PLANNING: CALL SHEET

 

A Single's Pitch Deck by Casey Drewett

CONSTRUCTION: PLANNING TO FILM

To gain a greater understanding of how we would set up lights, camera position/angles and prop positions we went to one of our locations which was the abandoned shed. Whilst we were there we took some establishing shots to show how we'd set up the lights and the cameras and props. 

After we took these photos of the shed we had to remove some debris such as branches, metal wires and the table to allow us to have more room to move around and create the sinister look we wanted the room to have. This is the room were our athlete Dan Clifton will be kidnapped and held hostage in by our serial killer. We set a chair in the centre of the room and placed a tripod with a camera on it facing the chair. This helped to give us an idea of how we wanted to shoot this scene. The use of two portable led floodlights allowed us to see how the lighting would help to create our sinister scene. The decision to place the camera in front of the chair was so that we can capture the raw emotion of fear and terror on our actors face as he talks directly to the camera. The use of low angle shots helped to show that he is tied to the chair. 

The second location we wanted to film at was in the woods. At this location we planned to film the running sequence of the athletes and where the detective finds all of the dead bodies. When looking at how to film the running sequence we decided to use crab shots, tracking shots and pan shots.