This was our preliminary brainstorming stage for locations. We called around local village halls, we realised that we couldn't afford a village hall. Also we realised it would be hard to fill a village hall with a sufficient amount of people without it getting out of control. Luckily the sixth form we attend was having a sixth form party so we asked for permission to film at it, they said that would be fine.After sorting out our party scene we had another group meeting trying to find places to hold our premonition scene and torture scenes.
Originally we filmed our premonition scene as though the girls were getting ready for the party and the premonition happens then. When we uploaded the filming on to the apple mac ready to edit, the entire group was in agreement that it didn't look realistic enough.
We re-filmed the premonition scene taking place in our sixth form centre at school, we asked a group of boys is our media to star in it as people coming to the party and they were sitting around talking about it. We felt this would give the scene a more realistic film unlike the filming you did previously.
When we went looking for possible locations for our torture scenes we were looking for interior and exterior shots. To the left is our first plan of the torture scene. After searching for a location for some time, we couldn't find anywhere where we'd be able to alter the surrounding to make it look like an eerie torture scene.
But then a friend of ours suggested underneath the swimming pool at our school.
We went down there to look and took pictures to decide what we could do with the area and where and how the girls could be tortured.
We made brainstorms with photo's to help us organise our planning;
This brainstorm worked as essential planning, we took this with us on the day and we were able to refer back to it, this probably halved the amount of time we had to spend on this scene. In black pen is where the camera will be placed and a brief summary of what will be happening. In the coloured pen is camera angles we are going to use.
This brainstorm was created on the day of the premonition scene being re-filmed; we used it as a plan as well as above but put the pro's and con's of using these locations. The filming for the party scene had to just be long/medium shots, through editing we are going to create the atmosphere we want. For the sixth form centre it was convenient and we wanted to be able to move the surroundings around, the other pro was the natural lighting is good in the sixth form centre due to the big windows so now artificial lighting was needed.
