Pre- film Process

 as my group enters the pre-production phases of creating our film there are some things that need to be accomplished before filming week. 

Planning for filming 

in this phases my partner and I had to come up with shot locations and how we would set up said shots. Since our film is a horror film and our film opening will be a prologue we decided that we would have our opening take place in a therapist office, which follows our overall script idea. 

Set Design and Location 

For our film opening we choose the set location of a therapist office, in order to create the office my group members and I will make use of a family members office. To make the office fit our needs we will make use of lighting and editing if we are not able to build our set pieces. The reason we choose a office is to set our film in a way that will give viewers context about our characters seeing a therapist often creates the message that a person has something negative weighting on their brain. 

The overall idea is to create a office that allows for tensions to build as viewers watch the film opening. We plan to accomplish this by making use of lowkey lighting within a dark area. We will also make use of dark and suspenseful music to help set the tone of the film with a shallow focuses to hide characters faces raising question about who they are.   

  

Actors 

Finding actors will be a difficult task considering we have a set of requirements that must be met.

Requirement 1: the actor must go to our school 

Requirement 2: the actor must have good communication 

Requirement 3: the actor must have good attendance. 

even though we have these requirements for our actors we will still need to gain access to the students. In order to do this we will have to ask teachers if they would allow us to take some of their students. We have to go through this process to ensure that our actors are responsibly and dependable.  

Audio

For this film there will be dialogue between characters, since there will be flashbacks that we want this dialogue to play over the flashback as it happens. To complete this task we will film our audio separately from the film then combine the audio with the film within the editing process of post production.     

Filming 

for the filming aspect of the film we will make use of all available technologies we have at our deposal. This will include smart phones, the cameras provided, and any other way of storing or playing back media content. However, this limits our ability to achieve the quality of the film we will create. to combat this we will try our best to create sound capsulated room to achieve the best possibly sound quality.