Lighting

we decided to use a very dark light set because we thought that this would set the mood for the audience. Instead of walking into compete and utter darkness for a few of our shots, we decided to light a couple of candles in order to present some sort of natural light for the audience to look at. For this we showed a shot with somebody lighting these candles, just so the audience knew how the light appeared. We created quite a subtle light for all of our shots, but most of them it was enough for the audience to see what was going on in the shot and the situations that were occurring. For other shots we used man made light that would be used to highlight specific features that the audience would need to see on the screen. For example with the sillouhette man, there is a street light behind him that picks out the outline of his face and body. This creates a mysterious effect for the audience and makes them think about what could be hapening on the screen.

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Storyboard changes

In our film we decided to add a few scenes a we went along because we thought that thy would have a greater effect then some others that we made did. We added a shot of the man raising his head with the street light behind him and the shot of the light gleaming onto the trees whilst a title appeared on the screen. We decided to change these shots because we thought it would enhance the viewing for the audience and we thought these would be better follow up shots for the previous and next scenes that were to come. These scenes looked excellent in our film and it was definitely a good to choice to make the changes to our storyboard

Costume research

For our costume we want to have and involve something that would be able to hook and relate to the audience. This seems as a pretty hard task to accomplish, but then we realized that all we had to do was take stuff from real life and portray them onto our film opening. For our first character, which was the protagonist of the film we had to think of what he was wearing. We decided that it would have to be quite mysterious clothing just so we didn't reveal to much to the audience. We did not find any examples of where this is found, this was plainly just our idea. For the other antagonist of out film we had to thing about how he would be shown in the opening. We initially made him a younger character, in his teen years. We then thought about relating our characters and costumes to the audience and thought to dress this character in the typical teenage clothing. This means that the audience might be able to relate to what he is wearing and the way he is. We looked at a film called "Friday the 13th". In this film they have typical teenagers that are the protagonists of the film. These are all teenagers that are stereo-typically dressed and are always in danger.

For the antagonist of our film we decided to look at the same film. In this film they use a mask and very dark clothing to disguise their character Jason. He also wears a hockey mask to cover his face and this hides his identity very well. I thought that this would look very good on our character but i decided that we would want to see his eyes so that they could look into the camera and the audience. We then looked at a range of other masks that would suit our needs and we found a few that looked like the one off "Friday the 13", but a little bit different.

Seven shots analysis

In the film Seven, they used a nice jittery effect that mixed in with the music and the way that they sound and look. This shot shows the audience how abnormal the film is. It shows the disruption of the actions that are happening and gives a very disturbed effect on the audience and shows that there is an abnormality of the shot. The jitter really helps hook the audience and the music that is in the shot really ties in with the type of shot this is. The sounds that are in the background of the clip make it sound like there is an unstable radio frequency and even the sound is jittery when you listen to it. This makes quite a screeching effect on the audience at it really does create a disturbance and a horrific mood for the audience to live in. They show this effect in the text as well as the clips. They make the text jump quite a lot to stay within the theme of the opening so that all of the layers involved in this are relative to each other.

Time Schedule

Audience Research (Titles)

We picked out some of our favourite looking titles and decided to ask our fellow peers which one would look the best on our horror opening. It is clear that the title "Out of the Darkness" was the most popular. We had a range of titles and did a lot of research to see which of them would suit our film best. We then asked around the classroom and asked our peers if they were able to choose their favorite. The good thing about asking our class was because their age was one of our target audiences, which meant that if our target audience was choosing the age then it would appeal more to their age group. 

Planning Costumes

 We struggled thinking for the costumes that we might be able to use for our main person. We didn't the audience to actually see his face throughout the whole opening. We were thinking about dark clothing, for example, dark jeans and a dark hoodie. At first this sounds a bit to simplistic for the film that we are wanting to make, but it might just work. If we give him a simple costume, then the audience will have less of a chance of guessing what relevance he is to the film or who/what he could be in it. We also wanted something to come out from the darkness near to the end of the film, so we needed some sort of scary mask or something that would cover most of this mans face. We thought about using a gas mask, or maybe a cricket helmet. But for this character we wanted to show the top half of his face so we could show the audience his pearcing eyes. So we thought of some of the gas masks that only cover your mouth and nose.