Friday 19 November 2010

Our Pre-production Roles

Now there are three of us the roles can be shared out more. We all need to take a roll in order for the teaser to be successful. The following rolls are:

-Sound designer
-Shoot assistant
-Director-locations, shotlists, shoot schedule
-Story board artist
-Editor- animatic, animoto, slide design

Tina- (sound designer and shoot assistant) will organise what sounds she likes and gather a few up and make sure they are not copyright. She will then show us this and we will all decide as a group after which sound suits the best. She will also organise the props and costumes needed for each actor.

Maria- (Director and Editor) making sure all the locations are accurate and having the shoots schedules where everyone is free and making a shotlist for all scenes this will be then checked by myself and Tina

Me- (Storyboard and Editor) me and Maria will share out the editor role for example I will make the animatic and some of the slide design while she is doing the animoto and other designs. I will draw out the storyboard and make sure all the shots are accurate and what angle each shot is at in order for us to be organised while filming

Wednesday 17 November 2010

Animatic Storyboard



This is my storyboard that I have made on windows movie maker just to see how my teaser would roughly look like if I were to use the same clips from my storyboard. This helped me create my shotlist and what looks effective and odd it gives you a clear view on what needs to be done for the real teaser.

Tuesday 16 November 2010

Feedback to Haunted Presentation

After showing our presentation to our audience they have given us feedback on what we can work on and what is already good. This will help us as we are then able to have a successful teaser trailer for our audience as it is to their expectation.

Positive Feedback:
- great storyline (detailed) goes with the horror/thriller genre
- has mostly all aspects of horror/thriller conventions
- organised with costume, props characters and location
- synopsis is very good and seems scary and sums it up in a sentence
- costumes give a insight of the characters
- very detailed

Negative Feedback:
- very detailed storyline however seems a bit too complex

Haunted Presentation



This is the presentation I have made for our new teaser trailer. We presented this to our audience and roughly spoke about it and the whole storyline and got feedback from each person. We presented it to 10 people who are of both male and female and they have given us feedback on their reaction towards this.

Thursday 11 November 2010

Moodboard for Haunted

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We have created a moodboard for our teaser trailer showing related images to our storyline and the inspired horror music in the background on animoto through these images our audience can see what our genre is as the images show blood, knifes, disguise, someone being frightened all conventions of our genre.

Monday 8 November 2010

Synopsis

For our new teaser trailer 'Haunted' we created a short synopsis which somes up the plot briefly we added short sentences to emphasise the suspense and the genre of our film making it seem more spooky. This is what we came up with:

'Charlotte. Dead. Extensive torture and separation from her all powerful cross has put her in a grave. But the coincidental find of her crucifix has wakened her spirit and set it to reclaim her rightful possession.'

The key questions we want the audience to ask are:

-Why is the person in disguise after this girl?

-What does this necklace have to do with anything?

-What happens at the end?

-Does the girl know why she is being chased?

-What does religion have to do with it?

-Is the person in disguise a human or something else?

-Why is the person disguised?

In order to do this we are going to keep most the plot anonymous as from looking at different teasers it leaves the audience with questions that will be answered when you watch the film and this is the effect we want.

Wednesday 3 November 2010

Storyline of Haunted

Tracing back to the 1990’s a young girl named Charlotte was horrendously murdered and right after thrown into a canal by a gang of two 19 year old boys. During the vicious attack Charlotte’s symbolic necklace of a cross was torn off her neck without notice. The necklace was valued and cherished by Charlotte throughout her years as she led a clandestine and remote life and was often clutching it.
Growing up Charlotte was different from those around her. Upon growing and attending a local high school, Charlotte was described by others as ‘weird’ and ‘abnormal’. She ate differently, learnt differently, and mostly acted differently and was often accused of doing anomalous things, but little did they know about the devil that controlled, possessed and lived inside Charlotte.
Years later, 19 year old Louise came across the necklace whilst walking through the canal … the same night of Charlotte’s death. At a glimpse, the necklace caught her eye and looking around Louise picked it up unaware that this moment would change her life.
With the touch of her fingertip, Charlotte’s soul lingered in the air and went to her back to her grave to claim her body and get revenge on this cold world. Throughout her hunt of her possession, Charlotte is disguised in a mask as her face was in form of a devil.

New Storyline

We have decided to create a whole new story line as from feedback it was mostly negative and our target audience didn't seem to like the whole senario. Also because we didn't like it as much and found the whole plot quite boring and not scary at all. so we decided to create a more interesting plot with a catch to it. Tina has now joined our group so now there is 3 of us making it much more convenient as a lot more can be done with extra help. Our genre will be the same however with new characters, new shot list, new storyboard etc. This will all be shown in the above presentation. Our roles are also going to be split three way now and will change during the week.