Shot List

1. Establishing Shot - this will be of the park and the area in which the film will take place
2. Long Shot - of teenagers walking to park 
3. Action Match: Medium Shot - of walking into the park, opening the gate: Extreme Close Up - of opening gate: Medium Shot - of walking through the other side of the gate. 
4. Extreme close up- of the boy and girl holding hands
5. two close ups- reaction shot of there love struck faces
6. Long shot- everyone walking towards the bench showing there alcohol.
7. Master shot- sitting on the bench or around the bench drinking and having a laugh.
8. Close up- boy 2 extreme medium shot- saying 'do you wanna hear a scary story'
9. fade to black and then fades in again to show flash forward.
10. close up- of the girl who is the last survivor crying.
11. over the shoulder shot -of her on the phone dialling the number '999;- point of view shot
12. long shot of the doll
13. Master shot of the survivor and the swing in the background (on the phone) 
14. Extreme close up of the survivors face
15. Medium close up of the doll swinging (nursery rhyme)
16. Master shot swing empty but swinging- point of view shot
17. high angle shot- the doll behind the girl
18. low angle shot- the doll behind the survivor- doll says ready or not here I come- (Scarlett title)
19. fades to black and fades up again
20. Medium shot- the girl and boy who are seeing each other
21. extreme close up- the wine measuring lowering
22. Long shot- everyone sitting around
23. Over the shoulder shot- the girl with no makeup- saying 'that wasn't even funny, why would you say that'
24. Reverse over the shoulder- boy 2 saying 'chill out'
25. Medium shot- sitting there and the boy 2 drinking
26. Close up shot- of the survivor lighting up a cigarette 

Requirements for Shoots

Company logo Scarlett

Horror film production logo conventions

Production logo from bethbouchareb

Title Ideas

Title ideas from ameliabarrett16

Scarlett plot line

Scarlett plot from ameliabarrett16

Main Influences

Main Influences from ameliabarrett16

Production meeting

In our second meeting we established our genre to be horror
The conventions of horror are:

• Dark setting
• Haunted house
• Sudden noises
• Abandoned area
• Creepy children
• Killer has a history
• Female used as a sexual figure
• Main character is a female
• Blood
• Gore
• Death
• Creepy/ non diegetic music
• Outdoors
• Isolated area
• A survivor 
• Teenagers as victims
• Creepy sound effects (creaking doors,slamming,foot steps)
• Unrealistic creatures 
• Urban environments 
• Follows Todorovs theory
• Flash forwards
• Dark lighting
• Dark coloured clothing
• Weapons (knives,chain saw) implied
• Suspense 
• Screaming
• Good v Evil
• Night time

The ones we will use are highlighted these will be:

The age restrictions for our film will be: the classification of 15. We came to this decision by putting the rest of our film in mind, after all the opening is just the beginning. This will be due to the swearing,discrimination and violence. The discrimination and violence will be used strongly and the swearing frequently to fit the criteria of 15.

Film institutions within horror:

• Universal studios
• Dream Works
• Warner brothers
• Paramount
• Sony pictures
• New Line
• Miramax
• 20th Century fox
• Lions gate

We are going to use is 'New Line Cinema'. We have chosen this because it is known to be a horror company and distributing sub genre slasher. 

Since our last meeting we have decided not to shoot our film in the forest because its to common and we want to be original. Also that we want use hand held video filming by one of the characters as this doesn't fit well with our criteria and will not show case our filming skills.

Importance of genre/ classification

Classification from ameliabarrett16

Film Institutions not complete

Presentation2 from ameliabarrett16

production meeting

Production meeting

My production group are myself, Beth and Amber. We discussed in our meeting the planning for our horror film opening. We have fairly assigned different roles of the planning section to different people. However some of the tasks we are going to contribute together.

My individual tasks are:

Main influences 

Story Board

Risk Assessments 

Call sheets

Resultant footage 

The tasks that my production team will do together are:

Planning for shoots- hair ,makeup, costumes, props and location.

Shoot plan- cover up makeup, costume lighting shot types and influential imagery.

Edit decision list.

Production schedule.

Ambers Tasks are:

Title ideas- mind map with selection of possible titles

Treatment

Site plans

Shoot list

Audio permission

Beth's tasks are:

Developing our company logo

Brief synopsis

4 page sample script

Location scouting sheet

Talent release forms

Location release form

In our first production meeting we discussed our ideas that we initially had on our own involving the settings, characters and key elements in the opening. Together we agreed that we will have the opening film set in a forest. There will be a home video in the opening and we will include a flash forward. We have also discussed the characters that we are going to ask to be part of the cast as well. Lastly we discussed each planning task and researched the ones we didn't know.

