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This blog belongs to Chantelle Short and i worked with Elliott Chyi and Shaun Anderson to create an opening sequence to a horror genre film lasting approximately three minutes including titles. You an use the pages i have created at the top of my blog to navigate my research, planning,construction and evaluation.  Our group used Wix to present out evaluation and this is best viewing using chrome internet browser, i hope you enjoy my work.

Regards Chantelle Short

Final cut

This is our final cut for our opening sequence of Hidden.

Hidden Evaluation

The Storyboard

The story board hidden from ecss1

This is our story board for the production of hidden

Animatic

This is our animatic, without sound due to a lack of preparation.

Production of animatic

This was in the process of creating the animatic.

A little words after final cut

As the invisible man that beyond the film production, I would like to give our film sequence <Hidden> a general conclusion.
First of all, we have chosen horror genre as our final exam title for our portfolio.
At the very beginning, out primary thoughts and initial idea of out film sequence was quite various and creative, we have collect all the possibilities and ideas together and made a mind map, eventually we have came up a mature idea and story that consists of various elements such as mysterious killer, supernatural touch, etc.  Our primary title of the film sequence was <Trap> or something like this, but eventually we both agreed that <Hidden> is a maturer and more attractive name compare with <Trap>, therefore we have change the title.
And afterwards, we have gathered all the chosen elements and initial ideas to make a script and storyboard. At first, out story is pretty mature and maintained a huge amount of narratives in that, at that period, the four of us were all part of the film sequence, but then, an unpredictable accident occurred to our group, one of our important partner craig has dropped out the college, therefore we have only left three people in our group, so the storyline of our film sequence must be changed.
At the production period, even more problem has occurred to us, first of all, the weather condition is absolutely horrible, we even have to shot the film under the rain sometimes, which is a really unpleasant experience, also due to the lack of preparation and organisation, our shooting schedule has absolutely fall behind, therefore in the actual production, we decided to cut out the character of chantelle and only keep shaun and me in the film, also due to the bad weather condition, we have deleted a huge amount of storyline and makes our film more simple and profound (also much shorter than we expected).
But after all, we all agreed that we did a fine job over here, we have overcame the bad weather condition and the lack of group to shot the film, and we have basically expressed what we initially want to expressed within out film, and we did a really good production work to cover the shortage of the filming, anyway we have all cooperated and work as a group successfully, and that's the key thing for a film production.

Rough cut 2 - Hidden

This is the second rough cut we did.

Editing Tecnhiques

This is another task we got given quite early on in media, it shows six different editing techniques.

Prelim task

This is our prelim task we got given when we first started media, we had to do a few minutes of filming including techniques like: a shot reverse shot, match on action, and 180 degree rule.

The production of our soundtrack

The production of our soundtrack from ecss1


This is the basic process of how we found our soundtrack. We tried finding royalty free music on the website recommended by the college blog, however we didn't find one that suited our sequence.  

Editing

This is an image of Shaun doing some editing for out Friday 22nd final deadline.

Strengths & Improvemets

Plan for filming our 2nd rough cut from ecss1

This slide was to show what we need to do for next time to improve the rough cut, it also mentioned days of filming and why we failed to film lsat time.

Editing Rough Cut

This is a screen grab of the editing we done for our rough cut

Rough cut 1

This is our first rough cut completed for the deadline Friday 8th. we added music, credits and different editing techniques. this is very rough and we aim to improve it extremely to get it up to the standard we want.

Filming dates

On the 5th me Shaun, Craig and Elliott met up at college and after that we went out filming, we filmed for about 2 hours however the weather conditions did not help. we got around about 30 seconds done and started editing. In future we eed to be more prepared as we found out when we got their we didn't have all the right equipment and props we need, we were missing a hammer and a gun and certain mise en scene, which we will definitely pick up on the next time we film.

Me Shaun and Elliott competed numerous tasks today, one including making a word document with images of some costumes and makeup also some editing for our rough cut took place for our friday 8th rough cut deadline.

Recce Shots

Recce shots from ecss1

The recce shots were basically setting shots of were we are going to film, here we are in the outskirts of the burn-valley which was perfect for our film as the setting is quite mysterious.

Makeup used

Makeup we used for our filming from ecss1

This is a brief word document on the actual makeup we used and Shaun's costume, things have been changed to the actual plan however have been explained.

CallSheet

AS MEDIA - CALLSHEET from ecss1

Company Logo

Arp from ecss1

This is our company logo we created, the name was spontaneous.

Making the Logo

All Rise Production from ecss1

These were the steps in making the logo.

Primary Audience Research - Horror Survey

Primary audience research – horror survey from ecss1

This is the research survey we gave out to generalise what the audience likes best about horror.

Props list

Props list from ecss1

this is our props list we came up with what we needed throughout out sequence.

Institution Research

Tickets and market from ecss1

This was research on specific horror films and their ratings and how many tickets they sell and how much of a profit the horror genre made.

Audience Research

Bbfc film ratings from ecss1

This was research about the age range and what is suitable and not suitable for a certain age.

Initial ideas - mindmap

Mind map from ecss1

This was a mind map about all the different ideas we had about our opening sequence, it consisted of things like setting, costume, and props.

Timeline

The Thing from ecss1

We watched 'The Thing' and had to note down at what time do certain people come up i.e. at 2 minutes a producer was shown.

Halloween Analysis

Halloween from ecss1

For this task we had to pick a horror film and analyse it. we had to include: mise en scene, camera, sound and editing and we done 5 or 6 different aspects of them throughout the film.

9 Frame Analysis

9 frame from ecss1

This task asked us to pick a film of our choice and pick 9 stills. we then had to analyse the camera angle and say what effect it has and what connotations it has.

Brief history

This was the brief research. we picked 5 well known horror films and described what aspects of it made it a good horror film, i.e the music and camera angles.

Horror conventions

Horror Film Genre Convention from ecss1

The conventions of horro consisted of describing what is in a typical horror. Including things like: setting character and narratives.

Brief

Create  a 2 minute opening sequence, of a thriller/horror/film noire.

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