Emails

These are some e-mails sent between my group and the manager of the avenue house (our original place to film)

Setting Up The Final Scene

The final scene of our thriller is based in an empty and abandoned garage/warehouse, after looking at many warehouses we discovered that all of the ones we found turned out to be quite unreliable with timings and prices, eventually we decided that the ones we wanted to use were too far out of our price range so we thought we would transform Kim's garage into the setting we wanted. We bought some props and red/blood paint to use around the room.

We looked into a few movies and tv shows to help us get ideas for our setting, 'criminal minds' and 'dexter'  were two tv series that we looked into a lot. In some of the story lines of these shows we found similar ideas portrayed and liked the way they were set out so we used some ideas from them, for example the the bloody mattress and the 'dangerous looking' garden tools. These features really portrayed the creepy and spine-chilling nature of the thriller that we wanted to put across.

Production Schedule

• 12:00 – All cast and crew meet at Kim’s
• 12:30 – Cast getting make up done
• 13:00 – Cast and crew into positions
• 13:00 – Start filming final garage scene
• 13:30 – Clear up and actors not further needed leave
• 13:45 – Set up first lounge scene
• 14:00 – Set up basement scene
• 14:05 – Film basement (second) scene
• 14:20 – Set up bathroom ((third) scene
• 14:25 – Film bathroom scene
• 14:45 – LUNCH
• 15:30 – Drive to avenue house with all equipment
• 15:50 – Set up equipment in park – different areas
• 17:00 – Go home

Final Written Out Plan Before Filming

Scene 1

• Camera pans across street/house
• Camera pans across shelf of photos then pans across rooms (spinning on same point)
• Camera sees women get up from sofa and walk into kitchen
• Camera carries on spinning and sees women from a distance leaving kit hen and walking up stairs
• Camera then shows a dark stairway

Scene 2

• Over shoulder shot of man flicking through book full of pictures of young girls
• Last page is a picture of women (in house) and sample of hair
• Then he closes book
• (Lovely bones)

Scene 3

• (Bloody chambers) Close up of man locking door
• Camera pans slightly to the right and we see man walk up stairs

Scene 4

• Women standing in bathroom looking in mirror (camera behind her)
• Women knocks other mirror (on sink) on floor and smashes
• She bends down to pick it up
• We see man in background of mirror walking away (out of scene)
• Women stands back up to look in mirror and continues with make-up (over the shoulder)
• We hear door slam
• Women turns her head and walks into bedroom to look out window
• We see from over her shoulder the man walking in the street (back away from women)
• Women turns her head (camera still in same place)
• We see man turns to look at her 

Scene 5

• Women by front door
• Match on action of women leaving house
• Women stands at top of stairs and watches man walking down stree
• Lots of cut shots of women following man (different angles etc)
• Lots of shots of ave house paths and forest
• Eventually we see man going towards isolated building in forest (Over women’s shoulder) 
• We don’t see him go in we see him disappear behind corner of building
• POV women walking to the door 

Scene 6

• Match on action of women walking into garage door
• Lots of cuts seeing each girl in dirty clothes and make up, tied up and on the floor
• Camera spins around women’s head twice
• Second time we see man behind women 
• Camera stops at low angle with women’s face in shock (at girls) and man’s face slightly higher up behind her smiling 
• While spinning screeching noise occurs (Cabwise advert, the call)

*The words in brackets refer to movies, tv shows or adverts that we wanted to incorporate into our thriller. 

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