Jade Harrington's AS Blog: January 2011

Monday, 24 January 2011

Walk Through Of Our Opening

Starts near room 35 using a long shot for the corridor.

Boy holding a camera with the camera in a satchel.

At student services and a blackout happens.

Clearly spoken dialogue and shrieks from girls.

Freddie says "oh don't worry, I have a light on the camera" there'll be background chat from the girls, e.g. 'I'm so glad he has a light'

Cut to where Laura is. Meanwhile the rest of the pupils are walking up the science corridor. And there will be chat when the camera comes back to them, saying 'What room is she in?'

At room 90. They will say 'this must be the room she's in' and decide who is going to look in the window.

Teacher comes up behind Laura, slits her throat.

We see her head hit the table and the teacher looks round to the pupils.

They run to get away using a typical convention of heading towards woods.

They climb through a hole in the fence.

As the 3rd person is through they see the Dr is behind the 4th person who hasn't made it through the hole yet and that person gets stabbed.

They run though the woods and stop at the hill because they see a shirt in blood.

As they look up they see the Dr the other side of the hill.

They all start to run, the boy trips and as the camera pans round when he gets himself up and the Dr is right behind him. The whole thing cuts to the title

Wednesday, 19 January 2011

Shooting schedule

Shooting schedule

Monday
After school around 5.30
5.30-5.35 set up equipment
5.35-5.40-breif cast on storyline
5.45-6.30start shooting

wednesday
after school around 5.30
5,30-5.35 set up equipment
5.35-5.50 start shooting
5.50-6.05 review footage

We have created this shooting schedule as we think our film will look more effective if we film from dusk to darkness, however in our film it will be around 4 so it fits the detention storyline.

Tuesday, 18 January 2011

Eden Lake Is a British horror film written and directed by James Watkins.
The films location is unknown but the director states it is set somewhere in the midlands.
This is not a typical teen horror movie. James Watkins has said he thought of the idea for Eden Lake a couple of years before the knife crimes and london youth scares, however this film does touch quite predominately on this subject and feels like a reaction to the moral panic in the press. Also highlighted in this film is a common theme of the clash between the city and the country. In other films such as The Hills Have Eyes, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Wrong Turn the main characters are people from the city who are alienated by being in the country. The town within eden lake also challenges this as well as thew town is undergoing construction and urbanization. They feel powerless as they are out of their comfort zone and are easily picked off by the threat of the country dwellers. The other theme is a generational gap between adults and teenagers/ youths. Drawing from the the 'slasher' genre it is established that one of the scariest threats is another human being who has gone beyond reasoning.
This sets up a rich tapestry for the plot of Eden Lake to revolve around. Eden Lake challenges our expectations so far as to make the teenagers the killers within the film. It tries to offer some reasoning behind there actions, this is basically revenge for the accidental killing of one of the youths (brett) dog by one of the 2 main protagonists Steve. It is also established towards the end of the film that peer pressure is also relevant and the quite disturbing idea of child abuse and the parents being partly to blame, this is a problem that is very much embedded in reality which is why it is so scary. Watching this film you could believe this could really happen. We the audience are not removed from this, we are not in the realms of fantasy or make believe. This film does not feel like a typical genre piece, it could easily sit alongside films such as kidulthood and would not look out of place.