Sunday, 1 April 2012

Production Schedule

Here is our Production Schedule in which our group had made, we had to have schedule of our production such as the location of lighting we need on that day, also the location on the day. This was so that we knew what we needed as a group of what day we need to film, what props we needed and also the camera equipment we needed in order to film on a specific day. I think the production schedule proved successful as a group it made us organized so that everything we did ran smoothly because of this and that we all knew as a group what we was doing by this schedule.

Monday, 5 March 2012

Media Evaluation Video



Here is our media evaluation, we had edited this using final cut express using what we had learnt from tutorials and also learning ourselfs how to use it and it's features. We have done this video to explain more in depth and also in a visual way as evaluation on scribd is only writting and images on slides.

Media Product Audience Review



This is another video which we also used final cut express to use so we could edit it. We used Amber as she had watched our film and was giving us a review of what she liked and thought about our media product.We done this video so we could show in a visual way what Amber thought of our media product, this could tell us if we did this successfully or not.

Thursday, 1 March 2012

Our Finsished Media Product, Film Opening Wrong direction



This video is our final media product of our film opening, as you can see from a previous post we had a draft in which had mistakes.

Improvements
We had done a draft to show what we have done so far and also what we needed to improved, from our draft to the our final media product we have improved atlot such as the audio, the audio with the video was out of sync but since then we had fixed this by moving the audio bar on final cut to where it need to be so it was in sync. Another improve was the use of camera work as some of the camera shots did not make sense and also the storyline. The draft showed Dean lost but this happened to quick and we also needed something to show he was lost so we showed Deans phone on the ground to show he was lost. And finally another improvement we did was when Mathrew and Daniel have the camera shot of first person but we needed to show how Mathrew and Daniel have the camera so in the final video of our film opening we had done these improves by going back to the location and filming these shots that we needed so that our film opening made sense.

Friday, 24 February 2012

Creating The production Intro and Wrong direction Picture

At home I had created the Production Intro for our media film opening, I also created the wrong direction picture at the end. The Production intro was made in a sophisticated software called 'Adobe After Effects', It proved changeling but looking at tutorials and also the skills I had learnt from editing I had managed to piece together a Introduction to our film opening. I think overall the intro I had made was good but could be improved by having the colors more dark so it fit's in with our genre, I felt disappointed that I couldn't do this but the trial of 'Adobe After Effects' had ended and I also needed to upload the overall video so time was not on our side unfortunately.

The wrong direction Picture at the end of our media opening was made in a software or programme if you like called ' Adobe Photoshop CS5' I had made this in my own time and also felt that the overall product of the image was good but again time wasn't on our side in which I think if I had put more time into it I could of made it more better.

Programmes I had used:


Print screen shots of the two projects in the work


 Here we have the production intro in adobe after effects being made

Here is the Picture being made in Adobe Photoshop 

Friday, 10 February 2012

Location Scouting







As you can see From the pictures we had time to go location scouting in which we found suitable to film our horror opening. We found it suitable as it has tall trees in which it creates tension as you never know what can come out of the trees and also feel enclosed and feel small, another reason we found the location suitable is that it was out the way of the suburbs meaning their wasn't any sign of houses which played a part in our plot as they are lost so their shouldn't be any houses in the camera's views as that will defeat objective of the plot, if their was houses in the camera's view or the audiences view then when it comes to the group being lost then their not really lost when they could just follow where their houses are. The trees proved useful for us as we had planned to get a bird eye view shot so that when the camera is facing down on them it gives the audience a feel that they are small and vulnerable meaning that they could be exposed to an attack by anything.

Monday, 6 February 2012

Media Product: Media Film Opening Wrong Direction Draft One



Here is Our group opening film called 'wrong direction', at this moment in time it's a draft as it's not fully finished yet as we need to improve a few things for it to be our final finished film opening.

Update 6/3/12

Mistakes
This is our draft of our film opening in which had a lot of mistakes such as dean being lost and also when Mathrew and Daniel have the camera we didn't show that. Another mistake we did was the audio was not in snyc with the video so that was another mistake we had did.

