Organisation: Storyboards

Before we began filming our trailer, we used storyboard to roughly plan out what is going to happen in it.  Each shot was decided with a shot type, sounds involved, and a small picture to give and idea to what is happening.  The storyboards can be seen below.

  

Organisation: Props

Our trailer only contained two props; they were a fake gun, a lighter.  The fake gun was used to make the army man look more realistic as that is what you would expect someone who was in the army to have.  The lighter was used in a short scene at the start of the trailer to show how badly the army man was tortured.

Organisation: Production Log

Organisation: Risk Assesment

Organisation: Costumes

The main two costumes that we used in our trailer were the army costume for myself and the black costume that was used for the torturer.  The army costume consisted of camouflage pants with suspenders and navy tank top.  I feel that this, coupled with the fake gun prop, gave a good representation of an army man and it make it instantly recognisable to the audience to what his job was/used to be.

As for the torturer, his costume consisted simply of a black trench coat with black cloth placed over his head to  hide his face.  Again, with the use of the fake gun, I felt that it was obvious what the scenes with the torturer are about, even though there is no obvious mention (in the form of a voice-over or otherwise) that it he is getting torturer.

The other actors in the film simply wore average, everyday clothes.  We decided to do this to make the character seem like normal people in an extraordinary situation, which makes it easier for the audience to relate with them.  Also, thinking about production/organisation, it was simply easier to get our actors to choose their own clothes

Organisation: Actors

For our actors, we decided to just use to people in our groups.  We chose this because we felt it would be easier to get together at a time that suited us all and as there was not much actual "acting" in our film and the scenes lengths are very short, the believability of our footage would not be a problem.  The actors that are featured in out trailers are:

Josh Hogan: Josh played one of the teenager who was getting terrorised by the psychopath.

Oliver Moore: (Myself): I played the army man/psychopathy

Tom McKee: Tom played the other teenager in the film, he gets attacked by the psychopath.

Georgia Turner: Georgia played the part of the torturer at the start of the trailer.

Organisation: Venues

The main venue that we used in our trailer was a former manor house called Lydiate Hall that now remains in ruins, which is located just past St Catherine's Chapel in Lydiate.  Lydiate Hall dates back to 1500-1550. I have placed several photographs of that location below

We decided to choose this location because just before the sun goes down, the low lighting gives the place an eerie feel that we felt would work well with the genre of our film. The building itself is destroyed so much that it remains only in different pieces which are mainly just tall walls, which made it easy to fit a variety of interesting shots into our trailer.