Film Editing

Once all our footage had been collected, we started to editing. We imported the footage onto iMovie, which is a video editing software used to edit video and audio clips. Once the footage was transferred we chose which clips we wanted to keep and placed them in order on the timeline.

iMovie was easy to use as we were able to arrange clips easily and deal with organising and editing the clips easily as well as adding sound to it. It was also reliable to use as if you deleted something you would be able to bring back easily by clicking the undo button.

Final Film production logo

We decided to call our production company LIGHT SCREAM because we wanted to give something different. We added the SCREAM in as it relates to the horror genre, this means that the we would be producing mainly horror films. After deciding what to call the production company we went onto photoshop and started to design it making it look better. We also went onto the site www.dafont.com and tried out which font suited the title. Adobe photoshop was the best programme to deal with editing posters.

Filming

From all the plannings we had made in class from the action plan and the shooting schedule we were finally prepared to start shooting our trailer. We organised where we were shooting, when we were going to shoot, what we were shooting and what was included in the shots and who we were shooting.

The first bit of shooting was going to be the torture room. As it was the most accessible we thought it would be best to film it first in order to save time. We took in turns to film and while Hannah I took some photos for evidence.

The second part of filming was at Homerton Hospital, as Hannah was needed for this part I took on the role again as the camera person. In this scene, this is where the climax will begin to build up rapidly because of the quick shots used in this scene.

The final part of filming is the office scene. This is where Lemming finds outs that Maya has passed away. In this scene there is a bit of dialogue, however, whatever dialogue we do not need we will cut it during the editing process. Me and Hannah both took it in turns to shoot.

When filming, we decided to get a range of different shots. Some of the shots were also similar to the movie 'The Unborn'. We used the shots from the unborn and tried and made it our own, it was also good for comparison to see if we had created the same atmosphere.

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Film Poster

We started the fim poster with some idea as to what was going to be on it. We already knew from experience what should be included such as: the title, the production company, tagline, age certificate and any useful information like actors or directors. We experimented with the poster in order to achieve that an image that was very powerful. We looked for inspirations from horror posters such as 'let me in', 'saw' and 'mirrors'.

Magazine cover

Before making our final magazine cover, it was important that I flat planned the magazine cover to give me an idea for what we wanted. I was inspired by Empire and Film magazine.

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When we were deciding on what to call our magazine, we came up with 'terror' as we felt that it suited the horror genre, unfortunately, we didn't like the title in the end because we felt that it would not appeal much to our target audience and would attract audiences younger than 15.

Secondly, we decided to name our magazine 'Cinema'. We felt that it suited the magazine more because as we researched into different magazines, we never found any magazine title that was aimed at one specific genre.

This magazine is purely dedicated to movies and films only and we felt that it was suitable name for a magazine with no specific genre. I used adobe photo shop to edit the magazine.

With the magazine that I researched into, I found that most film magazines usually had 1 character on the front which is why I had chosen to use 1 character on my front page and It also draws the attention to the main character only.

Secondly, I used the lasso tool to cut her out only in order to place her on top of the magazine name. I had chosen to do to this, as I felt that it showed to respect to the character.

From the previous magazine that I created in yr 12, I made sure to include all the necessary elements within a magazine such as price, date, issue, title and other information to lure people in.

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Production Company

We came up with the production name 'Light Scream' as our own company name as we were required to come up with our own. It was very enjoyable experience to make a company logo as we were able to play around with what it was going to look like. This will be used in our trailer as production details.

Evaluation of Research and planning

In what ways does your media product, use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of the horror genre?

•For our horror trailer, we decided to use 3 different settings as it would have bored the audience out if we had only used 1 location. The 3 settings used are an office, a hospital and a bedroom.

We chose the main setting to be in a hospital because it would help create an atmosphere to our audience. We were also inspired by films such as the eye, Halloween and the unborn.

Within our trailer we tried to repeat the traditional conventions which would be found in other horror trailers such as low key lighting, gore and quick shots. We definitely used low lighting in the hospital scene and blood and scabs during the torture scene. The mise en scene in our trailer such as the costumes, blood and scabs went well with our main character, the antagonist, Maya.

When we first researched into trailers, our first idea of using a masked villian like films such as the strangers or Friday 13th, however we felt that we wanted to add something different. So, instead we never used a mask, we ended up using no mask and just adding more scabs and gore to it.

In terms of challenging conventions, we noticed the ages in other groups were mostly characters our ages, ours are characters who were older and mature. As we were aiming at people ages 15+ it would definitely attract an older audience.

Shot list

A shot list is a list of the shots that have been taken in a period of filming. While we created our shot list we were very careful not to make it too confusing and to make it easy for my group to follow. It includes the location of the shot, framing, scene number, shot type and the action or dialogue happening.

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Story boarding

Storyboards are graphic organizers such as a series of illustrations or images displayed in sequence for the purpose of pre-visualizing a motion picture, animation, motion graphic or interactive media sequence.

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In this storyboard, we start off with an establishing shot leading on to an office scene. We decided to start off with an establishing shot to let the audience know the location of the trailer. However, we were careful not to reveal too much in the storyboard to avoid spoilers and to bring people in.

This is the office scene, where the doctor has flash backs of him and Maya. We used flashbacks here because we were inspired to use it from film trailers such as 'Nightmare on Elm Street.' We also felt that it would have a much better flow to it and hopefully create tension.

These two storyboards reveal the killer but does not give too much away. The last few shots will contain of quick paced shots which we felt would be the climax of the trailer. One film trailer that helped us achieve this was 'The hills have eyes'.

Shooting Schedule

A shooting schedule is a project plan of each day's shooting for a film production. It is normally created and managed by the assistant director, who reports to the production manager managing the production schedule. Both schedules represent a time line stating where and when production resources are used. Looking at some example shooting schedules, it helped us create our own schedule.

Health and Safety

Those carrying out risk assessments must be competent to do so.

Where there is a health risk associated with the work, Health Surveillance, if beneficial to the individual will be offered.

The risk assessment results in a decision that the controls in place reduce the risk from the work activity to an acceptable level or that action will be taken to reduce the risk to an acceptable level before work starts.

The risk assessment will be kept under review to make sure that it remains valid.

Risk assessment should be held with other programme information relating to the programme or project for at least three years.

Student Action Plan

We began to work on a Student Action Plan, it is important. We decided to organise who and what we were going to do. Firstly, I will be working on the shooting schedule whereas Hannah will be working on the storyboarding. We plan to finish by 7th November and to begin filming by then.

Our main aim is to have finished all filming. Hannah will be preparing the costumes, props and equipment on set, and I will be filming as well as taking pictures with Hannah for evidence.