Monday 27 September 2010

27th September, Further Research

Today, we have been doing some further research into our film trailer.
Jamie is making a poster so we can put it up in college and get people to volunteer to be in the trailer, he is going to put them up in the drama and performing arts side of college because thats where most people would be interested.


Megan has been looking up urban myths that we could base a the plot of the story on. She has found a myth online called Seven Steps Ghost Girl and this is like myth.. 



Back in the 1900′s, there was a regular old train track on top of a regular old cave in the regular old town of Canton, PA. The train was pretty inactive and only came through the town on occasion. A little girl decided she wanted to be a "big girl" and go ride her bike on her own. She thought that the tracks looked like a pretty flat, easy place to ride. She started at the beginning of the tracks, and began to enjoy herself. Faster and faster she went! Zooming over bumps and rocks! Oh, she was having a grand time. She heard a whistle and turned her head. While she was distracted, she abruptly hit a rock and fell off of her bike. She skinned her knees and, as any 7 year old would do, she started to cry. She heard the whistle again! The train was coming! She sat up but was restrained. She looked down and saw her little pink and white dress caught in the tracks. She tried to pull it out, but it was stuck fast. The little girl looked over and saw the train, not 300 yards away. She pulled and tugged, but the dress would not budge. Looking around for something that might help her get free, she saw a broken bottle laying on the ground. She grabbed it and began to saw at her dress. She glanced up and at that moment the last of the fabric gave away. Her body hit the water running through the cave below, with a splash. She was barely alive and she dragged herself as far as she could to try to save herself. Moaning, she crawled into a nearby crevice, and died.
It’s said that you can still hear her moans echoing through the cave and, if you enter at precisely midnight, she will follow you throughout the cave, asking for you to stay with her.
I’m not one to get scared easily, but I’ve been to Seven Steps. I went at midnight and was promptly scared out of it. If you strain your ears, you actually can hear a low humming, very much like a small child’s moan. It’s so unbelievably creepy, that I didn’t even make it to the end. I hope you enjoyed Canton’s ghost story.
Kate has been props and costume, also make-up seeing what people look like in movie trailers, what clothes and make-up they are wearing so we can copy and redo some of their styles. 
we have all decided that Hilsea train station is a good place to film our trailer as there are tunnels and bridges that we can use to film which will link in well with the myth. Another thing have all decided on is that we will need three  people to film pretending to be a group of friends. We would also need to buy a dress and a bike. 

By Nichola