Changes to Filming

On location, we discovered that there were problems with some of the original decided features of our scene:

• When filming our test shots, it became apparent that the path we had originally chosen for the victim to follow around the Royal Naval College into the foot-tunnel would cause difficulties. We had to block out a separate route through the grounds ensuring that no restaurants, passing visitors, sign posts for the gift shop or shots in which the glass casing of the Cutty Sark were visible. This proved difficult due to the lack of lighting upon the foot-paths in the area and the obvious commercialisation of the location.
• On our original storyboard, no filming was included from the individual view of the victim as we decided to film the majority in CCTV format due to no intended empathy being felt towards the victim as an emotional bond between them and the audience as their character is insignificant as part of the plot.
• The skyline shots we are using within our scene originally were not planned and were added as a decision during filming. We had planned to include establishing shots to determine the importance of our location as an anonymous city (London) but originally of the college and Cutty Sark itself but on location, we found the brighter and more definitive example of London as a location would have been better represented using the skyline shot of the City buildings across the Thames as a universal symbol.
• Our first plan depicted the entirity of the scene filmed in the tunnel to be produced in black and white as CCTV footage but due to the supernaturality of our plot and our intention to emphasise this, we can now chosen to switch between colour during these shots to distort the image.

Name Choices

 The Naming Process

 To begin progress within deciding on a name for our film, I began with making a list of the main components of our scene, a technique that would allow names to be thought up due to what is included within our piece. 
However, it is difficult to decide upon a definitive name due to certain features of our opening (such as location) due to the following plot not to have been decided in depth. For example, as we are only producing the opening scene in which a murder takes part in a tunnel we could in theory title it around this feature but if the film were to continue and be produced following on from this scene, it is not initially intended for the majority of the setting to be placed in that tunnel.

Whilst brainstorming choices, I included all possible titles I came up with despite a number of them being useless due to sounding terrible and having other issues so that when shown to the rest of the group presenting the ideas, it can allow us to critique different choices and possibly come up with more ideas related to them.

At the current stage of process, the three most effective choice (in my opinion) would be; 'Grin.', 'Whiteface' and 'Smile, Please.' as having as few syllables as possible allows the name to be short and memorable .

• Grin refers to the clown's face itself and also towards the lipstick mark they leave upon their victim acting as a calling card.
• Whiteface is the name of the type of clown we are using within our scene as the antagonist, a comedy grotesque whiteface. (Allows us to enforce to the audience that the clown itself is the focus, not the victim or location.)
• 'Smile, please' also refers to the calling card mark left upon the victim's body after the murder has taken place. (Conveys a sinister tone, typically a possible title choice for a comedy film.) 

Story Board

Story Board

Part 1

1. The opening shot will be of the protagonist walking down the road listening to music through his head phones. The music that is playing through his headphones will be the sound for the scene and therefore we will be using non diegetic sound. We have made the protagonist male in order to create a subversion towards the gender and make them more vulnerable. The shot will be under street lamps and will pan with the actor towards the tunnel.

2. This will be an over the shoulder shot showing the antagonist (clown) standing in the background behind our protagonist holding a balloon which will be used for a symbolic/breadcrumb trail throughout the opening as though it is the clowns mark that she is there. The clown will be a female and therefore it will be a female attacking a male completely contrasting what people think when they divide the genders.

3. This will be a tracking shot following the protagonist into the tunnel capturing the old artitechture as well. There will be another balloon in the mouth of the tunnel showing that there is danger due to the clown holding an exact replica of the one in this shot. The sound will stay non diegetic of the protagonists music playing through his headphone. The clown won't appear in this shot in order to show that it has disappeared. 

4. The next shot will be on the stairs at a high angle (unsure as to whether or not this will be CCTV) in order to follow the protagonist down the stairs. There will only be the clowns feet in this shot in order to show that it is following him and also another balloon will appear showing that the trail is becoming more progressive and has that supernatural element. 

5. It will then cut to the CCTV static in order to show that the form of filming the scene has changed from one mode to another and that it will become a high angle in order to follow CCTV regulations.

6. Now the camera is at a high angle filming down on both of the characters and the protagonist walks into the shot with the clown already there - supernatural element - holding another one of the balloons and tries to pass the clown but cannot. There is no sound as the CCTV only picks up movement. This then cuts to static again.

7. The next shot after the static is of the struggle between the two characters starting and that the balloon stays in the top corner of the shot in order to keep that significant element for ever there. The direction which the camera is filming in changes to show that there is more than one CCTV camera. It is stop motion from this point on to show staggered movement and this is divided by the static cutting in and out.

8. CCTV position switches again after the static to another shot of them struggling between each other but now we see that the protagonist is starting to fail in their fight to win over the antagonist. There is still no sound and this makes it more sinister as you cannot hear anything its just happening in front of our eyes.

Part 2

9. The CCTV becomes more central to the tunnel and it shows the protagonist dead at the front of the scene but because the scene cut at static before the audience don't know how he died and what she did and therefore it makes it also slightly psychological horror as well. The clown is standing away from the body re holding the balloon and staring into the camera. Some none diegetic score could start playing hear in the theme of carnival music. Camera still on high angle. 

10. Still central with the tunnel and now the clown is much closer after the CCTV static and therefore this shows that it is coming closer towards the camera that is filming. The sound could be getting increasingly louder for the audience in order to build up the tension. 

11. Cuts to static again but this time it is a little bit longer and the music score could also cut out at this time with just the non diegetic sound of the static sound in the back ground.

12. The CCTV comes back in and this time the clowns face is right in the screen and therefore this creates the jump factor for the audience and creates an intimate distance making the viewer feel uncomfortable which is generally used in a horror movie to create awkwardness. A loud sound could play in order to emphasise on the jump factor and then it cuts to credits.