PLANNING - Pitch feedback

       

FEEDBACK:

               

Good feedback:

• Well thought through plans 
• Lots of detail including locations and settings
• good analysing of title credits 
• Well organised and confident 
• Clear plot
• Understandable  
• Good film idea

Things to improve on:

• More pictures
• Audience detail (give reasons why) 
• Use screen shots from other horror movies
• Costumes

Storyboard: updated version (Hiba)

PLANNING- Mise-En-Scene, COSTUME, MAKE-UP & PROPS (Marina)

Costume, Make-up & Props:


This is our presentation on our costume ideas for the main characters shown through the title sequence.

 

PLANNING- Sound Design (Marina)

Sound Design

at the beginning of our title sequence, we will have mostly diegetic sound (door creak, harsh breathing and loud footsteps) and then we will had a heartbeat that will eventually get louder. Once it gets louder it will go along with a soundtrack we will design (non-diegetic) that will go along the rest of the title sequence until the end . For this we decided it was going to be a tense and eerie sound that will go along with the style and genre of opening we have chosen. We also decided that we were going to add motifs to the titles to create a more realistic horror scheme (it is also a cliche in most horrors) .Towards the end there is a scene where the main character falls over, at this point the sound will go completely silent which will build up tension and will make the film more scary.

The title credits that have inspired us are Se7en, Dawn of the dead (motifs) and American Horror Story.

pace

Production schedule (denya)

PLANNING: Storyboard (Hiba)

PLANNING - Locations (Lara)

PLANNING - Our film and type of sequence (Lara & Marina)

PLANNING - Representation (Lara)

Technology skills audit (by Denya)

Technology skills audit:

Technology (hardware or software) we have learnt to use consists of:

 

The camera which is obviously needed when creating a film of some sort. We learnt how to correctly zoom in/out, put memory cards or the battery in, we leant when to put the n/r filter on (which is very rarely needed as it should only be used when very sunny). Learning how to use the camera correctly is very handy as it insures you know when things need to be in focus, need zooming in/out etc. it has also helped develop our project slightly as when we did our prelim we forgot to turn the n/r filter off which caused some scenes to look a little off.

 

The portable light  which is very useful when creating shadows and finding the right amount of light. The portable light is very simply to use you just simply have to turn the dial to get the right amount of light you are looking for. This has helped develop our project as when doing our remake it allowed as it create shadows and get light round different angles etc.

 

The tripod which helps when keeping the camera steady and at the right angle when filming.Using a tripod has helped making our filming looking a little more polished and clear as there are no shaky movements from your hands.

 

Affect effects allows you to put music and several effects over your film. Affect effects allows you to make your film more interesting. 

What genre or (sub-genre) of film is it? (by Denya)

PLANNING: Final mise-en-scene desicions (Hiba)

PLANNING - The order of our titles (Lara)

This is the order and names of of our titles:

Ident

                                                                              Ident

Denya Jane Emblow Production

Star; Jess Silva

Star; Max Padalecki

Star; Dilan Patel

Star; Ijaz Ackles

Casting by Marina Simmons

Director of photography Catherine Jones

Production designer Alice Carson

Special effects designer Paul Davidson

Film Editor Lara Henriques Eyre

Music by Collin Marks

Co-producer Marina Simmons

Executive producers Shia Finn and Casey Soloman

Produced by Denya Jane Emblow

Written and Directed by Hiba Gharsane

Film title: Involuntary

PLANNING - Our title sequence (Lara)

Our titles

PLANNING - Evaluating title sequences (Lara)

Name of film	Saw	A Nightmare On Elm Street
Typeface/font used	Thin, white writing, names look handwritten. Clear and easy to read. All in capital letters and medium size	Simple, clear, white writing. Medium size and names in capitals.
Use of transitions and/ or effects	Jiggy effect No transitions	No effects No transitions
Use of colour	Grey, green, white and black	White, grey and black
Pace and movement of titles	Fast pace and jiggy movement	Fast paced and no movement
Background and how they integrate	Contrasting colours, background usually dark colours. Titles placed on blank areas and over moving images. Discrete title sequence	Titles over moving images, dark setting and on the sides or corners of the screen. A narrative sequence
Why I like it	Its simple, clear and it allows more things to happen in the background.	Easy to read and understand, a lot happens behind the tiles meaning its more than just titles.

