Friday 14 May 2010
Thursday 13 May 2010
Prezi
Wednesday 12 May 2010
My Prezi
Storyboard Preliminary Task
Friday 7 May 2010
Target Audience
suitable for everyone. May not e suitable for very young children.
'PG' (parental guidance)
General viewing, but some scenes may be unsuitable for young children.
12
Suitable only for persons of Twelve Years and over
12A
suitable only for persons of Twelve and over. This classification was introduced in 2002 and means that children under 12 may watch this film, if accompanied by an adult throughout the
film.
15
Suitable only for persons of fifteen years and over.
18
Suitable only for persons of Eighteen years and over.
'TBC'
This is not an official rating. Some of the films listed may not have been given a rating at the time we added them to the listing. Some of the cinemas do not provide a rating for films that are shown occasionally, such as art films, international films and documentaries. In such cases you can always search for the film on the BBFC's web site to find out the rating.
In our clip I think that our Target Audience would be 15 certificate as there is violence in the clip however there is no swearing, We also want to target towards the 15 years old audience as it is a youth drama and the actors are around the same age, we wanted it to be aimed at a specific target audience and not a wide market as different ages like and prefer different scenarios therefor we wanted a niche market.
My Responsabilities
we had to decide who was going to do what, there was;
Costumes; Me and Sophie
Make-up; Sophie
Editing; Me Sophie and Robbie
Acting; Megan
Filming; Me And Sophie
Director; Me and Sophie
Research; Me
Planning; Me and Sophie
Research for Film
Blair Witch Project.
The Grude was the second film, this is where we got the idea of having a haunted house as we soon realised that we would not be able to film in the forest as we did not have the right equipment, we couldnt see anything as it was too dark and the weather made it harder for us to film. thereofre we decided to go with the idea of a haunted house.
The ring, this is where the idea of there being a girl haunting the house, in the film she has loing black hair, a whiote face and black eyes, i thought this would be a good idea to base the costume and make-up on.Costumes for Main Task First Attempt
These costumes were just normal clothing that people would wear if they were going camping, therefore the actors are wearing things like Hoodies, Scarfs, Jeans, Jumpers and Boots. Here is an example of the costume;Costumes For Main Task
Location Shots Preliminary Task
Make-Up For Main Task
Location Shots For First Film
We were going to film our Two minute clip in Mousehold, however we realised that it was not possible as we did not have the right equipment, therefore we decided to change our idea and film somewhere else However these are the photos of our first location. 
Location shots for Main Task
These photos of where we filmed our two minutes clip, the location was Sophies house as we hought it was more appropiate to film it at her house instead of mine. As we thought Sophies house is more conventional than mine as her house is older.
This photo is of the cuboard that the girl was coming out of. This scene was my favourite as i liked how she came out of the cuboard and was looking straight into the camera and pulling herself up. 
Wednesday 5 May 2010
Storyboards For Main Task
We created the storyboards to help us when we were filming as we decided what camera angles we would use and what sound effects we would need when we were editing the film, as we filmed it in a different order to what we had planned. However when filming we would think of other ideas and better ideas, therefore the storyboard was different to the film itself.
The Credits
Planning Second Draft
The music will be high-pitched violins and cellos fading in and out all the way through the film. This will create tension as they will fade in to intensify a certain clip, creepy low-key, creeping in and out as well as going along with the story line.
Actors- Megan and possibly Sophie
Costume - Dress, skirt, tights all black
Make-up- White face, dark black eyes red lips, maybe blood everywhere from her mouth, eyes, blood dripping down her arms all over her dress.
Location- it will be set in a house we would like to film it during the night to make it look more effective. I think it should be filmed in a house because the storyline could be about friends going on holiday and have to stay in a haunted house. (Foreign cities is a convention of a thriller)
The props we will need will be fake blood, maybe a knife or a gun.
Lighting- would be normal lighting you get in a house, However I think we shouldn't’t use all the lights that we can because the darker it is the scarier. It looks Spookier; another possibility could be just candles because of a power cut.
Ideas the house is dull and empty there is a girl climbing out the cupboards and out from under the beds scratching on the floor while pulling her out, looking away from the camera and then at certain points of the film she suddenly looks straight into the camera. We want to create lots of tension and mystery. We think a good scene would be a girl walking down the hallway when suddenly she disappears. I think this would create suspense as she then re-appears down the hallway. Another scene could be a shot of the house from outside with the girl just standing at the window staring out of the window. Another could be the girl playing with a pool of blood. There could be an over-the-shoulder-shot of someone in the house doing something when the girl appears behind them then the screen goes black and you can hear a scream then the picture comes back and the person is lying on the floor with blood all around them.
Conventions Characterised by fast pacing, frequent action and resourceful heroes who must thwart the plans of more powerful and better equipped villains.
Literary devices such as suspense, red herrings and cliff hangers are used extensively; thrillers often take place wholly or partly in exotic settings such as foreign cities deserts or high seas.
