Pictures whilst filming

Mainly these photos are of the make-up (cause it was good!!) and you can't see it much in the film as I would have liked, so here's a close up!

This was the noticeboard that we used for our filming, it only appears briefly in it, but it supposed to show the people who the killer has already targetted.

Make-up:

Make up done by Sarah Ashby
Noticeboard done by Naomi Lewis
Pictures Taken by Naomi Lewis

Music (Rough)

This is a very brief explaination of the music we shall have for our media film- it's this rough because it's difficult to describe without singing the type of music you want, after the music is done, I shall have a much clearer explaination of the music and which instruments that have been used.

Music will be done by Matt Lewis, my brother, this is good because it will mean that we will not have to worry about copyright issues as it has been made specifically for our media project and we do have permission to use it.

Pitch!

Our pitch in front of our class, advertising our media film.

The Storyboard for Our film

So what actually goes on in our film?
This storyboard will give you a brief idea (mainly explaining camera angles)as to what you can expect in our completed film opening

1. To open our film we will have an alarm clock fading in from the darkness showing the time of 5:59, then quickly the darkness will be turned into light and the time of 6:00 is shown whilst an alarm clock noise will be going off.

2. The next shot will be of a hand switching off the alarm clock, this will be a close up view as well.

3. There will then be a point of view shot, showing the person waking up, this will show the screen fading in and out, as if the person is blinking.

4. An extreme close up shot will be shown of the eyes of the person, so the audience can now in fact see that the person has finally awoken.

5. The shot will be a crane shot, showing that the person is within their bed and being restless to show that they are just about to get up from their bed.

6. The next shot will be a ground angle, showing that the person is starting to get out of bed as they have now swung their legs out of bed and placed them on the floor.

7. There will be a tracking shot as the character will walk from one side of the room to the other.

8. Next, you will see an over the shoulder shot, so you can see that there is something important in the background of the main view.

9. You will then see the person standing in a mirror, not showing any of his eyes, that is being covered up with a hoodie, this makes the audience know that there is something suspicious about this character.

10. A close up on a photograph of a girl is shown, the character then crosses out this photo in a red marker pen.

11. Then from the last scene the RedXProductions logo will fade in, as the X through the photo will still be shown and used as the X within the logo of our productions.

12. Two characters, Olivia and Jenny walk into the living room, this will just be filmed at normal height, and will be a slight tracking shot as they walk into the room.

13. After exchanging some dialogue, Jenny walks towards a window and a shot is shown of what is outside the window, (a forest).

14. Then there will be an over the shoulder shot of Jenny looking outside a window.

15. Olivia is shown then starting to get to sleep on a sofa, exchanging some dialogue with Jenny.

16. Whilst Jenny is exploring the house of Olivia, she starts to hear some voices and notice that in the fact the back door is slightly open.

17. There will then be a close up of Jenny reaching for the door handle and then opening the door.

18. The next scene will be of Jenny walking out into the forest, this will be another over the shoulder shot so you can see what she is looking at herself.

19. Then there will be an extreme close up on Jenny eyes, showing fear as she spots that something or someone is out in the woods with her.

20. Then will be another extreme close up of the killer (joe- who we saw earlier before the productions logo) holding a piece of mirror or glass.

21. Then there will be a mid shot of Jenny screaming and starting to turn to run away (also there will be a POV shot as she is running away).

22. Joe is then shown starting to walk after her, we chose to have him walking instead of running as not only is it creepy, but it shows that he's confident that he's going to catch her, no matter what pace she works at.

23. There will be a close up of Olivia, who is starting to become restless in her sleep and her herself is starting to hear some voices.

24. This shows that Jenny is starting to run throughout the house, and occasionaly it will switch from whats happening with Jenny to Olivia.

25. Olivia is then shown waking up as she hears a smash that is coming from the house.

26. Olivia then realises that she cannot find Jenny and is starting to worry as to where she has gotten to.

27. Now is a shot of Olivia running up the stairs frantically.

28. This is a close up of Jenny, begging for her life, there is a close up shot for this as it will show the audience the fear she is feeling as you will be able to see it within her eyes.

