Some Film Shots of the Location

This evening, I went down the Gnoll Park to start taking some shots to show in the film my location of where it's going to be taken. The still shots I screenshotted from my video underneath show some shots of the lake and it's surrounding's. I'm not a huge fan of these shots, as my original plan was to film in the evening but as you can see, the shots are really dark and can't see much. If I film towards the evening, then it would be too dark to see anything so it wouldn't work. So now my new plan is to film towards the afternoon.

Plan - Camera Shots

Plan

Camera shots ( Rough Ideas!)

- Low angle shots of feet walking of the detective
- Mid shots/ Close up of detective on phone
- Long shot or hand held of the dead body of the girl
- Panning shots/Close ups/mid/long shots of the location (Gnoll Park)
- Few different camera angles on the girl close/mid/over the shoulder shots
- Long shot of her walking away
- Point of View shot from the bushes of the stalker
- Low angle shot of the girl picking up her bag from the floor, looking up to her
- Over the shoulder shot of the stalker following her from behind
- Long shot of them both running
- Point of view shot from both stalker and girl
- Close up shots to show emotion


I have made a list of the shots I want to take while I am filming. Hopefully these shots will go to plan and also I may add in more different shots along the way.

Plan - Story

Plan - Story

A young adult called Jennifer, relaxes and spends most of her time outdoors to read and to write in her diary about her day in her local park. She hears something near to her so she panics and starts to walk away to go home. The stalker, Charlier, is watching her closely from the bushes as she walks past him. As she panics she drops her bag on the floor, when she stands back up, the stalker is behind and following her closely. Jennifer turns around, see's him and runs as fast as she can, scared. Jennifer tries to run away, panics and ends up running to a dead end. The stalker walks slowly down towards her and then it ends there. The following morning, Detective Reilly finds the body of Jennifer and phones his boss to bring everyone down to look into this murder and find the killer.

I wanted this story to be simple and original to make for my first film and with all the ideas I have got, hopefully it will all go to plan and turns out good for my first piece.

This first part is a flashback, so I am first going to start off with the detective finding the body of Jennifer and then it will cut to saying '13 hours ago' to let the audience know that this is a flash back of what happened to Jennifer. I was inspired by ITV new show Marcella and the first opening scene of the programme starts off with Marcella in the bath covered in blood looking confused then cuts telling the audience what happened three days earlier so that where I copied and took some ideas from.

Plan - Actors and their character bios

Plan

For my film, there are going to be 3 characters that will be taking the part. From help of my 3 friends who have all done a bit of acting, they agreed to come along and help me.

Girl - Jennifer Hail played by Kira O'Callaghan
Detective - Thomas Reilly played by Wakisa Silindu
Stalker/killer - Charlie Bloom played by Joshua Hughes

Character Bio - Girl - Jennifer Hail

- Young adult
- Age 19
- Student, studies English Literature in College
- Personality - Lovely, pretty, shy girl
- Hobbies - Loves the outdoors, reads books, writes diaries
- Lives with her mum and step dad
- Loves piece and quiet away from people
- Many friends but don't see them as much as they are in university and working full time

- Height: 5ft 10inch

- Size: Slim

- Hair colour: Strawberry Blonde

- Hair Length: Long

- Eye Colour: Green

Character Bio - Detective - Thomas Reilly

- Adult
- Age 31
- Lives by himself in a flat
- Not married
- No kids
- Been a detective for 4 years
- Loves his job

- Height 5ft 7inch

- Size: Medium

- Hair Colour: Black

- Hair Length: Short
- Eye Colour: Green

Character Bio - Stalker/Killer - Charlie Bloom

- Adult
- Age 25
- Not married
- No kids
- Always in trouble
- Not many friends
- Dark side to him
- Uncomfortable person
- Psycho character

- Height: 5ft 9inch

- Size: Slim

- Hair Colour: Brown

- Hair Length: Short
- Eye colour: Blue

For each character I have made up, I am going to give them a copy of this on the day they act for me as I will want them to obviously read through on what their character is like and to obviously act like them.

Ideas and inspired by 'Marcella'

Marcella

Marcella Backland left the Metropolitan Police for the sake of her family, only to have her husband leave her. She returns to her job on the murder squad, investigating a case that seems disturbingly familiar to her.

While thinking and coming up with ideas for this project, at the time a new ITV programme came on called Marcella which is kind of a nordic noir film. I was really inspired by the first opening scene of the programme as it starts off with Marcella in the bath covered in blood and she is very confused on what has happened then it cuts to '3 days earlier' and the rest of the programme is a flash back of what's happened.

I really liked that opening scene and the idea of the whole flashback as it makes the audience more excited as they want to watch the programme from start to finish and want to know answers of why she in a bath full of blood etc.



I want to take that idea forward to create a flashback story as I think it would be interesting.

Location Ideas

Gnoll Park

For my location of shooting for my film, I've decided that I am going to go and film down the Gnoll Park in Neath. The reason why I have chosen this location is because it is literally 5 minutes down the road from my house which is perfect for me and the main reason is the fact that it would set the scene of the story and it would make it very creepy and dark with the woods. As I visit the Gnoll mostly all the time, I know some perfect places to shoot for my film and also it's a lovely and quiet place at a certain time.