Characters

CHARACTERS

Female detective: We chose to have a female detective as this challenges stereotypes as crime films usually use a male to play this role. We plan to show our female detective to appear both confident but intimidating as she is a high up, well-known detective.

Female detectives assistant: Sitting next to our detective when questioning the survivor is our detectives assistant. She is seen making notes and helping the detective in trying to find out from the survivor what happened.

Male journalist: He is shown wearing a shirt and trousers, and looking smart to represent his professional role. 

Falsely accused prisoner: Our falsely accused prisoner is seen sitting in his cell looking depressed and hopeless. He is seen wearing casual/scruffy clothing.




The survivor (Kayleigh): As our trailer is based around family murders always leaving one survivor, Kayleigh is one of our main characters and the trailer shows her distressed as she is shown in shock and having emotional breakdowns. 



Storyboard

Locations/Settings

LOCATION/SETTINGS

As our trailer is to do with family murders which take place in people's homes, our first location will be my house.
We will show the outside of the house as an establishing/point-of-view shot as the killer plots his murders. The kitchen will also be shown to show the covered over bodies, and for when the investigator meets with the survivor for questioning.
We will also use my garden to show the killers steps as he gets closer to the house.

Another location used will be an office. This will be used to show the investigator at her desk, looking stressed and not knowing where to start. By using an office to show the investigator this shows shes professional and hard working.

The journalist will be shown in a blank, empty room with just a whiteboard and a desk, we see him sticking things onto the whiteboard trying to solve the puzzle. The reason for having him in such an empty room is so that the main focus is just on the pictures he has pinned on the whiteboard which show past family murders, and shows him finding a link to all of them.

Another location we will use is a prison cell for the falsely accused prisoner. We will show him in his cell looking depressed and in need of help. Due to not actually being able to have access to a real prison cell, we are planning to use a look alike in the St.Neots museum.

Initial script

 

Shot list

At the start of our production we have our survivor (Kayleigh) shown at a table with the female investigator. The investigator is asking her some questions about what she remembers and any extra information. Kayleigh says very little "they're all dead" is her only line. For this scene, one of our shot ideas was to have an extreme close up of Kayleighs face, particularly focusing on her eyes. This shot allows the audience to see her emotion and she stares blankly in shock.
After the close up of her eyes are shown we will then show a "flash back" of what she is seeing and remembers whilst the investigator asks her questions.


In this scene an over the shoulder shot will be used to show the investigator talking to the survivor but not able to get a helpful response.








Another shot we will use in our production is a close up of the killers shoes as he walks towards the house. We will use this shot to show the audience that someone is present however identity is unknown. Straight after this we plan to use an establishing shot to show the back of the killer with his hood up approaching the house. This again creates mystery and doesn't show the identity of the killer.

In a couple of our shots we show close ups of what the journalist has put together on a whiteboard, this includes family photos and other clues which may help him to solve the family murders. When showing these, in the center of the whiteboard is a outline of a figure of a person with a "?" in the middle. when we show this, we zoom out slowly to show the unknown figure of the killer and then the journalists work can be seen as we slowly zoom out. 

Another shot we will use is a wide shot. This will be of the house where the family murder takes place. This shot will also be shot behind some trees which gives the effect that the camera is in fact the killers eyes, and that he is planning his murders. (Also known as a point-of-view shot)

Communication for filming

To arrange when we will film and to communicate, we used a facebook group chat which helped us organise which days we would film, what locations we would film in, to show eachother props we thought we could use/order to be in our production and any other planning.