Shot List

This is our shot list, everytime we go to a location we will take a copy. this is so we can check off each shot as we complete. this will help us keep on top of what shots we need and what shots we have already obtained

Sound FX

After discussing as a group what sound FX we would use and looking at a number of websites which allow you download copyright free material, we decided the best option was to record all of it on our own accord, meaning it was original and no other sounds on any other films are the same as ours. This gave us a window of opportunity to use our imagination and creativity to come up with the ideas. We knew that all effects would have to be created cheaply and quickly as we have neither time nor the funds. One sound immediately sprung to mind, this was the sound of the doors sliding open and shut in the Star War films. This was created merely by a piece of paper being pulled from an envelope, however we tried this idea for our opening shot which we would use it to show a quick transition between a jumping shot. This was ineffective and we decided against it, as we where have a group debate about more ideas i noticed a pair of metal scissors on the disk, I picked them up and open and closed them rapidly, we all agreed that we thought this would go well with one particular shot. When we added we still thought it was quite right for this shot. Lyle and i come up with the idea of adding an echoing effect so that each click was prolonged, we all agreed this sounded better and would be the sound FX we would use for this shot.

Lyrics for Music

‘Incy Wincy spider climbed up the water spout
Down came the rain and washed the spider out
Out came the sunshine and dried up all the rain
Then Incy Wincy spider climbed up the spout again’

For our backing track in our movie trailer we decided to use a traditional kid’s nursery rhyme. This is mainly because our killer envies family life, and this is a song that is a associated with families. However it will not sound similar to the original version, we will be adapting it so it creates an eerie atmosphere which will go with the tempo of the trailer and resemble the thriller/ horror genre.

Filming: Day 1

The group went to cold Christmas so we could gather a variety of establishing shots; this was a very successful trip as we gathered a mixture of different and unique shots. By doing this we will hopefully get more marks as we have given ourselves a lot more shots to choose from and that we may want to use to set the scene. Unfortunately we where unable to obtain the shots that included the killer, the costume which we have ordered has taken longer than expected to arrive, although we now know that it is in the post and on its way. In future weeks we plan to visit the other location to get a number of shots with and without our killer. We had a number of technical difficulties when the group visited Cold Christmas. There were a few shots that we wanted to acquire that involved the camera being held manually and not placed on the tripod. When we did this we discovered that with every movement the images would come out distorted when playing back the footage. Fortunately we played around with the settings and we where able to sort this out.

Anamatic Feedback

When we showed our anamatic to our teacher she gave us feedback on most of the individual shots. We received mixed feedback all in all which we will bear in mind when filming our shots. One good point that she highlighted the first time we watched it through was that there was a big variety of unique and interesting shots.

One particular shot that our teacher thought was excellent was the under the arm shot of our killer looking at a family, this was relevant to our film as our killer envies family life. The shot contains the killer’s fist clinching when he sees a family through a window, partaking in what the stereotypical happy family would be doing at dinner time.

One shot that was considered weak was our panning shot across the fields. This shot was added into the trailer with the intention that it will create a foggy, spooky atmosphere. These were the fields that surround the church and what the church is built upon. To try and improve this shot we will think of original ways to make this shot a lot more interesting for example we could show our killer discreetly lurking in the shadows appearing behind the trees, but this is something that needs to be discussed within the group.

Other criticism that we received included that we had not added the titles into the anamatic, so we currently have no visual evidence of us knowing whereabout’s we will be adding in the text and where the title of the film will be revealed to the audience. We will be working on this feedback and will be working in the future to create a better anamatic that meets the needs of everyone involved with the project.

The Recluse (Animatic)

The video above is the animatic for our film trailer. The animatic shows each shot which we intend to use for our trailer and how long the shot will be. One of the transistions between two shots is a bright light this is to symbolise a bright camera flash that will go in between the two shots.

Risk Assessment

Our group decided that we would create a risk assessment to eliminate any danger to ourselves or anyone who would visit the location in the near future. As we were noting down any potential risks, we discovered that the most likely danger was that the weather would turn on us and we would be forced to abandon filming, this would harshly slow down our progress as we would need to rearrange a day that we were all free and then hope that the equipment that we need is free to be used. There was a more severe and serious risk, but we thought that as this was extremely unlikely to happen, as we have shown in the risk assessment table, we decided that we would attend the venue and carry on with the prodution.

Job Roles

Lyle Petts:

Editing
Acting
Filming
Sound & Music

Jamie Branston:

Editing
Acting
Filming
Location
Costume

Will Turner:

Editing
Acting
Filming
Script
Props

Main Props

-Scrap Book of victim’s clothes, photos of victim dead and alive, also a written profile next to each victim including name, gender and age. Scrap book must look tatty and ripped in order to create the illusion of a book that is used a lot and kept outside.


