Shooting Schedule

 

scenes	Shot type	Action	Mise en Scene/ props	location
1	Full eye level front shot followed by a medium side shot.	Family outing at the playground, faiza on the swings being pushed by her mum and dad (ankita and sukhjinder)	Pink dress for faiza, swings.	Playground
2	Close up shot of Faiza, Full shot of the whole family.	Faiza’s parents leaving her to attend to the baby, this is followed by Faiza looking down and on her own. Followed by a family picture.	Pink dress, pushchair for the baby, swings and camera.	playground
3	Close up, medium shot, over the shoulder shot	Scene starts with a close up the baby sleeping, she is being watched by her older sister who is drawing a hateful picture of her due to being jealous of her.	Pink dress, Baby, toys, pens and coloring books.	House , bedroom
4	Point of view, zoom out, low angle	Faiza spying on her mother and baby sister she feels neglected therefore runs away.	Pink dress, stairs.	House
5	Full shot	Faiza running into the road and being hit by a car.	Dark lighting, pink dress, car	on public road
6	Medium shot	Witnessing the grave of Faiza.	Grave	Cemetery
7	Over the shoulder, zoom out	The mother and baby sister (which is grown up now) crying at the family picture.	Family picture, crying.	classroom
8	Slow panning shot, medium shot	The younger sister is sleeping when her older (dead sister) pulls her duvet off her.	Bed, duvet, dark lighting, pink dress.	House - Bedroom
9	Zoom in, jump cuts	The family picture that was taken in the first scene is shown, but with the dead girl missing from the picture.	Music box, family picture, bright lighting.	Bedroom
10	Medium shot, zoom out, low angle	The younger sister (neelam) is watching TV; she starts to get haunted by her dead sister this is when the chandelier starts to shake.	Sofa, TV, chandelier.	House - Living room
11	High angle	Neelam walks up the stairs to find out what’s causing the chandelier to shake.	Stairs	House
12	High angle followed by a low angle and then a slow panning shot.	Neelam walks up the ladder which leads to the attic, Faiza then jumps out from the darkness to frighten her.	Ladder, attic, pink dress.	House - Attic
13	Medium shot	We see Faiza back at the playground, she starts disappearing from the swings and round about.	Swings, roundabout, dark eye makeup, pink dress	playground
14	Close up	Neelam is sleeping on her bed with Faiza bending over her.	Bed, dark lighting and pink dress.	House – bedroom

Risk Assessment

Scene	Location	Risk	Solution
Car accident	On public road	As we had a child on set, this was a risk as she could have easily run into the busy road therefore resulting to an accident.	In order to prevent this, we accompanied the child at all times to avoid an accident taking place.
Holding the knife	Jasleen’s House, bedroom	The child in our trailer had to hold a knife for the poster; the risk was that she could hurt herself or someone else around her.	To prevent this risk from taking place, we made sure we were in a safe environment i.e. surroundings were clear so no one trips over and cause a hazard.
Walking up the ladder, leading to the attic	Navneet’s House, attic	The risk of this scene was as that someone could have slipped and hurt themselves as it was high up furthermore this was more risky as we had a child in the scene. In addition equipment could also get damaged if it isn’t secured enough.	To avert this risk, we organised the scene in depth so therefore we could get the scene over and done with quickly.  We also accompanied the child at all times so no harm is caused to her.
Drawing of the baby scene	Navneet’s house-  bedroom	In this scene we had a baby present, the baby was on the bed on its own and this was a risk as he could have rolled off and hurt himself.	To evade this risk, we shot the scene quickly; furthermore we guarded the bed whilst the scene was shot.
Bedroom scene	Jasleen’s house - bedroom	We shot this scene in the dark, the risk was that someone could have fallen over in the dark and hurt themselves.	To avoid this risk we made sure everyone was in their correct positions so they knew where to go in the dark additionally we did practise runs before hand so everyone was familiar with their roles and positions.
Chandelier scene	Navneet’s house – living room	In this scene it was required to shake the chandelier, the risk was that if we shook it too hard then it could have collapsed and fallen onto someone.	We avoided this risk by gently shaking the chandelier; furthermore we edited the scene to achieve the shaky look.

Storyboard Analysis

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Final Idea and Treatment

Three Pitch Ideas:

1)      Combination of the ‘The Ring’ and ‘Dark Water’ meets ‘the Neglected’ in the playground.

Supernatural, mystery, haunts innocent people for revenge.

