Final Product: The Film

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...

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.

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.

A questionnaire was also carried out by Matthew and myself, for results please visit my extra page at the top of my Blog.

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:

• Police discovering a body in the woods

• Police tape with flashing lights

• Graves, stills also useful for titles to be placed on

18 March 9:30am-12pm - On this day we decided to film some short still shots of graves to edit the titles over. However this footage was not used.

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...

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.

Shot/Prop list 1-16

(Original)Shots. What we need prop, music and person wise.

Shots;

1. Tree standing alone (titles will be added) Dusk. Tree will be silhouetted. Eerie classical music playing loud.
2. (Sound match of eerie music) Extreme Long Shot of Girl running, side view, school girl uniform. Loud breathing can be heard.
3. Front view of girl running, music continuous. Close up.
4. Back view, point of view from the killer, mid shot. Girl running away, free hand camera to create running effect. Killer getting closer behind girl.
5. High angle long shot of Girl running and falling after tripping. (longer yet fast shot).
6. Mid to extreme close up of Girls face screaming (circular zoom will be added).
7. Close up to mid zoom of Popular Girl (Hannah) screaming, scared from horror story. Kesha Tick Toc playing for party music continuous.
8. Long shot of people (extras) laughing at Hannah. Boyfriend (George) seen also laughing leaning on a metal shovel. (fast fade).
9. Close up of extras laughing (longer take).
10. Extreme close up of laughing mouth.
11. High angle of Hannah crying with hands on face. Laughter can still be heard.
12. Long shot of Hannah running from camp site, George shouting from behind.
13. Extreme high angle long shot of obstruct figures, Hannah and George, running through woods or moors. Shouting can be heard with crying. Fast eerie classical music is played.
14. Mid shot of Hannah shouting at George. Screaming and slight laughter can still be heard from camp, along with Kesha Tick Toc playing low to show distance.
15. Close up of George apologising whilst stood still. Distanced from Hannah. Party music now almost silent.
16. Mid shot of Hannah stopping and shouting insults and confessions at George. Crying and loud breathing can be hears. Party sounds have now stopped.

Basic Contexts - 11/02/10

Genre: Horror/Thriller

Audience: Teenagers

Themes: Black humour, horror, thriller

Secondary Audience: Horror Lovers

(Original)Setting: Stereotypical teen Forest Party with alternate setting of 1940s school girl.

(Original)Narrative: Teen girl runs away from something, is then murdered. Her scream links to that of a typical popualr's being scared by a boyfriend. The couple are at a teen party where they begin to tell ghost stories around the fire. As the teens tell their stories strange and terrifying things begin to happen in the woods. All stories begin to come true to their teller. One by one the teens are horrifically slaughtered by their worst nightmare.

Props / Planning -11/02/10

(Original)Props Needed!

• Fake Blood
• Lighting (Tin Foil Reflectors and car headlights)
• Food
• Cans (Drink)
• Cars
• Fire/Bin with Flames (Safety)
• Popular's Outfits
• School Girl Outfit
• Kesha Music
• Meat or Flesh like object
• Shovel
• Melon
• Mud (water mixed with dirt)
• Camp equiptment
• Tents
• Lanters
• Clothes (messy party surroundings)
• Balloons
• Party poppers
• Table and chairs (camping)
• Plastic and paper cups
• Streamers
• Banners
• Plates

Make-up and hair

Pale make-up for Dead Girl along with pined back hair.

Dark make-up with contacts for Killer.

Popular Girls over used make-up with big hair.

Other characters may choose there make-up and hair (real life).

Death Scene Make-up

Tissues paper

blood

meat/flesh

cream

fake limbs

Melon (for sound effect)

Hair extensions (ripped out effect)

These were our original ideas but after calculating the cost, time and travel these props ect. would of taken, we made changes to both our narrative and prop/cast list.

Location Ideas - Planning 11/02/10

Location Ideas!

• Moors
• Manor Park Hill
• The Nab
• Rugby Clud Surroundings
• Old Glossop
• Shirebrook
• Hill- behind Glossopdale

Planning / Cast - 11/02/10

(Original)

Planning

Cast;

Hannah Dodsworth - Popular

India Lewis -Popular

Elanor - Fake Popular
George Shepley - Popular (Hannah's Boyfriend)

Anna Miles - Popular Friend

Jack Moore - Popular

Ben Shepley - Popular
Joanna Gibs - Dead Girl
Angus Walker - Killer

Extras
Adam Martin
Sheena Padington

Kim

Will

Owen Grey

Aron

Jake

Connor Mc.

