Evaluation Question 4

Who would be the audience for your media product?

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Evaluation Question 7

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

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Preliminary Task

One of our tasks towards the start of of course was to create a preliminary short film sequence. In this we had to have someone walking into a room, having a conversation and then leaving.

We apologise for the characters sudden change of appearance however we were told this would not matter as the task was to see our camera work skills.

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Technologies used

These are the technologies we used during our process of create our film opening and evaluating it.

Our answer to evaluation question 6 helps to explain what technologies we used throughout our process and what we learnt from them...take a look :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q17LR2_KWkY 

Scripting

Scripting. Or not scripting in our case. We have no lines in our film opening as we felt the lack of dialogue kept suspense and played to simplistic fears, The fear of the unknown.

During our evaluation however we did script. We created a film of our answers and the majority of these were scripted, in order to ensure precision and profesionalism.

You Tube

We have officially uploaded 'Bellgrave Park' on to You Tube! 

Take a look...

Polaroid Productions Bellgrave Park

Our editing process

Many hours have been spent in this editing sweet.

Many strenuous hours but it's all worth it as we now have our final cut.

This memory stick has aided all of our editing, also showing how we have used multiple different media devises such as iPhones, memory sticks and iMac computers.

Final cut story line

Our final cut story line is now a chase scene, we see an innocent girl running through a carpark being chased by a girl of similar stature however in darker clothing with darker hair. 

The innocent girl makes it into her car and there is a moment of relief, however quickly followed by a jump moment when we see that the other girl chasing her is now in the car behind her. She then runs out of the car and runs down the stairwell, but this time the other girl has caught up with her and there is another jump moment when that girl goes to strangle the innocent one. She then strangles her to end the film opening. 

This leaves suspense and the un answered questions such as 'why is she being chased?' 'Do these girls know each other?' 

By us challenging the representation and having two girls of similar age, this makes it scarier as it makes people think that anyone could be their killer. Even the person sitting next to you now.

Here is our final film opening: 

We hope you enjoyed, if you have any feedback please leave a comment on our blog or alternatively on our you tube channel, facebook, twitter or Instagram pages 

Evaluation Questions

Polaroid Productions are hard at work preparing for our evaluation questions

Editing Timetable

Here is our editing timetable! We were proud that we stuck to this and due to this managed to edit our final piece with in our deadline, even with our glitches along the way meaning re filming was needed.

We took individual time to edit and as a group for final desisions.

Our final piece shows we delegated our editing roles effectively and worked well as a group.

Logo sequence

This is our 'Logo sequence' to go at the beginning of our film opening. It is the first thing the audience see and allows them to understand who the production company is behind the movie.

Here is an example of Universals one:

 Interestingly Warner Brothers change their sequence slightly for each film they produce. The logo is the same, but the colours, background and music changes slightly. Here is and example of some:

Here is Paramount's one:

Here is Polaroid Productions:(ours is a little shorter but just as effective)

General update

We have been editing our first draft for our first draft showings and along the way have realised parts that will need to be refilmed and slight changes to our story line will be put in place. This along with the feedback we will gain from our first viewing via our questionnaires will help us to create the best piece we can! 

Production company logo sequence (first draft)

First attempt to create our production company logo sequence to come up before our film opening...

It's a little shaky and not quite perfected yet..but it's a working progress :)

Twitter posts

We have been tweeting about Polaroid productions - take a look at our twitter page @polaroidP

Makeup

We had our first filming session today and we were filming the section involving makeup on the girls neck to make her look as if she had been strangled and it was bruising.

The process:  

Makeup by the wonderful Milly

Initial narrative

This is our initial narrative:

1. We start with a black screen, fading into a girl looking round the car park with a torch. All you can see is a basic outline of a girl, holding keys also, the torch light is flashing round the screen.
2. She is running through this dimly lit car park, looking around her very scared as if something is chasing her. She runs to her car and struggles to fit the key in the lock, her hands are shaking and she is very scared.
3. A shot of her keys is shown as we see her drop her keys on the floor within her panic.They are under the car.
4. We then cut to a bathroom scene. We see a women in a bath (but do not see her face) and we see her painting her nails a dark red. There is a laptop on the loo, watching CCTV which is an online game.
5. We then cut back to the eerie car park and there is a shot looking under a car to see keys and her hand reaching for them. But then another hand reaches across and grabs her hand.
6. We then cut to the back to the bathroom scene and see the woman picking at her skin which makes it bleed- the blood drips down her arm and she watches it drip down into the water and spell out our title 'Immersed'.
7. It then cuts back to the car park to see a creepy smiling man looking at her from under the car.
8. It then cuts back to the bathroom where the woman is in her towel getting out of the bath, she goes to the laptop- it then zooms into one of the CCTV screens of a girl on the screen. On the CCTV screen we see the girl lying dead next to the car and her neck is bruised where she has been strangled to death.
9. After realising it is her lying dead in the car park (the audience does not yet know that it is her, apart from subtle hints throughout).
10. It cuts back where the girl in the bathroom is stressing out and switches the laptop off immediately. 
11.  In the suddenly black screen reflection we see her face and she is the girl from the car park and behind her is the same man from the underneath of the car.
12. The screen goes black and the credits role.

Story and mood boarding

Within our lessons we have created an initial story board for our film opening. We also created a mood board. 

Costume and Makeup

Costume:

Our main actress, will be wearing casual clothing as she is going about her daily life. However she will have her neck and wrists uncovered as these are seen as the most vulnerable places for a young girl to have uncovered.

Our other actress is only seen in full body when in a towel and we only see our third actors face.

Makeup:

All of our makeup is very natural and subtle, except for once our main actress has been strangled to death. This exposed vulnerable neck will then become bruised.

Location

We have been discussing different location options in our media lessons whilst coming up with our film opening idea. 

One we originally considered was a woods, however we quickly discounted this idea as we thought it was too cliche. 

We have now decided on two locations, one being an indoor car park and the other a bathroom.

The indoor car park is eery and quite, with dim lighting. The criteria we feel to create a perfect psychological Horror. 

The other setting is a bathroom, it is an unsuspecting location, with high key lighting and a calm and peaceful ambiance it contradicts our film genre and makes the audience feel relaxed, creating perfect moments to shock and startle them.

Iconic Directors

We have researched into iconic directors relating to our horror genre

Alfred Hitchcock - 

Highlights - Psycho,
The Birds,
Rear Window


 Stanley Kubrick -

Highlights - The Shining,
A Clockwork Orange,
2001 A Space Odyssey



John Carpenter - 

Highlights - Halloween,
The Thing



 Wes Craven - 

Highlights - Last House On The Left,
The Hills Have Eyes,
Scream


 Tobe Hooper - 

Highlights - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,
Poltergeist