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Paramount- We have chosen to use paramount pictures as the chosen main film instituton,

Peer Assesment of Blog

In my peer assesment of my blog i was given a minimal for my planning of research, my examiner commented' small explination of preliminary task'. I am not dissapointed or worried at this point as i knew my preliminary task was lacking in explination or detail, i will go back and update my preliminary task, therefore hopefully improving my grade.
My examiner also gave me a basic for research into similar porductys and potential target audience. I was given the comment 'Questionnaire but no feed back'. Due to this im going to go back and update my blog with a completed version questionnaire and a short paragraph analysing the results that i was given from my questionnaire, in doing this i believe my grade will able to be improved. For Work on shortlists, drafting,scripting, storyboarding (anamatic) i was given a good and the comment 'Ideas for film outlined, no anamatic but can understand what is happening'. I can understand this aswell as i have done my film outline as i want people to understand whats going on with my film and i have alot of detail in this outline. The reason for the anamatic not being on my blog is because the anamatic is not ready yet as we are taking extra detail with it to make sure its of high standard, once we have finished it it will be on my blog. My examiner gave me a minimul for Levl of care and ICT in the presentation of research and planning. The comment given was 'No images or decoration, basic black and white'. This is beacause my blog has a very basic design with no fancy backgrounds, the reason ive left it like this is because i feel its more professional, however if its going to limit my grade outcome im going to put a background onto my blog. As for images i will put these on my blog after all the writing is done.

Overall im not suprsied with what Anais gave me for my blog, as i was aleady awake i was behind and that my blog needed work. After working on my blog I hope that il be able to improve my blog results.

Questionnaire

1. What is your age range?

Under 12           12-15           16-18             18-21            Over 21

2. Do you enjoy watching Horror films?

      Yes          No

3. Do you prefer a Horror film to be jumpy/scary or have specific elements of Thriller films mixed into it?

Jumpy/scary            Elements of Thriller films           Both

4. Do you prefer ghosts, supernatural ideas or real life thriller based films? Why?

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5. ‘A man and woman are in their house in the bathroom (brushing their teeth etc.) when the door behind them slams shut. This then puzzles them but they ignore it and just believe it may be the wind. They go to the bedroom and go to bed. The woman then gets dragged out of bed mysteriously. This is all being watched back on a video style effect and it then rewinds to previously to the morning of that day when they are having breakfast, living a normal life.’

This is the beginning 2 minutes of our film and is the general plot idea.

On a scale or 1 to 10 (10 being greatest and 1 being worst) where would you rate this film on its potential to be a?

Plot on the scale where you think our horror idea stands

1          2          3          4          5          6          7          8          9          10

6.  Do you have any criticisms on our opening idea?

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9. What title do you think would suit the Plot?

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10. The genre of our film is horror, however what genre do you think our film falls into?

Horror            Thriller                Both

Brief Summary of Ideas for Task

Brief Summary of Ideas for Opening 2 minutes of film

Old ideas:

• Shower running
• Person in towel 
• Looks in mirror, rubs vapour off mirror
• Scary reflection in mirror
• Turns around to see a shadow
• Dismisses it
• Goes back to bedroom and gets into bed
• Gets dragged out of bed

Shower scene:

• Both characters (man and woman) brushing teeth in the bathroom. This part of the clip shall be fast. 
• The door then suddenly slams shut and the characters look at each other shocked and scared.
• Exit the bathroom, walk to the bedroom (fast camera)

Bedroom scene:

• Goes straight to the scene of them asleep in bed. 
• Woman gets dragged out of bed (use green screen special effects) 
• Screaming and muffled sounds to create a scared atmosphere.

This shall all be a previous film clip that is being replayed to the audience. It shall then go back to present day (day 1) and this shall be the start of the film.

The title shall appear after this. 

 Camera Work and Angles:
Camera strapped to a fan mount,  which makes it look as if its moving around, like cctv, viewing a 180 degree angle of the haunted bedroom.
Some of the camera work is raken on a handheld camera by one of the actors, this is during the scene in the bathroom.
shot- over shot whilst the actors are taking in the morning.
When eating their breakfast in the morning before leaving to work, have to remember the 180 degree rule.

Our ideas are similar to those in paranormal acitivty.

Preliminary Task

In the small video clip my group created we used three different filming techniques. These were 'match on action', 'shot-reverse-shot' and '180 degree rule'. These techniques were useful because they gave me an insight into filming and i am building up my knowledge of media terminology. These shots are usefull because they make it look continuous and allows the audience to see the flow of the film. These techniques look quite straightforward but actually were rather difficult to use in an effective way. I am hoping to use them in my filming to achieve the highest grade possible. -