Developed Treatment





The setting
The setting for our a film will be the woods. The setting is the woods in which is secluded and dark, In the woods are high tree which blocks out light and also feel enclose as if their is nowhere to go. From this setting it puts the characters in secluded place or isolated, this is nowhere to be found in which you can't see any buildings such as houses so this makes a good setting for our genre horror as their is know to help the characters and also nowhere to run. Our key element in our setting is the light, the light will be dark in which this will happen from natural light, this will create tension to our film opening. From all these elements of our setting overall it will be a mysterious and creepy place to be in which will be scary for an audience to watch.

The protagonist
The protagonist in our film opening is a sort of character (main character) who is 'jack the lad' in which that audience can relate to. At the start of the filming opening he will start off towards the audience as a character that they might not feel sympathetic for as he isn't grateful for anything. His friends lives are put in danger, he escapes the woods or forest if you like and that's where it's a life changing experience for him. I think the audience can relate to him as people take things for granted where as the protagonist has his life changed by what happens in the film opening.



The antagonist
The antagonist within our film opening is a character that was once lost like the group does in the film, the antagonist which is the disfigured character in our film was in the same situation as the group but was forced out of society due to the characters differences in which then lives in a isolated place. The only was for it to survive is to eat people, the antagonist could not find his way out once forced out of  society , being forced out of society and not finding a way to survive he turns in to a cannibal. The antagonist will have no voice as he has no voice because of being stuck in the woods for so long.. The antagonist has a one part of a mask which represents that it has a good side but also has a dark side from his dark and unpleasant past. From these aspects of the antagonist it shows his personality and behavior as he doesn't have a voice which says he was a quiet character when he wasn't forced out of  society  which you can argue he was bullied as to why the character doesn't talk.

The three Act Structure 
The three act structure for our film is, a group of friends are looking to get to a party but are quite late and are not sure in which way to go, they ask for help from a stranger at the road side, and end up getting incredibly lost in a forest, this is the set up.
The setback : The setback for our film is that whilst the characters are lost they begin to lose people in the group, and discover they are being hunted by a group of inbreds that live in the forest.
The resolution of the act structure is that the protagonist manages to escape from the inbreds in which the protagonists values his life more as he realizes what has happened such as Dean missing but not only that, he escaped with his life so this is why he values life more after he escapes from the 'inbreds'



Binary opposition
The binary oppositions in our film opening is dis-figured or inbreds vs regular people. We chosen this as we thought that this idea can be easily done through the use of make up to make the character scary and also the camera angles and shots to add to that tension towards our film genre which is horror.

Equibrium 
The equibrium is that the group of teenagers are on their way to a party, while walking trying to get to the party they don't really know where they are so they ask directions, after they ask someone they still don't know where they are and are lost

Disequilbirum
They are lost in the woods, it starts to get dark and eventually realize was is happening when they see their friend Daniel dead, they are being haunted by the inbreds/disfigured people.

New state of equilbrium
The new state of equilbrium is that the protagonist which is the teenagers defeat the villain which is the inbreds/disfigured people, some of the teenagers escape alive and when they do a escape with their lives they then value life more than they did.

Character Type's

Sunday, 22 January 2012

Narrative Theories Research Task

Narrative is a work of speech such as a writing, speech or a film, Narrative describes a fictional or non-fictional events. An example of a start of a narrative is "once". This invites us into the narrative world which is set in the past. Most narratives are recounted in the past tense.


Another example of a narrative speech is "Once upon a time" which puts us in a world because the word 'once' is past tense in which takes us to a different time, also 'upon a time' is putting us in a world which is different from ours. Narratives are recounted in the past tense in which this occurs the same with 'once upon a time' as this narrative speech is used in a fair tale or a myth, in a fairy tale or a myth it has an effect on the reader as the narrative speech gives meaning such as upon a time in which stimulates or puts us in a world different to ours which previously i have explained.

