Laser etched tutorial part 1

WHAT HAVE WE BEEN DOING?

We seemed to have a delay in our filing, due too our footage on the memory card being corrupted. Due to this we used our time efficiently and worked on our animated logo. We went for a more advanced logo so we spent our lesson watching a tutorial on how to make a 'laser Etched logo'. Our logo was definitely a challenging process, we followed the step by step process; each tutorial being 20 minutes long. It was more of a trail and error process, However we achieved great results that we are pleased about, we feel we produced it to a good standard. And despite the set backs it was a chance to learn something new. I have never created anything in Adobe  After effects before and it proved to be a positive experience.

 

Feedback - Miss Spencer

First Cut Feedback - Miss Spencer

This is an interesting film opening. You have a clear narrative, and many conventions of the genre. This includes groups of teenagers having a sleepover, candles, myths etc.

You have used a variety of shots and camera angles and thought about characterisation.

However the overall impression is stilted and lacks a good flow in the action.

In order to improve this I suggest you go through and create sound bridges where you cut to a different actor before they finish speaking. This will run some dialogue under different actors and allow you to run the conversation more smoothly.

Also add more cutaways throughout, this will also help with smooth running.  

You should also import your opening graphic and get the titles done.

Think about sound, this will help to add tension.

Also get some feedback from peers and parents to help with your improvements.

TASK 6 THE STORY BOARD

Production schedual

Production Schedule – Arabella

Date	Task	Complete Y/N
W/C: 3/11/14	·     Filming Kirst and Ashleigh	N
W/C: 10/11/14	·     Creating/sourcing sound/music Kirst	N
W/C: 17/11/14	·     Editing Kirst and Ashleigh	N
W/C: 24/11/14	·      Creating graphics/titles Ashleigh	N
W/C: 01/12/14	·      Uploading all elements from Foundation Portfolio onto your blog Kirst	N
W/C: 08/12/14	·      Blogging all stages of the filming/editing process Kirst and Ashleigh	N
W/C: 15/12/14	Film to be handed in to be marked over the Christmas Break.

Filming schedule

 

Filming Schedule – Arabella

Filming date: November 9^th 2014

Meeting time: 13:00pm

Address for cast and crew to meet at:

359 Glascote Road
Glascote
Tamworth
Staffordshire
B77 2BT

List of crew and cast contacts:

Ashleigh Hewitt: (Crew) 07952862826
Kirst Sanders: (Crew) 07768919699
Danielle Cope: (Cast) 07934376066
Holly Morris: (Cast) 07910444977
Jessica Jones: (Cast) 07903854043
Caitlin Gilbert: (Cast) 07790314478
Tianna Cope: (Cast) N/A

Props and costumes:

An old fashioned candle, Bowls of food, Blankets and Pillows. Normal clothes for the teenage girls and a Victorian style dress for Arabella as well as white face paint to make her look pale and ghoulish

Equipment: A DLSR camera and tripod a hand held microphone and clapper board.

Time	Location	Scene	Shots needed	Cast/props/etc
	Living room	The girls being introduced, the candle burning, the food being laid out and they are casually sitting around listening to music.	An extreme close up/ long shot of the living room/ a close up of the food and extreme close up of the stereo playing the music.	A candle, A Cd player, blankets and pillows and food bowls. Sophie Effie Poppy Georgia
	Living room	The conversation between the girls that introduces the story of Arabella	A series of medium shots, over the shoulder shots and long shots. Wide shots, close ups of individual speakers and mid shots of the girls talking.	A candle, blankets and pillows and food bowls. Sophie Effie Poppy Georgia
	Living room	Effie passing the candle to Georgia and persuading her to challenge the urban legend.	A match on match action	A candle Effie Georgia
	Living room	Georgia summoning Arabella	Close up	A candle Georgia
	Living room	The girls faces as Georgia has summoned Arabella and nothing has happened.	A Pan	Blankets and pillows and food bowls. Sophie Effie Poppy Georgia
	Living room	Close up of the candle	A zoom	Candle
	Living room	A black screen	N/A	N/A
	Living room	Arabella appearing to the girls, the girls trying to scream but their voices have been stolen. Georgia has gone missing.	Extreme close ups, point of view shots, cut away shots. Cantered shots.	Blankets and pillows and food bowls. Sophie Effie Poppy Arabella

Task 4.2 synopsis of the film

'Arabella' begins with a group of young girls having a sleepover. One of the girls, Poppy teases the others that the night is boring her, so Effie suggests that due to it being Halloween, they should try to scare each other with stories. Effie tells a story about an urban legend she was told about when she was a child. The story suggests that a little girl who died in the Victorian Era still haunts the town that they live in, and if her name is said 6 times by candle light her spirit will reveal itself to you and make you pay for disturbing her rest.

