Story board for our main task

By taking photos for our storyboard, it helped us when filming. This is because from looking at the storyboard we knew where to place the camera and characters, this made it easier to film and mke sure that we don't cross the 180 rule.

Questionnaire

1. What gender are you?
male

female

2. How old are you?
13-15

16-18

19-22

23-25

26+
3. Do you enjoy horror/thriller films?
Yes

No

4. Do you watch horror/thriller films on your on?
Yes

No

5. Do you prefer to watch horror/thriller films in the cinema or at home?
Cinema

Home

6. Do you buy/rent/both?
Buy

Rent

Both

7. What do you expect to see from a horror film?

8. What in your opinion is the best horror/thriller film?

9. What in your opinion is the worst horror/thriller film?

10. Do you enjoy the gore factor of horror films?
Yes

No

11. Do you think that music adds to the horror atmosphere?
Yes

No

12. Do you get scared at all?
Yes

No

13. If yes, is it during the film or afterwards?

14. If yes, why?

15. What is your favourite horror/thriller movie villain? (Vampire, Zombie, ghost, monster, pyscho)


By doing a questionnaire we were able to find out:
>Who was our target audience
>What we have to do to achieve a target audience
>How people would react to our film opening
>What kind of villan people prefer
>If we would need to make an age barrier on our film

Main Task

Our classes main task is the opening sequence to a film. We decided to do the genre horror and do something similar to our researched film (Saw 2.)

Mise en scene
For mise en scene we planned to film in a secure room with little lighting. (we took one light bulb out to make the room dimmer). This will add to the effect of a horror film. An idea we had was to film in Big Yellow Self Storage but we were unable due to the fact that they prohibit filming.
The next idea was a room near Sung-Min's church but she was unable to get the room for the time we needed. So...We ended up filming in Louise's garage which matched our expectations of a horror film and our planning. The idea of using school girl costumes was to show how innocent the girls were and how they changed during the opening sequence as the costume changed (i.e blood on it) they changed violent and dangerous (the colour red symbolises violence, danger and the coming of death). The prop used was just the gun, this was aquried by Louise's brother.

Narrative
The narrative was created by Louise, she watched over countless numbers of horror films to decide on this film. Some films watched were: Saw 2, Battle Royale, Scream, Saw, Psycho and Silent Hill. The idea we had was to replicate Saw 2 from our research. So we were going to have a death at the beginning and a torture room or chamber. Louise thought of the idea of friends fighting each other, we started with saying there was going to be 10 people but due to lack of space we decided on 2 people instead.

Camera
We borrowed the camera off of a friend (Jake Lawerance) and his tri-pod. We decided to use a few high angle shots to show the audience they are watching over the two friends and that the two friends are being watched by someone the audience will later find out. We used many POV shots to involve the audience in the horrific atmosphere. We didn't use any low angle shots on the two main characters because neither of them are more superior than the other. However we used the low angle shot on the gun to show the gun and the person holding it is in more power than the two characters.

Sound
The only diagetic sound used during the filming was the rain and dialouge. The rain added effect to the film because you could hear it very well on the roof of the garage. We plan to use tense music to draw the audience in and create a sense of horror.

By Hannah and Louise

Our presentation: Feed the fish

What went well

We didn't cross the 180 degree rule, which was a big achievement for us. Editing went well, for most of us it was our first time editing and we learnt new skills that day. We believe that our tracking shot was clean and wasn't shaky. We were able to change shots easily through editing and the use of varitey when it came to shots e.g close up, medium shot, reverese shots.

What didn't go well

The establishing shot was changed so instaed of tracking upwards it tracked downwards. The reason we changed this was because the next shot was a person walking up the steps so it looked weird and the audience would think we are at the top of the building due to the establishing shot then get confused that we take another set of stairs. The tri-pods were annoying because they were stiff and were hard to move about easily without the camera shaking and without making a noise.

What we would change

The opening shot (establisdhing shot) instead of tracking the building we should of tracked person A walking into the building. Have person A walking into and out of frames instead of starting the shot with the person A in the shot. If we had more time we would of changed our setting so it's more of a spy short film. We would of changed the costumes, so it's more of a spy short film.

What we learnt

We learnt that sound was important and was hard to capture on the normal video cameras, due to the small microphones. When tracking a building if the next shot involves stairs then we should track downwards not upwards because it will confuse the audience. That a variety of shots makes the short film look good and well rehersed. That sometimes zooming can be bad because our eyes match the camera and can't zoom so it confuses the audience.

Dates:

27th of January: First day of filming

29th of January: Redid filming and started editing

1st of Febuary: Editing

2nd of Febuary: Contined editing

3rd of Febuary: DONE! :)