After Filming

After filming we have began editing our film, in our specification we have to use titles originally and artistically, so i have decided to research Horror films, and how they use titles in their opening sequences.

I used The Art Of The Title Sequence website to research films, the films i have decided to use are:

Se7en 


Halloween 

From these screen shots I can see those mainstream Horror films, use the titles in a moving sequence to add interest to the audience and not just a black screen with names on.

I can now use this research and apply to my own film, use titles in a moving image for example, the actors names showing when there plates are placed on the table.

Filming Shots

This the location of where we filmed, after looking at the responses from our questionnaires our target audience ( older teenagers) prefer horrors in a normal situation where they feel at unease due to its regularity of the place where the film it taking place at. 

These are the pictures of us in action filming the opening of our film we began filming on the 20th January and were able to do all of filming, we had a few problems such as our camera was on a low battery so limited the amount of shots that we could repeat filming, however we managed to film a sufficient amount of shots.
After filming everything we re watched our clips of filming and found that a few scenes needed re shooting such as the match being lit at the start, so we re-booked the camera and re-shot them over the weekend.

Filming

On 20th January we got all our actors together and shot the beginning of our film. We encountered a few problems such as our camera was not fully charged we tried to carry on through this problems and act professionally in front of actors so in turn they would take our film seriously.

Completed Questionnaires

After looking at this questionnaires they fit with the definition of the horror genre that i found. People enjoy  not knowing what is happening in normal circumstances, this is what scares people most and what directors who make horrors intend to happen. I hope to follow the conventions of the unknown and normal circumstances to please my target audience, so that they would enjoy watching my film.

Questionnaires Completed

Questionnaire

I have created a questionnaire to ask my target audience (which is 16-20 years old as these are the age groups who most watch horror films)  about horror films so i can use their feed back positively to adapt and construct an opening to a film that my target audience would pay to go and watch, and that is what they would perceive a horror to be  - that it has all the conventions of a horror. 

In my questionnaire i have tried to ask a wide range in the population of 16 to 18 years old, I have asked 6 people, 3 males and 3 females, those who enjoy horrors and those who don't.

The questionnaire consists of several questions that i can use effectively to create my opening, these questions are:

1. What do you like to watch in a horror?
2. What storyline do you like most in a horror?
3. What scares you most in a horror?
4. What would be your ideal opening to a horror and why?
5. What is your favourite horror film and why?

Props

As part of Research and Planning we have discussed what props will be needed to make our film, as mis-en-scene is one of the most important conventions of a film to make it have a a professional 'hollywood' appearance.
These are:

A doll - for the little girl to play with while on the swing.

A plane - for the boy to play with  in first shot of children.

Also we will use a torch and blue paper to convey the idea of a police car outside the mothers home, which will create suspense to the audience as it shows that something bad may have happened to the children.

Photos will be uploaded onto the blog to show the props and the props in use while we are filming.