Casey's contribution.

What was your contribution to the process during the planning, production and post production stages?

     Throughout the process of making our horror film, I've contributed different things to each planning, production, and post-production. From when we started thinking about the idea and we all helped to evlove film idea, I began to try and find the actors we were going to use; first idea of Thomas Purdy, Christie Britton, and Mitch Proctor, when Christie was unavailable I asked every girl I could think of until I found a replacement. Amber and I then had to find another replacement for all parts of the dead body, jogger and vampie; I found our replacement vampire who has been permanent since - Joshua Brown.

     During the planning process, I did the research in to our BBFC studies so that we could come to the conclussion of what certificate our film would be. I then did the IMDB research that needed to be done in to past vampire films to so we could look at our target audience and work out what sort of things we could put in to the film to attract them. I also did part of the narrative research in to the different title beginnings of different horror films so that we could begin to get an idea of what different titles look like and could begin think of how we would like our titles to look like. I also did all three of our character designs and researched in to different make up techniques and ways of making our vampire look more realistic. There was also the film outline, shot list and first draft of the script that I wrote. The storyboar was a joint effort between me and Amber - you can see our first class art skills in the scanned version a few post backs.

     The production proccess was probably the part I enjoyed most throughout the entire creation of our film, even though it was the most troublesome. I was present through all 4 shoots and did a reasonable amount of filming. The most interesting shots that I filmed would have to be the point of view shots we experimented with on our first shoot, these meant I had to climb in to all sorts of bushes and get hit by sticks and stung by nettles to get an interesting shot that we ended up being unable to use because of the change in actor. We didn't use point of view shots on our other views as there wasn't a suitable area for them to be shot from in the new location - Eastwood. During the final shoot that Mitch and I did, I shot the first section of Alex (our latest jogger) running, up until just before he finds the dead body as I had to play the "challenging" role of Victim #1 due to failing to find an available actor.

     The post-production is unfortunately still carrying on as we had to apply for an extension on our final procuct. We did however begin editting the other three films that we made, most succesfully was shoot 3 with Callam and Ada-May as our actors. We have print screens of our edit up from this time on a few posts back. I really enjoyed editing the film because its really intricate work that takes quite a lot of care to find the right place to cut shots and piece them together. Making the soundtrack was something else I was also involved in, I decided when we started planning the film that I wanted something that sounded similar to the beat for "When the Sun Goes Down" by the Arctic Monkeys, but it was really hard to recreate Garageband, and so we made an upbeat music that cuts out abruptly and goes in to our news broadcast. Our editing is going to carry on in our spare time as we need to finish as soon as we can.