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List of Sounds used in Film

Borealis – Intro Music

Door Knock

Wind

Bird Crow

Door Opening

Door Shuts

Voice

Door Opens and Closes

Ominous Music

Footsteps

Door Creak

Water Dripping

Turn tap off

Running Footsteps

Distorted ghost Voice

Beeping Tone

Dialing Tone

Answer Machine

Phone Ringing

Lady Scream

Lullaby

Sinister laughter

Before we started our animatic we drew up a list and added things such as sounds, sound effects, music and so on, this is so we have a clear understanding what we want in each scene. This is also an organised way of understanding what we want and where we want it. 

Distorted face of the child Ivy

We want the ending of the scene to end with the child Ivy's face, this is because her face is not visible to the audience at all throughout the scene, this is why we want her face to appear at the very end but we want her face to be distorted, we want to give the audience a fright by making her face unbearable to look at. The image above is something similar we want as our actors face because we want the audience to be shocked when for the first time they see Ivy's face. 

Final Cut Pro

Final Cut Pro is a editing software which allows users to log and transfer video onto a hard drive, where it can be edited, processed, and output to a wide variety of formats. Final Cut Pro has developed a large and expanding user base, mainly independent filmmakers. 

Features 

Supports a number of simultaneously composited video, up to 99 audio tracks

multi-camera editing for combining video from multiple camera sources; as well as standard ripple, roll, slip, slide, scrub, razor blade and time remapping edit functions.

We are using this software to put our short film into action; we have recorded our script and have inserted them into the software with the correct shots we created on storyboard. After we placed the shots with the scripted audios we added transitions to the shots, we added the credit titles and many other things. 

With this software we have come across some minor fallbacks, such as; some of the sound effects we wanted were not on the list therefore, we had to search for them on the internet. Also in the beginning the tittle of the film we used the backgrounds that were available on final cut which were good but we wanted to make changes to it but were not able to. All in all this software is quite good when using it to animate the script as it allows you to use the features available to make it come to life. 

Costumes List

This is the clothes the babysitter wore on the filming day.

Props list

Props list

Scene 1 

Emergency contact numbers on fridge
Rucksack 
Keys

Scene 2

·         Toys for Ivy

·         Bed, wardrobe, rug

·         Dolly

·         Emergency contact numbers on fridge

Scene 3

·         Bunch of paper for Lilly homework

·         Living room furniture, table, shelf

·         Lilly’s rucksack

·         Dolly

·         Shelf

·         Kitchen- chair

Scene 4

·         Bathroom scene usual toiletries

·         Mirror

·         Dolly

·         Bedroom scene- bed, rug, wardrobe

·         Emergency details on paper

·         Mobile phone

·         Fridge

Interview with Callum Macintosh

This is an interview with Callum Macintosh, who has worked on music score for mainstream film such as "Alice in Wonderland" "Nanny Mchpee" and "Angles and Demons". This has helped me a lot for when I start filming as it gave me ideas on how to start a short film without making it cliché, how to end the film, what soundtracks to use, tips on what shots we can use for each shot without using the same shots continuously and many more. These professional tips has allowed me to get a broader understanding of how my short film will look.

Recce

First picture is a photo of the living room of location 2. The reason why we want this location is because we like the look of this room as it looks sort of traditional with the fireplace and in horror films majority of the time there is always a fireplace in the living room which gives it a warm feeling but also gives you goosebumps because you don't know what to expect.

The second image is a shot of the house front view, from looking at it you could see that the house is very big, which will allow us to film without any problems as there is enough space to film, also traditional houses give the impression that the house is isolated.

Third image is one of the two sets we have for the bedroom scene, both sets allow us to film without having problems with the space. Also this is our first location which we have chosen.

The first location stairs, and a front view of the first location house. Also the next image is the kitchen and lastly, the toilet scene.

We have decided that the location to use for our filming is the big traditional house, this is because the location of the house is spacious, we will be able to film without any problems. Also the house will provoke the audience into feeling that theres something mysterious happening in the house making the film successful in getting the audience to feel scared.

Meeting log

This is a meeting log, each time myself and my partner meet up we record what we discuss on this log and when we meet up.

Log of meetings

Date	Meeting Topic
09/09/13	Who is in the groups, What is the groups called, What genre we are doing
10/09/13	Story line, What characters, character profile
13/09/13	Who our protagonist was
16/09/13	Looking at other horror short films and writing reviews
17/09/13	For the sake of it we looked at Alfred Hitchcock and the Psycho
23/09/13	We found out who our minor character were.
27/09/13	How music is used in Horror
30/09/13	We figured out what our company’s logo would look like
01/10/13	Job Roles in the film industry
04/10/13	Primary and Secondary research
08/10/13	Institution
11/10/13	Looked at posters of Horror Films
15/10/13	Starting to make the script
18/10/13	Comparing the script, and making changes to it
01/11/13	Making more changes to the script, as well as adding camera angles and the wryly.
12/11/13	Story board
15/11/13	Theories and how it applies to our story, finishing off storyboard
22/11/13	Talking about the best places to film the scenes.
25/11/13	Interview with Mr Macintosh
29/11/13	BBFC
03/12/13	Recce, location sighting
06/12/13	Discussing white balance and camera
10/12/13	Lighting plan
13/12/13	Organizing our documents, and organizing our blogging.

Lighting Schedule for Scene 1 and 4

Scene 1

Lilly knocks on the front door waiting in the pouch	Bright lighting indicating a brightly lit scene creating a harmonious atmosphere
Enters the house	High Key lighting create few shadows produced by one light
Enter the kitchen	3 Key lighting this allows the director to illuminate the characters on set- also controls the shading and shadows produced by direct lighting
Mrs Rani “are you sure about that”	Low key lighting to achieve a more grey and darker scale to show contrast between good and bad
Back to corridor	Natural lighting
Mrs Rani exits	Lighting changes back to low key

Unconventional start of a horror film usually in the beginning of a film the character would feel some sort of spooky feeling we challenge this and do the opposite

Scene 4

Lilly comes down the stairs	Low key lighting to create suspense
Bathroom	Artificial/ natural lighting from the bathroom
Up the stairs	High Key lighting to produce shadow of character going up the stairs –continuous throughout the room changes
Kitchen scene- she calls the mother on the phone	Light dims in- serious note
Focus on Lilly in the kitchen	3 key lighting
Finds out the truth about babysitter	High contrast lighting strong contrast between light and shadow
Ending where Ivy appears	No lighting ends with a cliff-hanger

                                                                                                                                                                            

My partner has done lighting for Scene 2 and 3. To see the lighting schedule my partner has done click onto this link...http://cfgsa2rupa.blogspot.co.uk