Introduction
We're making a Horror Film with a sub-genre of Vampires. we're having the vampire out in the day to go against the normal stereotypes of a vampire. We did a lot of research into films including the BBFC for what can be shown in a 15 and 18 classified film. We went into more depth research in the horror genre - by looking at the start to some well known horror films to get an idea of the conventions that come up quite frequently in each film.
To carry out our research we used the internet and notes we already had from lessons. This helped us a lot to know how to create the certain effects needed to make our horror film good and exciting. We also thought that creating a vampire film would be good as at the minute a lot of people are watching vampire films due to the Twilight Saga, so we thought if we did one it contrasts well with Twilight and so people would want to watch it to see how they feel about it compared to Twilight so a lot of people would be intrigued to watch it. Especially because we're making our introduction very sharp and mystical.
The start of Dawn of the Dead inspired our idea, because there was a really good radio news broadcast on over some images of what is going on which we thought was really effective and so it inspired us to use a radio broadcast coming through the headphones of the jogger running in the opening. We're trying to keep an element of mystery going about in the opening to keep the audience intrigued in the film and want to watch the rest of it.
The group consisted of Abby, Amber and Casey which worked very well because we all get along really well and so can actually compromise and tell each other if we don't think an idea is working etc. Our production has worked out well so far, we've been out to film once and we got a lot done in the time that we were there repeating all of the shots so we had a range to choose from when it came to editing.
We had a problem when our Dead Body actress wasn't available for filming so we had to pull our heads together to find a replacement actress which we did quite quickly so we resolved the problem quickly and efficiently.
This is the intro for Dawn of the Dead which inspired our film immensely:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdPWrAMXGGo
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