Wednesday 4 May 2011
Thursday 7 April 2011
What certificate is your film?
I believe that the film is a 15 because of the strong threat and menace within the film however its not sadistic or sexualized, so this means it falls within the 15 category. At times their may be strong language within the film as events turn to into the worst, however it's not continuous so this is also what would make the film a 15 and not a 18.
200 word synopsis of the whole plot
The opening of the film is what builds up the basis and questions of what the film is going to be about. Therefore the opening establishes that there's this abandoned house in existence where some murderous person or demon inhabits, the identity of this being is pretty much a mystery and unknown. Anyone who enters its lair basically falls as its victim, which is shown in the opening of the young teenagers. Beyond the opening sequence the plot develops until we eventually learn what this creature is, and why it remains in this house. *
We then go back in time to 1960, after the open credits. The house is homely and new, which evidence to show this is a family home. A young boy and his mother live there, however the mother is slightly crazy and has an abusive relationship with her child who is about 10 years old. As a strong type of Christian she beats him for any wrongdoing – the whole atmosphere is rather negative. One day the mother reached breaking point and she locks the child in a small room for about two years until only opening it to give the child more torment and occasionally food and water for survival. By the end of this time period the child is psychologically abnormal mentally and his physical health is weak. When the door unlocks mysteriously he finds the house is pretty much a wreck and his mother has fled. Hence leaving him abandoned. He lives in this house, the idea unimaginable not to leave. He is physically in disrepair. Two people stumble across the house one day and the boy panics, and only knowing abusive behavior towards humans hides, and kills them. Which is where the killing streak starts and actually drinks their blood. His thirst for killing grows stronger and soon the house becomes this even of horrific actions. He haunts the house in his physical form until his dying day, when he becomes this demonic form. By the end of the film its 2011 and part of the opening sequence is in repartition to show the story is up to date and relates back to the beginning with the story of the past now told. Therefore by the end the audience will feel a lot of emotions towards events and the story of the child now turned to demon form.
*Or story-line two:
We then travel two years into the future, introducing new characters showing that the film is now about to follow their story-line and relation to the house. The house has been done up and a young couple move in with a fresh future. Things have seemed to quiet down within the house from what we saw at the opening sequence. However as time goes by its clear that things have been biding their time as things eventually turn into dramatic events. The woman in the house starts getting flashbacks of the young boys history and past in the house which is similar to those of the first story-line. She finds these flashbacks interesting and in doing so she virtually lets the demon in. Who takes over her body and formation. Her personality completely changed she starts cutting herself and spends half her time living in the boys (demons) childhood. Her fiancee cant understand what's happening and is getting pushed to breaking point as he doesn't know what's happening to the person he loves. He believes she's loosing the plot. Strange and horrible things continue to happen and the man can't take things no more. He starts to look up the history of the house and begins to unravel the truth of what happened to inhabitants of the house in the 1900's. The deaths of Hayley and Dean at the beginning also come into light. In shock and horror the man knows he has to do something to put a stop to this. He finds that the mother who did this to the child is now in a mental institution and he goes to talk to her. She explains that it was God telling her to do what she did, that the boy wasn't as innocent as he seemed. Dark whispers stalked him and she could hear them. The mother is now established in a new light and some kind of excuse is made for her actions. She tells him that the demon will never leave the house. In desperation the man goes home, where his wife is now unconscious. Blood everywhere. The man try's to bring her round and succeeds. Her weak, limp and virtually lifeless form suddenly changes. First into the boy of the 1900s and then into the old man who always was and is now in demonic form. Suddenly the black mass of the demon lunges out of the woman's body and knocks the man of his feet, enveloping him. Events lead into an horrific death of the man. The plot ends as a never ending system.
We then go back in time to 1960, after the open credits. The house is homely and new, which evidence to show this is a family home. A young boy and his mother live there, however the mother is slightly crazy and has an abusive relationship with her child who is about 10 years old. As a strong type of Christian she beats him for any wrongdoing – the whole atmosphere is rather negative. One day the mother reached breaking point and she locks the child in a small room for about two years until only opening it to give the child more torment and occasionally food and water for survival. By the end of this time period the child is psychologically abnormal mentally and his physical health is weak. When the door unlocks mysteriously he finds the house is pretty much a wreck and his mother has fled. Hence leaving him abandoned. He lives in this house, the idea unimaginable not to leave. He is physically in disrepair. Two people stumble across the house one day and the boy panics, and only knowing abusive behavior towards humans hides, and kills them. Which is where the killing streak starts and actually drinks their blood. His thirst for killing grows stronger and soon the house becomes this even of horrific actions. He haunts the house in his physical form until his dying day, when he becomes this demonic form. By the end of the film its 2011 and part of the opening sequence is in repartition to show the story is up to date and relates back to the beginning with the story of the past now told. Therefore by the end the audience will feel a lot of emotions towards events and the story of the child now turned to demon form.
*Or story-line two:
We then travel two years into the future, introducing new characters showing that the film is now about to follow their story-line and relation to the house. The house has been done up and a young couple move in with a fresh future. Things have seemed to quiet down within the house from what we saw at the opening sequence. However as time goes by its clear that things have been biding their time as things eventually turn into dramatic events. The woman in the house starts getting flashbacks of the young boys history and past in the house which is similar to those of the first story-line. She finds these flashbacks interesting and in doing so she virtually lets the demon in. Who takes over her body and formation. Her personality completely changed she starts cutting herself and spends half her time living in the boys (demons) childhood. Her fiancee cant understand what's happening and is getting pushed to breaking point as he doesn't know what's happening to the person he loves. He believes she's loosing the plot. Strange and horrible things continue to happen and the man can't take things no more. He starts to look up the history of the house and begins to unravel the truth of what happened to inhabitants of the house in the 1900's. The deaths of Hayley and Dean at the beginning also come into light. In shock and horror the man knows he has to do something to put a stop to this. He finds that the mother who did this to the child is now in a mental institution and he goes to talk to her. She explains that it was God telling her to do what she did, that the boy wasn't as innocent as he seemed. Dark whispers stalked him and she could hear them. The mother is now established in a new light and some kind of excuse is made for her actions. She tells him that the demon will never leave the house. In desperation the man goes home, where his wife is now unconscious. Blood everywhere. The man try's to bring her round and succeeds. Her weak, limp and virtually lifeless form suddenly changes. First into the boy of the 1900s and then into the old man who always was and is now in demonic form. Suddenly the black mass of the demon lunges out of the woman's body and knocks the man of his feet, enveloping him. Events lead into an horrific death of the man. The plot ends as a never ending system.
Wednesday 6 April 2011
Storyboard
Unfortunately this storyboard is not an accurate portrayal of my original idea and storyboard as i didn't have enough time to finish my planning fully before i had to film in order to have enough time for completion and to keep track with time. Therefore my original storyboard would have scenes that i cut out of the opening sequence in order to shorten it - however this storyboard pretty much just follows the opening sequence as it is now.
Wednesday 23 March 2011
Behind the scenes photos!
Wednesday 16 March 2011
Who is the film aimed at?
I'd say that the film is generally aimed at teenagers, as this is who it foccuses on in the actual film. As a result teenagers will be more interested and could generalise and relate with the film more than older adults. Particualrly with the characters, and the storyline. It also relates to teenagers with the whole 'party lifestyle' as orignally thats what the abandoned house demonstrated to teenagers. This links in with real life as it's clear in the actual property and surroundings of the abandoned house that teenagers do use this place to get drunk e.t.c which was a strong influence for the film. I'd say the age that this film targets is from the age of 15-20. As a result this means that the film would also have a 15 certificate, and i think it falls withing this catergory of a 15. The age target is demonstrated as the characters are also around that average age, (17 and 19.) Therefore this age group tend to have similar lifestyles of parties and drinking e.t.c steriotypical teenager. I'd say that the film targets the genders of both male and female, especially as the leading characters at the beginning, are male and female. This shows its targeting both genders through the use of characters and roles.
Production schedule
Friday 11th March 2011- Start filming
Action taken:
At 11:30 i will book a camera off Celena, and then set off towards town to meet up with the people helping me with the filming. At 12:30 we will then get picked up and taken to the abandoned house in Priorslee, where we will start filming. We will be filming most of the film with scenes 6-24 as we have a lot of hours at the house in order to film. It also means we can edit as much as we can when we get back. And then there's only a bit of filming we will have to do next time and any re filming if anything goes wrong. I chose to not film the opening scenes of 1-5 because if we get caught sneaking into the house we may get into trouble and as filming takes time we decided it was best to to the filming in the house first, and then at least thats done if we got in trouble filming the opening sequence next time.
Action completed by: Our objectives were pretty much met. Filming of scenes 6-24 were pretty successful and at least a good 5 hours of time filming in order to complete everything we wanted to.
Amendments to schedule: We need to re film scene 9 with the running to the house as it doesn't look good, it's too fast, jumpy and doesn't look very professional.
Wednesday 16th March 2011- start editing
Action Taken:
I will upload the film onto the computer and transfer it to final cut express, where i will begin putting the film together, by re-arranging, cutting e.t.c to get a rough edit which we can build on afterwards. I will also produce music for my film using garageband.
Action completed by: I managed to get a rough cut of the film to edit more precisely at a later date when the entire film has been put together. The music was pretty successful using garageband. Objectives have pretty much been met.
Amendments to schedule: Create more music using garageband.
Friday 18th March 2011- complete filming
Action Taken
At 11:30 i will book the camera with Celena and meet up with the poeple helping me up town, like last week. Filming will have to start at a later time, however as we wont be getting picked up until half 1. We will then be taken to Priorslee, where we will complete the filming, ready to edit next media lesson. We will be filming scenes 1-5 and re doing scene 9.
Action completed by: All scenes have been filmed, and objectives have been met.
Amendments to schedule: Filming is complete, i now just have to put everything together to look at timings and see if things need to be re-filmed however i may run out of time for re-filming as my time now needs to be concentrated on editing the film.
Wednesday 23rd March -
Action taken: Upload film footage two from friday the 18th and upload onto macs. Edit and join with orginal edit footage.
Action complete by: Everything has been edited and put together. Certain scenes have had to be cut for timing issues.
Amendments to schedule: Certain parts of the film are jumping so i need to concentrate on correcting this.
Wednesday 30th March
Action taken: Make the film run smooth by putting in video transitions to make it look more effective and professional with a cinematic edge. Also create more music for different scenes.
Action complete: The video transitions definitely improved the film and made it flow better between scenes, i also stylized scenes whenever it was the point of view shots of the creature with a distorted and blurred look to show it's something abnormal. Experimentation with music also helped me to produce a second piece of music to make the movie more dramatic and interesting.
Amendments to schedule: Need to add in text transitions for credits of the opening sequence.
Friday 1st April -
Action taken:
Include working text titles for the credits stating actors, film production, camerawork and the actual introduction to the title of the film. Edit these with transitions so that they also fade in and out and look effective. Stylize them in a thriller manner such as adding noise to the writing so that they flicker or something.
Action complete: Objectives were successful and now the film is pretty much complete. The use of the noise transition was effective for a thriller movie as it looks distorted.
Amendments to schedule: Nothing.
Action taken:
At 11:30 i will book a camera off Celena, and then set off towards town to meet up with the people helping me with the filming. At 12:30 we will then get picked up and taken to the abandoned house in Priorslee, where we will start filming. We will be filming most of the film with scenes 6-24 as we have a lot of hours at the house in order to film. It also means we can edit as much as we can when we get back. And then there's only a bit of filming we will have to do next time and any re filming if anything goes wrong. I chose to not film the opening scenes of 1-5 because if we get caught sneaking into the house we may get into trouble and as filming takes time we decided it was best to to the filming in the house first, and then at least thats done if we got in trouble filming the opening sequence next time.
Action completed by: Our objectives were pretty much met. Filming of scenes 6-24 were pretty successful and at least a good 5 hours of time filming in order to complete everything we wanted to.
Amendments to schedule: We need to re film scene 9 with the running to the house as it doesn't look good, it's too fast, jumpy and doesn't look very professional.
Wednesday 16th March 2011- start editing
Action Taken:
I will upload the film onto the computer and transfer it to final cut express, where i will begin putting the film together, by re-arranging, cutting e.t.c to get a rough edit which we can build on afterwards. I will also produce music for my film using garageband.
Action completed by: I managed to get a rough cut of the film to edit more precisely at a later date when the entire film has been put together. The music was pretty successful using garageband. Objectives have pretty much been met.
Amendments to schedule: Create more music using garageband.
Friday 18th March 2011- complete filming
Action Taken
At 11:30 i will book the camera with Celena and meet up with the poeple helping me up town, like last week. Filming will have to start at a later time, however as we wont be getting picked up until half 1. We will then be taken to Priorslee, where we will complete the filming, ready to edit next media lesson. We will be filming scenes 1-5 and re doing scene 9.
Action completed by: All scenes have been filmed, and objectives have been met.
Amendments to schedule: Filming is complete, i now just have to put everything together to look at timings and see if things need to be re-filmed however i may run out of time for re-filming as my time now needs to be concentrated on editing the film.
Wednesday 23rd March -
Action taken: Upload film footage two from friday the 18th and upload onto macs. Edit and join with orginal edit footage.
Action complete by: Everything has been edited and put together. Certain scenes have had to be cut for timing issues.
Amendments to schedule: Certain parts of the film are jumping so i need to concentrate on correcting this.
Wednesday 30th March
Action taken: Make the film run smooth by putting in video transitions to make it look more effective and professional with a cinematic edge. Also create more music for different scenes.
Action complete: The video transitions definitely improved the film and made it flow better between scenes, i also stylized scenes whenever it was the point of view shots of the creature with a distorted and blurred look to show it's something abnormal. Experimentation with music also helped me to produce a second piece of music to make the movie more dramatic and interesting.
Amendments to schedule: Need to add in text transitions for credits of the opening sequence.
Friday 1st April -
Action taken:
Include working text titles for the credits stating actors, film production, camerawork and the actual introduction to the title of the film. Edit these with transitions so that they also fade in and out and look effective. Stylize them in a thriller manner such as adding noise to the writing so that they flicker or something.
Action complete: Objectives were successful and now the film is pretty much complete. The use of the noise transition was effective for a thriller movie as it looks distorted.
Amendments to schedule: Nothing.
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