Feedback We Were Given

We had to show out media class our horror film pitch, we then got given feed back from our teacher and from out class.

Overall, everyone who gave feedback said that they really liked the idea that we had and they all said that the idea of the illustration dissolving into the real-life scene was very interesting. They also thought that the idea of having the two girls was different and it would be very cool to see the transition.

However, we also got feedback telling us to be very careful with the girls we chose to play us when we were little because they should look similar to the older characters in the opening of the horror film. Our teacher told us that we should use a plastic knife instead of a real one because we could get in trouble with the police since we are going to be chased and we will be filming in a park which might look very suspicious. They were all scared that the illustration in the book wouldn't look like the real-life, however we made sure that they all knew that a lake near my house looks familiar to the lake in the book.

Horror film Pitch

For our horror film opening, me and my partner Alice had to come up with a good idea for the opening. we used Prezi.com to put our ideas in categories.

Main idea- we decided to start the opening with two little girls reading a story book, however the wind blows and flips the book pages to a certain page with a illustration of a lake with a boat. the image will then dissolve and shows the real life scene which looks similar to the illustration in the children book. The two girls that were shown in the beginning are now older and are looking over the lake which is shown in the illustration. One of them suddenly points out something that looks familiar, they then start walking around and they sense that they are being followed, this then causes them to realize that they are in the book that they were reading when they were little. They then reflect what happens in the book, the book has a murder that goes around killing everyone that had once read this book. This is what the rest of the movie contains.
We took inspiration from the opening of the hogfather when Susan is reading the bedtime story to the children.

Target audience- Our target audience are females that are 25 and under. We did a horror film survey and from the results we collected we saw that most of the people who answered were aged 14-19 and were females. Also, from the results we gathered we got a understating that most people were fans of horror
films.

Props- We don't have many props, the main prop that we thought of was the children's book that contains the illustration. We also are going to need a knife for the killer, we are going to use a plastic one for safety reasons and so that we don't get into trouble with the police and the law since we will be filming at night. 

For the costumes we decided  to have the younger children using lighter colors to symbolize innocence, however when they are older, one is going to wear white to show the typical victim. whilst the other victim is going to wear darker clothes to represent the more modern victim. The killer is going to wear black as a camouflage to the setting hes in.

Locations- We chose three main locations to film. we decided to use the living room to show comfort, a lake to fit in with the location that the illustration shows and finally were also going to film the chasing scene in the woods/park.

Problems-   I think that filming in the woods/park at night might be a problem as the image might be very dark, but to over come this we are going to try to bring as much light as possible so that it isn't too dark.

Another problem we might find is that our parents have to be free from work so that we have a guardian with us at night. To overcome this problem were going to inform our parents in advance of the dates that we want to film the opening so that they know what day to be free.

Preliminary Task

For this assignment my teacher gave the class the task to create a short scene based on a word that we were given. We were then put into groups f three, meaning there would be two of us acting and one of us controlling the camera. Our teacher went around with a hat which contained different words and we had to pick them out. My group got the word "surprise" so we had to create a short clip that he element of surprise. It took us a while to think of a good idea that related to the word "surprise" but eventually we came up with the idea of a  having two students entering the results room an collecting there test results. One passed whilst the other one failed.

Before we started filming we had to storyboard our ideas, this was a very effective way to bring our ideas to life. Personally i though that creating the storyboard really helped because we were able to actually draw all the shot types we wanted to include and think about where we could place the props. In addition, we were also able to write down what the shot type was in case the picture was unclear . whilst filming we were able to include all the scenes and all the shot types we wanted. So that the footage wasn't shaky we used a tripod, the tripod was very helpful as it made it easier for us to film particular shots like the high angle shot. After we finished filming, we had to edit the footage that we collected. To edit we used Final Cut Pro. I learnt how to select footage that i wanted, remove unwanted parts and how to place certain scenes on the timeline. This was very useful in my opinion because now i know how to use and edit with Final Cut Pro.

Target audience profile

Image of target audience : Overall i imagine my target audience to be like this, as from the results i achieved i noticed that most of the people were girls in between the ages 14-19.

What is their favorite film :
From the results i collected ,i imagine that their favorite film would either be scream of scary movie as most of the people prefer horror with a bit of comedy.

What do they do on the weekends: 
Since most of them were in between the ages 14-19, they probably enjoy meeting up with their friends.

Mode of transept they :
All the results i got were people living in London, so i'm guessing most of them either travel using the bus or trains.

Where/how they live:
From my understanding they all live in London and most live at home with their family.

Their favorite drink:
A very typical drink of teens is Lucozade, so from the age range that i achieved i believe they will like Lucozade  

what is their favorite TV show:
Due to the fact that most of the people that filled in my survey were horror fans, they would probably like Supernatural.

Who would their ideal partner be:
Since most were teenage girls, their ideal partner would be someone like Zayn from one direction.

Where they go on holiday:
Most people prefer warm and sunny places for their holiday so they might like Hot places like Spain.

What political party they would vote for: 
Conservationist and unionist party