Costume/ Props

Father Anderson's costume: For Aaron to look like a priest his costume consisted of a black shirt (with priest collar), black trousers, black shoes and a long jacket for when he arrives at the house. Props: We also gave him a bible along with a flask of holy water to give to Ian. Along with that he also had some rosary beads. 

Mary's costume: Hannah had to wear pajamas to make it look like she has been in bed for days. We also tied her up by her arms and legs.  

Jenna's costume: For Jenna's costume she had to wear standard casual clothing a mother would wear along with neckless and bracelet. Props: We gave her a blood soaked knife for when she is possessed. 

Ian's costume: For Ian's costume it is just casual clothes of a black t-shirt and jeans to make him look like a teenage boy.  Props: Ian gets given a flask of holy water by Father Anderson.

Textual Analysis: Maybe One Day

‘Maybe One Day’ is a film directed by Chris Cottam and has also directed 6 other titles including one film called ‘The Lives of the Saints’ which was a comedy/ drama created in 2006. This film documents a day in the life of ‘Dan’ from the moment he wakes up to when he falls asleep conveying a sense of life and experience, extreme and heightened feelings. This is achieved through the journey of one man. Shot from a steady camera attached to him looking directly at his face, which documents him on his day.

The story line to this short film is about Dan waking up as the sun breaks through the curtains, leaping out of bed as he goes to the bathroom and cleans his teeth. He walks through busy rush hour crowds, jumps in a taxi, sits on a train, the background blurring in speed behind him. The whoosh of the scenery fades away running down a green hill, sheep scattering, cows watching, arms open wide. We see him running on to pebbles on a beach and eating an ice cream, the sea washing and cascading around his head, his face looking relaxed up to the sky. We see him in the cockpit of an acrobatic plane, which twists and turns through the clouds, his face pulled by g-force. Finally in bed, his eyes rest, he smiles and turns out the light.

The film starts off with a shot of Dan waking up to commentary of himself and his daily routine. He comments of things like “Twelve steps to the bathroom” “76 Brushes” “29 centimetres of floss”. As he goes though his day the scenarios change from his apartment to the busy rush hour crowds, sitting in a train and country side as he avoids going to work and breaking his daily routine.

The shots used in this short film are the same though out cutting in certain places as time goes by. The non-diegetic sounds in this short film are slow and depressing at the beginning of the film, but when he decided not to go to work the music become more up beat and happy and stay this way as he goes though all these different scenarios but then slowdown towards the end as he goes back to bed. The other non-diegetic sounds in this short film are the dialog over the film of him commentating on his life, like the music in this film the dialog starts of slow, tired and he sounds like he is depressed but when he decides to not go to work and ‘break his routine’ he become more loud and confident, towards the end of the film when he goes to bed he says quietly “I enjoyed today”.

The lighting in this short film is natural lighting in the outside scenes. The clothing changes through out the film. He starts off in his pajamas, then as he is getting ready for work he changes into his work clothes. As the film goes on his work clothes become loosened to show he is relaxed and happy.  The suit makes him look like a typical office worker making the story more believable. I think this short film is very effective in the way it documents the mans daily life. The shot they use though out the film is also very effective as it focuses on the man its self and how is surroundings change through out the film. 

Creating Father Anderson's death

First we had to stick the fake scar onto Aaron's neck.

Applying the make-up on Aaron's neck.

We then put a thick layer of fake blood around the scar then applied a second layer but make it more runny to make it look like it was pouring out of the neck. We had placed a old rug underneath Aaron so the blood  wouldn't stain the carpet. 

Meet the cast

Name: Aaron Lee
Character: Father Anderson
Aaron was the only member of the final cast who came to the auditions. We where blown way after his audition and was a certainty for the role of the priest. We asked him to grow his beard to make him look older.

Name: Hannah Fewings 

Character: Mary

Not many people came to the auditions auditioning for the part of Mary. However our teacher introduced to Hannah and we cast her for the role of Mary. We also had to get a black wig to cover up her red hair as it would not suit our film.    

Name: Ruthie Rosental

Character: Jenna

We only had one person come to the audition for the role of Jenna but she lived too far away. Thankfully our teacher had links to a theater company and this is where we found Ruthie to play the role of Jenna.  