-Candles and other homely features to create an atmosphere which would normally be associated with a family home, this also shows that the killer spends the majority of his time in the church

-Suit for the killers costume to be worn over an all white morph suit, we aim to create a killer that is pleasantly dressed and looks approachable, although the killer will appear clean in his appearance he will actually have very poor hygiene which will be shown in our short trailer for the film. We will film him taking off his gloves and we will then show his hands that will be filthy and have dirt under his finger nails.

-Murder weapon for the killer to use when he takes out his victim, undecided if this will be a knife a gun or something else, we want to use a weapon that has never been used in another film, but we are still thinking up ideas for this prop.

-Morph suit to be worn under suit to hide the killers hands face and every part of his body, this also gives him blank features (his face won't be shown), there will be no clues to identify the killer before it has been revealed to the audience.

The picture above is an image of our production schedule, on this we have allocated a time slot for each part of the production, the pink squares are symbolising the time slots for pre-production, the yellow squares show the production tasks. However some yellow squares are shown in the dates which we have allocated to pre-production. This is due to the deadline for the first cut of our trailer being moved forward. The blue squares are symbolic of task that will be completed in the post-production stage of the project. The one red square represents when the final cut will be shown(6th of december) after we show this we will begin the ancillary task which we will create a new production schedule for it.

These images above where taken before we drew up our anamatic, this was so we could identify all of the possible shots that could be taken at all of the locations, we drew up a number of establishing shots that will highlight eerie atmosphere of all of the settings. The first image is evidence of us jotting up notes on the pig farm which is one of our three locations, the second is a picture of the fields and forest, the Third image is where the majority of the shots will be taken and where our killer lives,. We wanted to create these pages of images and text so we had many ideas of which shots we could add on to our anamatic as well as more interesting shots which shows both the killer and the victim. We wrote a small summary of each shot, saying what type of shot it was and what we wanted to create by using these shot.

The group pitch, Feedback

When we showed our pitch for our intended project (The Recluse) we received some mixed reviews, both good and bad. The audience we showed said that there was not enough visual evidence of what we wanted our killer to look like. This was because we had mainly only written descriptions of the killers features, props, and what other important elements looked like. We have decided to add in a slide for inspiration for our killer, and pictures that show the audience what we want our killer to look like and what films we have gained ideas from. These images include the mask used in ‘Dead Man Shoes’ which is one of our biggest inspirations in creating a British thriller, horror. We also added images of what we wanted our killers costume to look like, for example we obtained a picture of a smart suit and surgical clothes which are the main features of our killers costume. Another thing that we was criticised on was the lack of summary of the entire plot, this problem can be easily fixed and we will be adding a new slide entirely dedicated to the plot of our film.

We was told that we showed and presented our presentation on our movie very well, this lead to our audience being very engaged in the pitch and liking our ideas, they believed that a production company would be very interesting in buying our film and putting it onto there channel. We believe that a production company like Film4 or Warp would be engrossed inour film. Also they admired our dedication to go out to our locations which aren’t easy places to get to and are spread around Ware and surrounding villages.

After receiving our feedback we have decided we have to make a number of changes to our pitch in order for it to be to of an accepted standard by a production company like Warp, we mainly need to add in a plot summary and more images to illustrate the effects and atmosphere we want to create for our film.

Powerpoint pitch- The recluse

Powerpoint pitch- The recluse

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Project Summary

Our group have decided to create a film trailer, we where given multiple options and we have decided that this is the production that would suit each member of the group and enable us to show of a range of our best techniques of editing and filming alike. After a group discussion that has been on going for almost a week we decided we would create a horror trailer as we believe that it will have a powerful impact on our audience and also. We discussed many ideas and thought back to horror films that we had watched and also gave a lasting reaction upon us. We decided that our biggest influence for this was ‘Dead mans shoes’ this was mainly because it is a British horror, it had a very similar effect that we aim to achieve with our production

We have not decided upon a name for our film yet but we have shortlisted a number of ideas.

Cold Christmas – This would be an appropriate name because the main location where we aim to film is at a place called cold Christmas church. A positive for this title is that it give’s a sense to the audience that the film has a dark, sinister edge, however the fact that the word Christmas in the title may be misleading and give the audience the idea that it was a Christmas film.

The Recluse – This is also a title that is relevant to the storyline and a spooky sounding name. This is a short snappy title that I personnal believe will stay with the audience. I have done some research and I have reason to believe that this is a unique title for our film.

Our story consists of a twisted, lonely man that lives on his own in an abandoned church, his identity is yet decided. The story will be a classic who is the killer and why is he doing it? This is a question we want our audience to be asking them selves throughout the film.  Our unique selling point is that the film will be portrayed through the killer’s eyes, we hope by this that our audience will know the story of the killer and even start feeling sorry for him.