I have recorded myself using 'CamStudio' to show me using Adobe Premiere Pro. The clip is of me importing a clip so that I could use it on the timeline for the film. Although APP is simple for importing and has a simple timeline, we have found that it is slow running, crashes often and is generally difficult to use. I would not suggest this programme to others wanting to create a clip longer than 5 minutes unless their computer runs smoothly without fault.

Email for music

Since we are using music in our film, we needed to email the band manager of the song we chose to make sure that we did not go against any copyright terms that might be in place, Curtis sent an email to make sure that this was okay.
Since they did not reply (we said they did not have to reply if allowed to use the song) we are okay to add it into the film.

Make-up

I decided to test out what the make-up would look like for the zombies in our film, instead of using face-paint I decided to use Acrylic paint because you can build up layers to make texture, which you cannot do with face make-up. Using three different colours of red (I may use more when doing it for the final) I painted what would perhaps be a bite mark onto the side of my neck. This is only a practice to see how using Acrylic would go; it is good, but does peel fairly quickly so we would perhaps have to keep re-applying it if the scenes go on for too long.

What does your target audience look like?

The target audience for our film opening is aimed at teenagers and young adults from the ages 16-21 who, as a group of friends, enjoy watching horror and thriller movies for fun when they get together. Films that these groups of people might enjoy are popular scary films like 28 weeks/days later, Paranormal Activity, The Ring, The Excorcist.

These types of films are popular and sell well with teenagers because getting scared on purpose is popular with young culture.
They would enjoy heavier bands, such as A Day To Remember, Bring Me The Horizon and Alesana. As well as watching movies, they would enjoy Television in general and watch popular shows (Sherlock, Supernatural etc.)

Because of this I think that our movie will sell well with this generation, even B-movies tend to become big hits since access to the internet is widely available and young adults will use it often in their spare time.

This means that we will probably use Internet-based advertising as a big part of our marketing distribution, The Internet also allows a lot of convergence (videos, advertisements, downloads.)

 

This is a servey that I did at the beginning of the project, I passed it around both adults and teenagers to get a mixed response as to what film they would like, as you can see Horror got the most votes which is what we had decided to do anyway. Action did come close however, so we were thinking of including that into the film also.

This was good feedback since we were dithering and had basic ideas for a horror movie aswell as other films so it was a confirmation that we were going in the right track.

Film Distributer

http://www.bountyet.com.au/

Bounty Films could be a possible distributer for our film. They distribute small films, for cheap prices and normally specify in the Horror/Thriller genre. The production has also produced some succesful films, such as 'The Human Centipede' which became a viral hit around the world.
This would be perfect for our film since we are planning to do a zombie film and they have produced a lot of films that genre, they also advertise their films well and give them good reviews.

Storyboard Video

After finishing the images drawn on Paint Tool SAI, I imported the images into Adobe Premier Pro -which should be the programme that we use to edit our own film opening - and added them together in sequence, this should show more succesfully what we plan to do.

Unfortunatly the programme has cropped some of the clips.



Movie and Production names

This lesson we decided as a group what would be our film name and the name of the production company. We had thought of a few names previously but decided against them, finally today we settled on 'State Of Emergency' as our film name and 'Dead Cell' as our Production Company name.
I think that both of these fit well with our film and hopefully what it will be about.

Starting to create video storyboard

Started to work on a more detailed storyboard by drawing using Paint Tool Sai and my Bamboo Tablet, then I will put it all together on Windows Movie Maker since that is the programme I have at home to make a video. This will show what we plan to film, and will work as a guideline for us when we get down to filming.

Story Board

I designed the storyboard for the film using the plan/timeline that we created last lesson, these are just rough drawings but hopefully this is what it will look like somewhat.

Hopefully from this I can create a storyboard video to upload.

Recce shots

Went out this morning and took some more possible location shots, although I don't think they will be as good as the previous one because the wooded area isn't as big, and since what we had in mind had a lot of walking it wouldn't be that suitable. It could come in handy if we needed somewhere extra though, as it isn't far to get to.

Plan/Timeline for filming

Since we had decided as a group, from both our own ideas and from that of the feedback to do a zombie film, we dicided to make a plan for how we would start the opening. Since a lot of zombie films begin the outbreak through the spread of a ficticious virus, we were thinking along the same lines. The main sections of filming will be done as if the main character is shooting a video diary, where he will be explaining into the camera that he had invented a cure for the virus that had spread but it had not worked, and he would hope that someone would find the video diary if he was killed. These sections will be a mixture of handheld filming and shooting the character filming himself from afar. The other sections of the opening will be 'flashbacks' thats will cut in every so often and give further explanation to the events that led to the zombie outbreak (during these we can also name directors, actors and other people included in the movie). At the end a title frame will appear with the words "6 months later" leaving what would be the rest of the film to continue.
I think by doing it this way we can get a range of different camera shots and there will be a huge variation of lighting and angles, since there will be many completely different scenes mixed in.

