Shot lists

Chapter sheets for takes.

Risk assessments

Our Trailer (The Music)

Choosing the music to any trailer is vital, especially to get it correct; but when choosing the music for a horror trailer it is even more crucial because music is such a huge aspect in a horror movie.

First we chose a soundtrack from "The Grudge" we thought that the eery music went well with what the group was trying to create, but because the music had to repeat itself part way through the trailer we opted for something different as not all members of the group were happy with the flow of the trailer with the music

Here is the soundtrack for "The Grudge" (the soundtrack we where originally going to use)

After much dispute over what soundtracks to use we finally came to a group agreement when choosing our final music choice. We opted for a soundtrack from the film "28 weeks later" We felt that this music soundtrack portrayed what we needed to get across to the audience, and we all thought it flowed better with the trailer.

Here is the soundtrack for "28 Weeks Later" (Our chosen music)

Our Trailer (Production Logs)

Unfortunately our group did not stick to the production schedule set, i couldn't make two of the filming sessions because i was unwell. This production log also shows the scenes we used and the scenes we did not. This also shows the shot types used and actors, props and what scene was filmed.


This is the table of what roles members of the group took on during the filming sessions.

Our Trailer (Production Logs)

This table shows the production schedule that we were supposed to follow. It shows the scenes, props used, actors used and what shots we used.


This table shows the roles each of us where going to take during the filming sessions.

Our Trailer (Location permission)

Whilst filming our trailer we had to get permission to film in some of the locations. For scenes of the film where in public locations there-fore we did not need to get permission to film there.
We did however need to get permission off

• Costa Coffee
• The house owner
• The reverend at the graveyard

Getting permission:

• The house we used was fortunately my house so i asked my parents and they gave us the permission to film in any room of the house.
• In Costa Coffee, we decided to film outside because the noise level was louder inside than outside, so therefore we did not need to get permission as it was not inside the Costa premises.

• For the grave yard, I took it to email the reverend and ask his permission if we could film in the graveyard and also use two grave stones, we came to an agreement where by we were only allowed to use the back of two gravestones. The email is situated below.

Our Trailer (Locations not used)

This is a bathroom that we were originally going to use, we were going to steam up the bathroom and write on the mirror or put a hand print on the glass. We did not use this location because it was too hard to see the writing in the mirror.

Our Trailer (Rooms used)

There are many different locations we used in our trailer.

The maghull train station, we chose this because we felt it fitted in with the style of genre/filming that we were looking for.

We asked the attendent that was duty if it was ok for us to film she gave us verbal permission on the basis that we did not film any passengers of Merseytravel. Costa Coffee in Ormskirk we used for a scene in our trailer and it was good because it is a quiet area so we knew that we would not have a lot of outside noise. The cafe is very authentic and we felt that it would fit our trailer
Again we were legally required to gain permission to film there, we spoke to the manager of the cafe and she gave us permission to film there, she was also happy to sigh our contributor's release form.
St Andrews Church in Maghull was an ideal location as it is dark, erie atmosphere fitted in with the genre of our trailer We had to legally ask permission to film on the grave yard, I sent an email explaining the reason we needed to film there and what were filming. We got a response allowing us to film there.

The Hallway/Kitchen
The Drawer
The Hallway/Door
The Shower
The Bathroom

Our Trailer (Props)

The next step was to sort out what props we would be using and were.


The Camera


The Key
The Grave Stones

The MirrorThe Photograph
The Video Camera
The Torch
The Phone

Our Trailer (Actors)

Vicky Francis is our lead actress, she will be in every scene. We chose her because she has previously studied performing arts so has knowledge in acting.



Our second actress is Hannah Hobson, she is only participating in one scene as she is the lawyer who give Vicky the key to the house.

Our Trailer (Storyboards)

Our first step was to create a story board for our film/trailer. This would include pictures, shot types and dialogues.


Story board section 1
Story board section 2
Story board section 3
Storyboard section 4

Our Trailer (Costumes)

We decided that our trailer would be based on a real-life so therefore the costumes had to be realistic to fit the the trailer. We made sure that both actors knew what costumes they needed to be wearing on that day of filming.

Main actors costumes:

• Train station - Casual wear
• The house - Casual wear
• The alleyway - Casual wear
• The grave yard - Formal (funeral) wear
• The cafe - Casual wear

Our main actor Victoria had to wear the same costumes over two days, because that scene was split over a period of time. We made sure she knew this because it would effect the trailer hugely if she was wearing two different costumes in one scene and we needed our trailer to look realistic because it was based on real life.

Second actors costumes:

• Grave yard scene - Formal wear

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