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Research and Planning: Level 3 13/20
Time management is good
Proficient organisation of actors, locations, costumes and props
Proficient research into similar products and a potential target audience.
There is a good level of care in the presentation of the research and planning

To progress to level 4, make sure you have explained how your research impacted your decisions (for example in your audience profile posts, explain how you intend to address the potential target audience in your opening 2 minutes)
Work on scripting and a storyboard in vital

Film Diary

 

Day One:
28/1/2013

Filming at hannahs house.

Firstly we started to film our opening 2 minutes, in a non chronological order, because one of us was absent and was unable to film certain scenes.

We started to film the fight scene, where i (Dressed in all black with a hood, so you couldnt see my face) Kick george (who is wearing casual clothes) into a door and then strangle him up towards the ceiling. The part where i kicked george was tricky to film because i had to make it look realistic without hurting him, we filmed that part in various ways and in various shots, such as; a low angle shot and a medium shot.
We then filmed the part where i have my hands around georges neck lifting him up against the door, this was tricky because george is taller than me so we had to make george crouch down a bit to make him look smaller. Again, we did this scene in various shots such as close ups of my hand around his neck, And to make it more effective,we had george balance on two chairs with his hands so that his legs dangled,but while doing this we had myself stand in front of him so that we had good continuity.
After this scene we filmed the next part where George gets out some keys from his pocket and keys my face. for the shot where george fumbles around in his pocket for his keys we did a close up shot, and then a long range shot for when he actually keys my face.
Then we did a shot where i fell backwards holding my face because i am hurt.
We then filmed the first scene that will appear in our opening, which is where george is half asleep while a horror film is playing, during the horror film there is a loud and violent which wakes up george and he tries to turn off the tv, these shots at first are close ups and medium shots.
 

 

Animatic of Opening.

Opening 2 mins Script.

Sound Effect []-camera movement ()-stage directions {}-other directions not involving a character

No Sympathy for the Dead

 

[George sits in an arm chair; the TV is on and of a violent film]

George: *gasps*

(He sits up and composes himself)

*breaths heavily out*

(Slump’s back in his chair, He tries to turn the TV off)

*groans*

(He stands up, and moves towards the TV and throws himself to the floor)

*mumble*

“How to turn this thing off?”

(He rides his hand along the edges of the TV to turn it off, he turns presses the button)

Click Click Click

{TV scene is getting louder and quicker}

“Turn off….”

(Pressing the button numerous times He sits back up; gritting his teeth he crawls behind the TV)

“ piece of sh(TV switches off)”

{We see the image on the TV disappear}

(He lifts himself off the floor moves into the next room towards the kitchen)

[Living room is dimly lighted]

(He turns on the kitchen lights)

[Camera from inside the fridge films him]

(He glances through the fridge moving items, he settles on a drink)

[He moves toward the hallway so his face is up close with the camera]

(He appears suspicious, he goes upstairs)

*Creak* (staircase)

[Camera follows him upstairs past his sister bedroom, the light is on]

(He goes to the bathroom and brushes his teeth; there is no toothpaste so he goes through the shelves, with no success he go to his sister)

Our house is falling apart seriously, first the TV no

(He stops talking and goes to back out the room unaware that she is dead)

[The camera shows an over the shoulder shot of the body showing George in the back ground]

(He turns of her light)

Or not

(He goes back to the bathroom)

{The tap is dripping}

[Facing him as if the camera is the mirror]

(He walks out and goes to his room)

[Shows him from the end of the corridor walking towards his room]

{Door creeks behind him}

Creek

(He gets changed into his P.J’s and turns the lights off; as he turns to walk towards his bed he can hear someone on the other side of the door)

{A shadow under door}

(He presses his ear up to the door, then pulls the door open)

[From the end on the corridor at a high-angel shot making him look venerable]

* Laughs at himself *

(he walks towards the bed and is dragged, when he reaches the step he crawls back but is yet again dragged back)

(He sits up and is kicked backwards so he falls backwards so he’s leaning on the door)

[Over the shoulder shot]

(Abbie grabs George by the neck and lifts him up; George grabs her hands in attempt to release himself)

(George scratches Abbie’s faces, to which she drops him)

Abbie: * scream *

(Abbie grabs her face)

[George crawl out his bedroom and escapes down the hall]

(George throws boxes on the floor to block the path)

[George is now in his sister’s room, its dark so you cannot see anything]

George: * panting *

(George turns on the light, he has his back to the door, and he takes a moment to breath, and then quickly moves to wake up his sister)

George: you need to wake up there someone

(He rolls her body towards him to find out she’s dead, he falls back in shock)

* Abbie’s foots steps show she’s getting closer *

(George wipes his face to wake himself up and runs to the books case to retrieve a torch)

George: ok, just move.

(George exits the room and onto the roof)

{Lighting from room lights up the roof, its windy}

(After closing the window George backs away from the window and realizes he will have to get off the roof)

[Panning, following George pacing back and forth contemplating jumping off the roof whilst muttering to himself]

George: no, I’m not doing it, no, no

[George paces towards the camera into a close up]

(he’s on the floor lowering himself down muttering to himself)

[close up on Abbie’s hand grabbing Georges leg]

[showing George from the side]

(George gets dragged off the roof)

sounds of George bodying falling off the roof

{everything goes silent, apart from the sounds of the wind and the tree’s}

(Abbie’s exit)

Music and soundtrack.

Garage Band.

GarageBand is a software application for OS X and iOS that allows users to create music or podcasts

for the opening 2 minutes we will be using garage band to create the sountrack, by using this software it will allow us to create the appropriate music and sound effects fitting in with the 2 minutes.

Research Impact.

Research Impact.

The impact the Research gave was that Horror movies usually have a specific rating, they usually are appropriate and fitting to the film. By reasearching this it means we can give our film an age classification that we think is appropriate, The age classification we chose was a 15. we chose this rating because it have violence and horror.

Also from reaserch i learned that most horror/slasher films contain attractive woman, doing this means the film will attract more male attention rather than female (like Sorority Row), unless the film is targeting young females and has a vast range of attractive males as the cast (like Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter)

Casino Royale

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJubOZLpp4A

 

Casino Royale.

The opening of Casino Royale Applies to the audience of male James Bond fans, This is because action is shows in the first second of the opening, we see people of ethnicity shouting and being agressive, this shows that action can apply more to the male audience. Then again, having attractive male cast members can also draw in the female attention of the audience. The use of fast moving scenes and fast music helps the fast that this genre of film is action, It applies to the audience who like a thrill while watching films. The use of Ethnic people shows that the target audience can involve people of race and culture, culture also is relevent because the setting in the oopening seems to be in a cultured country thats is exotic. The use of a white hero attracts the audince of caucasion people who are similar to the age of the male hero, so they might see themselves in that white hero and think that they relate to him, which basically invites them in to see the movie.