Title Sequence and Editing

As we had many weeks to research other horror films, we also decided to look at the different options for our title sequence. We are included people such as

• director and screenwriter
• director of photography
• names of the actors
• creator of the soundtrack

Also, we have found on piece of work on the main blog and we really like the font and style of the title sequence, which is quite useful because there's is also a horror. Before shooting we were also looking on the editing software and suitable fonts and we have found one which would look good with our movie and also different effects, for example we are using a basic fade in and out.

Shooting - final

Stephanie M

We finally finished our shooting today in Lanchester and will be uploading our footage soon to be editing. We got all of the footage we needed however, our first actor wasn’t as “talented” as our first. We did shoot a lot more footage that was needed just to keep our options open. As there is horse in our movie, we had to think carefully about continuity and that is why we had a range of cameras instead of just one. The weather was quite an advantage as it was very cloudy and misty making the setting look more realistic for horror opening to a movie. And we also had no problem shooting in our chosen area.

However, a problem that we did find was that, as we didn’t shoot our movie in the correct order from beginning to end, because our actors were only available at certain times of the day. And as we started shooting around 1, after a short period of time, the weather conditions became a problem.

We will soon be uploading some footage and starting our rough edit. 

Shooting

We are finally fully prepared to go out and shoot our opening to our movie. We are now past 1 week into shooting time, but it took us to this point, to get all of the materials eg camera, tripod, actors, props and the same time. We will be shooting at around 3 to 4, and as we are shooting a horror opening, it will be useful as if becomes more dark, however, we will be relying slightly on our editing software to put a tint onto our clips to make it look darker. After tomorrow, we will both have a blog to say how it went :)

Shooting and Credits

We are planning to shoot this Saturday in the morning and all of our actors are prepare to be there. We have also being planning in more detail,  our movie credits. Our actors will appear first like in most films and then directors, producer etc.

(actors)
Samantha Minto

Alex Lang

Directed and produced

Steph Martin and Imogen Moore

Audio soundtrack

Daniel Robson Carr

Director of photography

Imogen Moore

Request for information

1 - Title of the movie - The Unknown
Genre - Horror
2 - Name of your studio/ distribution company - Fyreon
3 - Credits you intend to use -
Samantha Minto - Actor and horse owner
Daniel Robson-Carr - Music
Steph Martin - (camera and editing)
Immy Moore - (camera and editing)
Leanne Renwick - Actor
4 - A brief synopsis of your opening sequence - (Horror) - Teenager after school, is out in the countryside, after "the the incident", her friend soon follows after her to find what has happen.

Safety Assessment

As there are horses in our opening, we have to make sure that it is safe for the rider and the horse. we are shooting in a field which is owned by the owner of the horse, who clearly knows the area. also all of the field is enclosed, so if there was a accident, the horse would not come to further harm. The rider clearly would be wearing all of the correct rider gear, such as Hard hat, riding boots, gloves, body protector etc, and there will also be 5 of us overall, so if any accident occured, there would be a lot of people and nearby stables to help.


we have chosen, to use the countryside and a horse in our opening, as alot of our horror film research is in the country for example

• Eden lake
• Halloween
• severance

we have also included a horse as it will make the scene feel more fast paced when we use cross cutting at the beginning and realistic as many people do sports in there day to day lifestyle

Characters and Script

Actor 1 and 2 (both female)
Immy and Steph   - Editing and Shooing


as the film is only a short opening, it will not include alot of dialogue


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(First opening - cut shot between river and horses for around 25 seconds)
(Focuses in on actor 1 )
After the extreme long shots, many high angles are used to look down on the characters to make them look vulnerable as it is a horror film
-character drops her bag and gets of the horse-
-is then dragged into a near by bush and her bag is left and so is the horse
--then character 2 returns the next day (this is clear as the weather and time of day would have change and sees the bag left never a bush--
- the character would then call out the first characters name repetitively 
-as she then sees her bag, she walks over to help find her friend ( at this point we would use a high angle shot, with the help of the tripod-


First week of shooting


Needed:
Immy Moore and Stephanie Martin for shooting
Actor 1: needed on saturday to meet at meadowsfield for 2 hours at 11:00
Actor 2: needed on sunday early in the morning at 6am for shooting, yet only needed for 1 hour
Transport for both days in by car for everyone and return

8 Pictures from our storyboard

This a basic outline of our storyboard. the red crosses on some of the storyboard is to show you where our camera is going to be placed. Very soon we will be going to the site where we are going to be filming out film and get some real pictures.Steph

Deciding on our final storyboard and ideas

We are now starting to choose our certain actors and settings. Compare to last week, we have changed out location dramatically and are going to shot it in the countryside compare to shooting in the city.
there are many advantages of this such as

• less people ( to get in the way of shooting)
• calmer environment
• the country side when it is dark looks very scary and deserted
• very realistic
• not a lot of visable traffic (looks more organised)

also as we are shooting a horror film, lots of very successful horrors that we are basing ours on are shot in the countryside.

• Cabin Fever
• Severance
• The Hills have eyes
• The Cottage
• Eden Lake

however as the countryside is further away from the city where most of our actors would live its helps to set a better environment, also in our opening clip, is going to be of our two actors horse riding, with is easily accessible in the countryside.

Steph.