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

Charactor Decisions- Amy

We have made our final decision  on who will act in our short film, the cast roll will be:

Charactor 1 (Kurt) : Max Hilbroune
Charactor 2 (Alex) : Amy Lee
Charactor 3 (Neil) : Connor Shipway
Slenderman: Tom Folkes

So we are in the process off writing up a very long script but it will be posted soon :)

We Visited location one, and tried out some different lighting

Practise shots - Nick

This weekend we plan on going out to our locations and taking some practise shots to see how they look. We plan on testing out all of the equiptment and some potential shots. In addition to what we planned we have also decided to use a very big torch as we believe this will give us a better look as it will turn up more clearly on the camera.

We will then post the results of this test on Wednesday.

Important Decisions- Amy and Nick

• Three People- One Female Two Males
• Set in The Forrest
• Trying to prove that Slenderman is not real
• Opening simular to the Slender game opening
• Set up hidden cameras in the surrounding area off their camp
• Open ending?

Location Decisions- Amy and Nick

We have decided to set our short film in the Forrests we have chosen this because it is the stereotypical place for someone to run into slenderman.
We have selected two different woods; the Ashenground woods in Haywards Heath and another smaller forrest that is also in Haywards Heath,
We will start filming in the late afternoon and going into the evening so it will get quite dark, so we will involve nightvision cameras in this.

Why Slenderman?- Amy

The idea for our short film literally came to us as we left our lesson one day, out of nowhere we decided that 'Slender' was a brilliant idea to be made into a short film, The computer downloaded game has become a sensation with a lot of people, mainly teenagers. So we know that it is a popular idea,

Obviously we couldn’t just copy the game so we have designed our short film to have its own view on the whole idea that landed us with the idea that the characters in our film will be going into the woods to show that Slenderman is not real, rather than going there to collect notes.

We have done a lot off research on the origin off slenderman and the 'symptoms' that he is coming for you,

This is the site that we started on:

http://www.mythicalcreaturesguide.com/page/Slender+Man

We decided to keep the setting off the original slenderman game that is set in the woods, this makes the people feel alone and isolated creating a feeling off vulnerability.

We will keep you up to date with our progress as we create this short film.

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Profile Picture

So we found it hard trying to decide on a profile picture, so in the end we decided to put all of the failed attempts into one picture and use that... introducing Nick, Amy and Andy.

Slender

Short Film Basic Idea

 

·         Our short film will be based on the internet game sensation ‘Slenderman’

·         We will base it in a forest

·         It  Will involve three characters going in search for Slenderman to prove that he is not real

·         They soon discover that he is...

·         Then figure out that they are trapped in the forest with what seems like no escape.

Representation In short films- Amy

 Do Your Part

Masculinity:

• Man offering the woman a drink (steriotyipicly the way it goes when on a date)
• All of the men at the bar including male barman shows that pub bars are seen to be more for men
• He orders beer (steriotyipicly a man’s drink)

In this shot the man is offerening the woman a drink, this is the stereotypical thing that happens when you meet someone in an alcoholic drinking enviroment, as the angle is quite lot it is showing that the man is more powerful and he is the more dominant character, and he is taking control, the dialouge in this shot also shows this as he is offering her the drink and not the other way round, this also connects to the idea that she is a woman and needs people to do things for her as antifeminists may suggest that women should not be ordering alcoholic beverages for themselves as it is not seem very ladylike and it doesnt look as nice as a woman having a calm coffie. The shot is from his side so maybe suggesting thaat this is only one side off his personallity. There is very bright colours with a big amount of contrast in this shot, this could be to show the calm and happy enviroment but it may also show how he is feeling as he is pleased even exstatic that he has got this woman to agree to having a drink with him.


In this shot the man is looking over his sholder at the woman to smiling and showing that he is buying her drink I think that he's doing this to impress her. He is laughing, this also shows that he is very happy, it may show immaturety though and therefore is charactor development as we are finding out about his personallity. he isn't giving the barman much attention and he is pretty much entirely focused on the woman. This shows that he is showing off, it also shows some of his character because he is acting over the top and trying to seem like a good laugh to the woman, I know this because he is laughing. The shot is a eyeline shot from the woman so you are seeing what she does and you may feel as she does about the mans charactor. The man is wearing all black so this may suggest that he is trying to look smart for the woman and trying to make himself seem more mature.

Age:

 

• You know that the man is old enough to buy a drink as the barman doesn’t even question him or ask for I.D. As the shot is a Mid close up it shows that he is alright with the barman and is on the same level in maturety, I know this because it shows that the man may be standing quite close to the barman so is not afraid to challenge him, the angle of the shot is at eyelevel this also shows that the men are on the same level off respect as they are looking at eachother equally. This may just be the mans own opinion and as the barman 's facial expression is looking uninpressed and a little fed up, this may because he knows that the man is showing off and he is embarrised for him.

 

• The fact that he takes a shot instead of giving money to charity could show that he is quite immature because he needs a drink to talk to the woman, the low angle shot shows that he feels in control and makes him look powerful he may be feeling brave. The light coming from behind him shows that he could be feeling the drink hit him as his sight is slightly disorentated. The Deapth off field in this shot is very shallow, this shows that the man is very much the focus off the shot, this could be because he feels like the world revolves around him and he therefore feels very powerful and full off himself.