Main Task: Evaluation

Main Task: Final Product

Below is the finished, 2 minute teen horror movie opening "Murder Studies" written, produced, filmed and edited by TwinPine Films. Enjoy!!

 



Main Task: Music

For all the sounds we used in our teen horror film, we used the website www.freesound.org. With free sound we were able to download copyright free music and sounds to put into our product.

Main Task: Editing

Below are some screen shots we took during our editing process.

Main Task: Exporting footage

Below are some print screens on the exporting process for our Teen Horror film 'Murder Studies'. 

Main Task: Filming Day 2

In our second day of filming we filmed parts of our classroom scene, which consisted of a Teacher adressing a class of students about their upcoming task of producing a teen horror film. We also filmed our main character, Fred doodling and writing on a piece of paper, to portray the fact that he is in his own little world.

Main Task- Filming Day 1

In todays session we filmed the day-dream scene for our film opening. This consisted of our Actress (Holeigh Perkins) running through a corridor being chased by the camera.

Main Task: Shot List

Main Task: Story Board

The following is TwinPine Films' story board for their Teen Horror opening 'Murder Studies'.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Main Task: ACTION PLAN!

Below is an action plan of the things TwinPine Film's are going to do within the next couple of weeks with regards to filming and editing of our opening to our horror film "Murder Studies" .

Week 20/01

To be completed: -Story board

                               - Shotlist

Week 04/02

To be completed: Filming

Week 11/02- HALF TERM

Week 18/02: Editing together of raw footage 

Main Task Planning: Location

Below are some images of the locations that TwinPine Films intend on filming the opening to their teen horror film 'Murder Studies':

Media Classroom

 

School Corridor

 

School staircase

Main Task Planning: Screenplay

Screenplay for “Murder Studies”

School Classroom, Afternoon, Media Lesson

A male teacher is standing in the front of a modern day sixth form media classroom with rows of iMacs.

TEACHER: Now that you have finished your independent research for your task you must now plan what you are going to film for your new Horror movie. The minimum length of this movie must be no more than 60 minutes long. The deadline for the finished product will be....

The teacher’s voice and background noise is blurred out as the camera now focuses on Fred, a student in the teacher’s Media class. Fred has a completely blank emotionless expression on his face. The background is blurred out with the noise as the focus is completely on Fred. The camera slowly tracks in on Fred with a slow heartbeat starting in the background. Fred begins to hear screams of murder victims and as the heartbeat begins to build a gradually faster tempo the sound effects of Fred’s visions -that the viewer does not witness- begin to gradually get more potent and violent, screams build volume.

School Corridor/ wing, Night, Fred’s vision.

A killer is chasing a girl trying to catch and possibly kill her, the camera angle is following the victim from the Killer’s point of view. The killer gains on his victim and as he gets into touching distance of his victim....

School Classroom, Afternoon, Media Lesson

A fake scare as the teacher suddenly slams an exercise book down on Fred’s desk in front of him.

TEACHER: Stop daydreaming Fred and go sit with your group.

Fred looks down at his book and finds “Murder Studies” across his book cover, a deep bass rumble as the words appear in the shot.

As Fred gets up to go sit with his group the camera blurs out the entire focus of the camera.

Main Task Planning: Cast

Here is the cast for the opening of "Murder Studies"

Fred- John Power
Jase- George Hopkins
Mike- Jamie Oliver
Tom- Mateusz Zbielski
Teacher- Mr Cradock
Media Classmates- Deet Bains, Josh Thorley, Robert Corbishley, Matt Ingram, Deepika Singh, Oliver McMahon, Ava Markie.
Female victim in vision- Holeigh Perkins

Main Task Planning: Mise-en-Scene

Costume

• Black long sleeved shirt, all buttons fastened with shirt tucked in
• Brown Tie, tied up smartly
• Grey pin stripe uniform trousers
• Black dress socks
• Black slip-on formal shoes

Props

• Media Notebook (Red school exercise book)
• School desks
• School chairs
• Media iMacs
• Knife (vision chase sequence)
• Fake Blood (vision chase sequence)

Set

• Media classroom
• Dark Corridor (vision chase sequence)

Lighting

• Classroom lights on, daytime sunlight
• Hallway, very dim lighting, night time

Main Task: Treatment

The film starts with a teacher (played by Mr Henton) explaining that now his media class has done their research for their task they must now go out and actually complete their main task of filming their very own teen horror film.

