Shooting script

After producing our main script we then had to create a shooting script. This is a lot like our original script but it consists of camera shots, camera movements, lighting and how each shot should be.
The shooting script we created had to be very detailed so when it came to doing the filming we knew what we was doing. By creating a shooting script it made it a lot easier to film which enabled us to get shots needed, for the right amount of time etc.

Script

This is a sample of our first script we wrote. We amended it to make it better, along with the amendments we made to the storyboard. This section of the script give you and idea about whats going to happen in the first few seconds of our horror film, Heidi chooses to walk through the forest as it is a quicker way of getting home.

Pitch idea

As a group we had to create a powerpoint which lasted 10 minutes long, it was informing the audience about what our idea for the opening is. It had to include the synopsis of the whole film, an example of our script and storyboard, how our opening linked into the genre of horror and how it used the key codes and conventions.

We also had to include the name of our horror film, we decided on the name 'Revenge of the missing' we choose this name because we thought it created an enigma and will intrigue the audience therefore making them want to watch it.

Our pitch idea when down very well, Mr Cramb seemed to like it a lot, which helped us to move forward with the rest of our script and storyboard, and then to the filming of our horror opening.

Preliminary Task

For our preliminary task we had to film a continuity task which involved filming and editing someone opening a door, walking into a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, also there had to be short dialogue between them. For this task we had to include shot-reverse-shot, 180 degree rule and match on action.

Once we filmed, as a group we edited our preliminary using 'iMovie' and then evaluated what we thought was the positive and negatives of our film. This then helped us to realised the aspect which we need to work on for our own horror film which would therefore help us to get the best grade possible.

After evaluating our film we realised that our framing wasn't very good and off key, our angle was slightly tilted and didn't incorporate the rule of thirds. Also we found that the hand held camera work we did needed to addressed, as a lot of them shots were very shaky.

On the other hand, the positives of our preliminary task were that we done some good close-up shots and had good zoom movements, these will all become useful because when we come to film our opening we could incorporate them in.

Doing this task has allowed us to consider all the depth we need to go into when we come to our film; camera shot/movement, framing and mise en scene, we'll have to think about all these to succeed within making our horror film opening.

Institutional Context

We had to create a case study for an Institutional context guide that we are working in. We decided to focus on the Lionsgate media institution as it has had represented many successful horror films which include: Saw and American Psycho, both of which were very popular on our audience questionnaire. Once we discovered this we thought that Lionsgate would be a good institution to work with for our horror film opening.
We done a lot of research on Lionsgate, its distribution and production element, where it was founded, what other media companies it owns and if that was relevant to our film opening. There are a few slides from our powerpoint presentation below.

Textual Analysis Summary

On the 25th and 26th January we pulled all of our 8 textual analysis essays together to figure out the key coeds and conventions for a horror film. We then created a powerpoint presentation which we presented to the class on our findings and what we felt was needed to create a successful horror film. The codes and conventions such as lighting, editing and camera shots helped us to get a clear idea of what we should include into our opening.

Questionnaire Analysis

We presented our power point on the summary of our finding to Mr Cramb and the rest of the class. We explained how important this information is as it shows us what we should and shouldn't put into our horror film opening. At the end of the lesson Mr Cramb gave the class feedback on what we should do with our findings and this is what he suggested; he told us to compare our research to national research and to make sure that we've got representation off all age groups, which we have.

Questionnaire Analysis

In today's lesson Mr Cramb told us what we would need to include in our portfolios and showed us a previous students to help us understand the layout and the type of content we would need to put in it. This therefore gives us an idea of the type of thing we will need include in our own.
In my group we got our questionnaires back and looked at the results to see what they had shown. We then added up our results and put them into graphs to clearly show the popular answers from the not so popular. We made a power point and made a script of our results which we presented to the class on Friday.

Research and Planning

In today's lesson Mr Cramb went over our questionnaire, he told us that we would need to tweak couple of our questions because if we wanted to receive the best results we would need to make them more specific. He also said if we did do this we would find it a lot easier to group our data from the questionnaire and find it easier to put the results into graphs etc.
From this feedback we changed the areas which needed tweaked then handed out our questionnaires so that we can determine the target audience for our horror film opening.