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Week 1: Research and Planning

 Planning- 

Things we need: 

  • Fake blood 

  • axe (Olivia has one)

  • tape (to mark where the actor is standing or will be moving to & can talk about how we didn't use this for our first film in our final) 

  • cake  

  • candles 

  • truck  

  • killer  

  • red dress for main character (will foreshadow her being covered in blood and representation) 

  • all black clothes for killer  

  • lighting  

  • microphones 

  • Date plans! 

Film order: (remember we have to film these scenes over and over to get different angles) 

  • Party  

  • Cake 

  • Bathroom 

  • Sneaking out of house 

  • Abandoned house. 

  • Walking down the street and car scene 

Movie title- Fatal Celebration: A Birthday to Die for or The Birthday Massacre. 

Script- Currently we do not know exactly what the characters will say.

Research-

    To start this film, we did some research on how to structure this film by looking at other movies. At the beginning of a traditional horror movie, it will start by introducing the characters in the first two minutes, then most likely show a setting and arise a problem. For our film we plan to introduce our characters by having the main character give a voiceover, and in the beginning, she is walking down a sidewalk covered in blood in the dark with a truck coming at her, so this shows the audience who will be a main focus in the movie, and it causes the audience to question what happened to her and why is someone after her. To introduce some of the other characters, we make it the main characters birthday, so all of her friends come to celebrate with her, and we get a few shots with them in it and say their names a few times throughout the film. To arise a problem, we also show this in the beginning with the girl, because there must have been something bad happen to her. We also wanted to add a social issue that the main character has to further the beginning of the film. We incorporated this concept in our film by showing the grandma whom the main character lives with. This shows she may have a troubled life with her parents, or they may even be dead. We also have the main character and her friends party and do loads of drugs before searching an abandoned building.


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