Photo for Film Poster

Colleen has drawn up some rough ideas for our film poster; what could be featured, layout and compostion etc. We decided to start taking some pictures and play about with the ideas. We managed to get a wide variety of photos - some of which came out well and others that will need a large amount of editing. We have uploaded a selction to our Flickr page.
If you look through our photostream you can see three photos which have already been edited - we had a quick play around with the photo's for experimentation!

film...

Today we did some more filiming, making use of the college equipment and our actor Tom. The idea is that he is one of the victims and therfore we wanted to get some footage of him being 'haunted' by our scary main character and some scared expressions. We filmed quite a lot and took a range of different shots and angels which i feel was very productive!
Later on in the lesson we uploaded our footage and started editing...at the moment our skills are very amateur and need working on but here is a clip of what we got up to:

Obviously this needs a lot more work - especially the lighting as the sequence where the taps are supposed to turn on without anyone touching them doesn't run smooth. We may need to refilm this or just use the editing software on the computer. I am pleased however with the shot of tom running his hands under the sink which then changes to a close up of him wetting his face. We did this to show a range of shots and i think it works quite well, especially as it is one of our first attempts at editing :)

December

I haven't posted in a while because we have been very busy and due to the snow we missed out on lessons. This month we braved the cold and took on the sea for a bit of filming, but we didn't get too much footage. We have uploaded it all onto the computer and hard drive in order to start editing asap, you can see a few of the photos we took on our flickr page (here).

[edit 16.12.2010]
Here is a clip showing some of the footage we filmed, which has been slightly edited...

You can see the post i wrote on our main blog about this clip [here]

In today’s lesson we came up with a list of Movie name ideas:

- Downfall

- Manic Water

- Shallow Water

- Red Tide

- Black Tide

- Murky Water

We then passed this list round the room on a tally chart for people to vote on their favourite, to see which titles would be most popular. This worked well because the people in our class are the same age as our target audience (teenagers and young adults) and therefore we got a clear representative of what our chosen audience like.

The title which came up most popular was 'Shallow Water'.

The feedback we got said:

"It's simple and intriguing name with a catchy ring to it."

"It tells the audience it's a water related film - something everyone is familiar with and therefore becomes a lot more scary"

"The idea of shallow water is creepy and gives a sense that someone/thing may be lurking in it"

Poppy...

Last week Colleen met with our friend Poppy - who we think will play the part of the main character! They went through some outfit ideas as well as make up. We want her to look quite dark and scary but not overly made up as she needs to look real and believable. I have uploaded the photos to our flickr account which you can see here

Storyline

We have finally come up with our storyline idea, with the help of our Facebook survey. We have chosen to keep it very similar to number four;
- Jane' is washed up onto a beach, no idea who she is, and know idea how she got there. deranged and crazy she sets out to find who did this to her, killing whoever gets in her way.
Although this is a very simple storyline, we are going to include a twist towards the end of our trailer to keep the audience intrigued and interested. 

Facebook Feedback

This week me and Colleen posted 4 storyline ideas on a Facebook note so that we could get some feedback from our target audience on what storyline they liked.

See Below:

We thought Facebook was a good place to get opinions as the majority of people on their are students around our age range. This is who we want our film to appeal to and thought they would give us an honest opinion.

The majority of feedback we got was positive, we found that they mostly liked number 1 & 4.

Comments:

"I like the first one the best :) but you could do it a bit like paranormal activity - ish, like instead of her actually coming back, bad things could happen to the student, or the student could unwillingly do bad things to other people, like her friends. Or number 2, instead of the dead person coming back, someone else who knew the girl could do the killing it'd make the film more realistic."

"I like number four the best, looks intriguing :)"

"I think number four is the best because its an original and unique idea. Im excited to see the story unfold and the synopsis makes me want to see more"

"Number 2"