Blog 2 - Planning

Plot

The plot of the film focuses around an unidentified male character waking up in an unknown location and the film details his attempt to figure out what the location is and how he can escape. It becomes apparent through stages of the film that there is a character controlling events which occur to try and prevent the main character from escaping through the use of a computer monitoring his actions and switches. The main character finds files and documents throughout the film giving out vague clues to why he is there and what the location is however these clues all become clear at the end when he is re-captured at the end. The main character will find exits throughout the film however the character behind the computer limits his choice of paths throughout the film through the use of locking doors and having strange thugs guard certain areas. He realises throughout the film he is in an abandoned school which is being used as a laboratory for experiments and clues lead him to reveal he is one of their experiments.

• Media Studies classroom – for the scenes where the experimenter is monitoring the main character through the computer, also used for the scene where the main character finds an abandoned room and finds documents on the desk/unclear information on the white board

• L block corridors – for the scenes where it shows the CCTV view of the main character and the main characters eyesight while exploring the location

• H1 block corridors – for the scenes where it shows the CCTV view of the main character and the main characters eyesight while exploring the location



• Music block corridor – for the scenes where it shows the CCTV view of the main character and the main characters eyesight while exploring the location

• Outside the H block/School grounds – Where the character is exploring his location and the CCTV is viewing his actions

• Outside the music block by the school gate/School grounds – Where the character comes out of the music block and tries to escape by opening the gate, but finds out it’s locked



Roles

• Main Character - Ben Fawcett
• Scientist/Person behind computer - Ben Fawcett
• Thugs - Random pupils
• Bodies - Random pupils
• Camera man - Ben Fawcett/pupil

Equipment

Papers/Documents/Posters

Plastic Knives

Tomato sauce (fake blood)

Celotape (to stick posters to the walls)

Technologies/Effects Used

• Windows movie makers video effect ‘Grey Scale’ with an overlaying title saying “CCTV” will be used to show the scenes being filmed by the CCTV camera

• Most shots will be handheld camera shots to show its the main characters eyesight