Filming...

The timing for filming our shots has to be very precise, almost in chronological order due to the time of day it is filmed at. Dusk is crucial to our plot, the child goes missing at dusk and the Mother has not very much time before it gets dark to find her and as the light fades, so do the hopes of finding her.

Basic Plot

First of all the father goes out and leaves the child with the mother, someone is watching them, mother went into the kichen when a mysterious person follows her in and knocks her out, the girl is sitting in the corner where the a mysterious person helps her up, the mother's phone starts to ring, this is when the two disappear down the road, the mother is now running around the house looking for the child, then out side.

The shots would involve...

Firstly shots of the father leaving the child with the mother, getting into the car and driving away. This could be filmed from many different angles such as from inside the house mid shots, out side the house, across the road long shots, close ups of faces, the hand opening the door, the feet walking to the car, high angle, low angle or pans. A mixture of these together would both show the sequence well from all different angles but create quick editing.

Then it skips to the mysterious person entering the kitchen and the babysitter on the floor unconcious. This can be shot as a point of view shot of the mysterious person, this would be shot not using a tripod to make the shots jerkier and more realistic, then they shine a torch around the room until the come to the babysitter. Also this could involve the mysterious person slipping into the darkened room , filmed as an over the shoulder shot showing the hand pushing the door open. Then to acompany this second idea a shot of the babysitter on the floor with a phone in her hand which starts to ring, this sequence finishes with a close up of the phone ringing. Possibly these all filmed with the lights off, presuming we have the correct equiptment to light what should be show correctly such as torches and spotlights, if not a dim light could be used.

Next the shot reverts back to where the child is, in the corner of a room. This shot should be a high angle making her look like the victim, she could be sitting there trying to shuffle further into the corner upon seeing the mysterious person enter the room. This person extends a hand to the child and after some deliberation the child takes the hand, this shot should be a low angle close up of the hands. Remebering that this is only a trailer these shots will only be very quick.

This is where the action begins. The babysitter is comes around and is running all around the house in despair looking for the child. Shots such as up the stairs, opening doors in panic, calling out, close ups to show emotion on her face, looking inside cupboards, double checking places and then she decide to look outside.

Here the disorientation becomes apparant, it is rush hour, there is traffic everywhere, people on the streets. This could be shown by the babysitter standing on the street turning around looking and the camera moving in the opposite direction, the babysitter bumping into people on the street, close up of their faces of annoyance and hers anguish and distress.

Here is the idea for our photo for the DVD cover and film poster. 

It is taken from the back, with the child looking round at the camera possibly and holding a teddy bear. It is taken in the dark with only somelight from maybe street lamps or torches, we don't know yet if the flash is needed or it will make things too bright.There is no sign of a struggle but the expression on the childs face is distressed and yearning.

The trailer will start with our own logo which we will make like all other proper movie and film companies. It will consist of our initials JLMV productions. 

Photographs

Today we began to film our film trailer. We followed the list of shots, but did not get very much done as the daylight went very quickly, tomorrow we will have to work quicker and in a very strict order. Although we didn't manage to film much we took the photo for our dvd film cover and poster. Overall we took around 50 photos. We tried out three different locations.

1) A garden, this was mainly to see if our idea would work in the light we had before travelling to out location. It worked well so we proceeded (1-3).


2) Down a deserted road, this was going to be our final location. The photos were taken here and they are good and this is what our movie poster will be made from. (4-7)


Here is the best photo we took, this will be our film poster.