camera shots

these are the main shots we use during the filming stage we will have quite a few more but this shows the main parts from start to end and also it shows you the setting, but we will actually be filming when it is dark. it also givs those of us who dont know the setting very well to see the size of the place and also so that we can see if the shots will look good enough in real life rather than picturing them in your head.

Audience feedback sheet and Pitch

Audeince Feed Back

Our pitch was successfull in that people knew our target audience and our genre and they all though our idea was good. It reminded them of The Ring which was good as that was where we got our inspiration for a scary charcter.
we have looked at our feed back and we think that the problems are doable but we agree that we have to use good effects in order to make it scary.

Planning Questions on Film

is it pracicle?
our idea is quite simple and with good use of effects we will be able to creat a scary atmosphere in Emmas house were we are filming it. We are also doing all the make up ourselves so we limit costs and allso we are using exsisting resources as our props so that we dont spend much money.

Is it an idea that works to the strengths of the group?
I found that i shared alot of my ideas and I also think that I was a key motivator behind our ideas. Becky then helped simplify these Ideas and she wrote them down on paper. Emma was the artist in the group and I told her the idea of the costume and she drew it exeptionally well. I think the idea works well as we agreed on everything when it came togeter and we all used our different skills to have hopefully made a good idea.

will it show off the skills you have learnt so far on the course?
Our opening contains over 50 different shots and should have many different effects that hopefully we can encorporate well in our film so that we can show off what we have learnt on the course.

Is it something you can reasonably shoot and edit in the time available?
we have decided on the time we have to film makeing sure we have left enough time to edit as i feel that the editing is crutial in makeing our film look scary. we will be able to film at any time as Emmas house is only a 5 minute walk from school and the editing studio is in the school so we will not waste anytime in the makeing.

Can you get access/ permission to shoot in the chosen location at the chosen times?
yes, Emmas parents said they are fine with us filming as long as we dont make to much of a mess. the good thing about Emmas house is that we are able to film at any time because it is so close to school. I think it is just a case of when we are all free.

Can you organise lighting to use in that location?
we dont want the opening to be light but we also dont want it to be to dark so you carn't see much. in Emmas house she has lights that only let out a bit of light so we are hopeing that that will work. if not then we can always chose some effects that make it look good.

Have you included dialogue? If so, will it work to shoot conversation in that location?
we have not got any dialogue as we want it to look as proffesional as possible and we feel that we dont have the best technology to use to make dialogue look good.

Do you have guaranteed high quality reliable actors to play the characters?
Both Becky an Emma do drama and they are close friends with the actors and they both live close to emma so they said they would be able to be in our film at any time.

target audience

Age: 15-40
Background: middle class people who enjoy horror films
Occupation: writer journalist, construction trade
Gender: sways more towards females but still suitable for men as well


Likes:
they would enjoy horror films and would have to understand and like to know about people’s problems E.g. schizophrenia. The would also like being on the edge of their seat and tension thrilling dramas. People who are interested in exaggeration of real life.
Dislikes: soppy dramas and romantic films.
Ambitions: would be quite Gothic people and would like to be in the music industry

Musical preferences: the person would like rock music as it goes with the horror genre but i suppose that others would like the film as well even if they didn’t like that type of music

Looks up to/idolizes:
they would idolize actors and musicians as they would be into that kind of thing

Media consumer habits e.g. T.V programmes watched, magazines interested in, cinema goers, genre(s) of film interested in etc
Watch lots of TV and are into music magazines. They would like TV dramas and especially Like the story of newt in holloyoaks as he was schizophrenic

mood board

I chose to do this mood board because it shows what our film is like and it also shows what our target audience likes as we chose gothic girls as our target audience.

Inspiration

i like this film as We took inspiration from it to make our costume and the personality of our imagiary friend i like it how she conrols everything people do and i think it is scary when the tv goes fuzzy as we know this is where the victim is going to die. I also like it how his room is plain and has know colour this is to show us something bad is going to happen.
The opening is very silent but with the sound of the Tv fuzzying it is unerving as we cannot see what will happen he then turns it off and turns away were we see a close up of his face this is so we see his reaction to the Tv turning back on. his facial expression looks frightened and then we hear the phone ringing. the frantic sound of it ringing makes us assume that something bad will happen as he doen't pick it up. It then scips scenes to a girls trying to ring him maybe his Wife, this is to keep us on edge. It then crosses back to the other scene were we see him walking towards the screen as if he is getting sucked in and possesed by something on the TV. we still hear the frantic sound of the phone ringing and then we see te scary girl come out of the screen and whe falls over. we then see him from a high angle to show his funerability and maybe to show that she is in control of him as we see her from a low angle. our group likes this piece as there is not much dialogue and we have also got just one piece of diologue which is at the end to leave on a cliff hanger

Actors, props and costume

We have asked two b-tec drama students to star in our film. Emma is good friends with these two Girls and they said that they would be happy to be in our film whenever we need them. we have chosen to drama students as we hope that they will be profesional and take our film seriously. also to make it look effective we need actors that know what they are doing and can take insrtruction and we believe these girls can do that.
The Main props we need are a pack of tablets, this is to show that she has an illness and we also need a knife which we have go from emmas house were our opening is set. we are also thinking of using oatmeal to put in the girls hair when she is sick because we think it might look real and effective.
we are thinking that the girl should be quite gothic looking, as the streotypical scizaphrenic person is gothic and we got our inspiration off the character Newt from hollyoaks.she will be dressed in long black clothes and black makeup so she looks strange and different from other people. Our imaginary friend will be dressed in a white gown as if she looks like she came out of a mental home. It will be muddy and a bit ripped to show that she doesn't care what she looks like. She will have bare feet and her hare will be covering her face to show she isn't right in the head.

Final idea

our final idea was to have a girl who had schizophrenia. We would use several shots to show how she changes when she doesn't have her tablets. we thought of the idea of haveing an evil imaginary friend who would look like this


Emma created this picture, and we all agreed it would be a good costume as we liked how effective the costume of the girl out of The Ring was.We also thought to make her look more scary to have her clothes worn out and dirty, this could show that the imaginary friend is not right in the head and and this idea fits to the genre of our film as it will show a creapy side to the girl
Her hair we thought should be long and black, maybe covering her face, so her identity is never revealed, also if it was greasy, that would add to the appearance of her being dirty.
Her skin tone we thought should be of a an off colour or really pale, to represent death. we would also have her with black around her eyes and we were toting with the idea of using red contact lenses to show she is evil.

Rough storyline

After talking through all the ideas for a whole lesson and making everyone happy about what we were doing, by scrapping the idea of having a chase scene, stalker man in the forest, forest itself involved and any bombs going off, we came to the conclusion of doing our film based in a house with a twist.


Here is our plan:
We would start the film with a long distance shot of a "normal" girl walking home to her house. We would add more shots in of her walking, to make it more snappy and attractive if needed to make her walking longer, the other shots we could include are extreme close up of her feet/eyes/back of her head. When she puts her key in the door to open it, we'll have match on action with her opening the door and entering the house. So far, all would seem normal as she walks up the stairs to her room we would make her act as though she's dizzy and in pain, using a disoriented camera function, to link the action to her feelings. Once she gets into her room, still dizzy she'd start frantically looking for her pills, tipping things over, showing how important they are. Using again different angles of the whole room with her tipping things up and close ups of her face, showing emotions. Once hysterical she falls asleep and starts having, what she thinks is a bad dream. With a girl killing her mum, the girl is insane with dark black eyes, pale face, cuts over her face and hands and messy hair, using flash back kind of techniques to make this clear to the audience as to what she's dreaming, then flashing back to her moving in her bed, representing that shes still dreaming. She wakes up, walks towards the mirror, over the shoulder angle of her looking in the mirror, then using the camera as though that is the mirror, the audience can see that she is the girl she was dreaming about and questioning is she going to kill her mother? Then having her walking, as though processed by something, she walks to the landing with a knife in her hand where she sees her mother who is at the other end of landing. Then ending the opening with her mother saying "What's wrong" Then a close up of the girls black dead eyes, showing that she's not right.
We knew this idea would not be final so we asked for the teachers imput and she gave us a few good ideas to work around

initial ideas

As a group i dont think we have entially thought about what we would like to do yet, the following clips are some clips that i am inspired by and they are some of the types of genres I would like to do for my final piece. I like the idea of Action films as the inspire me but I also like horrors as the make you jump both of these genres exagerate the realitys of real life that is why the are good genres.



i like this james bond clip because it is action packed and has short and snappy camera shots which makes it fast paced. Also we inspire to be as good as Bond at his stunts and I think this makes a great opening peice because it draws us in and makes us want to watch on to see what will happen. I also like it because there is know dialogue and I feel that a good opening of an action film shows us the location and also puts us on the edge of our seats by extreme stunts and fast paced action. the tact that there is know dialogue shows they are focused on the job in hand an will stop at nothing to get it done.

Another film that shows these qualitys are the Bourne trilogy




Horror films

I do like the saw films but I was unable to embed the clips from youtube. I like them because they are grusome and the all have a twist. they are also different from other horror films as we only ever see the caractersin ne location which is the warhouse we sometimes get short clips of other locations but the characters are all manely lockedaway getting torchered. in the openings there is not much dialogue which I feel is affective as we see all that we need to know and we pritty much know what is going to happen.

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=saw&search_type=&aq=f
the clips on this page are good as they are guick and groosom which is tipical of the horror genre as thinks are kept secret throughout.