"Ready Or Not" Final Script

Preliminary Task

Our preliminary task was a basic task to concentrate on camera control, the 180 degree rule and continuity in shots. We needed to assess how many shots needed to be taken (close up, mid shot, over the shoulder and wide shot - plus the additional shots that would make this a unique clip). The prelim task was very benefitial, it allowed our future filming group to bond, our concept of filming to be put into practice, for us to follow the entire life of a film and for us to practice the art of editing. I really enjoyed finally doing practical work in Media Studies!

"Ready Or Not" Production Stills

Shoot Day.

Creating Mise-en-scene.

Setting up camera and lights.

We each had a different task - lighting, continuity, camera and mise-en-scene control.

Rehearsing.

Focusing the camera.

Fake Blood preparation.

Different filming location. 

Storyboarding

We have had many variations of Storyboards and as our idea has developed, we have had to create more and more sheets of storyboards.

This first story board we did a seperate one for the boy and girl and then matched them together whilst refering back and forth - this, we found, was veryu tedious and confusing so we wrote out our story again and finalised a few details, then began storyboarding again. The second time was much more fluid and seemed to go a lot better - our second storyboard was much more detailed and sucessful, it acted like a script. We had the literal script which I wrote up and the storyboard which we constantly referenced to.

Example of Storyboards from Pixar's UP!

A storyboard is the vessel of any and every great production, it is a constant reference guide and a life line in filming, I think we would have made many clumsy mistakes and many inconstant errors if we were without a storyboard!

"The storyboard artists job is to plan out shot for shot the whole show, write all the dialog, and decide the mood, action, jokes, pacing, etc of every scene."

Craig McCracken "

Target Audience

This is the Target Audience for our Thriller - "Ready Or Not"

Account Of Shoot Day - Opening Sequence (Thriller)

•  Casting - Our group was very unanimous when casting, we all agreed on the actress and actor fairly quickly and satisfactorily.

 Actress: Rose Salvage playing "Ellie"

Age: 17 years old

Eye Color: Blue/Grey

Hair Colour: Light Brown

Height: 5ft 5"

First Choice Actress.

We picked Rose because of her 'chameleon-like' ability to look like the-girl-who-lives-down-your-lane or a fierce confident killer. She is in Hurtwood's Acting Company and therefore is a reliable actress, we gave her a few tasks before signing her onto this shoot and she proved capable of turning from sadness to rage to self-pity to murderous intentions.

Actor: Jake Cecil playing "Matt"

Age: 17 years old

Eye Color: Blue/Green

Hair Colour: Brown/Black

Height: 6ft 2.5"

First Choice Actor.

• We chose Jake because of his high quality acting skills and his real personality is the personality we wanted for Matt. We needed a casual, easy going guy who was a smoker - Matt, in addition, is also a womanizer and suffers from mild anxiety issues. Jake's real-life style is exactly what we needed for our shoot and because our shots are all fast and sporadic we needed an opposite of Ellie when she becomes unstable.

•  Costumes/Props- originally not much thought was given into costumes, our male actor wears the clothes we wanted to shoot him in on a daily basis and the girl was never fully discussed. But, on shoot day, taking a look at the girl, I took her away quickly to sort out her costume (which was one of the benefits for shooting in a Boarding House). I wanted there to be a lot of symbolism within her costume but still have it subtle. I envisioned her in a vivid red top and black trousers with her hair pulled up in a bun and slowly falling out as she gradually grew more insane and unstable. We found the costume and it looked perfect on screen. I was inspired by all movies who will show the hero with white and the villain is traditionally in black - Hollywood has been using this technique for decades. Props: There were not many props that we had to use but there needed to be two of everything because props were being ripped, torn and burnt and for every shot we would do either two takes or two separate angles. We had to prepare for our media shoot many days ahead because of the multiple photographs used within the opening sequence. I had to set up the two actors in several locations and photograph them (within many costume changes) in order to create the illusion of a long term relationship that was filled with happiness and love.

• Lighting - Our previous experience with lighting was small but we learnt the essentials when shooting our Preliminary Tasks. We used the natural lighting of the day, the actual featured lights within the shot and also Studio Lights and a reflector which we used to disperse the light against the ceiling. This was a project which relied on lack of lighting in order to create the "scare" effect and leave more the the audience's imagination.

• Sound - Sound will be added afterwards mostly, we are not counting on keeping most of the sound we recorded except for smashes, screams and diegetic sickening sounds. We will rely heavily on a frightening and disturbing soundtrack plus the enhancement of smashing sounds that we will take from Soundtrack Pro and from Final Cut Pro.

• Teamwork - Our teamwork was great! We were all on the same level and the efficiency throughout the day was wonderful, we knew we had only a few hours to shoot and we knew we had to get it done. We knew what we wanted and we even had time to get some extra effective shots.

• Happiness - I am happy with the shoot day, but I will have to see how the shots tunr out when we are review our Rushes... Overall though, this was a wonderful working experience.