Storyboard

Our storyboard for the 2 minute film opening:

We have chosen an aerial shot because the pictures will all be scattered on the floor and the best way to show them all is by this shot, we have chosen to have narrating over the pictures.

We choose a close up on the pictures to show that we have gone closer to the photos, to show that the woman's face is scratched out. The sound is narrating over the titles.

The shot is a close up because it shows the emotion in the man's face and the closeness between the two, the sound is narrating to show the closeness also between the two people.

The camera then fades out to a point of view shot on the house that the woman lives in. The music will be non diagetic and will change from narrating to eerie music, to show the mood change.

The camera movement in the clip will be a mid shot because it shows her making a cup of tea and then it shows a close up of the kettle to get the audience ready for the next close up. The sound will be edited in for the kettle and the music will be eerie music.

The man knocks on the door it will be a close up on his hand knocking to emphasise it. the music will be eerie also.

The camera will then go to a wide angle shot, to show that the woman has opened the door to the house. the sound will then stay eerie slightly to show the suspense.

The camera will then go to a close up of the woman's mouth smiling and then cut to his mouth and his smile will turn to a frown. The music will cut of at this point to create suspense.

The camera will go to a low angle on the woman falling with blood on her face, the sound will kick in as she falls in front of the camera.

The camera will then show the woman waking up after being knocked out, this will be a point of view shot, and the music will be muffled and the breathing will be heavy.

The woman face will be shown a close up and she looks to her left and see's dead people then as she looks the camera goes to another point of view shot. The sound will then get louder and the woman will start to move.

The camera will then show the woman crawling into the corner and the music will still be eerie and it will show the fear on the woman's face. Then the camera moves around and the door opens and we hear the sound of it opening and then it cuts to black.







We did have two more but we have decided to remove those for effect, here they are:

The man walks in it shows a long shot and the music is eerie.

Then she screams and the man walks down the stairs and the woman says why are you doing this to me.

The order of Credits

The order of the credits coming up on the screen will be:

• Title
• Film company logo.
• The director ( Sophie Clarke).
• The producer (William Callaway).
• The main actors of the film.
• The camera crew (Danielle Burns).

The reason we have decided to put the credits in this order is because we have watched The Shining and we like the way the credits have been used so we are using that as a template. We re looked at the video and changed the title to the beginning of the two minute opening because we think that it will look better.

Main cast and crew

The job roles of the director, producer, camera man and the main cast:

• The director will be Sophie Clarke because she is well organised and will be good at that sort of thing.
• The producer will be Myself because I can do that sort of thing, and I am organised and can produce good things well.
• The camera man/ woman will be Danielle Burns because she is good at the camera work and I know she will produce a good finished product.
• The main actors will be played by Izzy Stephenson and myself, Izzy will be Lilly Fairfield and I will be playing the role of Dave Nickles.
• The woman in the opening two minutes Elizabeth Howard will be played by Sophie Clarke.
• Steve Johnson will be played by Jan Van Der Lubbe. 

Sophie Clarke

 Danielle Burns

 Myself (William Callaway)

Our script

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What Job roles are used in film.

The film producers,

• decide which projects to produce, or creating programme ideas themselves
• reading scripts
• raising finance for projects
• assessing what resources will be needed
• planning the schedule
• hiring all the necessary technical resources and support services
• recruiting key production staff and crew
• editing scripts
• managing cash flow
• making sure that the entire production stays on schedule and within budget.

The Directors

• Visualise the script and turn it into a movie. 
• They are in charge of all the creative scenes. 

Camera Operator

• Choose suitable camera lenses
• They must be creative
• assembling, preparing and setting up equipment prior to filming
• offering advice on how best to shoot a scene, explaining the visual impact created by particular shots

Sound Operator

• assembling and operating the necessary equipment
• recording sound onto digital audio tape or hard disk recorders
• maintaining and repairing sound equipment.

