Ideas for the film

We decided to completely change our mind and use a girl instead of a boy because we couldn't find any time we could all do, therefore we had to change our idea slighty by having the two girls as house mates and as if one of them (the killer) is being welcomed home by the other, (the victim). We then thought that as she got welomed home her friend hugged her and the killer would stab her as she was entering the hug.

For this we would need a welcome home balloon, a silver suitcase which looks quite old, Becca's dress for the victim, white patent shoes, green hood coat, fake eyelashes for the killer, watch for the victim as the killer is running late, doc martins for the killer as they are clumpy and will make a lot of noise.

Possible locations ingatestone station

face

We want to use 'Alex' from Clock Work Orange and make our character look like him with the bowler hat, fake eyelashes and pale face.

Filming Prop table

A table showing the props we will be needing on each day of filming.

Costume design :Female character

Costume design female character

We have chosen this dress because it creates  a childlike sense of innocence making the character appear venerable. Similarly the white shoes make the character appear young and innocent. Using white as a major stable of the costume makes the character appear untouched and virginal.

Location

We like the idea of using Ingatestone train station as one of our locations, the bridge over the railway will give it a creepy look and we thought we could have one of our characters standing on it. As we want to use the idea from Inception that has the dream inside of a dream we thought we could have it also set in a different place so when the character dies in one dream it could go down a level to another place. We thought a good place would be in a bedroom as it a lot different from the station.

Lift to the Scaffold

We watched the opening clip from Lift to the Scaffold, directed by Louis Malle in 1958. The film was the first 'French new wave' film, this meant the movies featured unprecedented methods of expression, such as long tracking shots. Many of the French New Wave films were produced on tight budgets; often shot in a friend's apartment or yard, using the director's friends as the cast and crew. Directors were also forced to improvise with equipment (for example, using a pram for tracking shots). Louis Malle asked Miles Davis, a well known Jazz musician, to watch the film and then play what he thought would go well with the scenes. This worked very well and in some places to the opening scene contra punctual sound occurs.


The first shot is a extreme close up of a woman's eyes, this questions the audience by wondering who she is talking to on the phone and why she is saying it. The shot then cuts to a man and his reply's to the woman on the phone, which then draws back to see the establishing shot of him in a building and she is in a phone box. The props used in the film, a gun, glove and rope all represent crime, meanwhile the audience is still wondering what is going to happen and who he is going to shoot. Whilst this is happening fforeshadowing occurs as the employee is sharpening pencils, you see her do this before the murder is happening and during it as it blocks out the gun shot so she doesn't suspect anything. 


A long take of the boss is used to show how much power the boss has over the man with the man with the gun and even when he draws out the gun he still shows he isn't scared, again showing he is a powerful character so the employee with the gun must have a lot of confidence to shoot him. As the tension between the boss and the employee with the gun builds up you can here the music in the background increasing which gives off the impression that as he pays attention, so do the audience. 


After this scene it cuts back to the woman who is waiting, the scene completely uses artificial light and none of the people around her or driving are actors, which makes the film more life like as it captures peoples real reactions. As she stands up to walk down the street pathetic fallacy of the thunder crashing is used to show how angry she is. Instead of a tracking shot being used for the scene, the director improvised and used a pram.


Opening clip from Lift to the Scaffold