Schedule:

We plan to film on:

• Wednesday 3rd december, on this day we plan to film the bits which we will film in the bedroom alone.
• Saturday 6th december, we will film at a organised party. 

Due to unforeseen circumstances, we were unable to film on these dates, so we have opted to put them forward a week. We aim to film the majority of our film on Saturday, and finish it of with the killing scenes on the Wednesday.

Risk Assessment

Risk assesment

Our prop list

In our opening sequence we plan to use:

• A Glass
• Fake blood
• Fake drugs
• Wax
• Bowl of crisps
• Television
• Sofa/bed
• Straw
• Table
• Chairs

This is our storyboard

This is our storyboard we plan to use for our film;

British cinema statistics

In 2003, 52% of people aged 15-24 went to the cinema once or more on a month. This is around the age we have opted as our age range for our horror opening sequence. Also this age range goes to the cinema the most, followed by 25-34 which 33% go to the cinema once or more a month. 

Therefore, we can be sure that our film would make money as the age range it is aimed at are regular at the cinema. If we were to advertise well we would produce a large audience and be able to make an acceptable profit. 

Beth-Dec

Preliminary Task...

our task was a continuity task which had to include:

Opening a door

Crossing a room and holding a conversation

This task had too demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule.

As we were in a pair we joined with another group so that they could be our actors and we could be theirs. 

Beth and Dec

Evaluation of Prelim task !

Our film has a clear story and it is easy to understand what is going on.
The shots we use are generally steady but there is a bit of a wobble on one of the cuts.

At the beginning of the movie we do a shot of the door opening. we realised that we see the door open from one side and then open again from the other side where as we should have shown it open half from one side and half from the other!

On our real film we should consider the length of our shots at the conversation scene because it appears to be to jumpy in places.

Beth + Dec

Preliminary Task...

Goodfellas long tracking shot.

We could use aspects of this film with the tracking device but instead of tracking people will could track the glass starting with a shot of someone putting something into it then follow around the party maybe introducing us to other characters and then meeting the girl and giving her the drink. i think this shot would benefit our film because it would be a chance to introduce characters and surroundings.

'Silent Hill' opening sequence.

'Dream' opening sequence

We could use aspects of this opening sequence in our own, it creates questions and nothing is clear. You don't know what to expect or what is going on so this could be a good start of an opening sequence to draw inspiration from.

Beth

What an opening sequence should do...

An opening sequence should firmly establish a time and place as well as introducing characters. It should also set up enigmas that should be resolved, and set up the initial equilibrium which is disrupted or will be disrupted later in the film. In an opening sequence you need to reassure the audience by demonstrating the conventions of the chosen genre including typical characters, settings, narratives and film language. 

So therefore, in our opening sequence we will have to establish the party, through the music and atmosphere, but also be able to indicate the fact that something bad will happen. To reassure the audience that our film is of the horror genre we could use tense music building up to a climax for example the film jaws used music, which is now recognised by everyone, when the shark was around so that the audience knew that an attack was about to take place.

In our opening sequence we want to achieve excitement and interest though the characters, and there actions. We will also aim to establish an enigma of who the killer is, and why the killer is doing this.

Beth

Target Audience

Our target audience for our project will be from the 15 upwards. We have decided to do this as we feel they contents of the sequence would be too explicit for children. Also we feel the elderly may not be able to watch this as it may be too violent. People with heart conditions may not be able to watch this as it could cause health problems.

Dec

Research

We have been looking at statistics for horror films on the box office, we have found that all horror films have had great opening weekends. This includes 'The Strangers' which was released the same time as Indiana Jones V and sex in they city, two huge films, which have been highly anticipated by millions, but The Strangers still managed to take in 20 million in the first weekend.

www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/12442

The box office database shows that the majority of horror films are making huge profits from what are small budgets for example, Saw was filmed on a budget of 1.2 million, but made 55 million, as was Saw 2, filmed with a budget of 4 million, but took in 87 million. Which seems to be a constant patten in the horror genre.  saw 5 has been in the cinema, 2.4 weeks, and has already built up a 50 million domestic gross. 

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/showdowns/chart/?id=sawvs.htm

Through this research we believe that we can prove that if we were to show our film in full in the cinema it would be able to make a reasonable profit.

Flow Chart

The opening sequence of a film must introduce questions and anticipation, the viewer will then want to carry on watching to find out what is going on. 

This is a basic plan of what we are aiming to do.

• We will start with a extreme long shot of the house were we want the incident to begin.
• we will then have a jump cut to inside the house were the party is happening, this will be a mid/long shot showing the room and people inside.
• we will then have an extended planning shot of someone carrying a drink around and handing it to a girl.
• we will then cut to a shot of the girl saying thank-you.
• Next we will show a point of view shot of the girl struggling up the stairs and entering the bedroom where she collapses on the bed
• Next we will cut to a shot of the killer leaving the room and closing the door.
• some friends will then enter the room to find their friend dead and blood dripping into a glass.
• we will end our sequence with a shot of her hand carved with a number showing which position she was killed.

Dec and Beth

Why we have chosen this?

After research we have decided to use the horror genre for our film. We have decided to use this genre as we both watch and enjoy this genre so know quite a lot about it, and what we expect to see when we watch this type of film. For example when we watch a horror film, we expect to see death/violence, confusion, and a large sensation of excitement mixed with fear.

Dec/Beth

Our Film

We are planning on doing a horror, we intend to film at party, which will be closely followed by a killing. We want to do this at night, with the killers face never being shown, just his hands and his body. This is to keep the audience interested and waiting to find out who is the killer. The killer will be a serial killer, and each time he kills he is going to carve a number on his victims hands in order which they were killed, e.g. first person to be killed will have a 1, the second will have a 2 etc.

Horror Information

Horror films are films which wish to provoke fear and terror in the response of the audience. Such films usually use plots including the supernatural colliding with 'our world'. Otherwise the theme can be completely "supernatural" without any trace of reality. Horror movies usually include a central villain. Early horror are largely based on classic literature of the gothic/ horror genre, such as Dracula, Frankenstein, The Wolf Man, Phantom of the Opera and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Later horror films, in contrast, often drew inspiration from the insecurities of life after World War II, giving rise to the three distinct, but related, sub-genres: the horror-of-personality Psycho film, the horror-of-armageddon Invasion of the Bodysnatchers film, and the horror-of-the-demonic Hellraiser film. The last sub-genre may be seen as a modernized transition from the earliest horror films, expanding on their emphasis on supernatural agents that bring horror to the world.[1] - Wikipedia


Dec  -  Beth