PLANNING - Distribution companies

PLANNING - Title sequence order (By Lara and Denya)

We looked at two horror films with similar plots and characters to see the title sequence orders. This is a power point showing the orders for Saw and Halloween.

Sequences from Lara243

Character costume (planning)

Character name:

Emily Mccall

Emily Mccall is one of the 'doctors' victims. Mccall had managed to escape the torture and experiments the doctors has inflicted on her but the idea of freedom slowly fades away as when she is running away from the abandoned building she hears foot steps not to close behind her these footsteps happen to belong to the doctors who soon catch up to her as she trips allowing them to be face to face with the terrified teenage girl, her clothes are worn, dirty and covered in blood to show the struggle that she has occurred. She is in normal casual clothing showing she is just a regular teenager as she was kidnapped while taking a walk through the forest after seeing friends. She has dark circles from the lack of sleep and blood running down her neck and face from the brutal treatment the doctors had given her.

Emily represents this idea that it is mostly teenage girls who are in danger and face the most risk of being taken.

PLANNING: Use of sound in student title sequences

31. Pharez Vitalis, Eray Kara, Yuksel Yilmaz, Jakub Jozefowicz from 283goswell on Vimeo.


This was my favourite video. This is because the sound used within the video is very professional and goes well with the clips and how the people are reacting/acting. This helps show the genre but also doesn't give away a lot of the plot away to the audience.

PLANNING: Own target audience profile

Male target audience profile:

Name: Steve Matterson

Location: Surrey (Rural area)

Age: 22 years old

Class Middle/Working class 

Occupation: Phone operator (Call center) 

Personality: A left wing man with some reserved/unpopular opinions. A bit of a 'Lad'

Hobbies and interests: Sports (mainly football and rugby) a Cheeky Nandos with the lads and military practice 

Brands they consume:  Topman, Sainsbury's, Nandos, Amazon



Media they consume:Netflix, YouTube, Television, Horror movies   

Female target audience profile:

Name: Rosie Wright

Location:London (City/urban area)

Age: 26

Class:Working class

Occupation: Retail worker

Personality:Quirky, slightly emo, introvert 

Hobbies and Interests:Shopping, watching horror movies and going to gigs

Brands they consume: H&M, Hot Topic, Urban Outfitters 

Media they consume: Kerrang magazine, American Horror Story, Doctor Who, Rolling                                              Stones Magazine

PLANNING: Audience profile (part 2)

The Exorcist:

                                     

PLANNING: Audience profile (part 1)

Paranormal activity

Demographic

Lifestyle

Personality

Brands

 Entertainment

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Media

PLANNING: Who is my target and what do they think?

My target audience is mainly male aged between 22-26 although the target audience can be female too but the female audience would typically be around 24+. This is because many people used in horror films are young females in their early 20's but because the female target audience is older they wouldn't feel as if they are the victim, which in turn would make them feel much more comfortable while watching.

TBC

PLANNING: Head on activity

PLANNING: Individual idea for title sequence

The genre we will be focusing on is horror. The initial ideas were the young teenage girl running away from something that is yet unknown to the audience.

 Although many of the group ideas where not mine, I came up with the idea of heart beating getting faster as the unknown get closer to the girl. I also thought about using Paranormal activity as a reference to this because in the movies we never actual see the paranormal things, we only see what they do to the people.

Lastly the main characters are the girl and the three things that we don't fully see, as we only see parts of their face.

PLANNING: Initial creative ideas (group ideas)

Group initial ideas

Mise-en-scene- mainly a forest and possible an empty warehouse
Colours/palettes- Mainly dark colours like navy, black, brown and dark red.
Range of shots/Shot types- many close ups of the 'murderous doctors' and of the fear on the girls face. Mid shots of the girl running.
Camera movement- Jagged and fast moving.

Use of sound-Mainly diegetic, leaves crunching, footsteps, heavy breathing from the girl and the 'murderous doctors' and finally panting from running
Introducing characters- 3 'murderous doctors' and the teenage girl running away.
Storytelling ideas/plot devices- Group of scientist/doctors, girl running trips on a tree branch , while running away from the scientist through the forest. Also, Marina came up with the idea of the girl falling into a huge pile of blood, which helps conform to the horror genre.