Narratives are important as it's a way of communicating through films or books. If narrative speech was not in a book or film then a would be less interesting to read or watch in which audience wouldn't be interested as it's a way of communicating, an example of narrative is 'Once upon a time' this narrative creates a few things which is different time as 'once' is past tense, 'upon a time' is a different world. Without this example a book based of myths would be very boring which would put of a reader in which this is why narratives are important.

Their are three different types of narrative theories such as equilibrium, disequilibrium and . Many narratives theories were people who came up with these theories such as Tzvetan Todorov who suggests three narrative theory's have a three part structure which are equilibrium, disequilibrium and new equilibrium.

Tzvetan Todorov


Tzvetan Todorov  was a Bulgarian theorist, Tzvetan Todorov said that their were five stages structured in a narrative. He suggested that all narratives start with a state of equilibrium, the equilibrium is then disputed by an action or an event, from this their is an attempt to repair the disruption as of which from here their is a reinstatement of a new equilibrium. This narrative structure are found in many film narratives such as finding nemo.

Equilibrium > Dis-equilibrium  > New Equilibrium

A film example of Tzvetan Todorov theory is

Vladimir Propp



Vladimir Propp was also a  theorist, he suggests that in a narrative are 8 characters and 31 roles, he also proposed that his suggestion classify's the characters and their actions into clearly defined roles and functions. 
Vladimir Propps 8 characters and 31 roles
The hero - Leads the narrative and is usually looking to solve something (a quest)
The Villain - Conflicts with the hero. 
The Heroine - Usually a 'reward' for the hero triamphing.
The Father - An authority figure who offers a reward for the hero to complete his or her quest 
The Helper - Assists the hero in completing his quest. 
The Donor - Gives the hero something such as a special power to help him defeat the villain and win the reward. 
The Mentor  The master/tutor towards the hero, teaches him the tricks of the trade along the way.


To give a film example of Vladmir Propp theory would be Shrek, the hero of the film Shrek would be Shrek himself as he rescues Fiona. The Villain in Shrek is the evil lord, the heroine is Fiona, the father is the evil lord, the helper is donkey, the donor is fair godmother and the mentor is the cat within the film Shrek.


Binary Oppositions




Binary oppositions was an idea created by Claude Levi-Strauss, the idea or theory if you like was in the  twenth century, this theory looks at narrative structure as each character could be opposite such as a good character vs bad character. Binary oppositions is concepts that are opposite in meaning. An example of this would be men vs women, powerful vs weak and good vs evil. Within film narrative's binary opposition is used to show good vs bad in a film. A film example of this would be star wars as the hero would be Luke Skywalker, the villian would be Dark Vador, this is what the audience relates to as of good and evil within films. Binary opposition helps the audience as in a film you can tell from the concepts such as costumes as to what character is the evil and the good, the bad character would be wearing a dark or grey costume where as the good character would be wearing the opposite shade of colour to white. Binary oppositions helps the audience distinguish each character within a film.

I think the theory that is effective opening for our film is Tzvetan Todorov equilibrium theory. I think this as the equilibrium theory fits in to our story of our film opening. A short brief of our story is that matt and his friends are leading a new life but something changes which is the direction they head in and the new equilibrium is Matts life is changed in which you don't see that as it's part of a cliff hanger for our film opening.

Thursday, 5 January 2012

AS Media Animatic Movie : Wrong Direction



This is our animatic film opening which is called Wrong Direction. This film was made from the drawings and crayons we did on a flexible learning day, these pictures was on a storyboard so we had each shot on a different sqaure piece of paper, underneath it was the camera angle and shot, we had put the type of angle of each shot so we can interprate this in our animatic film opening. Other than camera angles we also put the dialogue of each shot, this is so that we know what is being said by each character in the shot, the camera movement was also included on each shot.

Here is an image of what we had written on the story which consist of the picture of that shot, dialogue, camera movement and also camera angles. The picture has been half cut out of where we had written about the exachange of dialogue in each shot and camera angles and movements ect.
When we had drawed the pictures and coloured them we had then scanned them and then crop the images using paint, some of the images we had edited in paint to make more better quality and to add props and scenary such as a path with grass.
(picture below showing this)



When we had finshed cropping and editing the images i then made sure that every image was the same size (470x320) because when the images went from shot to shot their was a black gap between the video player and the edge of the image, I did this because i felt it may disorentate the viewer so i made the images the same size.

