Running Order

1. Vox pop opinions of Halloween and trick or treating. A range of ages to show a variety of answers. They will cross fade between each clip. The only sound used would be the voices of the interviewees. Filmed in a busy shopping centre.
20 sec
2.Opening sequence of the letters H A L L O W E E N being carved out then swirls off at the end
3 Sec
3. Clip of Pumpkin being carved and sped up. Medium close up on the pumpkin. This will be speedup 500%. The mise on scene will be simple- outdoors on a table for health and safety and to reduce mess. There will be spook music from the film The shining as a soundtrack. This will end with the finished pumpkin lit and the title will fade onto the screen then the page will twirl off to the sound of a menacing laugh.
27 sec
4. There will be continuity shot of two children dressed up trick or treating. The camera will follow them on there journey to one house. The voice over will be an introduction and results about a survey on what people thought Halloween is about.
20 sec
5.Footage of Halloween decorations with voice over
10 sec
6. Interviews with a vicar and a sociologist will be cut together along with cut aways of – a church from many views, different shop headings, a graveyard, church figures of saints, Halloween merchandise, children at a superhero party, an advert for a shop and fancy dress costumes. And also clips from films, Hocus Pocus and Wicker man. The vicar will talk about the churches view on Halloween and the sociologist will talk about big brand and big business influences on Halloween.
1.40 secs

7. Voice over about religious side, paganism etc… With a reconstruction of a pagan ritual at a fire side.
30 secs
8. Fade out and fade in to priest (high priest of pagans find this) , priest discusses religious side of paganism. Discussion about the great emphasis today on the ghoulish and occult aspects of Halloween? Explanation of November 1 All Saints' Day and November 2 All Souls' Day, a day to honour the dead. Discussion about paganism rituals.
2 mins
9.Archive footage of the film, the wicker man. Showing the paganistic rituals. (voice over in beginning discussing about the ritual being used.
30 secs
10. Archive footage of a newspaper article, books with voice over talking about historic articles and books that have been created about Halloween.
40 secs
11. Tracking shot of elderly man walking, voice over talking about the older generation of Halloween.
20 secs
12. Interview with elderly man about Halloween when he was younger and how it’s changed. (cut aways of archive footage of younger children in the early 1900’s and photographs of elderly man when he was younger.)
2 mins

Break 3 mins

13. Voice over talks about Dracula’s and how people believe in them. Asks the questions are they real or not. Discusses Transylvania (archive footage of film Dracula)
1 min
14. Fade from black, establishing shot of hope university. Then goes into the interview with the specialist on Dracula’s. The specialist talks about the articles he wrote about Dracula and what fascinates him about Halloween.
2 mins
15. Track shot through Liverpool to smithies shop, establishing shot of smithies and pan along the different costumes (voice over discussion about costumes and sales and where we are)
30 secs
16. Close up of costumes, people choosing costumes, spooky products. Slow pan around the shop to show how spooky. Voice over continued
30 secs
17. Interview with smithies owner, how sales have gone up? Is smithies a spooky place at Halloween? What’s it like in Liverpool round this time?
2 mins
18. Voice over of what we found out about costumes and discussing teenagers, how they like to dress up. Establishing shot of Weatherhead highschool and a tracking shot round the 6form common room. Clip of the common room being dressed up for Halloween.
30 secs
19. Vox pop of interviews with students. About how excited they are about dressing up for school and discussing their social lives on Halloween.
1 min
20. Cut back to man in graveyard, talking about the sales and teenagers are the main reason why the sales have gone up and the most popular costume (witch) talks about how some people think there witches.
30 secs
21. Reconstruction of witches chanting, voice over of man talking witches, explanation of what witches done on Halloween? Achieve footage of the witches from Macbeth screen play.
1 min
22. Interview with person who thinks she’s a ‘witch’. Discusses rituals, beliefs and history of witches.
2 min
23. Small clips from throughout the show. Discusses what was found overall.
1 min
24.Vox pop of most of the people (interviewees, members of the public) saying one word to summarise Halloween.
1 min
25. Closing credits over montage of films, (scary build ups).
1 min

Total time
27 mins