Fallen - Poster

Final title for Fallen

Fallen- Location Research

The ideal location we are planning on using is a large house that is situated far from existing life but also quite crooked and weary looking, however we want to see ancient beauty in the buildings foundation to suggest expense. Ultimately want the house to look scary and haunting which we should achieve using mainly the time of shooting, some editing but also the houses crooked, creaky build and feel. It needs that element of expense mentioned earlier to match the upper class lifestyle Jenny and their wealth is very important about the characteristics of her and her recently deceased family members also to create the family history. The most important elements of our desired location is for it to have a large stair case with a long banister on the top floor over looking the lower ground, this is important for the main event and climactic scene in our 2 minute opening.  

DUNSTON HALL
Positives:
A location we have found that would be best available is Dunston Hall in Norfolk. It is an upper class hotel used for weddings and other events. It fits in perfectly with our desired location. this is because its has aged beauty in the foundations and is a very large expensive building with beautiful wood work on the staircase that have various banisters but still captures the old feel to the building.









Negatives:
Problems with this location is that it is a hotel and will be highly populated during most of the day so shooting may be a problem in order to get perfect shots without anyone slipping into the action by accident and also to contain the noise that could be a problem. Also the building we feel is too recognisable and doesn't create a realistic house because of its significance to many lives.
Finally we feel the building may look slightly to big and overwhelming to capture Jenny's family fortune and could be too large.  

A personal property 
Positives-
Prior to Dunston hall being too big and unbelievable we researched houses that are closer and that also look more realistic as a house but still have the similar spooky, old setting that we hope to gain from it. This building has the balcony we are looking for and very old creaky stair cases over looking the ground floor and even better the entrance to help capture high level camera shots and a range of abstract shots from above. I know the owner personally this gives us hope when thinking about whether we will be granted permission.  

Negatives-
Problems we face is that it is someone's home and private property therefore we must respect their will, meaning that we must have complete respect over their property.

 

Fallen- Cating Videos

Name- Jemima Solway
Age- 17
Casting Role- Jenny

 

Name- Charlotte Sieboth
Age- 17
Casting Role- Jenny

Name- Emily Frosdick
Age- 17
Casting Role- Jenny

Fallen- Storyboard

Fallen-Casting Info

In the opening of our two minute film we only see one character fully:
Name: Jenny
Age: 17
Gender: Female 
Appearance: Blonde hair, innocent, quite small and preferably have a quite quirky interesting look.
Back Story: Fun loving girl who lives a normal life, upper class, lives with her dad. 

Were going to audition each of our actors by doing a casting video and first of all asking them to do improvisation with another male actor Michael/James and then putting a camera to their face and asking them to do nothing and seeing how they react just to see how they would look in front of a camera.

Different actors we plan to cast:
- Charlotte Seiboth
-Age 17











- Jemima Solway
-Age 17 

















- Emily Frosdick
-Age 17

Fallen - Script

FALLEN                                                                

 

Shot from behind Jenny is walking home from work down a dark crooked path infested with trees.

 

 

      Jenny- -music PLAYING through HEAD PHONES

Shot from behind Jenny is walking home from work down a dark crooked path infested with trees.
 

      JENNY- -music PLAYING through HEAD PHONES-
 

Shots from the sides, front, close up, and shot of her feet walking.

Shots to Her house, we see her walking down the drive, too the Front door, its cracked open shots low at the door and feet walking in the door then high shot from the top of the stairs.
 

Shot from behind as she looks up at the ceiling then close up shot of the cold flaccid hand full of petals. Point of view shot from the hand as the petals fall onto Jenny's face. As she wipes the petals away, blood is revealed.
  

     JENNY- -Heavy breathing-
 

Jenny Runs up to the bathroom Shots are from in front and behind. She stops at a mirror and stares breathing heavily. Shots from the side and from the front as if looking into the mirror. She Runs to the bathroom to wash it off she runs a bath, as she leaves and returns she gets in the bath of water, the bath then fills with petals, Jenny drowns into the petals.
 

 

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Fallen-Audience Research

Fallen-Audience Research Questions

1.) What Generic conventions would you expect to see in the film opening of a horror film?

 

2.) Our idea is: To have one main character, a teenage girl. We see the girl walking back from her friend’s house, blaring out some music on her headphones. When she gets home the door is slightly cracked open. She starts to look around her house and as she looks up at the ceiling she sees a hand full of petals. The petals fall and cover her face, and when she wipes them away she's covered in cuts and blood. The film will then follow on to tell the story of how this strange event occurred. We find out that close friends and family members start dying out one by one and they start to haunt the teenage girl. The girl starts to panic and runs to wash it off in the shower and petals start to fall again.

- What do you think of our idea so far?

3.)What films have you seen where the opening two minutes have been memorable to you? Why?
4.) Do you have any other ideas that you would like to put forward for our film?

5.) After hearing the synopsis of our 2 minute opening, what kind of character would you expect to play the teenage girl?

6.) Would our opening sequence make you want to watch the rest of the film?

  

Juno from "Juno"

Juno is rebellious, sarcastic, and rude, but charismatic. She usually says things without thinking them through and doesn't care what people think of her. She is a bit of a flirt. She can seem mean, but her softer side really shows when she cries after her baby's birth and adoption. In other words, Juno acts tough, but on rare occasions, she can get over-emotional. She doesn't seem to care much about her appearance. She is also tomboyish. She is very much a troubled teenager and after finding out about her pregnancy she becomes even more moody. She eats and drinks a lot.

Woody- Toy Story

Woody is a Toy Sheriff with his hat, boots and waist coat made from cow skin. He has the name of Andy, his "owner" on his right boot.
Woody is a really loyal toy who has been Andy's favourite toy since he was a little boy. Woody is determined, passionate, and would do anything for his nearest and dearest friends. He considers everyone as a family and he tries his best to keep his family together at all times. Yet, he is a flawed character. He has a lot of tendency to be very doubtful, angry, frustrated, uncertain, and sad, almost like a human. But despite his jumbled emotions, he tries his very best not to show them to his friends to seem brave and courageous, but he's not afraid to confront or comfort his friends with utmost care.

Erik Stifler- American Pie The Naked Mile












Erik Stifler, the let down of all Stiflers. The Stifler name is respected by everyone, known very well for their ability to drink a lot of alcohol, party hard and long and have a lot of sex. However Erik is very different to this, his respect for his girlfriend means that he doesn't want to rush into having sex with her. Although being very understanding Erik is desperate for it not only for his own personal reasons but also to lose the name of the odd one out and for people to call him by his last name rather than Stifler. When it finally comes around to Tracey (his Girlfriend) giving him a hall pass to the naked mile at the college he hopes to attend, full of naked girls and parties he jumps at it and his friends are very excited. His respect for his girlfriend means that he declines offers from girls but runs home driving and on horse back to get to Tracey to tell her he loves her, this leads to his first time having sex and is now named as Stifler as he has always wanted but decides he actually prefers being called Erik.