P13 - Group meeting

Location permission form

*This is the signed permission form allowing us to film in our desired location/s*

P12 - Effective ideas and improvements

We've spoken to members of our audience to find out what seems good about our film and discuss ways we can improve it. 

From discussion we've found a lot of improvements which we can make and ideas which we can incorporate into our film. 



These are what we found were effective:

• The mid-shot of the villain's eyes accompanied with music (or a sting).
• The contrast of colours of the surrounding in the main character's nightmare and in reality. (For example, in reality the colour of the surrounding is normal but in the nightmare it will be cool toned - almost greyscale).
• The scene where the main character opens the door of her house after she wakes up from her nightmare and sees that there is nothing outside - it's just completely white, blank and empty with no one and nothing.

And these are what were mentioned to improve our film:

• The villain should look realistic - This is so it is believable to the audience as they are watching the film. So the overall aesthetic of the villain should impact our viewers and create fear rather than make them lose interest.
• The main character should be younger - We've set the age of our main character (Hannah) of 16. It was pointed out to us that it would perhaps be more interesting if Hannah was 12 or 13 years old as at it is a vulnerable age.
• Include something symbolic - One idea we think is really good is to add something in the film that is seen in reality and in the nightmare to show that Hannah's nightmare is real as nothing has changed.
• After waking up from nightmare, Hannah should act normal - Instead of having our character realising just shortly after she's dead we've decided that after she wakes up, Hannah goes to get a drink of water, just to show a bit of normality before finding out she's dead.
• Move the grave scene after Hannah wakes up - One person mentioned that the scene where Hannah's mother is at her grave should be shown after Hannah wakes up so the audience knows that she's dead in reality. We've decided to agree to this and push that particular scene forward as it would make sense in the sequence.
• Include the demon at the end of the film - Before we planned on having the demon shown only in Hannah's nightmare. However, we're now going to include our villain in the very last shot of the film. We want to make it apparent to the audience that Hannah is still living her nightmare even after she is seen waking up, so we think this a good idea to show that. 

This has been really useful as we've now got a much clearer idea on what our audience would like to see and how to make our film stand out so it can really impact the viewers. 

P11 - Practice shots with camera

Today I went to the cemetery to take a few practice shots with the camera and experiment the many ways I could film a shot.

With the camera I filmed a short scene where the scenario was someone is walking in a graveyard and hears something. This was filmed from a POV shot. The clip turned out good as I kept practicing holding the camera at eye level and keeping the balance as I was walking. This made me think about the way I create the POV shot in my film and how to make it an effective shot to impact my audience. 

(Unedited version)

In another clip I filmed I started the shot with a close up of a grave then slowly zooming out 

and moving the camera up at the same time to see how well I could balance the camera without using the tripod. It was a successful attempt and has given me ideas on whether I should include a shot like that in my film – particularly in the scene where the main character's headstone is revealed. 

(Edited version)

The location we filmed at was perfect in term of the atmosphere as there were very few 

distractions and the audio was good with no excess noise (e.g. people talking, music playing etc,) for the clips that were filmed. The lighting at the time of day was sufficient enough to consider filming a scene at the same time with the same weather conditions for my film. 

P10 - Hair, Make & Visual Effects

HAIR

• Our main character (Hannah) will sport a casual look – ponytail, bun or hair down to look like a tomboy or a stem (a mix of a stud and a femme).
• The mother will have her hair down but in a sophisticated style for when she is at Hannah’s funeral.

  

  Preferably a hair do like this

MAKE-UP

• Hannah will have a very natural look with minimal make-up. The only products we plan on using is foundation and highlighter to enhance certain features of the face so the character looks innocent. The character’s overall look will make it seem as if she’s a person not bothered about her aesthetics. 

  

  This is very similar to what we want our main character to look like  but dressed more appropriately for their age

• The mother in our film will not be showing her face at all so nothing needs to be done for make-up.

VISUAL EFFECTS

• Our villain will have thick smoke emanating from them so the body figure will look unrecognizable.

  

  This is very close to what we want to achieve aesthetically with the villain

• The only feature which will really stand out from our villain is their illuminating red eyes to make it look like a ‘demon’ sort-of creature.
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  This is an example personally made to give an idea of how we want the eyes to look like. 

Self Assessment