WEEK 11 - 13

Researching film posters, I decided to look specifically at film posters of my chosen genre; horror. Examining a range of horror film posters you immediately notice a common theme throughout. You notice that if not all, most horror film posters’ backgrounds are black. If it’s not black it ends to be a really dark colour. This connotes darkness, giving a spooky feel. The use of black or any other dark colour for the film poster is a generic convention, which I believe would be very hard to challenge as this has been a common theme ever since horror films were about. So I decided to incorporate the use of black onto my poster. Much like the other posters I want to have my subject highlighted in the middle of the poster, with black around the subject, all long the edges. This will give all the attention to the subject. Similar to 'The Last House on The Left' I want the title to be larger than the actual picture, so I don't reveal too much throught the picture. I am also considering using a silhouette for my picture, to make it more scary as such.

WEEK 8 - 10

My partner and I began filming. We shot our first scene outside on the college site. This scene involved a group of friends talking about ghosts of people who died in a fire before this college was built into a college. During filming we had to re shoot this scene about 4 times in order to ensure the realism was there.
We also shot another scene in the toilets in which one of the characters was staring in the mirror and hey had a sort of weird experience, which may be due to an apparent ghost, or just something out of the ordinary. Here I was the one doing the actual filming and I decided to do an over the shoulder shot which lead into the mirror, allowing me to see my character’s full facial expressions. I used a mid-shot I slowly zoomed in to embrace his facial expressions. That scene ends there, which will be punctuated at the end by a brief break and I have the idea to use the sound effect of a loud noise of a door slam.

For the next scenes I decided to do a mobile scene, in which I was holding the camera running and breathing heavily, to give the audience a subjective view of one character in the area that the students want to investigate. I wanted the scene to appear before the initial scene of the group talking about the forbidden area, giving the trailer an exciting start. Following that I shot a scene of the person I was running with being dragged somewhere by a some what invisible force.

I filmed in a playground in the night time. To emphasize the naturally spooky setting I got someone to push the swings and other apparatus then run out of the camera's sight. This looked as if the swings and other apparatus were  moving by their selves.

Due to a misunderstanding, I was forced to complete the rest of this project by myself.
Also as I missed the deadline for presenting my video, I wasn't able to get some audience feedback from my classmates. However I did end up getting a few friends who fit my target audience description to watch it and give me their feedback.

WEEK 7

I designed an online survey to help me with my research with my target audience. Using http://www.surveymokeny.com/ I was able to create the survey online free of charge.

This week, my partner and I were meant to begin filming. However this was postponed for various reasons. Me and my partner were both ill on different occasions, denting our work rate. We have been recieving an earfull from our tutors which has appeared to be motivational.

I did some more research on horror genre, and things to do with the supernatural. During my research I came across something known as 'The Devils hour'.
You’ve probably heard before that midnight is known as the ‘witching’ hour, a time according to European folklore when supernatural creatures such as witches and ghosts walk freely and are at the height of their powers. But you may not have heard of the ‘Demon’ hour, also known as ‘The Devils hour’ or the ‘Demonic hour.’

Far worse than witches and ghosts are Demons, said to be supernatural creatures and malevolent spirits, Demons are the most feared of all of Satan’s minions. Known also as ‘Fallen Angels’ Demons are the bringers of pestilence and disease, the corrupters of innocence, and the champions of all sin. Demons are not to be taken lightly.

The reporting of strange occurrences happening at or around 3am is common, and it has also been noted as a time when sufferers of sleep paralysis (old hag syndrome) frequently experience their nocturnal assaults or hallucinations. And in extreme cases 3AM has been linked to cases of ‘phantomania’, attacks from supernatural forces whilst still fully awake. - http://hubpages.com/hub/3AM-the-Demon-Hour-The-Demonic-Hour-The-Devils-Hour

I particularly found this interesting as it is now Winter, darkness falls upon us quickly; around 6pm. This is handy as we can record in the evening or late afternoon, through the use of editing we can make it seem as if some scenes are set in the early hours of the morning, i.e. around 3am. Linking to 'The Devil's hour'.

WEEK 6

This week I realised I do not hardly have any multi media aspects in my blog.
For future references I will start recording conversations between me and my partner about the production of our work and, will possibly design mood boards, and powerpoint presentations during post production.

WEEK 5

This week my partner and I were discussing the location where most of our teaser trailer will be shot. We had the idea to shoot in a youth club located in waterloo. We came to the conclusion that this is where we want to shoot our trailer. I have permission to shoot there and will begin doing so soon.



WEEK 4

Discussing the soundtrack with my partner we had some disputes. I came up with the idea that we play part of the song ‘Don’t go there’ By Giggs featuring B.o.B for a certain part of the trailer. I came up with this as the idea for the trailer is that they go to a somewhat forbidden area in the college; and the chorus of the song being ‘Don’t go there’ links to the theme. I also thought this song was suitable for our trailer as the song is contemporary and well known amongst youths, so it will appeal to our target audience. This will also give our trailer a more urban film as the cast is going to consist of teens that live in south London. My partner didn’t agree with this idea as he believes that ‘the song isn’t serious’. As everyone is aware of Giggs and B.o.B and the type of music associated with those artists, the songs they release do not suit this kind of genre. We haven’t come up with a final decision whether or not we are going to use the song in our teaser trailer; however we’ve decided to experiment with the song in the trailer.

I had a fondness for the song was due to the actual lyrics of the chorus. Ironically reflects what will eventually happen on screen. I didn’t just want to use a plain clip of song. I wanted to manipulate it in a certain way to make the song appear scarier. I had the idea of making the song run normally for a few seconds, then I would have it be interrupted by the sound of a door slamming. This will punctuate the song, as the second part will feature that part of the song being replayed however with no beat and hopefully, I’ll be able to use technology to distort the voice making it deeper and with no beat behind the lyrics.

WEEK 3

This week I had to present my storyboard, blog and a powerpoint presentation to the class. From the audience feedback I learnt that I was giving away too much information on the film, in my teaser trailer. As it is a teaser trailer my scenes have to be brief and precise so I don’t give too much away in my trailer. With this criticism I decided to cut out unnecessary scenes from my storyboard.

Another criticsm said by the audience was that my storyboard didn’t have any original photographs. To overcome this setback I went out and took some photographs for my storyboard. However as time prevails my original photographs will eventally get replaced by stills from my recording, giving the storyboard more authenticity.