Basic idea of the allocated dialogue to the shots:
Shot 1- No dialogue
Shot 2- Lucas- Guess who’s back?!
Shot 3- Katie- Who is going to get the king?
Shot 4- Katie- Boys don’t prank me this year
Lucas- Haha,
how was your summer anyway?
Lucy- Just get on with the game
lucas!
Shot 5- Katie- Shall we go see the rest of the house?
Shot 6- Matt- Wow did you just see that? (Lucas face is blank)
Shot 7- Lucas- So it is your old family home then?
Shot 8,9,10- No dialogue
Shot 11- Lucas- This is old
Shot 12- Lucas- Who the hell is Helena?
Shot 13- No dialogue
Shot 14/15- Matthew- So how did your parents die? To Katie- Ffion
Shot 16- What was that? Cut to Lucas
Shot 17- No dialogue
Shot 18- No dialogue
Shot 19-22- Music playing… Smashing mirror.. black flash.. Katie
screams
Shot 23- No dialogue
Shot 24- No dialogue- silent (THUD)
Shot 25- MATTTTTTT
Shot 26-27- No dialogue
Shot 28- Baby crying edited over
Shot 29- No dialogue
Shot 30- Music turns on
Shot 31- Lucas- I am petrified
Shot 32- Lucy- What’g going on?
Shot 33- No dialogue
Shot 34- Non diegetic thud
Shot 35- Non diegetic opening door
Shot 36- Non diegetic heavy breathing/ heart beat
Shot 37- Don’t cry baby (don’t know who it is)
Shot 38- No dialogue
Shot 39- Lucy screaming Katie voice over.. fades out black!
Shot 40- Non diegetic smashing of bottle
Shot 41- No dialogue
Shot 42- Lucy- Typical he says to go and he isn’t even ready
Shot 43- No dialogue
Shot 44- Heartbeat
Shot 45- No dialogue
Shot 46- Matt- What?
Shot 47- No dialogue
Shot 48- Jess- GET OUT GET OUT
Shot 49- No dialogue
Shot 50- Please believe you can let this go, we will get you help
Shot 51- No dialogue
Shot 52- No dialogue- Non diegetic crashing
Shot 53- No dialogue
Shot 54- Non diegetic foot steps
Shot 55- No dialogue
Shot 56- No dialogue
Shot 57- Katie gasps (possibly last)
Shot 58- Non diegetic slamming of door
Shot 59- No dialogue
Shot 60- No dialogue
Shot 61- No dialogue…
Shot 62- Lucas- Anyone there?
Shot 63- No dialogue
Shot 64- Screaming over intertitle
Thursday, 5 December 2013
Monday, 25 November 2013
Shooting Schedule
It is necessary to have a shooting schedule to ensure that the project gets completed and that there is a sense of 'structure' with the group, the main location for the trailer is Ffion's house, so, realistically, things will have to revolve around her as it's her property etc, we have numerous frees together, double lessons in school shared and have devoted most Sundays to getting the animatic and then filming done.
Friday, 15 November 2013
Music for the Animatic/trailer
By analysing other trailers, as a group we have concluded that the music for the trailers, can often include "popular" music at the opening 30-40 seconds to establish the trailer, then go into the 'eerie and creepy' type of music later on. For the animatic and trailer will possibly vary, for example, music in the trailer has to be copyright free, however, in the animatic we can use copyrighted music, as an EXAMPLE of the genre/style that will be used in the real thing, there will be 2/3 soundtracks one snippet of dance/chart music at the start where the trailer is established (uni students living a normal life partying) then one or two snippets of music, possibly classical in a minor key, to show signs of horror.
Survey for our film title example
Here is an overview of our plot:
Katie is a 20 year old student living with her friends her in old family home. Her father had died in the home because of an accident when she turned 18. Her mother killed herself in prison when Katie was 5 but she never understood why her mother was in prison. She knew she had killed her best friend in the house she was living in but never understood why. When she starts to investigate her mother’s life she discovers that her mother Elizabeth was a kind person and the murder couldn’t be explained by anyone. Her friend Lucas finds a diary in the attic which is written by a woman called Helena in 1936 and describes her affair with a married man named William. William’s wife Katherine was Helena’s best friend. She wrote about how scared she was becoming because of Katherine’s behaviour, Katherine seemed to be acting very suspicious and often screamed at her in a wild temper. Katie is concerned about her past and paranoid because she realises Katherine was her ancestor. Her best friend Lucy says there is nothing to worry about and she should forget about what had happened but then strange events unfold. The house grows cold, they hear distant screams and photos of her mother and father are moved around and broken. One morning the students come down into the kitchen and everything has been trashed except for the diary Lucas found which is untouched open on the floor. She looks in the mirror and it smashes over her. Matthew is paranoid about what has happened and tries to convince everyone they should leave and as he drags Katie out of the door with bags in the hallway he flies out of the door and is hit by a car. Only a scream and the skid of the car are heard. A few months later (shots would show a change from summer to winter) Katherine says she is pregnant and they all notice that the haunting has stopped but a year later after her son is born Katherine gets frustrated and is upset constantly. She sees Lucas with Lucy together and thinks Lucas is cheating on her. As her suspicions build she follows Lucy to her lectures etc. Lucas connects her suspicions with those of her ancestor Katherine from in the diary. He researches the past events and realises that Katie’s mother killed her best friend because she thought she was having an affair. He rushes back to the house and sees Katie stood behind Lucy with a knife as he fights her to steal the knife he is stabbed in the chest and falls to the floor. As he is dying he says to her it’s Helena who has been haunting them and he loves her alone. As he says this, there is a yell from upstairs footsteps can be heard as the ghost rushes down to kill Lucy and Katie, glasses fly everywhere the doors are locking and as they rush out to the window they decide to jump together. Katie apologies for her acts, apologises to her baby who is crying upstairs, pushes Lucy into the room to jump out of the window alone, because she knows the Ghost only wants her. At the end of the film Lucy would be seen older and looking after the son named Lucas who is sat studying a box of items from his old house including Helena’s diary.
