Research and Planning: NEW Script

Recurrence Script:

Fade In

Close Up: A candle is set against a stone pillar and is alight, words appear above “Some say that fate is set in stone” the words fade and new words appear above “yet what if fate was merely the past repeating itself” the words once again fade and the candle is blown out “RECURRENCE” appears above the candle.

Long shot: Of a girl leaving the house holding a lit candle

Close up of the girl holding the candle she looks up

Fade out

Fade in

Wide shot: Lara is sitting on the sofa non diegetic music plays over the top as her and her mother have an argument. Lara storms out of the room.

Long Shot: Lara slamming the door and walking up the stair well, across the landing to her room.

Montage of mid shots, close up and over the shoulder shots: Lara packing to leave the house, grabbing her things and walking back down the stair case putting on her shoes and leaving the house and walking down the street.

Fade out

Fade in

Long shot: Lara walking round the street corner and entering the drive way.

Another montage: Lara walking down the driveway approaching the house.

She lets herself in to the house and walks through the hall way under the stair well and out the back door in to the garden.

Long shot: Lara walking to the same position as the girl in the previous scene she looks around.

Fade out

Research and Planning: Synopsis of the Whole Film

Some say that fate is set in stone.
But what if fate was merely the past repeating.


Paul and Lara Allgood return home after attending her mothers funeral. As they return Lara notices that things have been changed and someone or something had moved things around in the house. They notify the police that someone has entered their house, however with no proof and nothing appearing to have been taken the police can do nothing to help. Paul recieves a call and quickly leaves the house leaving lara alone on her own. Her friend Matt comes over to check on how she is doing ok to find her huddled up in her room whispering "they are coming" she is addmitted to a mental hospital under the belief that she has undergone a nervous breakdown due to the stresses that she has recently suffered. Yet paul is acting strangely and when LAra returns home paul has disappeared and the house seems to be trying to communicate with lara. Terrified LAra and Matt work toegether to try and find out what is going on. They trace back the records of the house and discover that exactly 100 years ago that a mother, father and daughter lived in the house, the mother was taken ill and died, the daughter was placed into a mental hospital and the father went missing. Matt and Lara soon realise that there is more to the house than what meets the eye and they must battle against history to survive.

Research and Planning: Ring a Ring a Roses

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfTtWW5iqfU

This is the sound clip that we want to use for the start of our opening with the new idea. We want to use it because it sounds quite creepy which is appropriate for our genre.

Research and Planning: Changing The Idea

After filming completely and editing the whole of our opening 2 minutes, we decided that it didn't think it worked as well as it could have done. We then discussed new ideas in order to show different techniques with the camera and came up with the same sort of idea but it is slightly different. It is still called 'Recurrence' and has the same characters in it.

Research and Planning: How Our Filming Went

Yesterday, (on the 4th of February 2012) we filmed the opening 2 minutes of 'Recurrence'. It went really well as we got it all done in one day and it came out as well as we'd hoped it would. We did change a few things when we got to the location as we felt that it would look better for the places that we had to do the filming in. We had a few things that we had to change because there were builders at the house we were using but we managed to avoid them being in the shots.


In the first part, set 80 years ago, we really wanted it to look realistic so that the audience actually felt like they were in the 1930's. We used the oldest looking room in the house and made sure there was nothing modern in there. We used costume, lighting and location in order to do this. Rebecca Atkinson, who played the girl in the beginning, wore a long white, laced/silk dress which we chose because we thought it helped with producing a feeling of it being back in the 30's. We turned the lights off and only had light coming through the stained glass windows on the door and the candles that were lit on the floor. I think we managed to create a feeling of creepiness in this scene because we really tried hard in the planning stage to make sure that we had everything covered in making sure that it looked realistic.


We had to make changes to the last part where Lara Allgood's Dad was meant to say "Put the box on the hallway table" and "I thought I told you to put it on the table" and Lara's reply should have been "But I did...". The reason we changed this was because we thought of a few shots that we could use, in order to be able to show a variation of different shots in the opening 2 minutes. We also thought that the new shots made it more interesting to watch and made it creepier.

When filming the outside scenes, there were some unwanted diegetic sounds that we couldn't really do anything about. When editing, we will get rid of these sounds in order for the clip to sound authentic when the final opening 2 minutes is done. When editing, we will also use some non-diegetic sounds in order for the opening 2 minutes to feel creepy and sounds that will fit with the genre. We don't want to make it sound ridiculous or fake, so I think we will use more discreet and understated non-diegetic sounds.


With the planning and research that helped us to plan the opening 2 minutes to 'Recurrence', I hope we managed to create believeable scenes that feel creepy to watch. We are all excited to start editing and hopefully have it finished soon.

Research and Planning: Storyboard (New)

This is our updated storyboard. We felt that the last one was too brief, so we did another one with more in depth detail.

Research and Planning: Reason For Choosing The Location

For the opening scene which was set 80 years ago, we wanted to use a victorian style house so that it would be realistic. We also thought that the house would fit with both tenses of the opening which was really important as we wanted to make each tense believable.

Research and Planning: Location Shots

Location Shots

This is the house that we will be filming at for the opening 2 minutes of our film.

This is the driveway that we will be using when the car comes down in the current day scene.

This is the car we will be using in the current day scene that Lara and Paul arrive in.