Movie Opening.

Our movie opening.

Screenshots of us editing and editing techniques - P5.

We used many types of editing techniques, we did decide on not doing and transitions though. Instead we featured a larger amount of cuts. Frances and I spent a large amount of time getting these cuts to the perfect frame within the recording. Therefore, we could have our movie seem as authentic as possible. Frances and I also went through a large assortment of filters that out opening could use to make it seem dark and gloomy. Also, to make it so specific cuts don’t take massive gaps between contrast and saturation. As a result, we spent a large amount of time on these and shadows to try and get the perfect shades.

For the music and sounds I spent a short amount of time before recording on making these quickly on garageband. I decided to go for a more old fashioned horror movie route with the sounds taking inspiration from The Shining and Friday the 13th, two of my favourite horror movies that features very simple heavy beat sounds/music. This is to rise tension and give an idea of something ominous happening. I made around six different sounds/music to add within these so that myself and any present members of the group could decide what’s perfect. This was before we actually planned what would happen and I just took out stereotypes of horror movies such as suspense, chase scenes and scenery shots. I believe this was great because in the end Frances and I chose good places for the music to go with the opening when the editing began. 

When editing I also decided to make copies of the film along the side, this is so if we do mess up and accidentally save, we got a clean one that we can jump straight to without any problems. Finally, we used the colour pallet from Final Cut Pro X to get colours more precise along with the contrast, shadows and saturation. This allows all scenes to look perfect without any errors.

Editing images.

Sounds and music that were created.

Budget and Finance - P3.

We don’t actually have a budget since most of our props and cameras are luckily already provided for us by school. Although, if we were to need a budget, a large amount of it would be spent on cameras. The computers won’t be needed since Ben has his own mac book with the software which can server the same purposes. As a result, our budget won’t be too large compared to how it should be.

Horror photos - P1.

We chose these photos because they resembled the abandoned asylum that we are basing our story around.

Audience Research on Horror Movies - P2.

British horror films: 28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later, The Omen, Hellraiser, Alien, Shaun Of the Dead, The Wicker Man, Sinister, The Shining, The Descent, Underworld, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, The Woman in Black, Kill List, etc.

Psychological horror films: The Sixth Sense, The Cell, Blair Witch, It Follows, The Grudge, The Exorcist, Psycho, The Ring, Saw, The Woman in Black, The Shining, etc.

The target audience for a horror, and for our film, are people who are interested in the thrill from the adrenaline rush from the fear that is given from these movies. A common age demographic for psychological horrors would be: Teenagers and young adults, from the range of 15-30 year olds. Although this doesn’t mean that older and younger people cannot enjoy them too. This genre/sub-genre appeals to both genders, as they aren’t aimed at a specific gender, it focuses more on letting the audience to experiment with their fears and emotions. Although some of the more recent movies have featured a large number of female protagonists so some movies could be focusing on a target audience of females.

Shaun of the Dead - P1.

Shaun of the Dead

• Shaun of the Dead is a horror/comedy and it was released in the UK on the 9th April 2004.
• It was directed by Edgar Wright, written by Wright and Simon Pegg and it stars Pegg and Nick Frost.
• Shaun is a 30-something loser with a dull, easy existence. When he's not working at the electronics store, he lives with his slovenly best friend, Ed, in a small flat on the outskirts of London. The only unpredictable element in his life is his girlfriend, Liz, who wishes desperately for Shaun to grow up and be a man. When the town is inexplicably overrun with zombies, Shaun must rise to the occasion and protect both Liz and his mother.
• The budget was $6.1 million.
• It took £1.6 at 366 cinemas on the opening weekend and netted £6.4 million by mid May.
• On its opening weekend on the US, it earned $3.3 and was placed seventh at the box office.
• The film earned US$30,039,392 worldwide in box office receipts since its release.
• It was also nominated for a BAFTA thanks to its critical and commercial success.
• Production companies: StudioCanal, Working Title Films, Big Talk Productions, Film4 Productions.
• It was distributed by Universal Pictures internationally and Rogue Pictures in the US.

Horror Movie Initial Ideas - P1.

Initial Ideas.

So for our initial ideas we had multiple simple ideas that came into play. First one of the ideas was to base the movie in a school, with a plot based in this too. This was an idea by myself based on A Nightmare On Elm Street, where the caretaker goes crazy and attempts to kill the children, this idea is similar to the movie because Freddy Krueger was a caretaker that takes revenge on children that he cared for. I believe this would work because changing the setting will take a large amount of time trying to make the area not look like a school is also really hard. 

Another one of our intial ideas is based on the main idea we already got now, this is with me as Simon in an abandoned mental asylum but I die on screen with blood spitting out of my mouth, I requested for this to be changed because this is firstly an overkilled opening, plus that means I will need to hold a considerable amount of fake blood in my mouth without showing any of it before I die. Also this may take a large amount of shoots and will be bad to me as a person because fake blood will have to be made with syrup, flour and red food colouring, this would be very thick and sugary and will therefore affect me badly.

Now our original idea is where I am in a an abandoned asylum as a journalist, I look around taking notes and soon get killed by spirits. This is followed up by the friends finding out that he's missing. They go looking for him and are picked off one by one.