Class feedback

These arew the feedback sheets from the class about your film

Horror Podcast

http://www.bbfc.co.uk/_featured/2012/03/bbfc-podcast-episode-4-horror/

This is a podcast from the BBFC website discussing horror films and the content that makes them certified as a 15 or an 18.

Final Film

Somethings wrong with the titles guysss....I think we missed one off and it says and Gemma Jackson twice :L

creating the threat

it took us 2 hours to create the threat, using white body paint and talcum powder, which we put over Gemma's face, arms, legs and back. we had to put two layers of the body paint on as it was streaky and not thick enough. the body paint was water based, meaning we had to wet a cotton pad and use that to apply the paint. we had to put conditioner over the wig to make it look greasy and dirty. we also had to create bruises using eyeshadows; green, purple and orange colours. the bruises were all over the threats body and looked very realistic.  

meeting the deadline

the week leading up to the deadline (weds 28th march) we had caught up a lot, but still had a lot to add to our final piece. on monday, we finished the title sequence and created the music using garageband. on tuesday we created our production logo, using photoshop, which we had difficulty using. now we have to add more music to create tension throughout the movie and make sure that the continuity is correct. i think that we will meet the deadline if we spend a lot of time on it today.

Film Set/Makeup Photo's

We documented each process of the makeup stage. The makeup took about 2 hours to get on. 

Reciept For Makeup

This is the reciept for the makeup we have used to create our "Threat"

poster picture

This is the image that i will use to create my poster. 

Poster inspirations

These posters have given me ideas for our poster for our film "death smile". I think the main one which would be good for our film is the uninvited poster as it holds the same threat as ours does, and in our film the threat starts outside the house, like the girl in this poster. I liked 'The Thing' poster as the threat is shown within the title, which makes it unique and shows the importance of the threat. i also was inspired by the ring, as our threat is very similar and our story-lines are similar. 

production company logos - dark castle entertainment

Dark Castle Entertainment is a production company associated with Warner Brothers. It has produced films such as the House of Wax and Gothika. The colour is mainly dark to show that it is a horror film, however the moon in the background of the logo is bright and so contrasts with the castle, and we can only see the silhouette of the castle, hence the name "dark castle". At the beginning on the sequence, there is a lion roaring however the images keep blurring, which makes the audience weary of the unknown. It zooms out and we see the lion is a part of the castle and then lighting flashes and we are left with the image above. the layout leaves the logo in the middle and so emphasises that this is the main component. There is a white box around the castle and the name of the company showing its importance again.

production company logos - ghost house pictures.

Ghost house pictures uses a bold font in capital letters to establish the company and show it is of a horror genre. the sequence shows a door slamming shut and then there is a zoom in of the key hole and the skull appears on the other side. the text then swishes into place (almost like you would expect a ghost to 'swish'). The colours are kept simple and are not very established, the main focus is on the skull and the text. the iconography is of course the skull, as this links to the name of "ghost house productions". The door being slammed shut links to the 'house' part, as this is the door to the "ghost house". The audience can tell that this is going to be a horror film, based on the skull and the door being slammed - making the audience imagine being trapped in this ghost house.

production company logos - twisted pictures

The twisted pictures logo has something twisting round it to represent the fact that its called 'twisted pictures'. after this, a dagger stabs between the words on screen, and so the audience know the film is going to be violent/horror. This relates to the iconography, the audience will know from seeing the twisting feature that it is a twisted pictures production. This company is mainly known for producing the saw film series, which is why the name 'twisted pictures' suits the type of films produced. The font is bold and stands out, as the font is white and the background black, there is a strong contrast, catching the audience's eye. Again, the text is in the middle of the screen highlighting its importance. The twisting feature gives a sense of being trapped, which again shows what type of film they are about to see.  

filming

we were unable to film this weekend again (the 25th Feb) due to the wig still not arriving. However some of the opening credits were filmed on friday. We are aiming to film the whole thing on saturday, whether the wig has come or not.

production company logos - dreamworks

This is the production logo used in the ring 2. It is the same as any other dreamworks production apart from the music in the background is intense and creepy, giving a sense of horror. The iconography is the clouds and the lake which allows the audience to see that this is a dreamworks production. The colours are quite dark and blue. You can see from the colours that it is night time, and horror movies are generally set at night. The layout is simple, yet effective, you can tell it is a dreamworks production and it is framed so that you can clearly see the logo and the name of the company.

 

We each analysed a horror film opening to get an idea of what to do for our titles.

Spider diagram - jess

 

This is my spider diagram i did to start on ideas on a plot for our film. I wrote down some conventions of demon/ghost horror films,

pitch feedback - jess

 This is the classes feedback on the pitch that we presented for the class on our film ideas

3 point lighting tutorial - Jess

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcMX1RcNRYA 

this is the tutorial we watched in class describing the different aspects of 3 point lighting.

Seven title sequence - Jess

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEZK7mJoPLY&feature=g-vrec&context=G20c175aRVAAAAAAAAAA

The font used in this opening title sequence, is mostly in capitals but the names of the actors is in scrawly writing it flashes on screen and zooms in and out, as in the ring. The visuals used mainly consist of the character writing, sewing and cutting things out. This makes the audience wonder why he is doing this, maybe he is a journalist of some sort or is trying to work a code out. Seeing this gives a sense of character - maybe the visuals will relate to the past of the character or the storyline of the film.
In our film we are following a similar outline - showing flicks of the past of the character. We will establish our character in the same kind of way, not seeing the whole of the character now, only its hands now but its full body when it was younger. The audience have to keep watching to find out what the character is like now, and why.

Title sequences from our sub-genre - Jess

The Ring
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NmU8JQJgJc

The ring is our inspiration for our film so looking at the title sequence can help to give us some ideas/develop our ideas. The fact that it keeps showing a circle relates to the storyline which is what we have tried to do with our idea of the baby pictures and the girl in the woods. the names come up in a white font and the text is shaky and zooms in quickly and then back out. With the text in our film, its going to be on a dark screen, as in the ring however the text itself will be oozing across the screen to represent blood. the visuals in between the names are things such as blood dropping into a glass of water, the shadow of a chair spinning and a dark frosty woods. we are also using woods in our opening sequence, to help to show the past of the character. I think that our opening sequence will be similar to the one in the ring however we will not have as much time so ours will be shorter and stick to the point.