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Our Opening Sequence !!! :) LIFE AFTER DEATH

 

:) :D

OPENING SEQUENCE COMPLETED!

Today we finished our opening sequence after adding all our titles and sound! Now we have to start our evaluation questions!

Completing the sound.

Today I tackled the lengthy job of finding and fitting in some music to add to the atmosphere of our film opening.
I knew I wanted to keep the music relatively simple but still haunting at the same time. By keeping it simple I thought it would make the audience feel more mysterious about the event that may or may not be taking place in the opening. My other group member Lucksiga suggested that we should add a sound of some sort when the titles enter and exit the screen. We managed to find a sort of crackling noise that seemed quite effective. 
Lucksiga and I went through the opening and found particular sounds that matched the atmosphere of certain scenes.
For GCSE music I used Garageband so this was an advantage when using it for my AS Media project.
I am happy with the outcome of the soundtrack to go with our opening. It certainly finishes the filming off  and gives it that spooky edge! :O

The Eighth Meeting! :)

Today we went through our footage and changed the brightness and contrast in some of the shots. At points this was tricky as the contrast had to be adjusted at the same time. In some shots we adjusted the light to create a smoky scene because of the candle that features in the film. 
We also started using 'LiveType' to create more creative and original titles and credits. We wanted to have spooky titles to fit in with the genre of our opening.  
We watched the opening of the movie 'Seven' to see what kind of titles we should add and looked at the order in which they appeared :) 

The Seventh Meeting! :)

This week we have been thinking about adding title sequences.  Our teacher watched our opening sequence again this week and suggested that in some places we could add some titles to cover up jumps within the filming that had appeared through editing. 
She was impressed with our progress, however she wants us to go through the editing again to perfect slight jumps within the footage. Our teacher also suggested to be more creative on title design and to make it look more effective in matching our genre of film. 
We have been spending time playing around with the programme 'LiveType' to see what effects they have that we could add to our titles. :) 

The Sixth Meeting! :)

This week are still editing the film opening and certain scenes and shots are proving quite challenging in perfecting. Although we have now finished the complete rough edit there is still a lot of detailed editing to do. 

The Fifth Meeting! :)

 This week we will be re-shooting some of our missing shots. We got together as a group over half term and watched some more opening sequences for inspiration and ideas. 
We have completed the rough edit of the first half of our opening sequence. :)

The Fourth Meeting! :)

This week we started editing. We are working on the rough edit at the moment before we start on the complicated editing!

Whilst doing this we realised that some shots are missing and one scene will have to be re-shot.  We also had to leave out shots as the overall footage was too long. We have decideed to meet again and get the correct shots for more editing next week. :)

The Third Meeting! :)

We have decided that our film will be called "Life after Death". I think this is a very clever title as it is bold but it can also have many other meanings! It also sounds like a typical horror/slasher movie! :)

Film Research!

People are always frightened when watching horror/suspense movies because of the thrilling elements that are featured in such films.

A fierce or frightening creature is often used to make this sort of plot. Horror/suspense movies haunt people by using plots related to supernatural events. In addition, a murderer is often a main character who kills other characters one by one, making people feel excited and anxious whilst watching. These are three typical horror elements found in many horror/suspense movies.

A fierce creature is the first typical element found in horror/suspense films. Many movies in this genre use a fierce animal to don this. Making that animal huge, evil and intelligent can horrify people. Using characters who are frightened and who run away from the fierce creature, excites people. Some of these characters sometimes fail to escape from these dangers. For example, in Jaws (1975), the shark is the main horror element. Steven Spielberg uses the huge shark to thrill and scare people.

The supernatural is the second thing which is used as a typical horror element in this movie category. Supernatural beings are used to scare and haunt people, with many ‘beings’ having a unique style, these films have become very popular. For example, Dracula is one of the most famous beings which has been used as a horror element. A lot of people in the world know what Dracula is and how scary he is. There are also other fearful popular beings like Dracula such as Frankenstein and other vampires. Ghosts are another supernatural element that are always found in horror/suspense films. In many movies, directors use ghosts which always haunt a particular old place as elements to horrify people. A last supernatural element is some situation that is unexplained and results the death of people one by one with no reason. For example, in Final Destination (2000), a boy has a premonition of his flight crashing and tells his friends to get off the plane before boarding. He and his friends are survivors after the crash in his dream becomes real. After that, the survivors get killed one by one in mysterious ways. Another example is the situation in The Ring (2002). People who watch a mysterious video die. Nobody can answer what happens in this circumstance until a young journalist try to investigate the history of that videotape, and she finds a solution in the end of the movie. However, there is another typical element in horror/suspense movies.

The third horror element in horror/suspense movies is murderers. Filmmakers often use a scary human character to be the typical element. In some movies, the character wears scary clothes and a mask as he commits the murders. These movies always have a plot about a group of teenagers getting killed by a murderer one by one. People don’t know the reason why the teenagers get killed until there’s a revelation of the murderer in the end of the movie. During the time the audience is watching, it also anticipates who the murderer is, and it is always incorrect.

In conclusion, the main typical horror elements which are found in horror/suspense movies come from fierce creatures, the supernatural and murderers. People who watch movies in this genre are always scared because of these varieties of horror elements. Filmmakers are constantly trying to find new and interesting horror elements to thrill people in their films. This search can be an interesting reason to watch horror/suspense movies in the future.

Location pictures and photos from filming day!

This is a shot of where I enter the house. 

This shot is of the close-up we see of the keys opening the door.

This is the hallway, which leads down to the kitchen. Here we did many tracking shots.

This was a rehearsal of one scene in the opening. 

Close up of the spooky fireplace :O

Another shot of the hallway.

Rehearsal of Fay's character crying.

And again!

This is the angle at which I was filmed entering the house and calling "Mum"

                 

Kitchen.

Living Room

The Second Meeting! :)

 

This week was all about agreeing on the final storyboard.
I really like the idea and I am looking forward to filming :)

Our story!

Our story is about a teenage girl who returns from a party and can't understand why there are strange happenings going on around the house. She then realises that her mother cant hear her and that she must be dead!
The film would then be about her retracing her steps on the night she was murdered and finding out exactly who murdered her. There is a twist to the unexpected murderer, there are many suspects but we find out it was her brother who murdered her, even though he was supposed to be at bording school. We then find on later on in the film that it's because her brother is schizophrenic. By the ned of the film she will have accepted her death and learnt to deal with the reality of her situation, possibly creating a sort of happy ending as she still finds peace.