Production company sign

this is the sign we are using at the beginning of our film. this is because we needed to use something to bring the film in, rather than starting straight away with the film starting. Averielle played around with different font types, and then we decided to use a knife as this was our type of film, making people understand that this is a horror-thriller subgenre. We played around with different backgrounds starting with a white background with red text.

We used red text because we decided that red was associated with horror thrillers, and therefore decided that this was the best thing for our horror thriller film.

We decided to go with the black background as it looked better when placed with our film, although we wanted the red text to be shown more on the white background.

Survey Questions

When we completed our film, we needed people to analyse it so that we were able to get feedback and information on what they thought was good. I decided to think of some research questions which I could use to help get analysis on my film.

• What do you think the genre is?
• Why do you think this?
• What type of media institution (channel 4, WarnerBrothers, Disney etc) might distribute our media product?
• Why do you think this?
• Who do you think is the target audience - male, female, old, young?
• Did this media product target you?
• Did you connect with the characters?
• Do you think we made the right choice of music?
• What is your favorite part of the clip?
• What do you think could be improved?

Filming the Killing Scene.

It has been very difficult being able to create the killing scene in which we want to look lifelike and realistic. At the beginning, we realized it was going to be difficult because we were unsure how to make it look like she was going to be stabbing him when she cant go too close with the knife. The first try we used the shadows on the wall, this turned out difficult, because Averielle's hand looked limp and unrealistic. therefore we decided to have her bringing her hand up above her head, from Josh's point of View. This helped us establish a new shot which we hadn't used before. This idea came from Alfred Hitchcock's film 'Psycho'. This is the easiest way to create a stab scene without having to show the audience him being dead. 

Week before deadline!

On Monday, our group arranged to reshoot. Me and Alice had everything ready and then Averielle decided that she couldn’t film. This meant that our group had to think of another time to reshoot and we couldn’t do any other days with josh until Thursday, which was too late as that was our deadline.

On Tuesday, Alice and I worked on music and title sequence for our film. This was difficult as we didn’t know exactly what music we wanted to put in and we knew that we had to have music throughout the whole thing. 

We realised that we had to film on our Wednesday lesson. Alice and I filmed Averielle walking into the room. This proved a difficult task and took up our whole hour. We filmed from different angles, so that we had a variety to choose from when it came to editing.

Again, when we uploaded these we found it too dark. This meant that we couldn’t use the shots and was difficult because we had to find a way to edit in exactly what we already had but so that it worked for us.

On Thursday, we edited everything together with the new reshoots and music. We tried to make the film look the best we could. As we felt that we needed some feedback, we got Mr Ford to watch through our film, and he told us that it didn’t make sense, even though he had seen our storyboard and we had explained what we were trying to achieve. Therefore we ended up changing the whole sequence of our shots. This meant that every shot without a knife went first, and then the shots that Averielle did have a knife in came second. We also changed around where we were putting our title as we found out it couldn’t go where we wanted it to. This therefore meant that we had to find a new place for our title to go, and we worked this in just before the stabbing scene as we decided that we could hear the stabbing before we saw him dead.

Over the last few days

Over the last few days, Alice, Averielle and I have been trying to get our film finished for both Mr Ford and Mr Michie. We found that we have been filming during school hours and stayed after school last Thursday in order to try and get all our filming done and up to date. We had the list of things to film, and therefore worked through them as quickly and easily as possible.

Alice and I played around with the different shots we could get of the knife. This meant that we had a variety of angles and therefore when it came to choosing which shot to put in the final thing, we knew exactly what we had and which we could use.

We tried to do lots of angles from Joshes P.O.V. This was important because we wanted to change up our variety of shots as we feel that we didn’t have that many. This meant that we had to film sitting on the chair, which was not a good idea. This was because it blocked the light of the lamp which we normally use, which made all of our shots dark and we were unable to use many of them.

I uploaded all this footage on Friday, and watched through it & cut the bits which I thought we may be able to use. As I was the only one editing, I didn’t want to make any large alterations, but I felt that I had to do something to help our group on the way.

Reshoots

Music.

  Our group is finding it difficult to find music which fits into the end part of our film, and we also are finding it hard to explain why the music is like this at the beginning.
  We want the music at the beginning to be classical in the red room, so that the woman and her actions are juxtaposed with the music. We realise that we may have to get a radio to enable us to have some diegetic sounds and also to show that thats why we have this type of music on the website.
  On the end of our title sequence, we want a music soundtrack that shows the build up of the flashes, perhaps starting slowly then becoming faster as time moves on. This is proving difficult to find online, and without copyright. If we find a track we like, we find that it doesnt fit in with our film, or is to fast for what we are trying to show.
  I found a track which I thought may fit into our film, but as we played it with the actions we wanted it to fit in with we realised it made the opening sounds more like an ending, therefore making us unable to use it.