29. Then the next shot is shown Jenny being dragged into the mirror, after showing some visible cuts that she has gained from the Killer.

30. There is then a close up of Olivia screaming, now the audience realises that she herself has seen the terrible things that has happened to Jenny.

31. Blood and mirror is shown on the floor of the room.

32. There is then a close up of the mirror, to show that there is nothing else around in that room.

33. By the foot of the mirror, you can see that there is something next to it but not entirely as to what it is.

34. There is then a close up on this image which shows it is infact the neckalace that Jenny wears, meaning that she's gone somewhere.

35. Then you see a mid shot of Olivia looking in the mirror and in the reflection of the mirror, you see an image of Jenny who is in fact completely cut up.

36. It then ends on the titles of the film 'Voices' and in the background Voices is whispered.

Who would be the audience for your media product?

Our audience for our media product are between the ages of 16-21, as we asked around our college a few questions, these questions were:
* What is your name?
* How many times do you go to the cinema a year?
* Do you watch horror films?
* If No to last question, What is your favourite genre?
* If yes, What is your favourite horror film?
* What are you afraid of and Why?

Here is the results for our questionnaire:

After processing these answers to our questions, we realised that only a few liked horrors and those that didn't liked Action Comedies best. I also found out, that apart from a few anomalies, most of the people we asked didn't go to the cinema more than about 6 times a year. Also, later with a bit more questioning (that unfortuantly we didn't record) that almost all of the fears were irrational. But as most of the people we did ask liked horrors, it meant that we had targetted the right age group! Hoozah! However those that don't like horrors and do like Action instead, they will like the element of the chase within the film if they were to watch it.

How did you attract/address your audience?

How did you target your audience? Why that particular group?
To target my audience I created a poster which included a few details, such as title of the film, tag line and a some images that portray the film. We chose this age group because we thought they would be able to understand the film a whole lot better than that of a younger age since, it won't have a complicated story, however, the storyline might be a little more difficult to follow than those of a younger age group, and since there will be some gorey bits then we had to the age rating up from 15 to 18.

How would your film appeal to that audience?
Expectations?

The film will appeal to this audience as, it won't be just another teen horror, it will 'mess' with your head and will leave you with chills! The film genre is Psychological horror/thriller, I will be hoping that this will go to Cinema and then to DVD as a lot of films that go straight to DVD do not have a very good reputation as you would believe that they 'weren't good enough' to be in cinema.

Gender?

This film will be aimed at both genders, since it's more likely to be a film that you would watch together with your friends since, that is what you usually do when watching horror films together, however if I had to choose one gender or the other, I think it's more primarily aimed at males, because of the gore.

Stars?

So who would I choose to be in my film?
Joe: Cillian Murphy- This is because he is a very good actor, and because in Batman Begins, he plays a corrupted psychiatrist, which would be perfect for our killer, Joe as he would want to play a lot of mind games with the rest of the characters and since he seems very 'reassuring' and speaks in a calm manner, he will end up leading you into a false sense of security.

Olivia: Natalie Portman- She is an excellent actor, such as in V For Vendetta and in Black Swan, she plays someone who is starting to go mental, so this will be ideal for our film, since when Olivia starts hearing voices no one will believe her I think she is starting to go a bit crazy.

Jenny: Radha Mitchell- She has acted in some films such as Silent Hill and The Crazies, this means she is good at acting scared, which means she will be perfect for this part.

Director

For my director, Christophe Gans, because I thought that his directing for his film was amazing because the fact that manged to create a film from a game, and still keep to the storyline of the game. I think he really takes into account the writers ideas and show them very well through his films, so that is why I would like him to be my director.

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Film distribution is what actually happens to the film after it has been made, whether it goes into a small cinema, or a multiplex cinema, or if it just goes straight to DVD.

What is the difference between how British and Hollywood films are distributed?
British Films
*British films are lower budget, but can still be more successful internationally, meaning more profit.
*Britain has more distributors(meaning more likely that your film will get into cinemas even if it's a small film)
*British producers are more likely to have success with an independant distributor, who would have to construct a more limited release pattern.

