAY

Eleanor running as Hunter chases her before catching her. The two laughing and smiling, happy to be together. Hunter starts to pull her back slightly.

CUT TO

5. UNKNOWN

A close up of Hunters face, he looks menacing and fierce as he looks slightly away from the camera, his hood is up.

CUT TO

6. EXT. GARDEN- DAY

The two are sat close together  looking at each other. Hunter leans in to kiss her neck and she moves her head to the side. Cut's to Hunter stood up while Eleanor remains sat down. He is playing with her hair and the two are smiling and laughing together. CUT to Eleanor sat on the arm of a chair, close to Hunter, he has his arm on her leg and is leaning up, looking at her. CUT. Close up of the two as Eleanor feeds Hunter a pill. THE A TEAM is playing through these scenes. 

LOUD BANG SOUND AND CUTS MUSIC ENDS

7. INT. THE VOID- NIGHT

The camera pans through the void. Sounds of the boiler room can be heard in the back ground. Camera looks left and then right before walking to the right. Camera looks down and we see a tool on the table.

CUT TO

8. INT. BLACK SCREEN

VOICES

(worried)

Eleanor... wake up... wake up... come on you need to wake up... snap out of it... wake up... 

CUT TO

9. INT. SITTING ROOM- DAY

Two friends sat on a sofa looking worried, the shot is out of focus and set as a point of view shot, suggesting the person sat down as the camera has blurred vision. Slowly goes into focus before people start to talk.

FEMALE

Eleanor, please, you need to stop...

CUT

10. INT. BEDROOM- DAY

Hunter leans over camera

HUNTER

(angry)

Do you know how hard it is for me to stop!?

CUT

11. BLACK SCREEN

'What is the one person you trusted,'

12. INT. BEDROOM- DAY

Eleanor being grabbed by Hunter. Eleanor knelt on the bed, Hunter stood over her. He grabs her wrist and pulls her up as she struggles.

CUT

13. INT. BEDROOM- DAY

Hunter pushes Eleanor against the wardrobe. 

CUT

14. EXT. BRIDGE- NIGHT

Eleanor running across the bridge, only her back can be seen. CUT to her face. She is panting and looks up slowly, looking scared.

CUT

15. BLACK SCREEN

'Was the one person you feared?'

16. EXT. BRIDGE- NIGHT

A hooded figure stood above her on the top of the stairs of the bridge. 

CUT

17. EXT. UNDER BRIDGE- NIGHT

Eleanor running with someone chasing behind her.

CUT

18. INT. HALLWAY- DAY

Eleanor running into the bathroom, blood on her face.

CUT

19. INT. BATHROOM- DAY

Eleanor leaning over the sink touching her face that has blood dripping from it.

CUT

20. EXT. STREET- DAY

Smoke blowing across the screen. THE A TEAM starts to play again.

CUT 

21. EXT. PARK- DAY.

Eleanor say on a bench on her own, looking around and running a hand threw her hair as she thinks.

CUT

22. EXT. UNDER THE BRIDGE- NIGHT

Eleanor and Hunter hugging.

CUT

23. EXT. GARDEN- NIGHT

Eleanor and Hunter are sat at a garden table with a lighter as they get high together. CUT the two sat looking at each other, messing around. Hunter starts to jokingly hit Eleanor with a spoon. The two are laughing together. CUT close up of Eleanor's face as she smiles, though she has a sunken in look. CUT Eleanor and Hunter close together, talking and joking around. CUT Eleanor with a lighter as she begins to light something on the table and Hunter watches her. CUT Hunter holding a spoon, making Eleanor light the lighter under the spoon. CUT Eleanor and Hunter laughing as Eleanor is being made to take a shot. CUT Eleanor putting down a small package and picking up a shot.  

CUT

24. EXT. FRONT DOOR- NIGHT

The female friend of Eleanor's is opening the front door. CLOSE UP of her hand and the keys as she unlocks the door. CUT A hand on her shoulder. She looks up scared and starts to panic before a hand covers her mouth and she is pulled away as she screams.

CUT

CREDITS

Risk Assessment

Today we went to the void to take shots. We then had to fill out a risk assessment to make sure it was safe and everyone was doing what they should to keep it safe:

Risk Assessment for my garden

Sound edits

In todays lesson we were on Adobe Sound Booth with voice overs and we were trying out different effects on 

Here is the screen grab of Adobe Sound booth before I started to work on my voice over.

Narrative Theory

I have looked at 11 trailers to see if they use narrative theory. I agree with Vladmir Propp's theory as you can see the different types of characters as you watch trailers, there might be different variations of the character but they have the same basics of the:

• Hero The person who sets out to restore the equilibrium. Victim Hero the hero who is the centre of the villain's attention. Seeker Hero who aids others who are the villain's victims.
• Villan the character who creates the narrative disruption.
• Helper aids the hero in the task of restoring the equilibrium. 
• Donor gives the hero something it may be an object, information or advise to help the hero.
• Princess/ Victim usually the character most threatened by the villain and has been saved, at the climax, by the hero. The father's (who in fairy tales was often the king) role has usually to give the princess away to the hero at the narrative's conclusion. 
• Dispatcher sends the hero on her or his task. (typically can be the princess father)
• False Hero appears to be good but is revealed, at the narrative's end to have been bad.

