Filming Permission

In order to be able to film in St Pius Church in Merrow we had to email the reception asking for permission.
Here is the email we sent:

Sent:

Hi, I am currently working on the coursework for my A level Media Studies at
St Peters Catholic School and my group and I were wondering whether we would
be able to film part of our opening sequence of a film in your Church? We
would be using handheld cameras and a tripod. We would need to film from
3.20pm onwards on Monday 3rd December if this is possible? There would be 4
of us needing to be at the Church to film. It would be great if we were able
to use the Church in our Coursework. It would not be published and would
only be used for educational purposes.
Please could you get back to me asap.
Thank you
Yours Sincerely,
Sophie Benson

REPLY: 

Sophie can I ask you what genre of film this is, ie comedy, horror? 
Michelle Haywood

SENT:  
The film is an opening of a psychological Thriller.
Thank you
Sophie Benson

REPLY:  
Sophie I have spoken to the Rector Chris Luckraft and he is happy for you to
use the church.  Please take care of it as we have just spent a lot of money
refurbishing the church.  You will have to be out before 5.15pm as we have
evening prayers at that time.
Michelle Haywood

Bitter Youth

This is the final product of our coursework in which we created a 1 minute 56 second long opening sequence including titles for a film of the Psychological Thirller Genre.

Health and Safety

 These are just some of the health and safety issues that we had to face. The cellar that we used was underground and had doors that had to be latched open so when we came to film we had to ensure that no one was going to fall down the massive hole in the floor so we had bright yellow caution cones surrounding the gap so that staff and students were aware and had been given warning.
Another health and safety issue we faced was the steep stairs and we had to ensure that we would not fall down or trip whilst using them because there wasnt a hand rail we could use.

There was an issue with lighting that we had to face in the cellar so to overcome this issue we had used a lamp and due to the lack of sockets in the cellar we had to use an extension cord to be able to had the lighting down in the cellar. This proved a health and safety hazard because we had the cable leading up the stairs which tripled the hazard of falling down the stairs.

The stalker board!

Stalking our victim...

Our actress Emily Corning, gave us permission to take pictures of her while she was in school. However, we made sure that the pictures were taken in a way that suggested stalking by e.g. hiding behind a bush. We took many of these and used them on the board that our protagonist would have as a shrine of her. These are some of the many pictures we took of her.

 Other pictures we used were given to us by her or were taken from her facebook page (obviously with her consent).

Possible location shots

This was an alternative room that we had thought of using if we could not get hold of the dark room or the cellar. We thought we could have replaced the images that were already on the wall with the stalker pictures and had the place as a sort of studio where the protagonist shrined his victim. 

Storyboard