Voice Over

This is one of the voice over scripts that we could use for our opening. The  voice over is going to be used at the start of our sequence after the production ident because this is conventional of a horror. 
 The horror genre also uses a lot of tension and a lot of pauses in between the words. this is why i have decided to use the '...'s. these are classed as pauses.  i tried to show the story line in the voice over because this is also typical of a horror film.  I used the title of the film on the voice over because it emphasizes the title later on in the opening. Shannon has also done a voice over so we will decide which one fits the film more and pick which one we will use. Improvements that should be made are i should have said where the pauses are and i should have changed my voice when i was making the voice over, however i believe it fits the genre of our piece.

Film Name Suggestion

We considered changing the name of our opening to 'Dark Delusion' . We decided this because we believed that the title of 'Dark Nightmare' sounded very vague. We then decided to turn against re naming it because most horror movie titles are very vague as well. An example of this is 'The Exorcist'. This title is straight to the point and tells us about the meaning of the film just through the title. this is a main part of the opening sequence because if it does not match the contents of the opening it will not make sense for the audience.  It may have also not fit the genre of horror as dark delusion sounds a bit like an action adventure title.

First draft

This is the first draft of our horror opening. It has many problems such as continuity and some things that are not meant to be in. For example the shouting scene at the start of the sequance. This scene does not mae sense without some of the other shots that we were going to implement but decided not to. This ,means that we should delete the footage of the shouting scene and replace the spot with something else that fits the context more. We also need to shoot at Shannons house again to get more shots to add at the end of the piece, so that we can include more titles therefore making the overall piece long, and so that the examiner notices that it was a dream.

Class Feed Back

 

This is feedback from the rest of the class. I agree with most of the feedback. We will take the feed back into consideration when we are making improvements to our film. Because of the feedback we will be able to appeal to our audiences easier.  It also means that we can use more ideas that are conventional of a horror film, therefore increasing the amount of marks that we will get for the unit. Some of the arguments are very vague meaning that we had to ask the people who put it down what they meant. For example confusing beginning. We asked what they meant by this. The group said that the context of the beginning doesn't make sense. This meant that we were still able to change the opening and took out the beginning.


 

What we did in the lesson.

This is what i did in my lesson. i managed to finish all of the titles that we need in the opening sequence.  They all consist of a positive and negative effect. This meant I had to do two sets of titles. I decided to use Positive and negative because it could flash and created a uneasy feeling. This is typical of a horror film.

Cut (Experiementing)

This my group experimenting with paint. We will be using this when the main character cuts her arm with the knife in one of our shots. We decided as a group we would use the second cut as it looks more realistic and more like a cut. We only used paint for it but when we actually shoot we will be using wax to make it look like she has actually cut her skin. This fits the genre of a horror because a lot of blood is involved in the genre, also the main character cutting herself can connote to her not being able to take any more pressure. This is a picture of what we did during a filming session.