Equipment bookings

After creating our group's shooting schedule, we sent an e-mail to book the needed equipment. This help ensure that we would have all the equipment needed on the dates we want. Sending one e-mail with all of our dates also ensured that we do not forget to book equipment later on. 

Shooting schedule

location

 

 

Animatic improvement

casting

Storyboard

 This is the story board we came up with for our opening sequence.this shows our basic line of what happens in the opening sequence. we did this to ensure we knew what we was doing when we had to film  our oping sequence. Doing this  made us think about what ideas where suitable for the storyline. this also made us see that why some of the ideas the group member came up with will not work.

Order of titles and names

Class feedback

The audience thought that our sound used at the end of the opening sequence, a child singing voice, was used well. They also pointed out that there was a sound placed in the wrong place, and this was fixed when we improved our animation.

The audience thought that the camera shots were unclear and hard to understand. Their favourite shot was the close up of the girl's face. They also thought that we did not have a good variation; we used many close ups.

The audience thought that the pace was too slow for the running scene. They thought we should make the transitions quicker. They thought that the titles between the knife and the crow should either be expanded or shortened.

The audience did not understand the scene of the running man with the cross over of the clock and why it was repeated several times. The audience clearly understood that the opening sequence was a dream. they likes the ending, especially the title and sound - child singing. 

Opening sequence possible sound effects

Planning the animatic

Prop and Costume List

Item	Where will it be used? Which shots?	Source (Where will I get it?)
ID CARDS	On the road ,shot number 2	School ID from the actors.
car	On the road , shot number 2	Ms Saunders
Clock	On the wall,   shot number 5,7,9	school
glass	Dropping , shot number 10	home
knife	In Shannon’s hand, then she will be dropping the knife on the ground o n shot number 11 & 12	Food tech
Alarm clock	On the side table , shot number  17	Morgan’s house
Fake blood	On the hand ,cloths ,ID and knife  Shot  number 2,11,14 ,15,18	Tesco
Make up	Shot number 1, 15,16,18	Gabie’s

Item	Where will it be used? Which shots?	Source (Where will I get it?)
Blue Jeans	4, 6, 8, 15	Morgan’s House
White Shirt	4, 6, 8, 15	Morgan’s House
Tie	4, 6, 8, 15	Morgan’s House
Smart Shoes	4, 6, 8, 15	Morgan’s House
White Dress	15, 16	Gabie’s House
Pyjamas	17, 18	Topshop, Primark, BHS Etc.

Animatic

Survey analysis

 

Our answers where divided equally between the two answers. This shows us that the opinions are divided. However if half of the responses are negative, this also means that they would not mind relating to characters - they simply do not need it. Therefore by default, we should have a relatable character.     



 

The answers to this question shows us the potential success of our film. Five people answered that they watched movies online, 4 answered that they watch movies using Netflix and online, and only 3 people answered that they watch movies at the cinema. By these results, it is clear that most people use Netflix and the web to view films. 







our target audience is woman and men under  25 . however we asked a wide range of people to see weather people outside out target age range liked horror movie. after we collected the results we saw only both male and female under 25  filled the survey out and this clearly shows that we choose the right target audience. 







More than half of our responders answered yes when asked if costume was important to immerse themselves into the movie. This means that our characters must have costumes which can speak to the audience and communicate a general description of who they are. Overall, costume ideas will have to be brainstormed, all the while thinking about how the audience could be most positively affected through this mise-en-scene.  

Issues raised during the making of the production logo

When we were making our production logo we decided to firstly speak to each other listen to all the kinds of idea’s everyone had and what they thought was essential to add, change or remove that would make our production logo better.

 When we were editing the Image of the crow on the adobe one of my team member (mogan) thought of an idea of masking the crow’s eyes red however we all came to a decision that we should not do this as it will have a good colour contract with the white background we had planned to use.

 After we had edited our image we decided to play around with the image and see what could be done to make the image better. However we all came to a decision that our initial image that we had created in the start was the right image to use as other edits did not make it seem any better.

 We all had a n initial idea of having the background black however due to the black crow we was using it was impossible to use black background as the crows would blend and the crows will not be viable.  This lead to us being unsure of what colour background to make the background therefore we kept it transparent.  We also try to see if we could change the colour of the black crow but it was obvious if we changed the crows colour to any other colour it would be mistaken for other birds and it would not be clear that it is a crow.

 When we put everything on premier pro then we added affects and emotions to make the crow fly a cross. We added various sound affects in to make our production logo more affective. Finally we changed the background to grey and cloudy image. This small touch made out production logo unique, stand out and an outstanding final piece.

Survey

we had made an survey to do research and find out more about what the audience like about the genure horror.  This was done to ensure our opening sequence was affective and had all the elements the overall audience like as well as expect in an standard horror movie.  We chose to make few of the question specific in order  for the information  to be helpful for us. we based some of the question on types of characters the audience like and this was done  to help us analyse the characters and find out what makes them exciting and what people like abut them. this information would help us make our main character better.

Class feedback

the feedback we had received from the class helped us improve our story line and the characters further. after the feed back we had we decided to make changes such as the name of the main character to a much more feminine and this way more was reflected about the character in her name. we has decided to change the initial idea of 'kai' to' fai' as we thought 'fai' sounded much more like a female name.

from the feedback we had also realised that that our inital story was abit confusing therefore we had decided to change some of the lines to ensure it fitted the production  title and our genre we had chosen.we also decided to add more  characters into the story to make it much more interesting  and as the feedback suggested that we should as it would create tension.

some questions that were asked by the members of the class made us think more about our story line and the feed back helped us improve it to make it more interesting.

 we did not make any change to the production title as everyone thought it was a good selection of name and also  'nightmare' fitted into our genre (horror). therefore we did not make any changes regarding the title.

 the questions 'how did the main character die's?' and 'who killed her' came up a lot therefore we made sure it was interesting and different in order to surprise the audience with what actually happens. this creates tension and makes the audience want to go on and watch the rest of the movie.