Evaluation

At my last media lesson, I started the layout to my evaluation. I will be doing some of my evaluation on Prezi as a presentation and other parts using videos, pictures and text.

Filming our opening sequence

On Thursday 8th March we filmed the all the remaining shots of the sequence, which included me as one of the characters for which I wore office clothes(suit , white shirt and skirt, glasses), another character involved was Lauren(girl in a mental institute). Brogan directed the Filming of the shots whilst Bradley filmed the shots which included me .Whilst filming we found some interesting shot which were different from the ones planned on our storyboard. Due to our location choice we found people interrupting us whilst we were shooting a problem, however over all the location choice was perfect for our opening sequence.

 

 

Final production Logo update

Bradley our Editor produced our company logo/name animation for the beginning of our opening sequence in conjunction with a friend of his. They both advised each other on improving our groups original design ideas and helped each other out with operating the design software (adobe after effects), this is what Bradley and my friend produced over the guidance of Brogan.

We used a simple design of text for our production company name (ChairEdge studios) which is in viner hand font and a maroon colour.

The text is an overlay on top of what appears to be a layer of glass that has been misted over, with the vague image of a bloody hand coming through the misted glass, this effect was achieved by creating a light blue colour layer with a light placed appropriately behind it, to which another darker layer was placed behind with the bloody hand print on top.

The text(our production name) is placed on glass, which appears to be smashed by our production logo(the 6 fingered bloody hand) which is both original but yet intriguing as the hand has 6 fingers on it, something which only eagle eyed audience members will spot. This idea is an original one and is a conventional feature of most horror films of this type.

The smashing of the glass and therefore our production name, makes the transition into the next clip/sequence of the opening sequence very easy to create and perfect into a flowing motion because the smashing of glass will slow down, and create a nice ending to this part of the sequence, the transition will be achieved by either a fade out from the smashing to a black credit or an actual filmed clip, depending on which looks better in the edit stage(something to be discussed in one of our group meetings).

Treatment

TREATMENT done by Brogan

Our idea:

·  Opening shot shows a long dark corridor (XLS)

·  Camera zooms forwards towards the end of the corridor twice

·  Extreme close up of actor's face- very quick cut

·  a piece of plain paper comes out of a printer- credits will be edited to look like they are on the paper (close up)

·  Camera pans from right to left- shows a woman operating a photocopier in a small room with a large glass window to her left (through which a staircase can be seen) (medium long shot)

·  a piece of plain paper comes out of a printer- credits will be edited to look like they are on the paper (close up)

·  female character walks down an alleyway, to the right is an opening in which we (the audience) see a glimpse of the horror character (medium shot) [possibly lots of rapid cuts]

·  Close up of a set of records being thrown down onto a table- a sheet of paper slides out to show a "mental health assessment" record of some sort. (possibly in slow motion)

·  POV shot of someone walking up the stairs- appears unsteady on their feet (medium shot)

·  a piece of plain paper comes out of a printer- credits will be edited to look like they are on the paper (close up)

·  extreme close up shot of the medical records showing the patient name and showing that they are in fact mental assessment records

·  high angle shot (CCTV like) showing an empty staircase

·  (Slow motion?) Close up shot of a bottle of pills dropping and spilling out.

·  POV shot of someone walking up the stairs- appears unsteady on their feet (medium shot)

·  a piece of plain paper comes out of a printer- credits will be edited to look like they are on the paper (close up)

·  pan down of the medical records to slowly reveal the writing on it (Extreme close up)

·  repeat of CCTV shot except this time a person is stood on the corner of the staircase

·  a piece of plain paper comes out of a printer- credits will be edited to look like they are on the paper (close up)

·  medium long shot of the photocopier room (focusing on the window)

·  POV shot of someone walking up the stairs- appears unsteady on their feet (more so than in the first shot) (medium shot)

·  a piece of plain paper comes out of a printer- credits will be edited to look like they are on the paper (close up)

·  Medium long shot of Photocopier room window- you can slightly see the head of the horror character peering through the window. (start of a progressive sequence)

·  extreme close up of medical records- panning down to start to reveal a picture of a face (progressive sequence)

·  Medium long shot of Photocopier room window- you can see more of the head of the horror character peering through the window. (progressive sequence)

·  extreme close up of medical records- panning down to continue to reveal a picture of a face (progressive sequence)

·  Medium long shot of Photocopier room window- you can now see all of the head of the horror character peering through the window. (progressive sequence)

·  extreme close up of medical records- panning down to fully reveal a picture of a face ( final shot of progressive sequence) this shot will confirm to the audience that the character outside the photocopier room is the same person who's medical records have been read.

·  extreme close up of horror character's face (quick cut to increase effect)

·  extreme quick cut of pills bottle spilling

 

First day on location

We filmed the first few shots on our storyboard on Wednesday, the camera work consisted of long and medium shots and we also ranged the techniques used to film by using tripods for certain shots and others hand held. We considered lighting by testing out how much light was needed to create the right scene for our opening sequence. Other shots could not be completed as characters were unavailable on the day.

Update on production logo

As the editor Bradley is currently still in the process of producing the production logo, as a group we have decided on a few detail such as colour, the image the Font for the Production name.

 

Inspirations

Inspirations...

The main character of Orphan provided inspiration for what our main character should look like, sometimes innocent looking and other times terrifying to the audience

Nightmare on Elm Street inspired the theme of 'stalking' of an innocent looking character, by the 'horror' character.

The setting of this film inspired us to use an institution of some sort as our location- it means that the audience is left to question the mentality of the characters.

 

 

 

 

9 is also set in a mental hospital, which is similar to the setting of our location. Some of the shots used such as the long shot of the corridor are similar to shots we will be using.