Production Plan

At this point, I have completed:

• Written storyboards, 
• Drawn storyboards for the key scenes,
• Script
• Location plans

There is still a key area that I need to get some practice in to achieve a realistic look for the film, and that is makeup. I have a basic understanding of how to make wounds (shown in a previous post) but I have little experience creating them. As this will be my job, I need to get some practice, which I will do over the next couple of weeks by practicing on myself.

These are all the outstanding tasks to complete before I film:

• Assign actors to the characters
• Prop collection (knife etc.),
• Prop making (Trevor's wound, newspapers), 
• Set film dates, 
• Script read through and dry run with the cast.

Prop collection is a process I am completing now, sourcing these should be no problem by the time we film.

I am also in the process of making the newspaper articles and the scrapbook which should be completed in a couple of weeks.

I plan to film mid December but based on cast schedules, may change accordingly. This is also relevant to the dry run. I want to film a dry run during the day so that I have practice with filming the scenes, also so I can direct the actors and they see exactly what I want from them.

Editing will take a couple of weeks but I cannot determine when they will be as I currently do not know when I will be filming, but I imagine it will be sometime in early January.

For the Radio advert, I still need to get the music back from Honed compositions, as well as write the script.

For the poster, I still need to create a tagline, take principle photography and edit. 

Props: Newspapers

For the film, I need to create a scrapbook, detailing the killer's history. This will need to include newspaper articles, artist interpretations and other snippets of information. All the articles I have seen have little or no colour, and aside from that, look exactly like modern newspapers. I will have to design a local newspaper logo as well as the stories revolving around the killer. I will shortly be analysing the text and language in the articles to help create my own.


http://www.nytimes.com/1989/02/09/obituaries/killer-joe-piro-who-popularized-discotheque-dancing-dies-at-68.html

The Knife (improved)

The weapon of choice for my antagonist is going to be a knife, as is with most slasher films. This is to get a shock from the audience with the slow death and the amount of blood a stabbing wound create. I have seen prop knives that use pumps to transfer fake blood to the blade so it looks like blood is being drawn from the victim. I have found tutorials as well as websites that sell these props.

http://www.instructables.com/id/How-To-Create-A-Realistic-Bleeding-Knife-Effect/

I would prefer to buy them, but they may cost too much, so I fear I may have to make my own.

Jason Voorhees of Friday the 13th

The killer will wield a large knife, almost the size of a machete. This is because it has strong links to popular slasher films (Friday the 13th etc.) and is commonly associated with brutal murder. As the killer has remained feral for 2+ decades, a modern kitchen knife would not be accessible to him. although it has been used in slasher films (such as Halloween and Psycho). It is possible that the killer could wield an old rusted kitchen knife, which would add to his feral background, but it depends if I can source the machete.

Mike Myers of Halloween

A pocket knife isn't shocking or large enough and is associated with petty crime, nor would it be suitable for several of the death scenes. An option is a bowie knife, but these are more military thriller (such as the Rambo series) than horror. This may be an option and it is large enough, but I feel that a machete style blade is more terrifying and is more commonly established in similar texts. A meat cleaver is as terrifying, but does not stab, instead it chops, so would not be suitable. The meat cleaver is only featured in one notable horror film I am aware of, which is the meatcleaver massacre, a bad example of slasher                                                                                      films and by no means a classic.

Props

I have created a list of props that we will need to create the scenes. There are categories that these props fall under,

They will need:

• Food (marshmallows etc.)
• Tent
• Sleeping bags
• Firelighters or lighter
• Tripods and cameras 
• Some form of alcohol
• A lamp for the tent
• Lights (torches, Video lights etc)
• The Scrapbook
• Backpacks

The Killer will need:

• Weapon
• Big spike

The crew will need:

• Camera's and tripods
• Video lights
• Fake blood
• Liquid Latex