Heroes are normally law enforcement, officers, soldiers, spies or aviators; however they could also be ordinary citizens drawn into danger by accident.
Thrillers often overlap with mystery stories, but are distinguished by the structure of their plots.
In a thriller, the hero must thwart the plans of an enemy, rather than uncover a crime that has already happened. In recent years when thrillers have been increasingly influenced by horror or psychological horror exposure. The monster could be anything even an inferior physical force made superior only by their intellect, a supernatural entity, aliens serial killers
What We Decided
We decided that we would have our opening clip as a thriller.
The music will be high-pitched violins and cellos they will be fading in and out all the way through the film this will create tension as they will fade in to intensify a certain clip. The location for our film will be at Mousehold during the night, I think this is a good location as it is the woods and there are a lot of trees to hide behind and it will be easy to make it look like something was moving in the dark. This also means that it will make the villain in our film scarier as you will not be able to see who it is or what it is.
We will have two cameras, one filming the people acting and another camera filming the person filming the actors. A good decision was to put clips from both cameras to make it look more realistic. This is one of the ideas from the Blair Witch, they would transfer from one camera to another throughout the film. We are going to be filming people who are camping for the weekend. The story line is; friends are camping when they realise that they cannot find one of their friends. This is when we decided that we could go two ways one could be that they all split up and you would see what happened to everyone individually but then someone foresees the future and sees what happens so stops them from splitting up but they just happen to die another way. (This idea came from Final Destination) the other way was they do not split up but they just disappear randomly, For example there could be a noise so everyone looks in one direction and then they turn back and one of their friends have disappeared. However we then decided that we would put the end at the beginning therefore the opening scene would be missing posters at the beginning and then it would go black and there would be heavy breathing in the back ground then it would go back to the beginning so you would then see people setting up the tents and things like that. We decided this because we thought that people would want to know what was going on so would carry on watching it to find out, it would entice the audience. These ideas came from films like Blair Witch project and final destination.
The costumes will be normal clothes for camping warm clothes like jeans and Hoodie and boots. The props we will need will be a tent, sleeping bags, torches a camera.
We thought we would add extra sounds to make them stand out, for example we would create the noises of footsteps and heavy breathing.
Planning for main task - 1st notes
We decided what we were going to produce by discussing what possibilities there were. For example we decided that we would produce a film clip that was a thriller genre. However the other genre we thought about was a horror. These are the notes that we had made whilst talking as a group.
Thriller or horror ?
Dark, mysterious characters, tense gory complex main story line, sub plots, red herrings, twists, intimidating characters, stereotypical.
Music
- thriller, high-pitched, violins, cellos, creepy, low-key, stuttered goes along with the pace of the storyline.
Violins – to create tension only at certain points of the film, the background music fading in and out all the way through the film.
Ideas
Two cameras can switch between both cameras (from the Blair Witch project challenges the conventions)
People tearing through doors and windows to catch people
Location
Roof tops, streets
Mousehold- At night trees people hiding behind them, people in tents hear noises, camp fire, someone goes missing here are loud noises, see things in the dark, images of dead people, people cut and blood everywhere (would have to be special effects) there are missing posters, camera goes fuzzy at the end never see the monster or psycho people running screaming, can hear someone breathing deeply.
Make-up - every day make up however when flashing images of dead people make-up would be a very pale face with dark eyes, to look frozen.
Lighting normal street lights, torches and the camp fire and candles
Actors – Simon Lewis, Bokenham, Surridge, Robbie, Sophie, Alex, Becca, a small group of friends.
Costume – normal clothes, Camping clothes, e.g. Hoodie, Jeans, boots, coats, casual clothes
Props – tent, sleeping bags, torches, fire and a camera
conventions Characterised by fast pacing, frequent action and resourceful heroes who must thwart the plans of more powerful and better equipped villains.
Literary devices such as suspense, red herrings and cliff hangers are used extensively; thrillers often take place wholly or partly in exotic settings such as foreign cities deserts or high seas.
Heroes are normally law enforcement, officers, soldiers, spies or aviators; however they could also be ordinary citizens drawn into danger by accident.
Thrillers often overlap with mystery stories, but are distinguished by the structure of their plots.
In a thriller, the hero must thwart the plans of an enemy, rather than uncover a crime that has already happened. In recent years when thrillers have been increasingly influenced by horror or psychological horror exposure. The monster could be anything even an inferior physical force made superior only by their intellect, a supernatural entity, aliens serial killers.
Filming Second Attempt
When starting to edit our first footage we then realised that our idea was very hard to film as we wanted to film it at night so we had the full advantage of the darkness. However it was not on our side we were not able to see anything as we would need a lot of light to be able to see all of the actors and to see the mise-en-scene, therefore we thought it would be best to change the story into something more possible that we could achieve in the time space provided.
We thought about filming it during the day and then when it came to editing we would change it to black and white and then also change the saturation of the film which would then make it look as if it was filmed at night, However we tried this and it didn't look very realistic or scary therefore we decided not to do that.
