Storyboard 2 - Penny

Location Research - Ewhurst house - Flora

We have a lot of places we can go to as Hurtwood is quite..a creepy place, so we decided to go with the boarding house Ewhurst as it provides the creepy basement we were looking for as well as a front view of a spooky looking house. The boy in the living room is an easy place to set as it can be anywhere, but a lot of living room spaces in Hurtwood look like boarding houses and we want to make it look as realistic as possible so we are probably going to use a living room space in Peaslake or find a normal looking place in the place we are shooting, Ewhurst.

As you can see the house has a castle creepy looking vibe, it may not look scary in daylight but as soon as the sun goes down, the spooks come out! So when we are making our script our actors could say things like 'this house right here is the place where Anne Korset murdered her 4 children and husband as well as herself, it is said there spirits are still roaming around begging to get out!

Location Research - Ewhurst house - Flora

We have a lot of places we can go to as Hurtwood is quite..a creepy place, so we decided to go with the boarding house Ewhurst as it provides the creepy basement we were looking for as well as a front view of a spooky looking house. The boy in the living room is an easy place to set as it can be anywhere, but a lot of living room spaces in Hurtwood look like boarding houses and we want to make it look as realistic as possible so we are probably going to use a living room space in Peaslake or find a normal looking place in the place we are shooting, Ewhurst.

As you can see the house has a castle creepy looking vibe, it may not look scary in daylight but as soon as the sun goes down, the spooks come out! So when we are making our script our actors could say things like 'this house right here is the place where Anne Korset murdered her 4 children and husband as well as herself, it is said there spirits are still roaming around begging to get out!

Storyboard 2 - Penny

Casting Ideas - Penny

Casting idea for presenters:

James Gaffney

- James Gaffney, past Hurtwood student, working on career in presenting 

Mike Niland 

- Mike Niland, media teacher, has been in previous Hurtwood sequences 

- Student - Hugo Boothman, A1 Hurtwood student 

Casting Ideas - Penny

Casting idea for presenters:

James Gaffney

- James Gaffney, past Hurtwood student, working on career in presenting 

Mike Niland 

- Mike Niland, media teacher, has been in previous Hurtwood sequences 

- Student - Hugo Boothman, A1 Hurtwood student 

Character List - Penny

3/4 characters:

- 1 or 2 presenters 

- boy who is watching the programme, probably 16/17-year-old

- shadow man who does jump scare

Storyboard 1 - Penny

Storyboard 1 - Penny

Character List - Penny

3/4 characters:

- 1 or 2 presenters 

- boy who is watching the programme, probably 16/17-year-old

- shadow man who does jump scare

Location Research

The TV show:

Ewhurst house - the basement

We will use the outside of the house as the base for the creepy house, and then maybe some shots of the scenery outside of it looking isolated:

We will then use the basement of the house, and turn off the lights so it looks even more creepy:

For the living room that the boy will be sitting watching the TV show in, we will use Ewhurst turrets, and its living room/common room:

< this is a picture from our second shoot day, but you can see the whole room from in here (this was added to my blog post later as we couldn't find any pictures online)

Location Research

The TV show:

Ewhurst house - the basement

We will use the outside of the house as the base for the creepy house, and then maybe some shots of the scenery outside of it looking isolated:

We will then use the basement of the house, and turn off the lights so it looks even more creepy:

For the living room that the boy will be sitting watching the TV show in, we will use Ewhurst turrets, and its living room/common room:

< this is a picture from our second shoot day, but you can see the whole room from in here (this was added to my blog post later as we couldn't find any pictures online)

Research into Similar Projects - Nehir (+ Penny)

Other cringy ghost reality TV shows - "celebrity ghost hunt" - Cringy moment of celebrities being scared

Presenter style - Dick and Dom - Dick and Dom montage        

Previous Hurtwood House sequences with TVs in the shots - Clover (2021) 

                                                                                                - Raze Up (2012)

Researching similar products to shoot our opening title sequence.,

 

Films I've looked at :

- The Poltergeist

- Ghost Brothers

- Cencor

 

We discussed as a group that it would be better to think of different ways to film our idea by looking at videos or movies. 

 

Poltergeist : 

 

Poltergeist Opening Title Sequence:

 

This particular shot is a useful reference to our idea because we plan to shot in a living room and we want to create a dark, scary atmosphere. The only light source in the room comes from the TV, which creates a kind of vignette and focuses our attention to middle of the frame. The. corners of the room are shadowy, and darkness surrounds the protagonist, making it claustrophobic.

 

 

As mentioned in our shot list, we plan to make direct reference to this shot from Poltergeist, framing the boy’s head within the confines of the TV screen. Total darkness around the TV will make him appear completely isolated from the outside world, like he’s totally transfixed and unaware of his surroundings. Again, the darkness becomes threatening and scary. What can’t we see? What might jump out at us?

 

 

The use of the lighting in this shot is a good reference for our close up of the protagonist. In Poltergeist the close up shot of the young girl watching  the TV is softly front lit and flickering to show the TV light on her face. 

 

Cencor :

 

 

 

The second picture below (from Censor) is useful because as we mentioned in our bullet point list, we plan to zoom into TV which. As below, we for the image to become a bit distorted as we get close enough to start to see the individual pixels.

The first picture is a extreme close up to the women’s face, this could be used as a reference to shoot kid’s reaction when the TV suddenly turns off, it can reflect his confusion to audience. Also the total darkness beyond the face continues to heighten that feeling of something threatening out of sight in the dark. It emphasises the feeling of claustrophobia.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 These shots from the reality TV show Ghost Brothers are a useful reference for our fake tv show. The shakey, handheld camera will add suspense and frighten the audience, as they try to make sense of the action through the chaotic, messy contrast to the more controlled shots in the main sequence. For shooting this we will also use the room/basement, which will be dark. We might also edit this shots to appear black and white to give it the same night vision effect. This could be used as a reference when the presenters going down to the basement. Shots from different angles with a shakey camera might reflect how confused and scared they are.