Location

We have had to change our location because the man that owned it wouldnt let us use it in the end.
So the location we want to use is Sheffield manor in Market rasen in the cellar there because it is dark and a good place to film.
Also we are having picture taken at these following locations:

• Cathedral
• Parties
• In bed
• Lincolmn high street
• Beach in lincoln

Characters and the cast

Characters

• Dave Nickles is a 18 year old male he is well built. A school janitar at the school he left a couple of years ago. In the film he is the murderer and jelous lover.
• Lilly Fairfield is a 17 year old female she is slim. And a very sweet girl, in 6th form. In the film she is in a sticky situation with Dave and Steve.
• Steve johnson is an 18 year old male. Daves bestfriend he went to school with Dave and he is now a trainee doctor.

Cast

• Dave Nickles- William Callaway (me)
• Lilly Fairfield- Sophie Clarke
• Steve johnson-Jna van der lubbe

Target audience questionairre

We interviewed a male that was under 35 and a female that was under 35.

Do you enjoy watching horror films?
     Male: yes     Femal: yes
Why do you enjoy watching horror films?
     Male: Because it is something different to watch other than tv.     Female: Because i like to snuggle up and feel safe.
Whats your favourate horror film?
    Male: The ring because I like the fact it made me scared which made me dislike it but then came to like it.
     Female: Because I like the fact that it makes you snuggle up and when doing so makes me feel safe.
Whats your favourate sub- genre of a horror?
     Male: Psychological horror     Female: Psychological horror

This has helped us with our 2 minute film opening because it shows us psychological horror films seem to be many people's favourate.

Male (Mr bradbury):

Synopsis

The film opens with a man (Dave Nickles) taking a woman and after the title it goes back in time to show why the man is doing this to the woman he has found. Dave walks into his apartment one night to find his girlfriend (Lily Fairfield) cheating on him with what he thought was a good friend. So he plans revenge on the two of them. Whilst shopping at the local supermarket he sees a woman whom resembles the woman he once loved, Lily. He starts talking to her and arranges a ren de vous with her.  So they meet and become close friends but she is letting herself in for more than she can handle. Dave sees a few girls that remind him of the woman he was once heart taken for and they too cant handle whats lurking around the corner. Towards the end there is the woman locked up in a stingy room and she has two limp dead bodies near her. Dave walks in and shuts her up. Soon after we see him walking into another room and lily is locked away within with the good friend and new lover, Ben. As Dave enters to the room holding Lily and Ben captive, Lily stabs Dave in the lungs and leaves the glass in the lung pulsing. Whilst having words with the vulnerable Dave, Lily escapes. She manages to do this as Ben sacrificed himself by allowing Lily to pull the rope tight on him and crush his lungs and loosen the rope to free herself. A true soulmate. s she runs off she says a few lastwords and pulls the glass from the lungs causing lung failure and a gross scene of blood.

BBFC

The BBFC are the 'British board of film clasification' who are an independant, non- governmental body funded through the fees it charges to those who submit films and video through clasification.

What do the BBFC take ito consideration?

• Discrimination
• Drugs
• Horror
• Imitable behaviour
• Language
• Nudity
• Sex
• Theme
• Violence

Key to all decisions is the context these things are presented in. So graphic violence which is glamorised will be classified much stricter than fairly light violence which is presented in a  comical or negative manner.

Some examples that the BBFC have banned in the uk because they are of a worse standard of 18.

• Human centipeed 2 the full sequence.
• Grotesc because it had to much level of sexual tortue.

This is an example of the 18 symbol the BBFC would have on the film ratings.  

Our film's rating

The reasons that our film is an 18 are as follows:

• The film will endorse bad behaviour this is to much to be a 15.
• There is to much sadistic behaviour it is twisted therefore the film cannot be a 15 also.
• There is suffocating glamorised and in the 15 rating nothing is able to be glamorised. 
• There is to much nudity in the film when Dave walks in on Steve and lilly having sexual intercourse it is to graphic.
• The film is to gory and there is to much pain and gore for it to be a 15.

The blurb

Our blurb for our film idea:

Join Dave Nickles through his heart weakening story. As the woman he once loved tips him over the edge. He cannot cope with the sight of his past love and certainly, not anyone who resembles her. So he goes to desperate  measures to make sure 'they' are gone...

