Design

I have changed my blogs colours so it reflects design ideas. For example you can see that i have used black with white writing. this has been used because dark is a sinister colour and most horrors and dark. another reason is because there is more black than white. This gives the effect that light is being prevailed by darkness.

Music and sound effects location

This is the location where we can get possible sound effects and other sounds. it contains hundreds of sounds that we can use so we can make our horror opening sequence more original, unique and conventional. all of the sounds or music are copy right free which means we will not lose marks for copyright on the mark scheme. Also when we are choosing what music we are going to use we need to all agree to ensure that we all have shared interests in the music  which is being used.

Our Institution

We are using lionsgate as our institution. we decided to use lionsgate because they create a lot of horror films. they are also known by a lot of people so if people were to watch it and see lions gate they may think it is a large production cost, meaning it is going to be better in terms of production, props, acting and any other mise en scene. There are several types of lionsgate openings which we could use but we decided to use this opening because it looks more like a horror type opening. Lionsgate is also a professional institution which means that it makes our idents look a lot more professional.

What is Genre?

Genre - 'a style or category of art, music, or literature'. For media it is the type of film or show that you are watching. For example - Horror, Comedy, Thriller, Action Adventure, Documentary ect.'

Depending on your chosen genre you should only implement themes and conventions from that area of study. for example if you are using action adventure as a AOS you should not use themes typical of a horror film such as low key lighting and tense scenes. Genre also categorises the films and makes it easier for people to watch depending on what type of film they are watching. Genre expands the audience that are watching the film and increases the amount of money that the producers get.

Character Development

This Is Our Production Ident

This is our production ident. we will add improvements to it at a later date because at the moment it is very sticky and does not look professional. For example you can see that the bird is not moving its arms and that it is only moving across the screen. we may decide at a later date to go against the ident completely and make a new one with only a logo, which is still conventional of a horror film.

Target Auidence

Target Audience

Equipment Bookings

Equipment bookings

After creating our group's shooting schedule, we sent an e-mail to book the needed equipment. This help ensure that we would have all the equipment needed on the dates we want. Sending one e-mail with all of our dates also ensured that we do not forget to book equipment later on.

Survey

 

This survey was created in order to find out more about our target audience for our horror genre. The questions to be answered will allow our group to evaluate what would appeal to the majority of the audience. It is also a way of getting ideas and inspiration which can be used when planning and creating our opening sequence.  

 These are some of the favourite horror films that people said. We know this because of our survey.

Costume List

This table shows what props will be used, on which shots they will be used, and where we will acquire them. All of the locations and when they are used are available in the table. An example of this is the alarm clock. As you can see from the table it says that i should bring in the alarm clock. Overall i think that this table is a food way to keep organized and is an easy way to avoid arguments.

The Titles.

The following titles will be in the following order:

GABIE RAJENDRAM

MORGAN KELLMAN

SHANNON AMARASEKARA
BETHANY SMILES
MATTHEW TIZZARD

JONAH MOUNTAIN
LEXIE COOPER

DAVID MINION

EDITED BY GENE CALMER

PRODUCED BY ECHO

DARK NIGHTMARE

Our opening sequence will have the order of titles, firstly by names of people participating, followed by the editor, then the producers, and finally it will end with the title of the film. This is a consistent order as the editor, producers, and title, are at the end and follow each other. It is important for the title to be at the end of the opening sequence because it communicates to the audience that this is the end of the opening sequence, and therefore the audience will be introduced to the film more evidently. 

Possible Sound Effects

Story Board

These three pages are our storyboard. Our storyboard includes all of our scenes, types of sound, type of camera shot/camera movement. This storyboard is useful as it is our group's plan which we follow to make our opening sequence. It also allows us to present ideas more clearly and spot mistakes more easily. Also using a story board allows us to make an Anamatic. This means that we can reflect upon the story easier and it allows us to finish shooting easier as as well. An animatic is a preliminary version of a film, meaning that it is an unfinished version which we can look at to complete the tasks ahead.


 

Animatic Improved

This is our animatic. we have decided to add many improvements to it. For example we have more scenes and have added colour to it. we have also added titles over the top of it. We decided to go against the idea of titles over the dream scene because it is not conventional of a horror film. This meant that we had to put the titles at the start of the opening and also at the end. This leaves little space for us to place the titles so we may have to add some unimportant scenes nearer the end of the opening to put some titles. This also extends the time of the piece taking it over 2 minutes meaning that the task is complete. We have also decided many fonts in which we will decide upon using at a later date.

Shooting Schedule

The 25 word pitch

The 25 word pitch

A young adult finds herself in a situation she cannot escape from. She tried to run away from her nightmares however there is no escape.

