M.P Productions

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Using Adobe Photoshop, I created a false Production Company Logo. Annabell and I agreed on using the name 'M.P Productions' , which uses the letters of both of our surnames.

After choosing an image, we created a Logo.

Here is the screen shot of the process;

And here is the final saved image that we will use in our Major Task;

We are quite happy with the final outcome.

costume design for major task;

I decided on simple, light coloured clothes to signify that she is a victim at the part when she is running away from him. Maybe dark blue coloured jeans and a white shirt. She'll wear her hair open so it blows in the wind.
The make-up is light, she only wear a little bit mascara and rouge. You can see the mascara coming down from her face, because she's crying.
By the shot when she kill her boyfriend I decide that she is wearing a red or black party-dress with black high-heels and a very dark make-up ; smoky-eyes and red lipgloss because it shows more her evil side.
The boy will wear black jeans and a white shirt so that you will be able to see the blood.

Dialogue and Audio

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Today, Annabell and I used our time to create the dialogue for our major task. This is solely because the weather outside was not on our side and we could not do filming on location today.

The way our storyboard is set up, we have shots 2 and 12 with black screens and the audio is speaking.
To do this, we will record audio tracks of our actress speaking.
We also need to record audio tracks of her breathing to play in the background of our 2 minute piece as this is the main suspense builder of our clip.

For shot number two, we are going to use the line;
'What have I done?'
A rhetorical question that intentionally with scare the audience and hopefully make them want to continue watching. This will be followed on with tracks of 'scared' breathing, which is irregular, and we will also use silence too.

For shot number twelve, we have decided on the line;
'He's back for me.'
This will be followed by a silence and a black screen which hopefully will have a jump cut to our Title page with some music that we have chosen.

The title we have settled on is 'Escape'.
Music behind this shot will be a track created and produced by a personal friend.
'I met the sun' - Hawaii Jupiter

This fits well and will hopefully be an interesting contrast to the silence and breathing throughout the first two minutes.

Planning Major Task

Synopsis;
A teenage girl has a horrible past. She has killed her overly-obsessive boyfriend one year before. She tried to forget him and that she has killed him, but he didn't forget her and now he has come back to be with her forever and make sure she doesn't forget what she did to him in the night. We will try to do this by fast editing, to make it more interesting and more scary. By editing all of our shots in Black&White, I think this will add to the scary story that we are trying to portray. By making our opening scene very catchy and quite confusing, we think that this will draw an audience to want to watch it, and we will try to do this effectively by cross-cutting shots and having fast editing.I am hoping that our filming goes as well as we plan it to so that our opening can be better as possible. We will be starting this very soon, but we wait for a little bit more nicer weather(Aka. Not raining) to film in. Our indoor shots aren't actually needed until later as our outside on-location shots are our priority for filming at the moment.

Locations;
Location-wise, we will only be using two different ones.One will be outside in a field, and we want this to give an eerie mood our opening, as it will be quiet and empty, making the audience ask questions.The second will be in Gordonstoun House, in the long empty hallway downstairs. With the correct lighting and filming/editing skills, we could definately make this location very spooky and this is why this place fits our movie genre perfectly.

Actors;
For our main character, who is female, we have chosen Phoebe Ritchie. For our 'victim/killer' we aren't quiet shure, who we want to choose, so we search for the right actor.

Mise-en-Scene;
We want our backgrounds to be extremely simple to add to the eerie feel of our opening. Possibly by using make-up on the girl, we can show that she is upset, by smudging her mascara or something, becuase she is runing away, and then she is crying and all the mascara is running down her face.

Props;
For props we will need:-A knife-some sort of substance for the colour on the knief, maybe ketchup or something else.
Our opening will be in black and white so it doesn't matter, what we choose for an substance it will be all black.
We want to keep our opening as simple as possible, so as not to give away our entire story in the first 2 minutes, but enough to make people want to watch more.

Storyboard

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I drew up a storyboard showing all of the shots we are planning to do for our major task (Horror movie opening).

Even as a draft, I think our planning looks quite good and if we do it correctly and the filming goes according to plan, it could be very good.

Here are some pictures I took of the storyboard I drew up;

Planning Major Task

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The film opening that we are planning has a mixed genre of thriller and horror. We are going to focus mainly on using the element of making our audience want to watch the rest of the movie (if there was one) and build up suspense.


Synopsis;

A teenage girl has a horrible past. She killed her overly-obsessive boyfriend exactly one year before. She tried to forget him, but he didn't forget her and now he has come back to be with her forever and make sure she doesn't forget what she did to him.


We want our movie opening to be fast and keep the audience wanting more. We will try to do this by fast editing, to make it more interesting. By editing all of our shots in Black&White, I think this will add to the scary story that we are trying to portray. By making our opening scene very catchy and quite confusing, we think that this will draw an audience to want to watch it, and we will try to do this effectively by cross-cutting shots and having fast editing.
I am hoping that our filming goes as well as we plan it to so that our opening can be as good as possible. We will be starting this very soon as we need the 'good' weather (Aka. Not raining) to film in. Our indoor shots aren't actually needed until later as our outside on-location shots are our priority for filming at the moment.

Locations;
Location-wise, we will only be using two different ones.
One will be outside in a field, and we want this to give an eerie mood our opening, as it will be quiet and empty, making the audience ask questions.
The second will be in Gordonstoun House, in the long empty hallway downstairs. With the correct lighting and filming/editing skills, we could definately make this location very spooky and this is why this place fits our movie genre perfectly.

Actors;
For our main character, who is female, we have chosen Kim Paxton. For our 'victim/killer' we are going to use Henri Yueksel.

Mise-en-Scene;
We want our backgrounds to be extremely simple to add to the eerie feel of our opening. Possibly by using make-up on the girl, we can show that she is upset, by smudging her mascara or something.

Props;
For props we will need:
-A knife
-Some sort of dark substance that could pass as blood. (Our opening will be in black and white so it is irrelevant whether the substance is red or not, it just has to be dark and as realistic as possible)

We want to keep our opening as simple as possible, so as not to give away our entire story in the first 2 minutes, but enough to make people want to watch more. (If it were a real movie).
Our idea is a very gripping, chilling story and if we pull this task off correctly, I think it could be extremely good.

Video

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Here is our final video for our preliminary task!