Half Term Production Update

Half Term Production Update This Christmas I updated my blog by writing about the soundtrack and what song we picked, explaining how effective the track would be.

Soundtrack

Soundtrack
For our opening sequence we used the same track used for the TV show American Horror Story's opening sequence. Our opening sequence is of the horror genre so this track would compliment it entirely as American Horror Story is also a horror series. The track is quite eerie and mysterious which is what we want our opening sequence to be presented as being, which is why we feel the track is most suited to this type of opening sequence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqJGHL3lnSM

Production Diary - 12/12/14

Today we filmed more of our opening sequence. This consisted of a pentagram being made out of red tape and candles being lit. This is used to represent satanism and contributes to our genre of our opening sequence which is horror.

We then put our shots together and edited them in premier. After this we put music and effects along with it to add suspense and create an 'on edge' feeling for the audience.

Production Company

Production Companies
The production company we used was Universal Studios because we wanted to make the film look more legit and like it was made in Hollywood too. This would give the audience the impression that the film is going to be good quality too because its used a highly popular and well known company too. We also used another production company called Twisted Pictures to emphasise the horror aspect of our movie, as this company has also produced many other horror films such as the Saw series and Texas Chainsaw Massacre. 

Updated Shot List

Production Diary - 08/12/14

Here is where we first started shooting for our chase scene in the Nature Reserve. unfortunately, due to the cold weather the battery life was affected by this, causing us to change our location because of the bad weather. We have now moved into a warmer environment. We have changed our idea because of this so there is no longer a chase scene.  

We filmed a couple of shots which will go at the end of our opening sequence. The remaining shots that we have to film will be close ups of the tarrot cards being dealt and shuffled, candles will also be used as well.

Costumes

Here are the costumes that our characters will be wearing for some of our shots.

Grace who is played by Lucia is represented as a young vulnerable girl, who is worried about her brothers safety because he has dragged her to a tarrot card reading.

Jake who is played by me is represented as a teenage boy that wears casual clothes to represent normality. The white on the top symbolises purity, this is then later on changed in our film (although we do not see it).

Presentation and Feedback

The devils task from Aaron Persico

We had to deliver a pitch for our opening sequence in order for it to go ahead.

Horror - there are good generic conventions suggested

Story-line - we got asked what will be the location for the therapy session?

• the location of the therapy session will be in Aaron's house, also we will represent that Jake is possessed by using different color contact lenses to represent that he has changed.
• Ben and Grace come into the scene by talking and telling Margaret what is happening with Jake.
• We decided to go with a therapist as this relates to the paranormal/horror theme, this is because a therapist would know about possession and other weird things.

Production Update!

Here is a picture of some of our editing footage

However....

Filming update: After we looked at our footage on Premier, we have decided to change our story line because we felt that the story line wasn't strong enough, and the location wasn't very reliable for us to use frequently.

Now we have produced a new story line, this will mainly be based on the Tarot card theme of the opening sequence, but the therapist scene will be removed as we feel that it reveals too much information for just an opening sequence as well as the location being unreliable for us to work with. The opening sequence will include the camera focusing mostly on the tarot cards with a range of different angles, with the credits over these shots and suspenseful music over these shots as well.

Characters

                     

These are the actors and actresses used in our opening scene:
Jake will be played by Aaron
Ben will be played Max
Grace will be played by Lucia 
Margaret/Sabrina will be played by Lydia

Locations

These are the locations that we will be using for our opening sequence. The locations used in our opening sequence is Aaron's living area.