BV: Call Sheet 1

I created a table consisting of the frame, what was in it, and the mise-en-scene, which relates to the storyboard, I tried to make it as detailed as possible in order to make it more clear what was in each scene.

Frame	Shot and movement	Sound	Costume	Props
1	Establishing shot, = sense of location.	Very girly song, stereotype of teenage girls e.g. One Direction
2	Over the shoulder shot. Main character is in it, but can’t see her face. Follows the character as she walks forwards.	Non-diegetic music continues.
3	Long shot of character going up escalators. Camera is still.	Music continues.	The top half of her body can be seen, she is wearing a white dress. This represents her innocence.	She’s holding her phone, and has a black handbag
4	Rat’s eye view of her shoes on escalator. Camera is still.	Music continues, diegetic sound of escalators.	She is wearing black converse.
5	Over the shoulder of her using a photo printing machine. Camera is still.	Music continues. Sounds of her operating the machine.	Her nails are painted pink. This reflects her girly nature.	The printing machine is already there, in a shopping centre.
6	Close up of her hand, holding a photo. The camera cuts closer in on the photo, where a guy in the background can be seen.	Music continues.	There are 4 friends in the photo, linking arms, smiling, wearing dresses.  The person in the background is wearing black, and a balaclava.	Would need the dresses, also guy in background is holding binoculars.
7	Close up on her face. She looks nervous, eyes darting around. Camera is still.	As she pulls out her earphones, the happy music stops, and there is dead, eerie silence.		White earphones, classical and also emphasizes her innocence.
8	Long shot. She begins running.  Camera moves with her.	Very quiet, dramatic music begins, drums.	We see her costume in full, white dress and black converse.
9	Long shot, her walking through turning doors. Camera is still. She is going into the underground car park which is dark and dramatic. Low key lighting.	Dramatic music continues to build up, getting slightly louder and more insistent, building tension.
10	Character bends down, out of breath, looks up and looks around. The dark background looks intimidating.	Music gets much louder and more dramatic.
11	Cut to a medium close up of her face. A figure appears behind her, and pulls a sack over her head. A handheld camera is used to reflect her unsteady state of mind.	Music get the most dramatic and as the sack is pulled over her head it stops suddenly, loud and scary.	The character is flushed from running, which can be achieved through blush. She could also be sweating, from fear/ exertion, through some water on her forehead.
12	Black screen.	Voice of the character talking about her kidnapping, “It’s been 9 months.”
13	Long shot of character slumped in a chair. Looks upset. No camera movement. Opposite her is a psychiatrist, sitting straight in contrast.	They are talking about the character being kidnapped and tortured.	The main character is wearing grey joggers and a black hoodie.  She is wearing no makeup although a light foundation would be used to make her pale, and bags under her eyes – brown eyeshadow.	We would need the location of the psychiatrist room or a normal room that we could make look like one.
14	Over the shoulder shot,   Camera is still. Psychiatrist’s shoulder, main character can be seen.	Some very gentle but dramatic music in the background.  Diegetic sound of them speaking to each other.	Looks sad and upset, depressed.	Painting on the wall, modern art, geometric shapes.
15	Over the shoulder shot,   Camera is still. Main character’s shoulder. Psychiatrist can be seen.		Psychiatrist wearing long earrings and perhaps some glasses. Dressed in white = connotations of medical work/ contrast to main character.	There is binary opposition between these two characters, Psychiatrist look healthy and happy. Glasses and earrings = props.
16	Close up of main character’s face. No camera movement.	The music becomes more urgent and dramatic, the psychiatrist’s voice fades out/becomes distorted = reflection of her fear/discomfort.	Again, character is dressed in black dark grey= binary opposition to her formal self, innocent, wearing white and also to the psychiatrist.	Makeup/ face paint to make her look tired and upset.
17	Repeated flashbacks. Flashing between past and present. Close up of the girl tied up, very harsh, flashing lighting.	Uncomfortable high pitched noise, music is distorted and confusing=her mind set.	She is wearing a grey t-shirt. There is blood on it. She has a lot of cuts and bruises on her face, a black eye. Sweating a lot.	She has a gag around her mouth.
18	Long shot, main character stands up and sprints out of the room.	The music and high pitched noise have reached the peak.	She is wearing the same converse.
19	Extreme close up on the door handle.
20	Mid shot, door slams, title appears in a red font.

