Story Board

    Our storyboard is used to plan our scenes. It also gives us an idea of what we are gonna do in each scene, how many scenes are we doing, and the camera shots we are doing.

    In this first half of the story board it is about how our main character is at the bar. In this we talk about the camera shots we want to use. We also set up for how we are going to transition in to the scene for the forest.

    The drawings we use are not super specific but they paint the picture for what we are going to do. This helps us complete the final vision of our project.

    The second half of the story board we use it to portray what is going to happen inside the forest. We use basic stick figures to show our main characters body movement.     

    The one thing I regret about this story board is not showing that much facial expressions. I wish we used more faces to show the main characters emotions rather than writing out what he is feeling under the box. Overall I think that the story board will really benefit us by helping us be able to speed up the filming process. It will also help the editor quickly be able to organize themselves by quickly identifying which scenes to put in what order.

Audio

    While filming our opening there is obviously gonna be noise that we can’t control. We will attempt to try these noises to a limit so that we don’t have to refill. When it comes to the sounds we want, we want a lot of like cars and like people walking and talking in the scene where the bar is. This is because we want there to be a lot of people around in the bar. This will be because it will raise the question, how did he end up in the middle of nowhere and how did no one notice? Then once he is in the forest we want to isolate the noises he makes. This would help the audience feel his fear. We also want this so that the audience knows that he is truly alone, because if there is other sounds around him, other than like birds or like squirrels, then it would people. The whole point of the forest is to be alone and gloomy, and having other people being heard would ruin this. We plan on using foley to make footsteps around him

Planning Post Focusing On Mise-En-Scene Element Part: 2

    The mise-en-scene we talked about before was about costumes and setting, as well as props and make up. In this I will focus on the lighting and color. 

    In our opening I wanna have a lot of darker colors such as in the bar, mainly being brown with deep lighting and having it take place at night. As for the forest I wanna have the forest have a lot of dark green, obviously it will be green cause of the amount of vegetation. But the dark green creates contrast against a rocky path. As well as the dark brown dirt that is on the ground. As for the sky we will choose a cloudy day to film as a neutral grey would serve best making everything pop out. It would also make the forest look much more depressing having it be dark and gloomy instead of being bright and vivid.

    Depth of field is something we want to use a couple time throughout the opening since it really capture the emotions of our main character face. Some examples of this would be when he first sees the doll, when he slips in the bathroom and we cut to the opening credits, and when he initially realizes that he is in a forest in the middle of nowhere.

    Our characters are consistently focused on one guy through out the entire opening. The only part where either someone besides the main character is really shown, is when the main character is leaning against the wall waiting in line to use this sink. This character doesn't do anything significant, it is just that because of him we see the main character slip conscious and then end up in the middle of a forest. As for what he does, he just uses the sink and washes his hands and then leaves the restroom.

  

Planning Post Focusing On Mise-En-Scene Element

     My group and I have decided on 2 two setting, one being a bar and the other one being a forest. Specifically for the bar scene we are going to be filming at a place in Weston Town Center and for the forest we are going behind the soccer fields at Weston regional park in to the everglades to film the forest part. The reason we chose these locations is because at town center there is a lot of night life as a lot of small business and restaurants are located there, and it is a popular spot among adolescents to socialize, and the everglades were chosen because of the 

color scheme and there being a lot of green and

brown as well as there being dim lighting.

    Our main character will be attire will be business casual as he will have just gotten off of work and go for a drink. Him wearing this style of clothing aids one of our ideas about a doll hanging from a tree by his tie in which had left behind. We came up with this because a lot of people fear dolls. Furthermore the doll we bought is already "scary" but we decided make it a bit scarier by making it really dirty, adding blood, and taking out one of the eyes.

 

    Our main character wakes up in the middle of the forest after having a lot of drinks. Therefore, he might be a little more pale and have really dark and big eye bags which we will give to him through makeup. The issue with this is that our whole group is guys and none of us have any experience with anything to do with makeup. For this reason we will have a mutual friend of ours to come in and help us set up that whole aspect of the eye bags and 

making our main character more pale.

  
   

Charachter Development

    After many conversations my group and I have finally developed a character. At first we wanted to name our character Robert, but we felt like this name wasn't really suitable for our character. The reason behind this is we want a name that doesn't sound "un-approachable" if that makes since, for example would you go up to a guy named Robert or a guy named Andrew. For this reason, we decided on calling him James, we felt that this someone with this name can be casual as well as be sophisticated. Not only that but James was one of the most popular boy's names in the year 2004, which is his birth year.

    More info about our character is that he is a single male age 21, born January 5, 2004. Our story takes place in the year 2025, in a bar where James walks in after his internship. He is attire is business casual and he is at the bar in hopes to find a special lady. This is a regular night for James as balancing school, work, and friends is extremely difficult and stressful. As a result James ends up alone at the bar consuming ridiculous amounts of alchol regularly.