So judging on this plot, which film title do you think would be most relevant for the plot? (mark next to)
Katie is a 20 year old student living with her friends her in old family home. Her father had died in the home because of an accident when she turned 18. Her mother killed herself in prison when Katie was 5 but she never understood why her mother was in prison. She knew she had killed her best friend in the house she was living in but never understood why. When she starts to investigate her mother’s life she discovers that her mother Elizabeth was a kind person and the murder couldn’t be explained by anyone. Her friend Lucas finds a diary in the attic which is written by a woman called Helena in 1936 and describes her affair with a married man named William. William’s wife Katherine was Helena’s best friend. She wrote about how scared she was becoming because of Katherine’s behaviour, Katherine seemed to be acting very suspicious and often screamed at her in a wild temper. Katie is concerned about her past and paranoid because she realises Katherine was her ancestor. Her best friend Lucy says there is nothing to worry about and she should forget about what had happened but then strange events unfold. The house grows cold, they hear distant screams and photos of her mother and father are moved around and broken. One morning the students come down into the kitchen and everything has been trashed except for the diary Lucas found which is untouched open on the floor. She looks in the mirror and it smashes over her. Matthew is paranoid about what has happened and tries to convince everyone they should leave and as he drags Katie out of the door with bags in the hallway he flies out of the door and is hit by a car. Only a scream and the skid of the car are heard. A few months later (shots would show a change from summer to winter) Katherine says she is pregnant and they all notice that the haunting has stopped but a year later after her son is born Katherine gets frustrated and is upset constantly. She sees Lucas with Lucy together and thinks Lucas is cheating on her. As her suspicions build she follows Lucy to her lectures etc. Lucas connects her suspicions with those of her ancestor Katherine from in the diary. He researches the past events and realises that Katie’s mother killed her best friend because she thought she was having an affair. He rushes back to the house and sees Katie stood behind Lucy with a knife as he fights her to steal the knife he is stabbed in the chest and falls to the floor. As he is dying he says to her it’s Helena who has been haunting them and he loves her alone. As he says this, there is a yell from upstairs footsteps can be heard as the ghost rushes down to kill Lucy and Katie, glasses fly everywhere the doors are locking and as they rush out to the window they decide to jump together. Katie apologies for her acts, apologises to her baby who is crying upstairs, pushes Lucy into the room to jump out of the window alone, because she knows the Ghost only wants her. At the end of the film Lucy would be seen older and looking after the son named Lucas who is sat studying a box of items from his old house including Helena’s diary.
So judging on this plot, which film title do you think would be most relevant for the plot? (mark next to)
Knives
Entity revenge
Shatters
A human beast
Hidden deaths
Approaching (The Approach)
Lost bones
Helena
The unseen
Vengeful dead
Wednesday, 13 November 2013
Prop list
For our film trailer, use of props is advised as it adds a genuine feel to the trailer, here are some props that most probably will be used:
Diary - probably created ourselves.
Ornaments and mirrors - for smashing, these can becoming expensive by keep buying and smashing ornaments, for the animatic, we possibly will have to not smash the ornaments, or, re-buy cheaply from charity shops.
Drink bottles - alcoholic, to reflect 'typical uni life'
Text books - again, to reflet uni life.
Playing Cards
Diary - probably created ourselves.
Ornaments and mirrors - for smashing, these can becoming expensive by keep buying and smashing ornaments, for the animatic, we possibly will have to not smash the ornaments, or, re-buy cheaply from charity shops.
Drink bottles - alcoholic, to reflect 'typical uni life'
Text books - again, to reflet uni life.
Playing Cards
Blair Witch Project film analysis
Immediately at the start of the film, the horror stereotypes are met when there's text about 3 students that have gone missing on the woods to find the 'Blair Witch', personally due to the use of hand-held cameras thus keeping production costs and budget down, because of this, I think the Paranormal Activity series has taken a lot of influence from The Blair Witch Project. The film target audience again is around 15-25 because the use of students, so the audience can relate to their age and their actions, I think the film also plays on people's fears because of the scariness of 'being lost in woods' and the idea of it being a wilderness. Personally, I didn't find the film all that scary, however there were many jumpy and eerie parts such as when the stick figures were found and when I could hear the sounds of the children, the film was also good at strange moments, such as when they went over log on the stream twice, despite heading south continuously, and there appearing to be slime on one of the characters possessions.
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