Journal

06/01/2011:

We started to look on Garage band at possible sounds for our Title Sequence. The sort of sounds to be featured in our Title Sequence are quite eerie sounds, to make it seem quite dark and sinister. Sounds that link to children will also be featured, such as keyboard music/nursery rhymes. We have also thought about featuring a child breathing.

Also in the lesson, another idea for something that could be featured in our title sequence came about. We were discussing the ending to our Title Sequence, when we stumbled upon the idea of the main character writing a message on a mirror. We would have him actually write on an acetate sheet, so that we can also get a shot, as if the camera is in the mirror. We would put the acetate over the camera lens, and he will write onto it, so that we can see him actually writing it. For the message that is going to be written, we thought about a couple of ideas. At first I thought it would be good to say something quite dark, so I suggested 'it's all her fault' but after discussion, we came up with 'it's all your fault.'

Production Logo

When making this logo for our production company, we chose to use quite dark colours as the company are going to mainly produce horror films. The name of our company came about randomly, but when thinking about what could symbolise it, we started to think about sharp objects. The image we chose to represent sharp was a syringe. A syringe can be associated with death and illness, which is quite a dark thing to think about. This links to the types of films the company is likely to produce. The font of the company name was found on DaFont under the Horror section, which perfectly fits in to the genre. The writing is quite formal in a way, but there are little blotches over the writing, which make it look slightly distorted, and less clean. The red line underneath the writing makes the writing stand out, and the colour could connote blood and anger.

Feedback sheets

Pitch

In todays lesson we pitched our idea for out film and title sequence, explaining the characters, the setting and the story line. We used our pitch and treatment to help explain everything that we are going to be doing and the reasons behind our story line.

Shooting Script

"A shooting script is the version of a screenplay used during the production of a motion picture. Shooting scripts are distinct from spec scripts in that they make use of scene numbers (along with certain other formatting conventions described below), and they follow a well defined set of procedures specifying how script revisions should be implemented and circulated."
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_script)

Production Breif and Treatment

Production Brief and Treatment

Ideas for title sequence

Genre - suspense/ Horror

Music- Hans Zimmer/Daniel Lincht

Setting - House and Woods

Producing Industry -Lionsgate

Typography - Edgy (Dafont)

Dull contrast of dull washed out colours

Eeire/Jumpy rather than gory Cinematography like Paranormal Activity

Produced by Jerry Brickheimer