Ideas for our 2 minute film and practising with the equipment

Our group finally decided on an idea for our 2 minute film that we all agreed on. We expanded on our stalker idea and decided we could use the dark room in school used for photography lessons to show how obsessed the stalker is by showing him developing photographs of all his victims.

Our opening shot is going to be of the victim walking through a park with a friend and then make an effect using imovie that looks like the stalker is taking photos of her as he watches.
Then we will show the stalker in the old dark room at school developing the photos he has just taken. We will also use certain camera shots such as a pan to show the stalkers many photos of previous victims he has stuck around the room.
Our next shot will be at Sarah's house where we will show the victim leaving the house and walking down an alleyway. We are going to use a point of view shot of the stalker as he follows closely behind her. He will then put out his hand as if to grab his victim but before he touches her the screen will go black and you will hear a muffled scream as we think that if we show the victim being grabbed we wont be able to make the reactions look realistic and if we show the screen going black it leaves it to the viewers imagination.
Our final shot will be once again be in the dark room where the stalker will replace the previous photo of his victim for a photo of the victim dead.
We are also hoping to include our credits in the dark room scene by having photos of our group up to show we were once his victims with our names underneath.



In our last lesson before half term each group was given all the equipment we needed to shoot our film over the next 3 weeks. We were then given the oppertunity to practise using the camera and tripod. Our group went into the playground and started practising a pan show and zoom which we want to include in the first scene of our film. We were also getting used to different types of lighting as we had to place the camera in certain positions to be able to see the characters clearly.
We also discovered the old dark room that nobody uses anymore which we thought would be really good to use in our film as it is only small, really old and really creepy which would add to our atmosphere we want in our film. It also looks like it could be a room in his house or possibly a garage he has converted into a dark room to develop photos of his victims.

We tried out different ligthing in this room too but thought the best way to film it would be with the night mode on because you can see everything clearly and it still gives a scary atmosphere.
We then went back to the media room and uploaded what we had filmed onto the Mac. We tried out our idea of the stalker taking photos by editing it on imovie and it turned out really well.
Were now really excited to start filming and look forward to start editing everything!