Tuesday, 30 November 2010
Sound Inspiration
These videos acted as inspiration to us for sounds, one was slow and went with some of our scenes, while the other a little bit more obviously frightful, raising the tempo of sound to compliment different shots.
The first video is inspirational because it is slow, and has a very subtle climax with an increase in tempo and volume which can be effective in our trailer for a flashback. The second clip on this post has been added because there are some 'eerie' sounds in it, parts can be used to show flashbacks and establishing shots in a scary manner.
Thursday, 25 November 2010
Film - Day 3
Today we finished filming our flashback scenes, we included splatters of blood on the floor of the church, blood dripping into a holy water statue, multiple angles of a stabbing (which will be shown together in a series of really fast cuts) and also a scene with a confession box with flickering lights and a hand sliding down the window.
We then went back in the evening to get the camera tracking towards a door, we wanted the scene to be darker than the rest so we waited untill it got dark outside, this made the church seem more eerie.
Hopefully now we can upload all of our footage onto the computers, set up the order of scenes and begin focussing on editing and finding a sound track.
We then went back in the evening to get the camera tracking towards a door, we wanted the scene to be darker than the rest so we waited untill it got dark outside, this made the church seem more eerie.
Hopefully now we can upload all of our footage onto the computers, set up the order of scenes and begin focussing on editing and finding a sound track.
Tuesday, 23 November 2010
Costume/Props
Props we are going to use in our teaser trailer are listed below:
We have used this structure of filming because we feel unconvincing acting will only make the teaser trailer less scary.
The lighting we are using in our teaser trailer is important, we have black and white flash back in which we hope to portray a Chiaroscuro effect, and flickering lights that will represent danger and the lapse in time that takes place in our film idea.
- Knife
- Blood - Red food colouring/Ribena/Fake blood
- Hooded coat - Killer figure
- White cloak with hood - Cult member (only used for a possible poster)]
- Dark clothes
- Flishing lights - Bike light/Torch
We have used this structure of filming because we feel unconvincing acting will only make the teaser trailer less scary.
The lighting we are using in our teaser trailer is important, we have black and white flash back in which we hope to portray a Chiaroscuro effect, and flickering lights that will represent danger and the lapse in time that takes place in our film idea.
Monday, 22 November 2010
Questionaires
I made some questionaires for people to tell me what they like about horror movies, I did this in order to find out what aspects of Horror movies people like the best as influence for my teaser trailer.
Her are some questions I asked with a few answers I got back:
What do you like best about horror movies?
These are a few answers I got back for some questions I asked people. They have inspired me in many ways, for example; the symmetrical scenes in 'The Shining' influenced the symmetrical establishing shot in our scene. The stabbing scene in halloween is what we are going to base one of our teaser trailer's flashback on, a stabbing that is shown from different angle in high speed cuts.
Her are some questions I asked with a few answers I got back:
What do you like best about horror movies?
- Scary
- Exciting
- Bloody
- 'Halloween'
- 'Saw'
- 'Nightmare On Elm Street'
- 'The Shining' (Psychological)
- 'Halloween' - someone getting stabbed - filmed from multiple different angles shown in fast cuts
- 'The Shining' - Twins symmetrically standing in corridor - fast cuts change to them dead with blood on the walls and back to them standing in the corridor
- 'The Strangers' - when the killer is in the house behind Liv Tyler's character and she is unaware of it
These are a few answers I got back for some questions I asked people. They have inspired me in many ways, for example; the symmetrical scenes in 'The Shining' influenced the symmetrical establishing shot in our scene. The stabbing scene in halloween is what we are going to base one of our teaser trailer's flashback on, a stabbing that is shown from different angle in high speed cuts.
Filming - Day 2
Today me and my group went to St. Dominics Church to do some filming, we fimed some shots we are going to use as flashbacks in our teaser trailer.
We filmed my legs hanging above a Cross in the church to make it look like someone was hung. We also filmed Max in the same position because I was wearing white shoes, we felt the white shoes would, when in black and white, divert the viewers attention from the cinematography of the shot; we think wearing darker clothes fits the Horror genre of our trailer more.
We plan to get some important camera movement and more flashbacks when we next film, hopefully after a few more filming lessons we can begin to look through what we have and begin getting a soundtrack as well as start editing.
We filmed my legs hanging above a Cross in the church to make it look like someone was hung. We also filmed Max in the same position because I was wearing white shoes, we felt the white shoes would, when in black and white, divert the viewers attention from the cinematography of the shot; we think wearing darker clothes fits the Horror genre of our trailer more.
We plan to get some important camera movement and more flashbacks when we next film, hopefully after a few more filming lessons we can begin to look through what we have and begin getting a soundtrack as well as start editing.
Saturday, 20 November 2010
Lighting
Frankinstein (1931) used lighting effectively when portraying the monster:
This shot of Frankinstein's monster shows how well lighting was used in the film. The monster is shown as ugly and scary because of the use of Chiaroscuro.
Lighting can be used in many different ways in film, for example; 'The Strangers' use lighting to create a yellow/brown atmosphere throughtout the film and in it's posters:
All these images portray a yellow/brown lighting effect. This could have been used to create a sense of warmth and calm, only to be broken by the horrific and scary events that take place in the film.
I have used this example of lighting because it it similar to our teaser trailer, being set in a church the trailer is dark and has a somewhat brown lighting effect to it because of the red floor, brown wooden prayer benches and candle light. The brown feel is much like that which is portrayed throughout the whole of The Strangers.
This shot of Frankinstein's monster shows how well lighting was used in the film. The monster is shown as ugly and scary because of the use of Chiaroscuro.
Lighting can be used in many different ways in film, for example; 'The Strangers' use lighting to create a yellow/brown atmosphere throughtout the film and in it's posters:
All these images portray a yellow/brown lighting effect. This could have been used to create a sense of warmth and calm, only to be broken by the horrific and scary events that take place in the film.
I have used this example of lighting because it it similar to our teaser trailer, being set in a church the trailer is dark and has a somewhat brown lighting effect to it because of the red floor, brown wooden prayer benches and candle light. The brown feel is much like that which is portrayed throughout the whole of The Strangers.
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