Current progress

We started filming out film opening on Saturday the 30th of January.
We have uploaded the filming we did from this day onto the mac at school and we have learnt a lot from this filming day. We have decided not to use most of the footage we filmed on this saturday as most of the time we felt we could improve what we had filmed. Filming on saturday gave us a good idea of lighting, sound and where we want everything to be in our film opening.

Since then we have filmed on Monday the 1st, Tuesday the 2nd, Thu the 4th and we are hoping to film the very last part of our film opening on Mon the 8th.

All the footage we have filmed so far has been uploaded onto the mac and we are in the process of editing.

prop research

As a group we were looking into how to portray to the audience of our film opening that the main characters boyfriend is dead.

We looked into a cutting from a paper but decided that we did not like this idea as it was not personal enough and we came up with the idea of having a sympathy card sent from someone to the main character.

Costume

We decided that our villan would be dressed all in black as that is stereotypical of a horror/slasher movie. We also decided that our villan would have a mask as this is a common feature in slasher movies.

We decided that our main character (lauren) would be wearing blue jeans, a white top, a red cardigan and black high heeled shoes.

We also decided that she would have simple make up and have her hair down.

we decided to use someone from our own group to be our actor as they are more reliable.

We decided our main character would be a young woman aged 16/17

Kia and Alix took photgraphs of themselves in different costumes as did lauren, and as a group we dicided lauren would be our main character.

Films to be watched

As a group we have decided that our film opening also contains codes and conventions of the slasher genre.

As a group we researched slasher films and compiled a list. We then chose a couple of films each that we are in the process of deconstructing.

Kia has also researced the codes and conventions of the slasher genre.

Alix then did some research into the characters in slasher films.

Ideas from deconstructions

Film Deconstructions

deconstruction of Hide and Seek (first 4 mins) by Alix

Specific focus on flashbacks within Gothika was also done by Alix

Deconstruction of Gothika (first 1o mins) by Alix

Some quick deconstructions of film trailers containing flashbacks were done.

As we decided we wanted to have flashbacks in our film, we looked up films that contained flashbacks and each person in our group noted down a couple of films that they could deconstruct.

Films we have watched so far are: 28 weeks later, Saw, When A Stranger Calls, Hide and Seek, Gothika, The Grudge and The Strangers.

Film opening plan

Some editing of the plan took place and Lauren has drawn up a 46 square storyboard and Adam has written the details of the shots under each shot on the storyboard.

Kia and Alix have written a shooting script.

Alix drew up a 55 bullet point plan of our film opening idea and highlighted the key areas (lighting, camera work and sound)