Risk assessment
Within filming we need to take high safety precautions so no one gets injured slightly or majorly. We need to take precautions on props being used such as having a knife in the film, even if we're not using it, just having the knife around can cause injuries such as if someone slips and falls on to it and seriously injure them selves such as cuts and maybe even stabbing them.
Another precaution we need to make is when we make the fake blood, we need to make sure that we do not use ingredients that anyone is allergic to, this could cause reactions and people who we need for the film not being able to film any longer due to the allergic reaction.
Make up is also a precaution to make due to the fact people maybe again allergic to the ingredients in the make up and can cause awful reactions on their face.
We also need to make sure that we are careful whilst filming in the woods as there is a hazards of slipping or tripping due to the branches. Precautions that we can take are making sure that someone guides the individual filming so that they can look at what they are recording as well as staying safe and avoiding hazards. This will eliminate any risk of anyone falling and injuring themselves.
Sunday, 4 May 2014
Saturday, 3 May 2014
Friday, 2 May 2014
Production Logo
DMEMSHMI Production Logo
When designing this logo we wanted to present it n such a way that made it obvious that we were an independent film company. We did this by basing our design around a common directors tool the 'clapper board'.
We also decided to use this as it is often associated with filming and production. By using this image it allowed us to make the company instantly recognisable as a film company. Its simplistic design also showed clearly that our company is that of an independent one.
Evaluation Question 7- Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
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These are screen shots which are from the preliminary task and the final film. We have used techniques which we learnt in the preliminary task and reflected and developed them into our final film, these images show shot reverse shot.
Thursday, 1 May 2014
Tricky Shots/ Edits/ Effects
Tricky Shots/ Edits/ Effects
The first shot that we found particularly hard to film was when the camera follows Greg walking through the woods. We found this tricky as we had to be careful of the hazard of falling on the uneven surface of the woods. Whilst doing this we also had to make sure we were watching the camera to make sure we were filming the correct footage. As one person found it difficult to do both at the same time we had one person filming Greg and another person guiding them through the woods so that they didn't cause injury to themselves.
The second shot that we found particularly hard to film was when we were filming the point of view shots of Greg in the woods. This was difficult for similar reasons to the one above as it was difficult making sure that we were filming the correct shot and making sure that we didn't slip on the uneven surface at the same time.
The next shot that we found difficult to carry out was the panning shot we used when Greg is walking along the landing into the kitchen. We found this shot tricky to carry out as we had limited space and we had limited equipment to make the quality of the shot look professional. We used the tripod to carry out this shot and I think that this made the shot look unsmooth.
The last shot that the group found challenging to film was the shot reverse shot of the conversation in the kitchen. This is because we used props within this scene and we found it hard to make sure that the cups were in the same position when the camera changed to face the opposite person for their response. This also made the editing of this scene difficult as we had look through the footage to make sure we used the correct clips where the cups are in the right position throughout the conversation or they would make the scene look unnatural.
The first shot that we found particularly hard to film was when the camera follows Greg walking through the woods. We found this tricky as we had to be careful of the hazard of falling on the uneven surface of the woods. Whilst doing this we also had to make sure we were watching the camera to make sure we were filming the correct footage. As one person found it difficult to do both at the same time we had one person filming Greg and another person guiding them through the woods so that they didn't cause injury to themselves.
The second shot that we found particularly hard to film was when we were filming the point of view shots of Greg in the woods. This was difficult for similar reasons to the one above as it was difficult making sure that we were filming the correct shot and making sure that we didn't slip on the uneven surface at the same time.
The next shot that we found difficult to carry out was the panning shot we used when Greg is walking along the landing into the kitchen. We found this shot tricky to carry out as we had limited space and we had limited equipment to make the quality of the shot look professional. We used the tripod to carry out this shot and I think that this made the shot look unsmooth.
The last shot that the group found challenging to film was the shot reverse shot of the conversation in the kitchen. This is because we used props within this scene and we found it hard to make sure that the cups were in the same position when the camera changed to face the opposite person for their response. This also made the editing of this scene difficult as we had look through the footage to make sure we used the correct clips where the cups are in the right position throughout the conversation or they would make the scene look unnatural.
