Editing Diary 30/1/13

Today i spent 2 hours editing. I when through about half of the footage. I had to check that the sound was ok as last year we had a problem with sound when the actors were speaking.

Poster - Texas chainsaw massacre

The poster for Texas chainsaw massacre shows a man with a chainsaw walking away. I think this is very effective as this is not the first Texas chainsaw massacre film and the old films were very well known. The film doesn’t show a lot but it doesn’t need to because a lot of the audience will know the old films and will want to see it through association.

The poster uses very dark titles and features in a remote setting. The font used is a very similar colour to the colour scheme. It stands out because it has a glow effect. The poster looks dull and old compared to the other posters this may be linked in with the older movies or that its based on a true story.

This is my favourite one so far as this is the one that affects me most personally and i think this would be the kind of thing i would produce for my trailer seeing as my trailer is also based in a remote area with no one around i would probably choose to have a shilloette of my killer in the back ground and have the group of teenagers in my trailer featured in the foreground of the picture, by placing the killer in the background suggests the element of a nasty surprise they know he’s out there but don't know where he’s hiding

Poster - The Roommate

The poster for the roommate features 2 girls and a boy.  One of the girls is standing very close to the boy suggesting there together. The other girl is standing on her own. The girls are both looking in the direction of the other girl, this suggest a rivalry between the two girls. the girl stood on her own is shown to be the threatening one out of the two as she is shown in a red light, suggesting she’s evil and the other girl seems to be protected by the boy or looking for that protection.

 The title suggests that they are in a college or university and that the two girls are roommates. The poster doesn’t give much else away to the viewer about the film. The audience knows it’s a horror film due to the dark lighting and use of red lighting and title.

Poster - Paranormal Activity

 

The poster for paranormal activity shows a man and woman on the bed, this might be a scene from the film. The female is pointing toward the door where there is a shadow. In the poster it looks like night time and it’s done in a home video style layout as the poster shows a man and woman in a bedroom I’m guessing the story is set inside their home. Due to the title and the shadow on the door I’m guessing that there home is being haunted but a ghost or demon.

The film title is against a black background and uses a red colour to stand out which connotes death and blood which fits in to the genre of the film. The film caption what happens when u sleep fits in very well with the picture on the poster this shows that the poster is defiantly from night time and is being film while the characters are sleeping.

The poster is very simple and is probably more reliant on the trailer rather than the poster to bring audiences in as it is hard to portray ghost/demons in a poster.

Poster - last house on the left

The film poster for the last house on the left uses black for the majority of the back ground. The house is surrounded by a white back ground that looks like a light. It makes the house look like a Shilloette. The house also looks abandoned and creepy as the light from the back makes it look like there is mist surrounding the house.

The title of the house is in bold font with all the words in white except ‘house’ which is in blood red and covered in blood splats. This insinuates the house is dangerous. The title takes up half of the poster and has very strong connotations on its own.  

I think this poster is very simple but very effective. The way they highlighted the word house and having a picture of a house at the bottom makes me think that most of the action is happening in the house.

‘If bad people hurt someone you love how far would you go to hurt them back.’ This is the quote at the bottom of the poster this suggest that the story involves a group of friend or a family. As there isn’t a person on the front cover to draw audiences in, I think they have kept it simple so the audiences imagination can fill in the blanks

 

Shot list for our film

Shot 1

High angle shot of our two characters meeting

Shot 2
Two shot of our characters on a bench

Shot 3
Two shot of an argument between our characters

Shot 4
Close up on the action scene of the slap

Shot 5
Over the shoulder shot of our main protagonist watching people out of a window

Shot 6
long shots of our character walking down an alley and up a street

Shot 7
Close ups of more confrontation

Shot 8
Close ups of our phscyco going to grab a weapon

Shot 9
Long shot of our phscyco stood down the end of an alley

Shot 10
Zoom in shot of our characters face

Script

Amy – thank you, hi I’m Amy

Amy – fuck you

Ricky – don’t push me

Amy – fuck off

Ricky – don’t push me

When filming we told the actor roughly what to say but it was mostly done through improvisation. 

Diary of Filming

We were planning to film today but we can’t as it’s raining. Unfortunately we done all of the filming inside. So theres not much we can do I think ill just meet up with Amiee and edit our film.

Trailer Titles

Costume ideas male characters

My first male character is going to have a personality to meet the first females, he is going to be verry cocky, verry interested in the way he looks and up for winding up everyone! the complete oposite to his best friend the second male character in my trailer he is going to be more layed back and wants to look out for his friends where as his friend is more interested in scaring the girls and winding the quieter one up.