Choosing the name for our "Final Girl"

One of the first slasher movies, is called Psycho from 1960. In this movie, Janet Leigh played the stereotype "final girl" as the character Marion Crane.
In the movie Scream from 1996, Drew Barrymore, who's character was called Casey played the stereotype of the "Scream Queen".
In most horror movies, the Scream Queen is portrayed as sexually active, blond, unintelligent and someone who is always going to make bad decisions.
Scary movie, managed to break this stereotype down in a very good way. The character Drew Decker, played by Carmen Electra is running away and can't decide whether to run towards death or safety.
A final girl, who is portrayed as smart and resourceful would run towards safety. However, a scream queen, like the one in this movie, runs towards death, because she is portrayed as a dumb blonde.



A scream queen, usually ends up being killed, whereas the final girl always survives. However, in our movie, we are counter typing and our character is therefore the final girl, who ends up getting killed.

Because we are counter typing the main character, played by Bronwen, we decided to choose a name that is linked to the slasher/horror genre and links to the two movies, Psycho and Scream. We therefore took the first name from Scream, Casey, and the last name from the movie Psycho, Crane.
Our character's name is therefore Casey Crane.

Practice Shoot 1

WHAT I HAVE LEARNED + WHAT I CAN APPLY

We decided to do a practice shoot, which was useful to know specifically how to work with the different functions of the camera, what to do in terms of cinematography and how to decide when to do hand-held footage and when to do the shots with the tri-pod.



From this practice shoot, we learned a lot of different things. This shoot is also the reason for why we changed our idea.

On my blog, I did a link list for every single time we changed our idea. The initial idea of group pitch 1, was to have the girl being kidnapped in a dark parking lot under a huge shopping mall. The first scene would be filmed in the shopping mall, which is the bit that you see here.

The shot that we did first of her shoes and then another pair of shoes was used at first to denote that the killer was moving closer and closer. However, we noticed very quickly that our audience got confused with which shoes were which because they were both black and white. The shots were also very short, so for some it turned out to be confusing whether it was another pair of shoes or just the same.
Furthermore we discovered that it was really hard to work with the ambient sound, since there was such a loud diegetic sound within the mall. We used several different camera angles, such as establishing shots, mid-shots, close-ups etc., which ofcourse than also created a different ambient sound in every single shot.

Moreover, there was a problem with continuity, since we would need to film in the mall over some days in order to finish all the scenes. This would mean that there would be different people in every shot and that we would create a problem with continuity.

Also, we thought it would be really hard to create tension in a mall. We would have had to work a lot more with non-diegetic soundtrack and thought that even if it would be good it would still be hard to emphasise on the horror genre. In the coursework we have now, we used a good location and especially at the ed we got to build up quite a lot of tension.

What we did learn through this practice shoot was how to use the SONY camera, in terms of zoom, shallow and deep focus. We got to practice a bit on how to retach and detach it from the tri-pod, which was also very useful so that we wouldn't lose time with that at our real shoot.
Lastly, we learned how we should always come together so that everyone would suggest which camera angles to use. This allowed us to have a great shot variety.

Call Sheet 2

After having changed our idea, and deciding on all the final details, we were able to create a call sheet with the individual shots, basic scene and shot summary, dialogue and props, costume etc. This call sheet was a useful guideline to when we had to film, and after we filmed we added some more detail in there about the different shots. So this is the final version of our call sheet.

