Filmed Evaluation

FINISHED FILM. HURRAY.

Finally done, and amazingly on time.

Matt, Ewan and Tom x

Filming Update.

Bit late, but better late than never.

We originally intened to film the rest of our work last wednesday, however our main actor was unwell, and the weather was awful, so instead we had to settle for filiming the titles.

The titles didn't come out like we'd hoped, so these have to be reshot which is going to happen tomorrow, and we are going to film the rest this Wednesday, a week later than we'd planned.

Ewan.

AS Media evaluation. Ewan Tom and Matt

We were inspired by dream horror movies like Nightmare on Elm Street, and films that use creepy kids, like the grudge and the ring. We put the ideas together and came up with a teenagers little sister, who was tragically killed, haunts the teenagers dreams. It's also a little convenient as Ewan has a five year old sister who is a little creepy.
Our production is still going, but it's going smoothly (mostly) with an even balance of work being shared.

The typical horror conventions are as follows: We have the cliche creepy ghost girl, a good looking teenager victim, and a spooky graveyard setting. While researching we watched ghost films like, the Others, the Ring, and the Orphanage. We have one kind of challenge of conventions in that our victim is not female. Which is usually the norm.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pxcvo5-n7a0 A trailer for the original, and decent nightmare on elm street.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qttT_10QGQ0 An example of the creepy ghost girl feel we were going for, from The Ring.


According to our IMBD research, which showed that films like the Ring and the Grudge have a majority audience of 16 to 23 year old males, this is our target audience. I think this group is associated with horror films because they enjoy being scared, or thrilled with their friends. We will use this information to take whats good about the films we researched, and include them, or try to include them in our own work.

This genre represents children as creepy and scary, and teenagers as quite innocent, which is quite a flip-around, and challenges stereotypes. We mostly emphasized these things via costume and make up. Dave is dressed normally, and Ellie made to look sinister and ghostly.


 Our film was a good example of targeting our specific audience (16-25) because our film showed similar conventions of ghost films  targeting a similar audience like The Ring. This target audience is important because it includes the ages which are most popular with horror films which gives our film more of a chance to appeal to them, which we think we managed to do.
The evaluation research showed similar age ranges for target audiences e.g "15 - 21" these are not far off of our intended target audience which means our film has achieved the desired target audience.
The actor 'Dave' is a 17 year old which worked with our target audience as they can relate more to the actor. The music was very modern for horror films the dark and bass like sounds to invoke fear whilst they watch the film which shows a much younger appeal because of the music, close to our film.
The generic conventions also follow the appeal to our target audience as they use similar features such as  flashbacks and actors of similar target audience age.
The mise en scene costume and make up also follows similar age group to our target audience. Dave's clothes use trends that are in modern teenagers and above to around 25 today, showing more of a relation   to the audience.

To distribute our media film there are a variety of way we can do this in order for a production company to access our film. A good way is via the internet and youtube, finding production companies and emailing or posting them our film. Or we could put our film on youtube for it to be accessed by anyone who goes on youtube. which could be a production company scout. Another great way of trying to distribute our is sending our film to independent british film festivals for production companies.
I think our film would be appealing to production companies as our 2 minute snippet uses great shots and directing with a convincing story-line.

From this film project I think it's safe to say we have definately become much, much better with cameras and tripods, and I'm proud of variety in the shots and movements we used.On top of getting better with a camera, we also became more profficient with Garageband and the movie making software. (the garageband took a while to get the hang of) As two out of three of us had never really used a mac before, we had a good oppurtunity to learn, and learn we did. Mostly the technology helped our creativity, but sometimes we felt a little constrained with the limited amount of titles and sounds on the movie maker.

From the prelimiary task to know, we have definately learnt many more skills on the editing software and with the camera. We have become more aware of the importance of contiuation, and how much more proffesional a shot can look of framed correctly. Looking back now, the only thing we would change is that we would give ourselves more time, as we left it a little last minute.

