Filming plans!

Hi! Along with picking our music and figuring out our website for our film, my group also had time to think about filming. While talking about filming one problem arose, one of our crew and cast mates were going out of town. This was a bit of a step back for our plan to film. All step backs can be fixed of course, that’s why we plan on filming in the near future. The group mate, Alex went to go visit her family during the Thanksgiving break. While the other group mates also were busy during the thanksgiving break. Instead of filming, my group and I made a plan. This plan consists of possible new dates for filming. Along with the props that are needed and costumes. We plan on filming our movie in two separate locations so we figured we could split one weekend on filming and the two separate locations. The Location Will of course need a makeover for our movie. We will use props to help turn the locations into a movie so it made for our specific film. Some of these props include cobwebs, white sheets to cover the furniture, this is to help give the locations a Erie, secluded, empty feeling. We would also get a mirror, probably hand held, for the specific mirror scenes. We would also need a lot of fake blood and some clothes that we wouldn’t mind getting ruined. This would be for the scenes that call for fake blood. Along with our Halloween costumes has our characters costumes. We already have a lot of these props. The only thing we need to do now is execute our plans.

Our music!

 Hey! For today my group and I had to decide on what songs we should use for our film. When thinking about the music choices, we need to always think about what genre we are doing and how the music could fit in with it. This past week has been pretty chaotic. Especially due to the busy holiday of Thanksgiving. Because of Thanksgiving and COVID-19, my group had not been able to see or really speak to one another. On our own we have came up with some potential songs to add into our movie. But first we had to do some research about what type of songs are usually in horror movies. My first thought was to maybe play some hard rock like Rob Zombie. Most of Rob Zombies music contain some creepy aspects. My vision is to play a song like ‘living dead girl’ in the beginning to help add to the eeriness of what’s to come. I honestly think it would help set the tone for the movie. We could both open with Rob Zombie and close with one of his songs. His songs has been used in movies like house of a thousand corpses and bride of Chucky. However we have not sent an email yet asking permission to use one of his songs. This is due to the lack of communication my group has had. Once school starts again, my group and I will come together to compose an email to ask his permission. Honestly I’m very excited to get the chance to ask to use one of Rob Zombies songs. Overall my group and I believe that his music will help take our movie to the next level.

Marketing campaign

 Hi! Today was a very important for the start of our marketing campaign for Possessed. When starting our marketing campaign my group had decided to “divide and conquer”, in order to get the campaign up in running. We each got a task to do. Alex was in charge of setting up the website ,Wik.com, where we eventually put all of our social media’s for the film and the Twitter account. Jake was in charge of setting up the YouTube account for the movie. Ava was in charge of setting up the instagram. While I was in charge of setting up the Facebook account. Each of the social media’s and website have a specific role to play when trying to reach out to the potential viewers. The website will be used to update our viewers on release dates and to share our other social media platforms. Our Facebook will be used to give teasers to our potential viewers and to get people excited for our film. The Twitter will be used to drop release dates and to talk about the cast and crew of the movie. The instagram will be used to share photos of behind the scenes and posters of the movie. Our main YouTube account will be used to post trailers for the movie. While making each of these platforms, our group had some challenges. When making the YouTube account, Jake had a difficult time due to the email address not working. While making the Facebook account I had a hard time because instead of using my own name, I wanted to use the title of the movie, in the end I had to use my name instead of the movie. Alex had some difficulty when creating the website because she could not figure out how to add the social media on the website. On the other hand, Ava had no problem when creating the instagram. After all the difficulties, my group finally succeeded and now have an awesome website and social media’s. 

Storyboard!

    

    

In these first few pages from the storyboard, the scenes start and it shows the group of friends fooling around, while stumbling upon what looked to be a hunted house. The group of teens start some trouble and decide to explore the hunted house.

 

In this sequence one of the group members finds a possessed mirror in one of the vacant rooms, she then gets possessed by the demon in the mirror and the friends notice that she starts to act weird. The friend group also splits up to explore the house and Alex gets killed by the possessed friend.

In these scenes, Jake goes to find Alex and Ava to tell them about the mirror and on the way he finds Ava killing Alex and then him himself gets killed by the possessed.

In the last scenes the last living friend named morgan, finds a way to defeat the demon and put it back into the mirror. On the way Morgan finds the dead bodies of her friends. In the end she defeats the demon.

Planning for movie: locations, participants, schedule, health and safety

 

Schedule:

09/18 - Picking our group 12/03 - Editing day 1

09/24 - Creating the pitch 12/04 - Editing day 2

10/05 + 10/06 - Researching genres 12/12 - Figuring out what we need to re-shoot or re-edit

10/19 - Researching short films 12/20 - re-shoots

10/30 - Writing the screenplay for our film 12/20 - re-edit

11/27 - Filming day 1

11/28 - Filming day 2

Locations:

Jake Lyon's house

Avalon Clem's house

Participants:

Alexandra Medrano 

Jake Lyons 

Avalon Clem 

Morgan Clem 

Others outside of group to help film: Savanna Nemmers and Katelyn Pustam 

Health and safety

During this difficult time, the group has put in extra precautions to ensure the safety of all who are going to be involved. When traveling from locations, the cast and crew of the movie will always be safely in seatbelts. We will also be sure to not use actual weapons and replace then with  fake knifes from Party City. Not to mention, in light of this global pandemic, each cast member and crew mate will have masks on and will be quarantined in advanced, to ensure that no one has the deadly virus. Lastly, the we will always have a first aid kit and a phone ready in case of any emergencies.

Props:

• Mirror 

• Haunted house decorations 

• Halloween costume accessories

• Fake blood 

• Haunted House sign 

costumes

Jake Lyons- Pirate Costume

Alex Medrano- Tin Man Costume

Morgan Clem- Cat Costume

Ava Clem- Harry Potter Costume