Georgia, the most skeptical of the group, does not believe this story and makes it obvious that the legend does not scare her. So Effie challenges her to try it and say Arabella's name six times by candlelight. The other girls are not comfortable with her doing this but desperate to prove her point, Georgia does.

Initially, nothing happens and the girls display obvious signs of relief as the tension slowly dissipates. Suddenly, the candle blows itself out and Sophie screams as something touches her shoulder. The candle strangely relights itself and when the room is illuminated, Georgia is missing from the room.

The story moves forward in time to follow Effie into adulthood. As we see Effie go through her daily routine, we see a newspaper article in her house dated back to the night before Halloween. The night Georgia went missing. The newspaper article briefly informs us that Georgia is dead; she died on that night and her body was not found until three weeks later. Effie clearly leads a guilt ridden life as she feels a sense of responsibility for what happened to her friend.

It is the 10 year anniversary of Georgia's death later on in that week and the girls have decided to meet up to commemorate her death. 

The girls meet up and go for a drink in the local pub. Conversation gets out of hand and Sophie gets angry at Effie, blaming her for Georgia's death and asking her how she had the nerve to return to their home town after what she did. Effie, lost in rage goes back to the house they originally summoned Arabella in, lights a candle and says Arabella's name six times. Nothing happens and Effie screams, shouting Arabella and daring her to reveal herself. The candle goes out and Effie hears the giggling of a small girl, followed by the singing of a traditional nursery rhyme. Effie is not scared, she laughs back and screams questions to the spirit, asking why she took Georgia and why she haunts innocent people. The candle relights itself and when the room illuminates, Arabella is in Effie's face, smiling sadistically. 

Effie runs out of the house and manages to escape without being harmed, but Arabella's spirit is loose and will not settle until it has taken a life. Effie, desperate to stay alive researches Arabella's history and finds out that she is a 7 year old girl who was murdered by her mother who became obsessed with dark magic and witchcraft. Arabella's body was not found and the legend states that until it is located and buried in a stable, peaceful place Arabella's spirit will not rest. Effie tells Sophie and Poppy about her findings and persuades them to travel back to the town Arabella lived in and track down her body. 

During the journey, the girls are haunted by Arabella and have their lives constantly threatened in various ways. Poppy and Sophie are uncomfortable with the task and fear that their lives will end the same way that Georgia's did. Therefore, in the middle of the night when Arabella endangers them again, they pack up and leave. Effie, however stays to finish what she went there to do. Effie locates Arabella's childhood home, which is abandoned in the woods and goes inside to look around. Whilst inside, Arabella's spirit is angry that Effie is intruding and tries to get her to leave by endangering her life. Arabella waits until Effie is upstairs and then breaks the ceiling so that Effie falls through into the basement. 

In the basement, Effie is passed out from her fall and when she wakes, realises that she has broken her leg and is therefore struggling to move. She recognises a repulsive scent and uncovers Arabella's remains in the corner of the room. A candle in the basement lights itself and Arabella's spirit begins to walk towards Effie, her expression angry and ready to claim Effie's life. Effie grabs the remains and runs out of the basement and drives away quickly. Effie takes the remains to a graveyard and buries them, leaving a white lily on the grave. Arabella's spirit is rested and therefore no longer haunts the girls.

The story moves forward in time to show Effie in her old age, peacefully asleep in a care home. A candle next to her lights itself, revealing the spirit of Arabella watching her as she sleeps. Arabella looks into the camera and smiles sadistically, the shot cuts to show us the graveyard her remains were buried in, her grave dug up and her body missing.

TASK 5: THE SCRIPT

Story brief

Arabella

First scene: The film opens with one of the characters lighting a candle (extreme close up) we zoom out to reveal the location that is a girls bedroom; we see a few cut away shots of the girls, pouring food in to bowls, collecting Cd's etc.  Whilst this is happening an upbeat dance song is playing, to make the audience feel comfortable and lure them into a false sense of security.

(Sophie enters with food)

Poppy: Well I don’t know about you losers but I’m not sitting around the whole night listening to this rubbish, is this even music?

Sophie: Well do you have any better ideas?

Effie: We could tell scary stories? It is nearly Halloween

Sophie: Scary stories are stupid

Effie: Not the ones that are based on true stories. Have you heard about Annabelle?

Poppy: (Her face stiffens) Don’t tell that story, you know I hate it

Georgia: No, come on, enlighten us,

Effie moves quickly to switch of the lights and holds a candle in front of her. Girls start laughing.

