Planning : Producing A Storyboard

This is our storyboard for our opening 2 minutes to our teen horror movie 'The Lumberjack'.
The process of creating a storyboard was rather simple, as a group we discussed how the  Main Task is going to take place. For each storyboard we had to state the following: 

• Location 

• Camera Shot

• Camera Movement 

• Camera Angle 

• Cast Required 

• Dialogue

From doing this I have learnt that your plan is the most important part because if you don't have this plan then the production of the film will not flow, then when it comes to editing the film you will not be able to combined all of the shot and make it seem realistic to the audiences eye. 
The purpose of doing this story board is so that we can see how our opening 2 minutes will look like and have a plan for the shots that we will use in our film opening. It will also help us plan out when we are having some of the opening titles on the two minutes. All of this will make it easier for us when we come to filming and editing our teen horror movie opening. 

Planning : Writing A Treatment For Your Chosen Opening

This is our treatment for our opening to the horror movie. 

• We are going to start off with an establishing shot of the forest.
• We are then going to have a tilt shot from the feet going up, the shot is of two school children walking home on a Friday afternoon. 
• There is then a tracking shot of them walking through the forest. Both of the students are listening to music through there headphones so there will be diagetic sound of the music they are listening to, however, both of their phones die, this will be use of a horror film convention. 
• There will then be diagetic sound of wood being chopped but the sound will increase as the students come closer to The Lumberjack. 
• The students then stop and look around to see where the sound is coming from. This will be a point of view shot and which pans around their location you will be able to see The Lumberjack in the distance. 
• The Lumberjack then begins to follow them, there is a close up/tracking shot of their feet as they run away, whilst running away there will also be a point of view shot of them running through the trees to try to get away from. 
• The male character stops because he is fatigued but as he turns The Lumberjack throws the the axe towards his head. This is when a reverse shot will be used to show that The Lumberjack is behind them, in the background you will see The Lumberjack preparing to throw his axe. The camera then follows the axe with a quick panning shot and then the male character ducks as the axe hits the tree. He then runs in a different direction abandoning the girl.
• The girl continues running away from the Lumberjack but then using a horror film convention the girl will trip and fall, this will be shown by a closeup of her feet as she falls. The Lumberjack appears above her and at the camera cuts to a point of view shot as The Lumberjack swings the axe towards her head. For effect we are going to hit a watermelon with the axe to create the sound effect of her head being hit by the axe.
• The camera then cuts back to the boy then spots an abandoned house and tries to escape to it, the shots used are point of view and tracking shots. When the character approaches the house he hides behind the entrance of the house. When stood in the doorway he looks around the house. He then turns and looks through the doorway to see if The Lumberjack is there, he sees him run past so he is relieved and the non-diabetic music loses tension. However, when he turns to look again the lumberjack is standing there and the non-diagetic sound will be a jumpscare sound which will be loud and quite high pitch to add to the effect of the jumpscare. The camera then cuts to a point of view shot of the axe being swung at his head, then the screen will cut to black.

Planning : Producing A Shot List

Shot	Shot type	Actor	Description
1	Establishing		Of forest
2	Close up	Girl and boy	Tilt of characters
3	Long shot	Girl and boy	Of the characters walking home
4	Close up	Girl	Of the girls face and phone
5	Extreme close up	Girl	When phone runs out
6	Close up	Girl	Girl taking earphones out
7	Panning/tracking	Girl and boy	Of them walking home
8	Extreme close up	Girl and boy	Of their feet walking
9	Point of view		Looking around area
10	Mid shot	Boy and girl, lumberjack	Lumberjack in the background
11	Long shot	Girl and boy	Girl and boy walking fast
12	Close up	Girl and boy	Feet walking fast
13	Long shot	Girl and boy	Long shot of them running
14	Close up	Girl and boy	Close up of feet running
15	Point of view	Boy and girl	Point of view from the lumberjack
16	Long shot	Boy	Taking a breath by the tree
17	Close up	Boy	Close of the face and the tree
18	Mid shot	Lumberjack	Lumber jack throwing the axe towards the boy
19	Mid shot	Boy	Axe in the tree and boy shocked
20	Long shot	Boy	Long shot of boy running away
21	Close up	Girl and boy	Feet running
22	Mid shot	Girl and boy	Of the girl and boy running
23	Close up		Of twig
24	Long shot	Girl	Girl running away
25	Close up	Girl	Close up of feet when girl falls
26	Mid shot	Girl	Girl on the floor
27	Point of view	Lumberjack	Lumberjack standing above the girl
28	Close up	Girl	Close up of face in shock
29	Mid shot	Lumberjack	Lumberjack about to swing the axe
30	Black out		Title
31	Mid shot	Lumberjack	Lumberjack and the axe with blood on
32	Point of view	Boy	Lumberjack watching the boy standing there
33	Long shot	Boy, girl and lumberjack	Boy running and lumberjack following
34	Long shot	Boy	Boy running away
35	Point of view		Lumberjack looking through the trees
36	Mid shot	Boy	Boy stopping again
37	Point of view		Boy sees the house
38	Long shot	Lumberjack	The lumberjack running
39	Long shot	Boy	Boy running
40	Long shot	Boy	Boy running into the house
41	Point of view	Lumberjack	Lumberjack runs past the window in the distance
42	Mid shot	Boy	Him looking around the house and breathing in relief
43	Mid shot	Boy	Boy looking out the window again
44	Close up	Lumberjack	Lumberjack jumping up at the window

Planning : From Initial Ideas To A 60 Second Pitch

Our task was to come up with some different ploy ideas for a horror movie aimed at a teenage audience. We did this by creating a mind map of general conventions found in a teenage horror movie so that we had some we had some ideas of different things that we could put into our horror film. We then came up with different plots for our horror movie that we though would appeal to our target audience and were a diet different any horror movies that we had watched; however staying in keeping with the conventions generally used in teen horror movies.

After coming up with four potential ideas, we chose the idea that we thought we could replicate and that would be relatable to our target audience.  Below is the video footage of our 60 second pitch for 'The Lumberjack'.

                                                                                                                                                                           

  

Once we had came up with our idea, we chose our company name by mind mapping lots of different ideas ad then choosing the one we liked best. In the end we chose Black Widow Productions.  We then also came up with a working title for our film by ind mapping ideas too. We chose 'The Lumberjack' as we felt this is short, punchy and links straight to the main character of our film.