Call Sheet

Scene/basic Shot Summary	DIALOGUE	CAMERA (shot type, movement, framing)	MISE EN SCENE (location, props, costume, make-up etc.	CAST (note any directions)
Scene 1: A dark screen, where all you can hear are footsteps and then a door opening and closing. Adding sound effects to signify that it opens and closes. The basement then comes to sight, when a red bulb light turns on and flickers. We first see a bulletin board, where a lot of different things are attached such as pictures, locks of hair, calendar, newspaper articles etc.  The killer then all of a sudden comes into the shot and focuses on the different things by lighting at them with the flashlight.  The killer will come by a picture of the house, where we will frame in on the picture of the house and after that cut into the next scene that is an establishing shot of the house from the outside. Signifying that the killer is now outside of her house.	\	Long shot of the room, where the bulletin board is attached on the wall Medium shot when he walks closer to the bulletin board. We are framing the killer so that the audience can’t see his face until right at the end. Point-of-view shot when the killer walks towards the board. Pan from the left to the right to show the entire board. Showing each of the individual props on there by using extreme close-ups.	Location: A basement at one Jonathan’s house. His basement will be covered in plastic and will light in a very dim flickering light. Props: Bulletin board Locks of hair Small bags to put hair in Calendar Map over the house Pictures of the girl Picture of her FB profile Picture of her house Newspaper articles Red Pins Red light bulb Flashlight Plastic Costume: Black hoodie Black gloves Black jeans Black combat boots Mask Make-up: No make-up at all. Only the killer wearing his mask, but his face is not yet shown.	Killer is breathing heavily
Scene 2: The killer is outside of the house. There are point-of-view shots, taken with hand-held footage from behind a tree of bush to signify that he is observing from his perspective. There is then a light that turns on in one of the rooms. Then cutting to the girl in the bathroom, signifying that light turning on was from the bathroom Once in the bathroom, the girl is brushing her hair She is then putting on red nail polish on her nails and some of the nail polish drips onto the table.  There will be a flash forward, created with the use of a match cut. Blood is dripping on the floor running down her legs and landing on the floor in the basement. Signifying that blood will be spilt and showing what will happen to her.  It then cuts back to the bathroom scene, where she is now fixing her hair and tying it up in a ponytail. The second she ties it tighter, there is another flash forward to when her hands are tied with rope down in the basement. Her hands are covered with blood and wounds and are tied really tightly.	\	Establishing shot from the outside of the house. Point-of-view shot from the killer’s perspective, from behind a tree. A master shot of the house. Panning upwards to show how the light in the bathroom turns on. Cut to inside of the house, girl coming into the bathroom and turning on the light. There is then a shot seeing the girl walk into the bathroom from the back and standing in front of the mirror. Creating a close-up, from inside the closet, where the girl is taking the nail polish out from Mid-shot of her closing the closet and walking back towards the table next to the sink to put on the nail polish. Low angle shot that shows how she is observing her finger nails. Close-up on how she puts on some on each nail and then all of a sudden the nail polish drops onto the table. Creating a deep focus on the red nail polish that is signifying blood in our flash forward. Mid-shot from the side, showing how she is brushing her hair. Low angle, looking up on the girl to see how she is putting her hair up. A close-up from the back, the focus on her hair to see how she is pulling it tighter and creating the flash forward where rope is tied around her hands.	Location: Jonathan’s bathroom. Costume: The killer’s costume consisting of the black clothes and the mask. The girl’s costume is a pair of blue jeans and a plain white T-Shirt. We decided to make her clothing very simple, because we are counter typing and a final girl never dresses that girly, but has a very simple and nerdy style. Props: Fake blood Red Nail Polish Rope Wooden chair Brush Hair band Make-up: No make-up at all, except fro the nail polish. Signifying that she is the nerdy clever final girl, who prefers to spend her time on books rather than make-up and clothes.	Girl sighing when she looks at her hair in the mirror.
Scene 3: She walks into her bedroom and grabs her bible to go to church. When holding it up, there is a close-up of it and the shot cross fades to when she is in church praying with her bible in her hands. After a while she gets up and leaves the church and say amen. Outside she gets a false scare, when someone puts a hand on her shoulder. It is however just the pastor who wants to give her back her bible because she forgot it in the church. She immediately calls a friend right after to tell her what just happened. While she does that, the killer comes up behind her and puts a bag over her head. It immediately cuts to black, and we create an audio bridge where the friend is still on the phone, yelling for Casey, the girl.	“Amen” “Haha it’s just me, I just wanted to hand you your bible, you left it inside”. “Thank you” “Hey Claire! Omg I just had the weirdest feeling that I was being watched and then the pastor just scared me because I forgot my bible in church haha”. “Omg that must have been so weird”. “I know, I felt really…” (ahhhhh scream) Audio Bridge  “Casey! Casey are you there? Casey!”	Extreme-close-up on her bible and cross fading into the same extreme close-up when she is in church. Creating an establishing shot of the church to show the calm environment she is in. Focusing on her lips and her silent prayers. Mid-shot when she get’s up to walk out of church. Going back to the establishing shot of the church as she leaves it. Point-of-view shot with hand-held footage from the killer’s perspective to show that he is observing her wherever she goes. Over-the-shoulder shot, when the pastor puts his hand on her shoulder. An extreme close-up on her face to show how scared she got, when someone put his hand on her shoulder. Shot, reverse shot between her and the pastor while they exchange the small dialogue. Mid-shot when she takes her phone out and looks relieved. Dials a number. Extreme close-up on her phone. While she talks into it, there is a focus pull, putting her into shallow focus and the killer sneaking up behind her into deep focus. Bag is pulled over her head and cuts to black.	Location: The church at Limpertsberg in Luxembourg Props: Bible Pastor Phone Bag Costume: Killer’s costume with all the black clothes and his mask, which is finally revealed.	Girl jumping when the pastor puts his hand on her shoulder. Screaming when a bag is put over her head.