Sophie: Oh you can’t be serious

Effie: Shut up and let me speak, you won’t be disappointed

(Girls finally fall silent all attention is on Effie )

Effie: Well.. There is an ‘urban legend’ shall I say? Of a girl named ‘Arabella’ a girl that died a brutal death a long time ago. Legend has it if you say her name six times by candle light; she will come and make you regret disturbing her from her rest.

Georgia: Yeah right, you’re so convincing

Effie: If you don’t believe me, try it

Poppy: No, don’t

Sophie: Don’t be so stupid

Georgia: Sure, I’ll do it, why wouldn’t I? I’d quite like to meet Arabella; maybe she can come hang out with us and play truth or dare (rolls her eyes)

(Georgia takes the candle and the room is silent, Poppy cowers closer to Effie and Georgia closes her eyes, Sophie looks slightly concerned but moves away from Georgia also)

Georgia: Arabella, Arabella, Arabella (She swallows) Arabella, Arabella (She takes a deep breath and opens her eyes) Arabella.

(Nothing happens and the camera pans to all of the girls faces as they smile with relief, but as the camera pans to Georgia her smile fades and the candle blows out, the room is in darkness and a high pitched scream escapes one of the girls, the candle relights itself and Georgia is missing, in her place the ghost of Annabelle. The girls open their mouth to scream but no sound escapes their mouths. Anabelle raises one finger to her mouth to highlight silence. The camera zooms quickly into a close up of her face accompanied by the ambient sound of screeching and she smiles sadistically into the camera. The screen goes blank and the film title appears on the screen, a voice whispers ‘Arabella’ to accompany this)

Feedback - Miss Spencer

Your pitch is interesting and detailed, and the prezi is easy to navigate. level 2/3 border

I would now like to see a full, written film treatment please.
Your work on risk assessments is clear, but in order to improve you should upload your own risk assessment.

Risk Assessment

RISK ASSESSMENTS 

WHAT IS A RISK ASSESSMENT?

A A hazard is anything that could potentially harm the actors or crew within the production. That can be anything from chemicals, electricity working from height or machinery. We put the risk assessment in place to highlight the dangers asses the likability and a solution on what to do if the hazards occur. They are document that contains all of this.

We need a risk assessment in place as workers and others have rights to be protected from harm caused by a failure to take reasonable control measures. Its important when making a film so if any harm does come way to the staff, then it wont be the directors fault and they wont be able to sue the company. By having one infrorced you are being a senciable person 

ADVISE: 

Employers should make sure that whoever is making the risk assessment, whether an employee or an external consultant, speaks to the employees, or other people such as contractors who actually carry out the work.


Where employees of different employers work in the same workplace, assessors may need to share information about risks and the health and safety measures in place to address those risks. Facilitating this is a matter for the employer to arrange.#
identify, evaluate, rcord 


DANGERS THAT COULD OCCUR WHEN FILMING:

• tripping hazards
• lifting hazards
• camera risks 
• shots that involve water
• precarious Shots from high up or near the edge of something
• extreme weathers   
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4.3 PITCH

ROLE ALLOCATION

Role Allocation

Kirst Sanders (Director) A film director is in charge of making sure that every component of a movie runs smoothly. They have a say in how the scenes unfold, what props are going to be used, how the characters should look and who should play specific parts. Directors also work with individuals in charge of lighting, scenery and writing and so forth to make sure that all of the elements come together. The director is in charge of the three main phases, which are pre-production, production and post-production. 

Ashleigh Hewitt (Producer) Producers are responsible for facilitating a project from beginning to end. They are involved in every stage of film or video, overseeing the project from start to finish, both in a studio and on location. They are essentially the team leaders and are responsible for securing the permissions for filming locations and rising funding. They hire the staff and organise the shooting schedules and generally overlook the project from beginning to end.

Ashleigh Hewitt (Camera Woman) A camera operator, also called a cameraman or a camerawoman, is a professional operator of a film or video camera. In film making, the leading camera operator is usually called a cinematographer

Kirst Sanders (Runner) A runner deals with a range of jobs in the location and will be responsible for completing any small tasks that will contribute to the overall success of the shoot. For example, fixing costumes, operating the clapper board and making sure that everything is in place for the actors.

Ashleigh Hewitt (Researcher) A researcher acts as an assistant to the director/producer and generally researches information that the director and producer need to make the film successful.

TASK 3.1: TARGET AUDIENCE

AGE:  Horror audience research A horror films target audience is generally those in age group 15-25. This is because during the developing stages of their lives they want to experiment with emotion and try new experiences. Horror movies are able to give a thrill that a younger audience usually craves, this is because they seek for adrenaline rushes. Also young audience are less susceptible to being put off the film by scenes such as violent and death. Unlike the older audience who may feel negative towards the film. 

