29/11/1O

In today's lesson, we were given a deadline of 28th February 2O11 to have completed our filming, un-edited, so we can progress onto the Post Production stage of our teen horror film.

BBFC; Classification

As our horror film is to be classified a 15, i need to know what is allowed in a 15 certified film. I used the website www.bbfc.co.uk to look at what is acceptable in one of these films, and what is seen as unappropriate for this certification.

Discrimination - The work as a whole must encourage discriminatory language or behaviour.

Drugs - They may use these, but as a whole they must not be promoting drug use, and drugs that are easily accessable such as solvents are unlikely to be allowed.

Horror & Violence- Strong threat and violence is permitted unless it is sadistic or sexualised. The violence may be strong but must not dwell on injury.

Imitable behaviour - Dangerous behaviour such as self-harming or suicide should not be used with too much detail and should not be dwelled on to prevent it being copied.

Language - Strong language is frequently allowed, and the strongest language may sometimes be allowed if it is used in context. Repetitive use of the strongest language is unlikely to be permitted.

Nudity & Sex - Nudity may be allowed but without strong detail. Sexual activity may be portrayed if there is no strong detail. The strongest details are unlikely to be allowed unless it is justified by the context.

Theme - All themes are allowed as long as they are acceptable to be viewed to 15 year olds.

The Art Of The Title

The Walking Dead

• the title
• actors/actresses names
• casting
• editing
• production designer
• producer
• executive producer
• the writer
• director
  

Six Feet Under

• actors/actresses
• co-stars
• casting
• main theme title by
• music by
• editor
• production designer
• director of photography
• co-producer
• producers
• supervising producers
• co-executive producer
• created by
• the writer
• the director
• film name

Arlington Road

• production company
• co-producer
• company name
• producer
• actors/actresses
• name of the film
  
  

Here i watched three openings of films from the website www.artofthetitle.com, and wrote down what titles i seen and what order i seen them in.

i learnt from watching the opening of these films that the title does not always have to be at the start, and can also appear at the end. i also learnt that the actors or actresses names appear in order of significance - for example, the most important names will appear first, and the least important actors will appear later.

Location Three

Location Three - Brambleside Alley Way

Advantages - Space, lighting & quiet

Disadvantages - Rubbish & people

Location Two

Location Two - Regent Street Alley Way

Advantages - Nothing

Disadvantages - Lighting, space & rubbish

Location One

Location 1 - Wood Street Alley Way

Advantages - Lighting

Disadvantages - Rubbish & Space

1O/11/1O

-Casting-

-Chloe Robinson playing

Victoria West

[Sociable, outgoing &

quirky. Claustrophobic]

-Stephanie Smith

playing Sarah Parker.

[Sociable, quiet and friendly.

She's scared of the dark. ]

-Jessica Bruton

playing Louise Frost

[she's friendly, social

& easy to get along with]

-James Smith

playing John James
[Dry, evil & freaky

Family man]

Storyboarding

These are our completed storyboards for the opening of our teen horror film. We have used different camera angles, camera shots and camera movements.

O8/11/1O

During this lesson, me and me group started the storyboarding for opening of our teen horror film. We experimented using different camera shots, camera angles and camera movements.

Opening Idea's

Opening Idea 1

Two teenage girls called Victoria and Sarah are walking home from their friends house, and take a shortcut through a nearby alleyway.
Sarah stops to tie her shoelace and Victoria walks on ahead on her mobile phone. She then notices that Sarah isn't there anymore and thinks that she is just messing around. She walks further back into the alleyway and notices Sarah's dead body, and before she registers this, a voice comes out of the shadows, and says 'You're next'.
Victoria tries to run around him back towards her friends house, but he grabs her from behind and stabs her.

[This links to the idea for the whole film as this is an example of two of the murder's that were commited]

Opening 2

A teenage girl is taking a walk through the woods to go to a campout. As she walks through a number of strange things start to occur for a walk. She hears noises and thinks it's her friends just messing around, but as she walks on her friends don't seem to be in the place they said they would meet. She tries calling them but there's no answer so she keeps on walking incase their on their way. As she turns the corner of the pathway she spots a trail of blood, she then decides to follow it. The teenager is then supprised at what she finds at the end of the trail, a dead body.

We have decided to use opening 1 because it links more to our plot of a teen horror film. We now have ideas of casting and locations that we can use.

O3/11/2O1O

During today's lesson we were given the go-ahead to start the pre-production stage of our horror film. We were then given the task to discuss to possible openings, to storyboard our opening, to plan the locations and the casing. These need to be blogged and finished for Wednesday 17th November.

O1/11/1O

Today the class gave the pitch for their film to Mr Henton. However one of our group members was absent so we were not able to do it today, so we are pitching next lesson on the Wednesday.