New Final Film

As a group we decided to restart our final film. This is because we found that our other film didnt fit in to the thriller genre. It didnt incorporate enough suspence and tension, we also thought we needed more variety of camera anlges.

For our new film we decided to film it at school because we thought it was an eerie setting for a thriller movie. Its all about a nightmare that came true. It begins with a young 13 year old girl in bed, she's having a nightmare, so she is moving a lot and sweating. It then fades out in to the nightmare. The nightmare involves the girl running from someone, although you can not see the other person you can tell she is scared and running from something. She runs up the stairs and along the corridor. We made it so that the corridors looked really dark using editing, and we made the lights flash to create tension. We used a low angle shot to show her running through the corridor, we also put tense music over the top and the sound of thunder to create a dramatic effect. The girl then goes up to the door and a hand falls in front of her covered in blood, we used a point of view shot as she looks at the hand so it makes the audience feel on edge, creating tension. She then gets grabbed by someone as shes stepping back. We see the footsteps of a man using a low angle shot, which makes him look intimidating, he then unlocks a cupboard door and theres a close up on the hand, we also used dramatic music and we enphasised the sound of the keys unlocking the door. At the end the girls found dead in the cupboard. Then te screen goes fuzzy like a t.v gone wrong, then the news comes up and the lady explains that a girl was found dead in the cupborad at a school. So the nightmare comes true!!  

Camera Angles:

We used a variety of camera angles in our final film, to show the vunerable characters and the powerful and intimidating characters.

This is a screen shot fomr our film. It's of the evil male chracter, using a low angle shot hides his identity to create mystery, but also it shows he's intimidating.  

This is a screen shot from our film. Its a high angle shot on the dead girl. We decided to use this camera angle because it makes the young girl seem vunerable.

This is the hand of the unkown male chracter. We used a close up for this scene where he's unlocking the door because it makes it more significant, also it creates tension as the audience don't know whats going to be behind the door.

We also used a framing shot as the young girl runs up to the window of a class room door. This makes the audience feel more involved in the film because it's almost like your in the room she runs up to. This makes it more interesting for the audience to watch.






Lighting: 
In our film we made the scenes dark by turning off all the lights in the corridors. Also we made the lights flash to create an eerie atmospere. We simply turned the lights on and off and the lights all flashed one by one. This created a bit more light so you could see significant things. Like the hand on the floor. When we were editing the film we also made the scenes darker by changing the colour saturation to 23%. We made it darker because thrillers are associated with darkness.

This is the the scene where we flashed the lights. You can see from this picture that their just flashing on.





Costumes:

The male chracter:

For the evil male chracter we chose to dress him in scientific clothes because this links to the fact that we filmed it in a school. Also we got him to wear green clothes to hide his identity. And it almost looks like he's prepared to get messy/ kill the young girl.

The young girl:

We decided to dress the girl in school uniform when she was in her dream because it shows she's at school, also it shows she is a young girl. The first scene where she is having a nightmare we dressed her in typical night wear.

Preliminary Task

For our preliminary task we filmed at an isolated farm. There's two female characters who have a conversation in a barn/shed. We used a few different camera angles including a close up and a low angle. However for our final film we need to incorporate a larger variety of camera angles. We also had a few shaky shots in our preliminary task which will need to be inproved in our final film because it will make the audience feel disoriented. Although we purposely created shaky shots, to show the person is running. For the editing we slowed down the scene where the girl is walking out of the barn, this created an eerie atmosphere. We also made each scene darker by reducing the saturation, this created a creepy atmosphere, like it was night.

Preliminary Task

Preliminary Outtakes

This video is of the mistakes which we had while filming our preliminary task. So we made them into outtakes. We decided to put together our outtakes because we thought they were humorous.  This video is located in a large, isolated field and involves sami and Nisha.

Final Film

We have begun to start our final film. We have started half way through the film, which is the scene where the two girls are at school in class. We used different camera angles in this scene, including a low angle and high angle shot. In this scene we involved two girls who are friends and a teacher. Next we are going to film the start of the main task.

Final Film

This is part of our storyboard for our final film. It involves a new girl in the village and her two friends. The girl is leaving school with her friend but her friend walks the other way and leaves the girl walking to her other friends house on her own. As she’s walking to her male friends house she is grabbed from the bushes by a boy. She tries to escape and bites him, then she runs. (but what she doesn’t know is that the boy who grabbed her is actually her male friend who she’s just going to see) She arrives at the boys house looking scared and flushed. He wonders what’s wrong with her but she doesn’t say, she asks for water and as they boy reaches up to get it she’s sees a bite mark on his arm, she then realises it was him. Then the screen reads 24 hours earlier, and plays the day before any of this happens. The location for our film is going to be in a house and at a park or grassy area.

Auditions for main task

These are the auditions which took place to determine who was going to be the actors in our film. We created these auditions for our original film. We used a variety of genders and characters to audition for the part.