Final Piece...

Here is our final produced piece for our main task, I feel really pleased with the end result. Our groups hard work finally paid off and completely feels worth it.

Draft of the First Section of Our Film...

Here is our first go at editing with 'Final Cut', it was a long first learning proccess but I felt it was a good first attempt. This version is without non-diegetic sound and only contains the train station section of our film.

Runnning Out Of Battery...

We get to the trainstation the lighting conditions are perfect, the platform is empty and Amber and George are ready to go. We turn on the camera and the worst happends, IT'S OUT OF BATTERY! With a limited time period before the evening got too dark there was no chance of charging the camera and getting the scene shot that evening. We tried to think of something preductive to do, so we took some test shots on Ben's iPhone too help bring our storyboard into real life. here are some of the photo's we took...


 


Extreme Long Shot of George under the
futhest lamp post - the lamp
posts hleped add distance to the shot



Long Shot of George











Mid Shot of Amber - Gives the impression
that someone is looking over her sholder



Point of View Shot from Amber's View - The
iPhone makes in relevant to todays youth -

also the text gives an insight to the character



Extreme Close Up of George - however
for the actual piece we wanted George's
face in shadow 



Long Shot of George



Story Board and Script For Final Piece...

For our final piece we wanted to create a horror with the touch of realism, therefore we came up with a plot centred around abduction. Here is are story board for our final piece..

Mind The Gap

EXT. FOREST SETTING - DUSK 1.

FADE IN.

This first scene is set in the future. We are introduced to AMBER by a POV shot of a secluded forest AMBER is a young female who is around 17 years old. Her condition leaves the audience with the impression she is in trouble. AMBER is running through dark, cold and claustrophobic woods far away from any near by towns. She is wearing a white top, with a cream scarf, with black trousers. The connotation of colour here reflects her innocence. She has lost a layer of clothing, which could resemble that THE FOLLOWER has stripped a layer off her. This could resemble the idea of she is no longer in control and reflects her vulnerability.

AMBER is in a panic, running through the woods far out of town that is unrecognizable, with nowhere to run and nowhere to hide. The shelter from the trees can’t even protect her. The crushing of the leaves reflects the crushing of her fragile body. We will then continue with using a diegetic voiceover of AMBER panting this reflects her weakness and vulnerability.

We open with a LONG SHOT of AMBER running through the destructive woods. The camera PANS round from left to right resembling a figure watching her. The continuous use of the diegetic sound of AMBER panting. The audience should now feel a connection and feel her agonizing pain. We then cut to a MEDIUM SHOT revealing AMBER who looks frightened and battered and the rugged features of a ghost. This image will show her vulnerability and the vast power of the predator.

The scene changes to a POV shot from THE FOLLOWER this reveals AMBER running abruptly ahead. Through showing AMBER battered and fearful. She stumbles to the ground and stressfully attempts to clamber away. She is startled by the breathe of THE FOLLOWER and freezes with fear. We then cut to an OVER THE SHOULDER shot of THE FOLLOWER approaching AMBER. We then hear AMBER's heavy breathing resembling her agony.

BLACK OUT.

EXT. OLD TRAIN STATION - GETTING DARK 2.

FADE IN

We open in an aged train station – one that AMBER had frequently used throughout her life. The train station crammed full of people needing to get home. The same specific reasons for AMBER. AMBER is waiting alone for her friend, who is soon to arrive. The weather is damp and cold, and as the trains begin to approach and the passengers begin to leave. AMBER is left alone, no sign of her friend arriving. AMBER receives a text from her friend shown through a POV shot, revealing ‘I’m coming’ the text therefore reassures AMBER and starts to feel more relaxed.

