Tuesday, 8 April 2014

Prelim vs opening Ella and Brooke

Monday, 7 April 2014

Tuesday, 25 March 2014

Target audience evaluation

Institutions

Tuesday, 4 March 2014

we made a story board of shots that we were going to shoot our opening, we use different objects to act as the positions of us, this helped us to get idea of how we have to do everything and what angles we are going to use

this is a montage of images showing the different sorts and elements of possessive horrors, we have used these images to help inspire us for our own opening, we have researched into the films that some of these images come from and picked and chose ideas and elements we think is affective to use in our opening.

shooting schedule

Shooting schedule

Camera movement and shots:

- Close ups

- Zoom in

- Long shot

- Extreme long shot

- Medium long shot

- Low angle

- Pan

- Over the shoulder

- Reverse shot

Date of filming: 05.03.14

Filming time: 1:30-2:30

Location: Rowheath Park

Characters: Lucy played by Brooke

Sophie played by Georgina

Beth played by Ella

Equipment:

- China clown

- String

- Camera

- Tripod

- Camera phone

- Ipod

- Script

Scenes: All

Clothing:

Lucy: jeans, going out top, heels, make-up, black jacket

Sophie: heels, black trousers makeup

Beth: black coat, jeans, high heels, cropped jumper

Filming: Main filmier-Poppy

Brooke and Ella will film parts.

This is our shooting schedule showing what we will be doing/need when we film our possessive horror opening.

Thursday, 27 February 2014

definition of a possessive horror.

Having or manifesting a desire to control or dominate another, especially in order to limit that persons relationship with others. This is usually done by harming the people that one wants to over power.

Enigmas are used in possessive horrors to capture the audiences attention, this is used as a scaring mechanism as the audience are least expecting it.

opening ideas

our ideas for our opening

‪Idea 1:A girl is getting ready and every room she goes in a clown appears however she doesn’t really notice and thinks nothing of it- she then at the end off the opening walks into the bathroom and the clown appears behind her ,almost on her shoulder, she sees this in the mirror and she screams.-This will be anchored by non-diegetic background music, which will build up to a climax at the end further creating tension.-Diegetic sound of the girl screaming.Stock character: a teenage girl - dressed in normal clothingStock setting: a normal houseStock theme: jumpy

Idea 2:A group of girls of getting ready to go out after having prinks (pre drinks) – a few subtle strange things happen to the girl whilst these strange things are happening the girl doesn’t really notice but her friends know something strange is going on, non-diegetic background music will be used to set the scene at the start and as more strange things happen the music will change to create a dramatic effect. diegetic sound of the girls talking to each other.Stock characters: a group of teenage girlsStock setting: a normal houseStock theme: jumpy

Idea 3:A girl sleepwalks and does various strange things out of the ordinary e.g. writing strange things on walls. non-diegetic background music will be played throughout the opening.Stock character: a teenage girlStock setting: a normal housestock theme: mystery

We didn't go for either one of the ideas we came up with instead, we decided that are opening sequence would be a group of girls on there way to a party being abit tipsy already, when one of the girls starts to seem distant towards the other girls, sees a clown walks over to it, she has seen this clown before but nobody else can see it, she then starts to act aggressively towards the other two girls, gets confronted about why she is behaving weirdly and in result ends up harming both of the girls. See runs away, we then see at the end what happened 'two weeks earlier', however this is then cut off to cause suspense as a cliff hanger

possessive horror media documentary

In groups we were required to make a documentary on our chosen genre, this had to show our understanding and knowledge of the genre were looking into for our opening.
In our group we had to find different information on the chosen genre -possessive horror, we found four different film openings and analysed them finding ideas for our opening, we each had a turn at editing and putting parts of the blog together. In our documentary we included a definition of what a possessive horror is, this shows how our horror genre is different to other types of horror movies, we created a montage of images also to show the elements of possessive horror, this gave us ideas of what we needed to put into our opening.
we gave a list of the codes and conventions of a possessive horror- we researched and found out what elements made a possessive horror unique so we could get an idea of what we needed to include in ours,we added different possessive horror opening with analysis - we looked 4 possessive horror openings so we can get an understanding of what happens in possessive horror openings, in order t know what to make the opening to the best of our knowledge and ability.-
An interview- we asked a friend some questions for our audience research in order for us to know what people expect from a possessive horror, so we can make ours meet the needs of our target audience.
What we found from our audience research- we came up with a conclusion of what we found from our audience research to show that we have taken on the board responses that were given.i think that making the documentary has helped s to do the opening because it has told us hat a possessive horror is required to have and how people feel about certain elements and aspects, i believe the documentary has been a success as we have learnt a lot about how horrors work and what they require, i think it was a good first attempt at making a documentary but feel we could have worked as a group better

Monday, 24 February 2014

This is our preliminary task, we were asked to film using various shots and movements and angles following the 180 degree rule, this is were you set a line point and you cannot cross the line otherwise it will make you look like you are filming backwards.

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to be scary

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They're scary and exciting. Alwatys a twist and an evil villain.

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For people to die and then for the evil character to lose

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I like horror films with suspense and a good plot.

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scary young child

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to be frightening but a little unrealistic, creepy, young children, old people, contrast between possessed and normality

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To have an impact on its audience, being scared

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Should be frightening, unexpected shocks and plot twists

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Suspence, to feel unsettled, frighten and panic, cause dread and alarm, and to play on our worst fears

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to scare you

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To be extremelly scared

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