The Start of Filming

Last week we began filming our trailer.

We filmed a shot in which the audience are put into the caretaker's perspective when he is being intimidated by the students of the school he is working at.

To film this we had a group of school students stand in a circle surrounding one of my team who was sitting on an office chair. Then as the scene was recorded the one filming would spin slowly as the students all jeered abuse at them.

This creates a feel of vulnerability as the audience is surrounded and the students are filmed at a low angle which makes them seem empowered.

Inspiration

In 2002 Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman were murdered by their school caretaker Ian Huntley. As our film features a caretaker suspected of murdering students at his school this real life tragedy could be seen as an inspiration for our film.

Update

Here's a list of what my group has done recently to contribute to our film trailer making:

Filming practice;

We started to practice different filming techniques by making a few short films, one of which I have uploaded above. All the short films had different themes, such as the one above which is a two person perspective.

Cast recruiting for the trailer;

Although some of our actors are yet to be confirmed, we have the following people in mind:

- Steve Wood - Caretaker (confirmed)

- Mr. Casebourne - Teacher (confirmed)

- Mr. Davies - News Reporter (confirmed)

- Mel, Chris & others - Students (confirmed)

Poster Inspiration;

Our poster idea is mainly influenced by the posters for the 2008 film The Dark Knight.

We like that these posters are so simple in design yet very effective and eye-catching. Both posters are distorted in some way which could reflect how the villains have 'lost their way' and become insane. We want to try to incorporate this into our own film poster to reflect the distorted reality the school children seem to be in. We also like the use of dark colors, particularly red, as the makes the poster look more sinister, which again will be used in our poster. We like the idea of these posters being quite easy and predictable but they are made to be very unique to the film and it's theme, which is another thing we would like to incorporate into our work.