Planning: Mise-en-scene for opening

Costumes


For the costumes, there is only one character in our opening which is the caretaker himself. In order to portray the caretaker in the right way to the audience watching our film opening, we needed the costumes to be correct and have a specific feel to them. The character of the caretaker will be dressed in all black. He will be wearing a black hoodie/jacket which will also have a hood. The dark shade of the costume should add a sense of mystery and enable the audience to pay more attention to the opening and question it. Secondly, we do not want the face of the character to be seen, therefore the hood will help cover the facial features of the caretakers face and head area. As the caretaker is not considered to be an important member of the school with a high social status within the school, the hoodie/jacket represents his lack of importance and is also suitable for his role within the school. To continue with the dark shades and to keep the caretaker into character, he will wear black trousers. This will enable him to merge into the background whilst filming, which will make it more difficult to see his facial features and with the lighting, it will add to the affect. As a stereotypical caretaker is normally picking up litter and sorting out the school technical problems, he will wear work gloves. These will become bloody to portray to the audience what he actually is like. To keep the whole theme of the black shade, the caretaker will wear black work boots.







Props
Once we had researched and looked deeper into a typical caretaker and his role, it enables us to come up with various ideas for props that could be linked with the caretaker and his surroundings. We will add a twist to each of the different caretaker objects. Example, work gloves with blood on them.

All throughout the opening there are various different references and clues to different children who have all been murdered by the caretaker. We will be using fake blood, which we have borrowed from the Performing Arts department within our own school. The blood will add a dramatic twist to the caretaker.

To show the different missing children that the caretaker has brutally murdered, we have chosen to use newspaper articles that have taken place, these will be burnt by the caretaker using a lighter.



We have cut out various different photos of the caretakers vitim, which is Tania Garrat. These photographs will let the audience get a clear image of what the caretaker is doing and we will have different shots of the student walking around why the caretaker, without her knowing following her.

   We have took the mise-en-scene into alot of consideratino as we have put surrounding abjects that all link with the caretaker, in the audiences view. All the tools are found within a working area were a caretaker is associated with.

 Here we are using a knife that looks dangerous and could do harm to anyone. It is sharp and portrays that the caretaker may be using this knife to kill his victims.

Planning: Location planning

My group, FishEye Films, firstly decided that we would film in a school as we thought that because our film being about a caretaker, it was the obvious reason to choose a school to film our opening in. After walking round our school and looking the fine details of the school and started filming parts of our opening, we come to the decision that this was not the right place for us to be filming. We have come to the conclusion that we will find are more better, suitable place to film our opening. Due to us being in our old school where it was run down, tatty and old, it was the right place for us to film but we have moved into a brand new, state of the art school which looks to clean and new. This will not help us at all with the filming and will not look right in a horror opening. As you can see from the pictures on the right hand side, that the school is not suitable for us and we will no longer be filming here. Although we could use some of the outside, landscaped to film little parts, without making the opening not so good and we will not achieve a good grade overall. 

We have now found a different location for us to film the opening of 'Caretaker.'. Ellie's grandma has a shed that fits into everything that we have planned, The shed contains tools, brick walls, dark area and does not look new like the school does. We will now be filming our opening here as we feel it will give us the best outcome and the viewrs will understand the opening more.

New location for our opening of 'Caretaker'

We wanted a place that looked and felt like a caretaker workshop/office. We have finally found a location for us to start filming our opening. We feel that this is a good location because it contained everything that we need such as hammers, screw, tools etc for the mis-en-scene. It also matches the caretakers personality. Below is a couple of images showing the exterior of the location and the interior.

 

Planning: Casting

As a group we had to find people to cast in our film opening. On a previous session that my group had was that we was going to give each other different things to complete. This was one of Aimee's jobs to complete. She ask a few different people if they would like to be in a part of our film opening and auditioned them. She completed this during school, in her free lessons. The candidates to be the caretaker, had to give Aimee a reason why they should be the caretaker.

Here are the three candidates that Aimee auditioned. 

Candidate 1
Thomas Bates: Aged 16 - attends Kettering Bucclech Academy
Tom has a fascination with the aspects of film and studies AS Media himself. He expressed that he is a dedicated member of the school and works well within a group and team. He also took GCSE Drama.




Candidate 2:
Rebecca Payne; Aged 16- attends Kettering Buccleuch Academy.
Becca believes she is a suitable candidate for this role because she is very reliable and available during our filming schedule. The downfall is that she is a member of the female gender, however this is not a major issue as the face of the caretaker is not seen during the opening, although, she does have a very small body frame which would be noticed.






















Candidate 3:
Tania Garratt; Aged 16- attends Kettering Buccleuch Academy.
Tania is an extremely dedicated member of KBA. She expressed how willing she is to put in the effort to stay behind after school hours and film on set. She has serious characteristics and works brilliantly within a team. She has clarified that she is able to attend all of our filming sessions.





