Roles and Responsibilities of our group.

Director - That would be me, Hannah. I was in charge of actually getting everyone into position and how we were going to show our idea/image of the film to the audience. I don't know if I was any good at it but it sure was alot of fun. :)


Producer - Sarah. We've never really figured out what this term means. But that's what we decided Sarah is. From the name I get the impression that Sarah's job is to make it all happen. She gets everything prepared and ready and then I take over and say how I want it to be done. Well atleast that's what I think.


Editor - Sarah again. Sarah gets to edit our project together once we've done filming.


Director of cinematography - Not only am I, Hannah, director of the project as a whole but i'm also the director of cinematography. It sounds fancy but actually it just means cameraman. Oh well.


Lighting - Sarah...again. I'm beginning to see a pattern forming. Essentially Sarah has to fix the lighting if we have any lighting issues.


Craft Services - Here's where the pattern breaks. Jess is in charge of craft services.


Make up - Jess again. Jess dealt with all the make up before we started filming. She had to make herself look evil as well...which was interesting.


Costume - Jess also has to plan and get everyone's costumes. Jess came up with the brilliant idea of wearing a cloak! It looked really creepy. We were chuffed.


Prop Wrangler - That was me. My job was to collect all the props together and make sure they made it to Set (Jess's house).


Transport Manager - That was me but it turned out we didn't need anyone to transport us anywhere. But my mum took me and Sarah home after tiring days of filming. Thanks mum. :)


Cast - Jess & Sarah. Jess was the evil ritualist and Sarah died. Sorry Sarah.


Location Manager - This was Jess as it was her house.


Continuity Editor - Sarah. So once it's all filmed Sarah get's to check if we've made any continuity errors. She also had to do this while we were filming. If it turns out we do have any then we may have to refilm. Which would suck.


Set Dresser - Jess made the set look all pretty and nice before we filmed. Then when we filmed her Satanic bit she made it all scary. She did a good job.

Our props and health and safety precautions.

What's this? Aah well this is a pentagram made out of thousands of tiny bits of paper. If we're pretending to do a Satanic ritual we figured we might as well make it convincing. And in the end it was worth it as while we were filming it looked really good. There were a few mishaps with the paper. We learned the hard way that if you have lots of little bits of paper all stacked on top of each other to make a shape and happen to accidentally move the blanket they're laying on then your whole shape will be ruined and you have to make up the shape all over again. To make the setting dark we blocked up all the windows surrounding this area (with Christmas cards) and turned off all the lights. The only light we left on was the light coming from upstairs as without it Ralph (our group camera) couldn't see as the dim candlelight wasn't enough. Candle wise we made sure that the candles were at a suitable distance away from the blanket as we didn't want to set Jess's duvet alight. Sarah's knowledge of fire safety due to her Dad once being a fireman was very useful in this matter.

While taking set pictures and filming we did the very wise thing of keeping with us everywhere a cup or two of water so that incase of an emergency with the candles we could save Jess and her duvet. Another special mention to Jess's mum as supervised while we filmed as well. Incase our cups of water didn't work. Jess's mum is amazing by the way.

Our amazing prosthetics and costumes!

Blood. Blah. This is the costume of our victim, Sarah. :( We wanted to make it all look natural so we decided on having Sarah in pyjamas. I'd also like to point out that those particular pj bottoms are mine. They have robins on. I'm very hip. We also chose to use pyjamas as we didn't want to ruin anyone's clothes. Thanks to Sarah's mum for bringing Sarah home old Sainsbury's tops. You and Jess's mum's both have special mentions on my blog now.

More blood. Blah-er. Just incase of any misunderstandings I can promise you that we didn't slit Sarah open just for our scene. This cut is 100% made of wax and red washing up liquid. We owe our great prosthetic success to Jess's mum. Oh and the wax is from a face painting kit. We put alot of thought into this kind of thing.

Some lovely insider shots of our set.

This is Jess's living room. Jess's living room is used for "The victim" a.k.a Sarah's scene where unfortunately she dies...as it is a horror film opening. Sorry. We thought Jess's living room would be good as it shows Sarah in a normal environment, having a normal day...being normal before her tragic death. I also thought this would be quite effective because the set is quite cheery compared to the genre of the film (there's a Christmas Tree in the room. There's nothing eerie about that.) so there is nothing to give away the plot from this set...you wouldn't expect her to die is what I mean.

This is a close up of the rug you can see in the first photo but I think you already knew that. Reason being as this rug happened to be very important to our film. Almost like a main character but not. See this rug was used during Sarah's death as we didn't want to ruin Jess's mum's floors with fake blood. We were given permission to use this old rug by Jess's mum as she was going to get rid of it anyway. It seemed like fate that it should be put in our film.

Even though the kitchen is shown in our film you don't actually see much of it. You only really see Sarah going to get a bottle of water from the fridge. This was again to give off the idea of normality.

Another shot of Jess's kitchen with a glimpse of her fridge. We had alot of fun making the fake blood in here. Well Jess and Sarah did. I hate blood. Blah.

Unlike my EVIL friends I cut myself out of this shot. Since i'm irrelevant to the picture. This is just another shot of Jess's living room where we see Sarah crossing to get into the kitchen and dying.

Our shooting schedule and a brief apology.

Firstly i'd just like to say that i'm sorry that nothing was posted onto my blog until the last minute. Honestly I have no excuse as to why not other than that Christmas is my faviroute time of year and that distracts me from my school responsibilities. But this is important so i've spent half the day trying to work out exactly what i'm going to write when it comes to my later posts where I answer questions on our film. Yeah...:)

December 22nd: death/blood/carpet scene.
December 29th: pentagram/ritual scene
January 1st - January 10th: re-filming/corrections as needed.
This is was our shooting schedule. And surprisingly we stuck to it/are sticking to it but I think by now we've got all the filming we need and such.

Cinema Listing for Enfield Cinema with a name i've forgotten.

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1,
Arthur Christmas,
Happy Feet Two 3D/Normal...D. :P
Hugo,
The thing,
My Week with Marilyn (dying to see that one!),
50/50,
The adventures of TinTin: The secret of the Unicorn,
The big year,
Immortals 3D,
Dream house,
In Time,
Tower Heist,
Money Ball,
The Help,
Alfie Boe: Bring him home concert,
Poraali.

The digital film network. :)

The Digital Screen Network is a project or network since it is the digital screen network was created to help struggling independent film makers, restored classics, documentaries and films of a foreign language. They claim that digital screening cuts alot of the prices spent on releasing films and that by releasing independent films and such you're giving the audience a wider variety of film.

The Digital Screen Network was created by the UK film council and the Arts Council England.