Opening Titles

In todays lesson we spent the first few minutes running over how far we were into our pre-production stages, once we had set the final deadline we started to look at opening credits in which we can use in our Horror Opening. We watched several opening titles to films, taking notes on what things appeared and the order they appeared in. For example we noted that the Production and Distribution companies seemed to always be the first things we saw and then it would continue into showing the main actors/actresses names. However this was not always the case. I will now go off to look at three film openings

• Dawn of the Dead
• Splice
• Mimic

I will view these openings on www.artofthetitle.com and record the order of titles to appear on the screen. I will also start researching on the BBFC's website (www.bbfc.co.uk) in order to start to understand what can and can't be included in a '15' rated film.

Chosen Location

We have chosen Location 2: Matthew Tyler's House for our location for our Teen Horror Opening. This is because the location plan fits the most with the plan of the storyboarded house and their is enough room for us to use wider angled shots and effects. However we need to remember to remove family photos and other objects from the house, which do not fit in with our horror film.

Location Idea 3

Location Idea 3: Roxanne Bright's House.

Advantages:

-Spacious front room allowing wide camera angles and movements

-Double doors leading outside (fitting with the storyboard)

Disadvantages:

-No blinds covering back windows (this is part of our film opening)

-The rest of the house does not allow for our planned storyboard to run smoothly. (the plan of the house dosnt fit our requirements)

Location Idea 2

Location Idea 2: Matthew Tyler's House.

Advantages:

-Double doors leading outside (fitting with storyboard)

-Large Main room giving room for the camera and the required angles.

-Plan of house easily fits with storyboard.

Disadvantages:

-Family pictures on wall (will need to be removed)

-Smaller Kitchen possibly not allowing for much camera movement in there.

Location Idea 1

Location Idea 1: Hannah Georges House.

Advantages:

-Has double doors leading outside (fitting with storyboard)

-Their is enough room for the camera to fit in each room and not be limited on the shots we can produce.

-Most of the story board will fit with this location

Disadvantages:

-Room with double doors is not yet decorated, no furnicture etc.

-May not have a smooth continuity as the room gets decorated.

Characters for Horror Movie Inbox(1)

Name: Karen Osborne Age: 42
Character Name: Karen Galloway
Character Age: 38
Part Description: Parent of Emma Galloway, going away for the weekend with her husband.

Name: David Osborne Age: 46
Character Name: David Galloway
Character Age: 41
Part Description: Parent of Emma Galloway, going away for the weekend with his wife.



Name: Connor Tullet Age: 16
Character Name: Unknown
Character Age: Unknown
Part Description: This character is unknown and mysterious, only seen in glances. Uses a false identity 'James Coldan' in which he uses to speak to teen girls, Emma and Claire.



Name: Roxanne Bright Age: 16
Character Name: Emma Galloway
Character Age: 16
Part Description: A teenage girl looking forward to a weekend with her best friend whilst her parents are away. Emma is an only child and finds this isolating, therefore sees Claire as a sister figure. Emma's strong mind sometimes gets the better of her, and shows a controlling and stubborn side to her. She manages to control her emotions to put on a front for Claire in her tough times.






Name: Hannah George Age: 16
Character Name: Claire Clayton

Character age: 16

Part Description: Teenage girl staying at her best friends house for the weekend whilst the parents are away. Claire is seen as a bit of a flirt and is currently single. Her family have been through a tough time recently, due to the death of a close relative. Emma has been very supportive and has invited her over for a chance to take her mind of things.

Location Planning

Today we went over the final location ideas we have drawn up. Laying out a basic plan of each location and seeing if this would fit our storyboards aswell as finding if their is enough room to film. Pictures of our final locations will be added shortly.

Storyboarding Completed.

Today we completed our storyboard for our horror opening. We now need to cast, we have started this by deciding on all our options and who will best suit our wanted charecters personalities. We also need to set a location this has also already started to be discussed.

storyboards continued...

In todays lesson we continued to complete our storyboards and have started to think about possible cast members and locations. We will look at it in more detail when we have completed our storyboards.

Horror Storyboarding

In this lesson we started to plan our storyboards for our horror opening. As a group we disscussed which camera angles would fit the look of our desired shots and we have decided to add some dialogue to the opening.

Final idea.

Our group have chosen Idea 1 from the three possible ideas we have brought together. This is because we feel it will appeal to our target audience more than the other two. This is because it involves the social networking site Facebook. The opening will also consist of more opportunities
to use a variety of camera angles and effects.

Horror Film Opening ideas for 'Inbox(1)'

COMING SOON!!! MINOR PROBLEM. :)

Horror Pitch

In the lesson today we gave our pitch to Mr Henton and the rest of the class for our horror film 'Inbox(1)' the pitch was a round up of the film idea and was given the go ahead. Allowing us to enter the pre-production stages of this film. The pitch was filmed and will be added to the blog at a later date.

In todays lesson we finished our horror film pitch. Our pitch includes a Working Title 'Inbox(1)' aswell as an synposis for the film.

The Three Phases Of The Production Process

In todays lesson we read through a piece of text giving details on the three phases of producing a film.
1. Pre-Production
2. Production
3. Post-Production
We learnt that the bigger the film budget is, generally the more profit made. This is due to the large budget allowing for bigger and better special effects, bigger and better actors/actresses and the use of cameras allowing to film for I-Max, 3D and HD attracting more people to the film.
Once we had discussed the production processes, our group (Hitchcock) started to discuss our Horror Film opening. We looked back at our notes taken from when we watched the opening to other horror films. Using this we have started to create a pitch for our own horror film.

Final Prelim Edit

Today we finally finished editing our prelim task we added out final shot transitions, a piece of music (which we created ourselves on Garage Band) and the titles and credits. We used the music to fade in and out of the dialougue removing the un-needed background noise we have from our recordings. We then saved our film as a quicktime movie and saved it to the Hitchcock desktop.

Prelim Task Storyboards

These are the storyboards for the Hitchcock Groups Prelim Task. It consisted of 11 shots, all planned with the needed dialogue and camera angles.

Prelim Task Editing

Today me and the rest of the Hitchcock group started to edit our Prelim task, we looked carfully at each frame individually to ensure a smooth transition from one shot to another. Taking into consideration the camera angles required and transition effects. We still need to insert the sound effects, music and titles.

Horror Openings

During todays lesson we watched the opening to the popular horror film 'Wrong Turn' . We watched the film several times, taking notes on the camrea angles, sound effects and how they create tension for the audience. Setting the scene.