Filming Schedule

Filming schedule

We made a filming schedule time table at the start of the process to help organise when and where we were filming and the time frames in which we were going to do it. We done all the filming in a certain order to make the editing easier for ourselves instead of filming bits and bots from each scene then putting it all together at the end. We got our basis and then worked around it. 
This was our schedule:

17/12/12- We began to film the college shots, we done them in the afternoon so it gave off a more relaxed and normal college feel to it as if we'd done it in the morning we would of came across quite tired and not as relaxed towards the acting of the shot

18/12/12- We finished all the college shots and uploaded them on to our system to get the starting shots in order.

28/12/12- When we came back from the Christmas holidays we got straight back into filming and this is the date we filmed our computer shots where the group is made, we went to one of our teams house to film this shot as we needed a dark room with a computer to give it the night time effect we went for.

5/1/13- This day we filmed our alleyway shots of the killer running down it and the three friends walking up it we filmed them both at the same time as we wanted to give them the same time of day affect to the sot to make the viewer question if the killer is just behind them. We chose to do this shot around midday as no one would of been walking around at that time and we had it private to get the shots we needed with enough time to focus on getting them accurate

7/1/13- Filmed our crucial shots which gave our trailer the religious factor. This was when we filmed the church and graveyard shots, we done this early so not many people saw what we were doing and we did get the church's permission before we filmed so they gave us all the time we needed to get the shots just right.

20/1/13- We filmed our final shot and this was the chase scene where we went to Caister beach and used the empty dunes to give the effect of loneliness and no escape from the killer. With no one to hear you and see what's happening  

Full Film Idea

Full Film Idea

Our movie trailer is called ‘.Com’ we came up with this name because it revolves around the dangers and potential threats of social networking in this day and age, we made a trailer to portray one of the worst scenarios from the social networking world.

Our trailer is based around the idea of a person signing his group of friends up to a what seems to be harmless website called ‘how you will die’. Having this sort of thing on a social network you wouldn't usually think anything of it but throughout or trailer you see not to always trust what you think is just a bit of harmless fun between you and your friends. We came up with the idea to get one person to sign his friends up as a bit of fun but little do they know on the other side of the website is actually a killer waiting for innocent naive students/people to sign up to it. and little does Chris (character signing them up) know that the killer will try kill them off one by one exactly how he’s told them on the website.

We decided to make the killer highly religious to put that religious twist on the trailer to show there is a reason for killing the people on the website and it’s not just random killing. The story behind the religious part is we went for the message from God idea telling him to kill people who have sinned and to do it he has to set up the website to pin point the sinners amongst the area he is in. By doing this we challenged the whole idea of God sending a message down to Jesus to sacrifice himself to save us as we done the opposite God sent down a message to our killer to kill the people to save them. We believed this gave our trailer a bit more of a gripping deeper story line and would test people’s beliefs in good and evil.

We all agreed our target audience was mainly the male gender aged around 16-20 because it’s based around college students and based in a college setting so many people this age can relate to the surroundings and the characters involved. We came to the conclusion our film would come under the sub-genre under horror as a religious slasher. We have similar aspects to ‘final destination’ where the students are toying with death and trying to dodge faith after seeing how they are going die. Also we followed the brutal and bloody deaths.

Our trailer contained binary opposition, as it had the idea of good vs evil in the killers mind. He believed that he was doing good by listening to God, when in reality all the viewers and people in society know he was going against all forms of social norms. 

Movie Poster

 

With my movie poster i went for the minimilistic look to keep it basic and straight to the point. i got my final idea from the scream 4 poster. you can see the way i have used this poster to base mine on, by the way the poster is set out 

 

 

My Poster

 

 

 

Poster i used as a guide

Recce Report

General Audience Research

General Audience Research

The general people to watch horror films are either people who get a thrill out of a scare and enjoy watching graphic, gory scenes of violence for their own pleasure. Or people who are just looking for a fright once and a while.  Horror films have been attracting people since the start of cinema, psychiatrists have found horror films have been found to spark certain emotions of fear and dread in almost everyone who watches them. Throughout most people’s lives we have been left with a mental image or thought from watching a horror film/s this is the sort of adrenaline people look for when watching horror films.

People have found the main motives to watching horror films are finding the need for excitement, the desire to feel intense emotions and to get away from everyday problems. Many horror films go against the everyday social norms in society, many films give the viewer a buzz mentally but horror films give off a different kind of buzz for the viewer, ass it’s not every day you get to see a violent murder or a sadistic killer on the loose brutally hurting or doing things to people. The main viewer found to enjoy horror films are the male gender age 16 and up usually single or in groups of males. They seem to look for ‘sensation-seeking’ this is a form of pleasure they get from watching horror films, especially in groups of people mainly woman as it can show off their ‘masculine’ side proving they can watch horror films and brave through all they throw at you

Generally the viewers will either watch a horror film in a safe surrounding so they don’t feel threatened by what happening around them and their anxiety levels won’t get to the point of paranoid.  The horror films that scare and attract people the most are the ones proven to be a real life story (remake of what happened) these draw people to think and question about their everyday life and the things going on around you because you will always have it playing on your mind, this is one form of pleasure people get from it knowing that it could be happening around you. The genre has been around for ages and will always be there but the ideas are running out but the fright factor people go for will always be there. 

Shot List

These are the shot lists our group came up with before shooting our trailer throughout the filming we came up with new ideas and changed some of the original ideas, we wrote the changes and new format of the trailer on the page at the bottom right on the photo 

Original Brainstormed Ideas

Finished Horror Magazine

Poster Draft

Magazine Draft

Props and Costume

Props and costumes

Props:

The props we used within our trailer went with the stereotypical horror props usually used by most films.

• knife 
• car
• cricket bat 
• crucifix 
• fake blood

Costume:

we didn't really venture into costumes we just used normal clothing, so it gave off the impression that anyone could be a killer

Friendship group:

• normal everyday clothing

Killer:

• denim jacket
• jeans
• wellies