Institution Features

We have choosen to use Summit Entertainment for our film. We chose Summit Entertainment because it fits well with our genre, and that is a thiller.

Summit Entertainment is an American film studio. Since 2006 Summit Entertainment has become an individual production company after working with Lions Gate and Universal. Summit expanded, so they started producing and co-financing film in 1995, and then they started fully financing films by 1997.
In 2006 Summit became a fully independent film studio, now known as Summit Entertainment. As Summit has worked with a range of gengres from films we thought using Summit Entertainment was a good one to choose for our film.
I think Summit Entertainment was a good choice for our production company because they have released films independently. They also have their own YouTube channel, so as teenagers and young adults know how to use the website and that is our target audience more people may see the film. I use YouTube all the time and always come across an film trailer add or video. As Summit is a big production comany they attracts a big audience, they worked with Twilight and other teen films so teens would want to see a film under this prodution company's name.
Also they have films with the same actors like Robert Pattersion from Twilight, was also in Remember me. 


Films made by Summit Entertainment:

• Keeping Mum
• Lies & Alibis
• Once
• In the Valley of Elah
• P2
• The Hottie & the Nottie
• Step Up2: The Streets
• Penelope 
• Bandslam
• The Twilight Saga (all five)
• Remember Me 
• Furry Vengeance
• Letters to Juliet
• Red
• The Impossible
• Warm Bodies
• Snitch
• Now You See Me
• Kevin Hart:Let Me Explain
• Red2
• Escape Plan
• Ender's Game

This is what we be using in our film, good quality and this will be opening our film.

My character of Scarlet

Scarlet is a character I play, her character is dark, wearing colours of black, purple and red, and when getting ready white. She has dark brown hair and loves having her eyes with thick makeup. Scarlet lives in a small town with her friends Eva, Riley and Cassie.
Scarlet is 18, Eva 20, Cassie 17 and Riley 19, so as Scarlet is 18 she is allowed to go to parties with her friends.
As Scarlet is a dark character, its okay for her to be killed first, as we are aiming for a big target audience we won't have one of the main characters as a Goth/Emo.
She is meant to die at night because she is going to the party with her friends, they are all really close friends so they are always together. Scarlet is one of the people in the group that is always on her phone and always answers whenever someone calls or texts, with her friends she normally picks on the first ring. So when she doesn't pick up on the night they are meant to be going out the group gets worried.

As Scarlet is 18 she is allowed to do a lot of things and can do what she wants now, so it explains why she goes over top with her eye liner (also because of her style). She has the hair style where its all straight at the bottom and puffy at the top.




This is what my character looks like so you can see  a part of my hairstyle and how I look as a whole.

Mise-en-scene

This is our chat about the mise-en-scene. We talked about where our scenes are located and what they look like.
By looking at this we talk about all our rooms, talk about all what works, troubles, but talking about how to over come the problems we think about.

Animatics

The animatics is our stroy board of how we are going to shoot our film, how long frames last and so on. 

It also tells us what Audio with be played. Also it tells you what entertainment we are using, which is summit views. 

Not only that but it has helped us with what is meant to be in the scene. But the only problem from doing it, it has limited us in shots and different things we can do during the scene, some things havn't been successful in our filming, so our animatics is still correct but with slight changes.

Prop Log

We need props in our film, so we can do things we need to do in our film-

Props needed for every scene- 

Knife

Phone X4
Fake Blood
White bed sheets
Alarm clocks
Mirrors X3
Mascara X2

In Scarlets scenes most props are used. First time we see Scarlet we see her putting on the song on her phone. Then when we next see her its when she is dead, this is when we see the white bed sheets as I am dead on them, the reason why we have white bed sheets is because when we use the fake blood (another prop) we can see it better and it look more effective than my original colour sheets. Also we then see the knife, this is when I get killed with and more fake blood, the killer is holding this prop and gives it away that something bad has happened.

The knife is used for the death of me, we ended up useing a fake knife to use for my death so no accidents are made.
We put the fake blood on my bed sheets so the death looks more messy and make it look more 'over the top'. Also we used the fake blood to put on my top so you can see where I was killed and how I was killed as you don't see the stabbing. Not only that but we also used the fake blood to put on the knife so you can see what I got killed with, also as the fake knife didn't look very real, so we covered it with fake blood, this made it look more real.
We used all four phones so we can call each other in the scene (scarlet doesn't talk on phone). So we use our phones in the scene and we talk about the party we are going to, they come to the concusion that something bad happens to me. There is a close of the phone ringing, and a far away shot to then see me dead.
We use the Alarm clock in Eva's scene where she is getting ready and looking at the time, as she is known to be the leader of the group so uses the alarm clock to call us to see if we are ready.
Most of us use mirrors in our scence, me(scarlet) Abi and Chantelle all use mirrors in their scene. We are all getting ready with them. In my scene there is two mirrors but I only use one and there is a dress hanging on the mirror.
Then only Chantelle and Abi's scenes have the Mascara, this is how their scenes link and work together.

Pictures-

In this picture this is the make-up my character wore in all scenes.

This is a picture what my bedroom looked like after adding the white bed sheets with fake blood.

This picture is of a close up of the fake blood on the bed sheets, we did this so we can make the death look better and messy.

This is a picture if my bedroom before we added any changes.

First part of filming- Scarlets Scenes

For my scences we had to film at night as the scence is meant to be late in the day. As it is dark in my room and the only light we had was my room light, the camera is grainy and hard to see a lot of detail. When filming this first time the camera to shaky to use so we have to redo the filming. Also when the killer walks out you cant even see him, so we need to add more light to this.
So what to do next time?
Well, to make the scene more interesting we need to add more cuts so we can kept the audeince interesting and it keeps moving.
So with me pressing play on the docking station we added more cuts instead of a slow zoom to the phone, this keeps the audeince interested and knowing my surrounding of the room.
Also as we couldn't get the shadow of the killer by my door, as I knew it was going to be a problem, we changed it so there was a hand on the door, so there still a change of fear.
Also with the phone ringing I am going to do more shots around the phone so its not just a long 5 seconds of the phone ringing in the same place.
Not only that but when I have been killed we have going to be having close ups and mid shots of me dead on the bed, this is to give surpise to the audeince that I died, also needing to re film it as the camera was to shakey first time. And finally with the killers scene walking out we are going to light up the hall way so you can see him walking out, as the first time we could see him at all.
Also costumes was changed, in the costume ideas we said I be wearing an orange vest top and black socks, when filming we changed the costumes so my orange vest wasn't used because I used a white vest top to die in. And I used wore blue socks when filming.
Hopefully from changing these things, the film will be more interesting with lots of different cuts and angles in the film.

These pictures are from the filming-

This is the white shirt we used for the filming, also next to it is the black leggings I used to wear in the scene.

In this photo we have added the fake blood to the costume, this is what im going to die in.

This is how bright my room was when we filmed first time-

This is the scene I die in, we have changed the bed covers so there is blood on them, we changed it it white so the blood will show up more.