Evaluation

For our evaluation we decided to create a website, with our 7 questions.

Below is the link to our website.

                                                      http://asmediahorror.weebly.com/

Filming

We used two different locations which were very different from each other, we used Bentley Priory to film our first minute of the horror film as this was were fern was running through the woods. Also we used the Six form common room to create a causal effect, and a friendly environment. Both these locations fitted in with our horror film. 

Myself, Leah, Emma and Fern 

Myself, Emma, Leah and Fern 

Common Room 

 

We decided to go to Bentley Priory as it was a very horror like area, therefore this fitted in with our horror conventions. Within Bentley Priory there was a lareg woodlend area that we was filmed in, howere there were muddy puddles and slippery serverces so therefore we wasd unable to film in these places for health and saftey reasons. Although this gave our mise-en-scene a very dull and eerie effect.

for our second location we used our Six Form common Room, we decided to chose this area as it was relatable for our target audience whcih was teenagers. Therefore we used our common room becuase our characters are all students aged between 16-17, therefore this was perfect for our opening. 

Pre-Filming

These images below are from the day we spend at Bentley Priory, these images were used in our final product. When we went to Bentley Priory we as a group had already decided and knew what we was going to film, therefore we spent the whole day filming our footage we needed. Although when uploading our footage we then realised that our footage wasn't what we expected it to be, we thought it looked too much like a trailer than an actual film.

When rethinking about our ideas, we decided to use some of our footage from Bentley Prior for the beginning of our horror film and re film the rest. when re filming the rest we decided to do this in school because this then links in with our teenage characters. We then filmed what we thought was a good idea, however this did not work, we had some problems when filming and did not like the idea. Finally we thought of a final idea and filmed in the Six Form common room, this went extremely well and filmed everything in the space of 2 hours. We used the common room footage in our final project. 

Health and Safety Form

Below I have embedded the health and saftey form which was filled out by Leah and Fern before attending Bentley Priory,  to film our 2 minute film opening. 

When filling out this form we had to include the different hazards which we will face when filming at Bentley Priory, we then had to include the different risks that would happen during our filming session. We then decided who was at risk and what the control measures are, and how how high the risks are. By doing this we were more aware of our surroundings and what the dangers would be. 

Research and Planning

Script

This is the Script that Leah produced before we started filming, we had to create a script as myself, Leah and Fern was acting in the sequence. Myself and Leah had to learn our lines ready for filming, by creating a script it gave us an understanding of what happens in each scene and when to change shot or angle.

Shot List
The shot list in which we produced was a good resource that we needed in order to be prepared when filming, if this was not completed than our group would be disorganised.

The shot list included; camera instructions, dialogue, description of action, actors and equipment. These captions are very important to use as actors and directors because they are crucial characteristic that we need to know well before we go filming.

This gave our group a clear understanding of what shot angle we need to use, this helped me understand media terminology more. i learnt that producing a shot list was a key element when filming.

Storyboard

My storyboard is comparable to my shot list, but with less information, however the actions has been illustrated. Within the storyboard we had to include an illustrated image for our action, type of shot/angle, dialogue/sound/camera, movement and timing.

 

Costume

Costumes 

Before filming our short film title, we as a group had to decide what our costumes would look like. When doing this we had to think of the different type of characters we are, our characters are  teenagers aged 16-17. We had to keep in mind what type of clothes teenagers would wear.

My costume as Laura
Ive chosen to wear black skinny jeans, with a white vest and a Kimono and also Nike blazers. I wore this because this is the type of outfit a teenager girl would wear when they are in six form or collage. 

Leah's costume as Skye 

Skye is a teenage girl who is the victim of the killer, therefore she wore a green jacket with leggings and converse. This is a very conventional outfit for teenagers aged 16-17, this is why Leah playing as Skye wanted to wear this outfit as this shows and symbolise and typical teenager.

Fern's costume as Charlotte 

By wearing a burgandy blouse, black jeans and a black cardigan with red converses, symbolises danger. As Charlotte is one of the main characters at the start of the film we decided that she should wear dark colours as she is in danger. This works well because this outfit is also worn by teenagers as this is a stylish costume. 

Bentley Priory Location Shot

When planning our two minute opening for our horror film we decided to go to Bentley Priory, we chose Bentley Prior because it has many facilities to film in. For example rivers, an old building and a surroundings of trees. This was a great area of us to film fern running, as this created an eerie feel and effect, this was also effective because light wasn't let in due to the tress, this was effective as it made sense seem darker.

As you can see from the images above, Bentley Priory creates an image as spooky and eerie. This was a perfect location for us to film, also it was raining all day which also gave it extra effect, therefore this did not cause a problem for our group. However this did prevent us from filing on the grass as it was too muddy and slippery, and this could have caused a huge risk. 