We now cut to a shot of Fred (played by Me; John Power) looking into the camera with a blank look lacking any emotion. A slow heartbeat sound effect begins and Fred has visions of killing people, this shows he is not right in the head and also shows the ideas he has for his movie, real murders! As the heartbeat gets faster the visions get gradually more violent.

A point-of-view vision of Fred chasing a woman with a bloody knife, as he gets closer with the heartbeat now faster than ever.... A book is suddenly slammed down on the table (a fake scare). The book contains the words "Murder Studies" on the front of the book.

At the beginning there will be establishing shots of certain areas around the school, with eerie deep bass music to create a horror atmosphere. Titles will be included during this time apart from at the end when the film title is included.

During the close up of Fred, The other class members will be blurred out so the audience's point of focus will be completely on Fred. Also the background sound e.g. Classmates talking or other noises will be drowned out by the heartbeat, getting inside Fred's head.

From the 3 best ideas we picked out we decided to build on multiple ideas instead of just one for example we are using Robert's idea of having a normal day for students, We are using Man-Lok's idea of using a sinister figure or person in the opening having something eventful happening also.

This is just a basic idea at the moment but we will build on this in group discussions deciding on what shots to use and setting our ideas into stone. Some things might change but for the time being this is the opening that Twin Pine films has agreed on and will build on.

Main Task Research: Opening Titles (Se7en)

Below is the complete A3 research sheet for the audio, visuals and titles of the opening titles of a horror film. My research sheet is based on the film "se7en".

 

 

Main Task Research: Horror Openings

During the lesson we were told to research and evaluate the first 2 minutes of an existing horror film (this is to give us some ideas on how to set out our opening 2 minutes of our own horror films). In order to help us with this task, sir directed us to the website "Art Of The Title" which allows you to watch a number of different film opening titles. In order to carry out our research we needed to do two things:
1) Choose a Horror film opening - I decided on the film "se7en"
2) Get an A3 sheet of paper and fold it into 4 columns and title them: Audio, Visuals, Time and Titles.

Audio:
This column should include any sound that can be heard throughout the opening - this includes anything from humming to drilling or screaming to heartbeats.

Visuals:
In this column should be all of the things that you see within the opening of the film, picking up on the smallest of details such as the colour scheme or the font that the titles are written in and everything in between.

Time:
This is just a timeline of when the opening titles apear.

Titles:
In this column, write down all of the opening credits that apear within the opening of the film.

Main Task: The Interview

Below is the footage of our interviews, edited together by Mateusz Zbielski.

Main task: Synopsis

During the lesson we were asked to write a synopsis for our film "Murder Studies". In short, a synopsis is a brief piece of writing, often a paragraph or two that gives the reader an overall idea of the film that it has written for. Our Synopsis is as follows:

Fred, Jase, Mike and Tom are 4 average sixth form lads who are assigned the task of planning and creating a teen horror movie. After indulging themselves in lots of research by watching horror movies, they have their plan; A psychopathic killer who kidnaps teenagers and tortures them in new and inventive ways...
While filming for their horror movie they get carried away with their roles and begin actually killing and torturing victims in the style of the murderers from the films they have researched. The style of their killings are loosely based on the Saw films along with hints of other horror classics such as halloween and Friday the 13th.

After we had finished writing our synopsis we were asked to go out and ask people within our targeted age range (15-25) how the thought Murder Studies should begin after we had shown then our synopsis. We filmed our interviews and in my next post I shall put on the footage of some of these interviews.

60 Second Pitch

Below is the link to our 60 second pitch. Please skip the video to 4:45 and watch up to 5:45 to see TwinPine Film's 60 second pitch.


http://kbaas2013.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/your-60-second-pitches.html#!/2012/11/your-60-second-pitches.html