Auditions

Yesterday we held the audtions to cast the positions in our opening. We set up three camera's, this is so we could do a mock up of the shot reverse shot we plan to do in our final piece. We audtioned 4 people and gave them several takes to do, each time asking them to act slightly differently. This way we could see which way had more impact. I think when we ask them to both be really agressive it worked very well.
We then got together as a group and decided who we would like to use.

I think the audtion process went very well and we worked well to make the best decisions we could.

Animatic Storyboard Final

This is the final copy our animatic storyboard, it is narrated by me and one other member of the group. We improvised what we said and just explained what was happening in each shot.

Script Writing

We had a deadline to complete the final copy of the script for our opening. We sat down as a group and discussed which characters we would need and what they would say, if anything. We then wrote down a brief copy of the script on paper. As seen below:























I then went away with another member of the group, Lauren, and we worked on an intermediate copy of the script. We started to word process it and put it into more of the format of a script. We then printed out what we had done, and got it checked by several people to check for spelling mistakes and improvments that could be made. Here is the intermediate copy:
























After correcting these mistakes, and making any improvments that were suggested, we could then complete the final copy of the script. This is it:

Final Script

Similar Media Works Presentation

For the siminlar media works presentation we divided the group up and we each completed a list of slides for the final presentation. I done slides on the following:
Target audience
Typical Mise en-Scene
Mise en-Scene of one horror film

Here are my slides.

For the research of this project, I looked on several websites such as IMBD and wikipedia. I also watched a selection of horror film clips to compare mise-en scene.

You can see the full Similar Media Works presentation on our group blog here :
http://cvhs-jall.blogspot.com/

Similar Media Works Presentation Research

As a group we decided that we would split the presentation into sections, and then we could individualy research and present those sections. I have done some research on target audeince of horror films and I wrote the following for the presentation:

Usually the target audience for mainstream horror is people aged 16 – 24. This is mainly due to the fact the most horror films are certificate 15 or 18. They are certified this way because the content of these films often contain explicit content and scenes that could disturb younger viewers. Another reason for this targeted age group is that film production companies will often advertise using adverts in teen magazines and music channels, which are also aimed at people of ages between 16 – 24. More related to psychological thrillers, the age range of audience would tend to be slightly older. This is because the plot and story lines are often a lot more intricate and complicated, and therefore require more knowledge and concentration.

With concern to gender, horror films are stereotyped to be aimed at men, this is because of the idea that men will feel more manly after watching a horror film. However, more recently the audience has spread more out to females as well. This shows both men and women both enjoy watching horror films for the adrenaline rush that comes with watching one.

The Shining Hallway Scene Re-make

As a group we filmed the shots necessary to complete our horror film remake. As I did not get a chance to contribute to the final edit, I created my own which is the video seen above. I think this will help me greatly when it comes to creating our final project as it is horror, like the final piece will be. Making this allowed me to use the different conventions for horror films and get a feel for how to edit them to meet the expected standards. This included things such as, filming at angles expected in horror films and using appropriate transitions.

Creating this re make will help me greatly when it comes to creating our final product as it has let me get a good feel of how to edit a film to give the typical horror conventions. It has allowed me to get good practice with using the equipment and editing software which will all contribute towards the final piece.

Research into Setting etc.

I done some research into the setting of our project. I went on to the internet to search for relevant images that could help us with setting our film.

First of all I looked at pictures of an empty swing and found the following:



I chose this image as it shows the swing still in motion, I thought this was good as it would make it look like the action was all of a sudden and unexpected. I think making a clip similar to this for our project would work well as the idea would fit.

I also liked the lighting in this image, as it is quite dull, there are no real bright colours as such. This would also work well for our project as we will be trying to make it look eerie and suspicious.

I then found this image. I selected it because I think it shows a similar surrounding to what we will try to acheive in the filming of our project.

It shows a swing set in a forest surrounding, it is very desolate and isolated from anything else. This will help to show the character is helpless if we used a scene like this.

The lighting in the clip is very light and sunny, as we want our scene to look quite suspicious we could film in the evening to solve this problem.



I thought if I looked at pictures of nurses and doctors, it would help us to choose the cast more appropriatly. By this I mean we can see what a typical nurse and a typical looks like.


It can also help us to choose relevant costumes for our cast, so it looks as authentic as possible.




I found these two pictures which show a letter with the 'CONFIDENTIAL' stamp and a 'PRIVATE' stamp. I looked at these images as in our film we will show documents with some kind of private or confidential stamp on them. Looking at these images will help to find the most effective way of showinig that the documents are confidentail.