AMBER then looks up to reveal she in fact isn’t alone. Within a LONG SHOT a dark mysterious character is shown on the other side of the platform.  AMBER anonymous to this does not think anything of it and watches the train going straight through to London approach shown through a POV shot, when the train has gone past. The dark figure has disappeared. We then cut to MEDIUM SHOT revealing AMBER’s facial expression, shocked as the figure had disappeared, innocently AMBER assumes the best and shrugs her shoulders and continues to text her friend. A LONG SHOT revealing the mysterious character has appeared on the same side of the platform as AMBER. As the character approaches the shots become darker, and quicker. And finally cut to a shot of amber in CLOSE UP. We place a voice over of amber ‘gasping’ with fright.



AMBER

Uhhh

First Ideas For Final Piece...

Costume/ Props
Girl (Amber) - White Top - indictating her purity/ innocence
                       Red Nails - connotates dead/ danger
                       Iphone - related to youth market

Follower (George) - Black Hooded Jumper - to shadow face - highlights evil persona

Setting
- Small Train Station - easisly assessable to the audience/ easy to relate to
- When camera on Amber - doorway in shot - showing her vulnerablity
                                         - mostly high angle shots used - making her the prey for the camera
- George - no POV shots within train station - keeping a sense of mystery , eye level shots

- Forest - keeping to typical horror/ thriller conventions
- Low angle shots of killer
- Camera follows Amber cut to her face running - don't show killer in the back round - building tention

                              

Production Companies...

Orion Pictures
Orion Pictures Corporation was an American independent production company that produced movies from 1978 until 1998. It was formed in 1978 as a joint venture between Warner Bros. and three former top-level executives of United Artists. Although it was never a large motion picture producer, Orion achieved a comparatively high reputation for Hollywood quality. Woody Allen, James Cameron, Jonathan Demme, Oliver Stone, and several other prominent directors worked with Orion during its most successful years from 1978 to 1992. Of the films distributed by Orion, four won Academy Awards for Best Picture: Amadeus, The Silence of the Lambs, Platoon, and Dances with Wolves.


The Silence of the Lambs was released on February 14, 1991, and grossed over $272 million. The film was the third film to win Oscars in all the top five categories: Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Actor, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. The film is considered "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant by the US Library of Congress and has been selected to be preserved in the National Film Registry.

Orion Pictures Logo and theme:

Different Types of Horror Genre...

Body horror  - In which the horror is principally derived from the graphic destruction or degeneration of the body. Other types of body horror include unnatural movements, or the anatomically incorrect placement of limbs to create 'monsters' out of human body parts.

Comedy horror - Combines the elements of comedy and horror fiction. The comedy horror genre almost always inevitably crosses over with the black comedy genre.

Gothic horror - Gothic horror is a type of story that contains elements of goth and horror. At times it may have romance that unfolds in the setting of a horror tale, usually suspenseful. One of the earliest horror movies were of this sub-genre.

Natural horror - A sub-genre of horror films featuring nature running amok in the form of mutated beasts, carnivorous insects, and normally harmless animals or plants turned into cold-blooded killers. This genre may sometimes overlap with the science fiction and action/adventure genre.

Psychological horror - Relies on characters' fears, guilt, beliefs, eerie sound effects, relevant music, emotional instability and at times, the supernatural and ghosts, to build tension and further the plot.

Science Fiction horror - Often revolves around subjects that include but are not limited to killer aliens, mad scientists, and/or experiments gone wrong.

Slasher film - A type of horror film typically involving a psychopathic killer stalking and killing a sequence of victims in a graphically violent manner, often with a cutting tool such as a knife or axe. Slasher films may at times overlap with the crime, mystery and thriller genre.

Splatter film - Often called torture porn, these films deliberately focus on graphic portrayals of gore and graphic violence. Through the use of special effects and excessive blood and guts, they tend to display an overt interest in the vulnerability of the human body and the theatricality of its mutilation.

Zombie film - Zombie films feature creatures who are usually portrayed as either reanimated corpses or mindless human beings. Distinct sub-genres have evolved, such as the ‘zombie comedy’ or the ‘zombie apocalypse’.