Locations

Location 1 - The benches

 

In this location I will film Hazel looking at her failed test paper worryingly as if she has just come out of her lesson and sat down on them.

 

 

 

Location 2 - The Library

 

This is the school library, where Hazel finds the book.

 

 

Location 3 - The 'Quad'

 

I will film some scenes for the flashbacks here just in case I decide to include them in the montage

 

 

 

Location 4 - The Park

 

 

 

Here I will film some scenes to be used in the flashbacks as Hazel sits on the hill and bench reading the book.

 

 

 



Location 5 - The Lake

 

 

 

 

 

This is the lake which Hazel will throw the book into, almost the first half of the opening will be filmed here.

Cast of my Film Opening

There is only one role in my film opening, this is Hazel.

Kerry Hardesty as Hazel

Name: Kerry Hardesty

Age:18

Occupation: Sixth Form 

Why I chose her: The reason I chose Kerry for this role is because she fits the character type very well, she is fairly quiet fits some of the characteristics of the character Hazel. She is also a music performer and is confident in that sector therefore I also thought she would be a very good actress or at least feel confident in her role and script.

Changing my Idea #2

There is another change I would like to make to my film. I have decided to just have one character for the entire opening being Hazel.

In the opening, the only important character in my storyline is the Hazel, the teacher and librarian aren't relevant enough to the storyline to make them have a part in the opening and as the opening is only going to last around two minutes I want the focus to be on her (Hazel).

Having looked at all the clips I have filmed, I found that I had too much material and had to cut it down in order for all the most important shots to be featured. Therefore I decided a teacher wasn't needed to deliver a bad grade and instead a short aftermath of Hazel getting the bad grade could be shown instead.

Also, everything in a film's opening two minutes is usually significant so if I included a librarian it could have been difficult to show whether or not the librarian knew about the evil book, usually the audience would expect the worst of characters, most of them would assume the librarian was the culprit of it all, so to avoid unnecessary confusion, I thought it would be best to remove this character all together.

Everything else still stands, Hazel will fail a test and go to the library to find some books, she will come across a mysterious book and decide to pick it up along with some others and that it where it will all begin. She will become attached to this book and as she realises the main character is her, even more so.