Opening sequence analysis

Opening Sequence Analysis- The Conversation· The music used may indicate the time period in which the film is set. · The focus point of the camera is unclear at first: it appears to be zooming in on nothing in particular. It then focuses on a character: A street performer. The camera then follows him as he entertains a member of the public. The camera then follows this member of the public.· At the end of the opening credits, A sniper is shown. This, along with the way in which the camera follows the character, may indicate the characters fate.

The Brief

Preliminary task; This section of the task involved filming and creating a 60 second film. This involved a group of buisnes men who were planning to do a exchange with a set of documents and money, throughout the film the main character is confronted with various problems stopping him from making the exchange and ends up getting mugged at the end.

Main task: To create a 2 minute film which includes opening credits and titles. All of the material must be original and made by the students, with exception of sound effects and sound which can be taken from a copy right free source. All can be completed in a group of 4 maximum.

Genre Analysis

Genre Analysis from RobsonBoyd

Roped Animatic

Mind map

Mind map from RobsonBoyd

Story Board

Story board from RobsonBoyd

Risk Assessment

Risk assesment from RobsonBoyd

Call sheet

Call sheet from RobsonBoyd

Treatment sheet

Overview

Three friends have just been to a party and are driving home through an eerie forest. They are all drunk, including the driver, suddenly they notice a little child in the middle of the road but they do not have enough time to react. They collide with the child and he flies over the roof of the car, the three friends get out of the to go and check on the child he is lying in a pool of blood and it’s quite clear that he is dead. The three start panicking at the thought of what would happen if anyone ever found out. All three decide to not report the accident and leave the kid in the middle of the road. The child comes back to haunt, torment and basically destroy his killer’s life. The child begins to kill off the people who were in the car as well as the driver’s girlfriend leaving the driver till last.

Outline of opening horror sequence

Beginning – Title sequence begins and the name of the movie is displayed on screen.  A close up of a phone is then showed and the cast names are then displayed on the screen of the phone. We then begin to hear multiple voices talking and panicking about something that the audience hasn’t found out about or witnessed yet. The camera then cuts to a small child lying in the middle of the road in a pool of blood.

Middle – The next day the driver of the car arrives at work, he walks to his office and is suddenly stunned, the camera turns to show what the driver is looking at, the child that he killed is sat under his desk staring back at him. The driver blinks and the child isn’t there anymore. The driver sits down at his computer and turns it on, when it loads up the child’s face begins to flash on the screen. He flicks the switch but the computer doesn’t turn off and instead his face stays on screen, flashing on and off. Two of the three friends then learn that their other friend has recently been hung and the driver phones his other friend to talk about it, halfway through the conversation the driver mentions that he has been seeing the child. His friend thinks that he is going mad and tells him to forget about it when suddenly the phone falls to the floor and hangs up.

End – A tone is then heard on the other end of the phone, the driver then gets a call from his friend that just hung up. He answers the phone and on the other end he hears a child talking on the other end and he says ‘’she’s next’’. The driver runs to his car, drives home and runs up the path to his house. He bursts through the door and see’s his girlfriend lying on the floor. He runs over to her to see if she is alive but she is not. He notices a letter on the floor next to his girlfriend and picks it up, he looks up and the child is standing over him. The screen goes black and the movie ends.

Synopsis

Three friends get drunk at a party and attempt to drive home; they hit a kid on the way and leave him in the middle of the road. The next day the driver goes to work and sees the kid under his desk. The driver blinks and the kid is gone. The two friends learn that their other friend has mysteriously died. As they are talking the person on the other end of the phone suddenly goes silent and the driver hears the phone fall to the floor and hangs up. His phone then begins to ring and he notices that it’s his friend’s number; he answers the phone and immediately begins to ask what happened. The kid says ‘’she’s next’’, he runs out of work to his car and drives home. He runs through his front door and notices his girlfriend on the floor. He walks over to her to see if she is still alive but she is not. He notices a note next to her, picks it up, opens it and the kid appears in front of him. The screen then goes black and the movie ends. 

