GarageBand

Myself and my parnter decided to make our own music , however I was unable to attend garageband due to other work commitments so Tamana made the music herself. We were inspried by the orpahnages music and decided to base our music on the sound of the music they have used as its creepy and builds suspense. In order to create the music a software called garageband was needed to be used. A variety of insturments were avavliable but it took her a while for her to  find the one pasfic piano tune she wanted , she wanted to use this one as horror films usually have pianos in them and add a sinister feel to things . Tamana did not just use the piano in the tune she decided she wanted to use a drum beat in there also so she added it in half way to build tension for the scene. As the music comes near to the end a deep sound of a drum plays to show something is about to happen , this will play when my character is walking in the room. At the end of the music the drum and string stop playing and only the piano is left as my character is about to open the door and see the little girl. When the little girl jumps out a loud noise is played and then the music stops.

Production logos

Me and my partner decided we wanted to call our production logo : Crystal Clear Prodctions. We have an idea of how we what it to appear on the scene , we would like the colour of the writing to be white and the background black. It will shatter after being seen for a few seconds. We done this to create an oxymoron as the production company is named crystal clear prouctions and the logo shatters we thought that this would be interseting that the name contrdicts whats happening.

After effect

To make out production logo we used a softwear on the Macs which is called After effects. This softwear helps you to create openings for films with out filming anything.

Practice Test Lesson

Our first lesson using the softwear was Friday the 12th November where we were taught my the technition teacher how to use the softwear so that we are familiour with it and can use it our selves when making our proper production logo.

It's a very dificult softwear to use and the instructions which were given by the teacher kinda confused me and my partner which ended up with our practise logo not turning out like everyone else's.We got help in the end and was taught face to face how it worked but then again it didn't come out like everyone else's and we got a bit stuck on what most of the functions were. We were told to then go experiment with the softwear but ended up runining our practise logo.

However we were told that we could come to study support after school every tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday to get help from the teacher's and create the final production logo.

Our idea for our production logo is for the words to be in clear white with a backgroudn light shining through it and then for the words to shatter in glass peices towards the screen and then for the screen to go black.

Garageband

Behind the scene

This picture is a shot of  Tamanna getting ready to shoot the scene taken in my room. I took this picture of Tamanna testing if the lighting of the camera wasnt too dark to flim in the house

Story board

Setting and Props

Settings : 

For our setting the main place was my house however we also shot down my road and a park in Crystal Palace but due to some footage of the park scene missing we had to film the park scene in a different location in Croydon.

    

This picture is outside my house where match on match action shot is taken from side ,

 front view of the main character (me) while rushing to open the door

This is my hall way , where the first shot inside  will be shown.
The bang from upstairs is shown from this scene

This is my bedroom where the wardbode scene will take place 

This is the stairs where the camera tales a birdeyes view and
overshoulder shot following the main character to the room ,
 just as she's about to find the little girl 

The exposure of the little girl takes place in  this setting (the wardbode) 

This is the second park we shoot at 

Props : 

We used props for both our main characters the little girl and the woman . We made the woman wear a suit to show she's a mature successful women compared to the immature teen that she was when her little sister was in the accident (this plot is learnt further on in the film). The little girl wears a mask to give a creepier affect to the film this prop was inspried by the mask the girl wears in the orpahnage 

This is the main prop used in our flim : the little girls mask 

Inspiration

A few films have inspired how we conducted our film openings , but the two main ones that stood out for us were the ring and The Orphanage and The Ring. This is because we can identify with both of the films as children and paranormal activity are both domintant themes in their's as in ours. The music in these trailers create suspense and tension in the scene which is the effect me and my parnter would want on viewers


This is an example from the ring







This is an example from the orphanage

Possible music

Treatment

Treatment

Film Proposal

Our proposal

Horror Thrillers

The Silence of the Lamb

Target profile

Target Audience Profile

Certificate of film : We decided to certificate this film as a 15 as their is some gory scenes and a little strong language used , however neither are extreme enough to rate as an 18. We felt to make it a realistic thriller/horror film we wouldn't be able to be certificate it as a 12 without people thinking that the certificate was inappropriate for the film.

Who will it appeal to ? : Well from the research I carried out all the teenagers said they enjoyed thrillers , so teenagers would be one of the main types of people we would appeal to. The thriller/horror genre is more of a unisex genre so its nor mainly aimed at boys or girls , its aimed at both which is good for us as we can target a wider audience. The pictures of the following to are typical people that this filmed is aimed at.

Michelle aged 19 , lives on campus at her university
enjoys watching thrillers and watching about avergally
about twice a week. When I asked her how and where she watches these films she said waits for them to come out and rents them from blockboster and watches them with friends 

Gary aged 16, goes to college and has a part-time job

Gender: As I mentioned before the film is a unisex one and we will attempt to appeal to both male and female. We will do this by making the main character a women which girls may be able to identify with and the gory and bloody scenes will be likely to attract the males.

Age: When it comes to age our target is 15-25 years this is because we feel this is the most likely age to watch this film. Its not to say that older people cant but we just believed that 15-25 year old would be more likely to pay to see this film.

Race :The film will mainly be aimed to the English and the western culture because it will have qualities of a British horror film but we will try to get our film shown also in America to get the rating more high. Some films which our film will relate to will be "The Ring", "The Orphanage" and "The sixth sense" as they feature mainly children as a victim or the murderers. We have made sure that our film doesn't offend any races so we have featured a few races in our film such as Black, Asian and White characters.

Class and interests 

We are aiming to target our film to middle-class to high class viewers as they are more likely than working-class people to be able to afford to watch the film in cinemas and buy it when it gets released 

Character profile

Character Profile : In my group of two that consists of Tamanna and I , I play the both of the main roles which are The woman (the victim) and the little girl (villian) . In the opening scene the victim is unaware shes being haunted by her sister but has a feeling some sort of paranormal activiy is occuring. The victim aged roughly about early 20's can idnetify with other characters such as Naomi Watts who plays a young journalist in the ring. Also the little girl can identify with little girl in the orphanage who also wears a mask.

Case Study - Director

Choice of director Park-Chan Wook  I choose to write about this director as he was mentioned in my questionnaire and also I am a fan of some of his work and think the twists he does in his thrillers are very unique and original compared to films.  He is a film director, producer and former film critic. . He is most known for the following films: “Joint security area”, “Thirst” and the Lady Vengeance trilogy which consists of “Sympathy for Mr.Vengeance”, “Sympathy of Lady Vengeance” and “Oldboy”. What people also like about him is also his brutal subject matter. Directors/film makers that have been influential to him are Alfred Hitchcock and Roman Polanski etc.His style of filming is liked as its controversional , most of his themes are based on revenge e.g. lady venegence and oldboy  scenes of captivity and revelations in the middle and the end. Although I will not be doing the type of Thrillers he usually does , he's an inspriation to me as a director