Therefore we changed the story from friends camping in the forest and they all go missing to people staying in a house when this ghost from the house emerges Its a 'girl' who first appears with bruises on her face and then appears with blood all up her arms and blood over her face. In the film you do not see the people in the house as we have filmed it from the end backwards therefore the audience sees the ending at the begining and they then have to watch the film to work out how they got to the end.
we thought of this as we have based our ideas on the films The ring and the grudge, we thought these were appropriate as The grudge has a girl looking scary and mysterious and hunts people down and then kills them, the ring is about people getting a phone call and then dying in freak accidents.
First Footage
The first time we tried to film we realised the complications with the lighting as we did not have any, you couldnt see anyone and you were not able to see the mise-en-scene everytyhing was black, therefore we tried filming another time as we would need a stronger light so we used a bright light however we still had roughly the same problems as we had light but we still needed more.
Another factor was the weather when filming it was raining, this made it harder for us to keep the focus on the filming as the rain made the camera lense blurry and you were not able to see the actors or mise-en-scene. this was also a concern of health and safety and it was very slippery as we were filing in a field and the grass was very wet.
Another problem was when filming we didnt always look back at what we had just filmed therefore some of the scenes we would need to re take however bewcause we didnt look at the footage we did not know this at the time therefore we only had a couple of retakes and we would not get the full advantage of using the camera.
Production Log Main Task
The aim of our task is to create a two minute opening scene of a film, the genre we are going to use is a thriller,we are going to have actors play the roles of people hanging around in the woods and messing about.
the location of our film is going to be set in Mousehold at night therefore the darkness will make it scarier, then we could film people running and hiding behind the trees, the sound effects we would be able to use are footsteps running, the sound of branches breaking and loud heartbeats, heavy breathing and the sound of the wind russeling through the trees. we thought it could end by he camera being dropped onto the floor and you see people running away from it then he screens goes fuzzy. Its going to be dark but we will need light to see the characters properly therefore we will need a big light.
The ideas we have came up with so far are the opening scene is missing people posters, plastered all over walls and phone boxes and other places along those lines, we could have people running and screaming but without the sound so you can see the emotion on those peoples faces, so they are focusing on that. Another idea is that to make the audience start to question what is happening we would have a black screen with a person heavy breathing and then the screen suddenly goes to a fuzzy screen and then cuts to clips of people in the forest messing around.
We thought we could have two cameras, one filming people in the wood and the other filming the person filming the other people, so then we can edit it so it can cut between both cameras, we got this idea from watching the Blair witch project. We thought we would be able to use this concept as that film is also a thriller/horror.
Each person in the group has a certain role to do i have to set the scene where to put the fire where to put the tents to make everything look perfect. i am also going to prepare the costumes. Robbie is setting up all the props and creating the dialogue. Sophie is going to help me with the settings and is going to do the make-up. We are all going to film. we have asked friends to be in our film they are Simon, Lewis, Bokenham and Lauren.
Evaluation for Preliminary Task
Our preliminary task was to create a short piece of film based on a genre of our choice.We decided we would film a boy following a girl down a hallway when she realises that she is being followed, so she gets faster and faster the girl walks towards the door she enters the room and the boy follows her, she slowly walks cautiously towards a table and sits down the boy also sits down and he gives her a mobile phone and says you dropped this.
We decided to choose a "spoof" thriller. We wanted to challenge the conventions of a thriller by questioning the audiences belief. We didn't reveal the comic ending until the last possible moment.
The conventions of a thriller are; shaky cam which creates a realistic affect for the audience, fast paced shots instead of static shots. the lighting is normally dull and dark in a thriller, this is to create a sense of mystery and tension to hold the audiences attention.
We created a storyboard to help us plan out our film we used pictures to help us describe what we wanted our film to look like. We described the camera angles we would use for example over the shoulder, 180 degree shot shaky cam and pan shot. we wanted Robbie to wear a hoodie as it amplifies that he is a mysterious person hiding in the shadows.
The location of the film was the school, however if we had more time we would have moved the location to somewhere more interesting and exciting, however the problems with filming in the hallway was the noise we needed it to be quite to get the effect we wanted however because there were classes it was very noisy.
When filming we had a lot of problems with continuity, we had to keep re-filming certain scenes because we realised that on a couple Robbie had his hood up and then another shot he wouldn't, with Sophie she was wearing a different costume and different hairstyles.
The problem with health and safety was that we had the actors running up and down the hallway and could easily fall over.
Everyone in the group had a different role, Sophie was one of the actors in the film, Robbie was the other actor in the film, Lauren and I were filming it. when filming everyone had a say in how we should film it, and how we should set the Mise-en-scene, therefore when filming if someone thought of a good way to change it we all had a say in how we should do it.
Costumes for Preliminary Task
We decided that we wanted the character to look mysterious therefore we wanted him to wear a hoodie so you wouldn't be able to see his face clearly. This meant that the character would look more mysterious and suspicious.