There are many differences between our preliminary task and our final Horror Film. Firstly, our preliminary project was a horror film in the subgenre possession; after filming it and realising how difficult it would be to create and original possession film that didn’t look like an amateur production, we decided on swapping the subgenre to vampire! We thought we would be more capable of doing a film like this, and were also more aware of the conventions we could follow. Next, there is the way in which during our preliminary project we used a lighting effect to make the shots brighter so that the white was really prominent; in our vampire film we have used the opposite effect to make the shots darker so it appeared like we’d filmed later in the day. This was because it would have been virtually impossible for us to get everything filmed with the same lighting if we filmed at dusk, it took on average 4 hours every time we filmed and with only getting around an hour of dusk lighting before it would be too dark to film it just wouldn’t have been possible. I think that this is a really good effect and gives our film a darker feel to it. Finally there are the varied shot types and new ways in filming that we used in our final project. In our preliminary task we used mainly mid shots and close ups, as we were recreating the more tense part of “The White Room,” this worked well to build up tension but meant that after a while, only using those sorts of shots got slightly boring and familiar. In our final horror film, we’ve used a mixture of shots including: long shots, mid shots close up, extreme close up, pans, tilts, and shots from different angles. I think that these help to establish the story and also build the tension.
From our preliminary task, I’ve learnt that filming a horror film isn’t something you can leave to the last minute; things such as finding locations, costumes, make up, and props, are really difficult to find at the last moment. Reliable actors are probably the most difficult problem we came across with our preliminary project and we ended up using Amber (a member of our own group) because we couldn’t find someone. To try and avoid this problem when it came to our final film, we started filming as early as possible; this wasn’t helpful however since the next time we filmed two of our actors weren’t available and since it was the only day all of our group could get off work, we had to find another set of actors. We had problems with this all the way through the filming of our final piece no matter how hard we tried to sort it.
If we were to do the production again, I think the main thing we would do differently would be the planning. It was the part we seemed to find most difficult out of everything involved in our project, we either left things to the last minute, or didn’t plan well enough. I think we’d also need to come up with some back up plans for when things go wrong – like actors dropping out.
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