Starting Pre-Production- Full Plot

 Now that my partner and I are done with preliminary research, we can start with pre-production of our trailers. 

We are going to start with establishing the full plot of the movie then figure out what parts are significant enough to put in the trailers without giving away what the ending will come to. 

As I've established in my blog titled "Our Pitch!", there will be 5 main characters and the main setting will be a wooded area plus a gas station. 

Full plot:

Four people going on a ghost hunt after hearing about mysterious murders that happened around 10 years ago in the 90s. They are the Leader, Sound guy, Camera guy, and the leaders friend/person they decided to bring along. They are desperate for fame and views so they do outlandish things like this all the time. They're high school drop outs, around 18-20 years old. 

After the long car ride they stop to get food and drinks from a gas station and are talking loudly about apparent murders that horrified the small town over the years, when someone overhears. The 'expert' starts explaining that its more than just basic killings, that the story that was in the news was more of a coverup to stop any questions from happening within authorities. 

They end up bringing the expert with them making it five people, and the expert has someone that got lost in the forest a long time ago when the killings were coming to the end, her brother. Her motive is unclear until the end but it seems she knows more than what she's telling the others. She fits in appearance wise but isn't like the rest of them. 

 Once in the forest, strange things start happening, and the leader and sound guy get into an argument about whether or not they have seen the same tree before; the sound guy convinced he's leading them in circles. The group ends up splitting up and the sound guy takes the expert, and the other two go with the leader. The plot/ending will not be in the trailer since we don't want to have a full movie in the trailers, just an overview of what's happening before it starts to develop.   

Full plot notebook entry

   

    This is a messy overview of everything my partner and I went over       with the full plot of the film. We decided with the shot types, half were going to be lower quality hand held found footage while the other half were going to be overview shots of all the characters, a non-diegetic perspective of the film and a diegetic one. 

   This is just a start of our production, we need to figure out how we are going to put this plot into scenes now.