3. Media - Plot 1 ( Night At The House of Fun )
Plot:
Creepy house of fun appears on the night of halloween. It is full of clowns(Josh) This
house re-appears every time the moon comes up on the night of halloween. 2 friends (2
girls)go out to have fun on the night of halloween and a stranger invites them into his
party, the party turns out to be the house full of clowns. They get trapped inside it and
the clowns play a game with them. The clowns are supernatural being who loves to
play with humans, but they don’t understand what can be life-threatening for
humans. The clowns put them through different life-threatening traps to watch the
fun. The clowns put them through a trap and one of the friends die. After the clowns
put the next friend through another trap which she manages to escape and the clowns
look for her. But she manages to escape and before leaving she burns the house down.
The next day, when she comes there with other people they can’t find the house. They
just found the other girls burnt corps in the bushes in the back of the house.
4. Mise-en-scene
Costume: Clown costume, casual clothing.
Make-up: (Someone does make up) There's going to be clown with heavy makeup.
Every feature is going to be exaggerated. Makeup can be inspired by Jigsaw.
Props: Fake blood,knives, other sharp objects like scissors , ropes, tape, gloves etc.
Location: It's located in the forest in the middle of no-where.
Background music: The base will be “ When memories break” played in a music box
and different sound effects will be added like creepy laughter, doors opening, wind
is blowing etc.
Setting: From the outside the house looks like a party house and in inside its run
down , the walls are covered in blood, the house is full of traps.
6. Characters:
The first girl: She is quite care-free, rebellious and trusts people easily. She will be the
one to want to go the party. She will be shown to be eager to accept the stranger’s
invitation. She will be a bit funny and brave.
The secondgirl: She will be shown as somewhat timid and follows whatever the first
girl does. She will be very scared after they find out about the clowns.
The clowns: They want to play with humans, use them as toys for entertainment, sly,
psychopathic, love to see what the humans do when they are in trouble. All of the
clowns talk in chorus.
7. Ethical and legal issues
Legal issues:
1. We are using the music form “ When Memories Break” .It does have any copyright
claim or issues.
2. Need to take permission to film in the mentioned locations.
3. It is an original idea. So we don’t have to worry about copyright issues.
Ethical issues:
1. The film doesn’t support any kind of stereotypes towards certain group of people,
like- teenagers are carefree, kids these days are disrespectful towards certain
things etc.
8. Logistics
The Second girl: Tasnuva
Clown /Editor: Josh
The first girl: Reisha
Co Editor : Caitlin
Kai:Cameraman
10. Media - Plot 2 ( Death Road)
Plot: Four friends of different likes and interests go camping in a forest, on their summer
vacation. When everything seems to go to plan then something out of blue interrupts their
fun! Chanel doesn't want to be part of the camping trip so she calls her friend to get out of
there but no answer. while walking she approaches the stranger who she thinks is her friend
and follows the stranger and goes missing. The friends don't realise until hours later when
they didn`t hear any complaining from Chanel. All of her friends went to find her and split up,
thinking it will be easier to find her. Until they came across a path of danger ...
11. Characters
Chanel : The girl who gets dolled up for every occasion and always looks ready to go to a
party. Her personality is over dramatic and is known as the drama queen
Adaline : The girl who loves camping and is a know it all. And she has been
camping before and knows what she is doing
Alice : The girl who is safety conscious about everything and has to get
everything right.
Mason : The strong tough guy who tries to impress people but deep down
he feels insecure about himself.
12. Planning
Title: Extreme Sports
Resources: Camera,makeup, costumes, props
Legal issues: Get permission to be set in a location, music also participants.
Ethical issues: To not mis represent people or objects
Logistics: The plan of action
13. Planning
Costume: Stranger wears all black with a black hoodie covering their face
Make up: Natural makeup for everyone except the girl who is overdressed she will have
heavy makeup
Location: Forest in the middle of nowhere. No houses around or people (quiet area)
16. Evaluation
Pros: We have the main idea about what the short film is about and we have the main
characters.
Cons: We need to get permission for the location we want if we need it and getting the
costume and props that we need. On the other hand we have five characters but for four
people.
19. Risk Assessment
Why should you carry out a risk assessment?
Risk assessments are very important as they form an integral part of an occupational health
and safety management plan. They help to: create awareness of hazards and risk. Identify
who may be at risk ( e.g., employees, cleaners, visitors, contractors, the public, etc.).
21. Location Recce Form
We are planning to film in Epping forest which it is easier for everyone to get to because it is
a camping scene to get to Epping forest you will have to drive up to the forest but you will
have to get the bus or train upto loughton station and then walk 30 mins.
I like how it's not a crowded area so that we can film a forest is a good place to film a horror
film because it is isolated and gives off a scary atmosphere and also filming in a forest is
good because are film is based on camping.
The problem that we could run into is there could be drug dealers in the forest because they
know that no one would come into the forest.
The only way to overcome the problem is by avoiding them in the forest.
23. Storyboard
1st Scene: The campfire is shown.( Medium shots) Mason puts some wood in the fire and the surrounding is
shown. ( medium shot to wide wide shot by zooming out).Surroundings are shown(Medium shot) . The girls are
laughing( 2 shot). .Everyone is sitting around the campfire ( medium long shot).Adeline starts telling the story.
Alice doesn’t want it, but Mason agrees. All of them of hold a torch on their faces to make it look scary ( Medium
Close Up). Adeline starts to tell a story (CloseUp). She stars to tell a story about two girls going to a scary
house.(MCU)(CU).Everyone's reactions are shown( CU)When the story finishes, Mason says that it wasn’t scary
at all.( MCU) Then adaline says that they should check if it’s true or not. Alice says she doesn’t like the sound of
it.She sounds over dramatic and Adaline makes a funny comment. Alice is against the idea of going but Mason
says he’ll protect her. Alice laughs at Masons’ comment. Finally they agree to it.( fading)
24. MLS CU MCU
Medium shot Medium
to wide by zooming out 2 shot
Medium shot Medium to wide shot by zooming out 2 shot
25. Lighting: The scene will be shot at night. So the light will be really dim as it will be shot in natural light.
The faces of the Characters will have a glow because of the campfire.
Editing: Fade out and fade into Mason Grabbing the bags.
Sound effects-
Continuity: The scene will fade away into the next scene .
26. 2nd Scene
After the first scene fades away,the second scene starts with a (wide medium shot) of the setting of the
forest.( opens up with a fade out and mason grabbing the bags). Then they are on their way to see who the
mystery man may be.( cuts and then there's an over shoulder shot of all of them). “They aren't bones” (zoom
in shot ). Poking bones with a stick ( hand held).
27. Third scene:
After Mason goes behind the bushes, he picks up a bag. He looks inside without any
reactions.
30. Sound clips
Tree twigs snapping: https://youtu.be/tUGE5-NlWVs
The rattling of leaves: https://youtu.be/TJ2TRf45mPo
The crackling sound of the fire burning: https://youtu.be/bmGsQkLb4yg
The loud sound of crows talking: https://youtu.be/R_kU9rCp63A
