Third shooting hour

On Thursday the 19th of November, both myself and Amy gathered Joe and Talia together to film the shots that are of Sophie discovering images off Bowe's computer and the shot at the front door at the end with Sophie's sister (Juliet). Initially me and Amy had planned to do the shot of Sophie sitting watching a tv and finding a DVD and Bowe's T shirt, putting the DVD into the TV and crabbing quickly from an over the shoulder shot of Sophie watching the DVD to the facial expressions of Sophie and Bowe out of focus standing in the doorway behind her. But due to the fact that me and Amy couldn't find a DVD for the character Sophie to be watching we decided to change it to her looking at his laptop. We then sourced images from various places such as a previous horror film called 'Murder Set Pieces'. We filmed in the same location that the scenes where Sophie s tied up and beaten in, to add continuity and so that the audience can recognise the location. It also appears as a domestic setting, which from our questionnaire we discovered that our audience would find most scary. We sourced these images from the Internet as obviously we wouldn't of been able to create them ourselves, but they are vital in portraying our plot and genre. Due to limitations on the equipment we had available to us, unfortunately our crabbing wasn't very steady as we had to improvise and use what was available to us. We therefore fashioned a dolly out of a tripod and a small desk with wheels. But again we feel this wasn't steady enough and didn't create our desired effect so we decided to cut the crab. As the cameras lens wasn't wide enough we where unable to create our shot that we desired and therefore had to change our pan slightly to make it so that we could go from an over the shoulder shot looking over Sophie's shoulder to a shot looking at Bowe in the doorway. We also decided to remove the shot of Sophie finding a bloodied t shirt as we felt once we started to film it, it didn't look right and didn't actually add anything to our trailer so we decided to cut it. We then began filming our second shot that we where going to film by the front door of Amy's house. This shot is of Sophie's sister (Juliet) getting to the door and Bowe opening the door with a knife behind his back. We had initially planned to do a distant shot where you can see Bowe answering the door and see Juliet on the other side of the door way, but when we tried to do this, you could not see Juliet at all and therefore we decided to improvise and film from a higher angle where you could see better. We felt this looked more effective as it gave Juliet less status and authority implying she is weaker than Bowe.

Creating our title

Myself and Amy decided that we wanted our title of our film to be simple but impacting. We wanted our logo to portray the genre of horror so that our target audience can instantly tell the genre of our film by reading our title.




Here is the 1st Title that myself and Amy designed. We used a black background to portray a dark element of the film, we used white lettering ontop of this to add contrast and therefore make it stand out more and easier to read. This font is called 'Northwood High'- from dafont.com. We decided to use a font that is broken in areas to give it a weathered look. We felt that this design although it does portray a sinister look wasnt appropriate as the lettering is too neat.

For this title myself and Amy again used a plain black background to portray a sinister look contrasted by white lettering to make it stand out. We used 'Northwood High' for the 'White Lies' title and 'Scratch' font for 'coming soon' we feel that although both fonts are weathered, the 1st font still appears to neat compared to the second one and isnt as scary as the top one.

This is our final design. We feel that this is the most effective as it reflects our genre well due to the distressed nature of the font. It is very simple and easy to read but also has personality and isnt too boring. The font is impacting as it looks as if its been carved, this gives it character and life. It could also be interpreted as similar to a child's handwriting, which connotes innocence. This is in sharp contrast with our film and therefore creates a twisted and more emotional connection with the trailer.

Second Shooting Hour

On the 10th of November, Myself and Amy filmed our shots where Sophie Green is tied up to the bed and she is injured. We thought these shots would be hard to film as they are very emotional and require a lot of concentration. Our actress, Talia Feld, was very dedicated to her job and allowed us to do what we wanted with her makeup and clothing and she also acted passionately. As well as filming we also took photos of the scene, as we may decided to use these instead of the film, as it is more snappy and gives a greater impact to the audience.


We then did Talia's make up with fake blood and black and blue eyeshadow to create a 'beaten up' look and used a piece of material to tie her up to the bed post. We then filmed short clips of her crying, looking scared, screaming and pleading fo Bowe to 'stop'. This creates empathy with the audience

We took a varied amount of shots in order to give us as much choice in our creation of this scene. We used close ups of her face to show her emotion and her facial injuries clearly, we also used high angled shots to reflect her low authority and position in the film.

Here are some images of Talia after we have done her make up.

First Shooting Hour

On Friday the 6th of November, Myself and Amy gathered our cast, Talia Feld and Joe Marshall, and took them to a large field area in Old Farm Park. Despite researching the weather conditions for the day previously as sunny it unfortunately rained. This made our filming harder to carry out as the lens was becoming wet and the cast were finding it hard to perform. In our plan we also wanted our field shots of the couple to be filmed in sunny conditions to reflect the happiness of the characters; however we thought we could use the clouds to our advantage, as it could foreshadow the danger and betrayal in the relationship.

As we filmed we used as many takes as we could to ensure we had enough film to use and edit, this will work to our advantage as it will help us in creating the most professional and emotive trailer we can.

We filmed three specific shots where Talia was on top of Joe play fighting, Talia was running playfully away from Joe and when they were hugging and said, 'i love you'. Although the cast performed well in the conditions provided, as 'love' is an awkward and hard emotion to show, we felt that our filming wasn't very believable. In our questionnaire the public are most enticed by a realistic style of filming and we want our trailer to be as realistic as possible. This led us to think of a different way in which we can film it, to keep a scary and realistic atmosphere. We came up with an idea that we could film from the character of Bowe's point of view for the first half of the trailer and the character of Sophie for the second half. We feel from this the audience will be able to interpret a full concept of the story. This style of filming may also confuse the viewer, which exaggerates the genre of horror. As it’s from a first person perspective, it makes the audience feel as if they are there and also scares them more as they cannot see whose perspective it is from.

