Account of Shooting Day

Cast, Costumes and Props

This is our actress who is also part of our group. We were initially not going to show her face because of the sequence having to be full of P.O.V. shots of her. However, going along with the shooting, we decided that it would have been a good idea to show her full body in order to reveal a relationship between them.





Josh Jackson, actor in shower.

We chose these actors puposefully due to their style and American teen-ager looks which is what we were aiming for initially. He is supposed to look like a jock and she is supposed to look like a typical cheerleader.


Costumes and Props:


Our use of props was very simple because the whole set and sequencve was very naturalistic.
This cardigan is what the actress wears when she enters the bathroom. The choice of red was to add colour to the set because there was a very yellow wash in terms of lighting. The colour also communicated to the audience that she is an important character because she stands out.











As the actress comes in, she removes the red cardigan remaining only with this tank top. The colour white represents innocence which is the intention, it will make the audience think that she is in danger. This comes as a surprise when the white top has a clear flood of blood splatter onto it while she violently stabs the actor.























We decided that her weapon would be a knife seeing that she is only a teen-ager. The decision to have a simple kitchen knife is iconic to that fact that everybody in the world has one, which is a weapon that can be used also to kill. We made this choice also because a girl her age would not buy a professional weapon such as a gun.















At every shot of her stabbing, to cut to him being stabbed continuosuly, we added blood to his chest by bits to make it seem realistic. There is shot to get a front view of her stabbing his as if it were from his point of view. While someone from inside the shower held the camera, another person splattered blood on her.

Location

We decided to make as much use as possible of the Hurtwood House school seeing that it had to seem like a school as much as possible. We shot the scene in the boys shower room and the boys bathroom.
We changed ideas of locations often because the initial idea was to shoot the sequence in an elegant house with a bright, white bathroom, however, since we did not have access to such a location, we thought about shooting in one of the boarding houses which had long corridors and nice bathrooms. We then decided that it would have been easier and time saving to shoot on location. This is when we changed our location in general: we went from the idea of a house to a school. For the corridors, we used the school basement corridor which had pipes on the wall which gives a scary effect, this is the location where the actress walks through to then go up the stairs. To make it seem as if the stairs led up to a main boarding house corridor, we shot her feet going up the stairs and then cut to her walking in the same pace and position as before but a different corridor and keeping camera movement the same.

Storyboarding

One of the key aspects of Film-Making is the ability to follow and interpret storyboards. They help you to understand the intentions for the camera operator and a clear way of understanding what locations and shots you need to do. It also makes the shooting day less complicated because it gives everyone part of the group a clarified idea of what lighting you need, what shots you need and what particular shots are needed for future editing with effects, such as credits.

Shooting Script

INT. Bathroom, Dark light

Frame focuses on a jock jacket from high angle draped over a towel-rack. There is the sound of a shower running and a boy humming and whistling a pop song.

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A boys locker room. A figure of a boy in the shower washing vigorously while singing.

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INT. Dark hallway


Frame focuses on a long and dark hallway where the camera is hand-held to show a P.O.V. shot of the girl, while walking towards the locker room.

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Focus on the bathroom door which she is getting closer to.

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Her hand pushes open the door slowly while a knife in the other hand shows up in the frame.
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She goes for the shower handle
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She stabs him several times violently. Massive amounts of blood cause the white walls to stain.

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P.O.V. Shot of her moving slowly to the sink, camera moves down to her bloody hands rinsing in the running water.

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Her hand swipes across the mirror giving a reflection of her red eyes.

SHOT LIST

1. Close-up on Jock jacket
2. Medium-wide shot of bathroom
3. Wide-long shot of the hallway
5. Medium-long shot of door in the hallway
6. Close up of hand on handle
7. Medium shot of the door opening
8. Medium-wide shot of shower
9. Close up of hands opening shower door
10. Close up of hand on shower door
11. Medium wide shot of bath/shower
12. Wide shot of bathroom
13. Close-up of sink
14. Extreme close up of drain with blood in the water
15. Close up on hands swiping mirror
16. EXTREME close up of reflection of eyes in the mirror
17. Close up of victim dead

SUCCUBUS
Sharp-Edge Productions
Roles:
• Producer: Ruby Kammerina
• Director: Timothy Magdich (everyone takes part in camera work)
• Cinematographer: Chloë Roberts and Estelle Mei
• Sound: Timothy Magdich