Contribution:

Matt: At the planning stage, initially me and Ewan came up with the idea, and after talking through and building our idea together, Ewan wrote the script whilst I did the story board afterwards. Me and ewan both secured permission for filming at the graveyard film. I fount our leading actor, David Harris. And soughted the planning sheets for location and Actor profiles. I attended all five filming sessions, and took Joint main duties with Ewan in editing.

Ewan: At the planning stage, myself and Matt came up with the initial concept. I wrote the script while Matt drafted and completed the story board. Myself and Matt secured permission to film in the graveyard, and I found Ellie for the part of the monster.I also did the makeup and attended all five filming sessions with Matt. When it came to editing, I took a main role with Matt. I also had an input in the soundtrack.

Tom: I attended one of the five filming sessions, and did the majority of the soundtrack. Sadly, I was part of another group during the planning stage, so I did nothing for Matt and Ewan during this time.

First edited shots

These are the first few edited shots of our project. It's basically the flashback where Ellie is hit by a car. We're still trying to end it better, and the shots here will be cut into by Dave running through the graveyard, so it won't appear like this in the final one.

We plan to shoot the rest of our project sometime between next Monday and Friday.

Weather for Sunday 13th February

lookin' fiiiiiiine.

Booked a camera out

and we plan to film this Sunday (the 13th of February)
We aren't filming the whole thing, just the scene in which Ellie (the ghost girl) is hit by the car in a flashback sequence . Obviously for reasons of safety Ellie and the car won't make any contact, but will edit it in such a way that we simply suggest that she has been hit.

First attempt at horror film sound track.

Thomas Purdy

Has joined our group. YAY.

We have begun work on Garageband.

Conventions of a ghost films

This is where we did a simple mind map of the conventions of a stereo typical ghost film. this was useful as   it gave us many ideas for our own film

Audience and Certification research

This is where we made research on Audience and Certification which ensured we understand what content will be included in our 15/18 horror film

Evaluation of previous students work

This is where we evaluated a past AS students work.

Evaluation of horror film introductions

This is where we evaluated over horror films introductions, this was use full as it helped us design how to decide our own film introduction.

Recee Sheets

This is our recee sheet, which has a description and illustration of one of our locations, and also includes information on the sound, lighting, health and safety and if we have permission to use the premises

Make Up Design

This shows the make-up, props and costumes we are using for one of our actors.

Storyboard input.

This is our Story board. We believe that story boards are important as they let us spend more time on decisions towards which shot angles, types and transactions too use.

Shot list

This is the shot list for our film, this indicates how long each shot should be. This was use full as it helped us keep to the guide line of 2-3 mins and will be very use full when shooting our film.

Friday, January 21st

We are now going to scan all of our coursework onto our blogs to show the work we have produced.

COURSE WORK FINISHED

We finished all of our coursework to a satisfaction which we are happy with, and handed it in yesterday dinner time, yay!

Matt
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Finished Storyboard

Drafts are finished and Storyboard is now finished to our satisfaction. The storyboard comes to a total of 6 pages. I spent lots of time on our storyboard as I beleive it is one of the most vital parts of our coursework as it helps make decisons towards our filming, and how to earn marks with a variety of shot types and angles.

Matt
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Test Shots for Creepy Ellie.

With only eyeliner and some white facepaint. Works alright, I think.

Script. By Ewan.

THE PASSING. FIRST DRAFT.

By Ewan Moore.

INT. DAVES HOUSE- LIVING ROOM.-NIGHT.

DAVE sits on sofa looking at photograph, he looks sad.

CLOSE UP to show he is holding photograph of Dave and little sister, ELLIE

Dave gets up, sighs, places the photo down, and leaves the room

CUT TO

EXT. STREET-NIGHT

POV shot; something is looking in Dave’s living room as he gets up and leaves.

FADE TO

INT. DAVES HOUSE-HALLWAY

POV shot, camera wanders through the house, through into the kitchen, looking at the fridge; fridge magnets display titles; MATT NEWTON AND EWAN MOORE. Camera keeps moving, walks upstairs, slowly, carefully, at the top of the stairs in alphabet blocks, the word; PRESENTS. The camera carries on across the landing to Dave’s bedroom door. On the door, made to look like some sort of band logo, is the films title; THE PASSING. The door opens and the camera moves inside to see Dave lying asleep in bed.

