In our lessons we have been researching the music that we want to include in our film opening. We have been looking for non-diagetic sound to place over the top of the original filming to create tension and make the atmosphere more dramatic. We searched on the website 'freeplaymusic.com' to find the right music that would fit in with our genre. We started searching for horror music and found a track called 'Abandoned Infirmary' we thought that this one suited the genre well because it had an eerie feel to it.
After this we searched for eerie and scary music to see if we could find better pieces of music. It was quite difficult to find the right sound because some of the music was either too dark or not scary enough and it was hard to find music that fitted in with the victorian theme.
Abandoned Infirmary - http://www.freeplaymusic.com/search.aspx?q=horror
Thursday, 6 February 2014
Voxpop
We decided in our group that we wanted to create a horror/thriller. We put together a voxpop, asking questions based around the genre of horror and thriller. This voxpop has helped us with the creation of our film opening, and we have taken the answers given to us into account whilst planning the plot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQxS1reAgPA - This is our finished voxpop, whixh we created as part of our planning and research.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQxS1reAgPA - This is our finished voxpop, whixh we created as part of our planning and research.
Monday, 3 February 2014
Film opening script
KEY:- DS - diegetic sound
POV - point of view
SRS - shot reverse shot
LS - long shot
MS - mid-shot
WS - wide shot
CU - close-up
ECU - extreme close-up
TS - tracking shot
(DS) Music begins to play - fades in from titles to the man opening doors - view of party scene in the background. The time of day is at dusk.
MAN:- (POV) he opens doors.
- (SRS / LS) party scene in background - man walks through the doors.
- (MS) he continues walking outside then stops.
- (WS) he reaches into his pocket and takes out his cigarettes.
- (CU) he brings cigarette up to his mouth.
- (ECU / CU) he lights cigarette then inhales.
- (MS) he exhales and the billing shows up, emerging from the smoke.
(DS) footsteps of the girl is heard by the man.
- (CU) side of his face looks up and the eyes are fixed on the girl.
GIRL:- (MS) from the waist down the girls skirt is seen walking around the corner of a street.
MAN:- (LS) he drops his cigarette on the floor.
- (CU) cigarette falls into shot and his feet slowly stubs out the ciggerette and he turns to walk away.
GIRL:- (LS / TS from side) she walks down the street and stands under a street lamp, leanig against it.
- (MS) she starts to warm herself up by rubbing both her arms, whilst looking around impatiently at the clock.
MAN:- (LS) he starts to walk down the street then suddenly stops and reaches into his pocket and pulls out a piece of rough paper.
- (CU) on the paper that has pictures of girls faces on it, each crossed out apart from one, which he gently puts his finger on.
- (LS) he puts the paper back in his pocket and continues walking.
- (TS from front) he continues walking and reaches the corner of the street.
- (CU) half of his face is behind he corner of the wall and the other half is shown, looking towards the girl.
GIRL:- (MS) she looks into her hand-mirror to powder her nose.
- (CU) she tilts the mirror slightly to one side and sees the man behind her.
- (MS) out of fright she drops the mirror.
(CU / TS) mirror falls to the ground. (slow motion)
(BLACKOUT)
(FADES IN)
MAN 2: - (LS) he is on a horse and is looking for his wife and calling her name, 'Beatrice'.
- (CU) of his face looking worried.
- (LS) he looks over and sees the mirror lying on the floor, then suddenly jumps off the horse.
- (CU) of mirror on the floor, then his hand moves into shot to pick it up.
- (CU) of his face in the broken mirror.
- (LS) of him jumping back on his horse and galloping into the distance.
(BLACKOUT)
POV - point of view
SRS - shot reverse shot
LS - long shot
MS - mid-shot
WS - wide shot
CU - close-up
ECU - extreme close-up
TS - tracking shot
(DS) Music begins to play - fades in from titles to the man opening doors - view of party scene in the background. The time of day is at dusk.
MAN:- (POV) he opens doors.
- (SRS / LS) party scene in background - man walks through the doors.
- (MS) he continues walking outside then stops.
- (WS) he reaches into his pocket and takes out his cigarettes.
- (CU) he brings cigarette up to his mouth.
- (ECU / CU) he lights cigarette then inhales.
- (MS) he exhales and the billing shows up, emerging from the smoke.
(DS) footsteps of the girl is heard by the man.
- (CU) side of his face looks up and the eyes are fixed on the girl.
GIRL:- (MS) from the waist down the girls skirt is seen walking around the corner of a street.
MAN:- (LS) he drops his cigarette on the floor.
- (CU) cigarette falls into shot and his feet slowly stubs out the ciggerette and he turns to walk away.
GIRL:- (LS / TS from side) she walks down the street and stands under a street lamp, leanig against it.
- (MS) she starts to warm herself up by rubbing both her arms, whilst looking around impatiently at the clock.
MAN:- (LS) he starts to walk down the street then suddenly stops and reaches into his pocket and pulls out a piece of rough paper.
- (CU) on the paper that has pictures of girls faces on it, each crossed out apart from one, which he gently puts his finger on.
- (LS) he puts the paper back in his pocket and continues walking.
- (TS from front) he continues walking and reaches the corner of the street.
- (CU) half of his face is behind he corner of the wall and the other half is shown, looking towards the girl.
GIRL:- (MS) she looks into her hand-mirror to powder her nose.
- (CU) she tilts the mirror slightly to one side and sees the man behind her.
- (MS) out of fright she drops the mirror.
(CU / TS) mirror falls to the ground. (slow motion)
(BLACKOUT)
(FADES IN)
MAN 2: - (LS) he is on a horse and is looking for his wife and calling her name, 'Beatrice'.
- (CU) of his face looking worried.
