In my trailer I would like to have music in order to do this I need to ask for permission to use it. This is the letter I have sent to Virgin Media Records to gain permission to use the track:
Thursday, 6 November 2014
Tuesday, 14 October 2014
PHOTO/ANIMATIC FOR FIRST 2 KEY SCENES
Key scene1: The group set off for the train station and arrive at Sutton Park. They decide to start drinking immediately to get them in the mood.
Shot List:
1. LS- Opposite platform the group are standing on with their luggage.
2. CU- Group messing around with their cameras on the train and getting off.
3. Establishing Shot- The weather changing.
4. Low Angle - Groups feet standing in the middle on the the campsite with all their kit.
5. POV - Ree taking a shot and pill.
6. CU - Paige drinking.
7. ECU - Tom's eye, drugs taking effect.
8. Two Shot - Reece and tom laughing.
9. OSS - Group conversing.
10. MS - Paige and Ree walking off.
11. LS - Tom and Reece setting up the tents.
12. POV - someone watching them from the bushes.
Key scene2: Reece seeing the glowing eyes prank that the girls made up and placed in the bushes, he then starts to freak out. Ree goes to take down the prop but something grabs her and the rest attempt to pull her out.
Shot List:
1. POV - Reece sees the glowing eyes in the bushes.
2. ECU - Reece's scared facial expression.
3. Two Shot - Toms hand on Reece's shoulder.
4. Establishing Shot - Ree walking toward the glowing eyes.
5. POV - looking at Ree from the bushes.
6. CU - Ree's hand out of the bush.
7. OSS - Tom and Page laughing.
8. High Angle Shot - Ree trying to claw out of the bush.
9. MS - Rest of them looking worried.
10. LS - Group running over to save Ree.
11. POV - Pulling Ree out.
Planning:
Time - 15.00 - 16.30
Date - 30/10/14
People/role - Myself, Paige, Tom and Reece as heightened versions of ourselves
Equipment - Tripod, Camera, IPhone
Props - Bags, Vodka, Drugs, Sticks, Phones
Costume - Normal everyday wear
Weather - Cloudy, slight showers
Location - Sutton Park& home garden
Weather Evidence
Positives:
When filming these key scenes for the animatic myself and Paige got a feel of where we would like to film at our location to get the best outcome for our trailer. We decided to cast ourselves in the production to minimize reliance on other people as we may need to plan last minute outings to re-film parts. As this was our first time filming I think it went quite well, we got good shots at the locations and were able to get everything done with no hassle. Shots show clear progression of the scene, varied shot types. After taking the shots in these couple of scenes we know what we want to create for our trailer.
Negatives to develop on:
At the train station we decided not to use the tripod which may have been a mistake as parts are shaky. As we are still trying to get more practice on the camera, learning how to focus and zoom etc some shots are out of focus however with a bit more practice camera work will get much better.
After filming and editing these key scenes problems were highlighted. Following these events we have decided to change our cast members Reece and Tom due to conflicting schedules to Nisha and Phoebe people who are willing and committed to our project. This may have hindered our production by about a week however this change has made our narrative stronger.
Shot List:
1. LS- Opposite platform the group are standing on with their luggage.
2. CU- Group messing around with their cameras on the train and getting off.
3. Establishing Shot- The weather changing.
4. Low Angle - Groups feet standing in the middle on the the campsite with all their kit.
5. POV - Ree taking a shot and pill.
6. CU - Paige drinking.
7. ECU - Tom's eye, drugs taking effect.
8. Two Shot - Reece and tom laughing.
9. OSS - Group conversing.
10. MS - Paige and Ree walking off.
11. LS - Tom and Reece setting up the tents.
12. POV - someone watching them from the bushes.
Key scene2: Reece seeing the glowing eyes prank that the girls made up and placed in the bushes, he then starts to freak out. Ree goes to take down the prop but something grabs her and the rest attempt to pull her out.