Character Profile of Greg
Name: Greg Walker
Age: 19
Occupation: Children's Entertainer
Appearance: Through the day Greg is just a normal male, who tends to wear casual clothing such as jeans and shirts with long brown hair.
Character Traits (Personality): Greg is a opinionated but loving man who has experienced many tragedies in his past which explains his trust issues, by feeling calm and relaxed around his girlfriend Joanne, this shows Greg's sensitive side. However throughout the film it reveals Greg may be mentally unstable due to the hallucination and nightmares he has, which reflect as he in the end turns out to be the murderer.
Function in Narrative: In the narrative Greg is the main character in which the audience see from his perspective which makes him seem like he isn't a murderer, as there are other storylines which makes you suspect other people in different towns, this shows his smart twisted side. His main function is to confuse the audience with his nice personality which adds more shock when the final scene reveals it's him. The character of Greg is influenced by the main character in My Bloody Valentine, as it has a similar effect on that character.
Character Profile of Clown
Name: Unknown
Age: Unknown
Occupation: Unknown
Appearance: The main clown throughout the film has smudged dark eyed make up, which makes it look abnormal and scary. the hair is dark but large as though it's not looked after well, which adds to the mysterious atmosphere. The costume is a red, yellow and blue costume which is ripped and blood splattered all over which shows its a horror film and has connotations of danger.
Character Traits (Personality): The characteristics of the clown is to have a dull and unidentified personality or identity, as it adds mystery and tension, this clown is only featured in the nightmare in which is relevant as the movement are sudden and never see the clown walk. However the different suspects of clowns throughout the film have different characteristics, for example the children's entertainer. The clown in the nightmare however doesn't have a personality or identity.
Function in Narrative: The main purpose of this character in our film is to confuse and add the twist to the whole film, as this clown is only in nightmares it makes the audience wonder who is the actual killer clown in reality and the character just adds the tension and creepy atmosphere which is needed for the genre we have chosen.
Character Profile of Joanne
Name: Joanne Robbins
Age: 18
Occupation: Full time Student at University and Part time waitress.
Appearance: Short dark, curly hair. Fair skin. Tends to wear pattern clothing and red lipstick.
Character Traits (Personality): Caring, sweet young women that cares a lot about the people close to her and listens to problems when needed. Concerned and Observant from past experiences and has a curious side where she asks a lot of questions. Her personality reflects from her subjects being studied at University.
Function in Narrative: Joanne throughout the film is Greg's girlfriend soon to be wife, even though they are young. The film shows her weaknesses as her distant relative gets suspected for the murders due to past, whereas its actually her boyfriend which is unknown until the end scene. Even though Joanne doesn't appear in the film that often when she does, the scary, creepy atmosphere disappears as she is Greg's weakness and is always calm around her.
Location Photo's
Outdoor location
We used one outside location within the first two minutes of our horror film. This location was a woods where we filmed scenes of Greg being followed by the clown and him finding a dead body. This footage is featured as flashbacks during a title sequences that shows Greg having what he thinks is a nightmare. We decided that a woods would be an effective location to use as it is a typical setting within the horror genre. As we used the setting at the begging of the film this will have immediately conveyed to the audience that our film is a horror and this will have made then feel uneasy from the beginning as they are expecting something to happen straight away.
Below are photo's of the outside location :
Indoor locations
The first indoor location that we used within the first two minutes of our horror film was a bedroom. We used this bedroom as Greg's bedroom that he shares with his partner Joanne. The location is featured right at the start of the film during the title sequence where Greg is in bed. We considered conventional horror genre colours, such as red and black, when choosing this bedroom as they will help to make the audience feel uncomfortable and symbolises that something may happen in the bedroom further on in the film.
The second indoor location we used was a landing and a staircase. This setting helped us to carry our key shots within the film such as match on action when Greg moves from the bedroom to the kitchen.
The last indoor location that we used within filming was a kitchen. This location was used just after Greg wakes up from the nightmare. He enters the kitchen and carries out a conversation with his wife. This location allowed us to show that we understood the 180 degree rule and gave us the opportunity to use match on action shots to show a conversation. We thought that the conversation would be best to be held within the kitchen as it helped to make the scene look more natural as we were able to use props such as cups, newspapers and a phone.
