Planning: Call Sheet 1

Here is my call sheet for my first filming day, where we film the first several scenes of our film. This is where Danny cycles to the house of Thomas for the sleepover. Main section of this scene being forgetting the lock the back door.

Planning: Lighting In Our Short Film

Concerning the lighting use within our short film itself, we are featuring scenes both outside and inside, one with the character cycling to the house of the sleepover, and inside the house of the sleepover. Therefore we will be accessing both sources of light including artificial and natural. We will use numerous sources of artificial lighting when shooting interior shot's depending on the scene itself, if we are filming in a dark room. The shot's we will be filming in broad daylight will use light in our environment so it is natural.

Due to the problems I faced in my AS media project, we avoided filming after sunset because of the risk of our footage appearing underexposed, and the footage was very poor lowing my grade because of it. However, with the new knowledge of Premiere Pro, we can film in the day and adapt the footage with colour corrections to match the time of day. The footage that we capture inside use both artificial and ambient source of lighting depending on the time of day we film. The light will be filtered from windows during the day and near to the evening we will use artificial lighting of lamps, bulbs, candles etc.

Lighting is also very important in our trailer as we will use it as a key source of creating atmosphere and tension through the scenes, such as when the stalker will go into the house to attack the teenagers. This will be effective as light can be utilised to represent different emotions therefore linking well with what we want to achieve in individual scenes, relating to the use of pathetic fallacy. In addition, we will be including both high and key lighting to represent mood's of characters and the atmosphere being developed in a scene. However, due to the lack of budgeting we have we don't have expensive studio lighting. This may create some challenges when we want to capture of evening scenes due to the risk of underexposing which I mentioned previously. 

Planning: Lighting Research

We have learnt that there are three different types of lights in film. These are; the main key light, the fill light and the back light. These are all needed in order to fully light up a subject. 

The Main Key light is the most important light as it provides the most amount of light to a character or subject. It is placed slightly towards the right of a character. Even though there is normally another light towards the left, if there is only the main key light on the right it creates "low key lighting", this is normally used in thrillers to make tension. 

The second light, positioned slightly towards the left is the Fill light. This light adds to the Main Key Light as to fully light up someones face. It mainly gives the character a more bright and important look. Having these two light s on above gives the effect of "high key lighting". 

The final light is called The Back light and it is obviously positioned towards the back of an actor. This light almost gives a halo like effect on the character and is sometimes used to highlight the characters hair. This light is sometimes used to make a character seem more intelligent or angelic, normally used with an protagonist to make them seem more important. 

We will make sure we use all of this lighting in order to give our film the best and most professional look possible. 

Planning: Chosen Initial Idea

Here is our chosen initial idea that we will be filming as we found it to be the most popular to film and the most successful idea that we think will portray all the aspects for a horror/thriller film to obtain

Planning: Risk Assessment

Before filming, I needed to consider the risks and how to avoid them when it comes to producing my short film. To avoid these hazards I decided to list them, rate their danger out of ten and create a solution around them: