Production Schedule!

Filming:
29/10/2012
Havering College
30/10/2012
Elina's house.

Editing:
05/12/2012-09/12/2012

Storyboard!

Locations!

Our location is going to be Havering College of Further and Higher Education. We have chosen this location, because it is very casual and the audience can relate to it more, which will make the trailer more tense and scary. We are going to use the outside space with the benches for the "pizza clip", the dining room for the "lunch clip", H Block entrance for "college entering clip", H Block hallways, for the "walking clip" and Media classroom for the "knife clip". Our other location will be one of our houses and we are going to use the bedroom for the "door smashing clip", for Kylie leaving Daniel the "voice mail clip" and "Kylie cutting the photo clip". We are going to use the bathroom for "spitting out tablets clip".

Props!

Camera

Pizza




Knife (photo coming shortly)

Company Logos!

We are using the same logos as we used last year, because that makes the company's more established and if the audience liked our previous film, they will want to watch the new one. So we believe this will make our marketing strategy more effective.

Shot List!

  1.       From the creators of “In Your Mind.”

  2.       EMI PRODUCTIONS LOGO.

  3.       SQUIRREL PICTURES LOGO.

  4.       Daniel and Kylie’s arms linked. Kylie’s voice: Best friends forever? Daniel’s voice: Best friends forever! (Close up)

  5.       Daniel and Kylie laughing, chatting and eating pizza. (Medium shot)

  6.       Daniel and Kylie holding hands and walking through college doors together. (Medium-long shot)

  7.       Daniel introducing Kylie to his new girlfriend Sabrina. (Medium-long shot)

  8.       Daniel, Sabrina and their friends walk past Kylie, who is on her own (Medium shot)

  9.       Black screen with a phrase “How long can a secret be controlled?”

  10.   Kylie spitting out her tablets.. (Medium close-up.)

  11.   Kylie in her room, leaving a voicemail for Daniel. (Medium shot.)

  12.   Kylie looking at Daniel having lunch with Sabrina and their friends, while she is on her own. (Shot reverse shot, close-ups)

  13.   Kylie’s room door being smashed as it is closed. (Medium shot)

  14.   Kylie ripping or cutting the photo of her and Daniel. (Close up)

  15.   Daniel reading a text “Meet me in Media classroom at 6.”(Close up, extreme close-up.)

  16.   Kylie holds knife to Daniel’s throat. Kylie: Best friends forever?

  17.   Title of the film BEST FRIENDS FOR LIFE.

Audience Research!

This are examples of the feedback we got back, from our audience research.  These is what we are thinking in response to what has been said.

The story will be seen from Kylie’s point of view.  The trailer will show two twists, about her mental illness and about her trying to kill Daniel, but whether he dies will be kept as an enigma, so the audience will want to see the film again. The split personality is the main theme and structure of our trailer, because as Kylie’s illness develops, the events in the trailer will become more corrupt.

We are planning to show how Kylie spits out her tablets and becomes more aggressive  The clips will also include her smashing the door and cutting a photo of her and Daniel. We are using the college for filming, we are doing that half-term so there are no disturbing. The reason we chose college as our location is because it is very casual, which means the audience will be able to relate to it, especially the students.

We didn't want to make a remake of the Roommate, but realizing that our way is somehow similar we decided to make it more individual. This will be done by having a guy and a girl as best friends, because in films this is unconventional, as the audience are used to seeing two girls or two guys as best friends. Also we are going to make Kylie’s illness stand out and it will be a big concentration of the film, as it will create a big contrast in the events.

We agree that the split personality and dilemma will be interesting to both film and see, as in our story line those two factors relate. However we can not reveal the final outcome, as we do not want our trailer to be a spoiler. We are however going to show a lot of very intense moment, to interest the audience and thrill them for the film.

We are not rushing to show her split personality, her illness is revealed in the second part of the trailer. The first part concentrates on the characters’ friendship and things starting to go wrong, while the second part shows that she has a mental illness and that part concentrates on it progressing so much that she decides to kill Daniel. The attack will not be shown half way through the trailer, because this is our main enigma for it. We want to trick the audience into thinking that this will be the ending of the film and assuming that Kylie will kill Daniel, although we are not showing  it. The real ending of the story line is not revealed at all.

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