Horror openings

Horror openings from ameliabarrett16

History of film and horror

History of Film from ameliabarrett16

Secondary research into audience prezi

Amelia production

Logo

Preliminary Task

Evaluation 
My preliminary task was called "The French Trip" in this clip I used the actresses Amber Bush and Beth Bouchareb. The conversation they had was about the french trip that Amber was going on. I used the music which was Madonna- holiday to suit this theme.

The negatives of my preliminary task are that when I went out and began filming my piece I was finished within half an hour. I then came back to media and began editing my work. This is when I noticed that the conversation I had filmed did not flow and the volume of the conversation was not loud enough. This was because the noise of the canteen where it was filmed was too loud which was over powering the conversation. To resolve this problem I gathered the actresses I used and went back out and filmed the conversation again. This time it was much better and this was shown through the flow of the conversation when I came to editing it and the volume where I could hear the conversation other the  sounds in the canteen.

The positives of my preliminary task are that in my clip I followed the brief as I filmed Amber walking through a door, having a conversation with Beth using shot reverse shot and the 180 degrees rule. The filming also included different shot types and title pages with music to make the clip look professional. I feel that my editing process when really well and there was no major problems that occurred.

Story Board

             

Initial thoughts of horror film openings

The film genre I have chosen to do for my media film opening is horror. This is because horror is one of my faveroite film genre's. Also it has a lot of elements in that can bring out creativity as there is so many things I can include for example sound,credits and colours. Horror also has plenty of film opening examples that I can evaluate and be inspired by for ideas.


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This horror film opening is the beginning of the film "The Ring" in this opening it is differet to normal openings this is because it doesnt include a title of the film, film credits or music. However the silence and intense conversation that the two girls are having make the film just as powerful. It also sets a scarey mood to it which slowly reveals questions that the audience want to know answers to. One being if this tape is real?. In my film opening I will be including credits and music. But this opening gives me ideas on how to gradually set the story line without revealing what happens. Lastly this opening does use sound effects that are sharp noises for when for example the phone rings this is to make the phone ringing more intense and frightening for the audience.




This film opening is from the begining of the film "Saw" this film opening includes credits which appear straight away. The font that they are in relate to the genre of horror and is something I am going to use. There is also creepy and intense music in the background which builds up and up this is to set the haunting mood to prepare the audience.The pictures that are being displayed are items of weapons this indicates that this film will invovle these which promotes danger. The added blood is appropiate to the genre and is a popular element to have in horror films. At the end of the film opening there is a fuzzy T.V which then shows the title of the film which is "Saw" this is better than just using a title as it includes added sound affects of the broken cables of the t.v which builds the tension even more. This opening sequence includes all the elements I will use in mine other than I will use acting aswell.

Live Type work diary

Today I used the digital technology of live type. This program is to create title pages that can be used for my own film opening. I created two title pages one was for the start of the clip and the other was for the ending.

The fist title page I did I found very challenging because it was the first time I had explored and created a live type title page. I began to watch the utube clip showing me how to use the program and followed there steps just to get started. Firstly I typed my title which was "journey to friendship"this was in the box underneath all the settings. I then changed the size, tracking and leading to fit my title page and to create less space in-between the words. Next I chose a bold font type and used the texture to apply a background in the font. I then started to explore even further and added a effect to my font which was a bounce effect coming inwards. To make the title page look even more creative I chose an illusional background which showed a journey going through the whirl this was to fit my title. Lastly I applied another sub title which was "Filmed by Amelia Barrett" this was to make the title page more realistic.

The second title page I created was for the ending of a film clip. This one I found much easier as i knew where everything was and how to use it. I used a christmas theme for this one. I also used the title which had crayon around it and a snowflake background to fit this theme. The colours were very bright and the effect I used on the title was where the crayon boxes were being drawn. This was to give the title page a children audience.

Live Type 2

Live Type

Preliminary Plan

Evaluation 

In this evaluation I am going to be stating the improvements that are needed in my clip to make this clip to a standard that could be compared to real video clips that are published. The changes that I need to make are going to be made to make my clip the best that it can be. This plan will hugely help me when shooting my real preliminary task as then I can learn from my mistakes and achieve a new clip which will hi-light the improvements and difference of quality between both of the clips.

• The improvements I need to make for when I do my real preliminary task are that I need to make it clearer what direction Amber is walking in. This is because I start of with a medium long shot with her facing the camera (0.05). Then i change the camera angle to a shot of Amber behind (0.08). This creates the clip to be very confusing as it looks like she is walking away from the door then towards the door. To improve this I need to make the direction of Amber walking much clearer by choosing different camera shots to show this.

• Another improvement I need to make is the travelling when Amber is walking to meet Nathan at the table. These shots were very mixed up. This is because after Amber had walked through the door then I went straight to a shot from Amber behind which was a extreme medium shot (0.28)  and then I jumped to her almost at the table which was a medium long shot (0.32) I didn't make it clear to my viewers where Amber was travelling to therefore when i shoot this again I will make sure the table is in the shot. Also I will keep to the right side of Amber and this will make it easier for the viewers to understand that Amber is walking in one direction to the table.

