Auditons

Last week me and my group held auditions in order to cast our short film 'Lesson Learnt', we held the auditions on Friday the 11th of December at 11:00 am, we did this in order to make the auditions avliable to as many actors as possible, so we could cast the best possible people for the parts in our film. During the audtions I told the actors what we expected from them and what they had to do during there auditions, whilst the rest of my group filmed the auditions or made notes on each actor. I am very happy with who we have cast to be in our film as I think that the chosen actors meet our character profiles well. This is the cast list for 'Lesson Learnt':

Douglas – Keegan Featherstone















Fuchsia – Emmaline Gordon














Dead Body #1- Alex Coburn














News Reporter #1- Glyn Harris











News Reporter #2- Gemma Peacock













I think that we was very fortunate with our auditions because we was able to cast our whole film all in one session, as we had a very good group of actors show up to our auditions. We decided who we was going to cast in our film as team so that everyone had their own input, but mostly we agreed with who we thought was best for each character, I think that KingsFord Production team continues to work well as a unit. I also wrote the audition information for the group blog, which involves all the details of the audition process. The video for our auditions can be found on my group blog (KingsFord Productions). Audition Video

Consent Form

Lesson Learnt Consent Form

This is the consent form that I wrote, it will have to be filled in by all the actors in our film before filming begins. The form is very important because it have to be written and filled in properly for leagal reasons. The consent form has helped us with our filming as without it, we would have been unable to film are actors.

Gantt Chart Update

Below is the gantt chart that I filled in for me and my group to follow, I have given the gantt chart a colour system so each member of the group has a different colour so it is easy for each of us to see what we have to do. I have also given the group as a whole a colour which is purple and this shows when work has been done by the entire KingsFord Production team. The deadline colour on the gantt chart is red because it clearly shows when the work needs to be done by. This is the most up to date gantt chart that we have and it has all the deadlines we have been given to meet so far on it.

When developing the gantt chart I split the work as evenly as possible between myself and the the members of my group. The gantt chart is very useful because it helps with our time management and it means that we are meeting all the deadlines we need to on time, the gantt chart also provides us with a guideline on how to divide the work between the group.

Gantt Chart

Tjsi Start Gantt

Main Character Profile and Costumes

The main character in our film will be the antagonist; the antagonist will be a male and his face will not be seen during the film other than in his school yearbook this is to make him anonymous therfore making him more feared to the audience. However there will be glimpses of the killer, showing him from far away or just his feet etc, we have decided to do this because it adds to the drama and suspense of the film and makes the audience more interested in finding out who the killer is. The antagonist will be aged around 26 years old and will be scruffy and uncouth, he will be like any normal twenty something male which makes him unassuming as the killer. The killer works in a garage so he wears heavy black boots and dark overalls and this a very normal due to his job description. The killer will have dark hair and rather pale skin we have chosen our character to have this image as the pale skin connotes death and is very ghostly, also the dark hair connotes darkness and the evilness of the killer. This type of person as a killer is often used in horror films, so this part of our film is a common horror convention.



These are the type of boots that the Antagonist will wear as we think that they are quite scary and harsh looking. In one part of out film all you see is the killer’s feet walking away and we think that this type of boot will add to the horror and suspense of the piece, also the boots will be balck because it is a harsh colour that connotes death. The tough boots of the killer also show the power that he has over his victims, making the victims seem even more powerless.

We have decided to name the main character Douglas and this is because we think it is quite an innocent and child like name which is not synonymous with murderers so with this we are going against normal horror conventions. We have gathered inspiration from horror films such as Saw and Jeepers Creepers where the antagonist is never really fully shown to the audience because it adds to the suspense and horror of the film. In Saw a mask is used and we may well use a mask in our film as it keeps the killers identity a secret, and we think that the fear of the un-known is one of the scariest things in the horror genre. We are also going to use fake blood in our piece, which is also done in Saw; the blood will denote the death of the victims, and it will show the pain that the angonist inflicted on his victims. On the killers clothing there will also be small blood marks which connotes pain, a struggle and obviously death. The antagonist in the film's face will not be seen until the very end of the peice and even then it will be covered by a large mask which would be used when using a blow torch in the garage. We have decided to use this mask because of the occupation of the killer and also because it furthers add to the suspense of the film, as the audience are unaware of the killers identity. This will happen in the garage when the killer is seen watching the news report about the murders on television, this will be the last shot or the opening of the film that we are creating because it will imprint the image into the audiences minds.

The idea for using the mask in the film to hide the killers identity was drawn from the film Saw as we feel it makes the film more dominate in the horror genre. As a group however we decided to adapt the type of mask to fit our killer and his job description, therefore using both our inspiration and imagination in order to make the opening of the film the best it can be.

Consent Form and Main Character Profile

This week in me media lessons I have been working on the consent forms that will have to be filled in by our cast members, On the consent form I had to provide all the information that our cast members need in order t be able to take part in our film. The consent form is very important because if it is not written and filled in properly it could cause legal issues. For legal reason we are not allowed to have anyone in our film that is under the age of 16. With the consent form, if we are filming anyone under the age of 18 there parents also have to sign the form. The consent film that I have written can be found above.

I have also been working on the main character profile in our film, the character profile is to help us get a better understanding of what we want our antagonist to look like and act etc. I really enjoyed writing about the main character in our film because he is a dark and mysterious character, and writing about him was very interesting. The character profile that I have written can be found above. My group has continued to work well together this week we are dividing the work as evenly as possible between us and we are also doing a lot of group in order to get the whole group's input into our work. Kingsford production team is also continuing to meet deadlines and we are doing this by following the gantt chart that I made.

The next thing that the KingsFord production team has to tackle is the audition process and we will be doing this on friday, we have put audition posters up around our school in order to attract a wider range of actors for our film. We have also personally gone around year 11 and sixth form classes to inform people of our auditions and any other details they might need. We will be filming the auditons to show how they went, and the reasons why we select the actors we do. We will also write up about the auditions and this will include pictures and will be uploaded to our group blog by the deadline date.

Similar Media Works

Similar Media Works India

This is showing the slides that I did towards my gropus similar media works presentation, I created four of the slides. The presentation was very helpful to me and my group as it involved a lot of research in to the horror genre, which provided me with many ideas of how I wanted my own piece to be. I researched in to many films such as Saw II, and some ideas that I gathered from the film I have adapted and used similar techniques in my own film. The making of the similar media works really helped me personally as it allowed me to research into the horror genre and this helped me come up with many ideas for the opening to my horror film. The similar media works took a lot of work from me and the rest of my group to complete but all it did was further help us develop our ideas of horror. I will use the similar media works project when making my film as it will give me something to refer my ideas to, to make sure that we are keeping are film within the horror genre, also we used the similar media work as a bank of ideas for our film therefore during the production we can use it as a reference point.