Here is what I found:

Smiley

Killer- known by everyone as ‘Smiley’ scaring all the character and going after one girl in particular- masked so no one knows his real identity.

Victim- Smiley is going after her and keeps almost getting her but not quiet, she keeps just getting away.

Shane Dawson- the donor- he tells her a bit about the killer.

Police man- donor/ helper, telling her about ‘Smiley’ and trying to help her out.

Annoyed friend- getting annoyed that she is bringing ‘Smiley’ to them and putting tem all in danger.

The collection

Stars off with the popular girls going to a club

Killer- masked so no one can see his identity- gets the pretty girls to use them. See him putting on his mask, shows he has a lot of weapons and new ways to kill people- he uses sharp rakes that stretch the perimeter of the club to get people.

Hero- trying to save them but he get’s caught up with the killer as well.

House at the end of the street

Victim- trying to get away from the killer but he finds her- trapped by killer

Killer always gets her back every time she gets away.

Mum- trying to find her daughter and get her back

Killer and killers helper- working together to get the victim.

Mystery of the house- daughter killed her family which is why its so cheap for the new family to get it.

Sinister

Victim is the father- he finds out about the killer and the killer wants to get rid of him.- watching movies the old

Man online- donor- tells him about the symbol he has found.- tells him about how the pictures are gateways for the gules 

Killer- seen from a distance- living in the pictures- videos- when they are watched she is brought out.

Daughter- victim- children are more likely to be taken by the killer- she gets possessed by the killer.

Tall man

Children go missing in the area the family now live- infers her young son will be taken

‘The Tall Man’- the killer- no one knows who he is, they just know he takes children

hero- trying to find and save her son.

Trapped in Abyss

Donor- news woman talking about mysterious disappearances.

Victims are stuck in the shop- druggies- trying to get away but are trapped.

They slowly get killer odd- killer not seen but we see him getting to each person.

V/H/S

Victims are people going into house trying to steal a VHS tape.

Killer- masked and living in house they are going to.

Helper- on Skype with victim as she tells him about how her house is haunted

See a ghost running out her door

Killer puts knife to girls stomach as she sleeps.

In their skin

Killer finds people and shoots them

First victim is man running with killer following him in their car.

Crazy family let in by the new family

Killer slowly killing people off between the two families

Hero- takes in family and then tries to help them- false hero as it turns out he’s the killer.

The Possession

Young girl is the victim- her body is taken over by the ghost

Mum and dad are victims as they are attacked by daughter when she is possessed

Older man who looks at boxes an tells them about it- donor- telling them about the box ‘once the box is opened people die’

Helper- man praying over her to try and get the spirit out of her.

Rec 3

Bride and groom are victims of killer

One by one guess become killers as they become zombies.

Bride is hero as she gets a chainsaw and kills the zombies.

Texas Chainsaw 3D

Victims set up going to a house in the middle of nowhere together- they beome his latest victims

Killer- masked to hid identity- shows the ‘birth’ of the killer.

Police officer- hero? Trying to save people and see what’s happening.

Now that I have looked at the Narrative Theory I will use it in my Trailer to have the different characters people expect so that it sticks to conventions. In most Horror trailers however they do not use all of the conventional characters, they mainly stick to the Hero/ False Hero, Princess's, Donors and Helpers.

Make-up for Christine Blundell's make-up school

• slit throat
• old scars
• cut heart
• strangle marks
• injection
• cuts/ scabs
• coughing up blood
• blood spurting out of slit throat wound
• person looking high

List of things for horror film

Here is a list of all the different things we need for our film so we can keep a check list and work out what we have and what we still need:

Check list:

• characters
• script
• fb event
• synopsis
• props- list of props
• makeup
• costumes
• photo’s of each person
• photo of whole group to show how many people there are in the group of friends
• photo’s of Eleanor and Hunter- together and happy
• tic tacs as pills
• risk assessments- IMPORTANT
• how to do different make-up

Props list:

• sugar pills
• fake needle
• sharpened, blacken spoon
• rope
• fake blood- food colouring, golden syrup, chocolate sauce
• thin plastic tubing
• picture frames/ pictures of group/ pictures of Eleanor and Hunter
• razor
• empty alcohol bottles
• fake cigarettes?
• latex
• liquid latex

Playing with Camera focus- Binary Opposition

We spent part of the lesson trying out different focuses and how to use Binary Oppositions by having one person blurry and the other in focus and trying out different ways to pull focus. We used a DSLR camera EOS 550D.

We also learnt about how changing the F stop changes the distance of focus. If the F stop number is small there is a deeper focus and if the F stop if big its a shallow focus. To do a pull focus you have to have a small F stop and use the focus ring around the outside of the camera to change what is in focus.

Other ways of showing binary opposition is through clothes, lighting, facial expressions and body language.

Binary Opposition 1 from Ellie on Vimeo.

Binary oppostition 2 from Ellie on Vimeo.

Binary Opposition 3 from Ellie on Vimeo.