Ideas for Sequences

From the clips we have gathered we have created a few scenarios that we could use to create the trailer as they work as sequences.

Cell:

• Blood drip on hand
• Zoom In
• Jump cut to other parts of the room
• Looks at the 'Help Me' blood splatter

Spinning Cell:

• Speed up footage
• Merge footage with text and footage with no text
• Stop on the wall
• Show the 'Help Me' writing

Running:

• Running
• drop the Camera
• Sound clip of people shouting run
• Fade to darkness

End:

• Joe moving the door handle very slowly
• open it quickly to reveal nothing
• Fade to darkness
• Whistling begins (song)
• Coming soon screen appeared

News Sequences:

1 - 10 Year anniversary (Beginning of the killings/murders)
   - Sightings in the building
   - Strange noises/happenings

2 - Anniversary
   - Revival of an old story
   -Two people have gone missing within the building, haven't been seen in a long time

Names of the film:

1. Amounderness House Murders
2. Whistler
3. Indignation

Name of the murderer

X=Not using

Surname;
- Jenkins X
-Thistle
-Whistle X (Thinking of using the whistling for the 'trademark' for the killer)
-Scott X

Forename;
-Nicholas X
-Abraham X
-Victor
-Franklin X

We wanted to use an old and unusual name for the murderer. We decided that the killer should have a trademark like some of the other famous movie killers;

- Freddy Krueger ("Nightmare on elm Street" series);  Scratching and the non-diegetic song is played in most of his films (1,2, Freddy's coming for you...)
- Jigsaw ("Saw" series); drum beats and a string orchestra which gets more intense as the killing is coming closer (Typically, the puppet's face will be seen on screen, and he will say "I want to play a game...")

As we wanted our character to also be realistic we wanted our character to also have a 'trademark' etc. As we have filmed one of our characters whistling in the spot light and found the sounds rather scary, we wanted to use whistling as our killers 'tradmeark'. This is also why we decided to use the name 'Thistle' so that we could create an easy tag line such as 'Victor Thistle. Hear him whistle'.

Film Poster Research

This research conveys that the film posters are very simplistic which therefore makes it more effective and will interest the target audience.

Film Poster:

·         Simple Background

·         Name of Film

·         Main image

·         Date/Coming Soon

·         Slogan

Wednesday 9th November- cropping clips 2

Today I have cropped the clips and sounds so that they are ready to use when we start to put our footage together. I have also organised the footage into folders according to which we will use and which we are not going to use.

We needed to know which footage we had which is useful to us so that we could see whether we had enough or needed to film some more. This is the list;

Footage;
-Blood Splatter (Help Me)
-See shadow in the light
-The shadow runs
-Door opens on its own
-Shadow stood in doorway
-Shadow slams the door
-Actress running with the camera
-Joe and I walking down a corridor into the darkness
-Zooming into a hole-something scans across the camera-the door slams
-The chair moving on it's own
-'Help Me' being written on the wall on its own
-Blood dripping onto the hand
-Blood dripping down the wall
Walking around the building
-Looking at the kitchen
-Looking at the first aid room
-Handle rattling
-Door opening on its own
-Bloody hand print on the corner
-Light whip/scanning across the camera
-Bloody hand in the dark
-Room scan (Court room)
(Images can also be used for quick cuts such as; bloody hand print on the window and through the door/bars, writing on the walls)

Sounds;
-Is someone coming?
-RUN!
-Help me
-Scream (1 person)
-Scream (Prank)
-Backwards sounds (weird)
-Whispering
-Help us/let us out
-Breathing
-I've locked the door
-Don't think anyone is here
-It's probably outside
-Didn't sound like outside!
-Scratching
-Doors banging
-Running
-Camera rattle and drop (on the floor)

Possible Film Names

Different Film Ideas...Which would you choose?
10 years too late
Killer Death
Maniac 10 years



After creating a radio button list with a submit box, this allows different people to input there most favorite film idea. After getting the results back we was able to load the information into Microsoft Excel to create a pie chart to get the correct results.

PICTURE HERE, NOT WORKING ATM

Total FilmFront Cover Break Down

Here is a break down of the front cover of Total Film magazine, we should follow these guidelines to create our own magazine front cover.

08/11/2011

Today I started to put the best clips/footage on to our project. This was so that we could easily see which clips we had (which where good to use). I was also separating the sound from the video by using audacity to re-record the sounds. This is so that we can simply edit them later on. Such as make the louder/quieter etc.

I also started to play around with using Premiere Pro to play the clips backwards, slowly making the sound more dragged out/lengthened and of a low pitch. Recording this using Audacity allowed me to save the recording and listen back. When I did, I found that as the sounds where re-winded it sounded rather spooky. There where other things such as laughing, screaming, whispering and moving with sounded odd as they started loudly and slowly deteriorated compared to the noise normally where it would be the opposite to this; start off quiet and then get louder.

I really like the effects created using this technique. This also means that we now have our own background noise and ghost like sounds which we can use within our project.