Shot List:
1. POV - Reece sees the glowing eyes in the bushes.
2. ECU - Reece's scared facial expression.
3. Two Shot - Toms hand on Reece's shoulder.
4. Establishing Shot - Ree walking toward the glowing eyes.
5. POV - looking at Ree from the bushes.
6. CU - Ree's hand out of the bush.
7. OSS - Tom and Page laughing.
8. High Angle Shot - Ree trying to claw out of the bush.
9. MS - Rest of them looking worried.
10. LS - Group running over to save Ree.
11. POV - Pulling Ree out.
Planning:
Time - 15.00 - 16.30
Date - 30/10/14
People/role - Myself, Paige, Tom and Reece as heightened versions of ourselves
Equipment - Tripod, Camera, IPhone
Props - Bags, Vodka, Drugs, Sticks, Phones
Costume - Normal everyday wear
Weather - Cloudy, slight showers
Location - Sutton Park& home garden
Weather Evidence
Positives:
When filming these key scenes for the animatic myself and Paige got a feel of where we would like to film at our location to get the best outcome for our trailer. We decided to cast ourselves in the production to minimize reliance on other people as we may need to plan last minute outings to re-film parts. As this was our first time filming I think it went quite well, we got good shots at the locations and were able to get everything done with no hassle. Shots show clear progression of the scene, varied shot types. After taking the shots in these couple of scenes we know what we want to create for our trailer.
Negatives to develop on:
At the train station we decided not to use the tripod which may have been a mistake as parts are shaky. As we are still trying to get more practice on the camera, learning how to focus and zoom etc some shots are out of focus however with a bit more practice camera work will get much better.
After filming and editing these key scenes problems were highlighted. Following these events we have decided to change our cast members Reece and Tom due to conflicting schedules to Nisha and Phoebe people who are willing and committed to our project. This may have hindered our production by about a week however this change has made our narrative stronger.
Monday, 13 October 2014
CAMERA WORK IDEAS
I think found footage recording has a greater effect on the audience as more emotion is presented. Above I have embedded the trailer for Chronicle(2012) which is a found footage film. This film is one of my favorites, It follows 3 mismatched friends who come together after experiencing weird happenings in a hole and gaining the power of Telekinesis. The Blair Witch Project and Paranormal Activity are also FF films and have been hugely successful. The found footage genre lends itself particularly well to horror movies, I plan to use elements of found footage in my horror trailer as my film follows young people and I think it will create more of an atmosphere as our film is aimed more to young adults I think a new popular route of story telling would entice the audience.
Sunday, 12 October 2014
TREATMENT
PRODUCTION MEMBERS: PAIGE MANNING & RIANNE MURRAIN
COMPANY NAME: SUPERNATURAL STUDIOS
GENRE: HORROR
TITLE OF PRODUCTION: INTENSE
SYNOPSIS:
A group of friends decide to go camping in order to celebrate the end of exams and getting into Uni. Rianne, Phoebe, Nisha and Paige plan to make the weekend a night they wont forget with a host of drugs and alcohol. The weekend starts with harmless fun and pranks however things start happening which neither of the girls planned to happen. The group are left terrified when discover a dead body by their camp, with no signal and no way of escaping will the friends discover the truth and survive?
NARRATIVE OUTLINE: Rianne and Paige decide to go camping inviting Nisha and Phoebe their close friends, this will be the last group outing before they all head off to different Universities so they want to make it one last celebration they each will never forget. In the hype of the trip the girls decide to make it a true dark night in the woods each planning typical school boy pranks to unleash upon each other as the all claim to be 'un-spookable.' The group all meet at the train station and set off to Sutton Park; a notoriously known site for campers. On arrival the group decide to 'get the party started' straight after setting up camp. The weather starts turning, the howling of the wind is getting stronger on the break of the trees and the sky is turning grey. Uncaring about the weather they each take a pill downed with shots of vodka.
Phoebe notices the glowing eyes and starts freaking out because he thinks its moving, Nisha tries to assure her that it's all fine and just another one of the Ree's and Paige's silly tricks and she's just having a bad trip. Ree feels bad and goes to take down the prop as she does, something drags her in suddenly. Nisha and Paige start laughing and tell her to stop messing about. Ree's shouting that she's not playing around and that something has a hold of her. The three of them then grab on her to pull her out. Again a child's laughter is heard, followed by the sound of a whispering voice is calling each of their names from the darkness. Paige lends Ree a hand to get her up and asks her if she planned what just happened, Shocked at the accusation Ree erupts saying of course it wasn't her. Phoebe then steps in and starts having a go at the other two girls telling them that it's pathetic and that she's come to have a good time and that's what she intends to do, she storms back to their tent to take some more pills, Paige goes in after her to try and calm her down and stop her from taking anymore however she fails, without warning she suddenly starts foaming at the mouth and choking, Paige shouts for the others but its too late. She's stopped moving. In a panic the group all start screaming. Nisha goes to call the emergency services however she has no signal, she turns on his phone light around the tent to try to find what Phoebe had taken and finds that the bag of pills are red.