Our film production logo

After analysing previous film production and distribution logo's myself and Amy have come up with an idea for our own logo. By analysing other logo's it has helped us to understand what a professional logo should look like and how different logo's appeal to different genre types.


As our genre is horror, we want to create a production logo that will suit this genre, seen in logo's such as 'Twisted Pictures', used by films like Saw. This image is shown below and uses dark colours, which connotes death, evil and mystery as it is bold and hard to see through, which creates the fear of the unknown. The image is a nail with barbered wire round it, which is dangerous as it has the potential to hurt someone and can also be seen as a warning, as barbered wire is often used to protect something, or keep someone out.

Our image that we have created consists of an eye looking through a keyhole. Our image is very dark and uses charcoal effects on Photoshop with a hint of red to create an old worn look, we have manipulated the colour to make it sepia, this colour connotes danger and the 'old' look also enforces the fear of the unknown as we are unaware of what happened as we weren't there to experience it. The concept of someone looking through a keyhole represents the fear of the unknown and being forbidden. The audience also feels like they are unaware of what is happening as they don't know who is looking into the hole and what is behind the hole. It makes the audience feel uneasy as they feel as if they are being watched as the eye looks directly into the camera. This makes the audience connect with the image as they look back into the eye. Creating this logo has given me an insight to the production world. It has also helped me to create synergy with the genre and every aspect of the trailer. When we decided to show our initial logo to our peers and gained feedback, a lot of people said that they felt that they could not see what the image behind the keyhole was. (shown to the right)

We then decided to change our image and make sure that the eye in our logo could be instantly recognised. We took another photo of Amy's eye and ensured that it was a clear image that we could use, which is shown to the right. We then manipulated the photo on Photoshop by using our previous idea. Instead of using the charcoal filter we decided to use the filter 'Sumi-e', which is similar to

'fresco' but gives a less texturised effect, therefore making the image more clear. We also manipulated the curves, brightness and contrast and the levels of the image to make it more striking. As shown below the original image.





Through our research we came across various styles of distribution and production logos. From this research we could see what was most effective, and why and how it was. We could see that the production logo often reflects the genre of the film that it is creating, therefore attracting a target audience through their logo. As Amy and I have decided to create a film that is in the genre of horror we have decided to create a logo that portrays this. Therefore we have planned to call our Production company 'Hostile Productions'. By calling our production company 'Hostile Productions' it implies anger, or solidarity. This is the final production logo that me and Amy have created. We feel that this logo is the most effective as you can see that it is an eye, and that it is looking through a keyhole. By using a brush with less definition it makes it appear that we have included a depth of field and is almost like a photograph. The contrast in the image makes it more striking and this will draw the attention of the audience in. We have used a typewriter font that is often used for horror films, we have altered the lettering so that some of the letters are wonky this makes it more interesting and unusual.

Music

We have decided to take influence for our music from a trailer that we looked at for our research- 'Last house on the Left'. In this trailer they have used the song 'Sweet child of mine' which relates to the plot of the trailer but also makes the trailer more memorable as there was a sharp contrast between the happy atmosphere of the song and the horror actions of the film. This sharp contrast is often used in Tarentino films that we have looked at such as 'Resevior Dogs'.

We have decided to use 'Brown Eyed Girl'- by Van Morrison as it is a happy song that we feel depicts the feeling of love. The lyrics talk about two people being in love from the males perspective and it talks about playing around and having fun in the grass- this relates to our shots that we are planning to use. The end of the song talks about the split up between the two lovers which foreshadows the break up of love and danger that Sophie is going to experience although it is still being sang in a happy tone therefore showing how blissfully unaware she is of this fact.

The other song that we have chosen is 'Little Lies'- by Fleetwood Mac- This song again is about a break up between two lovers. This is apprropriate as we are using this song for the end of the trailer when everything begins to go sour. The lines in the song 'no you cant disguise' and 'Were better off apart' reflect Bowe's visade as a loving boyfriend, as now he will be revealed as a rapist and murderer and can not 'disguise' himself anymore. The line 'Were better off apart' also acts as a warning to Sophie, as if they do not break up then she will end up in danger, which is ironic. This line also reflects the trust that lovers should have, 'to believe in you', however in this case it shows Sophies naievity towards Bowe and the situation, as she should not 'believe' in him as she does. The use of these songs are incongruent to the theme of the film and the juxtaposition creates an ironic and sad feeling, as it highlights the innocence she has lost.

Creating our script

Amy and I decided that we should create a script for our teaser trailer so that when it comes to filming we know exactly what we want and the actors and actresses know exactly to do and have time to learn what they have to say. This minimises time waisting.

Our script:
(Shot 1)
-Father- Hi you have got through to Mr Greens voicemail, I am unable to take your call at the moment, but if you leave your details after the beep I will get back to you as soon as possible

-Sophie- Hi daddy, its Sophie, I'm staying out tonight at Becky's, ill be back tomorrow, I hope you don't mind, love you, bye!

(Shot 4)
-Sophie- I love you (directed at Bowe)

-Bowe- Me too

(Shot 5)
Sophie-(Laughs)

Bowe- I'm goin' to get you

(Shot 21)
Juliet- Hello?

Bowe- Hey, your sisters run away, I cant find her anywhere, I'm really worried, please come help

Juliet- I'll be straight over, don't worry.