Popular films by their genre's

As the table shows the film by quarter to date shows that the best selling film is paranormal activity 3 a horror.
Also the index by quarter the best selling film is paranormal 3 so the trend is that the best selling film this year so far is horror, so I think that horror is a good genre to be doing, Because the film at the top this quarter so far is a horror therefore there is a big market for it.

Target audience

After analysing the data on film audiences from the UK film council, it is clear that there is a potentially huge market for me to target. Almost one third of cinema goers (32%- picture 1, page. 105). Then there was 15% of cinema goers saying it was there favourite genre (picture2, page. 116).
Looking at the demographic data (page. 106), it appears that I should be mainly aiming my product at females below the age of 35, where 44% of the public enjoy watching horror films. One third of males for over 35 and under 35 enjoy watching them to, whereas females over 35, only 22% enjoy watching them. So our main audiences is females under 35 and males over the age of 16. These are some examples from the UK film council website of target audiences.



Conventions of the horror genre

When analysing the conventions we use the following abriviation C.M.I.N.T.S.

Characters

• There is always a main character that is portrayed to be the killer/ monster etc, that often results as the survivor in the film.
• The killer/ monster etc, often has a trademark characteristic in the way he/ she/ it kills, for example, the people he kills or the weapon he/ she/ it uses.
• The good person always survives and/ or defeat the bad guy/ monster etc.

Mise en scene
We analyse mise en scene with C.L.A.M.P.S.
Costumes

• There is usually a mask. Which is usually a trademark to that particular killer this is usually used when there is more than film for example: Jason x, Texas chainsaw masacre. Sometimes the clothes used in the film are the trademark of that killer, also when there is more than one film perhaps for example: Freddie from nightmare on elm street wheres the red stripy jumper in the Freddie films. This creates familiarity to the killer for the audience so that after the first film the audience knows what the trademark clothes are so they know it is that killer this makes it so that the opening of the film doesnt have to introduce that actor again.

Lighting

• Low key lighting in horror films is generally used when the killer/ monster is stricking because it creates tention to the audience. The setting and lighting tie in together importantly because when someone is killed or taken then the setting and lighting must go well together for example: if a woman were to be killed in a graveyard in broad daylight it wouldnt have as much affect than if it was at night.

Actors

• The actors usually used in horror films is attractive young adults for the victims usually. The old sometimes scard or that has dissabilties are usually the killer/ monster this ties in with the costumes because the killer wears a mask to hide these dissabilities. The audience of these horror films will automatically look at these conventions and within 2 minutes will know what genre it is from the way the actor is dressed and how he/ she is made up.

Make up

• The make up put on the victims is well made up because it makes them look attractive and vulnerable whereas the killer is usually not good looking and has made up scars made from make up. This is one of the reasons why the killer/ monster wears the mask, another reason why the killer/ monster wears a mask is to hide the identity of them selves. The audience see's the make up and then assumes that it is a horror all the blood used is make up also this helps to see that it is a horror.

Setting

• Horrors are generally set at night when the action happens but it can be set in the day but it wouldnt create the same effect.
• The setting of the film sets the mood and the tone of the film so that the audience see these places and know that it is a horror. 
• Some examples of places horror films are set are: Old mines, Derelict houses, Fields, A house in a hormal neighbourhood, Sorority houses, University grounds, Schools, Old farm houses, Butchers, Lakes, The country side, A haunted house or a forest.

Iconography

• There is a specific pattern within horror movies, as they are set up to address the implied viewer. Connotation of the horror genre shows the viewer who or what is good or bad.
• Iconography can also be symbolic to symbols which recur throughout all horror films for example: A haunted house, A screaming victim, The phallic murder weapon, Good vs evil, Darkened places where the killer/ murderer is and blood and body parts.

Narrative

• Horror is based upon conflict and dillemmas the main character goes through. From the main set of characters, several character types are chosen, the heroine or hero, the evil killer/ monster and the supporting characters. Horror addresses the viewer with the expectation that the viewer will identify the hero.

