Alterations made along the way

Our idea has always stayed the same, but it has made a few changes along the way but very minor.

1) The music idea changed as Conor found a very good piece for the starting piece, this was all agreed on that it fitted very well and added more of a effect to the opening sequence.

2) We added in the screaming, shouting in the first part very late into the editing as we realised that it was very dull and didn't have the story we had in mind. By adding in the sound effects this has changed the opening sequence into a better knowledge.

3) We never done the TV news report on the man jumping off the bridge and not finding the body as this was a lot of hard work, and needed a lot more looking into then we thought. So we used the newspaper idea instead.

4) We added in the shot of looking at her feet when she walks past the bed, as this created more tension and made the short sequence look even better than it was!

Production/Company name.

We have looked at a lot of different type of images, ideas to create our logo. We wasn't to sure what to call it but then we came up to a quick decision to use our first initial of our names : A- Amy, R- Ryan, C-Conor.

Some of the few idea's we had 'ARC, RAC, CAR, CRA, ACR, RCA'. So we thought we would use ARC as our production name, as it was the first one we came up with and it looked very professional. Ryan then came up with the idea of having it a arc shape, we all agreed on this.

We made some designs (picture needs to be uploaded).

As time moved on we actually realised we couldn't do our idea as we wasn't all very technical with MACS, so we came up with a very simple ARC PRODUCTION.

These are a few logo's we had a look at and got our idea from, but we needed to stay very simple into our design due to the technical problems.

Little Mood Board of Horror

This mood board focuses on masked killers and the sadistic nature of horror villains.

Editing schedule

We kept to our editing schedule as much as we could, we all attended the time slots, but if one was ill they would make up in their own time. E.G after school, lunches or in free lessons.

Filming schedule

Costume planning

Costumes and Props

The victim – Girl will be wearing smart clothing, such as a dress and a blazer to show she is an business woman.

Killers outfit- shall be all black clothing so you can’t see him as well as you should do.

Victim’s husband – Shall be wearing casual clothing too, such as shirt and jeans.

Props

· Photo of husband & wife.

· Crow bar or golf clubs

· Jumper

·News paper

· Mirror

· Coat- Rain coat

· Beaten legs – photo

· Make up - to show red eyes, beaten face etc.



Storyboard

Our synopsis for the film (Opening sequence)

Our film synopsis- Animus

(Our open sequence only)

Our film is about a man (Mark) who lost his wife (Sarah) and child (Emily) in a house fire, which if his neighbours helped they would have been able to get out alive. After the fire and he found out his family were burnt to death he went missing. He has been missing for roughly 10 years and it is coming up to the death anniversary of his family but to this day he still blames them for the death of his family. (This is not shown in the opening sequence)
You see a Mark walking down the riverside looking very depressed, upset, angry all at the same time and you get from his facial expressions something is going to happen as you see him look up at a bridge, then it snaps to him about to jump off the bridge. This suggests that he may have just committed suicide.
After seeing part 1, it shows us a young business lady which we haven't found the name out for, but her name is Kate. Kate is coming home after a day at work, we see her taking her coat of and then placing a newspaper onto the sofa with a quote of ‘I saw him jump' and underneath in normal font for the paper a write about the body not being found but Kate knows nothing about this as she didn't even glance at the paper. Kate looks in the mirror to see if she should wear her glasses or not but as she bends down you can see a face of a male, she does not see this and goes to close curtains and stills have no idea. Kate going upstairs to make the beds and clean up before her husband and children come home, but as she walks to leave the bedroom a disaster happens.
 Kate is tripped over by someone under the bed and attacked with a crow bar. At this point we see blood on Kate's leg and we see her crawling and struggling to get into another room. The male is shown walking after her very slowly, as Kate grabs the phone to phone for help it is kicked out of her hand, Kate decides to climb on/over her bed but she has been smacked by the crow bar to the back of her neck which then paralyses her and the male chucks her to the ground and starts punching her to the face. We then see the male pick up the pole and walks out of the room.
There is no movement from Kate so this shows she has been killed, but we don't know who done and it why.


Understanding Cinematography

I have a short movie clip to upload from this but is at college so will upload it tomorrow

Initial planning ideas

Brainstorm.

Proof of planning

 We have pictures of the notes taken when discussing and planning

We have notes discussing names, camera shots etc. 

Ideas for a production company

A mind map of names for our film

Once we decided a name, we wanted to know how to introduce it, this one idea in an arc shape

We wanted to try and get motion on the production company

We tried different frames for the letters

After many ideas, we could not do anything based in these ideas for two reasons. The technology we had was very limiting and secondly, it was difficult to create the right mood for our film with these ideas so decided on a simple production company title