Edited Scream

I wanted to have a close up of one of the actors screaming. This shot is a typical convention of the horror trailer genre used to suggest fear and terror. However when i filmed it i found the shot just on its own lacks that effect I'm trying to present. Therefore i practiced adding effects to the clips to make it more tense and frightening. 

Filming troubles

I came across a few difficulties while filming last week.

1. I attempted to film a head shot of a character screaming however when reviewing the footage they looked more like angry screams then the scared look i was going for. To solve this when i film this shot again i am going to demonstrate to my actor how i want it to look as well as explain the situation of the scene better so they feel they can get into character quicker.
2. Filming in the dark makes creates a grainy, out of focus effect and it is to dark to see what is happening clearly. However i am going to film with the lights on and edited the lighting afterwards on imovie changing the brightness.
3. People keep walking in and out when i am trying to film in areas such as the toilets. I might put a sign on the door to ask the girls to use the other toilet down the hall.
4. I found it hard to work out what shoot to do due to lack of actors or situations making difficult to film. i also felt i was being a little unorganised. To solve this i am going to create plans for the day i am filming to be more prepared for shooting

Parnormal Activity Trailer

The techniques used in this trailer is very effective in targeting an audience. First of all it is shot from the audience in a cinema point of view. By watching the audiences reactions as they hide and are shocked it suggests to us that the film is exciting, terrifying and worth watching. We can see what is happening in the trailer as well and with the audience's reactions of screaming create as sense of suspense and terror. Using a hand-held camera conveys the sense of realism the film is trying to achieve and illustrates that they are completely alone which is what i am trying to portray in my trailer. This alternate way of filming is becoming more popular films such as 2009 District 9 were released and filmed in the same manner. The more popular they become with a mass audience the more they go from being mainly independent productions to quite mainstream films. This means that they may have more production values and budget and could change the whole aesthetics of the hand-held camera realism films. The trailer relies on the audiences primal fears, the sense that something is there in your home but you do not know what. Shots of the doors banging open and close suggest a present. The trailer adheres to the conventions of a trailer as the cuts if the shots quicken and speed up towards the end of the trailer to create a tension and suspense.

Set back!!!

One of my actors has now left school meaning the footage i shot last Friday i can not use as she is no longer available! On Monday i did not get to shoot anything as i was one actor down and have to find a replacement as well as i lost my phone and had to spend the whole filming time looking for it. It was very disorganised and chaotic and by the end of this week i want to arrange another filming schedule and i have already found a replacement actor.

Script

Script ideas for the inteview shots.

20 years ago three teenagers were brutally murdered here at Burntwood secondary school. No one knows who did it and no one knows why.
Over the years teachers and students have claimed to have had supernatural experiences within the school tonight me and two members of my media class will spend the night in the school unprotected unsupervised and completely alone.
What will we discover, is it just an old creaky building, is the school haunted by the mysteriously murdered teenagers or does the killer still linger within these walls.

Weekly Plan

filming

On Friday i shot a a close up scream of on of my characters screaming. Due to bad weather i could not do any of the outside shots i planned to do as well as actors being late meant i only could really get that one shot done. i planned to do more filming after school today but that depends on the weather and punctuality of my actors.

Weekly Plan

photoshop workshop 3

For my Poster i have changed my idea slightly to include the three main characters. The background will be a long shot of a hallway which connotes school by the lockers and layout. I want light coming from the door and then getting darker towards the foreground. There will be a close up of one of the characters in front while the other two are standing behind down the hallway in the light. Today i played with the lighting to create the light to dark effect. This represents the idea of going into something evil.
Method:
* add layer
* use paintbrush tool to darken the image
*add a gradient going from white to black to create the finished effect

Location Shots

The girls toilets:
It is an effective location i like the layout of the toilets the symmetrical lanes of aisles. the two mirrors at the end suggest someone is watching. Hitchcock used circles as a motif for eyes to create the sense of being watched(image from Hitchcock's Psycho).

Close up looking down the stairs: This shot would suggest something is chasing them up the stairs. i like the winding effect of the banisters. Low angle shot looking up the stairs: A low angle shot of the characters running up the stairs suggest they have a long way to go, the idea that up going up means there is no escaping. They are heading into danger.
Locker shot: The mise-en-scene represents the school environment.

Weekly Planning

Mock ups

Magazine Front Cover

Poster

Storyboards