Script

As a group we had decided to stick to one script and make sure that it was the same so that everyone didnt have diffrent peices so it would be less confusing and complicated. this script is mainly the script of the 2 minute film opening and a rough idea of what will be happening in the film.

Script:

Sulaiman: 'If it weren't for you, we wouldn't be here in the first place'
Chris: Well, if you didn't listen to me all the time and do what i tell you, we wouldn't be in this mess would we?'
Ekjot: 'Excuse me, can please be quiet and I'm trying to o some work here'
Chris: 'Because of this idiot were in detention'
Sulaiman: 'Yeah, we need to sort him out' 
Sulaiman: 'Watch this' (throws pencil)
Ekjot: 'Guys! Can you please leave it out'
(Ghost comes in the scene, puts his hand with blood on the window)

Ekjot: (Sees the blood hand print) 'What the?!'
Ekjot: 'Guys! Do you see that?!' 
Chris: 'Oh my god!, what is that?'
Sullaiman: 'Nothing, he's probably playing a prank on us'
(silence)
(Door slams shut)
(All stand up)
Sulaiman: 'What was that'?
Chris: 'I don't know' 
Sulaiman: 'Ok guys, calm down, this could be some sort of prank'
Chris: 'This is no prank, this is real'
(class room light switch off)
(Bang and creaking sound)
Sulaiman: 'Guys, whos is that?'
Chris: 'I really don't know' 
(scene switches to CCTV camera)
Sulaiman: 'Ekjot? Ekjot is that you?'
(Ekjot screams and shouts whats going on and shouts for help)
Sulaiman: 'Ekjot!'
(Sulaiman takes his phone out)
Chris: 'Oh Sully, is that you? I can't see'
Sulaiman: 'Yeah it's me, my phones got a torch, lets go and find Ekjot'
Chris: Oh I ain't going anywhere'
Sulaiman: 'You staying here?'
Chris: 'Yeah'
Sulaiman: 'Ok, suit yourself '
(Switches to Suliaman's phone and starts looking for Ekjot)
Sulaiman: 'Chris, I think I see something'
Ekjot: Sully! Ahhhhhh!
Sulaiman: 'Ekjot! oh god find the light switch'
(Turns on the class room light switch)
(Sulaiman sees blood all on the floor)
Sulaiman: 'Holly Sh*t! Chris! Chris?'
(No reply from Chris)
(Sulaiman turns around)
Sulaiman: Oh my god, Chris!
(Chris is dead with blood all over his face, chest and floor)
Suliaman: 'Whats going on!?'
(Classroom lights switch off again)
(Ghost (Adnan) walks in)
Suliaman: 'Who's there?'
(Switches to CCTV camera)
(Ghost carries on walking towards Sulaiman)
Suliaman: 'Who are you?'
(Swiches back to sulaiman's phone)
Sulaiman: 'No! No! Please don't! Ahhhh!'
(BANG!)....

Casts, Props and Costume

As a film group we had decided that we all will be in the film and have diffrent roles, we chose what we wanted to be, so that everyone was comfortable in what they was meant to do which is important, because actors need to film comfortable in what they are acting otherwise it would look as much good if they wasnt comfortable. therfore me, Ekjot and chris where the school students and adnan was the zombie/demon which he would attack us one by one.

Props wise we had alot of thinking and help from other groups who had filmed and done the similar theme as us so it helped alot to ask help from others who are more experienced, we wanted to make it look scary and horrible and the same time, so we decided to go for alot of blood and screaming which was exciting, everyone was fine in putting blood all over their face and clothes, the main props we used was books and pencil, what you would normally find in a average school detention, where students are most likely doing work.

For costume we decided to go for the simple look, our school uniform we didnt want to go over the top and buy another uniform each or a suit that was exactly the same, so this saved us time and money and gave us plenty of time to think and film on other important things, the costume was perfect for the mis en scene and did the job well.

Health and Safety

Its very important to do a risk assessment otherwise things can go wrong and everyone is responsible for someones accident if ever happened in filming, so what we did when we was filming in the class room, i first told the teacher we will be staying upto 3-4 hours to film and was given permission to do so, then i had looked at the room and got rid of things that were dangerous and harmful, my idea was to remove the tables and chairs that was not needed in the film so it would give us enough room to film, so that we didnt have to bump into things that was in our way, also it was important to tell the caretaker that we was here so that incase of an emergency he would be near to help and that he wouldnt lock the doors just untill we had finished filming.

