Main task - Filming.

We filmed some test shots for the wood scenes in our main task on the 6th February and these will hopefully be up on youtube soon. It was good to practise with the camera as it helped us to see what looked professional when we played it back on the mac and what we needed to do to improve on our shots.

Then, on the 13th and 14th of February we started to film our actual main task. On the 13th we had arranged to meet at our intended place of filming, however due to personal reasons one of our actors had to cancel last minute, whilst this was disappointing we decided to continue with our filming nevertheless. Another obstacle that we ran into was that our location was not the best place to film the shots we needed as we had not accounted for the traffic at the time of filming, but as we had researched many other locations we could quickly move to a more suitable one and begin our filming. In this day we managed to capture a lot of needed footage of our actors, including vital scenes from our storyboard. In spite of this we also agreed that we would need to arrange to meet again to film some more shots due to the fact that we did not quite manage to complete all of our footage. 

On the 14th our group went back to the woods where we had filmed our test shots and reshot some that were not quite up to standard, I feel that our shots this time around were a lot better as we had a clear idea of what we wanted and knew now ways in which to film this correctly. As well as filming shots from our storyboard we also ended up shooting some scenery that we happened to encounter as it just had really interesting mise-en-scene that we thought would create a perfect atmosphere for our opening two minutes.

Media pitch.

Here is the link to our media pitch.

http://prezi.com/qjacuaap-i8h/media-pitch/

Dates for filming.

The dates we have chosen for filming are:

30th January- Test shots of wood area and establishing shots.

13-14th February- Filming the main bulk of our opening, booking the camera out for two days means that we can make sure our filming is okay and looks alright. By the end of february half term we will have finished all our filming meaning that we have about a month to do all our editing.

Script: Work in progress.

As the actors featured in our film are all good friends already we felt that by setting a rigid script may actually hinder the film as the dialoug could come across as unnatural. So we have started to write a basic script from which the actors can create a sort of 'on script improvisation' meaning that they will still get across the meaning of the scene but be able to do it in a way more natural to them.

Animatic of storyboard.

This youtube video is just a rough animatic of our now completed storyboard.

Naming our film.

After much deliberation we have decided to call our film Out Of Service. We chose this name as we feel it fits in with the various themes shown in our film. As our film is a Teen horror we knew that things such as mobile phones and social networking should be prominent so that our audience can relate better to the film, developing this idea further led to us basing quite a lot of the film around the victims receiving threatening texts from an unknown person but not being able to call anyone for help and this then to the idea of calling it Out Of Service as the protagonists in our film will be. We also felt that although it was intriguing and quite dramatic it wasn't too over the top and suited our film better than, say, a one word title would as they are commonly used in big Hollywood blockbusters. After taking to various members of our target audience they told me that the title sounds exciting and that they would want to find out more about it.

Music in Horror Films.

Whilst researching music that we could use in our opening of a film I came across this very helpful website which gives details on music and sound effects commonly used in professional horror films.
http://www.eng.umu.se/monster/john/sound_music.htm