Todayyyy :)

Today we're looking at the fonts for our titles so we'll be on Photoshop messing around with fonts until we decide on one that we think will work in our film. 




Also we've had to change one of our actors, Christie Britton, because she's unable to film with us due to family reasons. So we've got another actor and we need to get her to sign the release form, we changed the actor to Kelsey Clarke she's able and enthusiastic to film with us and filming shall go on as planned though we are minus our vampire so we are going to organise another filming day to accomplish those scenes.


We are in need of finding an older male with an authoritative voice to record the news reporter which will be played over Thomas jogging :)

This is a screen shot of our first attempt at creating our title sequence on iMovie. We have used "red stripe" to put our titles up on the bottom. We are unsure whether this will be the final design for our horror film, but it is an initial idea. :)


LESSON REFLECTION
Today we found 3 possible fonts for our title sequence from Dafont.com and used them in photoshop to find which one we liked best. We ended up choosing Face Your Fear because it fitted most in the Horror Genre. 

We then used this to make a mock title sequence in iMovie as seen above. This really helped us in deciding how to create our final sequence since if we decide to go ahead with our original idea of showing the titles in the film like underneath a foot, or on a leaf, we would have to physically make them like this and film them in. We're unsure whether this would look the best which is why we began experimenting with titles in iMoive. 

Garage Band!!!

This is a print screen of our first attempt at creating a soundtrack for our horror film :) 


This part of the soundtrack is going to be played at the beginning of the film with a news report being played over the top. We think this will create a good atmosphere for our film as it will then be cut off by static noise as if Daniel, our victim, has lost signal on his radio. 

Todays Lesson

Today we're going over our feedback and seeing if we can correct some of our work to make it more exciting.
The feedback we received was this:


- You will definitely need more shots as they are far too long,. Also, it's a bit boring as there are too many LS and MS; your camerawork needs to be more dynamic so that the sequence is more exciting. Consider using more CUs and ECUs to do this - also POV shots from vampire.


- How are you going to show phone having no signal?


We're currently redoing and correcting the errors we made with the range of shot types etc. to make them more suitable to the sub-genre we're appealing to. This will also make our horror film more exciting and understandable as we realised that our film may be a bit confusing to watch without the POV shots etc.


In today's lesson we'll be listening to sounds and starting to put together our soundtrack as we won't be filming for a couple of weeks so we can correct all of the shots and the script before we film.


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GarageBand

Today we were introduced to GarageBand and were taught the basics for example adding in different instruments and how to browse through the different effects that are available to us.


We played around with some of the effects and put them together to see what it would sound like. We were looking for sounds that we could use for our soundtrack on our production and found some interesting ones that we could alter a bit to make them useful to us.


We were also told the dead lines for filming, we have to at least done one shoot before the 14th of February. This is because of last year when too many people tried to  take out equipment over the half term and there wasn't enough. The final dead line for our complete film with soundtrack is 31st march.


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Amber's evaluation of the pitch :)

So recently when did a our pitch to the class  to present our idea for our horror film. We did this to get some feed back on there thoughts of our idea and to see if they had any suggestions on how to make I better. This is what we got...

We got both bad and positive comments about our pitch,  positive points were that our vampire is conventional  and able to do things in the day, and be out in the sun. Another is that we are not using a female victim. We wanted our film to be a bit different and due to the fact most people are using girls to enhance venerability, we decided not to.

 To the bad comments,  during our horror film we wanted to make a appearance of a dead body and people where concerned about how we was going to pull this off  and make it look realistic. People also said that  our idea seemed a bit short.

When we got the feed back from our class we thought about what they suggested about maybe it being too short, this made us think and disccuss about adding an extra scene in the end. The extra scene will be where the dead girl, wakes up gasping for air, as if she has just come back to life... as a vampire!

the location we are using was pretty easy to find, also it's easy to get to! it's near my grans house so it isn't really a problem and it is a pretty good vocation for filming :)


 I think we made great  use  of the feed back and I think we took it on board wisely to make our film even greater!

Casey decided to evaluate the pitch :)

So as you can see from Abby's post, we have done our pitch for our horror film!

I think that our pitch went reasonably well; the class gave us feedback afterwards which has helped us re-evaluate some points of the film and adapt it to be more suitable and moer achievable.

Our main idea seemed a little bit short, so after a little thought, we decided a few shots could be added in. We have now changed the ending of the horror film so that we see the "dead body" wake up as a vampire! Not only will this add a bit of time on to the film, but it also leaves it on a cliff hanger to make the audience want to watch the rest of the film! :)

One negative point that was made was that the SFX that we would need to use such as the amount of fake blood would be quite hard to make look realistic. We took this in mind and went and researched a couple of different fake blood recipes! We found one that looks reasonably real, and hopefully on film will! We are going to use honey or golden syrup, milk (to stop it being so sticky), red food colouring, and a little bit of yellow food colouring. This may be a little sticky for the actor's to have on them, but it looks real, so its good enough for us! :D

As for our location, some people were a little sceptical as to whether we would be able to find siomewhere with a field and the sort of scenery and lighting we would need, BUT we found the perfect place up in Bakersfield! We also hav e a source of electrics near by since amber's mum lives there, so when we have to run around getting spare camera battery's, we'll be fine!

In general, our pitch went quite well in my opinion, and I am thoroughly looking forward to filminf our horror! (:

Abby's Evaluation of the Pitch :)

The feedback we recieved from our pitch helped us to evaluate our pitch and correct a couple of minor errors found in our presentation.

There were some positives including having a conventional vampire in our film as he comes out in daylight, the fact that a male is the main victim instead of a stereotypical vulnerable girl really helps to make the film different to most horrors.

and some negatives such as the SFX we would need to use to make the dead body and blood look realistic instead of shabby and maybe a lot to do to include all of our ideas and other people said that our pitch was too short.

We changed the timeline of the film when timing the film plan and stretched some of the scenes out that would have been a bit rushed so that the preview is clear to everyone who watches it. As planned the film will be long enough as we've added in a scene at the end where the 'dead' body opens it's eyes, meaning that the girl has turned into a vampire!

The location was easy and quick to find as it's near-ish to the members of the group and filming would be easy and quick to get to due to knowing people around the area who are willing to help us stay there so we're not travelling at ridiculous times in the morning!

Overall, I think our group got some very constructive feedback which has already helped us to develop our film ideas.

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