The three remaining decide they need to urgently find signal, Ree doesn't think its respectful to just leave Phoebe body alone however Paige and Nisha suggest its the best thing to do at the moment if they all want to survive the night. As they walk, they hear the laughter again followed by the winds howling. Shook, the group start to run. Nisha recognizes its the figure that was at the water pump earlier chasing them and tells the the other two to carry on running until they find a signal. The girls do as she says running away from whatever it could be, Ree stops as she thinks she can see Nisha hiding amongst the bushes, Paige and Ree call her name but there is no response. As the two get clsoer they realise it isn't Nisha and it isnt Phoebe, who could it be? The girls find the park ranger, dead. The two girls panicked and shocked they look around for Nisha. Nisha is no where to be seen. Panicking shout Nisha again and again they hear no answer. The girls then attempt to retrace their steps when they were running with Nisha, they find her phone on the forest floor, Paige goes to pick it up as she does she feels something drop on her head, blood. She looks up and Nisha is hanging from the tree.
Looking around for help, the two friends see the dark figure that has been terrorizing them all night. Scared Paige runs away to find her way out, thinking Ree is behind her however when Paige looks back, the figure is standing with Ree, Paige can see a silver object in his hand, startled and not looking where she is going Paige knocks her head off a branch and falls to the ground unconscious. Nobody knows if what happened to Ree that night, is she still alive?
INTENDED TARGET AUDIENCE:
15+, Male & Female, Group C1C2DE, Enjoy Horror productions Mostly aimed at students that have free time to go to the cinema and watch films, of all ethnicity types.
MISE-EN-SCENE:
Props: Tents, Torches, Camping Gear, Glow Sticks, Toilet Roll, Rope, "Pills", Phones, speaker.
LOCATIONS: Sutton Park and Train Station. No permission needed.
COMPANY NAME: SUPERNATURAL STUDIOS
GENRE: HORROR
TITLE OF PRODUCTION: INTENSE
SYNOPSIS:
A group of friends decide to go camping in order to celebrate the end of exams and getting into Uni. Rianne, Phoebe, Nisha and Paige plan to make the weekend a night they wont forget with a host of drugs and alcohol. The weekend starts with harmless fun and pranks however things start happening which neither of the girls planned to happen. The group are left terrified when discover a dead body by their camp, with no signal and no way of escaping will the friends discover the truth and survive?
NARRATIVE OUTLINE: Rianne and Paige decide to go camping inviting Nisha and Phoebe their close friends, this will be the last group outing before they all head off to different Universities so they want to make it one last celebration they each will never forget. In the hype of the trip the girls decide to make it a true dark night in the woods each planning typical school boy pranks to unleash upon each other as the all claim to be 'un-spookable.' The group all meet at the train station and set off to Sutton Park; a notoriously known site for campers. On arrival the group decide to 'get the party started' straight after setting up camp. The weather starts turning, the howling of the wind is getting stronger on the break of the trees and the sky is turning grey. Uncaring about the weather they each take a pill downed with shots of vodka.
Nisha and Phoebe then offer to set up the tents and then Paige says they'll go off to 'fill up the water canisters.' Unknown to the other two this is their cover to set up the pranks starting with Ree and Paige amateur-ly covering the bottom of the tap with tape so it will squirt out and soak the girls, they return to their pitch and tell Phoebe and Nisha the water source was unsuccessful. The boys tell them to carry on putting up the tent and they'll find water as obviously they will be more successful. They find the pump in seconds and laugh at Ree and Paige's incapability of anything, they go to turn on the tap but it wont move, both of them try at once - shifting it little by little suddenly a thick, red ooze shoots out of the tap followed by a child's giggle, freaked Nisha and Phoebe look around them and see a figure run away. Ree and Paige unknowingly are continuing their 'terrorizing' acts, cutting out eye shapes into toilet roll cartons and inserting glow sticks to create the illusion spooky eyes and putting them into the bushes. Nisha and Phoebe return covered in the red substance panting from running, claiming there's something out there. The other two girls tell them that they won't fall for their tricks and that it was them that rigged the tap. Nisha and Phoebe ask them how they got it to look like blood to which the girls give each other concerned looks but decide to go along with it as they think this is their trick. Nisha says that its all a pitiful yet hilarious attempt to try and scare them and to stop attempting. They all gather around the campfire and continue drinking and consuming drugs.