- (LS) he looks over and sees the mirror lying on the floor, then suddenly jumps off the horse.
- (CU) of mirror on the floor, then his hand moves into shot to pick it up.
- (CU) of his face in the broken mirror.
- (LS) of him jumping back on his horse and galloping into the distance.
(BLACKOUT)
Group Idea For Film Opening
For our groups ideas we decided to make our film opening set in the victorian times so we can explore the costumes and make-up.
The setting is going to be in a Victorian era at the start on a house where a party is happening and then in the streets. The plot is about a man who as an infatuation with a woman and we capture him stalking her in the streets. We decided to make the timing at dusk because it would create moire tension and give the piece and eerie effect. The characters that we are going to use are the woman and the man. We decided to have minimal dialogue to help create tension and not cut up the eerie atmosphere that will be created by the music and the setting.
The setting is going to be in a Victorian era at the start on a house where a party is happening and then in the streets. The plot is about a man who as an infatuation with a woman and we capture him stalking her in the streets. We decided to make the timing at dusk because it would create moire tension and give the piece and eerie effect. The characters that we are going to use are the woman and the man. We decided to have minimal dialogue to help create tension and not cut up the eerie atmosphere that will be created by the music and the setting.
Monday, 6 January 2014
Typical Camera Shots for Different Genres
Horror camera shots:
Extremly wide shots are used
-Introducing the setting
-Show its isolation
-Give the impression of helplessness
All types of wide shots are often usd to show the figures of intuders, the shothides their identitiy but still lets us know they are present.
Close up shots are used (on the face)
-Helps us empathis with the characters
-Show their reactions and emotions
-Create suspense as the audience isn't shown the surroundings (makes the viewer anxious and frightened)
Hand held camera
-Makes it jerky and in with the action.
Thrilller camera shots:
-Close up, allows the audience to concentrate only on the face to see the specific detail, mise en scene.
-Over the shoulder, usually used when a figure is stood behind a victim, or behind someone that is not aware of the oher actors presents.
-Extreme close-up of the face wouold usually show the eyes or mouth, without background, to create a dramatic effect.
Social Realism camera shots:
-Establishing shot/long shot, sets the scene, we learn about the characters life/background.
-Importance of location in social realism
-Point of view shot, allows us to see what the character sees
-Allows us to be part of the characters experiences
-Close ups, allows us to identify with the characters motions.
Extremly wide shots are used
-Introducing the setting
-Show its isolation
-Give the impression of helplessness
All types of wide shots are often usd to show the figures of intuders, the shothides their identitiy but still lets us know they are present.
Close up shots are used (on the face)
-Helps us empathis with the characters
-Show their reactions and emotions
-Create suspense as the audience isn't shown the surroundings (makes the viewer anxious and frightened)
Hand held camera
-Makes it jerky and in with the action.
Thrilller camera shots:
-Close up, allows the audience to concentrate only on the face to see the specific detail, mise en scene.
-Over the shoulder, usually used when a figure is stood behind a victim, or behind someone that is not aware of the oher actors presents.
-Extreme close-up of the face wouold usually show the eyes or mouth, without background, to create a dramatic effect.
Social Realism camera shots:
-Establishing shot/long shot, sets the scene, we learn about the characters life/background.
-Importance of location in social realism
-Point of view shot, allows us to see what the character sees
-Allows us to be part of the characters experiences
-Close ups, allows us to identify with the characters motions.
Conventions of thrillers - Enduring Love
- Peaceful opening, nothing really happening.
-No billing to make it feel real.
-Birdsongs in the background, peaceful digetic sound like it;s calm before the storm.
-The stting is a forest, which is different to other thrillers not what you would expect.
-It's a natural setting all outdoors.
-The lighing is very bright, because the sun is shining, thus gives it a less errie atmosphere but at the same time makes you worry because you're wondering why it's so calm.
-Foreshadowong the plot to come with the balloon accident, unxpected twist.
-Digetic sound to enhance the atmosphere.
-Normally there would be dramatic music in a tense scene where the action is happening, but this one doesn't giving it a realalistic and eerie effect.
-No billing to make it feel real.
-Birdsongs in the background, peaceful digetic sound like it;s calm before the storm.
-The stting is a forest, which is different to other thrillers not what you would expect.
-It's a natural setting all outdoors.
-The lighing is very bright, because the sun is shining, thus gives it a less errie atmosphere but at the same time makes you worry because you're wondering why it's so calm.
-Foreshadowong the plot to come with the balloon accident, unxpected twist.
-Digetic sound to enhance the atmosphere.
-Normally there would be dramatic music in a tense scene where the action is happening, but this one doesn't giving it a realalistic and eerie effect.
Sunday, 5 January 2014
Conventions of horror films - The Devil Inside
-The lettering of the title was black and white, which was simple and plain. It was written in capital letters and spaced out to give it and eerie feel to it.
-No billing which gave the feeling that it was real and they were not actors but real people.
-It had a date at the beginning, which made it feel and like it was an actual event.
-It gave the name of the woman straight away making it feel like a case study because we know who she is and research had been done.
-The woman's voice on the phone sounded like a man because it was deep giving the impression that a demon has taken over.
-There where different flashes during the footage making it feel like an old projector from the 80s, this made it feel that the police document was real.
-Wobbly filming, which shows that the film is old because it worn, and has been exposed a lot.
-Hand held footage, and was sometimes out of focus making the audience feel that the footage is real, and in with the action.
-A walk through of the costumes that the characters were wearing, showing the audience that they religious.
-The setting was an old, dirty basement which gives the feeling that no one can hear you screaming.
-Lighting was very dull, morbid like you dint know whats hiding in the shadows, they used torches to make light.
-Very violent with blood splatter.
-Blunt in instruments used to show that force was really needed to make an impact.
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