• Also when Amber finally gets to the table I used a medium shot (0.37) to show her pulling out the chair. The frame work of this shot was correct. However Nathan wasn't sitting on the chair opposite this would confuse the viewers therefore when I film this clip I will make sure that Nathan is sitting opposite ready to have the conversation shoot with Amber.

• When the conversation shots takes place in all three shot reverse shot camera shots (0.49) (0.52) (0.56) whether its Nathan or Amber I have taken the frozen camera shot where there head is to big and takes up to much space therefore leaving hardly any space for the viewer to see Nathan or Amber's expressions. Therefore when I film this again I will make sure that the closer image is of the person who is facing the camera and the other person who has there head directing opposite the camera much smaller and taking up less space.

• Lastly I will change the bright orange background to a more suttle colour this will be improved to make the clip look more realistic and take the attention of off the start and ending and more on what is happening and the action of the clip.

Evaluation of my shot type clips

In my First shot types clip i didn't have any ideas of how to structure it and how to correctly frame the shots. The only idea i had was from the shot types clip we looked at before we went out and created our own. I organised myself by listing the shot types so that when i went round shooting i wouldn't forget them.

The positives 
The positives of my clip was that all the shot types were put in a logical order and each shot was labelled correctly. There was a title page and credits at the end to create the clip to be very professional. All my shots I held the camera very steady especially my establishing shot and made sure there was movement/ action in my shots to make my clip more interesting. Also some of my shots weren't positioned in the centre which gave the clip a variety of shots. i feel that my pan shot was done very well as it was at a nice speed and used no zooming and the framing was well structured.

Negatives
Because this was my first time creating a shot types clip there was improvements to be made these are: In the extreme close up shot of a watch the shot was very blurry this needs to be in focus. The close up shot needs to just be of the persons head in mine there was a lot of space around it that was not needed. the medium shot, extreme medium and medium long shots need to be framed better and to avoid having excessive space above the head. Also in the medium long shot there is zooming which shouldn't happen as the camera needs to be still. My tilt shot needs to just tilt upwards and to not use zooming it needs to have the same distance between the camera and person the whole way up. Lastly the text needs to freeze before the shot begins as i did mine in the middle of the shot.

My second shot types clip used my improvements from my first shot types clip but there was still some adjusting to do.

The positives

The text labels of the shot types came at the beginning of the shot instead of in the middle. There was a high and low angle shot that was added. The camera was still very steady which is good. As well as the extreme close up being improved as it was in focus and not blurry. The close-up shot didn't use any space it was just of the head which was framed a lot better. All the extreme,medium and medium long shots were framed a lot better as there wasn't any excessive space above the heads. There was also more movement in the shots which made the clip emphasis the shot types better.

The negatives 
The improvements for my second shot types clip are that i should credit the music, the tilt shot was very close up and when i realised i zoomed outwards. I should of re shot the tilt shot instead of using this one.

Conversation 1

Plan

Establishing shot, outside walking in.
close up- hand on door
high angle- walking down the corridor
medium shot- looking around the corner
long shot- walking through the door on the other side
medium close up- looking around the class room
pan- viewpoint of the room
extreme shot- of the phone
medium long shot- running out the room
tilt- of the person on the phone.

Film Clip

Improvements on video clip

Start the title slide at the beginning of the video clip.
Source/Credit the music at the end of the video clip.
Make sure the shots link.
Frame the shots.
Put the shots in a logical order.
Establishing shot- the shot has to have more height and less excessive  floor.
Long shot- make sure you maintain the distance and the keep the whole body in the shot.
Close up- The full head in the frame with no space around it.
Extreme close up- keep in focus
Tilt- Start from the bottom and at a medium pace tilt upwards and stop when you get to the top of the person/object do not carry on.
Pan- Start from the person or the start of the scenery.
Listen to the music before you put it on your clip so that it fits the clip and the style of the clip.
Use a good story line.

Shot Types Clip 2

Shot types Clip 1

Shot Types

ESTABLISHING SHOT (extreme long shot)- this shot establishes the location and gives some context where the action is being taken place.

 MASTER SHOT- this shows the limit of the action e.g table conversation to remind you where the scene is.

MEDIUM CLOSE UP - chest upwards

 MEDIUM LONG- showing the knees to head shot

CLOSE UP- follows the over shoulder shot, this to get to know the reaction and less where they are.

EXTREME CLOSE UP- is to get a lot more detail on the characters features and emotions.To hilights any action that is very important.

 MEDIUM SHOT- waist upwards,better with two or three people.

 LONG SHOT- from legs upwards