Hollywood Films
*A Hollywood film can cover its costs even with moderate audiences by using the large network of cinemas. Further profits can then be taken from distributors in other countries, video and television deals, sales of sound track & merchandise.
*Hollywood has a bigger budget- $19.48m compared to British film £1.6m.
*Although only 5 distributors, they are 3 times more successful than British distributors.

So who would we want as our distributor?
For our distributor, we would want a British distributor, as I believe in trying to keep British films alive, instead of Hollywood films taking over the whole film industry, so we would want Warp to be our distributor.

Why Warp?
Warp films are more likely to distribute our film as it is a Horror/Thriller. They have distributed other films of this genre such as Hush, and they also have a majority of rating 18 films, so our films suits Warp's usual films. Also they are a British company, we'd be much less likely to go to Working Title as they tend to distribute more RomComs and ratings of 12 which is completely opposite to our genre and film.

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Our target group is 18-21yr olds both female and male.
When looking at this age group we found that they would likely to be doing in their freetime:
*Social networking (Facebook, Twitter, Myspace)
*Going out (Clubbing, to the pub, parties)
*Alcohol

They would be likely to be into a lot of trends so would shop at high end fashion shops:
*Topman/Topshop
*River Island
*H&M

To make up for buying expensive clothes, they'd likely to buy food at:
*Tescos
*Asda
*Sainsbury
*Morrisons
*Local Shops

We decided that this age group would probably be most suiting for our film, as we didn't want to make just another teen horror aimed at 15yr olds. We wanted to make a film which would have a lot of depth to it (and not just all about killing) but a film that would also have a running mystery in it, one that was full of 'whys' and 'whodunits'. Although, there will be quite a lot of gore (which is one of the reasons it's an 18) it would be done tastefully and not just killing just for the sake of it!
So in whole, the film will contain some sosphication.

This isn't the best representation of sophisicated teenagers.

First and Second Time Round

These films were filmed before we did our prelim task! This was just getting used on how to film a short sequence of actions.

First Attempt

After analysing this film, even though it does have it's good qualities (considering this was our first attempt), we made a lot of rookie mistakes, such as we didn't have too many angles and the main flaw to this was that it was all filmed from the same height (standing up)We tried to correct these problems in our next attempt.

Second Attempt

This was a lot better han our first attempt, we included the good bits that we did in the first attempt, however we had a larger range of angles and managed to film from different heights so the filming didn't look so wooden and the audience would be able to understand and feel closer to the characters within the film.

So That's Who Inspires You!

There are many different directors that inspired me for the ideas of our horror film, including unusual angles and shocking plots!!

Let The Right One In (directed by Tomas Alfredson)

This is one of my favourite horror films! It's got a lot of typical horror conventions such as Vampires, little girls and a lot of conventions of loneliness. However, what made this film so great is that the Director Tomas Alfredson, portrays the friendship between Eli and Oscar perfectly, though with a lot of horror conventions, it is not too scary and is really a heartwarming story of friendship. Though, this is not a very well known film as it is swedish, however, recently there has been an american remake of the film 'Let Me In', so this film will probably be more well known to people.

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The Orphanage (Juan Antonio Bayona)

The Orphanage is one of my favourite movies as you can see in one of my earlier posts, however, one thing I would like to add, is that Juan Antonio Bayona really does inspire me as it shows that you don't have to be famous in order to create a great film! Since in the past he has only really made short films.

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28 Days Later (Danny Boyle)

28 Days Later, I absolutely LOVE!! The director Danny Boyle has done such a great job!! The most amazing thing is how he managed have London deserted in order to make the film, this makes the film look really effective as if it actually could happen to us in modern day!

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Silent Hill (Christophe Gans)

Silent Hill is an excellent film! The reason why I think the director has done well with is because the fact that it was originally a game and he has been able to make it into a film so well, with all the interesting plots that are contained within the game!

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