Moodboard
Shot List
Today in lesson I made a list of the shots that we will hopefully be using when we film, these are just some of the basic ones we hope to use for the opening sequence:
Production Diary
Production Diary11/11/2014 - Today we got ready our film ideas so they were ready to present for Thursdays lesson to the rest of the group. We all created PowerPoint's as this was the most suitable format. On our presentations we collected different inspirations and ideas and talked about what we would include in our opening scene.
13/11/2014 - Today we pitched our different film ideas to each other to decide what film idea we were going to go with. Jack pitched a drama film to do with a man being convicted of a murder and the film was to ponder on if he committed the murder or not. Tom's idea was a teen drama evolved around drugs and crime which he gained his influences from Noel Clarke's Kidulthood and Adulthood. Then the final idea came from Connor which was a horror which based around a couple who are not able to have children. From this the couple went to take other children to be theirs. We agreed finally that Connor's idea was the best and we decided to go for that for our concept.
14/11/2014 - Today not in our groups we started to do our Title Tasks. This involved watching many different clips and reviewing them. This included a history of film openings and a interview with a man who is very big in the film industry. Our final task was to take screenshots from three film openings and annotate them for every title that appeared such as actors and production companies.
17/11/2014 - Today we adapted the film concept and slightly changed the main story of the film. We took the concept away from the couple who were not able to have children and changed it too a boy who went missing on a winter evening in a park. We then went on too reviewing different film openings as a group to gain inspiration from a number of different films. (In the Picture we reviewed the opening of Casino Royale)
13/11/2014 - Today we pitched our different film ideas to each other to decide what film idea we were going to go with. Jack pitched a drama film to do with a man being convicted of a murder and the film was to ponder on if he committed the murder or not. Tom's idea was a teen drama evolved around drugs and crime which he gained his influences from Noel Clarke's Kidulthood and Adulthood. Then the final idea came from Connor which was a horror which based around a couple who are not able to have children. From this the couple went to take other children to be theirs. We agreed finally that Connor's idea was the best and we decided to go for that for our concept.
14/11/2014 - Today not in our groups we started to do our Title Tasks. This involved watching many different clips and reviewing them. This included a history of film openings and a interview with a man who is very big in the film industry. Our final task was to take screenshots from three film openings and annotate them for every title that appeared such as actors and production companies.
17/11/2014 - Today we adapted the film concept and slightly changed the main story of the film. We took the concept away from the couple who were not able to have children and changed it too a boy who went missing on a winter evening in a park. We then went on too reviewing different film openings as a group to gain inspiration from a number of different films. (In the Picture we reviewed the opening of Casino Royale)
18/11/2014 - Today Connor was creating our marketing ideas to promote our film in a PowerPoint presentation which you can see him doing below. In the presentation he included how he would advertise our film and what he would do to promote it in the best way. Meanwhile Tom looking at our target audience which he was doing by reviewing films in our category and our style of film and comparing them with what audience the films were most popular with.
19/11/2014 - Today we made sure everything was up to date on our blogs so we could get everything out of the way and start with the planning for our film, although we made no progress on the film for the next lessons we can now focus on that.
20/11/2014 - Today as a group we all came up with separate mood boards to compare with each others to gain inspiration to create the different scenes to go on to our story board which we would create in Friday and Mondays lesson. The mood boards for each of us have now been uploaded onto our blogs.
21/11/2014 - Today we began to create our story board going through scene by scene with what type of shots they will be and where the different titles would be located around the frame of the shot. In this lesson the storyboard was nearly completed and would me finished and finalized in Mondays lesson.
24/11/2014 - Today we also worked on the story board for our film. The story board a very long process and is looking to take us one more lesson as we have to cover every shot we have in or opening scene including just slight different frames and where the different titles are involved. During this process we separately evaluated our LAP charts to make sure everything is up to date and correct.
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21/11/2014 - Today we began to create our story board going through scene by scene with what type of shots they will be and where the different titles would be located around the frame of the shot. In this lesson the storyboard was nearly completed and would me finished and finalized in Mondays lesson.