PLANNING - Soundtrack ideas

Initial Soundtrack Ideas:

For our title sequence, we are going to mostly use diegetic sound, this will give it a more realistic feel making it more scary as the audience will feel like they're there.

As a group, we came up with a couple ideas, this includes the use of a door creak at the beginning and then running footsteps to go with the imagery of the girl running. 

We was also going to include harsh breathing and a heart beat that builds up and then slowly leads to non-diegetic sound (the heart beat will go along with it).

For our non-diegetic sound, we looked at title sequences like American Horror Story as theres is very similar to what we are looking for (slow, creepy instrumental)

We decided to use an instrumental rather than a song with lyrics as the lyrics may take focus of it and may make it less serious. Even though we are using non-diegetic sound, the diegetic sound will still be dominant throughout with distant screams in the background, running and towards the end we will put in sounds of twigs breaking and various people running.

While the soundtrack is playing, we will have snippets of newspaper articles that are in context with the narrative (kidnappings etc.) and the changes of the shots will go with the music to create a more smooth and clear flow throughout.

PLANNING- Costume ideas

Costume Ideas:

Our initial idea was having teenagers kidnapped by surgeons who harvest and take their organs, cells, etc. and the teenagers (main characters) are desperately trying to escape.

Evil Dead:

I thought evil dead (2013) was a good costume choice for the main character and other teenagers as the clothes throughout are casual but worn out and bloody towards the end. The make-up is minimal and very tired looking.

Teen Wolf:

For the costumes of the "surgeons" in out sequence i looked at the costumes for the surgeons in the TV series Teen wolf. I liked this as it was unorthodox and different as is definitely scary and works well with horror. The look is made up of mostly leather and they wear full faced mask making it more eerie and scary.

American Horror Story:

For the teenagers (victims) i thought the victims form the fist season of American Horror Story (Murder House) would of been good as they were regular teenagers but they had been murdered and the make-up is very good and scary and clearly shows that they had been tortured which goes well with the narrative of our sequence.

PLANNING- Initial Ideas

Initial Ideas:

As a group we decided to do horror as it would be an interesting genre to take on as the filming and acting is completely different from other genres

Our idea that we agreed on was someone running through a dark and isolated location (forest) as if they are running away from something but we would not give the full narrative through the sequence as suspense is key in horror.

Horror is interesting as it would give us more to work with (costume, make-up, narrative, emotions etc.) than any other genre would.

We also decided that the soundtrack would be minimal with diegetic sound dominating but we will also have non-diegetic sound and motifs.

RESEARCH- Remake Evaluation

Seven Remake Evaluation:

In our group we had a choice out of 6 movies title sequences to remake and we decided to remake Se7en as it fits with the genre we want to do for out final title sequence.

The title sequence itself was very complicated as there were a variety of shots (mainly close ups) and the sequence was very fast paste and had a lot of complicated editing.

Filming:

The filming went quite easy. we used the trailer to refer to and we managed to get most of the shots which went smoothly together and resembled the original title sequence.

To make it better we used a portable spotlight to capture good lighting and to make it more eerie by keeping it dark in some areas but we did struggle finding places to put the light and making sure there wasn't a glare or the spotlight it self wasn't caught on camera.

We got very good close shots of objects and we did most of the shots in the trailer but we did miss a couple as we didnt have the resources to film.

Also, even though there wasn't any acting. it was hard to remake it as there was alot of jerky movements and flickering images and light which was hard to capture and when we id manage it didnt convey the same feeling as the original trailer as the lighting would be wrong etc.

Editing:

Editing went really well as we all had a part to do with it, when one was editing the other would help by talking through the trailer step by step and an another would right down the title timings etc.. however we did come across a few troubles with the editing but it was mostly to do with the drive we had to save on as when we first edited it it didnt save on to the drive meaning we had to start over again but we managed to finish it by the due date.

While editing the sequence we had to overlap alot of different shots to get a good effect and we had to change the font to make sure it matched the original title sequence.

To conclude i think we did a good job at making the remake as we managed to refer to the trailed and it resembles it very well. The filming on a whole was very well done and i think we successfully remade the shots and the lighting. The editing, excluding the technical difficulty, we did very well with all aspects and the final product is very good.