My filmic tastes

Top 5 films i have recentley seen:
1)Paranormal Activity
2)Be Kind Rewind
3)Love actually
4)Bourne ultimatum
5)Borat


My top 5 favourite films:
1)Shawshanks Redemption
2)Some like it Hot
3)Harry Potter
4)Factory Girl
5)Atonement

The film genres i enjoy the most is Action i like the intensity and uncontrolability it brings, and i also enjoy romance/comedy as the films in these genres that i watch are often very relatable to every day life, using a young teenage cast addressing issues which are often covered up.

My favourite film is the Shawshank redemption because it addresses ordinary every day themes such as friendship/conflict, it involves a heart warming happy ending, it is a realistic view into the lives of an inmate in that time period. I also respect the actors used Morgan Freeman (also in Invictus and Million Dollar Baby), Tim Robbins ( also in War of the worlds) and Bob gunton (also in 24 and desperate housewives).

The Storyline:

Set in the 1940's, a succesful young banker is imprisoned on a false accusation of killing his wife and her lover. However as the plot thickens we follow the bankers journey with help from soon to be longtime friend Red Andy defreuee escapes from the warden as a flee of hope and justice.

Trailer:

ANIMATIC TASK

Group: Myself, Emmie Bryett and Emma Graveling.
Genre:Slasher.
This task involved taking still images of key shots of what type of storyline we wanted to create for our final product, making a brief outline of the beginning of the film. We included a number of different types of shots such as longshots, close up and two shot. It was a relativley easy task and i felt we made a clear storyline which our audience could follow through the mise en scene (black hoody covered up face signifies horror,type of shot e.g extreme close up to show expression of terror all signifying slasher genre).

Audience Feedback:

Beth Cooper: May be hard to not make it comical being such a stereotypical horror.

The class and John: Movies to watch- Scream, Camp Blood, April Fools Day, Hell Night(just watched) and the opening of warriors.

Dave: include false scare,filters over lense and a killer motive.
Parent advice: different time of time would be of better use such as nightime which is a stereotypical old school horror factor and used in many existing media products therefore a relatable factor.

Making of Distributer title

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Evaluation

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DISTRIBUTER/PRODUCTION LOGO.

Wharfedale entertainment is the name of our Distributer, we wanted to do it in black and white to singnify simplicty and the deep intensity of a slasher genre. We used this font as it is stereotypical for a horror genre.

EME productions is our production label, we added this effect due to the hellish/firey effect it gives off, It also gives an earthy atmospheric feel which is related to our choice of location as it is very much outside in a wood and a suitable choice. 

SOUNDTRACK

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A member in our group Emmie Bryett experimented with a number of different stabbing sounds which would take the place of the knife killing our first girl killed (Cast member Alex Webb) she found stabbing a melon ( a method used my Alfred Hitchcock) would be the most realistic diagetic sound.
We also experimented with different sources of food such as cabbages,other vegetables and experimented on the internet with different programmes however we found the most realistic sound was to make our own.

SOUND/SOUNDTRACK.
Initially we were going to ask a friend of ours who is a muscian to make us some dubstep/gurnge music to play whilst they were taking drugs/alcohol however we realised we didn't need this music as it wasn't that intense so mad eour own instead.

We experimented on Garage band,,so it  is copyright free. The title and credits with the opening scene share the same extract of music which consists of it from the killers point of view to make the audience feel like they are being watched
We hoped the extract of music we created for the killing scene would give the effect that it is messing with your heartbeat whilst creating a tense atmosphere.
As we used the boom mike throughout our dialogue whilst filming it initialy meant that there was no need for re-shooting the dialogue scenes or re-recording as it is all high quality, blocking out the background noise making the operation easier.
The onyl issue we experienced was the rain on a day of the shooting picking up on slight background noise and making the atmoshphere slightly uncomfortable for our cast.

For the dialogue in the killing scene only a high pitched scream occurs so we re-recorded that using a voice recorder to get a high quality sound.
Emma Graveling a member of our group imported sounds from IMOVIE, such as chirping and footsteps to achieve realism due to the setting being in a wood and to signify what is happening.

Re-shooting sessions.

Our original plan was to re-shoot over easter then on the first thursday we get back to school, however spanish oral exams were taking place and our main character (Alex=first girl killed) was unable to attend our filming session due to her exam scheduele and revision. we are planning to re-shoot later on in the week when all cast members can attend to achieve the most accurate shots possible.

Re-shooting session 1: Thursday 29th April

We need to re-shoot the camping scene. where the cast are messing around/drinking alcohol and in a vunerable state.

Props needed: Tent, youth clothing, Alcohol substitutes, clothing for characters, camping gear, camp fire matireals , mobile phones/magazines etc all to signify representation of age and provide relatable themes and matireal for our target audience (youth audience).

Equipment: Two cameras needed, Two tripods and boom mike to avoid interferences such as wind and background noise.

Cast: 6 characters altogether: three females (Conservative virgin type girl= Final girl, Exposed, 'tarty' type= First girl killed and other girl) three males (First girl killed boyfriend, two other friends)