Making the animatic film we edited it all in a software called windows movie maker. In windows movie maker we added a video transition between each shot such as a fade, at the last shot which is the disfigured man with a unique weapon we faded that shot as that was the end of the animatic film. In our animatic film we also included video effects such as ease in or ease out which was zooming in on a shot or zooming out of a shot. 

Monday, 12 December 2011

Animatic Diary Entry

The flexible learning day consisted of our group finishing our pictures on our storyboard, then we had to scan them images on to the computer and from their was had to crop each shot and also edit them in paint. When we had finish that we then had to import them into windows movie maker in which we didn't get that far due to problems and also timing as well. Our group had each job to do in which was to finish off the storyboard by colouring and also write about what camera movement and angle would be in each shot. Once we did that we had to colour the storyboard which was very time costly as it took up nearly the whole, this is why we didn't get to finish off importing the video and then add video transitions and effects. Another reason why we didn't manage to finish off was because our group was the last to use the scanner, when everyone had finish it did not leave us much time.

Their was many problems we had face before we even started which was the classroom had no power which meant that the computers would not turn on, after that was solved someone in the class had to get crayons. When we had crayons and the computers having power we had then had to get a scanner in which took about 1 hour 15 minutes up of our time as we had to wait for a IT technician. Another problem we had was when we had finish off colouring in the storyboard we had scanned all the images and we was not happy with the outcome or quality of the scanned image due to it being very light coloured, this problem was over come like many others so we had to colour it in again which then lost our place to use the scanner.

I would say that our group did well at each of our jobs as we each had a task to do and i think with the outcome we did well because we had a lot of problems much managed to over come them and get on with it.

Friday, 2 December 2011

Preliminary Video



This our premlinary video consisted of lauren powell (actor) , Ryan Rheeston (actor) and Me Craig Fallows (Camera man and editor) .

This is our Preliminary video, within the video are camera techniques such as shots and angles, we had followed the 180 degree rule and also included over the shoulder shots, all of these techniques we have learnt in AS media lessons which proved effective in our preliminary video. We had recorded the preliminary video with a classroom in the school where we had used chairs and tables, we had set out the table and chairs the way we wanted so we could first practised each shot and the movement of the camera so that we had good footage to edit so we didn't have to go back and do it again. I think that the video overall was a good job we had done as a group as we had used the knowledge we learnt in lessons which was the camera angle & shots, over the shoulder shot and also the 180 degree rule.  With the video techniques being used in our video I felt that the camera movements and angles was a good aspect as when you watch the video their is no shots where it disorientate the viewer, another good aspect was the camera zooming in on props as I think this was important for the viewers to know what the object is so the choice of zooming in on objects was another good aspect of our video.Within our video we had used props, one of them was a briefcase, without this I think that the video would of been very plain and dull without that props and also the viewer watching might have lost interest if we didn't have props.


Their are a lot of things we could of improved on such as people in the background talking in which I think as a group we could have stopped that from happening. The dialogue or storyline was very hard to make out and also follow what was going on in which I think it could confuse the audience as from the noise in the background it's very hard to follow. Another improvement was the props we had made, the prop was a piece of paper which was a contract but as you could see it was just scribbled pattern to make out it was writing, we could of improved this by making a contract on a computer but with the time given we would not of had enough time to film the video. Within the video could of been more talking, more dialogue to give the storyline more structure.

Thursday, 24 November 2011

Preliminary Research

Continuity Editing is the main sort of style of editing for a film, television programmes, the editing is putting scenes together. Its editing that's flows through shots smoothly without disorientating the viewer or audience so that it's smooth over the transition of the recording and that the scenes change naturally and also unnoticed. Their are two types of categories which consist of continuity editing and they are temporal and spatial cutting.  These film techniques are important as the audience can understand and follow the story, the viewers would also need to understand the concepts of the story.Temporal cutting is connecting shots to narrative development, this maybe linear progression or not.  Temporal cutting also consists of  flash back on a characters life and also the progression of time. An example of this would be a scene where there is a house party and through out the party their would need to be a progression of time passing by.