Common paradigms which are consisted in our scenario are -Death, creepy child and neglect/revenge.

Setting of a playground which is normally seen as a safe environment however will be displayed in an isolated surrounding. This idea follows Todrov’s theory it is structuralised as it follows Todorov’s approach to narrate the film as it moves from equilibrium to disturbance and then back to a new equilibrium.

2)      Combination of ‘The Wrong Turn’ and ‘The Hills Have Eyes’ meets ‘Trapped.’

Slasher, suspense, revenge, blood, knifes final girl and male gaze.

A group of friends go off on a road trip when they get stranded on an isolated grounds in the woods, soon the group of friends experience weird things taking place around them and shortly one by one start to go missing. This pitch follows the Barthes Enigma coding, as the plot creates an element of mystery to the entire audience therefore intriguing them and leaving them wanting more.

3)                  Final pitch idea, a combination of ‘Shaun of the Dead’ and ‘Attack the Block’ meets ‘The Infected Zone’  Zombies, blood and gore, humour/comedy, house and a group of friends.

A group of teenage boys at home soon realise all is not what is seems, as they realise that their neighbourhood is overtaken by ‘infected zombies’ in addition more pressure is put on them when they realise they’re the only ones who are not infected and is up to them to save the rest of mankind. This pitch is a postmodern as it is a mixture of horror and comedy.

Scenario:

Chosen idea is the neglected:

 “A 6 year old girl is neglected by her mother and over shadowed by her younger sister who is more loved. She dies in an accident and her spirit comes back for revenge.” This

‘Haunted child’ being the main paradigm.

“The Little creepy girl” being the main paradigm for a character also the trailers antagonist. ‘Teenager’ as the victim – protagonist of the trailer.

‘Playground’, ‘isolated house’ and ‘attic’ as the as the setting.

Treatment- 

The opening starts with moment of equilibrium, as the first scene is set in a playground creating a peaceful and playful atmosphere. A young girl is sitting on the swings being pushed by her parents, this moment is soon executed when her baby sister start crying this therefore enforces her parents attention to be drawn to the baby rather than her this therefore leaves her feeling ‘neglected’ and ‘alone’. Right before the close up shot is shown of the girl, a tone card is presented on the screen stating ‘The neglected’, therefore close up shot is shown of the girl swinging on the swings alone, clearly showing she is being neglected. The next scene is when a family picture is being taken but the girl is forced into tacking the picture as she is upset and overshadowed by her baby sister. Through a fade we are taken to the next scene where the baby is peacefully sleeping and her sister is beside her drawing a resentful picture of her, another tone card is presented ‘innocence is deadly’ clarifying for the audience that the girl is evil and bitter.  The next scene is the girl spying on her mum and baby sister through the door this helps the audience get a better understanding of the girls character as its in her point of view, further to this scene a low angle, long shot is shown of the girl this makes the girl look superior and intimidating in addition the music in the background gets more tensed and amplified pushing the idea of jealousy and suspicion. The next scene play a dominant role in the trailer as we witness the girl feeling neglected which formulates her to run out of the house this is when a blackout is created with additional sound effects such as a car crash, scream, ambulance, a heart monitor and flat line making it clear for the audience she has been run over by a car and died. 

Another tone card is shown, stating a time change this is where the girl comes back to haunt her younger sister who is no longer little anymore, the next scene takes placed in the bedroom when the ‘younger sister’ is sleeping peacefully gets attacked by her ‘dead older sister.’ The next seen shows the family picture which was taken at the beginning which also shows the girl no longer in the picture, furthermore more scene are shown of the ‘younger sister’ being haunted by her dead sister which therefore leads her to check the attic this is when the younger sister witnesses her dead older sister.  Soon after another tone card is present ‘playtime isn’t over’ this leads to the playground where the dead girl is swinging and spinning on the roundabout with weird things taking place, lastly another tone card is presented stating ‘It’s only just begun’ when the  dead girl is shown laughing.

Tone cards:

 Title – ‘The Neglected’, names of crew.  ‘Play time isn’t over yet..’ ‘Innocence Is Deadly’ and ‘It’s only just begun’

Key Scenes: 

Happy family scene

Neglected scene

Girl getting jealous

Blackout – screams heard, Accident heard.

Younger sister getting haunted.

Swing scene

Little girls face. – shocks the audience.

(Changes may be made) 

Location:

Playground

House

Attic

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