Theme

• Horrors main theme is cause of conflict between the two characters in the film. There are a few general themes in horror such as: Slasher, Vampire, Zombie, Demonic possesion, Alien mind control, Evil children, Cannibalism, Werewolves, Animals attacking humans, Good vs evil.
• The villan is a representation of persons fears from that particular era that the movie was made, for example: In western horror films, the monsters are consistent with the representation of sexuality, whereas in European horror films the monster is consistent with cultural myths.

Sound

• Diagetic- Means that the actor hears the sound during filming it is not edited in.

1. Sound is used to create tention for the audience, screaming and tools being sharpened are examples of these more examples are: Twigs breaking and the rustling of the trees by wind or by someone like the killer it makes the audience panic. When it is used though th eaudience knows it is coming therefor is ready for it but still is jumpy.

• Non- Diagetic- Means that the actor does not hear it during filming it is edited in during the production stages.

1. Music in horror films help create tention, there is usually an audio sequence in horror films that most people recognise. A long eerie musical build up of strings and horns as the victim, for example approaches a closed door then this is followed by a violant orchestral hit as the victim opens the door to encounter whatever is hidden behind it.

All of these conventions of the horror genre work together without one of them all the others will not work below is a clip of a good horror film that meets alot of the conventions in a horror film:

As you can see it has the eerie music, the low key lighting, an attractive young victim and the setting at a beach. This clip addresses alot of the horror conventions as you can see there and this would be the case in alot of horror films.

Planning, key questions

1. Is it practical?

• Our idea is practical because it is achieveable because my group and i know we can do it. Our idea works well because the group and I have got some key concepts to work with for our film opening. We get on well we can speak our mind to each other and we are well organised.

2. Is it an idea that works to the strengths of the group?

• The idea we have chosen works with the strenghts of the group because my favourate genre of film is horror and the Sophie and Danielle like horrors to so i think we have chosen a great genre as we all know alot of genre conventions. The group is organised especially Danielle she works well at these sort of ideas, whereas Sophie is very creative and came up with a lot of the ideas for the film opening and I am good at the planning and all the theory work involved in the planning section. Because we are friends communication won't be a problem during this production.   

3. Will it show of the skills you have learnt so far on the course?

• I think that the horror genre is a good film to do because it shows of the camera shots and the camera angles that we can do in the 2 minutes because there is a variety of shots taht can be used in the scene. It will allow use to show of our skills with the camera such as match on action, 180 degree rule and the basic camera shots such as close ups, long shots and establishing shots.

4. Is it something you can reasonably shoot and edit in the time available?

• The ideas that my group and i have had are possible to do in the 2 minutes because we dont want to do much, and 2 minutes is alot of camera time after editing. We have only got two locations we have chosen for our film opening so we hope to get the filming done in maybe two weeks, Because we only have about 6 to 7 weeks on the practical for example the filming and the editing. 

5. Can you get access/ permission to shoot in the chosen location at the chosen times?

• We can gain access to Sophie's house when the killer knocks on her door and knocks her out. Also we have been granted access to the old RAF buildings in Newtoft.  

6. Can you organise lighting to use in that location?

• We have got some construction sight lights to use on scene when the woman is locked away.

7. Have you included dialogue? If so, will it work to shoot the conversation in the selected location?

• We have only got a little dialogue and it works with the location we have chosen. We are not using much dialogue because we want to create suspense for the audience.

8. Do you have gaurenteed high quality reliable actors to play the characters?

• We have chosen some very reliable actors to play the parts of the dead bodies and the woman that is taken hostage and the killer so we shouldnt have a problem with actors in the scene. The actors we have chosen are good because they are all of high quality because we have a range of students from media studies and drama studies this helps because they can help if there is a technical problem and we cannot fix it and the drama students will be good at the acting in the film opening.

Final choice

Our final choice of film opening we will be doing is pitch 1 which we are thinking of calling it love hurts or heart of stone, this choice is a horror and the sub genre is a psychological horror. We have chosen this because we feel that we got the best feedback on this pitch and when we were thinking of ideas this one appealed to use the most. This choice of film is very good because we feel that the audience will like it the most and the film opening will be outstanding with the ideas that we have got together.

