Music

It took us a while to choose the music for our production as it was hard to find music that we liked and that fit the genre, without it being copyrighted. In the end we ended up downloading music from 'jamendo.com', a website that enables you to download free un-copyrighted music that we could use for our production. It took us a while to find suitable tracks. We used key words when trying to find the tracks such as 'murder' and 'stalker' and in the end found music that we fought fit the genre and our film style well. As our production is called 'Sweet Caroline', we thought it would be fitting to incorporate brief diegetic use of 'Neil Diamond's song 'Sweet Caroline' during the bar scene as it is quite a happy, uplifting song which is contrapuntal due to the genre and story that our production follows. We then used 'Pinnacle Studio' to edit the music and as the scene takes a dark turn, so does the music as it goes lower and the words are dragged out making it sound distorted.

Logo for Pinnacle Studios

Casting

When casting, we used Molly as our damsel in distress as out of all of us we felt that she was the best actress and had the most capability of pulling the part off.

To play the part of the mysterious man who spikes the damsel in distress, we used a family friend of Molly's called 'Taylor'. He played the part well as he was dressed all in black which connotes the idea of danger, and in the production we never got to see his face which blocked the audience from having a connection

During the bar scene where the spiking takes place, another one of our group members, Holly, played the damsel in distress' friend who is distracted from these events due to a phone call.


When filming the scenes where Molly is running down the railway tracks, through to the end scene, Taylor was unavailable to play the mysterious man so we had to substitute Gabby in for this role. She dressed all in black with her hood up, and as we do not ever see her face it works just as well.

Prop List

PROP LIST Miscellaneous
• Duct Tape: Gabby bring
• Car: Holly (driver)
• Tic Tacs: Jodie
• Blindfold: Gabby
• Shovel: Jodie
• Rope: Molly
• Crime Scene Tape: (eBay buy)
• Torch Outfits Guy Girl
• Black Gloves
• Heels
• Black Hoodie
• Clutch Bag
• Black Jeans
• Dress

Costume Designs

Costumes In the bar
- Nice, classy, black dress.
- High heels.
- Neat and tidy hair, up in a bun.
- Red lipstick.
- Clutch bag.
- In a nice shirt.
- With black jeans
- Bomber jacket
- Clean shoes
- Smart hair

Running down the tracks
- Same dress.
- With the mans oversized jacket on.
- Heels in hand.
- No clutch bag.

 Man:

- Black hat
- Black gloves
- Black t-shirt
- Black pants

Location

When filming our production, we used one of our group member's family pub. This was the setting to the scene where the damsel in distress gets spiked by an unknown man and her night takes a turn for the worse.

We filmed the rest of the production at Holly's house at night as we had access to barns, rivers, hills, railway tracks and other areas to give the production an eery atmosphere.

Weather

When filming our production we checked the weather to ensure that it wasn't raining as any water on the lens would ruin the look of the production, and filming in the rain wouldn't be practical for the things we needed to shoot. E.g a shot of a girl being dragged up a hill by a man.