Planning

I chose the location and costumes based on the genre I am using. Because it is meant to be a horror/dance opening I wanted the Zombies to wear dark clothes with their faces hidden by white masks. I used a bedroom for the location as the plot involves someone having a nightmare, only for the audience to see that its real.
I organised help from my friends by emailing them using facebook and arranging and planning practises and when to film.
I made the technical decisions also based on genre, deciding to use a nighttime setting with a small lamp to give off little light, using the ideas that a lot of people are afraid of the dark and that nightmares happen when people are asleep. The room couldn't be completely dark, so the lamp will give out enough light so the audience can see whats going on, without ruining the effect that the scene is happening late at night.
I thought of the script, storyboard and questionnaire quickly after I had all my ideas planned out. I only had to make a few changes, changing the tag line from "If you dance... YOU DIE!" to "It's all in your head..." I decided to use this for the tag line based on a scene from Stephen King's IT, where the clown, Pennywise, possesses an old man to scare away Eddie Kasprak (one of the main characters). After watching the film back without the tagline, however, I decided to leave it out because I thought it looked creepier if just the title was showing. I had to change some of the people who were involved after some people didn't want to act in the film. I also changed some of the actors and people who were helping around, because it was easier for Laura and Sabrina to film and do music and they didn't want to act in the film, whereas my younger sister, Victoria, did. I changed some of the lyrics to 'Disturbia' adding more in, to make the dance better. I also changed the ending sequence as on the day of filming, we all decided on a better idea, where the Zombies are hiding at the end of the bad, jump out and say "It wasn't!" After editing the film again, I changed the title to appear straight after the dance and put the scream scene at the end of the film. I changed the script and storyboard to match. These were easy changes to make and didn't affect any other ideas or plans.
I used a lot of ICT to help plan and create the ideas for filming. I used YouTube and Google to find videos and pictures to use in my blog and I have used PowerPoint to also keep a record of all my work. I used word and paint to create the script, storyboard and questionnaire.