Group Brainstorm

We brainstormed as a group and thought of different scenes that could potentially be funny for a young audience. We might not use all of these ideas but may shoot them and see how they turn out. We also need to think about the props used and how they could become quite expensive and the locations might be too hard to film from so theres a few things we need to think about before actually starting to film these scenes.

• We had an idea of having Steve the vampire walking down a busy corridor in the school and lifting his hands up and parting them like Moses and the Red sea, and as he is walking through the 'walls' of people collapse and he is swarmed by students and looks to be helplessly drowning in people.
• He sneaks through the window of what looks like a girl's bedroom, and creeps over to the 'girl' in the bed. As he goes to bite the person, they wake up and turn around, and it's actually a gay guy. The vampire then screams as the gay guy jumps on him.
• Steve walks into a room and theres a girl with blood all round her mouth (ketchup), romantic music comes on as he stares at her. She then holds up a burger with ketchup on and says "want some?"
• The vampire is lurking in a tree, reference to twilight, he then clumsily falls out and lands on a trampoline and bounces back up.
• Steve eats Garlic Bread.
• In the midst of a party, we see Steve led faced down on the floor, drunk.
• A werewolf walks into the party with fluff and ears on him, everyone looks in shock, then two girls say, "he didn't get the memo" "It's not fancy dress", the werewolf then walks out sad and confused.
• Steve has a really fat cat that has its own cape, shot of him holding the cat with its belly out.
• Stood in the forest on a windy day, stood in a power stance, with his cape blowing in the wind. Cape blows round and hits him in the face.

  Locations            
                                                    

1. Around School, Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School

The school was built in 1912 and so has an old fashioned look to it, we are hoping to incorporate this old fashioned feel into our movie trailer as it relates to how old the first dracula was. This location is also very easily accessible to film at due to it being our school, and we would not need permission to film here.


2. Around the Streets, Crawshawbooth, Baxenden, Burnley

We would be able to use surrounding streets both near our homes and in local towns, as these locations are easily accessible for all members, and we would easily be able to film various scenes if necessary. Due to these areas being easily accessible, we would be able to get our friends in to act as extras easily.


3. Fields

We wanted to use a mixture of woods and fields to create a rural setting, to contrast with the school and hall.


4. Townley Hall

Townley Hall is in Burnley, it's quite old fashioned looking, and was built in the later early 1500's. It's age and look mean that this filming location would tie in well with the Vampire genre. and the grounds as well as the building would be suitable for filming on although we'd probably have to get permission.


5. Gawthorpe Hall

Gawthorpe Hall is just outside of Burnley, much like Townley Hall, it is an old fashioned with majestic gardens surrounding it. Gawthorpe, like Towneley would work well with our genre, due to the building looking similar to those used in various vampire films. Again we would have to get filming permission from the owners first.


6. Our Houses

Our houses are obviously easy to film from because we wouldn't need permission. It would also give a sense of reality to the film as our houses are clearly lived in and would look like real bedrooms. As our main character does not live in a stereotypical manor/castle, we feel that just an average home where the vampire lives would add to the comedy of the trailer.

Potential Locations

· Around school

· Streets-night-time/evening

· Fields

· Towneley Hall

· Gawthorpe Hall

Props list

Cape

The cape prop is to make it clear to the audience of the vampire character, as capes such as the one pictured are synonymous with Vampire films, such as Dracula. The cape will be worn by our protagonist Steve.

• Plastic Fangs

The plastic fangs will be worn by our vampire protagonist in our film, the fangs, much like the cape, signify the characters vampire status, and also add in comedy to our film trailer due it imparing his speech slightly, adding a lisp.

• Face Paint

We would need face paint to help give the vampire character a pale complexion, which is needed for a vampire character. We will use glittery eyeliner as well to give the vampire a more effeminate look, as he is a "glampire"

• Blonde Wig

We would need the blonde wig for a scene involving the vampire trying to bite someones neck, believing they are a girl, only to find it is actually a man in a wig. The bright wig shown in the picture is similar to those seen in various gothic and vampire films, so it will tie in nicely with our film.

• Fake Blood

We will be using fake blood in our production, due to vampires needing to feed on blood, and is a key staple in vampire films.

• Waist Coat

We will be using the waistcoat for our Vampire costume, to give the character a posh-er, Victorian style look, inspired by Vampire characters from books from that era, when Vampire novels started to become much more prominent.

 

•  Hair gel

We will be using hair gel for our main characters slicked back hair, done in a similar style to that of other similar vampire characters such as Dracula and Robert Pattinson.

• Ketchup

We will be using Ketchup in one of our scenes, using it as a prop as it is meant to confuse our Vampire into believing a girl has cut herself and is bleeding. Ketchups dark appearance and thick texture means that it can be easily used for our filming and be clearly visible in our trailer

Initial Ideas

For our group’s initial ideas, we put various ideas together for what our trailer was going to be, such as what genre the film would be. We put together a group of ideas we had come up with, and ended up with three ideas which we thought we could do the best: a Crime Thriller, a Romantic Comedy and a Vampire Parody. We eventually settled upon the idea of a Vampire Parody after voting upon which idea we wanted to do, as we all had particularly strong feeling towards the recent spur of vampire films and television shows coming out in recent times, and it was an area which had plenty of material to be parodied.

We have taken inspiration from various different vampire programmes and films, but one in particular we have taken both inspirations and ideas from the Twilight saga and its films. With the series gaining huge success over recent years, with the story following the romance between a vampire and a human girl, we felt that we could parody many things in the films, such as the romance of a vampire and a human, as well as the character of Edward Cullen in the film, who is played by teenage heart-throb Robert Pattinson (pictured).

We also looked at the music video “Vlad the Impaler” by the British band Kasabian, which is about a vampire character. The video is a comedic parody of vampire movies as well as B-movies, showing the vampire to prey on vulnerable women, whilst also fighting off nuns who are using holy crosses on the vampire, using various ideas taken from both novels and films about vampires. The vampire in the video is played by Noel Fielding, known for roles in comedy shows such as The Mighty Boosh, and so his take on his vampire character was comedic, both in the appearance of the vampire and the actions of the vampire.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM5YDI7ttME – music video for Vlad the Impaler.

We then discussed ideas of where we could for scenes to put into our trailer. We put forward various ideas, such as at a nearby stately home/hall called “Towneley Hall” and another called “Gawthorpe Hall”, as the houses have been around since Victorian times, and would contribute to the overall theme and feeling of the film trailer, using shots of the exteriors to use as possible settings for the vampires home, inspired by and parodying the settings from films such as “Dracula” and “Nosferatu”.