Group planning of group roles.

This was our first idea of the roles each member of our team would take up:

• Photographers - Josh/Shane 
• Props designer - Lewis
• Musical director - Kelly
• Director - Shane/Josh
• Script - Kelly
• Lighting Manager - Josh
• Costume designer - Shane
• Location manager - Lewis/Josh
• Producer - Kelly
• Actors - Shane, Kelly, Josh, Lewis, Mrs Bobbett, Mrs Twydell and son
• Casting - Shane
• Assistant director - Lewis

Group certificate

for our film we wanted our main target audience to be between the ages of 15-24 as we thought this was the ideal ages of people who would go to the cinema to watch a horror film, therefore we had to choose to make our film rated 15 or rated 18, we looked at both the advantages and disadvantages of both and we came to the concultion we wanted to make ours a 15.



making our film a 15 this meant we was aloud to get away with a lot of things however their was certain things we could not add into our opening scene and title sequence that an 18 could. The rules of making your film a 15 is that you are not aloud large amounts of graphic violence however you are aloud minimal violence in the film which ours has on the teddy bear. You are also not aloud huge amounts of bad language use in your film you can use some words that do not offend others however some words and large uses of words will not be aloud, we decided to not have any bad language in our opening scene or title sequence. We was thinking about making our film rated 18 however this would have been harder to stick to the guidelines and would not appeal to the target audience we wanted to aim at.

Group production scheldule

we planned to film the shots we need in around 3 days wanted to use 1 day to film our title sequence as we only needed around 45 seconds of footage and we decided to film the opening scene also 1 day leaving one other day to go back and film any added shots we felt we needed or any shots we needed to improve. We also felt we would need one or 2 days to complete the editing and make our first draft film.

Group filming style

In our film we wanted to make it as stereotypical to a horror film as we could without making it the same as others. we thought when planning what would be used in a stereotypical horror and what wouldn't be used and we tried to make a good combination to make a good horror film. In the end we used Hollywood style filming and used a lot of stereotypical features like typical horror character, with a covered face and evil eyes. We also decided to keep it stereotypical with the setting we used, we wanted to make it a dark setting with the lighting coming from the candles, this is because the candles in a shed is a high danger that could cause fire, also because it made the environment dark and look rough like it was abandoned which is typical for a horror film as the killer usually does not live under well conditions and has maybe had a bad background. We also wanted to make the music stereotypical to a horror film so in the editing we decided to find some music that would fit the horror genre and the shot types to make it Hollywood filming style.

Group production company logo

I have done research on production companies that are already in use, we looked at some big companies and some not as big companies. we wanted something simple but effective and this is what we made.

Group planning (storybordes)

we thought to get a good indication of what we needed to shoot, we should draw up a storybored. this would tell us how long the shots where what they would roughly look like and what the diolouge would be what music would be playing, what transision ect.we tried to do the storybored shot by shot to make it very accruate to make it how we thought our film would end up, here are our story boreds we drew up.
firstly this is the story bored to our title sequence.

we then done storyboreds for our opening scene.

Group actors for our film

In our film we will need our characters for acting as we need many roles to be filled.
the roles needed throughout our film will be:

• A mother to tell off a child.- miss twydell
• A child to be told of by his mother. - miss twydells son
• 2 police officers extras that will stand in the background.- extras kieran, liam
• A news reporter- miss bobbett
• A young student, lives on street of the most recent murder-josh davis
• A teenage couple who play a telephone call prank- shane mcdonald, kelly leung

we all wanted to be in the film as it would make it our own however we knew we couldnt feel every space therefore we had to ask people to act aswell. we have asked our teacher miss Twydell and her son to act as the mother and child, we have also asked our other female teacher miss bobbett to play the news report, and the two police men will be played by extras. the rest of the needed people will be played by ourselfs.

Group props we plan to use in our horror film.

the  props we feel we will need in our horror film to make it successful are :

• dolls- as the killer will be playing with these.
• tools- these will be needed as these could be used as weapons for the killer.
• telephone- this will be needed as at the end the phone will ring.
• gloves- the killer will use gloves to make him more hidden and mysterious.
• police tape- to go around the crime scene.
• microphone- for the news reporter.
• tv- as they will be watching this on the news.
• balloon
• calender- for the title sequence shot.
• picture/picture frame-for the title sequence shot.
• birthday cake-for the title sequence shot.
• candles-for the shed to light it up.
• birthday card-for the title sequence shot.

these are all the props that we will use in our title sequence and our opening scene however there may be more used but i shall add them in on a later date as that will be improvements made.

Group settings we will be using.

the settings we will be using are:

• shed at my house.
• the town centre
• an abandond pub
• living room
• bedroom
this is a picture of the town centre we may use however we        want a establishing shot of this.
this is a picture of the shed we planto use for the shed scenes.
this is a picture to show the abandond pub we plan to use.
this image is the hall way leading up to the bedroom and living room.



Group shot list.

•  Close up
• Mid shots
• Established shots
• Shot reverse shot
• Extreme close up
• Long shot
• High angle shot

These are the shots we will be using in our filming we want to use the close ups on objects and peoples body parts to make it more mysterious.

The mid shots will be used to show the majority of the actor however do not want to show is whole body.

the long shots will be used to show the actor and the background to give an idea of the surroundings.

An establishing shot will show people the settings and area.

The shot reverse shot will be used when two actors are talking.

We want to use an extreme close up on a weapon or a body part like an eye or creepy smile.

The high angle will be used to look down on something that could be represented as small and vulnerable.

Group ideasfor our plot.

Reminiscence - Plot

We thought that if our 2 minute short section was to be as successful as it could be then we would need to develop a plotline for a full sized movie so that we know exactly what needs to be achieved in this opening section that we are to produce.

Killer Haunted by siblings death on there birthday, feels anger towards the role parents played in this. After killing own parents develops a taste for murder and decides to punish those he deems to be incompetent parents.
(These ideas will be pursued in the title sequence of the clip)

Every year on the month leading up to the deceased siblings birthday, murders take place on parents with children aged 6-11. The victims body is then adorned with a doll as a reminder of the dead sibling. In order to test the remaining parents love for their child the killer leaves a clue to the childs location.

Latest Killing occurs on the street of a teenage babysitters house, the concerned friends of this teenager proceed to ring them in order to confirm their safety. They then travel to the babysitters house for a houseparty. During the party, the child is left unattended and the killer (a guest at the party) snatches the child and slaughters the majority of the household.

Killer leaves an adress for the survivors to follow if they want the child back, it is revealed that at each location a sacrifice must be made for the next location to be revealed. They must reach the final trial by midnight if the child is to live.

se7en title sequence

Se7en title sequence analysis
first 20 seconds

1sec-5sec: close up on a book. With a hand image in the background going to turn the page. We then see “new line cinema presents”come up in a horror font and white writing, the background is dark and creepy.

6sec-7sec: It is a plain black background with white writing in the corner with the production companys name. “arnold koplson production”.

8sec- 10secs: We see an areial shot on a book. It fades from black to the hands both flat on a sqared grid. The hands look deformed and abnormal, this gives us a horror feel.

10sec-11sec:  We see the same image as above however we see “a film by David Fincher” the writing is the same which was used earlier in the sequence.

12sec-13sec: We see three flashes of images it is hard to discover but I feel the images are of a drill being put together by the actor, however we do not see the actor only his hand. This makes it mysterious, which could mean the film will be too.

14sec-15sec: Again it is a fully black background with just the white writing in the centre of the screen this time is is giving us a famous actors name “Brad Pitt”.

16sec-17sec: We see three flashes of images of a mans finger and a razor, and the man is peeling the skin of his fingers, and you just see the skin falling off. His hands are not nice and seeing skin being cut of is not a nice image.

18sec-19sec:  Again we see a blackout image with white writing again of a famous actor “Morgan Freeman” the writing is flashing and un-tidy like hand writing.

20sec-22sec:  We see flashs of two images they are extreame close ups on something but we can not tell what.