(20/10/2011)

Poster/Magazine Ideas

Steps needed to start the promo ideas...

1) Pictures of the characters in the film;

Majority of horror poster pictures have images of characters that have been distorted or changed to fit the film.

Below are a couple of pictures what kind of design horror posters have with face's and characters in the image:

  

 

2) Pictures of the location

The Main feature to these horror posters is the dark and sinister texture that is placed on top of the design. In order to get a good poster we need a good starting point and a strong idea.

The next step is to get all the images that was taken at the place of filming and figure out which is the best image for the poster.

New Plot Filming List

As we have changed our location and our plot slightly, we now need a new filming list.

Cast:We don't need many characters as well will mostly be shooting tracking shots, and using quick editing but we will have a male and female character to attract both sexes to the film.

Props/Things to take with us

• Fake blood
• Torches/lighting/candles, Lighters
• Camera
• Tripod
  
  

Things to do when filming:

·         Use the camera to record other happenings in the building (Paranormal Activity style) 

·         Look at the lighting- use our own as well as the natural lighting and artificial

·         Plan certain shots- Screaming, running away, shadows

·         Use props and fake blood

·         Promo shots and stills for poster/magazine

Things to film:

-Through the window/door into a room (Stalker-style "peeping" shots)

- Some shots hand-held and some using tripod, to get professional effect and gritty/realism shots

- Isolated shots of interior and exterior

- Moving shadows (in the background, and focusing on this only)

- Walking and also running around the corridors (hand held)

- Zoom in shots on faces (reaction shots

- Doors slamming/rattling 

Things that could be done in the studio:
Close-ups
Record the sound- screams

 

Plan

In most horror movie trailers there is a certain orders that happen in the trailer

1)   The first part to the trailer is always calm and a soft music is played over the top.

2)   The middle part is where the crash happens. Something will pop up, a change in the story line, this is where people will get scared or get put on edge.

3)   The last part of the trailer is the cliff hanger. The part what really makes the viewer want to watch the    film.

These steps need to be taken into place in our storyboard. We need to figure out the soft music that is placed over the trailer to make the consumer being calm. Then the different camera shots need to be organised.  This needs to be in detail because fast camera shots will be needed so there has to be enough filming produced to get a good edit scene.

As we are filming on the 21st, A story board of shots and camera angles will be needed for a good filming.

Change of Idea

 Looking at our previous idea (Cluedo) we decided to leave this, and start all over again. We all thought about films which we liked within the horror/thriller genre. We then  allowed the influence of films that we had seen to influence us with our filming. Films/trailers like Paranormal Activity, and Don't be Afraid of the Dark.

 These all contributed to the idea which we now have. The building and rooms also added to our idea, making it clearer and helping us decided on what we needed to film.

The Idea;
-Two teenagers break into a house/building
-This is the one/ten year anniversary of the 'killers' last attack/death
-The killer was a man who roamed the streets and took people into his 'council' (hence filming in a court room)
-These people where selected especially as he knew something about them (they where liars/had done something wrong)
-He then put them on trial, where they had to prove themselves
-If found guilty/not genuine, they would then be brutally slaughtered and their souls left to wander the building to haunt other "victims"*

We also had the idea of each "victim"* naming another person (preferably someone else with a flaw) who would then become the killers next "victim"*.

(*Victim is put in quotation marks as they were the offender, now on the other side of the spectrum as the victim).

Location of filming

Police station and magistrates' court, now used as courtrooms.
1857, enlarged 1901. By J.H.Park. Sandstone ashlar (red brick
at rear), slate roofs. U-plan, formed by original block with
rear wing to Earl Street, and addition on south side also with
rear wing. Classical style. Two storeys (probably over
cellars), plus 3-stage tower to the addition.

The original range is a symmetrical 5-window composition, with a plinth,
channelled rusticated ground floor, rusticated quoins to 1st
floor, frieze inscribed "ERECTED BY THE CORPORATION A.D.1857
LAWRENCE SPENCER ESQUIRE MAYOR", prominent modillioned cornice
and balustraded parapet with ball finials.

The centre has a round-headed doorway with an architrave of coupled engaged
Tuscan columns and prominent cornice, above this a window with
pairs of panelled pilasters and consoles supporting a pediment
with lamb and flag, and a round-headed upstand in the parapet
with a shield.

All the windows are sashed without glazing bars, those at 1st floor paired under cornices on consoles.
The 2-window right-hand return is in matching style. The wing continued to the rear is of heavily rusticated rock-faced masonry, 5 windows, mostly round-headed and those at ground
floor barred, but the end bay has a square headed doorway and
window above both with cornices; and beyond this is a lower
2-storey 5-window cell-block with small semicircular windows
at ground floor and round-headed windows above, all with
grills.