Costume

To a horror film with a murderer, the murderer's costume is a very important piece which needs extensive planing (considering horror films wouldn't be as scary if the killer was were a ridiculous get up now would they?) so we have begun the planning for our killers costume design. With this in mind we do not want to fall in to the genre staple 'trap' of having a ridiculous amount of 'creep factor' in a place where it wouldn't seem as subtle, subtly is key here or at least in my personal opinion. So I believe the best kind of costume would be something subtle. Done to perhaps make the appearance slightly obscure. One case of a film using this (even though the director took it a bit extreme) is the nightmare on elm street films, in where the main antagonist haunts the dreams of his victims. His appearance is rather off putting, he has the body of a man just all burnt and scarred. (here is a picture of him)

Audience research

Since our group is going to produce a horror/thriller we're tailoring to a specific audience, not only is it about gender or class etc but our main concern is the age. Like I previously stated we're producing a horror so we have to determine what age rating we want since we could have a 15 and not have too much of the darker side or we could go with an 18 rating and have almost no restrictions as opposed to content. After some research I discovered that the most successful horror movie tend to be aimed towards 18+ I believe this is to the lack of constraint towards content, it makes the stress of things deeming 'age appropriates' become absent.

With this we have decided to make our production an 18, with this in mind we have to keep an age limit for our audience, I would say somewhere between 18 and 25 seems to be our best bet, as a persons viewing tastes will be very similar during that time period.

Research on these 'young adults' became rather useful in that it gave me a sense of direction on how the script and scenes should be created and crafted, people love to scare themselves they love to feel the adrenaline rush, this is especially the case when it comes to the younger adults. The rush of a scare is something we can harness rather well in order to keep our audience on the edge of their seats in fear of the next 'big scare'

We hope to be able to get into the minds of our audience, further research has revealed more on our audience such as their hobbies and interests, these include things such as -sports -going to clubs/pubs -socially watching movies i.e cinemas.
 

Programs going to be used

During post production with the editing there will be  few programs that we are going to use, two of these in which we'll defiantly be using are Premiere Pro and Logic Pro.
Premiere Pro is a program used to edit videos, it comes with a large amount of effects to use in editing such as transitions and filters to add a specific effect to the video you're editing.

Secondly Logic Pro is a tool used in editing and creating  your own music, it comes with a bunch of set sounds and melodies to use in combination with each other in order to create a specific piece of music tailored to what you deem fit, there is a lot of creativity involved here which ultimately makes our two minute intro feel like a great achievement since we have all brought our skills together and kept the creativity flowing smoothly. 


Here are screenshots of the programs above the first being Premiere Pro and the second screenshot being Logic Pro

Step two analysis

The second step in our analysis

Today we planned out our step two analysis of our main task, we came up with more details towards our piece, we decided on some factors of filming, editing and lighting with such things as a clock going backwards in a time lapse to show how the piece is going backwards showing a flashback almost. We also said that we want our killer/kidnapper to have something of significance to be able to distinguish him and make him obvious to the audience so that his something of significance could connate to the audience his evil nature.

The naming of the group

Our choice 

Today the group came together to discuss the name of our group, we came up with multiple ideas and even had ideas from other members of the class. Each of the names were rather well suited to us, we crossed out all the ones which we thought we didn't want and from the remaining we chose the group name of 'DSD Productions' this simply is just a combination of our first initials of all of the names of the members of our group, yet it has an obscure ring to it in which we all agreed upon to make this our name.

All the names we had

Finding our actors

We had started to hatch ideas together, so in light of this we decided to start finding our actors early, since we decided on our idea together we found that we needed a rather burly broad shouldered man, we looked around our school and friends and found our actor named Tariq (he is still un named in our piece) He is rather tall and is broad shouldered, this in turn makes him perfect for our role.

For the female lead we couldn't find anyone willing to be put in a position of weakness, so a member of our group Dee volunteered, she gave a short audition just to show us what she could do and we was pretty happy, she could make her self look like a weak character who could be easily overpowered (especially by our main lead Tariq)

Overall we believe that we have the right choice in the actors that we chose as they fit the roles in which we had created rather perfectly.

Preliminary Finish with script

Preliminary Video.

The preliminary video was a rather challenging for our group, this was to do with the failure of our first filming (in which has been addressed in another post) this in turn has given us a more prepared approach towards the main task we have to accomplish. We also have come together more as a group, working as efficiently together as possible allocating our roles (we are keeping the similar roles we shared in the preliminary in the main task also) our group consists of Dee, Simon and I. I helped Simon with the filming as Dee wrote the script, story board and kept the continuity in check, making sure that there were no continuity mistakes. Dee had a burden on her shoulders taking on so many roles at once, although she came through successful our groups is thankful to her, as well as Dean and Tyler from another group who’s input helped us, we also owe them our thanks.

Post Production and editing was the most interesting part of the preliminary, we added over a slight humorous sound file which Simon put over the clip using premier pro, he found the programme to be a little difficult but enjoyable to use. Although with the improvements we made, we still had a rather negative feedback from our teacher in which we have learnt from and now know the progress which we need to make in order to achieve the best product we can this consist of: making our shots a lot more fluent in the cuts and transitions from one to another, as the current shots we had were a little rough around the edges in terms of cuts. On top of this we also need to have a more variety in shots and finally the 180 degree rule was unintentionally broken during the scene of speech between the two characters.

The mistakes we have made will surely be fixed in future work, this has given the entire group a new attitude to be more achieved at towards the main task, as we now have a sense of knowledge more towards the task, we’re thinking of dabbling with more interesting and obscure shots, edits and lighting effects to be able to produce the best and interesting piece we can. We also are going to be much more aware of the 180 degree rule too.

The following is my Preliminary task script of interaction between an interviewer and int
MIDDAY
Interviewer walks down from stairs to a corridor formally. he opens a door to his office and walks into in, sits down and looks at his sheet looking busy. he calls over the next candidate for the available position.
Interviewer: Hello, have a seat please.

Interviewee: Yes thank you (both participants shake hands firmly)

Interviewer: (looks at interviewee cv) so barry you want a job at my club as a bouncer?! Barry, what makes you think you're ready for this job
Interviewee:As you can see on my CV it shows that I'm ready and I have enough experience for it.