 

Ident for our group

Before creating an opening sequence of a Horror Film we needed to create our own personal Ident, which Emma created with Final Cut Pro, She found a certain template which will suit our horror genre. Then we decided on the colours on which we will use for our ident. 

 When talking about our ident we came up with a name called 'Elfs Productions' when creating our ident we decided to change our name as we needed it to be more formal and horror related. Therefore we used 'Self's Productions'. We wanted to make our ident 15 seconds as this will tie in with the overall theme of the 2 minute sequence. With this we chose the colours red and black as this links in with a typical horror film.  

Below i have embeded Youtube links that show our ident. 



This is our official ident which is 13 seconds long, we have kept the use of the red and black colours to symobolise danger within a Horror film. We have kept our ident creative but simple so that our audience will remember it easily. We have made the title bold and use capital letters throughout the word 'productions', we did this so that the title will stand out.

Idents

Idents - Ident is a short for identification, it is a short sequence which is usually 20-30 seconds  long that is shown at the begging of the film to identify which film production company are associated with it. 

Lionsgate 



Cinepix Productions was the name before lionsgate, Lionsgate films came around in 1998. Lionsgate is used with well known films such as 'The hunger games', it is also used for horror films. This is the new ident for Lionsgate which came out in 2013 and it is 23 seconds long. This ident starts of with a black background and fades into what seems to be the world, the camera is skimming through the outer layer of the earth with clouds cover it. It then slowly moves into a space like background and fades into clouds which then say lionsgate.

There is a lot of darkness and different sounds that are being used, this creates tension and power throughout the ident itself. The title is very bold and grabs your attention and the music is very strong and powerful as they use drums and trumpets, also the music gets louder when the ident comes to an end.



In 1999 Lionsgate ident is completely different from the present one. As we can see this beings with a faded black screen to fireworks which swirl into the sky, and then Lionsgate films appears. This ident is simple but clear and was seen as the most popular ident shown.

Dreamworks 



Dreams works was found in 1997 and was to create animated feature films such as 'Shrek' 'Madagascar' etc. They have made sure that this dent is appropriate for children as this ident is show in most animated films.

This ident is shown as child-like as it is shown in the sky with a boy sitting on the moon, Young children love to dream and would love to be in a fancy world, therefore this ident is aimed at children as the setting of the ident is in the sky with balloons and the colours grabs the children's attention.

When looking through the two ident's that Dreamworks have created it is clear that they are both very similar as they both include the sky, the boy on the moon and the balloons and the bold lettering, the main thing that has changed would be the use of colour, the darkness of the blue has changed.

My own workwhen analysing these film idents and their companies i now have a better understanding of what needs to be included in my own ident. My film genre is horror, I will be including dark colours, for example black and red to create tension. Then i will dd the name of the production company in big bold writing for it to stand out.

Horror Film Step outline

Step Outline

This document shows the first two mintues of a film opening from The Women In Black. In this step outline i had to analyse everything that happened, this includes the timing, sounds, mise-en-scene, typlogy and editing. This task was very time consuming as we had to write every little detail that was in the film, this film was a challenage as the scenes changed every two seconds. I also found this challenging as counting the timing is difficult and describing the mise-en-scene is difficult as you need to include everything that is in the scene. I used my teachers NetFlix to watch this film opening as I didnt have a way of watching this.



This document is from a member in my group, she focused on two film titles, these were; Cabbin In The Woods and Sweeny Todd. She used the same step outline to fill in, and this includes timing, mise-en-scen, camear work, editing and typlolgy. As you can see these two films have used typology whereas the first film which I created didnt use typology.

With these three step outlines our group will now analisye them and use the infomation in our film title. When doing the step outlines you had to be very accurate in what you are writing, and you have to include every little deltail. These will help our group massivily as it gives use an understanding of how many seconds a scene should be and what is in our mise-en-scene.

Film Pitch, Padlet and Amendments

Film Pitch

This document shows our first film pitch which my group and me created, this document explains our titler to our film, our subgenre, logline, synopsis, the rescoures which are needed and the characters names. We as a group came up with an idea of our film name as we though it needed to be internet based, we called it Into-net. We had to write a detailed synopsis which had to include start, middle and end.

Film Pitch Feedback

This is our film pitch feedback from our target audience, after we created our film pitch we created a padlet wall and this is where our audience can write feedback about our synopsis. They would comment on what they like about our idea but also about what we should change. After everyone has written a comment we as a group when back over our film pitch and took these comments ahead.

Completed Film Pitch

After our film pitch feedback was completed we went back over to our film pitch to improve our synopsis, we took all the comments aboard and included them into our film pitch. We wrote our synopsis in more detail than it was before and this gave us a better understanding of our horror film. We also added a logline into our film pitch, as shown before we didnt complete this part as we could think of a relevent logline. After reading the comments and being able to think for a longer period of time we came up this a logline that was relevent.