Location

 choosing a location wisely is important, therefore the whole group of CASE production such as, me, Ekjot, Adnan and Chris decided in many location wich was suitable for a film which was a zombie attacking school children, this meant filming outside of school was appropiate so we needed to find a perfect location in school, so the whole of CASE production group went round and had a look for a good enough location in which in the end was successful.

we found many location that would be great for a horror themed based film, such as the drama room which was dark or the old english corridor which looked spooky enough, but it didnt have much horror scene into it, so we decided for a much better location which was the maths rooms and the maths corridor, the reason why we chose this location in the school was because it had the perfect lighting and mis en scene which is crucial when you are filming so the audience understand the background of the story which seemed perfect in a maths class that looked very old and haunting.

Here we have two images of the location from the outside where we will be mainly shooting, as you can see from the image at the top left, the class room doesnt look that very scary or spooky with the lights on, whereas the image on the top right has the lights off and was taken late at evening rougly 7-8pm where it is more spooky and scary than the first image.

In this image below is the corridor where the zombie/demon will come inside and attack the students one by one, this image shows clearly how a simple school building can be turned into a horror scene if you film at night, which looks amazing for those horror lovers and makes a big diffrence if you film at day time.

Target audience

It's crucial to do research and find out your target audience for your film, if not then you might be aiming at the wrong people who wont even bother looking at your film. to find your "core" target audience you first have to do demographic research, which is the age you are aiming at, the gender, type of class and ethnicity. once you have done that you have a good idea of your core target audience and do other types of research in order to expand you films target audience.

the average age that people watch horror films is between the ages of 18-24, there isnt much of gap between gender, social class and ethnicity because it is pretty much balanced when it comes to horror films especially ours, where it is similar to Paranormal Activity, many people had gone to watch that type of horror because it was something new and diffrent which people in this modern day love to watch, here is a graph that shows precisely of population of people who watched horror films and their age.

After CASE production group had looked at the graph we all had a good idea of who to aim our 2 minute film at. the main story of our film is a demon/ghost attacking 3 students in detention one by one, so this meant since its going to be students aged between 16-18, the film target audience will need to be low because not alot of elderly people will tend to watch horror especially about students specifically ages above 30+. we are not much concerned about social class, because normally there is a balance between social class in watching horror genre films. as you can see above up to 48% of 18-24 year olds go to watch horror movies so we had though to broaden the age limit to 16-24 year olds which would help to expand the amount of views that it will be watched. this target audience is aimed at both gender and any social class and ethnicity its mainly aimed at the teenagers and young adults because the majority age group who watch horror movies are between the ages of 18-24, which seemed perfect to have ours 16-24.

We also did further research within our school, we had thought it be a better idea if we asked between ages of 14-18 in what kind of genre film they would watch and why, this had a better outcome because our results where first hand and it give us a good updated view in what teenagers really like to watch. after we had asked and got the results there was a variety of answers but we had a clear understanding in which target audience to choose from, 10% of people in the Windsor boys school, aged between 14-18 said they prefer Thriller and others, 20% of the people in WBS said they'd prefer to watch comedy, whereas 30% of the people in WBS said they prefer Action genre and the rest of the 40% who we had asked in the windsor boys school said they prefer Horror genre than any other, which showed infact that horror is very popular and most talked about in school especially at ages between 14-18, which was a great result for us in finding a right target audience, although we asked smajority of boys it still showed us in what teenagers preferred to watch.

2 minute film opening

We got together as a group and though of ideas, in what has been recently been most watched for example action, thriller or even comedy. we ended having great ideas for a genre and chose for horror. the problem was to find a type of horror theme or story, because there are so many so we did abit of research and found majority of horror lovers enjoy watching zombie based story line, so as a group we had decided to follow this idea. we eventually watched a couple of trailers and films that are horror/zombie based films and had alot of ideas that were very useful but hard to put together so this took time to think deeply and get a good rough idea of a 2 minute film opening, we had though of a film that was a successful zombie based film, which was 28 weeks later and took a couple of main ideas from that.