Failed Attempt at Filming

Last night we planned on filming some of the film however we decided to call it off as it was raining and we didn't want to risk damaging  the equipment. The rain would have also been hard to film in continuity wise as we weren't filming it all on this day so the differences between the weather in shots would be very obvious.

Filming equipment- Amy

This is a list of our filming equipment:

• Camera 1: Sony HD handycam HDR-XR55OVE
• Camera 2: Sanyo Waterproof camera
• 3 Handheld LED lights
• 3 Camera tripods
• 3 Light tripods
• Camera Stabiliser

The warning sign- Amy

These signs will be pinned up around our shooting loactions to warn the public that we are filming.

Locations-Andy

These are our filming locations they are both located in Haywards Heath. Location 1 is Ashenground Woods and location 2 is Furze Wood.We chose these lactation because they are close by and easy to get to. Also we know these woods and that will make it easier for us to get around and film in the dark.


These are some shots from in our location 2. The shed on the bottom could also be used for one of the notes.

 

Filming Times and Filming Locations - Nick

 

Slender Logo - Nick

Hey All, Without further ado i'd like to present to you our title for the slender production that we are creating. This didn't take us too long, but none the less we're quite proud of it

Designed by Nick Bannister

The Company Logo- Amy

We have come up with a logo design for our production company. The design for idea has come from our Slender short film and is the outline of his face with the company name (The Little Company) written in it, in the scratchy style of the Slender game logo.

Applying the 5 key concepts to our short film- Amy

Gender

Our short film will show gender through a lot of things, including costume and dialogue.
The fact that our main character wonders off on his own is a stereotypically male thing to do as he feels that he is brave and look after himself,
However as our short film unravels you find that the character is just as scared as a female may be, we can tell this by the tone of his voice and the panic in his facial expressions.


Age

Age is a key concept in our short film, we do this to show that our film is a modern example of what teenagers are like in the present time. The teenagers are thrill seekers and start off the short film acting like they are not afraid of anything, they are trying to be independent by going off unsupervised and trying to look after themselves as adults would.



Media Language

Our short film will be made up mostly off very quickly paced extreme and big close ups, this is to keep the attention on the main character and to show how he may be feeling the audience will be able to tell this from his facial expression, and then when we use shots that show more such as long shots and medium long shots we will see the characters body language, this will make the audience feel for the character and imagine what it would be like to be in his situation. We will also have some tracking shots to create the illusion that you are seeing an eye line shot from Slender man himself.
The dietetic sound in our short film will turn into just heavy breathing and the sound off the main characters footsteps with the occasional dialogue from him, this will start after the first couple off scenes that will be made up off dialogue, we have chosen to do this to give the feeling off isolation, it also adds suspense to our film and will create a sense of panic in the audience, the dialogue in the begging will be a false sense off reassurance as the audience will think that it is all okay.

Representation

The main representation in our short film will be the representation off teenagers and how they feel over confident about doing something and may not think things through before doing them, it also has a moral in the short film as it is saying don't go looking for trouble unless you are able to deal with it.

Narrative

Our narrative is a circular narrative, this means that there is three stages in our short film:
The equilibrium- The idea that they are going into the woods to prove if Slender man is real, everything seems fine
The disruption- When the main character gets back to camp and finds everyone gone, then he starts to panic and gets out off the forest
The resolution- When Slender man catches him at the end
Most off our short film will be the disruption as it is all based around the chase off the character and how he feels and the feeling of isolation.

Audience

Our target audience will be teenagers from the age off 13-18 as from our research we have found that these are the age off  people that have played the Slender man video game, we also feel that as our characters are all around the age of 16 this will connect to our audience and make them imagine and feel what the characters are feeling throughout our short film.

Morph Mask Update- Amy

We still haven't been able to get our hands on a white Morph Mask for our Slenderman costume, so we have decided to make our own,
This should not be too hard as we will just need a sheet of white material, we will need to use either spandex or Lycra materials to allow the mask to stretch and breath around our actors face
We will then fit this around our Slenderman actors face and neck to get the right size and then we will sew it together and then turn it inside out,
So wish us luck

This is a list of the cheapest places we could buy some of this material:

http://uk.ebid.net/for-sale/white-fabric-with-lycra-2-15-metres-blouses-etc-63950946.htm?from=googleshop_uk#pic

http://www.fabricuk.com/fabrics.php?fabric_type=64#dataform

We have decided to use the second link as it works out that it is a better material for its 4 way stretch properties,
 
It is going to cost us a total of £10.98 including packaging

Amy and Andys Background Image

So this is a picture that Andrew took while doing the location two test shots and then Amy and Andrew edited it on Photo Shop to give it that creepy slender look,

We made one of the most silly mistakes we could have and after over an hour of changing the size and format of the picture we realised that all we had to do was change two settings on the Blogger image upload to fix our situation of the Blogger image tiling,
so if you ever get this problem,

• Make sure that your image is 1800 Pixels by 1600 pixels
• Click on the design button on the top right hand toolbar of your blog's screen
• Go to background
• Click upload your picture and then on upload the top option in the pop up box
• Select your picture, when it has uploaded click OK
• Go onto the scroll down option on the right next to the picture at the top in the editing toolbar
• Click, Centre ( this is the alignment ) 
• Then on the scroll bar below click "no tile"
• And your image should be fitted to the screen.

Production of a storyboard-Amy

As you can probably tell the production of our storyboard is taking quite a while, we are taking time to think over the possible shots and also our fantastic storyboard drawer is working very hard to add the details into the pictures on our storyboard so that it is clear to us when filming what we first visualised as a perfect shot,

We will be taking multiple shots for each scene and editing them in post-production, we will select only the best shots and this is why we are taking our time when we plan. We want everything to be as successful as it can be so sorry for the wait for the rest of our storyboard, we will however be making a short video to show you how you make a storyboard, so stay tuned.

Roles for filming- Amy

Pre Production

Directing- Amy

Cinematographer- Nick

Lighting- Andrew

Post Production

Editing- All

Sound- All

 

Animatic - Nick

This is the Animatic for our short film, The animatic is almost five minutes long which is what we expect our film to be.

Please enjoy!

 

 

Blog Talk One- Amy

Here we filmed ourselves talking about the decisions we have made so far for our short film Slender.

Location 2- Andy

This is some shots around our second location that I have applied the low saturation filters to make it seem more eerie (as seen is an earlier post). As you can see it is a very open and clear woodland, this is good as its practical for filming and moving around in and it looks similar to the woods in the Slender game.

White Slendermask- Amy and Nick

We have been looking to order a slenderman mask for our costume for slenderman, sadly the mask we would like to order from the Morph Masks selection is out of stock, so we have signed up to the site so that they will let us know when a Mask becomes avalible

In the mean time if anyone knows where we could get hold of a White Morph mask for the face and neck only please Comment below, Thanks - Amy

(Image and reseach supplied by Nick)

Costumes- Amy

This is the list of costumes for our characters

Character 1,2 and 3

• Old Clothes
• Dull Colours
• Warm clothing

Slenderman

• 'Slender' Mask
• Black Suit
• White Button Long sleaved Shirt
• Black Tie
• Black shoes

Props List- Amy

This is our props list for our film, it is divivded into two sections, the main props, which will be the props that will be with the main character throughout most of the short film and then the other props that will be only in the background:

Main props:

• Slenderman's notes
• torch
• matches

Background Props:

• Tents
• Camping Bags
• Tinned food
• Lights

SCRIPT FOR SLENDERMAN- ALL

Slender– Script

KEY

RED- STAGE DIRECTIONS

WHITE- DIALOUGE

BLUE- ACTION NOT DONE BY CHARACTERS

Scene 1

(Film opens with main title fading in and out with a wipe transition from left to right with the noise of someone climbing over a fence and dropping onto the floor.

Character 1

turning on the handheld torch he is carrying

Character 2

“is it clear?”

Character 1

shines the torch back at character who is behind the fence; character 1 turns back round with the torch

“Yeah… Yeah it’s clear”

Character 2

throws the bag of equipment over the fence and begins to climb over, followed by Character 3. The camera looks over the 3 characters walking into the middle of the woods for 5 secs before cutting to the next scene.

(cut to shot of main characters 2 and 3 setting up the cameras to detect movement in the woods. Character 1 is setting up lights and other sound equipment)
Character 1
“SO tell me again, why are we here?”

Character 2
Picks up a load of photographs from the bag of equipment and hands them to character 1

Character 1
“What’s this?”

Character 2
Points to figure in one of the photos
“You see that thing there? The guy in the suit?”

