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.

Planning: Institution Logo

To create our institution logo we used fireworks, which helped us to decide what font we wanted to use. The reason for choosing the font style that we did links to the distorted look and actual title we chose 'Distorted Pictures'.

 

 The colour of our text is going to be white which stands out from the background which will be black. We chose these contrasting colours for the text and background as it compliments the dark and mysterious look we want to send across towards the audience and within the trailer. 

 

 

Planning: Film title ideas research

For our film title we have chosen to go for a black background with white writing as it is a well used title effect for a horror genre film. The use of the black background will give the effect of a mystery and darkness. Therefore, the black background shall contrast with the white text which suggests purity and allows it stands out significantly which will allow the audience to remember the film name in order to make the trailer successful.

 

 

 

 Font ideas for our title

 

 

The name of our film is 'Martha'. There is a variety of different types of fonts we could chose from as the titles of horror films tend to be standard and basic and not over the top. We have researched horror genre film fonts and we have found that they use a basic font.

 

These fonts are similar fonts to the ones we want to use for our title font as they aren't complicated and they have a standard basic font which creates the audience not question to reason of having a detailed font and how it relates to the film, whereas, having the basic font makes it more simplistic towards the film.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One which Emma created:

Planning: Character's Costumes

Our antagonist -

 

 

 Bryony.

 

 

Our antagonists costume -                                

 

• What this costume portrays?

We have chosen for the antagonist to wear a patient gown as it links to her past (mental asylum) and shows she is mentally unstable which is the effect and look we want to create for the audience. The use of the colour white allows the audience become deceived as the colour white suggests purity which contradicts the character.

 

 

Ideas for the contact lenses:

 

                                                   

 

One of our ideas for the antagonist contact lenses is the use of using no pupil contact lenses which links within the idea of the supernatural and the fact that her pupil has rolled to the back of her head, inferring she is mental and abnormal.

This conforms to the stereotype of her being scary mentally unstable and its creates a sense of mystery as you won't be able to read the antagonist which shall create more  suspense towards the audience.

 

 

 

Another idea and option we had for the contact lenses is pure white which shows the pupil. This creates the effect of purity and innocents.  By 'Martha' wearing white contact lenses links to the innocents we want the audience to see from her as it creates the conventions of a horror genre antagonist.

 Clothing for the teenagers

  

  

Shanie, Emma and Jordan.

 

 

For the costumes and clothing for the character of the four teenagers they are going to be wearing normal standard casual clothes. By not having the characters wear clothes which aren't seen as the norm for teenagers which won't give the audience a snese of reality from the film which is the reason we have chosen the teens to be dressed using their items of clothing. 

 

 

 

 

 

Planning: Representations of characters.

-How are we representing our characters within our film?

 Antagonist - Bryony
For our antagonist we have a girl which has run away from a mental asylum and is very unstable, this gives an effect that shes going to be possessed and disturbed which creates the awareness that she is going to commit horrible crimes.  This conveys to the audience  who those victims are, as they will be portrayed very differently from the antagonist. It allows the audience to feel as though they too are the victims, as they know the antagonists background. This makes the audience feel more engaged towards our trailer. Overall, we are representing our antagonist as a possessed mentally unstable girl.

The teenagers: Emma, Shanie, Jordan and Sam. 
Our trailer consist  of teenagers which are going to be represented as the stereotypical annoying teenagers which are very common within horror films. The typical conventions of teenagers in a similar genre they are portrayed as arrogant obnoxious and ignorant, this will make the audience want the victims to die therefore gaining more satisfaction out of the film which leads them to be more engaged within our trailer.