Storyboard anamatic.

Costume, Props and Lighting.

PROPS

- (Towel.) Our lead victim will be dressed in a towel and bikini, to express her vulnerability.

- (Glove.) We will be using a black leather glove, which will be one of the only shots you see of the killer. We are using a black leather glove to show we are hiding his identity and it is also a convention for a killer in a horror movie.

- (Phone.) Using this to create suspention and tension as when she picks up the phone no one is there - also adding mystery.

- (Fake blood + knife.) The knife is obviously used to show that the lead victim is going to be/has been stabbed. And the fake blood is to follow on from this and show the reality of it.

LIGHTING

We are going to use desk lamps and torches to create exaggerated shadows and dark images/shots in our different scenes.

Location reccie.

Our location we have chosen is a house in Tunbridge Wells that belongs to a friend of ours. We decided to use it as we think it has conventional properties of a house that would be in a horror film (isolated, tall, vast, dark, high ceilings/windows, made of old dark materials). One main issue is that as this house is lived in and has many homely, and comforting items around the house, so we will have to make sure that none of them are caught on film. Also as we are filming at night, we need to make sure that our reflections are not seen in the windows when filming.

When filming the first scene in the swimming pool, we have to make sure that it is not raining, too dark to film or too cold, as our actor is going to have to swim in the water.

Apart from these main issues, we can't currently see any other problems, however im sure that there will be unexpected difficulties arising.

Location of Horror film.

Analysis of Pitch, by Hatty and Sarah

From our pitch, we learnt that we had been too ambitious when planning our horror opening, as the material that we originally wanted to use would not fit well into the 2minute time scale we were given. From our pitch we have decided to change our scenes around to make the scenes shorter and more relevant to what is happening in order to keep within the time. We originally were going to have a mood board on our PowerPoint, however we had technically difficulties uploading our mood board, so we used a previously made one which we handed around the class, but worked just as well.
We realised when presenting our different roles to the class, we hadn’t given our actually roles enough thought to what we would individually all be doing on the actual day of filming. We have now concluded that Hatty will be directing our actor (who instead of Sarah, will be a Mima - a girl from TWGGS), Sarah will be the editor, and Sammy the producer. But on the actual day we will all be helping each other out, with Sammy everything is running smoothly.
From our pitch we also learnt that the location we have chosen fits our genre well, our class also agreed once they saw our photos, which was encouraging as they are at the age of our target audience. Following on from this we thought we chose our target audience age well as it is a teen horror film and no-one in our film will be older than 25, and so that was our maximum age we wanted to aim our film at. Also when we presented our pitch, our audience seemed interested in our plot and intrigued to see the final opening.

The evaluation of editing our convosation.

When editing our conversation, we firstly had to upload our filmed footage onto the computer, and onto premiere using a fire cable, and then cut the film footage down into smaller, more manageable pieces (into each shot) so that we could quickly and easily manoeuvre the clips around. We then put them all into the order of the shots that was desired, by following our previously made storybored, and deleted any clips that didn’t work, or didn’t fit in with our overall conversation. There were a few shots that we had drawn on the storybored but did not include in the overall sequence. This is because we were a bit over ambitious when drawing the story bored and they simply didn’t fit in. Overall, i am pleased with the final result. However, we did not leave 4 seconds either side of the acting when filming, which we now know to do next time, as this caused us some trouble when editing, and resulted in one of our shots being cut slightly short and it is very noticeable.

The role of the editor.

It’s my job as the editor to successfully cut and edit the filmed footage; putting it together to create the overall effect that we wanted. I have to work closely with the director in order to produce the best result, and to make sure that the director is filming in the best possible way to make editing straight forward. I use premiere to cut down footage, and put the shots together in the best possible way.