Reccce 2

We have gotten permission to use Becy's school but I have gone to see my old school just in case something goes wrong.

I couldn't take any proper photos of the school but It is suitable for us to use and is safe especially since its a school and we would have someone supervising us when we were there. There are plenty of electrical point for us to use.

There are over head lights, and in the main canteen are there is a stage that also has lights. The school in general is very well lit.

There is lots of paper around and the walls are white so it would be easy to white balance the camera. We would require extra lighting to create our shadows but because there are plenty of electric plugin points that shouldn't be a problem.

There shoudn't be any back ground sound because we would be shooting after school hours.

Permission is required, the contact is Karsten Stephan. The contact number is : 0115 9170424


Sketch of the area we would be using:

Suitability: 10
Public usage: 0
Power supply: 10
Space to move: 10
Lighting: 8
Sound and noise: 8
Health and safety: 9

Test shot 2

Test shot for the teacher.

We want our teacher to look like a stereotypical teacher, with no make up, but smartly dressed. Since our actor is a teacher we shouldn't have trouble with this.

We haven't been able to get a picture of our teacher yet but we have an image of what we wish for him to wear.

Test shots

For our shadow we intend to use lighting, to make them, and enhance them. We want to have the shadows looking something like this

Narrative research

We thought of our idea being something about killer shadows and after some searching we found clips that had the same kind of threat we were going for. Such as Doctor who, the episode Silence of the library.



The opening scene of the faculty was also appropriate to our idea as well as our genre, but we couldn't find a video of the opening scenes so we decided to put the trailer in instead.



There was also an episode of Haven called Ain't no Sunshine, in which a man's shadow is killing people.



All of these video helped us put together our idea for our horror film.

Lighting videos

Make up video techniques

A few make up videos that might be useful to us

Initial idea

Our initial idea was of shadows that posed a threat. There was an episode of doctor who that has the same kind of threat that we are going for. Where the shadows kill, but in our they don't just kill people but each other too.

We decided that since its a horror film aimed at people our age we would set it in a school, and since we had a school that we already had permission to film at we thought this would be a good idea.

We thought that the idea of shadows as the threat would be quite scary since where ever there is light there are shadows.

So that was our initial idea that we had to expand on.