This is our final product. We uploaded our film on to youtube. Youtube is easily accessible and world wide. Many young armature artists become discovered be the wed or youtube for their outstanding talent.
Our Finished Product.
"The Hunted"
By Matthew Bridge and Hannah Dodsworth...
Monday, 29 March 2010
Location Used
Shire Hill
After looking at several locations, we decided to use Shire Hill, also known as Shire Brook. We loved this location as it is an easy walk and surrounded by wood. Although the hill is mainly wooded, the base of the hill is open fields making long shots easy and effective. We were able to capture shots of the hill to set the scene along with close ups of the wooded area. A mix of tree height and size gave a beautifully creepy depth to our shots. The scattered natural lighting made it a joy to edit and film whilst on the hill.
With many dips and fallen trees on the floor, high angle shots and low angle shots were made easy. With a relatively litter free floor the wood had an uninhabited feel to it. As the opening shots are mostly of myself running, easy treading was needed for health and safety. Any dangerous looking areas were not used to film. Any harmful litter was moved or avoided when filming.
Audience
Our main audience is teens. Aged between 15-19.
Our film would be certificate 15.
Our film would be certificate 15.
To address our audience we have used a well known film song, "In the House, in a Heartbeat" by John Murphy, in our titles. This song has been used in popular Hollywood busters such as 28Days Later and Twilight.
Our main character, the only figure seen in the opening titles, is dressed in fashionable clothing with an up to date hair style. This automatically creates a teen persona for the character, this is relatable to the audience.
By using "Art House" styled editing we have given the effect of new and original filming to our product, appealing to the new style of Low Budget films that are becoming popular.
Personally I feel that by almost over editing our product we have created a new style of horror film. A style which is more up to date and stays clear of clichés. I would definite watch our film and I am a teen. I have also showed our film to several of my friends, aged between 15-18, who have said they found is creepy, original and hooking. Exactly the effect we hoped to create with out editing and unusual use of camera angles when filming.
Filming Dates
Dates for filming/editing, when, where and what happened on theses days.
21 February 3-6pm (Sun set at 6pm) - First day of filming on location. We filmed over 70 shots from several angles. Loosing light was our main problem. The weather was sunning with few clouds making great silhouettes when filming under the trees. Shots of myself, used in the opening, running were all shot on this day.
22 February 9:30am-12:00pm - Once again sunny day with good lighting. We filmed on Shire Hill once again, this time capturing establishing shots along with some close ups of surroundings and plants. Problems we had were the amount of walkers on the Hill as it was day time. We had to wait politely for passer bys to continue out of shot.
1 March 1:30am-13:15pm - This was our first day of editing. We decided to use Matthew's laptop to edit our film as both he and I are more comfortable with the editing software. We started by placing our chosen shots in a suitable order.
4 March 9:30pm-12pm - We now started to add a red tint to our shots. More changing of the shot positions was made along with cutting shots to shorten our running time.
8 March 1:30am-3:15pm - After shortening most of our shots we began to add on breathing and none diogetic sounds to fit each shot.
11March 9:30am-1:15pm - After editing our product and feeling happy with the editing so far, we showed our work to Mrs. After hearing her response we began to edit our film some more. We added extremely short shots of plants, hands and myself running into longer shots to create a some what subliminal message feel to the piece.
15 March 1:30pm-3:15 - Once again we showed our work to Mrs. after she said what she liked she added we should add some alternate feeling shots, as our shots are very fast paced. We decided to think of slower shots that could relate to the narrative and opening. We thought of:
22 March 9:30am-12pm - After deciding against Mrs.'s comments as we felt they would distract the audience from the fast paced opening, we added our titles to our film. Placing them before any shots are shown with music and eerie fades, on a black screen with ghost like white writing.
25 March - I was absent on this day, however filming and editing is now completed.
21 February 3-6pm (Sun set at 6pm) - First day of filming on location. We filmed over 70 shots from several angles. Loosing light was our main problem. The weather was sunning with few clouds making great silhouettes when filming under the trees. Shots of myself, used in the opening, running were all shot on this day.
22 February 9:30am-12:00pm - Once again sunny day with good lighting. We filmed on Shire Hill once again, this time capturing establishing shots along with some close ups of surroundings and plants. Problems we had were the amount of walkers on the Hill as it was day time. We had to wait politely for passer bys to continue out of shot.