Cast:
• Boy in shower: Josh Jackson
• Girl Killer: Chloë Roberts

Locations: Hurtwood House
• Bathroom
• Narrow, long hallway

Starts with a shot of the traditional jock jacket on a towel-rack, with the sound of the shower and a boy singing. We get a close-up of the jacket with the producers name (Ruby Kammer) sewn into the jacket. This immediately links to where we are and who is in the shower. This is clarified when there is a tracking-shot to establish the whole bathroom and steam coming from the shower where we see the figure of the boy through the shower-screen. Cut-to a P.O.V. shot, showing someone walking through a long hallway where at the end there is the bathroom door, making this obvious by steam coming through the door and sound of the boy singing. It continues with a tracking-shot still from the P.O.V. Cut to her hand opening the door with a knife in her hand, this shows who is the killer, making the movement of her hand become a title on the door (Sound: Timothy Magdich). Tracking-shot still as P.O.V. where we see his figure in the shower. She reaches around the shower curtain and you see a hand and knife making stabbing movements while he screams and blood splattering onto the white tiles. At the last stab, blood splatters onto the white tiles making the title of the film (Succubus) . Cut to P.O.V. whole she moves slowly to the sink and cut to her hands in the sink and the water becoming red from the blood on her hands and then she washes the knife. Cut to a shot of the mirror from her P.O.V. with the name of the director (Timothy Magdich). She wipes some steam off the mirror giving a scary effect by only seeing her red eyes. BLACKOUT.

Succubus

• Main character(Killer): Sara Millfield
• Key Victims: -Marc,15 years old, the geek.
-Dave,16 years old, rugby boy
-Tim,16 years old, is helped by Lisa



She is very attractive, she disguises herself as a young high-school girl who is in reality 105 years old. She wants to keep young because she doesn’t feel that she has lived her life enough. She sucks the soul out of young boys. Her real name is Patricia Godfield. Lisa and Tim realise the disappearance of male friends and are attempted to study the killers mysterious past. Set mostly in school’s in America and in the victims house.
The initial idea of the whole story was representing an over-turn in stereotypical male killers where we finally see a man as the victim and the woman as the killer. The jock jacket at the beginning signifies that he is the typical, popular jock, therefore, showing that the place and setting of the whole film is in a high school, signifying that the target audience is adolescents.
The story behind her killing him in the opening sequence, is her mistreated high school years by boys like the boy in the shower.
After the opening sequence, the main idea is to continue the film by presenting lives of teen-agers in high school and continuing with many cases of similar murders that we saw in the opening sequence.
We cut to the school corridor where we see Mark the geek being bullied by Dave the hunk who locks him in a school locker and walks away. The girl rescues the geek and seduces him by kissing him and asking him on a date, he accepts and runs away with embarrassment. The cool guy sees this and tries to chat her up due to jealousy but she plays hard to get and walks away.
We next see Mark and the girl in a cinema and she seduces him by touching him on the knee and drags him into the bathroom knowing that he is too shy and weak to say no. She kills him by stabbing him violently while smoke which is supposed to be his soul exhales out of his mouth .We see the girl next day at school with Dave the hunk who is trying to get her to go out with him but his girlfriend Lisa interrupts and fights with the girl, therefore she leaves. We next see Dave call the girl and ask her out, we cut to her on the phone looking at herself in the mirror and she notices wrinkles on her hand and some grey hair (shows her problem), she piles on some make-up and accepts to go out with him requesting to meet at a club. We then cut to the club where there is a lot of chaos and drugged up people with hard-core techno playing. Dave walks through the crowd and sees her face through the crowd. She indicates to go upstairs. We cut to them walking into a dark, stingy room with a dim light. A close-up of them kissing and then we only see the dim light and we hear her stabbing him violently while he screams and then she leaves the room.
Next day she is in the corridor flirting with Tim, a new character who is the friend of Lisa, this is where Lisa starts to suspect this girl. The next day, Lisa walks up to the girl insulting her and asks her lots of questions about herself, she sees the wrinkles on her hand and the girl notices this and runs away. We cut to Lisa researching on the internet for this girl’s past but can’t find anything matching her fake name. She finds a book in the library which talks about this kind of power. The book says that she can only be destroyed by being called by her real name. She realises that she has to do research in the girl’s house to find her real name. She tells Tim the situation and asks him to help her, so he asks the girl on a date and takes her to his house. Lisa breaks into the girl’s house and finds all sorts of papers…. We see Lisa finally finding the real name and runs to Tim’s house. When she arrives, she is beaten up by the girl and Tim manages to get out of the bed and gets the papers and screams out her name. We see the girl shrivel up on the floor and loose all souls of her victims through exhaling the smoke.