Planning treatment (synopsis, lighting, costume, actors, camera angles, music)

SYNOPSIS

MISE EN SCENE

Describes the design aspects of a production such as;

• Location
• Set
• Design
• Costume
• Properties
• Lighting
• Artificial lighting
• Colour design

MISE EN SCENE

Is important within ‘INNOCENCE’ to connote the evil nature of the STALKER, played by ANDREW GILBERT and the innocence of the runner ELEANOR played by EMMA EAVES (me) and DIRECTED by RACHEL TRAWICKI ELEANOR as a runner is wearing a big PURPLE jumper which connotes to the audience he content sate as she is wearing a mellow and calm shade of purple. To add to this characters costume she wears plain leggings and trainers which anchor to the audience she is on a run.

Conversely, THE STALKER is wearing all BLACK with a HOODED black jumper. The black hood connotes his longing not to be recognised or seen anchoring his bad intentions; breaking in to her house and also anchoring his EVIL character.

LOCATION -was in Long Marston, a little country village by an old church where the last witch in England was drowned. This ancient scary story gave us inspiration to FILM the opening 2 minuets of a suspense filled clip. The tower/ church is surrounded by open fields which were perfect a POINT OF VIEW shot from the stalker whilst Eleanor runs through the fields. This brings suspense and tension to the audience as you are aware she is being watched however you don’t know where from.

PICTURES OF LOCATION

CAMERA ANGLES

Within the film, 'Innocence', we have used a range of diverse camera angles and shots such as an establishing shot to show the audience where the runner is, what surrounds her and what state of mind she is in. In addition, we have used a range of; high and low angle shots, medium close up shots and close up shots to give to connote to the audience the illusion of suspense and surprise.

EDITING

We edited the film, on FINAL CUT EXPRESS with APPLE MAC computers, this gave us a wide range of effects to use within the film.

Synopsis :

Innocence’ is a face-paced thriller based around the death of a teenage girl, leading to the destruction of a village and eventually humanity. The first two minutes of the film centre around Eleanor Ford, a teenage girl on a jog around her village. She returns home unaware of the fact she has dropped her keys and is being followed. Once at home she finds a suspicious note stating that her keys will be found at the local derelict church tower. Naively she runs to the tower and is of course confronted with the killer who has been following her all along standing at the top of the run down tower, she hears the bell chime symbolising her death and as she begins to piece together what has happened she is grabbed by an unknown figure behind.

Alternate shots of Eleanor being followed against shots of the stalker picking up her keys will then be placed with shots of Eleanor returning home after dropping the keys with black and white shots to represent the recent past of the stalker breaking into her house and leaving the note after finding the keys.

I also created a brief synopsis for the rest of the film:
The film follows several brutal murders all in the same sleepy village of Wilcott, as the audience try to decipher the killer they must also discover the culprit’s motives for the town of Wilcott holds a deep rooted horrifying secret that is ready to rear its ugly head.