1 March 1:30am-13:15pm - This was our first day of editing. We decided to use Matthew's laptop to edit our film as both he and I are more comfortable with the editing software. We started by placing our chosen shots in a suitable order.
4 March 9:30pm-12pm - We now started to add a red tint to our shots. More changing of the shot positions was made along with cutting shots to shorten our running time.
8 March 1:30am-3:15pm - After shortening most of our shots we began to add on breathing and none diogetic sounds to fit each shot.
11March 9:30am-1:15pm - After editing our product and feeling happy with the editing so far, we showed our work to Mrs. After hearing her response we began to edit our film some more. We added extremely short shots of plants, hands and myself running into longer shots to create a some what subliminal message feel to the piece.
15 March 1:30pm-3:15 - Once again we showed our work to Mrs. after she said what she liked she added we should add some alternate feeling shots, as our shots are very fast paced. We decided to think of slower shots that could relate to the narrative and opening. We thought of:
- Police discovering a body in the woods
- Police tape with flashing lights
- Graves, stills also useful for titles to be placed on
22 March 9:30am-12pm - After deciding against Mrs.'s comments as we felt they would distract the audience from the fast paced opening, we added our titles to our film. Placing them before any shots are shown with music and eerie fades, on a black screen with ghost like white writing.
25 March - I was absent on this day, however filming and editing is now completed.
New Planning
New Narrative of Opening...
Audience: Teenagers
Themes: Black humour, horror, thriller
Secondary Audience: Horror Lovers
Similar Costume Pictures:
Typical fashion of the season (winter 2010) teen fashion giving an obvious character age and personality. Fashionable young teen stereotype achieved with use of "In Fashion" costume.
www.sounddog.com - source of film music and some screams.
Teenage girl is running through the woods. It is dusk and silhouettes of the surroundings can be seen. Teen girl is obviously being chased be something or someone. Screams and loud breathing can be heard.
Whole Film Narrative...
A teenage girl has been victim to a terrible murder committed by a deranged man. Her murder is violent and had no incentive, the girl is not named. She is said to haunt the woods in which she was murdered. Stories tell she is seen running from her killer every day at dusk.
A group of teens go into the woods and discover the teen apparition. As the dead girl is haunted by the spirit of her killer even after death, she turns evil with rage and begins to haunt and terrorise the teens. The teens get chased and hurt by the ghost. After leaving the woods to safety the teens discover the murder in an news-paper. They later return to the woods to confront and help the dead teen. This is when horrid and violent occurrences begging to happen to the group of curious teens. the ghost's killer has turned on the visiting group of teens and began to kill them off one by one to for fill his need for death.
Genre: Horror/Thriller
Audience: Teenagers
Themes: Black humour, horror, thriller
Secondary Audience: Horror Lovers
New Prop/Costume and Cast List...
Props/Costume
- White Top
- Jeans
- Black Shoes
- Brown Cardigan
- Mud
- Branches (to create depth to shots)
The clothing is that of the Teenage Girl's Ghost. This costume must be worn at all times when filming to keep continuity throughout the film.
Similar Costume Pictures:
Typical fashion of the season (winter 2010) teen fashion giving an obvious character age and personality. Fashionable young teen stereotype achieved with use of "In Fashion" costume.
Cast List
- Dead Girl- Hannah Dodsworth
After changing our narrative only one person is ever in shot. However two people were needed for sound effect.
Sound effects
- Matthew Bridge, Hannah Dodsworth
- Editing program sound effects used
- Horror music download from Sound Dog's website
www.sounddog.com - source of film music and some screams.
Changes Made whilst Filming
When filming on our first day we decided that the task at hand, our multiple shot opening, was far to long and ambitious. We felt that spending so much time on getting the shots we would lack time to edit our film. As the task is only an opening, lasting just two minuets long, our original idea would become far longer than required.
Some of our film narrative has stayed the same along with locations and genre. The music, cast, theme, props, and story board have all been changed. Our main reason for change were timing, difficulty of location, travel and cost.
Due to the large amount of props and cast needed for our original idea we had to make changes. We discovered that the cost of the old prop list would of been over £150. The cost of travel to the difficult to react locations would of been more. As this is a none budget film we had no choice but to change our ideas, some locations and the amount of people needed.
* Any large changes made to our previous plans are entitled with (Original), and/or red writting, to show the comparison from our changes to our original ideas.
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