Credits

 Using Sony Vegas we have the choice to  place the credits in many deferent angles and shots. This is the order that is appropriate for our film:

PRODUCTION COMPANY presents
a NAME  film
TITLE
Lead Cast
Supporting Cast
Casting Director
Music Composer
Costume Designer
Editor
Production Designer
Director of Photography
Executive Producer
Producer
Writer
Director

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Filming

We have just finished filming the first scenes. We found that filming is taking less time than previously thought because we have already run through all the shots and what angles to use. This has helped to speed up the time taken to make our film and gives us more time to do the next steps.

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Story board

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Casting

When casting we chose Jojo to be our actress, playing Chloe because Jojo has several years experience in acting school so will be able to use her knowledge to help to create the scene. Also as Jojo is a director it will be easier to portray what we want to happen in each scene as she will be the one acting the scene out.

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Storyborad

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Ideas from films

Attack the block: In this film you never fully see the monsters but you know they are there. This leaves what    the audience thinks they look like up to their imagination. We can use this in our film as you never quite see the other person in the shop.
Click here to see Jojo's post on the opening sequence of Attack the bock.

Woman in black: Here lots of strange things happen and there is a figure that watches people from afar. This can also be used in our film as a POV shot of the person watching to see through the other person's eyes but not to reveal the other person's identity.

Dawn of the dead: In this film the characters are in a shopping mall and we can use subtle scenes of the characters using the setting from this film to apply to ours.

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Locations

Just started to look at filming on location. We looked at different camera angles and movement to use in the final scene. The setting works very well and we also looked at what editing will need to be done on each scene.

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Questionnaire

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Horror genre

When discussing themes with Jojo, we came to a disicion on what theme we will use in our openning sequence. We are going to use a horror theme. So here are some conventions of the horror genre:

The setting is usual far away from people, whether in the mountains, similar to The shinning, or in the contryside, similar to A cabin in the woods, and most typically a haunted house. Usually this setting is unfamilar to the characters.

Another convention is iconography. In a lot of films these are repeated, such as low key lighting, monsters or a mad man. The mise-en-scene is very important here too. Starting with the low key lighting, this gives a very haunted and dark feel to the films. This also limits the character's and the audience's view of what is happening and movies can use the dark to trick us in thinking that there is something there as we cannot clearly see what is happening. Some props such as kinves or chainsaws are used often as they are very dangrous weapons that a person on their own cannot defend against, helping to induce a feeling of fear and defencelessness.

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