Other than temporal cutting their is also another category within continuity editing which is spatial cutting. Spatial cutting creates unified space through the editing shots from different angles and also framing. Spatial editing also includes the rule which is the 180 degree rule when filming. The 180 degree rule involves two characters, when filming you should film on one of the characters shoulder such as their left, and the other characters right shoulder. This then creates a 180 degree, if you don't follow the 180 degree rule then you disorientate the audience. The picture below explains more in a visual way
Here is an example (video) of how part of a film is keeping to the 180 degree rule



Shot and reverse shot is a filming technique, shot and reserve shot is where you film a character looking at another character and then reverses in which shows the other character facing each other, this is shown facing in opposite directions in which the audience thinks that the characters are facing each other.This film technique can also be used by having over the shoulder shots as the character is shown over one characters shoulder and then the other in which it can reverse. This technique may have two different camera's or maybe just one camera in the same height with it sticking the the 180 degree rule, one camera would be used for over the shoulder technique as if you had two camera's over the two characters shoulders then obviously you would see the other camera in the shot.

Here is a diagram (image) showing this





Match on action is a editing technique, it's where one shot is cut to another shot. Match cut is two different actions in different locations or objects, this draws parallels or contrast with two different time-space locations in which the transitions are smooth when linking the shots together. Here is a video below showing this.




I  think that continuity editing is important when filming because it is essential as the transition between shots is as smooth as possible to ensure that the audience has maximum enjoyment and interest from the film and that no attention is drawn to the change in shot or disorientation with the shots. I think without match on action films would be boring as the shots wouldn't be natural or realistic in which this wouldn't appeal to the audience.

Bibliography:
http://www.slideshare.net/leviwigglesworth/shot-reverse-shot-and-match-on-action-media
http://www.slideshare.net/stewedveg/continuity-editing-10739140
http://www.cybercollege.com/tvp050.htm
http://www.slideshare.net/tijoum/the-180-degree-rule
Filmography: Step Brothers

Friday, 11 November 2011

Design Decisions

Costumes
In our film the costumes are important as the costumes will reflect the character type. An example will be the killer (adversary) as the killer character will have dark clothing to represent fear and also to put fear into the audience. The sort of costume the killer will wear is ripped, dark and blood on the clothing so that the audience know what type of character he or she is. The protagonist will have better clothing that the adversary as the audience would get confused if they both wore the same sort of clothing. The protagonist will wear more better and updated clothing as the protagonist will represent as non violent.


Props
In our film the props we are using will weapons, the weapons will be unique and will also show what kind of genre it is (example if you see guns in a fight scene then you would expect it to be action, you also don't see guns in horror). Our aim is for the character to look scary with the weapon, the weapon will be unique because it will appear to the audience as a surprise and will want to watch more because they will want to know how the character use's it.
Lighting
In our film the lighting will be low key lighting, when the adversary is in a camera shot such as a ECU (extreme close up) then the lighting will be dark however when the protagonist is in a camera shot then the lighting will be brighter than when the adversary is in the shot. When the adversary is hunting the protagonist the lighting will be dark to create tension so that there is a build to when the protagonist is nearly killed. The lighting will be mostly dark, when the camera is filming adversary character the background will be light but the adversary will be a dark figure so you can't see his face until he comes and bit closer so there will be a lot of contrast in our film, this is to create tension and also to scare the audience.


Mis-En-Scene
The mis-en-scene is the setting within a film, the settings gives the audience the type of genre the film is, an example of this would be a high built up and busy area would be a a genre of action as many action films consist of this type of mis-en-scene to escape as it's a busy area. For our film the mis-en-scene decision is the woods as of which was based on our film genre which is horror, our group decided on this as the woods can be a scary place with the lighting (dark - natural light) in the woods as this would be an uncomfortable situation as you wouldn't be able to see what is lurking around such as an unusual creature in that kind of darkness.


