Construction/Main Task

CONSTRUCTION

Presentation


We created this presentation to analyse the shots we used and evaluate the effectiveness of them.

MIS-EN-SCENE:

The mis-en-scene is very important in filming as it helps the audience to understand huge factors of the the film eg; the time it is set, where it is taking place ect.

The pre production mis-en-scene consists of PROPS, LOCATION and CLOTHING.

Location

The locations will be set at Kerry McGranaghan's house, the targeted rooms will feature 3 bedrooms, the bathroom, the hallway and the garden.

Clothing

Rachel (the child): will be wearing a dark lace dress and bolero- through this the audience can tell that the clothing is modern and can suspect that the period it is in is the 21st century.

Kerry (the sister): will  be wearing jeans, black top and cardie - use of this shows an older generation, suggestive to be a sister rather than a parent and is also relateable to the time it is set in.

Props

Mirrors x8: The film is all about the possession through mirrors and it gets a hold of a little girl, therefore we need as many mirrors as possible to enable a variety of shots and angles. If it was shot with just one mirror the audience will get bored so they require a certain amount of variation.

Carving Knife: we need a kitchen carving knife for the scene where the  girl is standing over the bed watching the other one sleep, it needed to be a kitchen knife because it would be easy access to a child and also a knife is a cliche in horror films yet still manages to strike fear in to an audience and therefore is a valuable horror film prop.

White Board Black Pens x2: We need white board pens to write on the mirrors but still allow it to come off. We are writing scripture and binary along with creepy rhymes and threatening words on the mirror to symbolism the decent in to insanity.

Torch: the purpose of the torch is there will be a lot of dark scenes filmed however we still need a diagetic light source that will allow the characters or objects to be seen. It is also a great effect device, we will use it up against a mirror to reflect to writing on it to someones face.

                   
Equipment needed




Video camera




Tri-pod (+charger, pc connector)


Mac with Final cut pro, Photoshop, Livetype and Garage band


OUR TEAM

Actors/Characters: 

Anna played by Rachel McGranaghan-
Profile: 
Name: Anna Stry
Gender: Female
Age:11
Ethnicity: White British
Occupation: Student
Anna is a typical young pre-teen who stumbles across a cracked, green hand-held mirror and slowly becomes obsessed. She is the focus in the trailer and the subject of her sisters documentary, as the trailer goes on the atmosphere is ominous and dark revealing that there is possibly a demonic possession through that mirror she is obsessed with or she is simply loosing touch with reality. 

Emily played by Kerry McGranaghan:
Profile: 
Name: Emily Stry
Gender: Female
Age: 18
Ethnicity: White British
Occupation: College Student
Emily is the older sister, she is filming her family for a college project and along the way notices the changes in her sister, she documents Anna's demonic behavior. She is the only other character shown in the trailer and through her body language, filming and facial expressions we experience her fear and worry for her sisters safety and her own.


Producers/ Writers / Editors

Writers/ producers/editors: Hayley Banks and Kerry McGranaghan

Writers are the team that create the story board and plot enabling the producers to follow a working script and storyboard but formatting some creative changes such as if they think a different camera movement will create a better effect or a change of dialogue or lighting would be more beneficial. Which is then left up to the editors to make an final changes to the trailer and they add titles and music anything to make the trailer leave more of an impression such as speeding up some of the clips. All of these teams are vital to the making of any piece of media production and with out one the product will fail. 

Story board

Script

After experimenting with dialogue both on the story board and while filming, we decided that it was more effective to have very little speech, there is the occasional scream and mention of the name to justify the title to the protagonist however we believed that the silence of the characters created tension and fear for the viewers.

Audio

We experimented with a vast amount of audio both digetic and non-digetic. We found through editing it was best to have very little dialogue throughout the trailer especially through the fast paced sequences. We chose to merge and edit some audio together which consisted of a human heart beat, some traditional horror sound effect track and a piece of music. We found this to work really effectively and created the dramatic audio thrill we needed to enhance our filming. The music was so successful because we edited it to play softly and instrumental at the beginning of the trailer to then gather speed, volume and intensity to engage the climax of the clips to scare and entice the audience.

SCREEN GRABS-Final Cut Pro

This caption shows some of the transitions we applied
so that the clips moved with ease and appeal, most of the
transitions we used were fade, we found that the visual fades
helped the trailer be more flowing and easy to follow
but we also used audio fades so we could use a variety of
audio but sound like it is one composition. 

Final Cut Pro was our film editing software, we used a variety of techniques to create a professional trailer. This panel above shows where we imported all of
ours clips and we able to rearrange them in to a suitable order and preview it  in the view box also shown above. 

This panel shows how we were able to make the trailer more smooth, we were able to overlay
 clips and fade them in to each other by using the dotted line, we found this very effective
while editing because it gave the trailer an uneasy and tension building visual aspect. 

This screen grab shows the content of what went in to the trailer,
this is just the audio section, so we overlapped a lot of audio to create the
right sound that dramatizes the trailer. The audio consist of the main music but 
also parallels with some dialogue and other diagetic sounds such as the heartbeat.

Text Edit

Text edit is the software that enabled

us to create titles to import in to our

trailer, we could experiment 

with font and effects to create 

a relevant title. 

This is the amount of effects we
used just on one title, we had to
make sure we had all aspects of how
titles enter and exit the screen along
with their posit colour ion and.

This section of text edit we could edit the speed,
the importance of slowing down and speeding up the text
and effects is to make sure the audience has enough
time to read it but also feel the tension in the
effects speed-e.g.. we used a scratchy background effect
to reflect the film and emphasize the text.

This is a completed screen grab of a title sequence, it highlights the use of background, speed and positioning of
the titles and how they appear to the viewer which we then imported in to Final Cut Pro. 

COMPLETED TRAILER


-keep your sound up loud!