Resit: Rough idea for film

Now, as a group we have put a lot more research into the horror genre and their openings and have decided to re-film our opening; below is the initial idea that we have come together and created for our horror genre film opening. This is just the initial idea of what we would like to include so this could be changed/improved at any time.

1. Logo number 1
2. Logo number 2
3. Close up of tap being switched on
4. Close up of the water
5. Pull out on the water running and going red in the bottom of the sink (mans bloody hands)
6. Mid shot of bloody hands being washed
7. Hands pick up white towel
8. White towel placed down and camera pans to radio
9. Film title
10. Hand switches on radio (news report from last opening plays)
11. Camera pans across worktop (news paper articles missing boy)
12. Flashback long shot of boy in field seeing something that scares him (man shooting pig)
13. Flashback close up of boys face
14. Extreme close up of eyes
15. Flashback pull back and and then he runs away with back to camera
16. Shot of news paper headline again
17. Extreme close up of killers eyes (audience can see its the same man)
18. Tilt down to his hands with a mask in them, he is cleaning the mask
19. Cut to sweat dripping from mans brow
20. Cut to mask
21. Cut to dribble from mouth
22. Cut to hands switching radio off
23. Cut to mask
24. Cut to mans back
25. Tilt upwards from mans feet to head
26. Walks toward the door
27. Door opens man walks out
28. Fade to black

Alex Cockburn

Resit January 2012

Above are the posts that we are submitting for the January 2012 resit

Film Opening Final Cut

This is our finished product for our film opening task.

Film Opening Second Rough Cut and Feedback

This is our group's second rough cut of our film opening. After doing a lot of work on our film opening we decided to get some more feedback from others, including our target audience (over 15's) to see if we can improve our film more in different ways to suit our target audience's demands. We still need to do a lot more work in order to get our film opening to match our shot list, however our final cut of our film opening will show this.

Feedback from Year 11; 15-16 years old (our target audience):
- They really liked the storyline and our ideas for the film that are apparent in the film opening.
- They didn't understand the park scene at the end as the swing was a child's swing and not a swing for an older teenager like the sort that are being murdered in the film opening. It goes from being dark to too bright, confused them.
- The pictures on the wall shots go on for too long and can distract the audience's attention.
- In the film opening the television gets switched off and then all of a sudden we can hear the news report go over the top of other clips.
- They recognised the genre straight away.
- 10/25 of our audience want to watch the rest of the film.

We gathered from this feedback that we needed to either try and turn down the brightness even more in the park scene or discuss as a group and get rid of this scene altogether. We needed to shorten down the part where the pictures are being shown on the wall. Stick to the shot list and sort out which scenes go where to avoid confusion with the scene where the television turns off, by doing this we hope that more of our audience will want to watch the rest of our film.

Feedback from Year 13; 17-18 years old (also around our target audience as it's 15+)
- Really liked the part of the title where it gets typewritten, however the whole title should have that type of transition.
- Liked the scream, the evil laugh at the end of the film opening and the layering of sound.
- Titles and institutional logos are needed in order to know that the whole piece is a film opening and not just a part of the film.
- The photos of the girls on the wall go on for way too long and need to be shortened.

We took this feedback into consideration and decided as a group that we would have the whole title at the beginning in the same transition, we had thought of doing this before but would leave those ideas till the end as they were very time consuming; this being as we didn't have a transition for this title and had to each letter separately. We would add titles to the piece and the right amount in the correct order and institutional logos as well as the first lot of feedback we got from our second rough cut, we will need to shorten down the picture scene to avoid distraction.

Post by: Jess Wilding

Film Opening First Rough Cut and Feedback

This is our group's first rough cut of our film, everything is not in the right order and has not got the right time limit on each frame to match our shot list, this is from the time of our editing process.

We did get quite a bit of feedback from our first rough cut just to see what our audience was roughly thinking about our film opening, this was the feedback we received:

Positives received:
The storyline seems quite clear in ways that the audience know what is happening, can tell by the film opening that the film is a horror, like the sounds over the top of the film opening.

Improvements:
Pictures on the wall shots are a great idea, however, they go on for too long, there are no titles in our film opening which is confusing, there are no starting logos and at the end the swing doesn't make sense at it's a child's swing and it seems to the audience that he is after teenagers/young women? Goes from dark to really light as well can be confusing.

As a group we have decided that we need to improve a great deal on our film opening. We need to: Shorten the scene with the pictures on the wall, add titles and logos to our piece and in the right order as well as, either adjusting brightness and contrast of the park scene or to decide not keep it at all.

Post by: Jess Wilding

Final Shotlist

This our final shot list which we will be going by.

Post by: Jess Wilding

Initial Shotlist

This is our first initial shot list.

Post by: Jess Wilding