24/11/2014 - Today we also worked on the story board for our film. The story board a very long process and is looking to take us one more lesson as we have to cover every shot we have in or opening scene including just slight different frames and where the different titles are involved. During this process we separately evaluated our LAP charts to make sure everything is up to date and correct.
Audience Research
The target audience for our film is going to be aged between 15-40, the ceritifcate of the film is going to be from 15-40. From looking at previous horror films which have a similar sense to ours, I gathered some information from films this year which have appealed to the similar target audience which we are trying to gather. I started looking at a website which showed the 25 top Netflix horror's which are frequently shown. As netflix has become a much larger network this year for younger a younger audince of around 17-18 this would fit perfectly for some key statistics which may help our film.
5. The Cabin In The Woods
Year: 2011Director: Drew Goddard
For a movie chock-full of twists, perhaps the biggest is that despite all appearances to the contrary, The Cabin in the Woods is a heartfelt love story. Mind you, not between any of the young and pretty college students who tempt fate at the cabin in question. No, this romance is between creators Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard, and the scary-movie genre as a whole. A ménage à terror, if you will. Like Scream before it, the film is a simultaneous dissection and celebration of all the tropes to which it pays homage, while also managing to be a superb example of the genre in its own right. The script is vintage Whedon—smart, funny and surprising. Thanks to Goddard’s direction and staging, and despite the film’s very focus on the formulaic nature of horror, it still manages to be tense, atmospheric and jump-out-of-your-seat scary. The Cabin in the Woods may very well be the ultimate schlocky little horror movie.—Dan Kaufman
For a movie chock-full of twists, perhaps the biggest is that despite all appearances to the contrary, The Cabin in the Woods is a heartfelt love story. Mind you, not between any of the young and pretty college students who tempt fate at the cabin in question. No, this romance is between creators Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard, and the scary-movie genre as a whole. A ménage à terror, if you will. Like Scream before it, the film is a simultaneous dissection and celebration of all the tropes to which it pays homage, while also managing to be a superb example of the genre in its own right. The script is vintage Whedon—smart, funny and surprising. Thanks to Goddard’s direction and staging, and despite the film’s very focus on the formulaic nature of horror, it still manages to be tense, atmospheric and jump-out-of-your-seat scary. The Cabin in the Woods may very well be the ultimate schlocky little horror movie.—Dan Kaufman
4. Nosferatu
Year: 1929Director: F. W. Marnau
F.W. Murnau’s sublimely peculiar riff on Dracula has been a fixture of the genre for so long that to justify its place on this list seems like a waste of time. Magnificent in its freakish, dour mood and visual eccentricities, the movie invented much of modern vampire lore as we know it. It’s once-a-year required viewing of the most rewarding kind.—Sean Gandert
F.W. Murnau’s sublimely peculiar riff on Dracula has been a fixture of the genre for so long that to justify its place on this list seems like a waste of time. Magnificent in its freakish, dour mood and visual eccentricities, the movie invented much of modern vampire lore as we know it. It’s once-a-year required viewing of the most rewarding kind.—Sean Gandert
3.Let the right one in
Year: 2008
Director: Tomas Alfredson
Vampire stories are plastered all over American pop culture these days (True Blood, Twilight, The Vampire Diaries), but leave it to the Swedes to produce a vampire film that manages to be both sweet and frightening. The friendship between Oskar, a scrawny, 12-year-old outcast, and Eli, a centuries-old vampire frozen in the body of a child, is a chilling but beautiful story to behold.—Jeremy Medina
Director: Tomas Alfredson
Vampire stories are plastered all over American pop culture these days (True Blood, Twilight, The Vampire Diaries), but leave it to the Swedes to produce a vampire film that manages to be both sweet and frightening. The friendship between Oskar, a scrawny, 12-year-old outcast, and Eli, a centuries-old vampire frozen in the body of a child, is a chilling but beautiful story to behold.—Jeremy Medina
2. The Silence of the LambsYear: 1991
Director: Jonathan Demme