 

  

Script

     Now that my group and I have developed an idea we started developing a script. We use it so that when we go to film we don't just make up things and "wing it". The script gives us a structure and helps us plan out when and where we are going to film.

Script

FADE IN:

EXT. TOWN CENTER - NIGHT

A bustling urban setting. Neon lights illuminate the streets. Cars honk in the distance. People chatter.

INT. BAR - NIGHT

A dimly lit, upscale bar. The MAIN CHARACTER (mid-30s, well-dressed in a suit and tie) sits alone at the counter, nursing a glass of whiskey.

BARTENDER: Another one?

MAIN CHARACTER: (loosely) Yeah, keep 'em coming.

Glasses clink. Drinks flow. The MAIN CHARACTER becomes visibly drunk, his speech slurring, his movements sluggish. He stumbles toward the bathroom.

INT. BAR BATHROOM - NIGHT

The MAIN CHARACTER washes his face, breathing heavily. He grips the sink, eyes bloodshot. He slumps to the floor.

His vision blurs. Darkness creeps in.

FADE TO BLACK.

TITLES & CREDITS ROLL: Title: Into The Forest Directed by: [Director Name] Written by: [Writer Name] Produced by: [Producer Name] Starring: [Main Cast Names] Cinematography: [Cinematographer Name] Music by: [Composer Name] Edited by: [Editor Name]

FADE IN:

EXT. FOREST - DAWN

Birds chirp faintly. Leaves rustle in the breeze. The MAIN CHARACTER lies on damp ground, disoriented. His suit is rumpled.

He gasps awake, clutching his chest. He looks around, confusion and fear in his eyes.

MAIN CHARACTER: (whispers) What the hell...

He stands, breathing heavily. His heartbeat audible, gradually increasing in intensity.

He pushes through the trees.

EXT. FOREST PATH - CONTINUOUS

The MAIN CHARACTER spots a weathered sign nailed to a tree. It reads: “DO NOT CONTINUE.”

He hesitates, then scoffs.

MAIN CHARACTER: (sarcastic) Sure... whatever you say.

He yanks off his tie, drops it onto the ground, and moves forward.

Leaves crunch underfoot. His heartbeat quickens. His panting grows louder.

EXT. DEEPER INTO THE FOREST - MOMENTS LATER

The MAIN CHARACTER freezes. Ahead, dangling from a low branch is a GRUESOME DOLL. Its head is cracked, eyes hollow. The TIE he discarded is wrapped around its neck.

MAIN CHARACTER: (softly) What... the... fuck?

He steps closer, heart pounding.

Suddenly, a TAP on his shoulder.

He spins around. Nothing.

MAIN CHARACTER: (whispers) Hello?

Silence.

He turns back to the branch. The DOLL is gone.

A CHILLING ECHOED LAUGH reverberates through the trees.

The MAIN CHARACTER stumbles backward, eyes darting in panic.

His breathing sharpens. His heartbeat pounds louder and louder.

FADE TO BLACK.

THE LAUGHING CONTINUES.

END OF OPENING SCENE.

    Although it isn't super lengthy, it cover everything in our opening. Not only that but it also leaves us with a little bit of wiggle room so that if we want to be creative and come up with a cool shot to add we are able to go a little bit over the time goal we set for ourselves.

 

Project Idea

     Now we have come to our last and final idea. Our idea is that we have a guy go out for drinks at a bar, or something that looks like a bar since we are underage. While at this bar he takes many shots of "tequila" or "vodka", and as well, he will have a couple glasses of whiskey (apple juice). Now the audience gets the point that our actor is gonna become intoxicated. Then we have the guy stumble out the "bar" and go to a bathroom where he leans against the wall and he slips. Then we flick to a black screen and play the credits. Once the tittle and credits role the guy wakes up in a forest and is startled but doesn't show much fear at first because he is still kind of effected from the drinks last night. As he sits up and begins to get comfortable, by taking off his blazer and tie, he begins to walk around. After walking around for a bit he enters a secluded area with a DO NOT ENTER sign. Once entering this area he begins to get chills feeling weird and becoming a little more paranoid. Now he hears leaves and branches crunching on the ground around him as if someone was walking towards him. After looking around panicking even falling over. He is at the foot of a tree where they look up and sees there is a doll tied to a tree, with his tie making a noose around her its neck. Now the guy is petrified, but stands up and begins to run away and once gets some distance he turns around to see if it is still there. Once he turns around he gets a tap on the shoulder and the opening ends.

    The idea now is to not give away so much in the begging of the opening cause now the people watching wanna see what is gonna happen. For example is the person tapping him on the shoulder friend or foe. It also begs the question that how did the doll get there and especially why is the main characters tie, which he had just left behind 30 seconds ago, around her neck now. Last, the biggest question of all, what happened to the guy and how did he end up in the middle of some random creepy forest. These are mysterious aspects that is gonna draw audience to stay and watch our film.