48hr film project launch

Monday 16th was the launch of the 48hr film project. We were given groups and then had to pick some required elements for the film out of a hat. The group I was in included Kieran, Steph and George and our required elements were as follows:

Theme: Comedy
Line: "Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make."
Prop: Leather Gloves

There was some initial panic over these elements as they were so random, but we sat down and had a really good brainstorming session. We started with the origin of the quote... Dracula! (1931)

This became our inspiration for the entire film. With it being required to be a comedy we decided to make it a "vampire spoof". Here's some of my notes from the initial brain storming with the group:

Ideas were thrown around such as a vampire who feared blood, a vampire who was a blood addict, a vampire with teeth problems, a vegetarian vampire... We ended up with a plot based around a vampire who loses his fangs and therefore is unable to drink blood, but ends up finding an unusual alternative at the supermarket.
We wrote out the main plot points and figured out filming locations, filming schedule, props needed and our cast. I typed up the plot points under the relevant filming locations so we would have a filming schedule of sorts to use whilst filming - a clipboard became very handy to keep all these pieces of paper together:

 

As we had some outdoors filming to do in a graveyard, we figured out a suitable location - The Howff, a graveyard in dundee city centre, this one we deemed the most suitable due to it's very old and Gothic appearance (some of the outer walls date back to 1601), which would be more atmospheric in our film:

We also checked the weather as there are some scenes that would be best filmed with overcast weather (vampires aren't so keen on sunshine), no rain scheduled over the 2 days - or so it says...

Back home I searched for some required props which involved a hunt in the attic into the Halloween box for some bats. Also found some leather gloves, however they were driving gloves, with big holes in the design - probably not the best gloves suitable for a vampire trying to cover up in the sun - but maybe this would just add to the comedy of our film: