12E9 1962 Zainab Jess Neeraiya Bariya final My opening Sequence

Planning Sequence

The Action: we decided that there will be a running sequence in the woods. We also came up with a story line of a woman who has died 50 years ago, we then decided how the girl meets the woman- hurts foot, meet in the woods-but this we felt would make the sequence over two minutes. We first decided to include a shot of a house, which we had a found an ideal location it looks old, however this wasn't an essential shot. We then discussed possible ways of Neeri (character running) finds Zainab dead- her running away to a house after friend is dead and somebody from a house nearby or police telling her. But we decided on a newspaper found in the house, before the girl dies so that the sequence can end on Beatrice Smith.

The theme: our aim is to create suspense, tension and fear. Its a horror/supernatural thriller.

The Narrative: use of heart beats at running sequence to create a different effect. We found out that running through woods scenes were common so we decided to change ours. We also wanted Beatrice Smith to pop up at the end like in Children Of Men hence decided to use a flashback- this also helped to compress time.

The Characters: the two girls were meant to be normal teenage girls one really talkative and naive and trusts Beatrice. The other, the smart one who is not happy to come to a strangers house and is nosy. Beatrice Smith we wanted a cold expressionless look, and plain clothes.

The Setting: old looking house, dark, big scary woods. Mise-en-scene we it to be dark because its night

Planning

This is  the newspaper Neeri made for the sequence, which tells the audience that Beatrice Smith is dead 

Final Movie

We are really happy with our efforts to put this opening together, we all worked well together and made a great team. We are especially happy with the effects created by the sound, and the heart beats. There were parts that created difficulty for example lighting, and finding the perfect music however we found music that worked really well together

Planning

Location

Wimbledon woods

House in Putney 

Zinab's house

script

companies who might distribute our film

monogram pictures corporation is a company, many people may not know this company, but its a Hollywood studio who make and distribute films. they do have low budget so I'm not sure whether they would consider in producing the film. by researching the company, it seems like they don't have any horror films.
but, i'm not really confident in this one so please give more suggestions !

independent film company who might consider screening

1. go on google and find an independent film company that might consider screening our film
 firstly, remember we were told that the horror film would be really expensive? so maybe the US might consider it rather than UK because they wouldnt even look at it as they would have to use a large amount of money.  i found that there were so many different companies, for example, blue sky studios, 20th century fox, walt disney, dreamworks, etc. but i thought that the universal studios would be the best because they've done so many famous 'horror' or extreme like films. eg the mummy, jaws etc.
plus if the characters are going to be people who's famously known, then that would be an extra amount.
if you have a different opinion, please write !

Our group decided it would be easier and more effective if we used a handheld camera here wheresome advantages and some disadvantages of making this decidion

One of the negative points about using the camera in this way is that Parts of our video footage we recorded was too shaky, or unfocused.However we overcame this problem by using the ‘razor tool’ to cut and delete the pieces of footage where the camera is moving too much.

Music box

Hello guys,

I have come up with the idea of using a music box sound in the background of our opening sequence.

I think this would be a good idea because it will add that element of mystery that out piece is missing.
I also think the change of non-diegetic music will make our film introduction more interesting for the audience to watch. This sound will also help to build up the story line further by changing the mood of our introduction in the second half of it.
Please comment and tell me what you think ☺

editing

this was when we were changing the tone/brightness of every shots. at first it was difficult to do because the colour and the brightness had to be similar to each other. but after some attempts, it became more easier 

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JIDn8aqvp8

links

http://www.audiomicro.com/royalty-free-stock-music/horror
the beginning of Monster in the Mist?
Beyond the Gates?
The Dark Shadow?
Creepy
Haunted Castle
suspense theme6 (when shes running?)
creepy snake?
horror 2 (page7)
+http://www.partnersinrhyme.com/soundfx/scary_halloween_sounds.shtml
+http://www.purple-planet.com/#/royalty-free-music-horror/4534205059

horror music

http://incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/index.html?genre=horror

1. Right behind you
2.The house of leaves?

horror music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwNAwkulMF0

editing

today we included the heartbeat sound however, it wasnt as loud as we expected so we increased the sound. by doing this, it was more effective and tense.
we will further develop on this by changing the brightness of the scenes.

Shooting in the Woods - Wimbledon Village (Day 1)

Below we have added a short video of when we just enter our first location (woods). We were looking for the best place to shoot the first scene of the opening sequence.  All four of us had made our way to the first location together. It was fine at the beginning but as soon as it started to get dark, it got a bit CREEPY as weird sounds were coming from the woods. And as we were already shooting a scary part of our movie it freaked us out even more, but all four of us had fun and enjoyed ourselves on day 1 of our shooting. We also managed to finish shooting all the woods scene parts successfully.                                                 

in the woods scene

there wasn't any light when taking the scenes so we had to use a light from a mobile phone. we could have taken it better if we had a good light source. however, we can fix this by editing the colour. 

taking of the sequence

More photographs taken

Woods Shooting - 16th Jan 2012

This was our first shooting.We had all met up after school at Wimbledon and then all four of us made our way to the wood location which is where we had decided to shoot our first scene. The shooting lasted 1 Hour as it was getting dark very quickly and we had to shoot before it gets too dark in the woods as there would not be enough light to capture the scenes. All four of us had a great time on our first day of shooting. All props were brought in by all members of our group. Below is a short footage of us finding the ideal place in the woods to shoot our first scene. The lighting was the challenging part, as it shouldn't be too light or too dark. 

Some Shots From First Meeting

Here some quick snapshots that we had taken when we were having our first meeing together.

Our First Meeting - Discussing our concept

This is the first meeting that we had together to discuss what the concept is going to be. 

Our Group ; Bariya, Jessica, Neeraiya & Zainab 

So far we enjoy working together as we all share our ideas without being shy or scared. 

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