Hello and welcome to my blog, where you will find a record of the background research and planning of my slasher film opening, High Royds. Here you will also find my colleagues work as well as i worked with several others over the past six months. The film which inspired our film opening is Madhouse (2004, William Butler).

Sunday 18 November 2012

Microdrama: Planning

Our Plan

The theme of our micro-drama will be horror, involving 6 characters - 5 innocent people going on tour and a murderer. Because there are 5 people in our group, we will assign the camera job to the killer until the first person dies. From then on he will record the whole film.


The film will be set in a house, we are choosing Ben Brearleys . The opening scene will be all of us walking to the house with suitcases, so the viewing interprets we are on "tour".

 We will then all disperse into the house exploring it. We will have a false scare at the beginning to get the audience ready and aware, this is a good effect to keep the audience occupied. Then we all start drinking and throughout the night certain mishaps and events keep occurring  Each person dies one by one. However there is one survivor who gets away. The killer isn't reveled until the end. We plan to finish the film with the survivor running away from the killer. 

It will be ideal for us to film in the afternoon when its light till the evening when it is dark so it looks like we have spent a day there. This will create more of a sense of terror and mystery, and also because major horror films tend to be set at night.

We have made a story board including the different shot types and angles, which will benefit us when shooting the footage as we will have pre-made decisions, which will speed up the filming process.

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