My group and I have started editing the footage we have so far of the opening two minutes. We have not yet finished filming the whole of our film as we still have the last minute to film, but as we are starting to run out of time we need to get on with editing as this is going to take up most of our time.
The software we are using to edit our film is Adobe, so far we have edited about one minute of our opening film. At the moment the film is looking ok, but not as good as we expected, due to the fuzziness and jumping when we are watching it on screen and also because the film is so dark, as we are trying to make the film look like it is night time. It is hard to tell what the actual finishing product will look like, but we are putting all our hard work and effort into the editing so hopefully it will pay off.
On Friday, my group and I filmed half of our new story line, and found that it worked a lot better than the previous. The new story line looks more realistic and targets the genre that we are trying to make.
We have also decided that we are no longer going to be needing George as the killer, as Sarah is going to step in and take the role. We found that we were able to achieve and get a lot more filming done on Friday, than we have done in the previous times, due to the previous cast, Ben (Ambrose), Bel and George have now been excluded from the film.
The props that are used are similar to the previous for example, in the bedroom it is a stereotypical teenage bedroom so the props around the room will make the film look more realistic. However, we no longer need the phone. The new props that we have decided to use are a flannel, which Emma uses to wash her face with.
My group and I will next be filming on Tuesday 15th March, whereby we will be filming the last scenes. Since changing the story line it has taken a lot longer to film than we expected, so it has made us a bit behind but we are starting to get back on track now and in the progress of editing bits of the film that we have so far.
My group and I have decided to change our story line, as we felt that our previus sotry line wasn't believable and was starting to look nothing like a horror film. This encouraged us to think about changing the way in which the stories portrayed.
We have decided to exclude Ben (Ambrose) and Bel as too many people in the house didn't convey the horror theme correctly. We have decided to keep the killer (George) as he fits the build of a stereotypical killer, Emma will also still keep the main leeding role of the vulnrable teenage girl. We hope this will improve our footage and provide us with a believable story. The setting will still be the same, in a house, mainly in (Emma's) bedroom, and also the outside of the house.
The new story line consists of; Emma asleep in the bedroom but then she hears noises and becomes weary and frightned. Emma will walk into the bathroom and splash her face with water, she will look up and see there is a death threat on the bathroom mirror (Emma SCREAMS). The camera circles the whole room to show that there is no killer to be seen. The killer will then appear in the bathroom behind Emma. Emma will then run back into the bedroom, the killer then chases after Emma holding a knife to her. Emma will scream and wake up, realising that it was a dream.
There will be little talking (screaming), towards the end of the two minutes, as the killer will show up right at the end. My group and I haven't planned as far as what will be said but will decide when we are next filming.
We are planning on filming tomorrow (Friday 4th March).
During filming on Friday, my group and I realized that whilst looking at the footage from our last filming, we needed to add in a few more shots after scene 2. The first shot we have had to add in, is a long shot of Emma opening the door and a secondly a long shot of showing Emma walking out of the bedroom door and walking down the stairs, we then cut the shot when Emma is walking half way down the stairs so we could get a third new shot of a low angle shot of Emma walking down the stairs and then following Emma towards the front door whereby she turns the light on. The final new shot is a long shot to show Ben walking downstairs.
Here is a video of our finalized animatic, we have made sure that we have based it similar to how our finalized film will end up looking like.
My group and I, are currently in the process of creating our animatic storyboard. It has taken some time unfortunately, as there has been a problem with the software however, it is all sorted now and we are back on track with making it. I have used the exact same pictures as I used for the previous story board, as it was easier to use these pictures instead of having to draw them out again. So far I have uploaded the story board pictures onto adobe premiere element and have started to edit each individual shot as to long they are going to be. My group and I will proceed with this task on our next media lesson.
I have looked further into audience profiling for horror, and I have looked into when horror films are most likely to be released at the cinema. Horror films are most likely to be released during november through to october, during the halloween period. This is a good time for horror films to be released, as more people are likely to go to the cinema to watch a horror filming at halloween. All types of film genres have different times during the year when they are released for instance, halloween is a time for horror films to be released, christmas is a time for christmas films to be released and valentine is a time for romantic comedy's to be released. Depending on what time of year it is, depends on when a film is released, and depending on which genre the film is.
- Halloween was released in October 1978 however, there has been a remake of the film that was released in august 2007.
- Elf was released in November 2003, which was just in time for christmas.
- Valentines Day was released in February 2010