Mood board

Props and equipment- Roped

Props/equipment needed

Mobile phone

Camera

Tri pod

Rope

Tomato Sauce (Blood)

Letter

Laptop

Production Logo- Roped

To help me create my logo for the production company i did some online research using google to find out which three colours (because wanted a three tone logo) where most commonly associated with horror because, obviously, i wanted my logo to fit in the horror genre.

I decided to use the traditional 'yin yang' image and edit it to try change the meanings of it. By mixing the yin yang with the three horror colours i feel i managed to create the feeling of horror, hate and death.

I used a cloudy background as i thought it helps create a quite misty and suspicious tone, which is relevant for a horror production company. I did this by making a grey and light grey gradient across the logo, then editing the filter to 'sponge' in the artistic filter. I feel that the sponge filter acts as a cloudy background which makes us think of suspense and mystery.   

Opie Evaluation

                                                                       Opie Evaluation

Here is my finished opie picture after a lot of experimentation on photoshop, and it still looks a like a horse...

This was only the first time have have used photoshop so it took my a while (3 to 4 hours and many youtube videos) to figure out how to use the programme. eventually i became familiar with the basic tools like the 'lasso' tool, which i used to get the outlines of my; Hair, face and jumper.

I found it fairly difficult to get an accurate outline of my head and body because i couldn't keep a steady hand in order to keep the line near the the edge. 

Despite my oppie looking like a cartoon horse in a hoodie, i still wanted it to look fairly like myself so i used the 'eye dropper' tool shown below, to take a sample of my hair and skin colour, then used the 'paint bucket' tool to fill the colour in.

I then looked on the colour wheel to see my hair colour and choose a slightly lighter colour to show the different strands of hair and to try show the curliness of it.

I i was to try make an oppie again i would definitely make sure that i had more knowledge of how to use photoshop and also take more time on it to try get more accurate outlines and not have the look of a horse  

History of Horror genre

History of the Horror genre

Horror is a film genre looking to create negative emotions for the viewers by playing on stereotypical primal fears. Horror films often try to startle the viewer using themes like macabre (signs and symbols of death) and supernatural. Horror frequently overlaps with other genres like ‘supernatural’ and ‘thrillers’.

1890-1930/the beginning

The horror genre was very popular from around 1890-1930.  The first depictions of supernatural events were created by a man called Georges Méliés, who created several short silent films, one of which is actually credited for being the first ever horror film. After Méliés’ magnificent breakthrough films like Frankenstein were inspired to be made and eventually remade over time and changed the history of horror from silent films to what we now know it as today .

1930-1940

This is the era where the horror make-up artists began to show their skills and change the faces of the horrorful characters to what we see them as today. In 1931 universal studios began to make 'Gothic horror’ which lead to inspire ‘Tod Browning’s’ Dracula, which aimed to thrill its audience, which is a example with the horror genre crossing with the thriller genre. Universal dominated the horror genre for a whole decade with films such as ‘the invisible man’, ‘Bride of Frankenstein’, ‘Son of Frankenstein’…

1950-1960

In the 50’s to 60’s the horror genre saw a massive advance in technology, which aloud produces to create scenes like alien invasions and zombie apocalypse’s, which they wouldn’t have been able to do in the past a they wouldn’t have the technology to create this. A good example of technology advancing horror was is 1955 a director called Hans Zeichmen created the film Sorcerer, Hans would never have been able to make this film before 1955 because he simply wouldn’t of had the technology to do so. Sorcerer involved creating the illusion of flying sorcerers to the audience.

Preliminary task- 60 second film


For our film we decided to base it around a document exchange between to people.  We enjoyed filming this as we hadn’t really done this before, however we didn’t really know how to uses the camera at times.

After filming our scenes and we were satisfied with what we had made, we came back to the classroom to edit the clips. For some reason not all of our clips were saved to the camera and we didn’t have enough time to film again so we couldn’t really create our film anymore.

So instead we tried to focus on the actual shots we had created rather than the story line. When we had finished editing our film didn’t make any sense because of the clips that were missing, however I feel that we focused on the shots quite well and put a good film together, even though it didn’t make any sense.

If we were to do this again we would be certain that all of our clips had saved to the camera before returning to the classroom, and also we would use actors that took the role more seriously to help us save time, as when we were trying to film It was hard for them to act it out with out laughing and having to start again.