CUT TO

CLOSE UP of the same photo of Dave and Ellie on Dave’s bedside table.

CLOSE UP of Dave tossing and turning in bed

FADE TO

EXT. GRAVEYARD-EARLY MORNING

All scenes in graveyard will have a BLACK AND WHITE EFFECT.

DREAMDAVE lying flowers by grave. There is a picture of Ellie also by the grave.

DreamDave closes his eyes, and we hear a screeching car, distant sounding. When Dave opens his eyes, he looks up off camera.

CUT TO

INT. DAVES BEDROOM-NIGHT

CLOSE UP of Dave as he continues to toss and turn, a little more now.

CUT TO

EXT. GRAVEYARD-EARLY MORNING

DreamDave sees CREEPY ELLIE, standing in the distance, under an arch. She goes to walk forward, and then disappears.

DreamDave stands to walk over to where he just saw Creepy Ellie, and she appears from behind her grave. DreamDave turns to look at her, and she is in a tattered dress, with a pale face, and straggly hair. She is holding a small colourful ball. She stares at him. No sign of emotion.

DreamDave turns and begins to run through the graveyard, not looking back.

CUT TO

INT. DAVES BEDROOM-NIGHT

Dave in bed, tosses and turns more furiously than before, as if he is struggling.

CUT TO

EXT. STREET.-DAYTIME

A shot of a large CAR zooming down a road

CUT TO

EXT. GRAVEYARD-EARLY MORNING

DreamDave running through the graveyard

CUT TO

EXT. STREET.-DAYTIME

A small colourful ball bouncing onto the road

CUT TO

INT. DAVES BEDROOM-NIGHT

Dave in bed tossing and turning furiously

CUT TO

EXT. GRAVEYARD-EARLY MORNING

DreamDave trips over

CUT TO

EXT. STREET.-DAYTIME

Ellie in the road, looking normal and healthy, she walks over to pick up the ball.

We see the car in the distance.

CUT TO

EXT. GRAVEYARD-EARLY MORNING

Creepy Ellie stands over Dave. Just staring.

CUT TO

EXT. STREET.-DAYTIME

Ellie picks up the ball. The car gets closer. As she turns round the car is inches from her.

CLOSE UP of Ellies face.

CUT TO

INT. DAVES BEDROOM-NIGHT

Dave jerks awake, as the sound of a car screeches in the distance.

FADE TO BLACK

This is a rough outline we jotted down before starting on the scrpit.

• Starts off, camera moving through the house, heading upstairs. Titles show up around house.
• Get to bedroom, see dave in bed tossing and turning. Picture of him and Ellie on bedside table.
• In black and white (this a dream) Dreamdave at a gravestone lying flowes by grave. There is a picture of Ellie also by this grave.
• Dreamdave closes his eyes, and we hear a car screeching.
• Dreamdave looks up off camera. We don't see what he's looking at.
• Back in bedroom Dave tosses and turns.
• Dreamdave sees creepy Ellie standing in the distance under arch.In seconds she's gone again.
• Dreamdave gets up to go to where Creepy Ellie was, and she appears behind him. This is when the audience get a proper look at her, all straggly and creepy and dead.
• Dreamdave turns to run through the graveyard, not looking back.
• THIS SECTION IS LOTS OF FAST CUTS:
• Dave in bed tosses and turns more vigourously than before.
• We see a car zoom down a road.
• Dreamdave keeps running
• We see a ball bounce onto the road.
• Dave in bed tosses and turns.
• Dreamdave stumbles and falls over.
• We see normal Ellie, walking into the middle of the road to pick up the ball. The car is seen in the distance.
• Creepy Ellie stands over Dreamdave. Mute. Expresionless.
• We see car come closer to normal Ellie.
• As Dave jerks awake in bed, we hear the echo of a car screeching.

Thats it at the moment. We'll put up the finsished script before Friday.

Matt And Ewan.