Floor plans

As our idea is one shot covering the floor space of the studio, we needed to set out the floor plan so there could be as much space as possible to film. This is because we are filming one long tracking shot of the floor. We want to make this tracking shot exciting by filming as much floor as possible and we are going to cover the floor and walls in toys, clothes and teddybears. To overcome this problem we chose to film the sequence in a diagonal line. However, this does give us limited floor space to work with due to the 180 degree rule. The red circle represents where the stool will be and the feet will be hanging. The pink line represents the direction we will film in. However, we will not do it in a straight line but will film in different directions and walls to keep the audience's interest.

Production Logo

We disucssed as a group what the production company name should be and what the logo should look like. We tried to think of names that could show the themes and ideas in this film and other films like it. For example the company that produced 'Saw' are called Tisted Pictures and this very much relates to the film! We came up with Paranoid Productions because we thought it sounded unsettling and was catchy because of the illiteration. We decided that we wanted to wrirte the logo with 'gory' and 'bloody' looking characters. Davina designed the logo using an internet program with a selection of thousands of fonts and we thought this was an incredibly eye-catching font. I thought the production logo looked effective because it was grousome, unpleasent but very appealing the the eye.

Target Audience

The target audience is a specified audience or demographic group to which a form of media is designed. Knowing the target audience for a film is incredibly important. It determines who to advertise to for example, you would not advertise for saw in a children's magazine. It also helps to know who the film is designed for, so you know what is suitable for a film, for example you can not put swearing in a film aimed for 5-10 year olds.
We decided we would aim the film at 15-24 year old males. This is because we would have the rating of the film as a 15. There are scenes that feature blood, death, gore, murder, voilent scenes and possibly voilent language. This would be unsuitable for children under the age of 15. Also, the group of people that spend most money at the cinema are males age 15-24. This means the film could potentially make a very large profit at the box office because many people would see it. We chose to target the film to a male audience because stereotypically they are more interested in a twisted storyline with blood and murder scenes which females may find too grusome and frightening. Sterotypically people older than 24 would not want to watch 'Elizabeth's Dairy' and not find it entertaining. This is because they are more concervative and would prefer to watch an interlectual or comedy film. They would also not be able to relate to the story line because it is about a teenager being bulied at school, however 15-24 year olds would, which would make the film even more attractive.
The social class would stereotypically be of a lower social background. This is because although there is a twisted plot, the film doesn't require the audience to think alot. People of a higher social group tend to prefer more interlectually challenging film and people of a lower class tend to prefer films that are designed to just entertain. The expectations of the film are that the audience should be prepared to have a chilling and exciting experience with suprising twists and grusome murder scenes.

Storyboard process- final storyboard

Final Storyboard

After many discussions with the group, we came up with the idea of one shot. I thought this would be more effective as it incorporates the dairy more into the opening scene. I implemented the shots of the new idea into the storyboard. T-k then did the drawings for the new storyboard, Davina inked them and Ross scanned them into the computer. After discussion we decided that as we only have one cast member and it would not take a large amount of time to do the one shot idea; that we would have enough time to shoot the working storyboard as well. If the one shot idea was not effective then we would have the working storyboard as a back up.

We then decided that just pages of the dairy may not be very effective scattered on the floor alone, so we added in props such as, dolls with no hair, voodoo dolls, writing, a chair and hair. This is to add levels to the shot but also to show Elizabeth's mental state, because a normal person would not carry around tourcherd dolls.