Phoebe notices the glowing eyes and starts freaking out because he thinks its moving, Nisha tries to assure her that it's all fine and just another one of the Ree's and Paige's silly tricks and she's just having a bad trip. Ree feels bad and goes to take down the prop as she does, something drags her in suddenly. Nisha and Paige start laughing and tell her to stop messing about. Ree's shouting that she's not playing around and that something has a hold of her. The three of them then grab on her to pull her out. Again a child's laughter is heard, followed by the sound of a whispering voice is calling each of their names from the darkness. Paige lends Ree a hand to get her up and asks her if she planned what just happened, Shocked at the accusation Ree erupts saying of course it wasn't her. Phoebe then steps in and starts having a go at the other two girls telling them that it's pathetic and that she's come to have a good time and that's what she intends to do, she storms back to their tent to take some more pills, Paige goes in after her to try and calm her down and stop her from taking anymore however she fails, without warning she suddenly starts foaming at the mouth and choking, Paige shouts for the others but its too late. She's stopped moving. In a panic the group all start screaming. Nisha goes to call the emergency services however she has no signal, she turns on his phone light around the tent to try to find what Phoebe had taken and finds that the bag of pills are red.
The three remaining decide they need to urgently find signal, Ree doesn't think its respectful to just leave Phoebe body alone however Paige and Nisha suggest its the best thing to do at the moment if they all want to survive the night. As they walk, they hear the laughter again followed by the winds howling. Shook, the group start to run. Nisha recognizes its the figure that was at the water pump earlier chasing them and tells the the other two to carry on running until they find a signal. The girls do as she says running away from whatever it could be, Ree stops as she thinks she can see Nisha hiding amongst the bushes, Paige and Ree call her name but there is no response. As the two get clsoer they realise it isn't Nisha and it isnt Phoebe, who could it be? The girls find the park ranger, dead. The two girls panicked and shocked they look around for Nisha. Nisha is no where to be seen. Panicking shout Nisha again and again they hear no answer. The girls then attempt to retrace their steps when they were running with Nisha, they find her phone on the forest floor, Paige goes to pick it up as she does she feels something drop on her head, blood. She looks up and Nisha is hanging from the tree.
Looking around for help, the two friends see the dark figure that has been terrorizing them all night. Scared Paige runs away to find her way out, thinking Ree is behind her however when Paige looks back, the figure is standing with Ree, Paige can see a silver object in his hand, startled and not looking where she is going Paige knocks her head off a branch and falls to the ground unconscious. Nobody knows if what happened to Ree that night, is she still alive?
15+, Male & Female, Group C1C2DE, Enjoy Horror productions Mostly aimed at students that have free time to go to the cinema and watch films, of all ethnicity types.
Props: Tents, Torches, Camping Gear, Glow Sticks, Toilet Roll, Rope, "Pills", Phones, speaker.
Lighting: Low key lighting from torch and phones, darkness from the night sky.
Sound: Minimal sound as it is a forest, rustles in trees and leaves. Non-diegetic sound - eerie music.
Costume: Normal, everyday mainstream teenage clothing such as jeans, jumper, trainers and beanies/scarves.
Mood: tension and suspense.
Monday, 6 October 2014
PRODUCTION IDEAS AND RESEARCH
We have chosen this idea because it had the strongest feedback from the target audience. we will develop this idea in order to create a stronger narrative.
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Brainstorm of our potential institution names
Our chosen Institution logo and name: SUPER NATURAL STUDIOS
All the above information we go from making an online survey and posting it on our different social media channels such as Facebook and Twitter.
We received 36 responses;
21 being female and 15 being male from the ages 15-26+.
23 were aged between 15 and 18, 10 between 19 and 25 and 2 who were 26+.
As the most of the responses were from the age range 15-18 this will reflect our production as they will be our core audience.
Wednesday, 1 October 2014
D GRADE TRAILER - STRENGTHS & WEAKNESSES
As a class we viewed a film trailer posted from a previous year. Discussing the strengths and weaknesses we noticed that the weaknesses were easier to find.
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