For the production of our horror film I helped do various tasks to advance our planning for the best results in our final horror film opening. I looked at numerous locations that would be suitable for our horror film and produced to reccee sheets to go along with them. The chosen location can be seen in the first horror extract that we produced. I found that it would be best set in a normal house, this would have a large convenience for filming and would also make our horror film seem even more realistic. All of our pieces were filmed inside a house with a naturalistic feel to the surroundings. This is present in our first assessment piece (Seen here) final film (Seen Here) and in our reccee sheets (Pictured Below)
I also helped research what would make our horror film effective and dramatic to keep the target audience interested and on the edge of their seat during our horror opening. Through use of camerawork, sound, editing and mise en scene. I explored how making shots longer than the average 3-4 seconds can build tension and how I would apply it to our final film. I also made use of the fact that low lighting can enhance a threats you have less senses to rely on. This is present in our final theme as the threat only causes disruption when the light goes off and visibility becomes low. Our soundtrack is naturalistic and blends into the background of the film well, low organs are used to create a bass tension building sound, the influence of this in our final piece came from the research I carried out on Poltergeist. Seen Here
Other research that I took part in recording was for what age rating we were going to give our film as appropriate to our target audience. We decided on a 15 rating as it did not include any strong material in, such as nudity or strong violence.
This allowed our target audience to have a larger spectrum and allowed a crucial part of the target audience (15-18 year olds) to legally see the film upon release in the cinema. Even at post-production stage we still feel that the 15 rating was appropriate and has been strict to regulations.
I helped to decide on how long each shot should be and what would be suitable to create the most tension possible to keep the audience interested in our film. This can be seen in our Film Outline (Seen Here)(Part 2 Here). These gave us a good idea on how long the film would be and what footage we would have to cut down in time accordingly.
I helped choose the appropriate lighting for our horror film by using the lighting design sheet to see what would make the threat in our film seem the worst. This work links back to one of the first research pieces I did where I studied Poltergeist and analysed how lighting was used to convey different levels of threat towards the audience.
I helped put forward initial ideas for our horror film, I thought it would be effective for the lights to flicker on and off, similar to in our first assignment piece as it would be a good distraction for the threat to create a strong disequalibrium in the narrative. I also thought it would be a good idea to create as many close ups as possible to show constant reactions to what is happening so the audience are as immersed as much as possible into the storyline. (Click Here) for a larger image.
I illustrated the lighting design on the location and reccee sheet. This gave us a clear idea of where it would be suitable to have the threat placed and where the victim should be sat at the time while everything is going on. Other than one torch we only used the lights that were previously around in the setting for our final outcome. Natural light from the windows and the light bulbs on the ceiling were sufficient enough for what we needed.
I designed the title design for the opening sequence of our horror film called 'peek-a-boo'. I made the title relaxed with curves to give it a 'ghostly' and unnatural feel, this would represent the narrative of follow the conventions of horror films.
I wrote the first half of the script. This involved creating the correct composition of writing for the script and clearly describing stage directions and what was happing with the active props.
I wrote the step outline for the sound in our horror film this can be seen (Here) and decided what needed to happen along side the narrative for the sound to create an effective amount of tension, that would hold the audiences attention for the entire opening sequence of the film.
I created the first minute of storyboarding including the title sequence up until she puts the toy clown back on the bed. This gave me a good idea of how the process of storyboarding worked and equally shared the work between the two of us. (Here) for larger images.
Whilst shooting the film I controlled the background elements to the film, such as continuity, composition and lighting. This ensured that we wouldn't have to re-shoot our footage over and over because of small mistakes. Once we had done shooting the film, we both shared taking part in both camera and sound aspects of the editing. Although I was in charge of editing towards the end of the production process whilst Georgie produced the sound.
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