Titles

Titles

Art of the title is a website with opening titles/fonts and film company logos and I am going to use this website to get some ideas and pick out some ideas I liked.

Titles:

I like this a lot as its really simple but is very creepy. I like the
way everything is in black and white and the title "The Conjuring"
isn't too big and stands out too much as I think that's what makes the
title creepy. I also like the way the title sort of blends into the tree and also
the way the corners are darker like something is focusing in on the view.

I also like this title a lot as "psycho's acting" stands out compared to the
background a lot which is good as people straight away will know what
the film is called. The color of the title also gives us vibes that
blood is going to be evolved. The background also gives it
a very scary vibe and goes well with the title. I like this
title a lot and would maybe use an idea like this for
our own movie opening.

Filming Schedule

Filming Schedule

Wednesday 11th February- Filming all of opening scene at my house.

5.00pm- Set up camera and tripod.

5.15pm- Start filming.

6.30pm- 10 minute break from filming.

6.40pm-Finish off all filming.

7.30- Go through all footage and make sure we have everything we need.

Thursday 14th February- Recording sounds for opening scene.

5.00pm- Record sounds for opening scene.

5.30- Finish.

On Friday 15th we started putting together all of our footage, cutting and editing it and added sound. We finished editing our opening scene a couple of lessons later.

Casting

Casting

The Mother- The mother who is the main character is played by Antonia Georgiou. The mother is portrayed as a typical mother who takes care of her child. She is dressed in simple clothes and has a very caring personality.

The son- The son is played by Stevie Georgiou. The son is again portrayed as a typical young child, playing on his Ps3. He is dressed in young boys clothes like a young boy would be. His personality is sweet and innocent.

Mind Map

Mind Map Of Horror Movies

 

 

 

As you can see above I did a mind map on a few different horror movies and what each horror movie has involved and how it would make the audience feel.

 

 

Our new movie "The Playhouse" includes a possessed child and ghostly actions so our opening scene is quite similar to Insidious as a possessed child was used in that film and also the conjuring with the ghostly actions.

 

 

Watching open scenes to horror movies helped us get ideas for own. After watching a few we put little bits of each one to create our own.

Plot Overview

Plot overview for The Playhouse

 

 

 

In a quiet village, a family of three live in a house that has been sold for a very cheap price but an unknown reason. One night the mother and son are at home settling in whilst the father is at work. Whilst the son is playing and the mother is in the kitchen preparing dinner, the mother cuts her finger whilst chopping up an apple.

 

When she goes to wash her finger and plaster it up, her husband rings up checking on how they are getting on in their new house. Whilst speaking on the phone the mother hears footsteps quickly scattering across the landing upstairs... thinking it is her son.

 

 

She puts down the phone to her husband with mixed emotions towards what could be going on upstairs. With worry she makes her way upstairs with fear in her face. She thinks its her son but soon to find out her son was downstairs. When she gets upstairs she checks all rooms for her son but there is no sign of him at all. She finally checks her sons room where she finds clothes scattered all over the room, with anger the mother thinks she has found her soon in the bathroom.

 

When she realised that her son is not in the bathroom she calls for him and he appears downstairs. The mother looking even more worried makes her way downstairs to investigate when a pale ghostly looking face appears from the top of the stairs.

Our first movie and why it is better

Why we decided to change our movie and why it is better...

After a very careful and thoughtful decision, we decided to change our opening scene with a completely different story line.

After watching our first opening scene quite a few times we were really unhappy about our opening scene so we decided to plan out some a new opening scene and started planning out where to film, new characters and a new storyline.

We spoke to our media teacher about re-doing our opening scene and at first he disagreed with the idea as it would take a lot of time and we would have to really focus on it as we would only have a couple of weeks. After showing our teacher all the preparation we ready to re-do our opening scene he finally let us go ahead with the idea.

Here are a few reasons on why we decided to change our movie...

1. Compared to our new and up to date opening scene ... The lighting in our first opening scene was very bad as it was very dark and fuzzy in parts, this caused our opening scene to look very un professional and difficult to see towards the end.

Scene from our first opening scene (The Cellar)

2. There wasn't any speech in our first opening scene so in our re-do we added speech to it. We added dialogue between the mother and son.

AS Evaluation- Question 6

AS Evaluation
Antonia Georgiou

 
 
 
4.  Who would be the audience for your media product?

 The audience for our media product would be teenagers and young adults as the kind of horror used in our opening scene E.G devil child and dark scenes would appeal to this age range.

Anyone older than this sort of age range could find the opening scene and especially the movie if we had to carry it on a little boring.

AS Evaluation- Question 5

AS Evaluation
Antonia Georgiou

 
 
 
5. How did you address/ attract your audience?

We attracted/addressed our audience to our film "The Playhouse" coming up with an attractive name which will make people want to watch the movie from just seeing our title. The title "The Playhouse" will attract our audience as usually playhouses are portrayed as either fun or creepy and scary in terms of horror.

We have also attracted our audience throughout our whole trailer using some a lot of conventions of a horror such as mysterious and scary scenes, dark scenes to cause tension and left the end of our opening scene with a cliff hanger. We left the end of our opening scene with a cliff hanger of the mother looking confused and worried towards thinking someone was upstairs and from behind a face appearing. This will leave the audience with confusion and will make them want to watch the whole film which is attracting the audience.

We also attracted our audience by using good digetic and non digetic sound to make the opening scene seem realistic and good quality. We also made sure our editing of the opening scene was good and not too heavy to make sure again it was good quality. The narrative in our opening scene would again also attract the audience as the dialogue set what the film was going to be on and what was going on at the time which again will also attract the audience.

Our movie is quite similar to real films such as the exorcist and other films which include possessed and weird behaved children.

The exorcist is a film based on a possessed evil child who lives with her mother (Same characters as our movie) and her mom tries to get the devil out of her with the help of the priest. This film was a very successful film and was one of the biggest horror films of its time. If our film has similar aspects to this the exorcist then our opening scene should definitely attract people to watch it.

Overall I wold say that our opening scene has and will attract our audience as we have many conventions of horror's in it and the storyline to the film its self will attract an audience.