Name: Philip Lee

Character: Ian

Last but not least was Philip. We had many problems filling this role as the original actor for the role of Ian broke his ankle and was unable to travel down for filming which forced us into changing the script from the 'Father' role into the 'Step-brother' role. The next actor we got was from our school but was unable to comedown on the last day of filming which created many problems but thankfully Aaron Lee called his younger brother down (Philip Lee) and suited the role perfectly and did an amazing job on the final day of filming. 

Shots on set

Me placing the lights in front of the house. We had to move the lights around to get the most effective use of the light.

Shooting a shot of the house across the street.

Here we put the camera on a small skateboard to capture a shot of the priest as he is walking towards the door.

Here is how we shot the 'taxi' pulling up at the house.

Touching up on the makeup during the shots.

Adding the fake blood to the knife.

Shooting Father Andersons death.

Final Draft

Risk Assessment

Date	Location	Potential risk / hazard	Level of risk   (L/M/H)	Action needed to minimise risk
14/10/2011	Road	Blinding drivers with the lights when filming.	M	Point the lights down when drivers are near and driving past.
21/10/2011	Stairway	Fall down the stairs whilst filming.	M	Take care when filming near the stairs and walk slowly when walking up them.
22/10/2011	Bedroom	Aaron injuring himself when falling on the floor for the scene when he gets killed.	M	Make sure he falls on something soft that will break his fall.
14/10/2011 15/10/2011 21/10/2011 22/10/2011	Bedroom/Outside	Getting burnt by the lights when filming/acting near them.	L	Take care when near the lights and switch them off when not in use.
21/10/2011 22/10/2011	Bathroom	Cast getting an allergic reaction from the make up.	L	Ask the cast if they are allergic to anything before applying the make up on them.
14/10/2011	Outside	Tripping over the extension cables.	L	Ensure that the extension cables are out the way.
14/10/2011	Outside	Getting hit by a car whilst filming on the road.	L	Make sure someone is watching both sides of the road whilst filming.
22/10/2011	Bedroom	Aaron/Ruth getting cut by the knife when filming.	M	Taking extreme care when filming with the knife.
21/10/2011 22/10/2011	House	A fire starting caused by the lights.	L	Make sure everyone knows all the exists in the house.

Trying Different Ideas

Here we have made a short clip for our opening sequence going through a cemetery, we have made it darker to make it more spooky building up for the actual film.

Which was filmed on this:

Creating Possessed Mary

Firstly we had to apply a layer of latex. This was so we could get a rough skin texture and would also allow the wax to stick better to create the scar's. 

Next we rolled up the wax and smoothed them on to Hannahs face to create a base for the scar's. We then made a cut down the middle of the wax to put fake blood on. We then mixed white cream make-up and some powder foundation to make the skin look pale. After covering the the face & neck with the cream make-up we added the eye shadow, we mixed black and purple to create a good effect under the eyes, we also added some around the nose area. We then added a light eye shadow to to cheek bones to make the stand out.

Finally we put a bald cap on Hannah so her red hair would not show through the wig. 

....and this was the end result. Spooky. 

Textual Analysis: What I have learned

Textual Analysis: What I have learnt

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Target Audience

It is very important to know the target audience of your short film as it will help to decide what content to include in your short film for example younger audience may enjoy pacer editing styles than older audiences to create suspense and tension where as older audiences may enjoy a slower editing pace. The target audience for our short film Camilla would be targeted at a niche audience having the demographics of ages of 25-40 year olds, the ratio 65:35 male to female, social class A and B and having the psychographics of explorers and succeeders. The reason we chose to target our film at this particular audience is because this typical audience is more intellectual and would rather watch short films because of the time it would take to watch a feature length film, as it would be much shorter. The typical area our target audience would live at is in suburban areas and because of there are not many cinemas near to them in this area they tend to watch short films which are easily accessible online. Our short film is mainly targeted at males rather than females as horror films tend to contain a lot of violence which females would not really enticing when watching a film.  

Our film could be featured on a channel such as film4 because they have segments after their nine o’clock showing which either features a small interview about an up coming film or a short film, at this time 25-40 year olds would be our target audience because this is the time this age group tends to watch TV at this time. Our film would also appeal to 20-35 year old aspiring directors at film festivals who would like to take our film further and develop it into a full-length feature film. Our target audience is also backed up by statistics of gender and age shown below of short horror films found on YouTube which show that the horror genre are most popular with the males with ages between 25-54 year olds.