Shooting schedule

Delirium shot list

Six panel practice story board

During class, in pairs we were asked to design a six panel story board using our own initiative and imagination. Whilst coming up with each shot, we had to imagine the visuals and come up with a description, shot type and shot length. 

After completing our story boards, they were marked and we were given feedback for future projects.

Prop list

Health and Safety risks

In our groups for our horror trailers, we came up with possible health and safety risks that need to be taken into consideration before filming. 

Horror trailer mood board

For my groups horror trailer mood board, I have put together a collection of images that represents our initial intentions for our psychological horror using different screen shots from films already produced.

Basing our film on the idea of three girls living in a psychiatric hospital, I have included an image from the supernatural film "Grave encounters" that depicts the idea of a female who has been possessed. Linking this with our trailer, my group and I plan on creating the illusion that two psychiatric patients begin to see the ghost of a patient who previously lived in the hospital, resulting in them becoming insane and erratic.   

Due to the antagonist in our trailer previously being in the psychiatric hospital, we made  the character have evident characteristics and use a motif that will be remembered. For this, we came up with the idea of the patient designing a sack mask and wearing it in multiple shots to emphasise the characters psychotic persona. To illustrate the importance of this aspect within our trailer, I included shots from "The Orphanage", "Texas Chainsaw massacre" and "Friday the 13th". 

Seeing the antagonist before she dies means that in our trailer, we will be portraying her as psychologically unhealthy. During these clips, we plan to show her sketching out drawings of her fantasies of killing and the design of the mask. In our mood board, I found an image from "The Orphanage" from drawings that the young child drew whilst possessed. 

Having came up with the fact that the antagonist character commits suicide by hanging herself, I have found a clip from "Sinister" that represents a family that were hung on camera. 

All of the other clips that I found for the mood board illustrates the events that occur during the trailer when the other psychiatric patients begin to see the ghost of the other. These events will be made to be frightening for the spectator and will include jump scares and collision cutting from quiet music to loud music and slow action to fast. 

Choice of trailer type

Our group has decided to create a highlights trailer so that we would be able to show the plot line of our horror trailer. The plot is a key feature which is shown in psychological horror and is therefore important as we have chosen a hybridised genre of psychological and gore.

In our trailer we will use these horror conventions:

·      Creepy Location – We will be filming in college using specific rooms such as staff toilets and disabled toilets that have tiled walls for the psychiatric ward. Later on when editing, we will be making the location a lot darker than usual as addition to staying behind after college to use the empty corridors to flicker lights and create the isolated, lonely feeling that the psychiatric ward should have.  

·      Body Horror – Due to our hybridized genre there will be body horror including blood coming out of body parts and blood stains on walls.

·      Collision Cutting – We intend to have more than one jump scare as addition to making the clips go from quiet to loud and slow to fast. 

·      Point of View Shots – When a person is being haunted we will use point of view shots to show what the victim is seeing to emphasise how intimidating the action going on is and make the audience feel as if they're in the action. 

·      Lots of Close Ups – Close up's will be used to create a sense of claustrophobia and panic for the audience and characters within the trailer as addition to showing the characters emotions more clearly. 

·      Psycho – The psychiatric patients will all show how they're psycho's through their behaviours however the patient who haunts the other patients will be portrayed as more intimidating than the others. 

·      Flipping character representation – Due to all of the psychiatric patients being female, the psycho character will be female and the carer within the hospital will be male. By doing this, our trailer will show diversity to others. 

·      Fear of Death/Violence – The two psychiatric patients being haunted will feel threatened by the ghosts appearance and feel anxious, claustrophobic and feel fear towards the ghost harming them at all times. 

Loneliness Theme – The characters being haunted will feel isolated from the outside world due to being stuck in the ward and due to being paranoid, will stay in their rooms more than they would usually.