25/02/10


Today we went back to the drama corridor with the lockers to finish scene six. We only had two shots to film - a shot of Lily slamming her locker door shut and a shot of Valerie and Sophia (Marina and Bareen respectively). We decided to change the close up of these two characters laughing because the camera was far too close and it looked as if the two were actually looking into it instead of looking at Lily. Also, it didn’t make sense to laugh intwo different shots because it was only supposed to be a short laugh.
Instead we filmed a close up of the two, acknowledging the fact that Lily had entered the corridor by looking at her then looking away again. We put this before the shot of Lily’s books falling out. We only had one problem during the filming session which was the tripod; however this was not my fault. The tripod was too stiff in some places and too loose in others and no amount of tweaking would fix the problem which meant using pans smoothly was impossible.
There was another problem however we found out about this after we had filmed; we had unfortunately filmed over some of our filming session two that we had not imported onto the computer yet. So we have to reschedule a filming session to redo the shots we lost.

16/02/10

Today we woke ourselves up early and trekked through the unrelenting rain to Elly’s house to film scenes two, three and four. However due to the aforementioned poor weather conditions we couldn’t film outside (the scene of Lily being chased through the woods) as it would be far too much hassle to keep the camera dry and we wanted the weather to be anything but wet. Here are some photos of us filming the bedroom scene:










We were considering improvising on a new scene of Lily going into her kitchen to make breakfast and finding a letter from her mum saying she can’t pick Lily up. Lily would then burn the toast to show that she is having a bad day and also foreshadows the upcoming horrific events. However, and i admit it was completely my fault, i am hereby bowing my head in shame, I had I had accidentally pressed the record button twice after one shot so from then on I was filming everything we didn’t want filmed and not filming what we did want filmed. Then the battery ran out halfway through our filming so we decided to stick to the plan rather than rescheduling another filming session just for this scene. Plus we didn’t know if the scene would really work anyway. Below are two pictures of us filming this scene:








We tried to film a point of view shot of Lily waking up in different ways, for example having Lily filming it herself and having Chesney holding the camera in front of Elly’s face whilst she sits up, however it was quite difficult and shaky. Below are two photos showing us filming this scene:








This filming session went well and we managed to get the filming done that we needed to do.

11/02/10

Today we had our first filming session ever and really it was almost enough to put you of filming for life, okay so I’m exaggerating but still it was very frustrating. We chose to film in a corridor within the school that holds a number of lockers, because it is an easy location to get to and for the first filming session a perfect place to start (or so we thought). We filmed the last scene where Lily (Elly) walks to her locker, opens it and finds that her books fall out. We decided to include this scene in order to foreshadow the unfortunate events that happen to Lily later in the film and also to introduce the other main characters for the first time. We had originally planned to film this scene after school, however it seemed easier for us to film during our lesson time. That was a mistake! Because we were filming during lesson time we assumed the corridor would be relatively empty and that there would be few interruptions. Unfortunately we were very wrong. We encountered a number of problems, including:
• A lot of people kept walking through the shots, so we had to start again several times.
• Another group of people interrupted halfway through by filming in the same corridor (causing our stress levels to rise considerable) which cut our time short, but not by a substantial amount as they left soon after.
We overcame these problems well enough and managed to film most of what we had planned to before our lesson ended.

10/02/10

08/02/10

This is the woods nearest our school. This would be a good place to film because it would be easy to carry our equipment there and back. However this wood is not as scary or overwhelming as we wanted it to be, plus there wasn't a lot of room for Elly to run in so we went looking for alternatives.









Bareen and I went looking for another woods and we came across one that was not too far from school, so again carrying our equipment there would not be a problem. It was very large so had much more space for us to film in. We found a perfect location within these woods to film scene one: there was a sort of tunnel made by the trees that looked scary and intimidating.











The picture to the left is of the lockers in the drama room in our school. The advantage of using this location is that there is a lot of space so we can do pans a lot easier. It also has a door either side of the corridor so we had more choice for how we would film this scene. We had a choice between this location or the sixth form block which is the picture below this one.





(Above: drama corridor)






This is the sixth form locker room. It wasn't very big, so we thought it would be too difficult to film here with the tpe of shots we were planning to use (e.g. panning). So we made the decision to use the drama building's lockers.







(Above: sixth form block)





This is the entrance to the extension building of our school. We initially imagined filming here because it is an easy and open area to film, and the doors are automatic which can make the film look like a much more modern horror film, however once we were considering which locker area to use, we leaned more towards the extension building because it is less complex to go though and the area is much bigger.

08/02/10

05/02/10

Lily, an average seventeen year old girl, falls asleep during her lesson one day and wakes up to find that she is alone in an abandoned school. She searches for a way out but is locked inside the school and runs into three other people in her year that are not particularly nice to her. The four of them know that someone else is in the building and they find notes posted around the school giving them directions on how to get out of the school. The directions are brutal and eventually the three classmates die, leaving Lily alone to escape the school and run to a nearby woods where she is followed by whoever was behind this.

Lily is chased around the woods and finally faces a woman she recognised as her mother's client who's baby died recently (Lily's mother, a midwife, phones her before she goes to her lesson and falls asleep to tell her that she will be taking care of a client out of town) and wants to get revenge for her baby's death. After some more running through the woods trying to kill Lily, the woman accidentally kills herself, leaving Lily to escape.

05/02/10

Below is the screenplay for the opening sequence of our film 'Vengeance'.


EXT. THE WOODS. NIGHT
LILY is running through the woods and steps on a twig.
She continues running and slows down by a tree and then stops to look around hopelessly while breathing heavily.


INT. LILY'S HOUSE. DAY
LILY wakes up to the sound of her alarm and sighs.
She slowly walks into her bathroom and shuts the door behind her.


EXT. LILY'S HOUSE. DAY
LILY walks out of her house with a mournful expression and turns to walk down the road.


EXT. SCHOOL. DAY
LILY walks towards the school building's doors.


INT. SCHOOL. DAY
LILY walks to her locker with a bored expression and opens it. All of her books fall out of her locker and people who are around laugh at her. She angrily slams her locker shut.

03/02/10

01/02/10

Below is the first draft of the storyboard for our opening sequence: