Filming.

Tonight we are going to start filming, one of the scenes from our trailer this is the opening scene where Karlie and her friends are getting ready for the party.  The location is going to be at Lauren's house in her bedroom. The actors are Amay Campbell, Jo Noble and Charlie Lockton.

This is Amay, she plays the charcter Daisy.

Website Hosting Search.

Today's lesson we looked at different website makers which are free to set up our own website, for our horror film. But most of them have a clause were you have to pay, so we are going to continue looking.x

Title

Titles

These are the titles we designed on a graphics website, interactimage.com, as you can see the title we have chosen is 'Possessed'. The reason we chose this one out of our choices is because it gives a twist to the story perhaps making the audience think someone is possessed in the psychiatric/paranormal sense when in fact we mean that the boy wants to own the girl and wants her as a possession. We asked a few people which of the title designs they liked best and which would be best suited to a horror movie poster and the majority of them chose this one:

We will do a mock up of the poster next week when we have a few ideas and samples of images we will use for the background.

Picture Ideas For Poster

Here are some pictures I found on deviantart.com in the photography/people&portraits/expressive section. I looked at portraits because we want our photo to be of the main character on her own, and I looked in the expressive section because we didn't just want a plain portrait of the character we want it to be showing something about the film. These photos have given me lots of ideas and inspiration of how we can do our poster photo and it's also given me some ideas for shots we could use in the trailer as well.

I like this photo because of how they've layered a few different positioned photographs. I think using the same technique of this but using a close up of our characters face would work well for the kind of effect were going for on our poster, a distorted view.

This photo doesn't really relate to our theme exactly but i think it looks really effective and real, but obviously wouldn't be right for the style of image we're going for.

I like this image because of how close up it is which is what we are doing for the photo on our poster, I also think just showing the eye shows more expression but keeps the identity of the person hidden. If we used the same setup for our poster photo as this I would probably want to have the eye look bigger and probably make it black and white and with the eye a little further down so the eyelashes aren't cut out of the photo.

This is my favourite of the photos I looked at, it gives off an obvious vibe of horror which we want and it also draws you in and makes you interested and look closely. I think the fact it's black and white with the blood drip in colour is really effective and makes it fit in with the horror genre. I think this image would be easy to achieve just using a good camera and the editing tools on photoshop. I think maybe combining this photo idea with the first one using layers of photos could also work really well.

I also really like this photo because it's quite scary, a close up version of this maybe of just one half of the face would work really well for our poster. The girls expression makes her look terrified but it also makes the person looking at it scared as well because the eyes are like popping out which scares me but I really like the black going down her cheeks.

This image was created by scanning the face directly onto the computer. I think it gives a really good effect of being trapped but I don't think we would want to use this technique or layout as there are a couple of other effects that look and would work better.

Miss Hammond's Lesson

'A Collective'
*Relationship
*Togetherness
*We-ness
*Connection
*Shared status
*Community
*Positive feelings for each other

"A collective is a group of entities that share or are motivated by at least one common issue, or interest, or work together on a specific project to achieve a common object."

'Identity'
*What makes you who you are?
*Your own comprehension of yourself- how you see yourself.
*How others see us
*Appearance
*Attributes
*Clothing
*Experiences
*Rituals

Area's of 'collective Identity.'
*Gender
*Ethnicity
*Sexuality
*Occupation
*Disability
*Social class
*Religion
*Nationality
*Celebrity
*Age

Theory's

On the one hand, identity is something unique to each of us that we assume is more or less consistent (and hence the same) overtime.. our identity is something we uniquely possess: it is what distinguishes us from other people. Yet on the other hand, identity also implies a relationship with a broader collective or social group of some kind. When we talk about national identity, cultural identity, or gender identity, for example, we imply that our identity is partly a matter of what we share with other people. Here, identity is about identification with others whom we assume are similar to us (if not exactly the same), at least in some significant ways.
David Buckingham (2008).
He argues that identity is complicated/complex.

"Identity is complicated. Everyone thinks they've got one. Magazines and talk show hosts urge us to explore our 'identity.' Religious and national identities are at the heart of major international conflicts. Artists play with the idea of 'identity' in modern society. Blockbuster movie superheroes have emotional conflicts about their 'true' identity. And the average teenager can create three online 'identities' before breakfast."
David Gauntlett (2007).

Gauntlett is talking about identity in relation to the media, I think that he tries to explain how ordinary people aspire to be like the people in the media like celebrities. I agree with him somewhat, but I don't think everyone is influenced by someone in the media, or maybe secretly they are. Other things such as parents, family, friends and life experiences also influence your identity, not just the media. However I think even under privileged countries are still influenced by the media, for example they may look up to great athletes, that have come from their country.

David Buckingham 2008.
"A focus on identity requires us to pay close attention to the diverse ways in which media and technologies are used in everyday life and their consequences both for individuals and social groups."

In a summary in order to look at identity you have to look at the media impact. What consequences the media has on people- on the individual.

Different medias which I believe have an impact on identity:
*Magazines
*Newspaper
*Films
*Soap Operas
*Adverts
*Radio
*Music
*Celebrities
*Internet-MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter
*Video games
*Self-help programmes

Music Research

Audience Wordle

This is a wordle of the audience type we are going for.

Title Ideas

This is a wordle of the possible titles we could use for our film.

Music I Like

This is a song that I like at the minute, I think we could use music like this but if it was toned down if you know what I mean. For the beginning of the film we want to have dance music something your able to dance to, to get ready for night out. This is a dance track something similar to what we want to have, I think maybe the beginning of the song or the chorus. We looked at the music in the Prom night trailer which was non diagetic when it shows them getting ready and then the music stops as soon as the scary part of the trailer starts, whereas the tormented trailer uses diagetic music in the party scenes. This is something to think about when we decide on our music.

More Music

To Do List...

Last weeks to do list:

-Finish storyboard - done about a third of it and has been put on blog
-Research/decide type of music we want - roughly researched but not in detail
-Analyse filming that has been done - not done
-Choose picture for poster background - no research done but had discussions about it


This weeks to do list:

-Do some more of the storyboard
-Research more into music
-Think about dialogue, maybe start script
-Make more detailed shot list so we can start filming next week
-Decide if the filming that's already been done can be used, put a few clips of good parts on blog, decide how we can improve them for next week

We aim to have done these things by next Friday.