Progress Report

In the weeks that I have been filming i found it very demanding. With locations probs and actors its all a big deal. Oranising our film wasnt the best however i was able to go through with filming and get the job done.
Alix Sampford

These are the location shots for our film. We were able to a near by house for the film. Also we used the near by out side area for the scenes done out side.

Alix Sampford

News Report

We filmed a news report so that we could play it on a television in the background of the girl getting ready, we will have her ignore this so that the audience are more aware of a killer on the loose than she is. Aamir was the news reporter, he wore a suit to make him look like a professional reporter. when editing the clips we decided not to have any dialogue as the girl will be listening to music. We still needed to make the audience know that there is a killer on the loose so we decided to use headlines that would scroll across the bottom of the screen to inform the audience of the news. We filmed this in Corporation Park using yellow and black tape attached to trees to make the scene look like it was a crime scene.

Emma Jopson

Storyboard

This is a basic storyboard of what is going to happen in our opening sequence to the horror film.

We decided to show shots of her ignoring the news report as she gets changed, so that the audience are more aware of what is going on than she is, this will make her vulnerable as she will not know that there is a killer on the loose. When she is walkin down the street we will have the camera behind her, it will look good as the light from the street will give her an outline. It will make it look like someone is following her when we have the camera as her friends point of view, i think this will create tension as the audience will not know who is following her. The last five camera shots will be fast pace to make the opening sequence more dramatic and add more tension to the situation that the girl is in.

Emma Jopson

Analysis for the Opening Sequence of 'SAW'

I have decided to analyse ‘SAW’ as it is a well known horror film.

The titles on the film show the production companies; ‘Loins Gate Films’ and ‘Twisted Pictures’. It then tells the audience who made the film in a wavy font, this moves up and down as it fades out onto the black background. A blue light appears from the top of the screen, when it moves down it reveals a closed eye. The blue light moves off the screen making it black again. The title fades up onto the dark background in the same wavy font as before. A piercing metal type sound joins the title as bigger ‘SAW’ letters move around it. The blue light comes back onto the screen, a straight cut shows a man open his eyes and open his mouth under water, this creates bubbles as he panics for breath. The sound of water and him coughing makes the audience want to know what has happened to him. The blue light goes down the plug whole; this tells the audience that he is in a bath tub. We see him stumble out of the bath in low key lighting whist hearing him coughing.

As he moves about we hear a chain being dragged, he starts to ask for help and panics as he hears someone talking to him. This makes the audience wonder who the other person is. Suddenly the lights are turned on and we see the man who was in the bath tub react to the bright lights. We see the lights turn on one by one as the room gets brighter. A point of view shot shows the audience his blurred vision from the lights. The camera cuts to a man holding onto a bar above his head with a cut on his face in an untidy shirt. The camera shows an establishing shot from the man’s point of view of the room they are in. It appears to be a very unclean small public toilets, this tells the audience where the characters are, however this is still an unclear idea to where they are, when it is and who they are. As the music becomes dramatic, the camera tilts down to a dead man on the floor covered in blood, it zooms out in a spiral motion to add affect to the dead body face down on the floor. The sound is almost like a person screaming. The audience are then shown a close up of the bloody dysfunctional head, a handheld cassette player in one hand, and a pistol gun in the other. This makes the audience members want to know who the dead man on the floor is and why he is holding a cassette player and a pistol.

This opening sequence makes many enigmas for the audience to think about, it gives the titles of a film, in a genre related font, and it also gets the audience interested. This opening sequence tells the audience its genre as it had low key lighting, however it also has high key lighting to make the characters feel intimidated, it has dramatic and creepy music. It includes the typical things included in a horror film; guns, blood and gore, unknown places and confused characters. I used this opening sequence example as it has many of the things for a good opening sequence.

Emma Jopson

Organised Actors

The actors that will appearing in the film are;

• Seonade Cudden- the girl in the sequence.
• Joeseph Cudden- The friend who scares the girl in the back ally.
• Aamir Shah- the reporter on the television when Seonade is getting ready to go out.
• Alix Sampford- the killer.

Emma Jopson

Group Member Roles

Director- Alix, Emma, Aamir
Sound (music)- One upbeat song for when Seonade is getting ready and one melodramatic song for when she walks down the back ally as we want the music to create a tense atmosphere. Chosen by all three group members
Casting-

• Seonade Cudden- Girl
• Joeseph Cudden- Girl's friend
• Alix Sampford - Killer
• Aamir Shah- Reporter
  

Emma Jopson