Today me, Will and Andy went to film some more test footage for our next rough cut, we did this as in our previous filming we had not been able to collect much footage due to various technical issues.
The filming went extremely well and we were unfortunate to miss out on 2 scenes (the killing and the scene where Will leaves his friends) this was due to us not having enough time to film and that the weather outside was appalling.
We again set out our mis-en-scene which featured glass and dirt (leaves and soil) across the floor as well as blood splashed across the walls. We have had a problem making the blood look realistic both times we've used it, the blood has been too watery causing it to be too light when placed on skin although on the walls it looked okay. Although we weren't in costume we did pick out another prop the murder weapon; which is a large kitchen knife.
As we also had to edit on the same day Will decided to edit during his free period where he edited the outside footage which we had collected at a previous date, we filmed the indoor scenes during 3rd period and lunch. Andy edited the indoor scenes during his free period and I helped him finish off after school.
Overall I think the filming went very successful as we were able to change things that we had previously received feedback on as well as add new ideas of our own.
Wednesday, 22 February 2012
Saturday, 18 February 2012
Tuesday filming
On Tuesday me and Will decided to film some of our scenes for our film opening so we could edit part of it on either Wednesday or Thursday as I was away then. Unfortunately we had several problems with filming; firstly Andy was away so we could only film certain scenes- mainly the inside ones but then we had a bigger problem. The tripod broke on set which meant we wouldn't of been able to record many shots without shaky footage, instead we decided to try some PoV shots.
Although we had quite severe problems shooting it was still a successful shoot as we were able to create a realistic Mis-en-scene. This features blood on the walls and glass and debris from outdoors scattered on the floor. We also found a chain which we are going to use to tie the victim to the pipes with.
Although we had quite severe problems shooting it was still a successful shoot as we were able to create a realistic Mis-en-scene. This features blood on the walls and glass and debris from outdoors scattered on the floor. We also found a chain which we are going to use to tie the victim to the pipes with.
Saturday, 11 February 2012
Appealing to the Target Audience
There are many things that we can do to appeal to a certain target audience, the first thing that will help us to discover the genre we are aiming for is research.
From researching 10 different horror films and looking at the openings you can notice several patterns that emerge. An example of this is who they feature, in the majority of horror films that I watch and have researched they feature either young adults or teenagers.
The casting we did was very simple as we only featured 2 characters. From what we had been planning on our production we wanted a taller character to play the killer as it would look more menacing and make the main character look weaker, also knowing the killer would be masked or either the identity hidden. This made casting a lot easier.
From watching previous slasher films we all had our opinions on which ones were good and which were bad, a major influence of these were how the editing worked and what shot variety they had placed. As we were teenagers we knew what we wanted, which also meant we knew what our audience would want. We wouldn't want to be bored by a slow opening as this may put them off watching the rest of the film, we knew we would have to have a lot of shot selection to use when editing to keep the audience attracted. We also thought that we could have an event going on all the time, even when the person wasn't being kidnapped or murdered, but we soon deciding not to do this as it may overcomplicate the opening of the film and again put the audience off viewing any more of it.
From researching 10 different horror films and looking at the openings you can notice several patterns that emerge. An example of this is who they feature, in the majority of horror films that I watch and have researched they feature either young adults or teenagers.
The casting we did was very simple as we only featured 2 characters. From what we had been planning on our production we wanted a taller character to play the killer as it would look more menacing and make the main character look weaker, also knowing the killer would be masked or either the identity hidden. This made casting a lot easier.
From watching previous slasher films we all had our opinions on which ones were good and which were bad, a major influence of these were how the editing worked and what shot variety they had placed. As we were teenagers we knew what we wanted, which also meant we knew what our audience would want. We wouldn't want to be bored by a slow opening as this may put them off watching the rest of the film, we knew we would have to have a lot of shot selection to use when editing to keep the audience attracted. We also thought that we could have an event going on all the time, even when the person wasn't being kidnapped or murdered, but we soon deciding not to do this as it may overcomplicate the opening of the film and again put the audience off viewing any more of it.
Wednesday, 8 February 2012
Tuesday, 7 February 2012
Rough Cut feedback
Last week Will finished editing our rough cut piece which contained part of the outside scene as well as the inside scenes.
The feedback we got gave us an outlook on our film opening and also helped us with possible storyline ideas. We also received feedback on lighting, Mis-en-scene, characters and location. The main feedback we received was on Mis-en-scene, we were told to make the cellar look messy and unused some of the ideas were To put smashed glass on the floor, put dirt on the floor and walls, we also needed to make it darker due to the natural lighting shining too brightly on our kidnap victim during the shoot. Will had an idea to use artificial lighting instead and shine it through a grate in the other room.
The feedback we got gave us an outlook on our film opening and also helped us with possible storyline ideas. We also received feedback on lighting, Mis-en-scene, characters and location. The main feedback we received was on Mis-en-scene, we were told to make the cellar look messy and unused some of the ideas were To put smashed glass on the floor, put dirt on the floor and walls, we also needed to make it darker due to the natural lighting shining too brightly on our kidnap victim during the shoot. Will had an idea to use artificial lighting instead and shine it through a grate in the other room.
Company Blog
Last week we created the company blog for our production company Conspiracy Productions. The blog will feature all of our podcasts and vodcasts as well as our rough cuts.
Wednesday, 1 February 2012
Podcast 2 - Film Idea + Test Footage
Today we commented on our film idea as well as test footage that we had previously recorded.
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