First Male Character

Second Male Character

Costume ideas for Female characters

When i get round to filming things for my trailer its not going to be the height of summer and the majority of my filming will also be done in the evening so my characters arent going to be dressed in summary clothing .

• One of my female characters is how ever going to be dressed verry 'girlie' her personality is going to be verry 'self centerd' and vain. to elabourate on this personality im going to dress her in diferent kind of clothes to my second female character as i would like her to stand out. shes on an outdoor camping trip she wont look like thats what shes dressed for where as my other female character will come across as more down to earth and relaxed she will be dressed in more cassual clothes fit for the activity they are doing, she will also be wearing more dull colours compared to the other character. both of these girls are characterised to be the complete oposite of eachother and there for find it verry hard to get along with eachother!

First female character

Second Female Character

Film Institutions

• Dream works is an American film studio which develops, produces, and distributes films, video games and television programming. and is extremely popular and produce allot of well known films most of the films produced by dream works are animated films and family viewing and comedy's. Dream works have produced films like:

Road Trip

Cast Away

Catch me if you can

Shrek

The cat in the hat

• Dream works have produced some horror/thrillers these are:

The Ring

The Ring two

The uninvited (co production with cold spring pictures)

Paranormal Activity (co production with paramount)

• Paramount pictures is probably one of the most well known film production company's It is the fourth oldest existing film studio in the world behind Universal Studios. It produces all kinds of different films to fit each genre some of the films they have produced are films like

Forest Gump

Clueless

Lassie

Face/Off

Titanic (co production with 20th century fox)

Dance Flick

Transformers

• Paramount have also produced some horror/thrillers these are :

Sleepy Hollow

Paranormal activity

Jack The Ripper

• Warner bro's is one of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner,Warner Bros has several subsidiary companies, including Warner Bros. Studios, Warner Bros. Pictures, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, Warner Bros Television, and Warner bros animation.
• Warner bro's pictures is another popular film institution and has produced allot of my personally favourite slightly old films but as much as i do favour this production company they would be the ones i would be least likely to use as part of my trailer because i don't believe that it fits in with the whole horror/thriller genre that I'm going to be working on. Films produced by this company are:

The Harry potter films

The Phantom of the opera

Happy feet two

The hobbit (currently working on)

The great Gatsby (currently working on)

• Warner Bros have produced some horror/thrillers these are:

The Exorcist

House of wax

• Ghost House pictures Is an institution I'm only recently familiar with after it being the institution my media group used whilst producing out opening scene for a horror this is one of my favourite institutions to use as i think it fits in really well with the genre of my trailer ghost house pictures have produced films such as:

Drag me to hell

The Grudge

The Evil Dead

Boogeyman

The messengers

• New Line Film Productions Inc., often simply referred to as New Line Cinema, is an American film studio. this isn't an institution i know too much about compared to the ones I've previously looked but some of the films they have produced are

The Wedding singer

Rush Hour

The Bachelor

Elf

The Notebook

• They have produced some Horror/Thriller films these are:

Texas Chain Saw Massacre

Blade Trinity

Snakes on a plane (action thriller)

Friday the 13th

• Universal Studios (also known as Universal Pictures), is an American film studio, and one of the six major movie studios. It is one of the longest-lived motion picture studios to be located outside of Hollywood. it is the oldest movie studio in the United States of America. It is also the third oldest in the world that is still in continuous production. This isn't an institution I've looked at properly before all though they've produced a lot of films that i have seen like:

An American tale

American Pie

Beethoven

Jurassic park

Balto

• They have produced some Horrors/Thrillers these are:

The Thing

Phscyco

White Noise

• 20th century fox is one of the six major American film studios as of 2011^[update]. Located in the Century City area of Los Angeles. again this isn't an institution I've ever looked at before but some of the films they have produced are films like:

Doctor Doolittle

The Guru

Alien

Big

Mrs doubtfire

• They have produced some horrors/Thrillers these are

The Exorcist 3

Death sentence

• Columbia pictures is the final institution I'm going to look at for my media, this like a couple others isn't an institution I'm very familiar with and also isn't one I'm likely to use for my trailer is an American film production and distribution company. Columbia Pictures now forms part of the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment a subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate Sony. Some of the films they have produced are:

The toy

My girl

Gladiator

Robin hood men in tights

• The have produced some horror/thrillers these are:

Dracula

I know what you did last summer

I still know what you did last summer

The bone collector

Lionsgate is a Canadian film company. In 2007, it became the most commercially successful independent film company in North America. They produce and distribute motion pictures, television programmes, home entertainment and family entertainment

Some of the biggest films lionsgate have produced are: kick ass, religulous, forbidden kingdom, Rambo, the bank job and Tyler Perry’s Medea goes to jail, which generated $41 million in the opening weekend.

