BLACKOUT Roles

BLACKOUT ROLES

Location Recce

Character Casting

Casting Profiles

This is our actress we have cast and this is her profile. Phoebe Haroon goes to our school and her availability is quite flexible. This is really great for us we will be able to contact her very easily regarding re-filming.
We figured her height, shorter than the previous actress, will create an element of innocence as she seems childlike. This will surprise the audience as they underestimate her timid stance. We will use her scars as recounts of how many souls the antagonist has taken and devoured. This actress is also affordable. Her difficulty to focus may be a letdown as were are on a tight schedule and cannot afford to go over filming time in order to get the perfect shots or re-film.

Her costume is similar to the previous actress', with smaller inched heels.











This candidate was chosen as his nationality and ethnicity comply with the convention of the Caucasian male being targeted by the antagonist in a horror film. His blonde hair and blue eyes will be used to represent oblivion as the victim has no control over what happens to him. It is favourable that he is in a relationship taken so he doesn't show any love interest towards the antagonist. We have eliminated all traits of love and replaced them with pure evil and hatred. The punctuality is a must have as we will start to film promptly and can't have cast running late and slowing the production down. This actor is also affordable.

The picture below shows are original costume for our actor, however this may be altered with white top and different jacket. This is because we feel it will portray innocence due to being our main protagonist/victim.

Weather Forecast Update for Main Brief Filming

          For our main brief we are looking to film between the 24th and the 26th of October as these are days when the weather is set to be rather dull and would suit the mood of the scene. We have decided to keep our options open with three days in case it decides to rain one day or brightens up another day. We will look to do the majority of our outside filming on Monday the 24th as it is early in the week so if we spot any mistakes we still have the rest of the week to go back and make corrections. Monday is also the coldest day out of the three so will most likely attract the gloomiest weather and hopefully their will be less people around the area which we are looking to film - Waitrose car park and lift.

Monday 24th October- We are looking to film the second part of our opening on this day due to the gloomy yet dry conditions that are expected. For this we will require our female actor and a dead male counterpart. The female actor will be wearing either a black or a red dress to symbolise her dark and elusive character and this will be combined with black lipstick and stilettos. Our male character will be dressed in an all black tracksuit with possibly a baseball cap and earphones. He will be dressed like this to show off his normality in this scenario. We will capture on film our female character exiting the elevator and walking on into the carpark. We will look to film this in the late afternoon or evening when there are less people around. This will not effect the lighting as the carpark area is floodlit. If we have enough time then we will also try and film the elevator section of our opening as well however if we do not then we can look to film this part on either the Tuesday or Wednesday.

Script and Screenplay

Script/Screenplay

Our script consists of stage directions as there is no dialogue.

-FADE IN:
-INT. ELEVATOR - AFTERNOON

-BLAIR REGAN, student, 16 years old, looks at elevator door as elevator music plays, standing still with her hands in her pockets.

-STRANGER, male, listening to music at the back of elevator.

-BLAIR REGAN takes hands out of pocket.
-BLAIR REGAN starts tapping foot.
-Elevator music plays
-BLAIR REGAN, EYES change colour
(Music STOPS, loud noise of a BLADE cutting a BODY, BODY drops)
-Elevator door OPENS

-Elevator door CLOSES

Production Schedule

This Production Schedule will be vital in helping us to stay on track throughout the different stages of production and also remind us of what we will have to do at certain moments to ensure we are efficient and end up with a final piece of a high standard.

List of Props and Costumes for Main Brief

List of Props and Costumes

Girl

• Black contact lenses
• Stilettos
• Black or red dress
• Long coat
• Bright red lipstick
• Black lipstick

Boy

• Black tracksuit
• Black hoodie
• Earphones
• Baseball cap
• Trainers
  

Roles

Roles


Thabo - he was a key role in our team who helped to make the script and followed up with some editing that was great for the final product video.


Dominic - he was our camera man and helped to position the characters along with the camera. After the filming was finished Dom was our main editor.


Myself - I was chosen to illustrate for the storyboard and contributed my acting along with Thomas for the mini brief film itself.

Recce

Recce




For our recce we went around the school collecting pictures of potential locations of where we could possibly film, this would give us an idea of what we are going to do and what shots and angles we would use and more importantly; see how much space we have to shoot our mini brief. This is what we collected: