Production Schedule

Construction Schedule

Individual Idea

As a young Child, Chloe was a first hand witness to the accidental murder of her best friend Lucy, who fell from the top story of their school building. Ever since Chloe has felt haunted with guilt that she didn't do anything to help. However 10 years later she keeps experiencing strange paranormal events happening. She even saw 'Murder' written on the desk in her house. She decides to return to the abandoned school, which was forced to shut down after the accident, in hope to get rid of this spirit that keep haunting her.

Binary Opposites: Good vs Evil, Known vs Unknown, Natural vs Supernatural

Characters:
Protagonist- Chloe
Young Chloe
Young Lucy
Teachers

Final Group Idea

Title- |XMAS EVE


Sub Genre- Slasher



Tag line - "So be good for goodness sake"

Summarised Plot- A troubled boy has spent his childhood growing up being bullied and teased by almost everyone around him. It is apparent that he has some form of physiological problem, which may have been caused by his abuse as a child by his parents. He is desperate to find some companionship, and when one of the most popular girls at school ask to meet with him, he thinks this may be his chance. He later finds out this is a cruel prank, and is humiliated, spiralling his murdering rampage to get revenge on all the people who have been mean to him at school. As the film is set during Christmas, he steals a Santa costume in order to cover his identity.

Binary opposites: Good vs Evil, Sane vs Insane, 'Light vs Dark'




Character types:
Protagonist- Ashley, popular girl
Antagonist - Kyle, the boy who is being picked on (Villian)
Jock- Jacob

Trailer Script

Story Board

Risk Assessment

Group Trailer Ideas

What is a Trailer Analysis

Carrie 2013

We are referencing this particular trailer in preparation for creating our own because, the plot of the film is intertextual with ours. The film is about a girl who gets bullied at her school, and takes revenge upon her peers. Similarly our trailer has the story line of a character around the same age range, conducting revenge against his high school bullies who humiliated him. Another point being that the pace of the Carrie trailer is increase throughout the duration. This is the same process that we wish to achieve within our own trailer. The lighting in Carrie is low lit and ambient which creates the conventional horror film tone, and we want to have this in our trailer, so may adapt our lighting to meet this convention. 

Black Christmas 2006

The main setting of this film is based around the Christmas holiday, and this is similar to when we want our film to be set. As well as the setting being similar to the trailer of Black Christmas, it has the same pace as what we want our trailer to be. The trailer starts of slow, but increases throughout before you get to the climax, which is what we want to achieve when creating our trailer. The music in this trailer is intertextual to the theme of the film, and is something we want to incorporate within our own trailer. We want our trailer to have low lit lighting in order to carry out a tense atmosphere, and this lighting is used within the Black Christmas trailer so we can intertextualise with this. 

The Final 2010

This trailer has a similar plot to our own. At the start it shows us why the protagonists commit the actions that they do (shows us them being bullied by people from their school). In our trailer you see the protagonist as a child and gives an explanation as to why he commits the murder that he does. The plot of The Final is based around getting revenge on the ‘popular’ group of people at high school, and this is roughly what happens to the protagonist in our film. The overall tone and atmosphere of the trailer is dark and tense, which is what we want to capture within our trailer.

Budgeting

Shot List

Researching Ideas

Recces, Actor and Location Release forms

Props and Costumes.