Tuesday, 8 November 2011

Questionnaire Research Analysis (Graphics)

This question we asked what type of setting do they find scary, we asked this so that the answers we get we could us the setting that people find scary and also our opinion so that when we film we film it in a setting that an audience would find scary. As you can see we had put on option their so that people can pit their own answer instead of multiple choice ones.

Our film genre is horror, we asked people what is their favourite type of horror film. We found that people don't find crime/mystery very scary. Froim this question a type of horror film haunting was their favourite type of horror film.

Our film genre is horror, we asked people what their favourite genre was, we asked thhis question because we would find out if people like horror films which thewy did but we also found out that comedy is also a favourite genre so with this result we could add some comedy into the film as we know that the two top genre is comedy and horror and our film genre is horror.

With our film genre being horror we wanted to know what draws people to that film genre, with the result you can see that trailer is popular so this tells us that a good trailer of that partiuclar film genre draws people to watching the film.

This question i felt was the most important as this can tel us what other films lack of so that when we come to filming we as a group are strong on that aspect that lacks. The lack of story makes people dislike a film so this is a challenge for us to have a strong good story so the audience don't dislike it.

This question i felt we could improve, with having multiple choice answers we haven't had got many answers their for people to choose from, i felt we could of had more answers their so we could of got more of a result from this question.

This question like many other questions we asked was more of their opinion as their was more multiple choice questions as you can see we have five them to choose from.

This question tells us that the best type of killer to have in our film is mysterious, this is the thype of character we could have in our film knowing that most people like this sort of killer

When we film we know that what ever character or props we use that make the film have scaryness, we know that it won't affect the audeince as we asked people who like the genre horror and they don't feel affect by the film and the aspects in it such as the characters.

Many people expect in a horror film for the evil character to be killed or taken away but that can be argured by the other people who choose the answer 'the evil chcacter gets away and continues what he's doing'. This tells us that the audience likes a dertain ending to a film, we asked this question as the sotry based on our film opening we can use both of these endings so we asked what people this best of these two endings.










Friday, 4 November 2011

Alien Movie video



This is our alien film video in which we used a blue screen and editing on a software that was new to us called final cut and we also used the apple macs which was also new to us. We had edited the video by using two videos which was the acting behind a blue curtain and a video of the white house getting blown up by an alien space ship in the night sky, it proved channleging for us as you can see from the video you can see dark brown lines in the video but that was because we had actors (ryan rheeston and  ) who was wearing blues jeans which effect the whole blue screen effect. In the end we had to manage with what we got and the best we could do to get the good effect. The timing of the video was not great as our acting video had been cut short due to wrong files types so it was cut out at the end.

Thursday, 3 November 2011

Final Cut Introduction

Our group today had recorded our video which was using the blue screen.My group consisted of Me and Ryan Rheeston and help from Cezary. Today we recorded the video in the hall behind a blue curtain. My role in the video was me behind the camera making sure it's the right shot for our group. Ryan Rheeston was an actor and also cezary, Ryan was a protestor and cezary was a news report.

The video was 30 seconds (blue screen video) long but we had to time our videos because on the blue screen their was going to be a video behind the actors of the white house getting attacked by and alien spaceship.The 30 second video is going to be put on the blue screen. Their was a certain time we had to react as the video we had to put behind the actors had an explosion at 25 seconds so we had to time that and also get the timing right with the actors which was a bit of chalanege for us but we manage to time with a mobile phone so we get the right moment in the video to react to.

The video we recorded was about a news reporter (cezary) interviewing a protester (Ryan Rheeston) and we had cezary interviewing ryan about the aliens on top of the white house. To prepare for this short recorded video we made script lines for ryan and cezary and also had to pick what role each person had as a group.

The equipment we used was a video camera in which i was in charge of as i set up the right shot for the group and make sure that every character or actors was in the shot. We also used a video editing software called "final cut extension" and we also used the apple macs to edit the videos.