In the face of grotesque sequels, lesser prequels and numerous parodies, The Silence of the Lambs still stands as a cinematic work of art among crime dramas. Winning the five gold rings of Oscar-dom (best picture, best director, best actor, best actress, best screenplay) Anthony Hopkins’ portrayal of the murderous Hannibal Lecter proves the worth of surrounding one of cinema’s greatest thespians with a stellar supporting team. Director Jonathan Demme deftly wields the brush of that talent to bring audiences into the dark, sadistic world of Dr. Lecter while leaving them gasping at the twists and turns of novelist Thomas Harris’ gruesomely wonderful story. As what happens with all great films, second and third viewings fail to diminish the ride.—Tim Basham
Director: Jonathan Demme
In the face of grotesque sequels, lesser prequels and numerous parodies, The Silence of the Lambs still stands as a cinematic work of art among crime dramas. Winning the five gold rings of Oscar-dom (best picture, best director, best actor, best actress, best screenplay) Anthony Hopkins’ portrayal of the murderous Hannibal Lecter proves the worth of surrounding one of cinema’s greatest thespians with a stellar supporting team. Director Jonathan Demme deftly wields the brush of that talent to bring audiences into the dark, sadistic world of Dr. Lecter while leaving them gasping at the twists and turns of novelist Thomas Harris’ gruesomely wonderful story. As what happens with all great films, second and third viewings fail to diminish the ride.—Tim Basham
1. Rosemary’s BabyYear: 1968
Director: Roman Polanski
The most famous of Polanski’s paranoid thrillers, not to mention the most inviolable. The film infiltrates a privileged space of middle-class entitlement and pollutes it with the most extreme evil possible: sweet, unassuming Rosemary (Mia Farrow) is pregnant, but could her baby already belong to someone else? The volatile climax has an answer, and the sequence has remained one of the most celebrated in horror history for good reason.—Sean Edgar
Director: Roman Polanski
The most famous of Polanski’s paranoid thrillers, not to mention the most inviolable. The film infiltrates a privileged space of middle-class entitlement and pollutes it with the most extreme evil possible: sweet, unassuming Rosemary (Mia Farrow) is pregnant, but could her baby already belong to someone else? The volatile climax has an answer, and the sequence has remained one of the most celebrated in horror history for good reason.—Sean Edgar
As you can see the films which scored the highest is a rather old film, and this is the most viewed film of 2014 on Netflix, obviously our target audience typically prefer a much newer horror film compared to an old one produced in the 1960s. Statistics show that 17 year olds specifically prefer jump scares rather than scares which are less startling.
Music Research
We started looking at various tracks which could suit our opening for the film ''Gone'' we looked at a variety from the Women in black soundtrack as well as the Insidious soundtrack.
This is the Insidious soundtrack which we also took into consideration for using however some parts of this soundtrack may be too dark to use since we still want to keep the opening rather mysterious.
This song is used in Insidious which is similar to ours in some ways which we also are taking into consideration.
This is the first one that we looked at which was the Marco Beltrami sound track and we thought this could potentially be the soundtrack we use.
This is the Insidious soundtrack which we also took into consideration for using however some parts of this soundtrack may be too dark to use since we still want to keep the opening rather mysterious.
This song is used in Insidious which is similar to ours in some ways which we also are taking into consideration.
Inspiration - Insidious
So while we are deciding the main plot of our film, we decided to look at a similar opening which we have in mind which is in the film Insidious. We looked at the types of lighting in which they used as well as the type of music that they use to build tension since Insidious is not really a clique of a horror we thought to follow these steps to make ours out of the normal clique.
Titles Task
Titles Task
Richard Morrison's Interview poins -
1. Richard Morrison from personal experience suggested that, distractions could also be key as it gives inspiration so not thinking too much about the project and getting ideas to flow which will keep you calm and then start scratching ideas once you have inspiration or have pulled up an idea.
2. He recommended that before you start any digital work with titles, that you draw the idea first since then you are able to rub out any mistakes or changes that you want to make before bringing it digital where you are more unable to change anything in the process.