100 Word Synopsis

I have wrote an 100 Word Synopsis in order to make sure my story makes sense and there are no confusion when it comes to filming the scenes.

A young adult called Fai has a terrible unforgettable nightmare. She wakes up to find it was nothing but a dread but little did she know that the nightmare was going to come true. Her nightmare had a mixture of several disturbing cry’s and images. She tried to run away from this nightmare and try to find solutions. She slowly starts to lose her friends as they start to disappear one by one. A body part from the each victim is delivered to the door and Fai finds her self opening the door to her befriends finger.

Character Development

This is what we used to develop our characters. using this chart it aloud us to come up with ideas that would be typical of the characters in the genre we have decided to do. For example, the amount of detail that we have talked about for the boyfriend aloud us to get a better idea of how he would react in certain situations and how he would battle through certain circumstances. We know that he is in his 20's and hat he is popular and easy going. Therefore if something bad was going to happen he would be able to run away (because he is young which may mean he is active) Get help from friends (as he is popular) and think on his feet quickly, reassuring his safety.

Class feedback

Survey analysis

 

Our answers where divided equally between the two answers. This shows us that the opinions are divided. However if half of the responses are negative, this also means that they would not mind relating to characters - they simply do not need it. Therefore by default, we should have a relatable character.     



The answers to this question shows us the potential success of our film. Five people answered that they watched movies online, 4 answered that they watch movies using Netflix and online, and only 3 people answered that they watch movies at the cinema. By these results, it is clear that most people use Netflix and the web to view films. 







our target audience is woman and men under  25 . however we asked a wide range of people to see weather people outside out target age range liked horror movie. after we collected the results we saw only both male and female under 25  filled the survey out and this clearly shows that we choose the right target audience. 







More than half of our responders answered yes when asked if costume was important to immerse themselves into the movie. This means that our characters must have costumes which can speak to the audience and communicate a general description of who they are. Overall, costume ideas will have to be brainstormed, all the while thinking about how the audience could be most positively affected through this mise-en-scene.  

Props list

Planning the animatic

Theses are some of the ideas that we came up with for the animatic and for the main opening sequance. it is full of ideas, shot types and sound in which we thought were typical of a horror film. An example of this is jump cuts, these are typical for building up tension and making the audience jump. Another example is Cross Cutting. Cross Cutting is when there are 2 scenes going on at the same time in a different place.

Class Feedback

The audience thought that our sound used at the end of the opening sequence, a child singing voice, was used well. They also pointed out that there was a sound placed in the wrong place, and this was fixed when we improved our animation.

The audience thought that the camera shots were unclear and hard to understand. Their favourite shot was the close up of the girl's face. They also thought that we did not have a good variation; we used many close ups.

The audience thought that the pace was too slow for the running scene. They thought we should make the transitions quicker. They thought that the titles between the knife and the crow should either be expanded or shortened.

The audience did not understand the scene of the running man with the cross over of the clock and why it was repeated several times. The audience clearly understood that the opening sequence was a dream. they likes the ending, especially the title and sound - child singing

Costume

 

This is our costume list. it consists of all of the shots that they are used in and where we will be getting the costume from. it also states the item that we are using.

Opening sequence possible font

These Are Possible Titles We Could Use For The Main Title On Our Horror

The Brief Of The Project.

The brief of the project -

Create a 2 Minute opening sequence to a film using the chosen genre. We must use ideas in which they are conventional.

Animatic

This is our Animatic.

Analyse the structure of an opening sequence.

6th sense

Sound

The scene opens with some smooth jazz music. smooth jazz could suggest that the characters are feeling relaxed. this point could also be supported by the fact that the characters are drinking wine and are both talking in a soft voice. music is used to make the film more interesting and to show the mood of a scene.  Music in this film can be seen to be used well because it helps the show that the characters are relaxed. when the music disappears we can feel a sense of false security, which is then supported by Vincent, the man that the characters see, once the tense music is played.  After Vincent is seen there is very light and airy music played. this makes the audience feel tense and worried of what may happen next.

Camerawork

Many camera shots and angles are used during this clip. The first of which is an extreme close up of a light bulb, which slowly lights up from darkness. This could connote to Light prevailing over darkness, which foreshadows what happens later in the film, when the man gets shot, and Vincent kills himself. The man survives the shot however Vincent dies. This is successful because it makes the people who are watching think about what had happened. Also, when the man is lying on the bed, you can see the shot wound in his stomach because it is a mid shot and a high angle. This shows the severity of the wound. The camera also pans to the side just before Vincent shoots himself.