Lionsgate mainly produce thriller, action, drama and horror. Some of the horrors they have produced are: saw 1/2/3/4/5/6, saw 3D, the last exorcism and my bloody valentine.

After researching lionsgate I realised that horror was not their strongest points when making or distributing. Therefore I don’t think I will choose this institution to create my horror film as I don’t think they have enough experience in creating successful and memorable horror films.

 

In the 1970, Hammer made few horror films as they were going out of fashion. In 2000 they remerged and released just under a dozen films over the years. In 2009 the announced they had teamed up with alliance films and were remaking the woman in black.

Hammer productions have produce some amazing horror movies including Let Me In, The Resident and Wake Wood. This is why I would like Hammer productions to produce my film. As I think they have a very strong profile in horror and would the best institution to make and distribute my film.

Hammer Title

Mood Board - Typical Audience Interests

• This mood board is a summary of the common interests that i have linked to my target audience the audience I'm aiming to attract are going to be an age group ranging from 15 to 25 because of the age rating of genre i have chosen to work with.

• my mood board contains a range of different images linking to music, sport, popular technology brands, popular clothing brands food brands, common social networking sites and teen socializing in general all things that i personally am interested in and associate highly with other people in and around my age group.

Diary of Filming

My group and I had many things to consider for the shooting of our film such as;

• The Weather. We chose to film some of our movie outside so we had to check the weather forecast frequently for good weather.
• Dates and Times. We had to choose appropriate days and times which was suitable for all group members plus acting crew.
• Camera angles. When we arrived at our filming location we had to decide which camera angle we could capture the action best in.
• Battery Life. We underestimated the time we had that we could use the camera before it ran out of battery so we had to find a plug socket to charge it up which wasted valuable filming time.
• Costumes and Props. We filmed the scenes over the course of two days and so all costume, props and the setting had to remain the same to keep continuity.
• The Public. We filmed in an outdoor public area and so we had many people walk through the film shots unintentionally and ask us about what we were doing.

We encountered many problems during filming in some of the categories above. We had to rethink carefully about many of the shots we wanted to shoot and had to take a break from filming to charge up the camera battery. We considered a lot of this beforehand but we still encountered and resolved a few problems.

Dairy of Filming

Today we stayed afterschool to do our storyboard and animatic. We managed to draw out the storyboard and take pictures for the animatic. I will take the pictures home to put the animatic together and upload it to our blogs.

Storyboard - Obsession

Synopsis of trailer

The trailer will start off with Ricky and Amy meeting and will lead on to them going out. The audience will see them arguing but wont know what about. The trailer will then jump to Amy going out with her new boyfriend and will show how Ricky is loosing the plot. the trailer will end with Ricky picking up a knife.

Synopsis of whole film

The film will be about a boy that meets a girl and falls in love. After the boy, Ricky, makes a huge mistake the girl, Amy,  dumps him.  Ricky  becomes obsessed with the Amy and when the Amy get a new boyfriend Ricky cant stand it. 

mood board

Actors

Ricky and Amy will be the two main characters in my film. They will be play the role of boyfriend and girlfriend.

Ricky is perfect for the part of a killer; he can look sweet and innocent at times but also very scary. Ricky can also relate slightly to the character as he was kicked out of his house at a young age like the character he is playing.

I chose Amy for the part of the girlfriend as she is very good at playing the part of a helpless girl. I didn’t want to conform to the stereotype of having the blonde female that is completely helpless and almost always dies first therefore Amy’s character is going to be brain and not very stupid.

Possible film names

• Obsessed
• Obsession
• Phscycotic
• Possesed
• Alone
• In the shaddows

these are just a few film names we have come up with. The one we have decided to go with is Obsession

Diary of Filming

Today we got all the actors together and discussed the roles and started filming. We found the filming hard as the actors were only available for a limited amount of time.

Locations For Our Film

Diary of Filming

Today we went to Ricky’s flat and took some pictures with the lights on and off. We found that we need the lights off to get the best effect for most scenes.