Pitch feedback

The improvements below are from the feedback we got in class.


Pitch 1 improvements:
The unique selling point of this idea is that it is not like every other film I have seen it is different to other horrors.
Enigma's created:

• Why is the killer doing this?
• Why is the womans face scrathed out?
• Why are they all wearing the same dress?

Micro elements:
Sound:

• Diagetic- Actors talking (screaming), The wind and the trees this is called ambient sound.
• Non-Diagetic- Eeiry music. 

The lighting:

• The lighting will be low key when the killer visits the woman at her house so we will hope to set that during sunset to create suspense. Then in the room when the woman is scared and being held hostage the lighting is very low key to show that there is something wrong and the dead bodies are seen as a very bad thing.

The camera shots:

• Close ups to show the emotion of the woman and to show the tention between the killer and the woman.
• Maybe an establishing shot to set the scene but dont know where that would fit in.
• Medium close ups will be used to show the emotion closer up in the face of the actor when there is a tense moment.
• Point of view shot to show the dead bodies that the person is looking at.
• The focus shot will be used so that all the planes are seen by the audience.

The camera angles:

• High angle on the hostage to show that she is weak and in no powerful situation.
• Low angle to show that the killer is the most powerful in the shot and the frame.
• An arc shot to show the woman panicking and lost in the dark room so the camera will arc around her to show this.

The film is non- linear so that the opening two minutes is near the end of the film an when the film starts it will go back to the beginning to show why the killer is doing this.

Pitch 2 improvements:
Enigma's created:

• Why is the man tied up and got a saw going towards him?
• What has happened for this to happen to the man?

Micro elements:
Sound:

• Diagetic: The saw in the last 20 seconds and the actor shouting for help.
• Non-diagetic- All it is, is the music when the man is screaming and the music when the puictures come on screen for the first part.

Lighting:

• When the man is tied up it is low key lighting. And when the pictures come up when it is the husband and wife it is high key lighting and when it is the woman getting killed it is low key lighting. 

Camera shots:

• Close ups to show the mans emotions and the worry in his face.
• Establishing shot to show the scene and the set the mood of the film.

Camera angles:

• Point of view shot to show the saw.
• High angle shot used on the man to show that he is the weaker man in the scene.

The pitch's

During our pitch we got mixed opinions of the two pitch's

Pitch 1 

• They thought that the horror idea in the first pitch was unique and was different to any other they had seen.
• The enigma's that were created were also good they said.
• The opening i think got a good overeall positive view by the group and that helped our group decide which one were going to do.

I think that our group will end up doing this film idea because the groups overall decision.

Pitch 2 

• They said it was to like other films they had seen.
• That the two pitches were the same and to close to one another so that they can not be separate films. 
• The pitch was looked at at a different angle because it reminded the group of other films that are out there.

The conclusion 

Overall the two were considered to be to similar to be different pitches.

Pitch 1 was the best according to the group so I think we will be going with that one which is good because we wanted to do that one overall.

Watch our pitch and feedback below:

Further ideas my group and i have had

My group and i have had further discussion about our 2 minute film opening and we have come up with three ideas after brainstorming for about 2 hours. Our genre will definatly be Horror our sub genre of a horror will be either psychological or thriller horror or even both in one. The link below shows our brainstorm we did.

Ideas for media video without audio

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Razorback (1984) opening scene Analysis

My analysis of Razorback using M.E.L.C.S:
      M-Mise en scene- For analysisng Mise en scene we use C.L.A.M.P.S

•  C-Costume- The old man was wearing a typical american 'hillbilly' outfit, this represents his status as an all american man. The baby is wearing a baby outfit that makes it look cute what a baby should look like.
• L-Lighting- Is in M.E.L.C.S.
• A-Actors- The actors used in this clip are an old man and a baby these represent vulnerability so we can tell by this that there could be something bad about to happen.
• M-Make-up- The make up used in the scene is quite natural to make the man look older so it makes him look more vulnerable and the baby was made to look cuten so it to was vulnerable.
• P-Props- The props used in the scene were teh gun which was held by the man which is stereotypical that a man holds the gun, that was it apart from the childs toy.
• S-Setting- The clip is shot in an American desert in a stereotypical American farmhouse and the weather is bad to signify that there will be something bad happening and when the man goes out side the weather changes for the bad.