 Mise En Scene

Mise En Scene is used very well in the entirety of the clip. The main thing i picked up on was the characters costume. For example, Vincent can be seen only in underwear. This suggests that what he said to the man

is true about him losing everything. If you compare Vincents costume with the protagonists costume, you can see that the protagonist has a very nice costume. We can also see that the man has a nice house with many art pieces, which can suggest his social status. The darkness in the back behind the protagonist can suggest uncertainty and make the audience feel as if they are on edge. They could have done this on purpose because it fits the mood of the characters in the scene. If we compare the lighting in both of these pictures you can see that the second one is much darker than the first. This shows that Mise En Scene works well in the scene.

Editing

Editing is used in the scene to make the audience feel on edge. An example of this was at the very beginning of the clip, you can sense that something will happen because of the long dark pause. Once the camera cuts to the woman upstairs with her husband we feel like we were wrong, then when the couple go into the bedroom, we can tell that something is defiantly going to happen, because when Vincent arrives, the quick shots between the characters builds up tension. This is clever because it makes the audience feel tense, which is what the actors intended to do. There are not any fancy edits in the scene except a fade in and a fade out. These are used very well to show the passing of time and to show how the man has grown older.  

BRICK

Sound

The scene starts with a man looking at a woman who is presumably dead. In the background you can hear high pitched instruments like xylophone notes. This can connote to youth or safety, as if it was low pitched noises you would feel more at ease. You can hear no other sounds in this moment, it is relaxed, which is ironic as there is a dead body which has been shown. Every now and again you can hear the sound of running water, which can connote to relaxation, This contrasts the original idea of tenseness and makes you more relaxed. Next you hear a school bell. This shocks the audience because it comes in suddenly.  The school bell can connote to youth, which makes sense because next in the scene we can see Brendan (a teenager), Overall the sound in the scene messes with your mind, it makes you feel relaxed even though you know you shouldn't feel relaxed. The musics high notes also matches well with the plot of the opening in a strange way.

Camerawork

At the start of the scene we can see a pan of a mans feet.This could suggest the type of person that the film is based around, then we can see a close up of a mans face, this can connote many things. It could connote that this is the main character (which is most likely of an opening) or it could connote that it is a man who is looking for revenge for what has happened to his friend (which is shown later on in the opening). Next we see a wide shot of a tunnel, a man and a womans body lying on the ground. This shot could connote the future of the film. This scene is good because it drags on for a while (Which will be mentioned later in the editing paragraph). We then see a bracelet on a girls hand, and then the same hand putting a note into a locker. This can suggest that something has happened to this girl and no one is sure what.

Mise En Scene

In this scene we can see many things about the characters and surroundings. The first of which is a man who has messy hair, and untidy clothes. This could suggest that this man is very poor and can not afford proper clothes. Next we see the set. The set happens to be in a bypass, This means that we can see a lot of things in the setting, for example the open space really makes the characters stand out. The colours are also dark so this brings out other things in the setting, for example the sunlight and the characters. the dark colours can suggest a type of mourning and or disbelief.

Editing

The film starts with a production ident which shows the company the produce the film. We then fade into the darkness of the setting, then pan across to the mans feet. We then have a very clean cut of the mans face. This could suggest that the man is very important or that he will be important later on in the film.We can then see some text that says 2 Days previous. This makes it very obvious that the film is set in the future and the man we saw at the beginning is the person that we are going to be following throughout the film.


Momento

Sound
In the clip you can not hear anything other than a sound track. this is strange because you would expect some type of dialogue however it is all silent other than the soundtrack and the sound of the camera shooting. this could be relevant because it allows you to pay attention to the titles that are on the screen. it also builds up tension as you are expecting something to happen.


Editing
The main type of editing that is used is the fades in and out of the titles. Later on in the scene we also see a fade in of a picture which then allows the main title to disappear.  Is no other use of editing through out the scene which is strange for an opening sequence.

Camera work
There is no use of camerawork through out the opening sequence as this is a title sequence. the only type of camera work which is used is the use of the extreme close up of the picture, which then pans into a close up of the mans face who is looking at the picture. The shot of the picture is shown for majority of the clip. it then disappears, this could suggest that it is important later in the film.

Mise En Scene
From what the man is wearing we can guess that he may be quite a rich man. we can also see the man holding which may be an expensive camera. we can not see that setting of the scene so we will not people to talk about setting.

Analyse the structure of titles in an opening sequance.

These are all of the titles that are shown in Office space. there is also a production ident which shows the production company of the film. These titles are conventional of a film in which the way that the titles are organized. It is also typical of an opening because it does not give away any of the story of the main film. This shows that the opening of 'Office Space' is typical of an opening sequance.