Character 1
“heh, yeah vaguely... so what’s he got to do with it?”

Character 2
“Well... it... is the reason why we're here, it’s like an urban legend or something he takes people in the forest... kills them or something, I’m trying to prove to him”
points at character 3
“that he’s not real... and now, you’re gonna prove it with me.”

Character 1
“Personally... I think you lot are chasing shadows...”

Character 3
“I don't think we are!”

Character 1

“And you really think that? See, Alex just summed it up! URBAN MYTH”

Character 3

“ look, just make yourself useful, and set up some more cameras around the forest.”

Character 1
“and these are for...”

Character 3
“ Electrical equipment goes mental when slender gets closer to them; static builds up on the camera screens and stuff...”

Character 1
“slender?”

Character 3
 “ yeah...”

Character 1
“right... slender...”

                                        SCENE 2

CHARACTER 2 ON CHARACTER 3’S SHOLDERS HIGH ANGLE SHOT FROM THE CAMERA THEY ARE SETTING UP’S POINT OFF VIEW

CHARACTER 1

WALKS OVER INTO SHOT

“IS THAT THE LAST ONE

CHARACTER 3

SETS CHARACTER 2 DOWN ON THE GROUND
“YEAH HAVE YOU SET UP THE LIGHTS?"

CHARACTER 2
WALKS OUT OFF SHOT TOWARDS CAMP

CHARACTER 1
“YEP IT’S ALL SET UP AND READY"

CHARACTER 2
“DID YOU FINSH GETTING THE CAMP ALL SET UP”

 CHARACTER 3
“YEAH IM GETTING TIRED"

CHARACTER 3
CHUCKLES
“WE’VE NOT EVEN BEEN HERE AN HOUR”

 CHARACTER 1
“WELL IM SORRY, I DIDN’T KNOW THAT I WOULD BE SPENDING MY NIGHT SLENDER HUNTING”

CHARACTER 3
“WE ARE NOT THE ONES DOING THE HUNTING”
SUDDEN SEROUSNESS IN TONE, LOOKS UNEASILY BEHIND HIS SHOLDER
“WE SHOULD GO CHECK ON ALEX”
STARTS WALKING IN THE DIRECTION THAT CHRACTER 2 DID

CHARACTER 1
LOOKS UNSURELY TOWARDS THE HIDDEN CAMERA THEN FOLLOWS CHARACTER 3

TIME LAPSE OFF THEM SITTING WAITING AROUND SPEED UP

GOES TO REAL TIME

CHARACTER 1
“I’M NOT JUST GOING TO SIT AROUND HERE ITS MAKING ME MORE SLEEPY, IM GOING TO EXPLORE”

CHARACTER 2
“MAYBE WE SHOULD STAY TOGETHER”

CHARACTER 3
“YEAH GOING OFF ON YOUR OWN ISNT THE BEST OF IDEAS”

CHARACTER 1

“I WILL BE FINE, I NEED TO GO AND CHECK ON THE CAMERAS ANYWAY”

PICKS UP TORCH AND WALKS OF INTO THE FOREST

                                                SCENE 3

TRACKING SHOT FROM BEHIND CHARACTER ONE 

CHARACTER 1

WALKING THROUGH THE FOREST 

CHARACTER 1
SQUINTS HIS EYES AS HE NOTICES NOTE ONE
CAMERA SLIGHT DISTURBANCE
GOES UP TO NOTE AND TAKES IT FROM THE TREE
READS IT
STARTS TO WALK BACK TO THE CAMP TO SHOW THE OTHERS
AS HE NEARS THE CAMP HIS TORCH STARTS TO FLICKER
GETS TO THE CAMP EVERYTHING IS AS IT WAS BEFORE BUT NO PEOPLE AND NO ELECTRONICS WORK
NO ONE IS THERE
"HELLO? ... GUYS? ... ALEX? .... NEIL?..."
STUMBLES INTO THE TENT TO FIND NOTHING BUT SOME MATCHES AND THE PHOTOS- SLENDERMAN IS  NO LONGER IN THEM
(PANIC SETS IN)
SNAPPING TWIG SOUND
"ANYONE THERE?!"
SILENCE
CLIMBS BACK OUT OF THE TENTS SHINES TORCH AROUND
GOES BACK TO THE CAMERA ON TRIPOD, REWINDS IT TO JUST SEE STATIC
ANOTHER TWIG SNAPPS FROM IN THE FOREST
"ALEX?!?!"
SPRINTS INTO THE FOREST