E-Editing- There is only jumpo shots used in this clip to set the setting at the beginning and to create suspension when teh monster attacks.

L-Lighting- The low key lighting is used outside the house because it creates tention to the audience so that the audience gets suspention. In the house the lighting is high key to show the love between the son/grandson and the old man.

C-Camera- The use of establishing shots help to set the scene so that the audience knows where the film is set, zooms to show certain objects, close ups of the mans love for the child when he is holding him and when he has lost him, also we see his curiosity when the noise happens outside when he puts the child down to sleep. All this helps to create tention and the audience knows where it is set.

S-Sound- There are two different types of sound used in a clip from a film diagetic and non-diagetic:

•   Diagetic- In the scene there is the actors talking shows how much the man loves the boy, the helicopter and the wind turbine are not very significant in this clip. The monster making its sound is also diagetic and the gun cocking is also.
• Non-Diagetic- eiry music sets the mood of the scene so that the audience has suspense this music is only on when the man hears the monster from outside.

Convensions of a good film opening:

• Introduction to the setting of the film.
• The mood and tone is set for the film.
• The main character is introduced in the scene.
• The audience is drawn in.

Enigma's created.

• What is the monster?
• Why did it attack?
• Who is the man?
• Where is the baby?
• Why that particular house of interest to the monster?

Dead men by other AS students in De Aston

My analysis of this film opening is as follows:

M.E.L.C.S
M-Mise en scene
C-Costume- The man being chased by the killer was wearing everyday normal clothes to show that he is not cery significant. The killer was wearing a hoodie to represent that he was dangerous. The news reporter was wearing a nice shirt and tie to represent that he was in a well payed job.
L- Lighting- In M.E.L.C.S.
A-Actors- The man who was being chased was scared to show that he was worried. The man that was chasing the victim was serious when we saw a little part of his face. The news reporter was serios to show his job. This all shows the seriousness of the scene.
M-Make up- The make up in the scene is quite normal apart from the victim and the killer, the victim's face was quite pale to emphasise that he was scared and the killer's face was dark to show that he was serious and damgerous.
P-Props- The props used in the scene are the gun which is held by a man which is a stereotype that a gun should be held by a man when we think of a gun we think of men using it. The other props was the t.v which created an Enigma.
S-Setting- The setting of this scene was set in the woods and in a mans house whilsthe watched t.v.
E-Editing- In the scene there were some jump shots this creates a fast tempo to the scene and keeps the suspense running. There were also dissolve cuts when the credits came onto the screen.
L-Lighting- The lighting used in the woods was high key lighting which is not a great choice for a horror film but it went ok for the scene shot. In the man's house the lighting was low key because it was a dimmer dullar mood.
C-Camera- The camera shots used in the scene were, shot reverse shot when the man was watching tv to show that someone was watching the tele, there was also some zooms to show that there was someone running from someone in the woods. The murderer had a low angle camera on him to show power and that he was in control, The victim had a high angle camera on him to show that he was weak and couldnt do anything. Lastly there was a hand held shot following the man being chased around the corner in the woods.
S-Sound- There are two types of sound in the clip diagetic and non- diagetic.
Diagetic- In the scene the diagetic soung used is the gun when it goes of to show that the man was killed. The leaves and the trees in the wind when the people are running. The T.V when the man is watching it to show what the film would be about.
Non-diagetic- The music in the clip does not really fit the horror genre it fits the mafia of the action genre.

Likes- I like the way the camera has been used in the clip to create power to the killer.
Dislikes- I didnt like the way the camera was moved it was jolty.
- I didnt like the props the gun you could tell was fake.
- I didnt like the lighting in the clip because it didnt fit the horror genre convensions.

Conventions- Good conventions of a film opening that the film opening created
Credits
Enigma's
Introduction to main character's

Enigma's created:
Who is this killer?
Why is he doing it?