Treatments
Treatment for 2 minute film
Title: The Entertainer
Duration: 2 minutes
Audience: The audience we targeted was at a teenage audience due to the characters we decided to use and the initial storyline etc. Our audience can vary to people who enjoy horror/gore featured films but is dominantly aimed at the target audience of teenagers.
Distributor: For our film we chose to use the distributor of 'Dimension Extreme' as it is an independent company and wouldn't influence change compared to if we chose a mainstream distributor.
Summary of Story: In the first 2 minutes of the film the main character, Greg, is having a nightmare which features himself in a woods with a unexpected dead body and a clown following him, as he wakes us from the nightmare he walks downstairs to have a conversation to his girlfriend about the nightmare and gets a phone call from his boss in which he is asked to come into work. His job is as a children's entertainer and as Greg comes of the phone the audience feels his frustration from his job, which creates sympathy. after the phone call he goes upstairs to find a clown outfit which he uses at work but its covered in blood, which causes confusion for both the audience and the main character Greg.
Suggested Elements: Throughout the opening scene of our film we thought by adding certain twists to it in the first scenes would engage the audience and make it stand out, for example the clown is a women which shows different representation towards gender as it is subverting stereotypes as women are tend to be portrayed as vulnerable. Also the blood on the clowns outfit gives it a twist to the storyline in the first scenes as his dream included a clown and he is a children's entertainer which shows an iconic link.
Treatment for final film
Title: The Entertainer
Duration: 90 mins (1 hour 30 mins)
Audience: The audience we targeted was at a teenage audience due to the characters we decided to use and the initial storyline etc. Our audience can vary to people who enjoy horror/gore featured films but is dominantly aimed at the target audience of teenagers. Further into the film we will include more gore which could interest different audience types however we don't specifically aim it at a certain gender. According to the classification on the BBFC website anyone under the ages of 15 couldn't watch this film as it includes strong language and harmful props such as a knife which would be used throughout the final film.
Distributor: Dimension Extreme is the distributor we chose for the full film as we thought as an independent distributor this would provide the storyline to the niche audience, which would typically be teenagers which fitted with what we aimed to succeed with our film.
Summary of Story: Our storyline is based around this one character who recently has been having troubles in their life and as a result they have been forced to turn to a job that they cant particularly see themselves enjoying. Its their first day as a children's entertainer and as the day progresses we find that there is a reason that this particular job has been open for a while. By day our character is just a children's entertainer down on their luck. But by night, unaware of their actions, we find that they change and crave a murderous nature. They gradually begin to pick off the members of this small remote town, which they have found himself stuck in, until they comes across a face that they recognise, their sisters. The towns people begin to realise that their has been a lot of people gone missing recently and they go in search of them, this only makes this murderous children's entertainers job much easier and much more desirable. After a series of gruesome murders, our character wakes the next morning completely unaware of what he has done. The only thing that brings questions to their mind are the traces of splattered blood across their costume the next morning. They then return to work for the second time and yet again becomes possessed by this murderous clown spirit. Unable to stop these murderous cravings, they begin to pursue their sister until the time comes when they meet and pace of the storyline greatly increases. Scenes within the film bring up questions that are unanswered until the final scene, and the conclusion is not one to be expected. This film is seen from the perspective of several of the towns people, including the person who is possessed by the clown spirit. The clown tends to target children and is often seen luring kids from the playground during the dark winter afternoons. Although we see through the clown possessed characters perspective the production is set up so that the other towns people are unaware of who this murdering clown is and therefore adds a lot of tension to certain scenes. The way it is set up also makes the audience question whether it is actually this down on their luck character that is within the clown costume.
Suggested Elements: Throughout the film we have included twists which will keep the audience interested and engaged in the storyline, and it will play with their mind. We wanted to include alot of gore and obscene unusual killings which will make it twisted and more creepy, and as most of the film is from the perspective of the killer but unknowingly, it comes as a shock when it comes clear in the final scene. By using children this makes it stand out as, even though most horrors use children, we are using children in a different way as they are the victims but never get hurt, whereas horror films tend to use the children as the villian for example 'Orphan'.
