Eliza - Creepy ghost girl

the character i am playing in the film is the ghost of the girl who was killed by the monster before Tilly. i am shown in the opening shots where i am pictured in the grave yard alone and isolated. the audience is not supposed to be threatened by me, but feel sorry for me. i also had a idea that our film could include a short shot at the end of our credits of my character and Tilly (Who is now a new ghost) holding hands in the grave yard. this shows that Eliza is not alone anymore that Tilly is dead too.

Symbolism

the costumes in my film are really symbolic because i really thought about each character and what i wanted to show about them. the ideas are quite simple so they work very effectively. in the film red represents danger so Tilly and the passer by will both be wearing red. Black means that a character is surrounded by death and natural neutral colors show that the character is sane and down to earth. Tilly wears a red singlet, carry a red bag and is wearing black shorts and shoes. this shows she is in a lot of danger and that death will soon be coming her way. our shadow creature which is the vision placed in the minds of the victims of the invisible monster wears all black because it is essentially death chasing them down. the passer by will be the next victim at the films end and so she is wearing natural colors to show she is sane at the moment but she is wearing red shoes and lipstick to foreshadow the danger she is in. finally we have our ghost girl who is in our opening scenes who is supposed to be the ghost of the girl who was previously killed by our mind invading monster. she is wearing all white, apart from black shoes. this shows she is now sarean in death, but it also shows her isolation in the land of the dead.

I LOVE MO CAM!!!!!

so me and Erin have been getting really into filming and editing. we have over half of our filming done and today we finally got to film our P.O.V tracking with the mo cam and it was amazing. we got some really good footage and decided that we were going to put much more into our film because it looked so good. our film is really coming along, cant wait to see it finished!!!!

Awkward Moment:

So i had a bit of a blond moment and did not think about the fact that i would not have media tomorrow. So i was unable to get a camera and i am already behind scheduled. the good news it i have all the costumes ready now. i even went and bought a dress from save-mart for my creepy dead girl look. hope we can film sometime during the week or me and Erin will have nothing to edit all week.

Production Schedule!!!

Saturday 11th August - All props assembled + Shoot opening shots for our intro (Approx 1hr)

Friday 17th August - Shoot scene two with Helen and Erin in Keith hay park. 6pm (approx 2hr) 

Saturday 18th August - Shoot Erin freak out "Filler"* shots in park

Sunday 19th August - Film all of scene 3, 4 & 5 in the park with Erin, Azora and Meg (Will take a while)

*Filler shots will be just in case we have a awkward moment and need a close up or something to cut to between somethings.

Horror Conventions in our film:

1) Costume - Inspired by Kubrick, i decided that i really wanted to have a lot of red in Tilly's costume to symbolism the danger she is in. She will be wearing black running shorts, a red tank top, a black jacket, running shoes and she will be holding a red tote. At this point in the film she is meant to be returning from football training so i tried to incorporate the red into sportswear. No one else in the film will be wearing red, even Eliza at the start because she is already dead. I hope people will recognized the foreshadowing through the color in the costume
2)Setting - i have chosen areas around Mt Roskill and Hillsborough to shoot because people will recognize them. this is because its what people claimed would scare them the most in my survey. the areas we are filming are also very nice looking and childish. for example we will be shooting in two parks, one will be around a playground. This will show the transition of good to evil more in my film.
3)Cinematography - I really want to use every camera angle and shot effectively so everyone fully understands my film. I will be using some P.O.V shots to show the creature stalking Tilly before invading her mind. I am hoping those shots will not only be scary but also convey the aggression in our invisible monster.
4)Sound - Sound will be very important to me for this project because its the sound that really makes the movie. you can go back and fix the lighting of a shot but if your sound is awful there is very little you can do. So i will be doing my best to get very clean sound. Secondly our film will have non-diagetic sound all throughout because i am a firm believer that silence is awkward. I want to have a good mix of bassey sounds that will build suspense and dramatic music for the really high tension moments. This will make it more climactic.
5)Structure (Open ended) - Our plot will be left open ended to give our viewers that last little gasp at the end of our film, plus to stay true to the typical aspects of horror. This will scare the viewers who have now let their guard down a little and give the film a memorable ending.