Filming Log #2

New Revised Plot (Cassette I)

Age Rating: 15
Cassette I:
Cassette tells the story of a young man who stumbles across a series of cassettes in his attic. No-one knows where they are from so he runs them through the TV and watches them. Upon watching them he realises he hold a series of snuff videos and brutal murders on film. In the days following he feels an overpowering presence of someone watching him, slowly driving him mad. I want to make the trailer different to other trailers, by breaking the usual conventions and methods, I would like it to be quite psychologically challenging with little speech and sound because I believe this will set quite a tense atmosphere for the trailer and the viewers.

P I) Jake sitting in his room, hears knocking in his loft, goes up to have a look. Stumbles upon an old box of cassettes and an old camera and decides to watch them, upon viewing he finds out that the footage is of numerous unsolved murders but the killer is barely seen in each video.

P II) Scarred from the footage he hides them in his room and goes for a walk, as he does he feels an overpowering feeling and sense that he is being watched. He decides to go home and go to bed, before he does he shuts his curtain and notices a figure standing down the street looking straight at him. Slightly shocked he closes the curtains and goes to bed.

P III) Waking up the next day he goes downstairs to find a letter addressed to him with his bank card and a note inside, the note written in scrawly handwriting reading “You’re not safe, I can see you”. Scared and worried he does not tell anyone. Looking at another one of the videos he travels to the site where it occurred, the killer can be seen in multiple shots in the background watching, he see’s the murder weapons with the blood still wet.

P IV) He goes to call the police when his phone rings, and all that can be heard is series of grunts and groans. He sees a figure standing at the path nearby watching him and decides to walk the long way home, walking through a field near his house he hears a loud low groan, turns around the killer is standing there, with a weapon in hand.

Why we are re-doing parts of the film and the plot

Upon reviewing our old plot we had a-lot of trouble actually filming it with location issues and also the plot itself was rather optimistic and to in depth for a small independent school trailer. Also another problem was finding actors, during the week it got dark very early which made it hard to film and it was even harder to find actors at the weekend due to people having weekend jobs so we revised the plot, which I also believe will make a better final product.
This means there is various things we will have to go over again like the shooting script and plot, but I will keep the old ones on my blog to show how the film trailer has changed and evolved into the final product. So things like the production schedule and risk assesment will have to be re-done, I will not delete the old ones because it shows proof of our original planning but also we did use the schedules and risk assessment, it's just we've now changed the plot which will alter where we film and how we do it. But posts like the mood-board and target audience would still be the same for we are altering the plot, the general feel and mood is still the same.