Footage

I have now got most of the important footage to begin my documentary, to open my documentary i am going to film the sun set going down. I needed to find a location to so this, somewhere high up and a relaxed scenery.
I had got hold of a contact and stood the camera filming the sun set on a scaffolding. eventually going down to the night with footage of blenheim grounds

Schedule

During the process of creating my documentry i have writen a short post on my blog to recor the events that have taken place. I have done this to show my planning and making sure that everything is going to plan. At the moment I am in the process of my filming and uploading my footage onto the Mac book.
My next step is to work into the footage and start my editing.

Location

Blenheim Palace - These are some of the stories that I have found on the internet that I could possibly use on my media project. I could either use some of these stories or take bits of them apart and make the other part up myself. To make this realistic I could put together a news paper article therefore making the person beleive that there really is a ghost that hauts blenheim palace.

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The house is said to be haunted by the ghost of a Roundhead, a soldier fighting on the side of Cromwell during the English Civil war. He appears sitting near to the fire in one of the bedrooms.

The site of Fair Rosamund's Bower was also thought to have been where the palace gardens are now. This was the house said to have been built by Henry II for his mistress, who in legend took her own life.

Blenheim Palace: by Simon Topham


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Blenheim Palace is surrounded by a gorgeously green, 2000-acre park. ... It was later said to be haunted by his ghost, who reportedly never appeared again

Location

I have scouted around Oxfordshire for a relatively large space, preferably with a house/mansion enabling me to create a story to tell a person, making them believe that the fake thriller story is real.
I have scouted locations and came up with the following:
Blenheim Palace - http://www.blenheimpalace.com/
Wolvercote ruins
Church grounds -Kidlington St. Mary's -St. Giles Church

Researching the following I've decided that I'm going to use blenheim palace. It's the closest location to use and would be the easiest to work around. As i live in Woodstock I have a pass to the grounds, enabling me to go into the grounds at any time.

Beauty Pressure advert

This is an advert which I came across during my media lesson. Its an advert that shows what the beauty industry is doing to the young girls in the world today. By showing all the 'beautiful' women in their magazines, on TV etc.. what is it doing to them exactly?
Watching this advert I really liked the way that the creator portrays it across using sharp, quick, vivid shots. It makes you feel instantly in the issue and grabs your attention. The reason for doing this quickly I think is because he creator wants to show how fast your child is growing up and how quick the beauty industry grabs young girls into their reins.

Derren Brown: Behind the Mischief

This is the documentry of Derren Brown. He shows exactly what the title says 'behind the mischief'. Derren shows what he's been doing behind the filming and how he portrays the paranormal affect on his victims.
I needed to get insight on the extent of how far people would go and the amount of beleif within the 'mischief'

Location

http://www.blenheimpalace.com/

These images show some of the grounds and leads to many options for me to choose my made up thriller story. First I will see if there are any true stories on the grounds already to get a vauge idea

Derren Brown: Enigma

Doing a documentary I started to research the particular programs that would relate to my own. Derren Brown does not believe in the paranormal and in many of his documentaries he shows how the paranormal world can be misinterpreted with the smallest belief. This is a documentary where he 'tricks' alot of peoples beliefs with just a few small tricks.
I want to research a few different takes on the paranormal and during this I should decide which veiw I'll come from.

Change of plan

After much thought into the project I have decided that I want to research into a subject that I would be more involved and intrested in. I'm very much intrested into the paranormal and started to research into a few documentrys that I have come across such as Darren Brown. He doesnt beleive in the paranormal but change convince a group of people its a real occourance of the paranormal.
I had then had a few conversations disscussing people's experiences with the paranormal and finally came to the decision that I must research into this topic. My plan is to get in contact with a medium and meet with a few people to see what would be happen. Obviously I would need the mediums permission to film, or just have a camera but not to be showimg the persons face.

Film Practice

Due to the scale of my production, I thought that I could take advantage of the facilities I have access to and produce a short scene of my production where I can test shots, movement, shot type, mis-en-scene and lighting.
This means that I can have a better idea of the productions planning and can draw up a brief shot list and storyboard.
I have decided to do a shot with the car going into the car wash because I feel that this will be the most complicated scene to create. I'll do the short piece of filming with the car trying to create an atmosphere for the disappearance with shots, movement, shot type, mis-en-scene and lighting.

Secured my idea

My trailer idea was initially going to be a male and a female character in a relationship when one disappears into a car wash. I was planning to have one male and one female when I was thinking about the limited amount of males that would play the part. During my planning I then came across the idea of having two female best friends where I could show there friendship with a number of different shots and props.
With this idea now secured, now I'll research more on the topic of trailers to get a clearer idea of how a trailer is set out, shots, sound effects and what most effectively attracts the audience.

Advert idea

During the course of planning my production I have been thinking as much about an advert on the topic of smoking. This is a subject that has always been in my life as a member of the family or friends have always been a smoker. I would choose an advert due to the fact that I would want to raise more awareness in my own style.
I have thought into what angle to come at this subject by that would attract the attention of my audience instantly and throughout the advert made. I know that I would have to come at it at an intresting point that would leave a thought in my veiwers minds about smoking or that could influence them in some way.
I need to do a plan of what I want to acheive in the advert and the message that would come with it.

General idea's

From making the slideshow of my ideas I have finally come down to making a trailer and have thought of a few idea's of what I could do:
1. - Characters in a house
- Letter/mail
- Trapped, Big Brother style
- play with light and sound
2. - A character, produced amnesia
- Dissapears
- Hospital
- "lost"
- One specific character can see the missing person but no one else can, sees the clues to find the character
3. - Two characters, male and female
- Road trip
- Car wash scene
- Characters gone after going through car wash
- Looking for them
4. - Jumanji
- Saw
- Combind together to create a game. Using saw quotes.

Four of my ideas that I found could be most effective, my general idea is to have a simple idea and make it complex and realistic. I want to effect the audience with a chill down their spine.

Slideshow

In the lesson that began the whole project I started thinking up idea's and therefore I did a slideshow brainstorming possible ideas.

We were shown the list produced for us by the teacher. It was a list of briefs and could choose any one from the list. I really liked the documetry project as I thought I could document on something that is close to me, therefore putting the research and effort into the project. I then came to the trailer project which I thought could be intresting and base around a thriller which I have background in working in.

With this I then went away and started thinking about my idea's, so decided to make a slideshow of my ideas.

Ideas Presentation Buck Master 16th-Sept-2010

Starting the project

The possible content for the brief:
I am edging towards the idea of doing a trailer due to the range of themes I could potentially create within the trailer for the film. The genre of the trailer I have chosen is a thriller as I have experience on this genre, with my old and new knowledge will help produce this trailer.
Having the genre and content in mind I then done a slideshow brainstorming ideas for the trailer, researching trailers and thinking up poteniall ideas.

Storyboard

Evaluation

Evalutation

Metal Gear Solid 4 OST Track 13 - Midnight Shadow

Opening sequence shots (reasons)

Set locations

Plot

This is the opening sequences plot that i have produced. The group had spoken and come up with the plot in an earlier meeting that we had on an earlier date.

A young female adult previously in a violent relationship, alone and taken away from her social group due to the past events with her ex. Charlotte comes home alone and reveals a hidden letter out of her bag from HM prison service. She later calms herself in a hot shower but as the electric is cut off charlotte begins to think. Alerted by the noises downstairs fretting for her life, locks herself away until found!