Evaluation Targets

You have worked so well this year and now, albeit in the busiest part of the calendar, you need to push yourself to achieve as many of the twenty marks available to you before the end of this term. Complete the activities set as well including director's commentaries and interviews with each other. Comment on your findings from your target audience and evaluate your progress. Analyse every techincal aspect of your promotional campaign and set future targets for yourself.

Planning: Changes top our idea and justification - Christmas presence

Due to various reasons we have chosen to change our plot and remodel our trailer idea. Although filming in Oxfordshire went well and we were all fond of our first idea, due to reason out of our control we had to move our location to nearer to home, as it allows us to make quick plot changes if needed. Filming in Fetcham has allowed us to explore a wider range of angles and experiment with lighting, so this decision to move closer to home has ultimately benefitted us! With our new idea we have a better unique selling point as there are very few horror films based around Christmas as the two themes completely contradict each other.


Our antagonist:

The character changes we have made include only the antagonist, who in the beginning will be a typical annoying teenager who is stereotypical of the horror genre, however events will cause her to become unhinged and similar to our original idea for the antagonist. She will become cold and lose herself as she attacks her friends.

Costumes

Again the only changes we have made to costumes is that our antagonist is going to be warning normal teen clothes, as in the beginning our character is normal like her friends. This character will however be warning slightly dark plain clothes so in the scenes of horror her attire does not take away from her now evil persona.
Our character will still wear the contacts for the reasons explained below.

Font changes

We did consider using the same font for our new title as for Martha but in the end we have decided to use a font related to Christmas as we really want to over play the theme as it makes it seem sinister.

Location

Our new location is my house, not only is this location a lot more practical, but the interior strongly connotes traditional family Christmas’with over the top decorations and a big open fire place adding to the red and green of the carpet and furnishings. This constantly remind the audience of the theme of the film that contradicts the idea of horror so we can catch them off guard and lull them into a false sense of security.

Influences of production and sound track

Are very similar to before with revenge based crimes ending in the death of a group of stereotypical teens, and emotion manipulating sounds that build tension up and releases it getting a reaction from the audience.

Planning: Shot angle and Lighting preparation.

Planning: Filming schedule

We completed our new location filming in two days and everything seemed to go as planned, and we had lots of fun!

Our first day of filming was Friday the 20^th of December, where we filmed from 9:00am till midday and completed roughly half our shots

Our second day was Monday the 30^th of December, where we finished the last half of the filming!

We were lucky with the conditions on both days, as they matched at first turning into rain as we began to film the scenes of horror helping us to create an anti-climax.

 

Research and Planning Provisional Targets

Well done so far Shanie. I would like to see more evidence of your time management and of dates and times of production. A storyboard animatic would show exceptional skills in your use of ICT in the planning stage and include shots your have taken for the poster and magazine productions - what are their strengths and weaknesses? Add some extra comments to recent posts and spend some time looking over your research posts - there may be more room for analysis of the following: mise en scene, camera, editing, sound, location, target audience, unique selling points, branding, narrative, representation, genre indicators, key moments. Show me that you are an expert when it comes to your genre! 15/20

Research and Planning Targets

You need to upload your storyboard and show evidence of your time-management, which I know has been very good of late! Show your group's timetable of events and get your storyboard up - you haven't completely addressed your previous targets and you need to include some video-blogging accounts of your production work. Your blog can't afford to stand still and whiulst you've had a busy couple of weeks as a group - there is very little to show for it on your blog page Shanie! Evidence as much as you can and include your storyboard and comment on this - this is vital. Your research and planning, with the exception of video-diary accounts, should now be finished. You still have some things to do!

Planning: Institution animation

For our trailer we have created our own institution production company. We think that we have produced an effective and conventional logo.  The effects that we used are named 'noise' and 'lightening'. The noise effect creates the static TV background and the lightening helps the effect of making it look dated. It fits within the conventions of a horror genre as the colours used are dark and dull, as the contrast from the colour blue in the lightening creates mystery. Which initially engages the audience intriguing them to want to watch the films create by this certain production company which shall make the film successful within the film industry.