Evaluation

Changes in our Storyboard

1) We decided to disregard the idea of a scene involving a dog behaving in an absurd manner due to the difficulties we faced when trying to provoke and influence the dog into acting in the way we wanted it to.

2) We had originally planned on doing a mid shot of one of our actors opening the fridge to see plenty of food and beverages in there and then when the fridge is revisited later on in the film opening by the second actor, there would be nothing in there and all the content that was in the fridge would have mysteriously disappeared. We decided to scrap this idea as it would be far too much hassle emptying the fridge and putting everything back in once the scene was over.

3) We decided against using a shot of a tap turning on and off, we filmed this scene, however when it came to the editing process we realised it could become too over-complicated if we included this as a form of 'paranormal activity' as the scenes of the kettle and radio turning on and off was enough evidence of there being a ghostly force present in the room.

Storyboard

Screen grabs from our Film Opening

Planning our Film Opening

AS Media Studies
Planning your Film Opening

1. I am working in a pair with Hannah McGoey
2. Our film opening belongs to the horror genre
3. Young people aged about 15-25
4. Our film is a thriller/horror, in this film a series of paranormal events will occur in order to engage and entertain the target audience. It will take place in an apartment and the opening scene will be of a quiet family dinner until they are interrupted by the sound of their dog barking at an empty space, indicating that something else is present.
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6. In the opening of our film we want to introduce the main character and make the audience aware that she is possessed.
7. The location for the opening will be in an apartment.

Preparing for our own title sequence

Preparing for our own Title Sequence

Audience: Our target audience will be teenagers and young adults, due to the material in the film it will be rated a 15 as the storyline which includes various different paranormal activities may not be appropriate for a younger audience.

Set: Our opening sequence is set in an apartment, it is a perfect location as it is a family setting and a large amount of paranormal activity can take place there, e.g: lights/kettles switching on and off, dogs barking at empty spaces, and more.

When/Where: We are filming in the apartment during the evening but using strong lighting to ensure the set is not too dark, the majority of the filming will take place in the living room and the kitchen.

Risk Assessment

Conducting a Risk Assessment is important so we know how to overcome any problems we may encounter during our filming, a Risk Assessment can also help us avoid and prevent any problems from happening in general.

• We ensured that all of our actors were comfortable and felt safe with the the roles they were playing, we also made sure that their acting was not harming them or the environment we were in. 
• Before filming I ensured that all of the filming equipment was perfectly intact and not damaged whatsoever, I then put a fully charged battery in the camera and checked to see if it was functioning, I then proceeded to correctly attach it to the tripod and begin filming.
• There are no specific weather requirements, although camera’s should not be operated in the rain. We had arrangements for the camera positioning if it did rain.

developing our film

STORYBOARDS

Before filming our film beginning we decided to change certain aspect of our film as we evaluated our story boards and we agreed that we should change some of the scenes to add tension. We decided to add more acting and less scenes of paranormal activity as we agrees would have been too much action and too much of our whole film idea in the first two minutes. 

the british film council

In recent years the government has shut down a government funded film company called "The British Film Council." this was because they government felt that they weren't spending their money wisely and they were even misusing the money in some cases.

title sequences

Actors/Actresses that star in the film.
Written and Directed by
Produced by
Executive Producers
Associate Producers
Music by
Story Supervisors
FIlm Editors
Supervising Technical Directors
Production Designers
Character Designers
Supervising Animators
Directors of Photography
Art Directors
Shading Art Directors
Character Supervisors
Sets Sequence Supervisors
Effects Supervisors
Rendering Supervisors
Production Managers
Sound Designers

choosing a production company 

Blumhouse Productions has become one of the premiere horror movie studios operating today. The entire business plan for Blumhouse is to make low budget movies with great scripts and ideas, cast name stars in the lead roles, and then watch the money flow in. They now have three movie franchises kicking up in their first three major attempts. Here is a look at the successful movie franchises from Blumhouse Productions. 
We thought that the description of this production company fitted with the nature of our film perfectly with its genre being horror, and the budget being a low cost budget.

Music and Sound effects

music and sound effects

we chose a non copyright piece of music for our film opening as we used garageband to compose our music. our music is non diagetic until it comes to the kettle and the radio turning on and off the sound then become diagetic. for our garageband piece it is mainly piano, we chose this particular piece as it adds tension and a kind of mysterious feel to our film opening. it was hard matching the music to the scene but with the use of trial and error we managed to overcome this problem.

Equipment

Hi Cassie,
Will have camera,tripod and lights ready for you. If you have a problem with transport let me know.
Mrs Excell

Meeting

Please attend a meeting re equipment on Tuesday 18th December at Morning Break.
Mr Royden & Mrs Excell

Title Sequence: London To Brighton

     London to Brighton is a 2006 award winning film written and directed by Paul Andrew Williams and funded by the UK Film Council (BFI). The film opens with a woman and a child bursting into a London toilet during the early hours of the morning in a mannerism that makes the audience aware they are running away from something or someone. The older woman Kelly is shown to have a black eye so has evidently been injured in a fight or a similar activity, the younger girl Joanne is crying and seems very distressed due to the circumstances the two of them are in. An enigmatic narrative is used in order to make the audience question things such as; What has happened to them? What is their relationship with one another? The titles that appear are extremely simple and to the point as they just include the name of the production and distribution company, and also the details of the time and place of the scene that follows. The fact that the titles are minimalistic on a plain black background doesn't give any of the film away, not even the genre. The film is structured in a non-linear way so the opening scene is actually a scene from midway through the film, this intrigues the audience because they are eager to know what happened before and what will happen after.

Title Sequence: Alien

Alien was released in May 1979 by 20th Century Fox with the tagline, “In space, no one can hear you scream.” The film was directed by Ridley Scott, produced by Gordon Carroll, David Giler, and Walter Hill and written by Dan O’Bannon, who also developed the film’s screenplay. Starring in this film is Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm and Yaphet Kotto. The film opens with a slow scene of an unknown planet with eerie and monotonous music in the background, this ambiguous first scene creates tension for the audience and makes them want to know what happens next. The title appears slowly, letter by letter, gradually spelling the word ALIEN. The slow revelation of the title intrigues the audience as it gives them time to ponder on what is withheld in the rest of the film.

Title Sequence: We Need To Talk About Kevin

We Need to Talk About Kevin is a 2011 Psychological Thriller starring Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly, and Ezra Miller. The first thing that appears on screen is a plain black background with the title quickly appearing word by word. It then cuts to a shot of curtains blowing in the wind, after approximately 5 seconds the camera begins to pan closer towards the curtains with the sound of something ticking becoming faster as the camera gets closer to the curtains. This opening scene is extremely effective and reels people in as it makes them question the significance of the curtains being focussed on, and why the film opens on such a dark and unclear note. Little do the audience know;  this sequence as well as a large part of the rest of the film is a flashback of Tilda Swinton (the actress who plays the lead female role as Kevin's Mother).  It then cuts to a white screen for several seconds, leaving the audience without knowing what to expect. The next scene is a high angle shot of a crowd of people, we find out that it is in fact a traditional tomato throwing festival so therefore a lot of the colour red is used which could potentially be representing blood, danger, or violence. The camera then tracks Tilda Swinton and focuses on her lying down looking expressionless although you can still see the commotion of people moving frantically all around her, during this scene we can hear diagetic sounds of screaming. Sound in this whole opening sequence is mostly made up of low mixed diagetic sounds, there is no soundtrack so therefore the silence is punctuated by regular auditory stabs and loud, sharp, and intrusive noises.