Garageband

To create a soundtrack for our piece I used Garage Band which allowed me to piece many sound clips and instruments together to create a sound that complemented well with our film. This was crucial, as we felt that this adds alot more to the opening sequence giving our work more depth. There where many different sound clips in the different categories to choose from before piecing our chosen few to create the final product. We tried to show different effects showing fading out and sudden changes etc. As a group we hope to have developed a piece that is to a high level ability and relates well to our chosen theme of horror.

Rough cut thoughts and final cut ideas

Rough cut thoughts
When we were analysing our rough cut it was a total of 90 seconds which was less than the time allocated. There was no non-diegetic sound on our rough cut. The only sound we had was heavy breathing when running through the forest and the weapons dropping on the floor.
Final cut ideas
For our final cut we need to make our sequence last nearly 2 minutes or more to fit the brief. We also need to add music into the background. Our music will be consistent all the way through with layers over the top to add dramatic effect. For example on the 3 shots of the hands tied behind the victims back we are going to add quick sharp sound to create tension. We are also going to film more scenes to add into our sequence to add more variation of the shots. We are thinking about adding shots of different tools instead of just one saw. We are going to add these into the sequence as quick scenes like we have used for the eyes.

Risk Assessment

For our piece we will film most of our scenes in a garage which has numerous amounts of tools which could be dangerous however we will make sure that all items are placed on the shelfs and kept out of our way until necessary to use them.

A saw was one of our props to give conventions of a horror although its unsafe when using it we all kept our distance to reduce any injuries which could take place, this was crucial for the safety for ourselves and the equipment (camera & tripod) .

While using fake blood as part of our production of a horror film, we used it appropriately and cleaned it up after use so there was no falls or injuries.

Through this sequence we continiously thought about the risks which could occur when filming this was shown as there was no incidence that took place during the time we where filming.

Assessment 9: Rough cut

Assessment 8 - Shooting Schedule

Shot Number Type of shot Duration Location Miser en scene
1 POINT OF VIEW 6.9 secs Burn Valley Dark and scary. Forest flashback.
2 EXTREME CLOSE UP 0.1 secs Garage Close up of eyes, lighting only one side of face.
3 ZOOM IN 0.7 secs Garage Zoom in on the newspaper clippings.
4 CLOSE UP 0.4 secs Garage Hands tied behind back, lighting on one side.
5 JUMPCUT 0.5 secs Garage Hands tied behind back shown from a different angle, lighting on one side.
6 JUMPCUT 0.6 secs Garage Hands tied behind back shown from a different angle again, lighting on one side.
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7 FLASHBACK 6.9 secs Burn Valley Slow motion, dark and scary, forest scene.
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8 CLOSE UP OF HAND GRABBING SAW 6.1 secs Garage Slow motion, hand coming in to grab the saw
9 EXTREME CLOSE UP 0.1 secs Garage Close up of eyes, lighting only one side of face.
10 MEDIUM SHOT 11 secs Garage Silhouette of kidnapper and the saw
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11 CLOSE UP 4.1 secs Garage Zooms out to medium shot of victim and low key lighting
12 FLASHBACK 6 secs Burn Valley Slow motion, dark and scary, forest scene.
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13 CLOSE UP 4.1 secs Garage Lighting on one side, zooming from close up to medium shot
14 FLASHBACK 6 secs Burn Valley Slow motion, dark and scary, forest scene.
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15 MEDIUM SHOT 4.1 secs Garage Low key lighting at one side
16 BLACK SCREEN 2.6 secs Black screen Scream
17 CLOSE UP OF SAW DROPPING ON THE FLOOR 7 secs Garage Slow motion
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Company Logo

This is the Logo we created for our two minute horror sequence. We got this image from google images and edited it changing the brightness and contrast, placing a black border round the image and putting our production name ' Tower Productions' on the right hand side. 

The image on the right hand side proves that we have altered the original image and changed it to suit the horror conventions aswell as the ideas which we wanted our logo to portray.

Assessment 8: Shooting Schedule

Assesment 7 - Animatic

Assessment 6 - Organisation of Actors, Locations, Costumes and Props.

Organisation of Actors:
- Nicolle Whitaker
- Abigail Reay

Locations:
- Burn Valley
- My garage

Costumes:
- White T-shirt covered in blood
- Gloves

Props:
- Chair
- Blood
- Bandages
- Saw

- Newspaper cuttings