Filming Schedule

Scene: 1 
Description: Hope is seated in the room doing make up
Characters:Hope 
Location: Bedroom 
Setups: A dressing table with a mirror 
Time: 1 Hour
Props & Kit: Camera Tri-Pod Make Ups

Casting shot

This is an image of our main character 'Hope'. The person we decided to use to play this part is Stephanie Parker as she fitted the profile description we were aiming to fulfil. We wanted the character of 'Hope' to look like an average teenage girl. 

Inspiration.

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/10/04/the-art-of-the-film-title-throughout-cinema-history/

Story Board

This is our storyboard for our opening sequence, we hope for the short film to look as similar as this without any problems.  There are many extreme close-ups of the main character and other object to disguise her identity and leave wondering.

Credit Fonts

We decided researching and making a personal font for the credits in our opening sequence.  It was a good idea in order to create a sense of our genre of horror. This is seen as an important stage when editing our film. We want the genre to be clear from simply looking at the writing and creating a sense of individuality.

Looking at musical themes for Horror production

Primarily we looked at songs from previous films  

The Exorcist

This has a very eerie piano being played repetitively it puts the audience on the edge of the seat yet this is very cliche.

We then believed due to our film being a horror but yet we wanted to also slightly break some of the rules of horror to make it increasingly attractive to a new audience of horror fans and we don't want our film to be a strict to horror formulas so it should appeal to people that watched the old slasher  movies yet also a teenage audience. Yet we also don't want the film to seem like a gimmick so it can't be to happy otherwise it seems like a spoof of a movie.

Synopsis

Present day, London. HOPE, the name of a young teenage girl; a well know face with in the community;with no known enemies HOPE was a popular girl with friends, family and others. She was achieving above average in her academics and had won many awards for her dancing. Life seems great in Hope's perspective, until one night of a distressing event... we first meet HOPE as she is devising plans in her room; these plans where to isolate one girl, VELNA her best friend before the events which destroyed HOPE'S life. She plans and depicts to cause her pain and grief like her own, by killing VELNA'S friends and loved ones. Gruesome murders take place, all victims from VELNA's life, she becomes more isolated, more panicked from what is happening all round her. no clues, no evidence to who has carried out these attacks the only link is VELNA.

Our Group e-mail

We created a group email to enable organisation of any work.  In order for us to access the work from whatever computer being used at a time.  It enabled us to make sure we had a backup of work so our entire group can view the work this meant that if someone was absent and they have access to internet they would be able to send work so others could publish it to there blog and also use in practical lessons.

The youtube account creation enables the group to save videos of influences to our favourites which we can then use on our blogs for future reference and also it allows us to post our videos we create.

Character Names

Hope (Main Character)
Hope is an ironic name for the girls character within our film. She has been through a lot due to the incident involving her being raped. The name also resembles innocence, which also resembles her style of clothing which is pure. This contrasts with the idea of Hope planning the death of her friends.

Velna
Hope's former best friend. Hope aims to isolate Velna after being rejected by her after being raped. Velna is an intelligent character.

Charlie (Target 3) Sport Orientated. Ends paralyzed.

Aleksander. 

Velna's boyfriend. He is a very strong minded character.

Emma.

The innocence of the group of friends. She is a plain and simple character with no ambitions in life.

Our name choice was vital for the project in order to characterise our actors. We tried to find meaning behind names in order to build upon aspirations and personalities of characters and to convey a message.

Further Ideas and Example Opening Films

The Opening Sequence for - Se7en

The Opening Sequence for -Texas Chainsaw

Massacre

Horror Cliches

We looked at various cliches that are related to horror films, these are very over used things, as a group we decided a horror has various cliches but in order to keep it interesting we made sure we tried to break the cliches by incorporating things that are not over used.

Primary Ideas

Above is a spider diagram of our initial ideas for the task: to make a short opening sequence.  We went through many different genres of film, thinking what sort of ideas each of our group members had, trying to steer clear of cliches.  Once we had drawn this out.  We went on to youtube to look at examples of different genres of opening sequences.  From this we looks at our ideas and decided that 'Horror' would interest us the best.

Initial Ideas

My group and I have been researching different genres of films to base our opening sequence on.  We have selected horror for this task as we felt we could create this idea the best. 

We have a few initial ideas about a school girl but we have not yet evaluated the story further.  We shall research this genre to help us to gather information and editing effects for this type of film.

We have also searched for music which will be appropiate for the theme, however we have not yet agreed on the decission for this.

Preliminary

After watching this shot film back, i feel that we could have prepared many more camera shots as the lack of angles made it very plan looking. I have taken this into account for our next task. Also we had a technical fault with the sound. So when we next come to filming we shall tack many more shots to insure we can select the best in editing.

Analysing 3 Opening Sequences

The purpose of an Opening Sequence is to help introduce Characters, Editors, Producers and other creators of a film. It is also a good way to set the mood and scenary by adding a releavant sound track. 

The Busy Traffic Represents a working day at rush hour.

After looking at each of the opening credits for Office Space, Train Spotting and Sweeny Todd i have been asked to analyis the three. 

Firstly in Office space we come across the commonly known 20th Century Fox Company credit. In most films this is usually shown at the beginning of the film. The film opens with a lively sound track at 23 seconds in. This use of editing sraight away gives the viewer a sign that it is a comical genre. Seeing the busy traffic also helps to convey a early morning, work realated movie. Especially when thinking about the title of the film as well. Another give away that this film is a comedy is at 53 minutes in when the man in the car notices that an elderly pidestrian is moving faster than the traffic.

In Sweeny Todd it uses the Opening credits in a completly different way compared to Office space as it is all done in CGI (Computer Generated Imaging). This is because it has not had included the characters, instead blood trailing through many objects and rooms. These, most likely replecating the scenary of the actual film. The theme of blood throughout suggests a horror genre.

For Trainspotting again the Opening Credits differ again as instead of themed music, the sequence contains a voice over describing the characters and yet again helps to do the job of setting the scene. Pausing graphics introduce the actors involved.

MEDIA STUDIES BRIEF

The set brief for our Video project is to create the titles and opening of a new fiction film, to last a maximum of two minutes. This blog will document the pre-production, production and evaluation stages of this project.