Moving Image Planning

What emotional impact do you want your filming do have upon the reader? How?

The main purpose for our trailer is to make people scared and want to see the rest of the film. We will do this by leaving cliff-hangers and implied death to engage the reader and also not give a full explanation of the story behind the clown. That way the audience will not understand the whole story and will have to see it to find out the details.

 

What personnel do you need? Who are you going to film?

Three male actors (two aged 16-18 and one aged 30-50 years)

One female actress (aged 16-18)

One dog
Assistant camera help (2)
Story board artist
Script writer
Directors

Editors

Sound operator

Light operator

Runners

Producer

Makeup

SFX technician

Boom operator

 What props will you need?

 Clown costume + mask, fake blood, fake weapon (axe), casual costumes, a suit, basic household objects, cameras (CCTV), handheld (video camera), a large stick, podium, a lamp and a helium balloon.

 

How are you going to emphasise colour?

We will have an underlying theme of red in our trailer: the balloon, clown costume, character costumes, dog collar and the font will all be red or have accents of red to contrast the dark colours that will be in the scenes. We will also use a circus type theme so colours like gold will also feature.

 

What lighting will you need? Any other equipment?

For some scenes we will be using natural light to give a natural feel to the house scenes however we will be using night vision and some subtle usages of artificial lighting for when it gets too dark to film and we aren’t using the camera view to film the scenes.

 

 Where will you shoot? Will you need a backdrop?
 

We will have 3 filming locations: a friend’s house, a woodland area and outside of a building that will be implied to be a police station.

Make-up? Costume?

We will be using natural makeup and costume for our protagonists, some white and yellow costume makeup for the clown to go under the mask and clown costume we will be using, a suit for our police officer and a red collar for the dog.