Resit: Our 1st Rough Cut for our Opening

Feedback: You can tell straight away that it's a horror opening, the genre is well thought through with the blood, setting and use of masks. It is confusing in places, but obviously isn't organised yet, look forward to seeing the end project!


Jess Wilding

Resit: Casting Auditions for Bill Hasley

David Wilding

      

Strengths: Voice is very loud and intimidating when he shouts. Is very tall and broad which is a plus when thinking about stereotypes for a male antagonist.

Weaknesses: Facial expression isn't serious enough, doesn't seem as though he can keep a straight face.

Ricci Wilding

       

Strengths: Gets into character well as Bill Hasley.

Weaknesses: Not the right look that we are after we are looking for more of a stereotypical male atagonist.

We decided to use Will Howlett for our serial killer, he isn't too old or too young to play the part also he can get into character well.

Resit: Auditions for Bill Hasley Junior

Below are the auditions that we had for the part of Bull Hasley junior, we placed auditions so that we could see who would play the part well for our film and to see who looked most alike what we had planned for our characters to look like.

Lee Dyer - 16 got the part of Bill Hasley Junior in our opening as we felt he was not only the most confident in front of the camera but also looked like we wanted Bill Hasley junior to look like, we needed this character to be small and look quite young.

Resit: Animatic Storyboard

Below is the Animatic storyboard the we created to show how our film will run smoothly and show the camera angles we will use. We did this so that we can clearly understand what needs to be done and whether it will work.

Resit: Final Storyboard

This is our final storyboard, which we will be going from, we then have to create a shotlist to show how long each shot will go on for. We also decided to add a flashback scene as our film opening wasn't long enough, as well as this it creates more of a tense atmosphere for our film opening.

Our institution logo.

Our company logo.

This has been seen in many films, which we have followed but we will change the font, colour and transition effect in doing so, we will have a typewriter effect as if it is being written at the time.

The camera is at a close up of the sink being turned on.

A close-up of the water running from the tap.

The camera will then pan down to the sink and show a knife and 'fake' blood at the bottom of the sink, this shows the generic conventions of a horror film.

You will then see a man's hands with blood on them cleaning his hands, the audience can gather that this is a murderer.

The camera then pans to the side to the towel where the killer picks it up and wipes his hands, leaving excess blood.

There is a headline on a newspaper about a killing, which pans right of the newspaper so the audience can see what the story is about.

There is a flashback of a long shot of a boy walking down a lane, he is scared by something that he has seen.

There is a close up of the boy's face to show his facial expression.

The next shot is of an extreme close up to express the child's emotions.

The boy is scared and he runs away, the camera would pan outwards from the extreme close up and pan out to a long shot of the boy running away.

There is a jump cut to the newspaper with the headline, to hint to the audience.

There is an extreme close-up of the killer's eyes to tell facial expression, but not showing whole face to keep the generic convention of the ''unknown'' and to keep his identity from the audience.

The camera jump cuts but pans down to the killer holding the mask, cleaning the blood off of his mask.

The camera then pans upwards from the killer's feet to his head with a mid-shot, the killer's back will be facing the camera to as well keep the killer's identity from the audience.

When the camera has panned upwards from the killer's feet there will be a mid-shot of the killer, he will then put on his mask.

The killer, with his mask on, will walk out of the room, the audience will be drawn to what he could do next...

Jess Wilding

Jess Wilding

Resit: Initial Storyboard

This is our first initial idea of our film opening, we will go from this storyboard. However, we feel as though there is something to change which will be added and taken as our final storyboard.

This is a representation of our company logo.

This is a represtation of our 'In association' logo.

This will be used with a typewriter transition and will type these words one by one.

Starts off with a close-up of a tap being turned on.

Then a close-up of the water running from the tap.

The camera then pans down to the sink and the audience can see that there is a knife in the sink with blood surrounding it, the audience can straight away tell the genre, through the generic conventions of a horror being a knife and blood.

The killer then goes to wash his hands, which have blood on them, the audience will then start to think along the storyline and gather that this man is a murderer.

The killer then goes to dry his hands with a towel that has blood already on it.

The camera then jumps to an extreme close up of the killers eyes, we do not give away his whole identity, we want the audience to recognise his eyes but not give away all features of his face.

The camera then cuts and pans down from the killers chest to the mask, we see that the man is cleaning the mask which has blood on it, to see that he carries a second identity as a masked killer.

Without seeing the killer's front we see the character from the side, as he is wearing dark clothing we cannot identify the character, the killer puts the mask on.

The killer then walks out of the door with the mask on, the audience can tell something bad is about to happen..

Jess Wilding

Resit: Photographic Storyboard

This photographic storyboard represents the shots that make up our film opening, this helps us to understand and picture the film better.

This is our first shot of the sink where the masked killer is about to wash his hands after a murder.

The killer washes his hands in the sink after the murder. However, in our film he will have 'fake' blood on his hands to portray that he has killed someone and to show the generic conventions of our horror.

The tissue in this photo represents what would be the towel, the killer will pick this up from the top of the counter and dry his hands, leaving some left over blood on the towel.

This is a flashback to the past, our team member, Alex, represents the character, would walk over to the barn and see something that he was scared of.

We would use a close-up shot so that the audience can see the facial expression (scared) on the character's face.

We would use an extreme close-up to exaggerate the facial expression of how scared the character really is.

These two pictures represent how after the character portrayed that he was scared he runs away.

This picture is a close up of the killer washing his mask from the blood, this is the present after the killer has washed his hands.

We do not want the audience to know the killer's identity as it creates mistery to our film as a whole, therefore we use a shot from the back of our character, panning upwards from his feet.

This picture shows the rest of the panning shot, panning upwards from his feet.

The killer puts his mask back on after washing it, we still do not see the killer's face.

The killer puts his mask back on and walks out of the door for his next murder..