3. Getting lots of different ideas which he said is key since you can differ what you want to do and pull all these seperate ideas together, but also making sure that the screen play is flowing and makes sense to the rest of the film.
Captain America: Winter Soldier Timeline -
Individual Pitch Idea
Genre: For the Genre we need to think hard about which type would be ideal for us to use in the current location we are in, I mean I want to try and implement Drama as an film pitch Genre since I think it is possible to pull this off and it would be very relevant to our current situation it is probably the most practical as well.
Story idea: The Story idea that I was planning is that there are two brothers one which is 17 and the other which is 13, there mother has passed away some years ago and the father is in the army so they are staying with there auntie in suburbs London, they both go to the same school however the older brother is in a college, he is the typical school dropout he wouldn't turn up to any lessons he did not do his GCSE's and he mixed in with the wrong people at school, he is part of group of drug addicts and is supplying drugs for this group on a weekly basis, if he fails to provide drugs for the group he would not get payed and would be beaten up, he is the only member of the family providing money for the family as the auntie is unemployed and the younger brother is too young to work the film will focus on the older brother's life and how he needs to provide money for the rest of the family so that they are able to eat and have daily essentials. The film also shows how the poorest people can survive off the smallest things in life.
Target audience: As this is more of a family teen drama this would be suitable for the target audience to be teenagers and younger people potentially
Titles: Title names could be easily edited into the scene or during filming examples include:
Target audience: As this is more of a family teen drama this would be suitable for the target audience to be teenagers and younger people potentially
Titles: Title names could be easily edited into the scene or during filming examples include:
- On the street curb as the brothers could be walking to school
- On the side of a brick wall out the front of the school
- On the back of a hoodie
- Name edited into the reflection of a puddle
Student Film Openings Marking
We had to look from a list of title openings and evaluate some of them so below I have three that I evaluated and gave a grade to, I told them what I thought went well and I also said what I thought that they could have improved for the future.
I rated this video 55/60 I thought that the acting and the location went very well the amount of lighting they used and the correct tools made it look like an actual cooking show which is what makes this have such a high mark in my opinion, what could have been better is that if they used more than one location which would limit how much acting they could do.
I rated this video 58/60 since the suspense from the start until he was shot was major, even when he was putting in the memory card into the laptop the camera work was well used and the shots they got were very important, the ending is very sudden with the gunshot and is not suspected even though it came from a hooded figure.
I rated this title sequece 49/60 since this is a very detailed and mysterious opening we do not really understand much or why the title is caleld To the end of the world, it does convey a lot however I am still unaware what this could mean, to improve I would add more dialogue to understand what actually happened.
I rated this video 55/60 I thought that the acting and the location went very well the amount of lighting they used and the correct tools made it look like an actual cooking show which is what makes this have such a high mark in my opinion, what could have been better is that if they used more than one location which would limit how much acting they could do.
I rated this video 58/60 since the suspense from the start until he was shot was major, even when he was putting in the memory card into the laptop the camera work was well used and the shots they got were very important, the ending is very sudden with the gunshot and is not suspected even though it came from a hooded figure.
I rated this title sequece 49/60 since this is a very detailed and mysterious opening we do not really understand much or why the title is caleld To the end of the world, it does convey a lot however I am still unaware what this could mean, to improve I would add more dialogue to understand what actually happened.
Film Opening Marking Criteria
In today's lesson we watched some students title sequences to films which they had produced, we also looked at the marking criteria and we marked them ourselves based on the criteria that was supplied, below I will give the score out of 60 for each one I watched as well as giving my own comment on what I thought of it.
I give this 40/60 as I thought the titles that they created were unique and it based around the theme of the teenage girl waking up and getting ready in the morning. It is very different however the ending is what makes it interesting.
I give this 50/60 as this is very interesting as it has some very intense and detailed acting it is at some points very misleading to know if there are two different people or if points are just going back in time.
I give this 58/60 this was a very well put together sequence, the music which was in the background went well with the actions of the boys and the car which hit the boy over conveyed a dark sense whenever it was filmed so this created tention between the care and the boys.
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