Film Outline

This is a table to show the outline of our film, what shots we will be using and the action content within each section. This would become useful to refer back to when deciding upon our ideas.

Release Form

This is the release form which was filled out to ensure that our group members and cast gave permission to share the work we have produced with the Media and Film department.

Health and Safety

This is the health and safety form which we had to fill out to ensure that we did not use any harmful or dangerous props.

Textual Analysis Grids

These are the textual analysis grids in which we watched a psychological horror and wrote about the different aspect that we need to look at when producing a horror film such as music/sound and lighting.

We did these textual analysis grids so that we knew what camera angles and lighting looked effective which would influence us with ideas for our horror opening.

Final Film Project

After many lessons of editing we have produced our final horror opening.

Media Project 17.3.11

We didn't think that our first shooting was very effective as it lacked the appropriate lighting as we shot in daylight and it also didn't include scary things such as the book falling off a shelf. Therefore we needed to re-shoot the opening to improve it.

The re-shoot was a lot better and much more effective as we made sure that we filmed at night so the lighting was appropriate. Also we used a lot more close ups to add effect to the shots and show the fear of the protagonist. We also included other, more scary events that happened in the opening of the horror film such as a hand banging against the window which fits into our ideas as we wanted the threat to be hidden from the audience.

In the lesson now, we are uploading the opening of the horror film to the Mac and currently editing it. We need to add more sound to the bang on the window as it wasn't loud enough on the original filming. We also need to add the music to the opening.

- Shaun

Practice Project

This was our first attempt of filming our opening, which has given us a clear idea of what we need to improve on and include to make our opening more effective.

One problem that we found was the lighting was too bright while filming, which made the footage look washed out and out of focus.  We had initially planned to film at night and so this is what we will do in our final project.

Another problem was that we did not use a very wide range of shots, for example there were hardly any close ups to show the character's emotions and create tension.  This is another thing that we will try to improve on.

Our original plot idea was too basic and so we need to work on this to make the opening more dramatic and scary.  

In conclusion, our practice filming highlighted many alterations that we need to make.