When we had finsih the video we went on to the apple macs to go on to a video editing software called "final cut extented edition" in which we had set up our project name on their and got the video ready to render but we had a problem with our videos.The video file type that the video camera recorded was not the right file type for the video editing software (final cut extened edition) so to over come this problem we will have to get the videos we recorded in the hall and convert them to the right file type so that we can edit them on the video editing software.

Our aims and objectives was to make sure we had finsh editing two videos together in our groups and also get the blue screen effect. After we had finsh that we also had to upload it to youtubne and publish it on our blog.

Monday, 31 October 2011

Primary Research Task\Questionnaire

Questionnaire- Horror
(Circle the answer)

1. What type of setting do you find most scary?
A. Graveyard B. House C. Abandoned area D. Other

2. What is your favourite type of horror Film?
A. Slasher B. Haunting C. Psychological D. Crime/Mystery E. None

3. What is your favourite genre?

4. What is your favourite film in this genre and what draws you to it?
Favourite Film:
A. Advertisements B. Actors/Actresses C. Trailer

5. What do you most dislike about this genre?
A. Blood/Gore B. Lack of story C. Characters

6. What elements do you expect to witness in this genre?
A. Hero/Survivor B. Villain/Killer

7. What do you believe to be the best thing about horror movies?
A. Story line B. Blood/Gore C. Suspense D. Setting E. Acting

8. What is the best type of killer?
A. Mysterious B. Public C. Serial

9. Are you affected by horrors when you watch them?
A. Yes B. No

10. What do you expect to see at the end of a horror film?
A. The evil character is killed or taken away B. The evil character gets away and continues what he’s doing

Sunday, 30 October 2011

Our Film Treatment

The main theme or idea of the film opening that my group is creating is horror, we have a different selection of conventions for our film these are: murder or cannibalism, insanity, disfigurement and displacement or being lost.

Our groups main theme or idea of our film opening is that our theme will be horror,Lauren will be filming with the camera (making sure we have the correct camera movements and angles), Me (Craig Fallows) and Ryan Rheeston will be acting out the storu of our film opening. In the plot or storyline is me and Ryan are to dis-figured characters or shown as "in-breads" will be chasing David.With this as our plot we will have four concepts in this filming opening and will try to achieve these concepts within the characters of the plot.


The main character of the opening will be the survivor (David Hutchins), him and a few other friends will be the survivors for the beginning of the film, the majority of the people who begin in the group will be the characters who die to show the four concepts of the film opening.David Hutchins -the survivor should be a believable character as he will be the one taking the lead and making most of the judgments and to make the decisions throughout the few minutes of the opening, this will show that he is the main character by making these decisions and judgements for other characters throughout our plot and theme.

The characters goal in our film opening is to escape a certain area and environment (still to be decided) which is woods or a forest with narrow space to create the theme and genre which is horror.Having narrow space is good as part of our plot is for David to escape but make this hard for David, eventually David get lost which is one of a concepts which is "displacement"with having narrow space (such as a narrow path way through the woods)this will prove a challenge as David gets chased by me and Ryan Rheeston (characters - inbred s) as part of plot is the murderers trying to stop other people and David from escaping, this is the inbred s goal.Davids goal is obviously to help others and himself to make judgements and decisions to get out of the woods or forest for survival as they become trapped within the environment.

The location of the film will be in woods or a forest outside of the city suburbs near the by countryside farms.Our filming opening will be filmed outside.

David and a few other people's (David Friends) lives will be at risk in the film, in horror genre it's normally the characters and their friends whose life is at risk.

The interesting characters we have in our film is David himself (Main charterer) as this will be a challenge to get out the woods or forest alive but by staying alive he will make judgement for other people which will be interesting as will he make the right decisions and judgements for his fiends.

Other charterers throughout our film opening is the inbred (me and Ryan) as these are the one's killing and chasing people such as David and his friends.These characters will be interesting because they will carrying on watching until they have seen what will happen,The inbred characters will a;ways be moving about around the location or environment so this is why they will be interesting characters.