Planning for Film- Risk Assessment

Planning for our Film- Location and Setting

Location and Setting 

 

The location and setting of "Intruder" will be filmed at my house.

 Which is a modern, new build, 3 bedroom, family home, on a new estate.

 

As our film is set in a family home, we thought this would be a good location to film in.
The main rooms we will be filming in are:



 - The top of the stairs (Landing)

- The living room

-Bottom of the stairs

-The kitchen

 

Planning for our Film- Actors

 Planning - Actors

Our First Actor- The Mother

Played By: Susi Cracroft

Aged: between 30-40

Susi is playing a stereotypical mum,

concerned for her children and the home.

Second Actor- The Possesed Boy

Played By: George Marshall

Aged: between 8-10

George is playing the young boy who we see as the

 possessed child roaming around the house at night.

The relationship between the actors:

The Relationship between the two actors is approriate as they are mother and son in real life, making it more natural on camera and more realistic to our audience making it more of a  beleivable narrative and plot.

Planning for our Film - Plot/Narrative

Our Plot/Narrative Ideas:

Our narrative starts of with a distressed mother calling the police after a series of on going nightly events leave her house in a state.

Thinking their house has been burgled the police install CCTV cameras in the home to catch the intruder.

The footage is then watched and the mother finds out the destruction is down to her 10 year old son who is possessed.

Planning for our Film - Title Ideas and Fonts

 

1)  Intruder:

 

- Chiller font

-White writing

-Bold

 - Red glow around the text.

Planning for our Film - Sound

Sound choices for our Horror/Thriller

 

 

1) Thriller (1:08) from freeplaymusic.com

 

This sound is a very dark and slow paced, with allot of sounds of wind in the background, and a rhymthic beat.

 

2) Nightprowler reprise (1:04) from freeplaymusic.com

 

This sound uses the piano and allot of sound effect to give a physcological feel to it, this is very slow and builds up to a loud noise at the end.

 

3) The Haunting (2:01) from freeplaymusic.com

 

First 20-40 seconds of this sound is effective and is like something is getting closer to you by using a rhythmic beat, after that the percussion picks up.

 

4) Resentment (0:44) from freeplaymusic.com

This is my top choice of the sounds we have found, as voices are used by whipsering to create atomspheric noises and sound effects are very unsettling, this fades out at the end to a chime of a bell.

 



Planning for our Film - Target Audience

A representation of our target audience:

The target audience for our film is:

- Males- as males enjoy thriller/horror films more than women

- Single- as single people have more money to spend on going to see the film

- Employed- this is also because employed people have more money aswell

- Aged 15-35- as this is the age category that mostly watches films and goes to the cinema frequently also our age certificate is 15.

Planning for our Film- Our Title

The title of our film is "Intruder"

Defintion of the word Intruder: "a person who enters a building, grounds, etc., without permission"

Our film is set in a family home, which is considered a safe place, and being intruded in your own home makes the audience feel unsafe and uneasy as they should feel safe.

The connotations of our title, are:

 - Unwanted

 - Unsafe

 - Burgulars

 - Infiltrators

 - Danger

 - Tresspasser

 - Invader

 - Criminal

Planning for our Film - Shot Lists

Shot List

 

- Camera pan, allong the police tape outside the house.

 

- Close up shot, of the police siren lights on.

 

- Close up shot, of the police statement book writing down the names.

 

- Over the shoulder, mid-shot, of the police interview

between the officer and mother.

 

- High angled shot, of the living room.

 

- High angled shot, of the kitchen.

 

- High angled shot, at the top of stairs, showing the landing.

 

- Low angle shot, at the bottom of the stairs looking up the stairs.  

 

- Over the shoulder, mid-shot of the police interview between officer and mother.

Planning for our Film - Storyboards

Our first Storyboard for Intruder:

Shot 1:

Shot 1 shows our production company name appearing, with a static effect and non-diegetic sound effect.

Shot 2:

Shot 2 is a panning camera allong an extreme close-up of "police line, do not cross" tape, outside the house. This is when our non diegetic sound of a 999 call is playing in the background.

Shot 3:

Shot 3 is the same as Shot 2 but instead of the "Police line do not cross" we will have some of our title sequence names appear on the tape, This will also have the non diegetic sound of a 99 call in the background.

 

Shot 4:

Shot 4 is of a Police light on the top of a police car, as the blue and white lights spin the title sequence names will apear on the screen as part of the light. At this point the non-diegetic sound of the 999 call will begin to fade out and end. 

 

Shot 5:

Shot 5 is of a police statement book, which a officer is filling out the name of our actors will apear in the statement as part of the title sequence, our digectic sound will be the start of the police interview between the mother and officer, this shot will then fade out.

 



Shot 6:

Shot six is a 180 degree rule shot, using a conversation between the mother and officer, the diegetic sound of the conversation is heard, this will then jump cut to shot 7.

 

Shot 7:

Shot 7 uses a split screen editing effect with 4 diffrent cameras around the house all recording, the boy walking down the stairs.