Title: The Entertainer
Duration: 2 minutes
Audience: The audience we targeted was at a teenage audience due to the characters we decided to use and the initial storyline etc. Our audience can vary to people who enjoy horror/gore featured films but is dominantly aimed at the target audience of teenagers.
Distributor: For our film we chose to use the distributor of 'Dimension Extreme' as it is an independent company and wouldn't influence change compared to if we chose a mainstream distributor.
Summary of Story: In the first 2 minutes of the film the main character, Greg, is having a nightmare which features himself in a woods with a unexpected dead body and a clown following him, as he wakes us from the nightmare he walks downstairs to have a conversation to his girlfriend about the nightmare and gets a phone call from his boss in which he is asked to come into work. His job is as a children's entertainer and as Greg comes of the phone the audience feels his frustration from his job, which creates sympathy. after the phone call he goes upstairs to find a clown outfit which he uses at work but its covered in blood, which causes confusion for both the audience and the main character Greg.
Suggested Elements: Throughout the opening scene of our film we thought by adding certain twists to it in the first scenes would engage the audience and make it stand out, for example the clown is a women which shows different representation towards gender as it is subverting stereotypes as women are tend to be portrayed as vulnerable. Also the blood on the clowns outfit gives it a twist to the storyline in the first scenes as his dream included a clown and he is a children's entertainer which shows an iconic link.
Treatment for final film
Title: The Entertainer
Duration: 90 mins (1 hour 30 mins)
Audience: The audience we targeted was at a teenage audience due to the characters we decided to use and the initial storyline etc. Our audience can vary to people who enjoy horror/gore featured films but is dominantly aimed at the target audience of teenagers. Further into the film we will include more gore which could interest different audience types however we don't specifically aim it at a certain gender. According to the classification on the BBFC website anyone under the ages of 15 couldn't watch this film as it includes strong language and harmful props such as a knife which would be used throughout the final film.
Distributor: Dimension Extreme is the distributor we chose for the full film as we thought as an independent distributor this would provide the storyline to the niche audience, which would typically be teenagers which fitted with what we aimed to succeed with our film.
Summary of Story: Our storyline is based around this one character who recently has been having troubles in their life and as a result they have been forced to turn to a job that they cant particularly see themselves enjoying. Its their first day as a children's entertainer and as the day progresses we find that there is a reason that this particular job has been open for a while. By day our character is just a children's entertainer down on their luck. But by night, unaware of their actions, we find that they change and crave a murderous nature. They gradually begin to pick off the members of this small remote town, which they have found himself stuck in, until they comes across a face that they recognise, their sisters. The towns people begin to realise that their has been a lot of people gone missing recently and they go in search of them, this only makes this murderous children's entertainers job much easier and much more desirable. After a series of gruesome murders, our character wakes the next morning completely unaware of what he has done. The only thing that brings questions to their mind are the traces of splattered blood across their costume the next morning. They then return to work for the second time and yet again becomes possessed by this murderous clown spirit. Unable to stop these murderous cravings, they begin to pursue their sister until the time comes when they meet and pace of the storyline greatly increases. Scenes within the film bring up questions that are unanswered until the final scene, and the conclusion is not one to be expected. This film is seen from the perspective of several of the towns people, including the person who is possessed by the clown spirit. The clown tends to target children and is often seen luring kids from the playground during the dark winter afternoons. Although we see through the clown possessed characters perspective the production is set up so that the other towns people are unaware of who this murdering clown is and therefore adds a lot of tension to certain scenes. The way it is set up also makes the audience question whether it is actually this down on their luck character that is within the clown costume.
Suggested Elements: Throughout the film we have included twists which will keep the audience interested and engaged in the storyline, and it will play with their mind. We wanted to include alot of gore and obscene unusual killings which will make it twisted and more creepy, and as most of the film is from the perspective of the killer but unknowingly, it comes as a shock when it comes clear in the final scene. By using children this makes it stand out as, even though most horrors use children, we are using children in a different way as they are the victims but never get hurt, whereas horror films tend to use the children as the villian for example 'Orphan'.
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