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Key Scenes

Key scene 1: The group all meet at the train station setting off to Sutton Park. They decide to start drinking to get themselves in the mood. The boys then offer to set up the tents and then Paige says they'll go off to 'fill up the water canisters.

Shot List
 1. LS of opposite the platform the group are standing with their luggage
 2. Establishing shot of the grey weather changing 
 3. Low angle shot of the four friends feet standing with equipment on the floor around them 
 4. POV of the Ree taking a shot
 5. CS of Paige taking a shot
 6. ECU of Toms eye with the drugs taking affect
 7. Two shot Of Reece and Tom laughing
 8. OSS of the group talking
9. MS of Paige and Ree walking to the tap
10. LS of Tom and Reece setting up camp
11. POV of the group sitting around

Key scene 2: Reece notices the glowing eyes and starts freaking out because he thinks its moving, Tom tries to assure him that it's all fine. Ree feels bad and goes to take down the prop as she something drags her in suddenly. Tom and Paige start laughing and tell her to stop messing about. Ree's shouting that she's not playing around and that something has a hold of her.The three of them then grab on her to pull her out.

Shot List:
 1. POV of Reece's seeing the glowing eyes in the darkness
 2. ECS of Reece's scared facial expression
 3. Two Shot Of Tom's hand on Reece's shoulder reassuring him
 4. Establishing shot of Ree walking towards the glowing eyes
 5. POV looking out of the bushes at Ree's feet
 6. CU of Ree's hand out the bush
 7. OSS of Paige and Tom laughing
 8. High Angle shot  of Ree's hand out the bush
 9. MS of Tom, Reece and Paige looking worried 
10. LS of Reece, Paige and Tom running over to Ree
11. POV  of the hands pulling Ree out

Additional Information:
Time: 15:00-16:30
Date: 30/10/14
People/role: Tom, Reece, Ree & Paige
Equipment: Tripod, camera, iPhone
Props: Bags, Alcohol, Drugs, Sticks, Phones, toilet roll, glow sticks,
Costume: Normal casual teen wear 
Weather: Cloudy/rainy
Location: Sutton Coldfield Train station, Sutton park, Paige's house

Treatment Task

Production Company Name: Supernatural Studios

Production Team Members: Paige Manning and Rianne Murrain

Title Of Production: Intense

Genre: Paranormal Horror

Synopsis: A group of friends decide to go camping in order to celebrate the end of exams and getting into Uni. Paige, Nisha, Phoebe and Ree plan to make the weekend a night they wont forget with a host of drugs and alcohol. Ree and Paige decide they're going to plan a few pranks on the unsuspecting other two as a bit of harmless fun, however things start happening which neither of the girls planned to happen. The group are left terrified with no signal and no way of escaping. There is a greater force at play, will the friends discover it and survive?

Detailed Narrative Outline: Ree and Paige decide to go camping inviting Nisha and Phoebe their best friends, this will be the last group outing before they all head off to different Uni's so they want to make it one last celebration they each will never forget. In the hype of the trip the girls decide to make it a true dark night in the woods planning typical school boy pranks to unleash the two boys who claim to be 'Un-spookable.' The group all meet at the train station setting off to Sutton Park; a notoriously known site for campers. On arrival the group decide to 'get the party started' without even setting up a camp first. The weather is turning, the howling of the wind is getting stronger on the break of the trees and the sky is turning grey. Uncaring about the weather they each take a pill downed with shots of vodka. Nisha and Phoebe then offer to set up the tents and then Paige says they'll go off to 'fill up the water canisters.' Unknown to the other two this is their cover to set up the pranks starting with Ree and Paige amateur-ly covering the bottom of the tap with tape so it will squirt out and soak the girls, they return to their pitch and tell Phoebe and Nisha the water source was unsuccessful. The boys tell them to carry on putting up the tent and they'll find water as obviously they will be more successful. They find the pump in seconds and laugh at Ree and Paige's incapability of anything, they go to turn on the tap but it wont move, both of them try at once -  shifting it little by little suddenly a thick, red ooze shoots out of the tap followed by a child's giggle, freaked Nisha and Phoebe look around them and see a figure run away. Ree and Paige unknowingly are continuing their 'terrorizing' acts, cutting out eye shapes into toilet roll cartons  and  inserting glow sticks to create the illusion spooky eyes and putting them into the bushes. Nisha and Phoebe return covered in the red substance panting from running, claiming there's something out there. The other two girls tell them that they won't fall for their tricks and that it was them that rigged the tap. Nisha and Phoebe ask them how they got it to look like blood to which the girls give each other concerned looks but decide to go along with it as they think this is their trick. Nisha says that its all a pitiful yet hilarious attempt to try and scare them and to stop attempting. They all gather around the campfire and continue drinking and consuming drugs.

