Draft Film Pitch Feedback & Ammendments

After me and my partner had conducted our draft film pitch we then asked them to write their ideas on what they thought about it onto a 'Padlet' this helped us with our research as we wanted to make sure that we didn't incorporate anything that they didn't like into our opening sequence.
One person suggested that ''We have a lot going on make sure its clear'', taking this into consideration will we make sure that we have a set dialogue for each shot and that it is clear for our audience to understand. Also we must make sure that we are fully prepared on the day with everything that we need so that when it comes to filming it runs smoothly.

Another positive feedback that we got was that ''Really realistic narrative'' this was important to us as our target audience is going to be teenagers so in our film we will have the subject matter as being something in which our target audience can relate too.

Below is the 'Padlet' in which me and Ishpreet conducted together:

Created with Padlet

Certificate Ratings

Here I used slide share to help show our research about certificate ratings, we used this enable to help us with our horror opening that we will be creating as we need to understand the importance and difference of each rating. From conducting research I gathered the difference between each age rating and the laws and regulations of them, these are a very important part a film as the nature of horror films and there content can be quite graphic which many people would not want to see. We have to consider this when creating our opening sequence as our target audience would be for young adults and so by watching our opening sequence me and my partner would discuss what rating we would be able to consider. This will be important when completing our opening sequence as we will have to consider what age our target audience will be, we also had to discuss what would be included such as if we would use, blood, gore and violence as to whether we would need to make it a 15+ or 18+

Film Pitch

Me and my group member conducted a film pitch in order to layout the narrative and suggestions we had for our opening sequence. The film pitch shows the justifications of our ideas to connote to our audience why we have chosen to do specific things. We will also be able to refer to this frequently during our planning so that we can build on our specific ideas.

Film Pitch for Horror Film Titles Project

Title of Horror Film	Captured
Genre	Horror- subgenre thriller
Log Line	Two friends Tiffany and Gretchen return to the woods and are walking through it, as Tiffany wants to take pictures of Gretchen for her portfolio. Someone is watching closely from the distance, behind the trees. This was inspired by the woods concept within ‘Blair Witch Project’.
Synopsis	·      Starts off with a shot of the setting, with eerie music ·      Then we see Tiffany Woodcock and Gretchen Hornett examining their surroundings carefully, by walking slowly through the woods ·      Point of view shots are given from the perspective of the villain, who is watching them. This is accompanied by heavy breathing, and eerie music ·      Tiffany has brought Gretchen to the woods to take pictures from her Polaroid camera for her photography portfolio. They were there a week earlier taking photos, but Tiffany lost a few and has to start over. ·      Another shot from the villain, who is listening to the two talking and taking pictures. Begins to move around slightly which causes noise. ·      Tiffany and Gretchen hear this, and become more aware and fearful of their surroundings- they continue to take pictures ·      Tiffany runs out of film, and kneels down at her bag to refill it ·      Gretchen goes to check out another spot for better light ·      Tiffany begins to look over the pictures and thinks they will be great. However she looks closely and realises a strange black figure within the corner of a picture ·      She screams as she gets captured by the villain who was keeping a close eye on them THE REST OF THE FILM: ·      News of Tiffany’s kidnap and supposed death spreads, as Gretchen is left psychologically scarred ·      Later on a bunch of teenagers who went to a different school to Gretchen and Tiffany, decide to stay out in the woods as a group dare ·      Strange things begin to occur to them, as one by one the teenagers begin to get captured and brutally murdered ·      Only one survivor manages to escape, who is also left psychologically scarred
Resources needed -Camcorder -Tripod -Polaroid camera	Locations -Bentley Priory woods	Characters -Tiffany Woodcock -Gretchen Hornett       -Mysterious antagonist
Justification for ideas: The idea of teenager exploring the woods is conventional of a horror movie. This idea can link to the woods theme of horror movie ‘The Blair Witch Project’. Our target audience are mainly aged from 17-18. Due to this our two main characters in our horror movie opening are also of the same age range; therefore our audience will be able to relate to them.

Horror research questionnaire and analysis

For this part of the task, Ishpreet Sundal and I sat down and created suitable questions in which we could apply to a questionnaire to ask the audience to help us for our horror film. We created the questionnaire via ''survey monkey'', this was important to help us towards our final piece as we wanted to gain information such as the demographics of our target audience and fine out what they like and dislike about horror movies. By doing this allows us to negotiate on what we can use for our final piece and give us a rough outline of what our target audience expect to see. We published our questionnaire on social networking sites such as: Twitter and Facebook:
Below is some screen shots which are taken from our questionnaire:

Here is the link to the website 'Survey Monkey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/HLCD5WH

Once we had gathered all of our results Ishpreet Sundal uploaded the analysis of the results onto 'Prezi', this was important to us as with these results me and my partner could negotiate on how we can create our narrative and also use what they liked about horror movies so that it would be suitable for our target audience. By finding out what our target audience wanted to see allowed us to conform to these so that we would fit their criteria of what they would want to see.

Todorov Narrative Theory

To help us with our research and planning I decided to create a Power Point on Todorov's narrative theory as I established that our opening sequence would most likely fit his theory. By creating this connotes that we have an understanding of film theorist and how they regularly apply to films, this theory would most likely appear in every horror film as most horror films finish with a restored equilibrium. When planning our film we would consider the ways in which our film can subvert this theory however, as it is a horror genre it would be quite unlikely to do so.

Horror genre research: Timeline

For our horror genre research  my group member Ishpreet and I were researching into horror, we did this as we plan to create a horror opening sequence and to complete this we need to have a lot of background knowledge to enable us to create a film that follows the generic codes and conventions of a horror film. To help do this Ishpreet Sundal used www.dippity.com to illustrate all the information we had gained from our research. For each piece of research we conducted, we have embedded the link under each slot. We will be using this when creating our opening sequence as we may decide to pay homage to some old style horror films in order to conform to the horror conventions.

http://www.dipity.com/Ishpreet/History-of-horror/

History of horror on Dipity.

Preliminary task

In class our teacher had set us a preliminary task which enabled us to demonstrate the use of shot reverse shot and 180 degree rule, we decided to work in a group of me, Ishpreet Sundal Bryony Johnson and Rumena Ahmed. We used cameras to film this and then edited it onto iMovie.
In order to make this successful and to help us with our planning we created a storyboard and discussed as a group what to include and how, in order to help with our planning Ishpreet created a shot list which consists on location we will be using, actors and props that will included in the video. While doing this we noticed that the camera and tripods would remain as our two focus items as without these we cannot create a successful video.

After evaluating this we asked other group members on ways they think we could improve our preliminary task, I focused on the conventions which we used such as 180 degree rule which was one of our main focusses to convey media conventions.

Once we had edited our preliminary task we decided on a creative way we could evaluate what we done, so to do this as a group we created a news reported and we all had to focus on one main aspect of the video, below is the news report that we had created.