Short film project

Mood Board 

My short film will contain flashbacks and flash forwards on what is happening within the story of the film. The film is non-linear because of the fact my short film doesn't go in chronological order. Also my hook is a twist at the end ti create mystery and suspense.

 From my research i can see horror short films don't the amount of views thriller short films receives. I also know that females watch horror/thriller movies more than men because they light the suspense and the build up more then men do. 

As you can see to the left the black hole, which was a thriller received 19,606,627 views with 110,964 and 'Jack' which is a horror received 349,255 and 1,585 likes. This proves thriller is more liked then horror because thriller create more suspense and mystery with numerous of jump scares whereas horror has more violence.

From my research Iv'e noticed that the audience that mostly watch thrillers is 18+ because the intensity will be to my for young children because it could cause nightmares. Another reason why females enjoy horror movies more than men is because they love the story behind it. The statics are 36% of men under the age of 35 watch thrillers. 5% of women under the age of 35 watch thrillers and 65% over 35. This is why my web serial is aimed at people who are 18-35.

Also as i was watching the thriller short films i saw what the viewers liked to see more in thrillers therefore i took them into to consider to put into my short film. What i saw in the thrillers were some use of montage to not make it boring therefore it could make the audience think a bit. A lot of flash forwards and flashbacks to tell the story and to show what is going on in the movie.

Plot 

3 friends come back from a party an bump into a man who starts to become trouble to the girls and they accidentally kill him and they all get nightmares of a demon attacking them after that night.

My Pitch: The demon within 

Three friends wake up tied up to a tree: Shantelle, Adrian and Nicholos. They all are tied up with ropes and ropes around their mouth and they're all covered eith blood and wounds. Shantelle has a flashback of her having a flash forward of all of them getting hurt and theres also a close up of the ring Adrian is wearing. The game is who escapes while running through the woods is free however the demon tortures in evil ways theough this process.

The End

Characters

Adrian

Nicholas

Shantelle

Production Requirements 

Type of production - The type of production i will be producing is a thriller which will be a web-serial

Finance: Film producers get their finance through different ways. One of the ways is through their own savings; this benefits them in the long term if their film makes profit successfully. Another way is through investors investigating on a certain part of the money that needs to be paid back after being helpful to produce their movie. For my production i wouldn't need to provide a big amount of money because most of the materials that i will be using will be provided by my college. My only input in money wise would be to provide food for my actors and that will be paid with my personal savings. The transport is already established because me and my actors all have free travel oyster cards.

Budget Requirements: the costs to everything i will be needing for my web-serial will be below 

Cameras - Are from £93.99 up to £32,549.46. I would have to purchase one camera as im using a single camera to shoot my web-serial. However in this case i will be booking a camera from my college for free. 

Lights and microphone - £54.99-£183.64 for both lights and microphone. It would cost £500 per day to hire a camera man who would sometimes bring their equipment and sometimes not. In this case i wouldn't need to hire anyone because i will be shooting my web-serial myself, also their will be voice overs of my actors voices being recorded over the videos and i will be filming in daylight for most of my film and for the dark scenes will use a flash light to create more suspense.

Editing Suites - These suits can cost £500 per day/hour but in this case i will be using the editing suite that is provided in college.

Talent - to hire talent/talents will cost £500-700, however i will be using my colleagues who take drama as a course, because they will be more professional and they won't ask for any pay. 

Crew - In order to hire a crew for a web series would usually cost more than £5, 100. For my web series we will be in a group of 6 and we will split the jobs between us. 

Facility hire - the experience to rent an edit suit to have videos edited will cost around £550 per day. In this case i will be using the schools editing suit for free. 

Time 

This part of the media industry is very important, time and scheduling is everything in the media world. It's all important because you have deadlines to meet and if you don't meet the deadlines you would have to spend more money, For an example if you have booked a editing suit for 2 days which is £1,000 and your deadline was to finish editing the videos within those 2 days given but you haven't finished and you need an extra day you have to pay another £500 and then everything else will have to be pushed forward; different deadlines will have to be made and it will waste a good amount of time and money. 

The most time i will be filming is on weekends as i am occupied within the week and so are my actors because we have college. Two - three weeks would be a good amount of filming and editing time considering we can get some done within the week in spare hours. The extra props the my college wouldn't supply will be coming out of my personal savings but they will be at a cheap price. 

Materials 

Clearance is paying for copyrighted materials to used e.g music tracks/ sounds. For every time a copyrighted material is shown on another show the owner of the material gets paid a certain amount of money in order for them to use their material, which ranges from £50 upwards depends on how much was negotiated. Because of the fact this is a college project we won't have to pay for the use of other sound track, however for my web serial my plan is to create my own original sounds due to the fact i and most people know how to use Logic Pro X. Also we have access to non copyrighted sound from youtube which is a free download and example of this will be below 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOrxwqvfD2E

In order that i have my equipment on time and to make sure i will get it i will book from advance. 

Crew and personnel 

Te availability of personals I'm going to be doing this project with 2 or 3 other people so the roles of the production will split amongst us, for actors we will be gathering talents from our college and outside our college that also take a drama course. However in the real world auditions will be taken place to get actors and this will cost the production crew money as they will have  to rent out a location in order for the auditions to take place. 

The people i will be hiring will be listed below: 

A camera man who will be in charge of the camera and responsible for the filming 

Editor who will edit and put shot in order from the camera in to a story 

Sound Engineer who will be in charge of the sound from the ambient sound to non ambient sound 

Director who will direct the whole plot and i will be the producer 

Location 

The majority of our shots will be filmed in a local area, so around Sidcup/Kent and we ill need a permit from the Kent council in order to film in particular places, when the weather is not suitable we have two options, we can either use the weather to set a mood in the series or film it in that condition and edit the footage to make it look better and clearer. The location of where we are going to shoot the footage won't be far from the crew members houses. 

Most materials will be provided by my college but the rest will be coming out of my personal savings and will be booked of a booking company for a certain period of time. The BBFC won't regulate my web series as thy only regulate movies and cinematic shows and theater shows.

Facilities 

Production Equipment: equipment such as cameras, lights and other things can be booked for free form the college.  But in a real life situation it will cost around £1000 to get a camera man alone cost around 500 pounds that's half of the money gone already therefore it's not cheap.

Post- production equipment: edit suite can be booked for £550 a day and this suites will contain macs which will run the software Final cut x which is the software that will be used to edit our shots. I will be using the editing suites in school as they have free access.