Logistics

Logistics is sorting out and bringing together all the practical parts of the production. By this I mean; costumes, location, props, make up, equipment and anything else that may be needed. In our logistics sheet we also included the name of the person who was responsible for each section.

 

We managed to stick to the responsibilities and everybody prevailed, which enabled us to move on with the processes.

 

When sorting out the different sections we had to ensure that we stuck to the conventions of our genre as this was the way that we wanted to construct the horror genre.

 

Costumes:

We decided that the doctor should be wearing proper hospital clothing to make the opening have some social realism, which would allow the audience to connect with it more. This increases the scariness of the film, giving us the desired result.

 

For the victim (the girl) we decided to put her in a tight black dress. This breaks conventions of typical horror movies as it represent the girl as being daring, wild- rather than the stereotypical innocent, weak teen which is usually portrayed. We did this to put an edge on the film so that we didn't follow the strict rules.

 

Actors:

When it came to casting we decided to follow the stereotypical roles portrayed in Hollywood horror films. We did his mainly for the doctor but also in some ways for the victim.

 

Doctor- we wanted the actor who played the doctor to be an older, more matured man as we thought that this would make him look creepier, especially as the victim was to be a young girl. the actor we chose to use was middle aged with not much hair. He was tall which would make the character more intimidating and represent the power between the two protagonists.

 

Victim- we chose the victim to be a girl as they are stereotypically weaker and more vulnerable then boys. This follows the conventions of horror films. She was also slim which is also a common occurrence in other films that we had researched. However we chose an actress with dark hair to play the victim as we thought that this would also put a spin on the traditional ways, seeing as usually the victim is blonde as this would represent their innocence.

 

These were two of the main points that we had to consider in the logistics stage as this is what the audiences would be able to see and so our decisions would affect the impact that it had on them.