Planning For Filming.

To create our trailer we arranged meetings several times, all having contributed and helped shape our trailer.
The first meeting was in the Christmas holidays using my sister as the horror character as the little girl who turns into this sleepwalker, the location was at my house as we wanted a house that wasn't really modern but wasn't old because the storyline fitted to my house, the house of a normal family who suffer something from the past. The props we used were a knife that we would make the character hold and we specially designed the lighting so that we could morph the face at the end of the girl rocking.
The second meeting was when we learnt from the first our mistakes, we needed to change the who played the girl as my sister was unable to represent the image of what we all wanted for our trailer. We decided that I would have to play the young girl, I dressed in a dress that would help fit the character and pjs for 'night scenes', wear little make-up, the location was at my house again as we still thought that it was a good location. We used similar lighting, a knife, fake blood, a board that we could write 'die' on acting as the girl writing on the wall.
The third meeting was me and Alex, we went to my house and also another location that was a park near my house that we could shoot scenes of the girl seeming to be innocent, we also shot scenes like candles being blown out, doors opening, the exterior shots of the house, me pulling out knives from the kitchen and me walking up the stairs. We decided quick flashes of objects and the girl doing weird things were ideal for our trailer as the narrative isn't given away but the trailer shows images interesting enough to attract the audience.
Our fourth meeting will be the narrative shots, hopefully being able to get actors as the parents of the girl and the scenes where voice overs will be used or dialogue becomes part of the scenes, also re shooting the rocking scene because we decided to get a better edit of the morphing of the face, we need to re shoot the scene.