Casting- Representation

For my film I need two actors, the protagonist and the antagonist. I have chosen a couple of my friends to play each role, as I will need to be behind the camera.They are both confident people so I know that they wont be shy in front of the camera, and also they know each other very well which will mean that they won't find it awkward to act in front of each other. The actor playing the protagonist is called Dan Rugg and the actor playing the antagonist is called Harry Shayler. I have chosen to cast them this way around as Dan is shorter than Harry which means he will look more helpless as the protagonist. The main reason that I chose Dan to play the protagonist was because I knew that he had experience with acting on stage in the past, and more recently he has been with involved with events like house dance so I knew that he wouldn't have any problems with acting for me. I chose Harry to be the antagonist because is very tall, which makes the character look a lot more sinister and powerful. These two actors both seemed perfect for  the roles, and it also works well how the antagonist will be a lot taller than the protagonist which will make the antagonist seem a lot more powerful than the protagonist which is what I want to achieve with the film. 

I chose to subvert the stereotype by having the helpless protagonist as a male instead of a female for a few different reasons. Firstly, it would be quite uncommon to have a female playing a horror video game as this is very un-stereotypical, so the audience could get confused. Also I think it makes the antagonist seem even more threatening because it shows that even a male in his late teens who you expect to be quite tough is scared of the antagonist, not just a little girl.

            Harry                                                                                                   Dan

                                                         

Risk Assessment

Location	Risk	Solution
Home	1. Tripping over house objects in the dark	1. Take care whilst moving around the house
East Hill (Forest)	1. Falling over due to uneven ground 2. Bad weather conditions 3. Traffic in the car park	1. Take care whilst walking through the forest and use a torch if necessary. 2. Look at the weather forecast beforehand so that I will be prepared for all conditions. 3. Take care whilst traveling from the car to their forest

Horror Film Mood-board

This is my mood board for the genre of Horror. I chose to look at the conventions of different parts of the genre like the location, characters and sound.

Location Shots

I took some photos of the location that I am going to shoot most of my film at, which is my house. The first photo shows the location that the protagonist will be playing the horror game in when he first hears the weird sounds. Using lighting will be very important, especially as I am making a film in the genre of horror. This means that I need enough light so that you can see what is happening but dark enough so that it is still scary. My favourite location photo is the close up of the garden gate handle as I think it will work really well with a creaking sound effect.

Magnum Photographers

I have been looking at photos by one of the leading magnum photographers, Henri Cartier Bresson.
 

This photo is my favorite of his because the way he has framed the subject in between two large walls makes the subject look very small and powerless.
 
I chose this photo because I love the way he has used the water to his advantage to show the reflection of the running man. This also gives the photo a feeling of balance.

I like this photo because it captures death with the funeral car in the background, whilst also capturing two young children in the foreground, playing as if nothing is happening.










 This photo is another one of my favorites because of the perfect timing in this photo, as he managed to capture the cyclist just as he was in the middle of the gap between the railings and wall.








This photo stood out to me because of the surprise element to it. We are not used to seeing children with what we presume is alcohol, and you can see that from the expressions of the girls faces in the background that he has managed to capture.

Short Film Ideas

I have got some inspiration from the 2006 horror film 'Stay Alive' and have decided to make a horror film. The basic concept in Stay Alive is that a group of friends are playing a game and when they die in the game they die in the same way in real life. The part of this that I am going to use is that a scary game comes to life, and the rest of it will be completely different to the film.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stay_Alive