Planning and Research

10 Cloverfield Lane

Casting Shots

Casting Shots - Michelle

We chose Vicky to play Michelle because she has similar looks to her, short hair and same facial features. As well as this she looks a similar age and overall her characteristics match well.

Vicky has the look of a strong independent women, this is what Michelle comes across as in the film 10 Cloverfield Lane.As well a this she looks innocent and sweet, this works to her favour and she gets the audience on side.

We chose to have Vicky wear jeans and a plain t shirt, this was so that she didn’t stand out much and just worse similar clothing and colours as the trailer uses blue and yellow as recurring colours.

Casting Shots – Emmett Emmet’s character was played by Haydn, this was because we needed someone with longer hair and quite neutral looking.

It was harder to re create some of Emmet’s shots with his sling, and so we decided to ignore the sling and film without.

In some shots of the trailer we had to rough Haydn up a bit, this was just to fit in with the experience Emmet was having.

We tried to match Emmets facial expressions with Haydn's as far as possible to make it look more realistic in certain scenes, such as the lights flickering.

Casting Shots - HowardWe used Adam as Howard, this was the hardest to cast as Howard is an older man, we originally though about having Howard played by a teacher, however this became difficult when we would have to find a teacher that had spare time.

Once we realised that we wouldn’t be able to use someone more similar to looks, we decided to use Adam because of his past in drama and the fact he had seen the film and knew what he was doing in the role.

Adam was a good fit for Howard because he really got the facial expressions and hand actions down which was imperative because of the lack of dialogue.

Location Shots

Bunker – Anti Bullying Room

We chose to film most of our scenes in the anti-bullying room within our school because we found that it had a very homely atmosphere to it, which matched the atmosphere of the trailer. We thought this would be an effective location because it already contained sofas, tables, bookshelves and other items that appeared within the trailer. This saved us time collecting various different props so we could focus more on filming. We faced some difficulties whilst filming within this location, such as the bright natural light of the room. This was a problem for us because the trailer displays the scenes to be quite dark/dim. To overcome this issue we decided to use the editing software and effects to darker the scenes.

Tunnel Staircase

Another location we chose to film in was the staircase because we wanted to aim to replicate the tunnel staircase within the trailer. We thought this was an effective location to use because we thought it closely matched the staircase presented in the trailer. The difficulties we faced within this location was replicating the actual shape of the tunnel and also the bright natural light entering through the window. We tried to overcome this problem by again using editing techniques and effects to darken the edges of the scenes to create a tunnel-like image. We further covered the huge windows with dark blankets to make the shot more dim so it appeared more spooky like the trailer.

Wardrobe Decisions

Howard

Howard is wearing a checked shirt, which we replicated in our trailer recreation. The dark colours he is wearing could represent his anger and it adds to the mysterious nature of the trailer (as the audience don’t know what is outside). We used a blue checked shirt as Howard is also wearing blue on his shirt, which could represent his cold personality.

Michelle Michelle is wearing just a vest, which could represent that she is dirty and she doesn't’t care. This conforms to the stereotypical view of people her age. We replicated the dirty look of the vest in our trailer recreation

Emmett Emmett is wearing a fairly plain T-shirt, which we used in our trailer recreation. The T-shirt could represent Emmett’s boredom from sitting in the bunker and doing nothing.

Props

Props ListAs our trailer was set in a bunker we had quite a few props to make it look as normal and close to the trailer as possible. Our props list consisted of the following:Flower, puzzles, books, a jukebox, board game, sandwiches and a vent.We used all of these props and made some of them in order to get as close to the original trailer as possible. An example of something we made was the vent, we used an old picnic box that’s lid opened so that we could re create the air vents door moving downwards.

Shot List

Shot List

Pick Up Shot List

Pick up shots

Our only issue that we faced was that some shots we had done were not at the correct angle, this meant that when we came to editing it was harder as we had to edit some bits and leave others so we could re-film them.

However during the editing process we found that you could flip clips, this made it easier.Another shot we had to re film was the lighting shots near the end of the clip, just to experiment more with more time and changes of lighting.