Planning: Pitch for Our Idea

               

Costume[s] and Make-up
For our short film, our costume and make-up will remain very minimal. Our male character will have no make up as he will not have any injuries which would require make-up. Our antagonist for the majority of the short will remain out of sight, and so make-up is not needed for these scenes. Our character will be revealed at the end of the short, and so dark face paint and possibly fake blood will be needed to insinuate the child is of the dead.

Location Test Shots
As stated in the presentation, our location will be my house, as we wanted to tap into the idea of 'horror in the home'. With the test shots taken we have noticed both positives and negatives. Firstly, we wanted to have scenes which are held in small locations so we can give off a feeling of being trapped. This can be done well in my house as the corridors offer this feeling, and the vast amount of shadows formed naturally by house lights allow for us to play on the 'hiding in the shadows' idea. The only issues we could find are that in certain areas of the house, house lighting do not illuminate it, and so we may need to create a lighting rig to counteract this.

Props

As our antagonist is going to be a small child, we felt it would be ideal to use multiple childs toys as props, in order to keep the audience on edge and creeped out by these toys. We feel that the audience will be creeped out by these toys further as we do not associate these toys with demonic activity. We can see these toys as regualr household items and so our play on 'horror in the home' is explored further by this. Multiple toys such as these dolls, a dollhouse and moving toys will be what we use. We will also be using large boxes to insinuate that this family has just moved into this house, and so this house is unknown to the character, tapping into the fear of the unknown.