Distributers and other information.

Distributed by: Screen Gems 

Distributed by: Millenium Films

Distributed by: 20th Century Fox

Fox Searchlight Pictures

Information on three popular zombie films which could help us when considering our own film.

This includes the distributers, budget and box office results.

Images from the presentation.

Whilst presenting our idea breif, we took photo's to use as evidence. Here are the images of us telling the group our ideas from which we received feedback.
The powerpoint was englarded onto the board for everyone to see, whilst me and James expanded on the initial ideas we had.

Feedback from powerpoint presentation breif

This afternoon we presented our ideas for our film opening to the class, we told them our main idea, which would be to create a horror/zombie film. The feedback we got agreed with our own ideas that we had about the advantages and disadvantages, this is what was concluded:

Advantages

• A wide range of storylines, allows us to be creative,
• You can use a wide variety of locations to shoot the opening
• The film would be open for a wide audience

Disadvantages

• Makeup: Characters would need to look like zombies, it would have to be realistic and it would be difficult keeping the makeup looking consistant throughout the filming.

This is what we had already discussed prior to the presentation so it backed up our initial ideas. The group thought that the locations around peterborough would be useful for the type of film we wanted to do (e.g, lots of small woodland areas, rural areas, buildings - all these acceptable for a horror film) since the genre has a wide use of locations.
The group generally agreed with our idea, saying that they were interested in horror movies which seems to be a popular movie choice.
Although there was a worry about makeup, I am positive that this will not be a major problem and makeup allows us to be creative and overall not much is needed.
From the feedback we have settled on the plotline that a virus has spread, causing the victims to become zombies, and the main character will be the one with the cure. We shall use a mixture of handheld filming, where the character will appear to be creating a video diary of the events (this can show POV shots and a range of establishing shots and close ups of the character) and we can also film the character filming himself/the zombies as they chase him.

Overall the conclusion was that the rest of the class agreed with out idea, and the feedback was positive, which is good for us as we do not have to rethink our idea or change the storyline.

We are creating a powerpoint that we will eventually present to the class breifing our idea for our film opening, from this we will receive feedback from other people and be able to receive other responses to the film other than our own. From this we can incorperate other peoples views and ideas into the film opening as we create it and this will hopefully help us with the final outcome.

Timeline for film opening to 'Edward Scissorhands'

From the clip that I had posted in the previous blog entry, I have created a timeline to the film opening 'Edward Scissorhands', it details the main people of importance that appear in the opening titles. By analysing other film openings it will alow us to plan the timing of how certain events and titles appear in our own film opening.

Edward Scissorhands title opening art and opening credits

Here are 9 still frames from the opening of the film Edward Scissorhands.

And this is the actual intro as a video which I have taken from Youtube.

Top Ten Most Seen Horror Movies At The Cinema

Using the Box Office UK Website I have taken a print screen of the 10 most watched Horror movie films at the cinema, this will give us an idea of what things we could incude into our own film intro by taking similar ideas from other horror movies and interprertating our own. The audience we are aiming for will be more likely to enjoy the film opening then.

BBFC

The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), is a non-governmental organisation, funded by the film industry and responsible for the national classification of films within the United Kingdom. It is an independent, non-governmental body which has classified cinema films since it was set up in 1912 and videos/ DVDs since the Video Recordings Act was passed in 1984.
The BBFC rates theatrically released films, and rated videos and video games.

U - should be suitable for audiences aged four years and over. ‘U’ films should be set within a positive moral framework and should offer reassuring counterbalances to any violence, threat or horror.

PG - General viewing, but some scenes may be unsuitable for young children. Unaccompanied children of any age may watch. A ‘PG’ film should not disturb a child aged around eight or older. However, parents are advised to consider whether the content may upset younger or more sensitive children.

12/12A -  the material is suitable, in general, only for those aged 12 and over. Works classified at these categories may upset children under 12 or contain material which many parents will find unsuitable for them.
No-one under the age of twelve may be permitted to see a twelve rated film at the cinema, unless the parents or guardian thinks the film is suitable for their child and accompanies them.

15 - No-one younger than 15 may see a ‘15’ film in a cinema. No-one younger than 15 may rent or buy a ‘15’ rated video work.

18 - No-one younger than 18 may see an ‘18’ film in a cinema. No-one younger than 18 may rent or buy an ‘18’ rated video work.

R18 - The ‘R18’ category is a special and legally restricted classification primarily for explicit works of consenting sex or strong fetish material involving adults. Films may only be shown to adults in specially licensed cinemas, and video works may be supplied to adults only in licensed sex shops. ‘R18’ videos may not be supplied by mail order.

This information was taken from the official BBFC website