Phoebe notices the glowing eyes and starts freaking out because he thinks its moving, Nisha tries to assure her that it's all fine  and just another one of the Ree's and Paige's silly tricks and she's just having a bad trip. Ree feels bad and goes to take down the prop as she does, something drags her in suddenly. Nisha and Paige start laughing and tell her to stop messing about. Ree's shouting that she's not playing around and that something has a hold of her. The three of them then grab on her to pull her out. Again a child's laughter is heard, followed by the sound of a whispering voice is calling each of their names from the darkness. Paige lends Ree a hand to get her up and asks her if she planned what just happened, Shocked at the accusation Ree erupts saying of course it wasn't her. Phoebe then steps in and starts having a go at the other two girls telling them that it's pathetic and that she's come to have a good time and that's what she intends to do, she storms back to their tent to take some more pills, Paige goes in after her to try and calm her down and stop her from taking anymore however she fails, without warning she suddenly starts foaming at the mouth and choking, Paige shouts for the others but its too late. She's stopped moving. In a panic the group all start screaming. Nisha goes to call the emergency services however she has no signal, she turns on his phone light around the tent to try to find what Phoebe had taken and finds that the bag of pills are red. 

The three remaining decide they need to urgently find signal, Ree doesn't think its respectful to just leave Phoebe body alone however Paige and Nisha suggest its the best thing to do at the moment if they all want to survive the night. As they walk, they hear the laughter again followed by the winds howling. Shook, the group start to run. Nisha recognizes its the figure that was at the water pump earlier chasing them and tells the the other two to carry on running until they find a signal. The girls do as she says running away from whatever it could be, Ree stops as she thinks she can see Nisha hiding amongst the bushes, Paige and Ree call her name but there is no response. As the two get clsoer they realise it isn't Nisha and it isnt Phoebe, who could it be? The girls find the park ranger, dead. The two girls panicked and shocked they look around for Nisha. Nisha is no where to be seen. Panicking shout Nisha again and again they hear no answer. The girls then attempt to retrace their steps when they were running with Nisha, they find her phone on the forest floor, Paige goes to pick it up as she does she feels something drop on her head, blood. She looks up and Nisha is hanging from the tree.  

Looking around for help, the two friends see the dark figure that has been terrorizing them all night. Scared Paige runs away to find her way out, thinking Ree is behind her however when Paige looks back, the figure is standing with Ree, Paige can see a silver object in his hand, startled and not looking where she is going Paige knocks her head off a branch and falls to the ground unconscious. Nobody knows if what happened to Ree that night, is she still alive?

Intended Target Audience: 15+, male and female, Group C1C2DE, Superstitious, have free time to go to the cinema and watch films, all ethnicity types, go to school and have a part time job or work full time, high education.

Key Characters (group of friends): 

Paige: 18, female, wild, independent

Ree: 17, female, survivor, strong-minded

Nisha: 17, female, hysterical character, unstable

Phoebe: 18, female, nonbeliever, cocky

Mise-en-scene: 

Props: Tent, Torch, speaker, glow sticks, toilet rolls, pills, phones, 

Lighting: Low key lighting from torch and phones, darkness from the night sky, 

Sound: Minimal sound as it is a forest, rustles in trees and leaves, 

Costume: Normal, everyday mainstream teenage clothing such as jeans, jumper, trainers, tracksuits and beanies.

Mood: Tension and suspense

Locations: Birmingham, Sutton Park, train station, mostly at night, packing and travelling in the day. Potentials issues are the rainy weather with the camera quality, no permission is needed.

Found Footage Research

I have embedded the trailer of "The Tapes" (2011) because this involves found footage meaning it is recorded by a held hand camera by the characters themselves. I have chosen to use found footage because it creates more of a tense mood and helps engage the audience to how the characters feel because it is like the audience is there with the characters. 

 

The Blair Witch project is another example of found footage and this follows the narrative of my film that three friends are haunted while being in the woods.

Representation Task

Production company and narrative ideas with audience feedback

I am in a group with Rianne Murrain and our chosen genre is paranormal horror. 

We brainstormed out Production Institution names and decided on 'Supernatural Studios'. We have chosen 'Supernatural Studios' 

We have created three idea's for the film narrative. As myself and Ree could not chose between them we set up a survey for our audience so they could decide. We posted this survey on social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook.

On our survey we received 36 responses; 21 being female and 15 being male from the ages 15-26+.
23 were aged between 15 and 18, 10 between 19 and 25 and 2 who were 26+. As the most people were from the age range 15-18 this will be our core audience.

The most popular narrative was idea one with 21 votes. Second was idea three with 11 and lastly idea two with 4 votes. As our audience hose idea one then that is the narrative which will be carried out.

Analysis of a students film trailer

As a class a film trailer from a pervious year was shown and we had to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the film trailer. This film trailer was a D grade and the weaknesses were easier to find.

Strengths: 

Use of Props

Good use of camera shots

Good acting

Music creates tensions and a good atmosphere

Lots of inter-titles

Contains production information

Weaknesses: 

Some inter-titles does not fit the screen

There is no narrative/plot shown

Dialogue is too quiet so it cannot be heard over the soundtrack

Different locations and shots do not follow

Inter-title font does fit fit with the genre

Camera is unfocused

Camera cuts are shaky and look unprofessional

Mise-en-scene and use of props was basic