KIRSTY GIBBS MEDIA STUDIES COURSEWORK

Casting Shots

10/02/10

Elly, who is a fellow member of our group, will be playingthe main character, Lily. We thought that she would be great for this role as she can easily act serious and listens to every idea our group has and plays the role to the best of her ability. Elly is always free during lessons and after school when we need to film so it is easy to film on the days we planned to. Plus she can scream without bursting into laughter!

Another member of our group, Bareen, will be playing the role of Sophia, who is one of the three other main characters who are introduced nearer the end of the opening squence but do not make a proper appearance until later in the film. We decided that the main focus should be on Lily because she would appear throughout the whole film and the other main characters die later in the film. We chose Bareen to play the part because she can act natural and can laugh easily without making it sound fake. Furthermore, she was, like Elly, free to film during lessons so we had plenty of opportunity to film.

Our friend, Marina, is playing Valerie who stands along with Sophia (Bareen) by her locker and laughs at Lily when she drops her books. We chose Marina to play the part because she has an amazing ability to laugh completely naturally at any little thing but can also wait until the appropriate moment. She is also has a very bubbly and enthusiastic personality which suits the character perfectly and so it was easy for her to play the part.

Bryony, another of our friends, is playing Kate, who simply rolls her eyes at Lily for dropping her books. Bryony was free when we needed to film this scene and is great at keeping a straight face and natural look no matter what is going on which is why we pleaded with her (she gave in reletively quickly - that's how good we are) to act in out opening sequence.

We are all very happy with our choices for the cast because all four cast members are of different ethnic groups, therefore giving a wider range of races and therefore can interest a wider audience and all of them were able to play their roles flawlessly with few mishaps.

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Location Shots

08/02/10

The picture to the left is Elly's house. We have decded that we are going to use her house for scene two - where Lily wakes up and starts to get ready - and scene three - where she leaves for school. Because Elly is playing Lily we thought it would be easier and more comfortable for her to be filmed in her own house rather than someone elses.

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.

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Shooting Schedule

08/02/10

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Film Synopsis

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.

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Screenplay

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.