Carla

Laura Greeves

Sally

Sarha Shepley

Rozina

Sam

Peter

Film Openings- New Task!

Now i have finished my preliminary activity I am watching film openings to collect ideas for my final film. Some openings I am thinking of watching, as my final film will be a horror, are American Haunting, Saw, My Little Eye and Paranormal Activity.

11/02/10

Today's lesson consisted of editing our film. We cut and changed the length of our the clips in our film. This was quiet easy however learning how to use the software on the apple macs took some time.

We all took part in editing our film. tihs gave us an understanding of the editing prosses. I personaly found cuting the clips the most difficult as a mistake could make the whole film wrong.

08/02/10

For this lesson we started filming our preliminary exercises. We began with shoot the shots in order. However found this did not work as some shots took longer to film. This made our timing wrong for each shot. Learning from this we decided to film the last sequences first as they were the most tedious. They also needed an empty room, as we filmed our sots in the college pool room, it was difficult to ensure the room would be unoccupied.



To solve this we filmed whenever we had the chance. When people were in the set we made sure they were silent, to ensure a quality scene.

04/01/10

In our lesson today we began filming by capturing simple shots given to us by our teacher. We collected shots of; people walking, high angles, low angles, over the shoulder shots and a short conversation.

First off we had to locate a suitable place to film our scenes. We had to check for continuity when changing the position of our camera. We also had to ensure that there was no background noise in the clips. For this we choose small, empty locations to capture our shots.

01/02/10

For this lesson we had a discussion a a class on the camera and their maintenance. We learnt how to ;

• keep the cameras safe
• keep the cameras clean
• charge the camenrs
• put away camer correctly

28/01/10

For our second lesson we started writing up our final story board and time sheet. A time sheet is new to our knowledge. We learnt that it keeps track of our shots and how long she should spend on each shot. This is a good method for time management.

After planning our time and story board we discussed the roles of ;

• Camera Person
• Girl
• Boy
• Boyfriend

After deciding our roles we began planning our setting and the angles for our shots.

25/01/10

In today's lesson we started our story boards for the preliminary exercise. We decided on a Blind Date theme for our shot film. Shots we are using are;

• Shot Revers Shot
• Close Ups
• Long Shot
• Panning Shot
• Mid Shot

We must also display a steady hand when controlling the camera. Another important rule we learnt about was the 180degree rule. This is where the invisible line stops the camera from making the shot seem reversed.

Research (UK Films)

Facts From WedSites, Un-Edited.

• British film is riding high after a remarkable 12 months which has seen British films selected for all the major festivals and winning major international awards.

About Website Located Below.

• The UK Film Council is the Government-backed lead agency for film in the UK ensuring that the economic, cultural and educational aspects of film are effectively represented at home and abroad.
• Our Research and Statistics Unit provides market information to market participants and internally for policy and strategy purposes.
• We work to make non-mainstream films more widely available to cinema audiences and support the export of UK films abroad.

• We work to make non-mainstream films more accessible in three ways:

-Improving access – our Digital Screen Network is made up of 240 digital screens across the UK that now show non-mainstream films regularly.

-Raising awareness – Our Prints and Advertising Fund provides £4 million every year to help.

-British distributors promote non-mainstream films.

-Increasing information – our website, http://www.findanyfilm.com/ is one of the UK's leading websites for film fans looking to watch, buy, download or rent great films...

Links

http://www.findanyfilm.com/

http://www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk/

About Me

Hello fellow film peeps!! My name is Hannah Dodsworth and I am obsessed with films. I currently study Media, Drama, English Language and Fine Art at Glossop College at A-Level. My favorite directors are Tim Burton, Alfred Hitchcock and Peter Jackson. Some of my favorite films of all time are The Producers, Lord of the Rings, Sweeney Todd (Tim version), Physio, Twilight and 50 First Dates. I inspire to become a Movie Still Photographer in the Media world. My other ambition are to work in the line of Fasion or Art. My Blog is for recording my research on the film company world and movie producers, for my Media exam.