GENDER: Horror films are mostly aimed at the male audience, as they are more likely to be able to interact with the characters on screen. Horror films are initially attractive to boys as they seek a thrill, and they enjoy the conventions of violence within a horror film. The stereotypical opinion that males may be more inclined to watch horror movies than males may be due to human biology as males have hormones such as testosterone that is known to increase anger levels. Therefore, males may wish to view thrilling horrors to fulfil this innate anger. Women can interact with those on screen to, but they would tend to react differently. Females tend to prefer lighter forms of entertainment, such as a comedy or romance. An extract from the UKFC website suggests that this has changed, since figures show that there is an increase in female viewers of horrors and they have now exceeded the attendance figures of men. This could be due to fact society is changing and now women are seen as much stronger and independent, due to more equal rights being available to us women. However, having a stereotypical view we can say that women tend to be more vulnerable to horror films and are more likely to be scared easily, as they don't desire the thrill as much as men do. Women can usually relate to horror film more efficiently if the leading role is a women as they can connect more to their emotions and fears. 

CLASS: The social class that tend to watch horror movies are the working class community. This is as they can gain/experience a level of thrill and excitement at a cheap price. The higher class usually don't connect with horror movies due to the higher level of satisfaction middle class individuals seek when watching a film. If they do watch horror movies they usually resort to a sub genre such as romance or comedy.

GROUPS OF AUDIENCES: The secondary audience is dating couples. this is more likely to be either very close but not married couples or first date couples. This is because both people in the couple can gain comfort of each other when watching the movie. The women especially, Its usually the men who can use the horror film to give off a brave first impression to win over the female. To add to this a popular horror movie can be seen as a great conversation starter. Overall the general audience can be quite broad, however the majority of the audience will be young, due to the fact thats its cheap thrill. Otherwise its commonly couples on first date. They often can from a relationship due to similarities and therefore have a stronger emotion pull to the film. The audience can connect to character on screen and think of them in their shoes of the character gaining a stronger horror effect.

HISTORICS: 
From the 1930s to the 1970s, most horror films were considered very much the poor
brethren of the film world. Horror were more considered of being trashy paperbacks.
Frequently horror films were made cheaply and packaged together in double bills
for a supposedly teenage/young-adult audience to go and see (often in late-night
showings), to scream and laugh their way through. Horror more exclusively watched by young people and looked down upon by adults. Of course they were a few expectations such as , Psycho(1960) and The Birds (1963) by Alfred Hitchcock, both of which helped change critical perspectives on the horrors. Unlike the goals and cheesy horrors that the 1930's had to offer, alfred hitchock offered more contempry setting in his work, which a wider range of audiences seem to respect more.  Psycho was important in changing the general critical and audience attitude towards the horror altogether. 

PHYSCO GRAPHICS;
phsco graphicsis the study of ppersonalityvalues, interests and lifestyles Physcho-graphics gives you a deeper insight into the target market and it allows you to target a specific group of people, knowing what they like and dont like is important when creating our own product. Whats important about physc ographics it take into account the the personality and behavior of an audience rather than just categorizing them by age and genre which can be very broad 

 psycho graphic segmentation:
main streamers - this typically the largest group who tend to domestic, conventional sentimental and defiantly seek security, they favor values for money family brands conforms 
aspireres - these people tend to seek status, they are materialistic, acquisitive and worry about their image, apprentice, persona and fashion. they think that an attracting package is more important than the contents, this group is typically younger people with clerical or sales jobs 
succeeders - this group tend to be professionals with high management who have strong goals, confidence, good work which and organisation. they support stability and brand choice based on self reward 
resigned - typically older people who seek survival, they are rigid and are interested in the past and tradition, brand choice stresses safety 
explorers - This group is younger demographics like students who seek discovery, they have energy , individualism and experience. they value difference and adventure, brand choice highlights satisfaction and instant effect, they are the first to try new brands 
struggles - this group is d and e demographics that seeks escape, they are alienated and organised they have a few resources beyond physical skills. Brand choices involves impact and sensation, they buy alcohol, junk food and lottery tickets.
reformers - this group seeks enlightenment they want freedom of restrictions and personal growth, they have social awareness and independent judgment, they are anti materialistic but are aware of good taste, they have attended higher education and select products for quality 

We belive that struggles would be a good target audience for our horror movie as they seek escape and are alienated. This makes them a good candidate for ou horror as they can enjoy a film that can be creepy or jumpy, they spend their free time eating junk food and naturally relaxing they fall perfectly within the teenage age group we would like to aim our movie at.