                                    
CHARACTER 1
RUNNING THROUGH FOREST SHOUTING THERE NAMES AND CALLING FOR THEM,
LEANS ON A TREE TO CATCH HIS BREATH
CAMERA SLIGHT DISTURBANCE AS HE FINDS CAMERA ON THE FLOOR STATIC SCREEN LOOKS UP AND THE NOTE 2 IS ON THE TREE 
HE KEEPS ON RUNNING SHOUTING THERE NAMES AGAIN

                                              
CHARACTER 1
RUNNING THROUGH FOREST TORCH STARTS FLICKERING
HEAVY BREATHING
TORCH GOES OUT 
HEAR MATCHES FALLING AND SPILLING ON THE FLOOR 
ON HIS HANDS AND KNEES GRAPPLING FOR A MATCH
FINDS ONE STANDS UP 
LIGHTS IT
SLENDERMAN RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIM

FLAME BLOWS OUT
TURNS AROUND AND RUNS AWAY

                                             SCENE 4
CHARACTER 1
RUNNING THROUGH FOREST TORCH FLICKS BACK ON
SHOUTING THERE NAMES
TERRIFIED
FALLS INTO STREAM 
CLAMBERS OUT NOT REALLY CARING

                              SCENE 5
CHARACTER 1
RUNNING PANICKED
HITS THE FENCE SCRAMBLES UP AND OVER IT
STOPS TO BREATH ON THE OTHER SIDE LOOKS BACK INTO WOODS
SLENDERMAN TURNS BACK INTO THE FOREST
BREATH A SIGH OF RELEIF 
TURNS AROUND
SLENDERMAN RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIM
STATIC
END

RISK ASSESSMENT FORM- Amy

Sadly because of the format of the table I cannot directly copy the Risk Assessment form onto here..
So here is a photo off it instead

To read the Risk Assessment simply click on the photo so that it enlarges, when this has happened press the control button and then the plus button on your computers keyboard, repeat this until the table is the right size for you to read, to put your screen back to its original settings press control and the minus symbol however many times you wish

so the symbols will look like this:
to zoom in:
Ctrl+
to zoom out:
Ctrl-

If you are still unsure on how to zoom in on your computer please click here 
The Rist Assessment is split into three photos to make it easier for you to read, when you are on the enlarged screen off the firtst photo click on the smaller photos on the bottom to enlarge them  

The Risk Assessment is split into three photos so press the arrows at the bottom of your enlarged photo screen to flick through the whole

Possible Effects- Andy

While walking through our location while doing the lighting test I decided to film a bit of footage as it looked slightly like what we wanted the film to be like. With this footage I tested out some possible effects to see what looked good so that we had an idea in mind when filming the actual footage.

With these effects I originally tested out the film in black and white however we quickly decided that this didn't fit our type of film. So then I tried lowering the saturation and we really liked how that looked so we decided that we will probably end up using this effect in the final film.
The other effect that I tried using was soft focus to try to give it a surreal and mysterious feel to the footage. However this didn't work very well as the footage just looked out of focus and low quality.

Storyline-Amy

Scene 1:

·Introducing characters

·Setting up Camp

·Explain what they are doing in the woods

·Explain what is Slenderman

Scene 2:

·Setting up cameras (The shot Amy likes to start it off)

·Time lapse of them all just sitting there

·Character 1 goes off into forest

Scene 3:

·Character 1 finds note

·Character 1 walks back to camp

·Character 2&3 are not there

·Nothing there but matches and a handheld torch

Scene 4:

·Character 1 is looking for them

·Character 1 finds another note (more camera disturbance)

·Finds camera (Static Screen then just turns off)

·Carries on walking

Scene 5:

·Paranoia sets in to Character 1

·Torch light starts to flicker

·Heavy breathing

·Torch goes out

·Hear matches fall to the ground

·Lights match sees slender right in front of him match goes out

·Hear him fall backwards and then running

Scene 6:

·Running back out of the forest

·Falls into small stream- Panic scrambles out

·Running through forest

Scene 7:

·Finds the fence

·Climbs over it

·Looks back sees Slenderman walk back into the forest

·turns around Slenderman right in his face

·Static

·END