As we felt that Tania had a great amount of determination and dedication, she shall be starring in our opening of the 'Caretaker.' as the victim. She has agreed with us that she will attend all rehearsals and she promises that she will turn up when we are filming our opening.


Candidate 4:
Richard Spence
Age: 46

We have decided that Richard will become the caretaker himself. This is because he is an older than and would fit the caretaker criteria better than Tania would. Plus he is a male. We needed an older male to play the part of the caretaker otherwise the opening would not have the same affect and we would not be impressed with it. We feel that Richard is the right person to play the caretaker in our opening. He has agreed to come to our filming location when needed. 

Planning: Story boards

Here, we have created our story boards ready for us to start filming. This will help my group, FishEye Films, to film giving us a clear idea on what we need to do in stages to get our filming complete.

Planning: Shot list

As a group we discussed many possible shots for our Horror opening Caretaker.

We then agreed on the shot list below:

 

 

Shot 1: Extreme close up of the school bell to signify the end of the day.

 

Shot 2: POV of the caretaker walking to his office.

 

Shot 3: Extreme close up of the caretakers door which reads ' STRICTLY NO ENTRY'

 

Shot 4: Mid shot of the door opening slowly.

 

Shot 5: Close up of the caretaker putting on his gloves.

 

Shot 6: Traking over newspaper trimmings on the wall.

 

Shot 7: POV of the caretaker looking at the newspaper trimmings.

 

Shot 8: POV of the caretaker, slowly taking one of the newspaper trimmings and placing it on his work bench.

 

Shot 9: Close up of the caretaker's hand grabbing a knife.

 

Shot 10: Mid shot of the caretaker stabbing the newspaper trimming.

 

Shot 11: Close up reaveling at pupil at St Marlows Secondary School.

 

Shot 12: Extreme close up of the pupil's photo. This happens suddenly three times getting closer each time.

Action Plan

This is my group, FishEye Films, action plan on getting our filming completed and other outstanding tasks that we need to do. Also we have allocated each other with different jobs to do and when do complete them by.

1. Story Board will be completed by Friday 1st February; each member of the group will have some for of input.

2. Location Planning will be completed by Friday 1st February; this will be completed by me (Aimee).

3. Mis-en-scene will be organised by Sam. He will gather the props together; bunsen burner, fake blood, make up, newspaper cuttings.

4. Shot list will be completed by Ellie.

5. The camera will be booked out by Ellie.

6. Casting will be completed by Aimee

7. We will be filming on Friday 1st February.

Planning: Writing a screenplay for Caretaker.

Screen play for caretaker.

1. INT; black background, in white writing we reveal “Fisheye Films presents” - white writing slowly develops into the effect of dripping blood and writing turns red; blood. Fade in fade out. Courier New Font. 

2. INT; end of school day; aprx 3pm

             bell sounds signifying the end of the lessons. 

3. EXT; Shot focuses on a litter picker picking up a scrunched up piece of paper - why wind is blowing the litter about. 

4; EXT; Caretaker picks up paper and the info on the paper hints around students death. With an extreme close up on some headlines in the paper. 

5; INT; Caretaker. title shows on screen with black background with white writing and a sudden violin, high pitch sound when the title flashes onto the screen. The font will be Courier New Font, then changes to red when sound happens.

6; INT; A close up of a finger that has been cut off one of the victims hands in a plastic bag, with splatters of blood on the and and around it.

7; INT; Shows the caretakers walking. Camera shot will just show his feet and legs, nothing else. Dark room walking slowly with big foot steps and his shoe lace will be undone so he bends down to tie it back up, you can see his hands and a strange looking bag.

8: INT; Black background with 'Aimee Hull' in text, white font and the font style will be Courier New Font. The text will then change to red.

9.INT; Following on from stage 7 a mans hands, which are dirty and have blood on are transferring an unknown bag to somewhere. The camera shot will follow the bag and hands. The audience will not know what will be in the bag.

10. INT; Black background with 'Sam Marlow' in text, white font and the font style will be Courier New Font. The text will then change to red.

11.INT; There will be a small fire which will have pupils faces scribbled on and crossed out which will be burning in the fire. The camera will show a close up on the pictures burning.

12.  INT; Black background with 'Ellie Spence' in text, white font and the font style will be Courier New Font. The text will then change to red.

13. INT; The sound of a tv buzzing will change into a black background with 'A Fisheye Films Production' in text, white font and the font style will be Courier New Font. The text will then change to red.

14; INT; FInal shot will be a hooded man, which is the caretaker.He turns around, expecting a face but you cannot see anything except his eyes. Hood up, cannot see anything.