final update

we finished out film last friday after several hours of over time to complete the editing and music. despite mechanical problems with the laptop we were able to complete or film almost entirley as we planned. it is now on disc with the title "Kings Acre". i am pretty happy with the finla product and have few worries about the whole process.

further updates

Sorry there is such a gap in entries here. obviously we are currently on easter hols but we have done alot of the editing after having to practically refilm all footage due to lighting problems, it is starting to look pretty good. we are cuently debating sound and will be working very hard this week to get our film perfect to be burned onto disk and completed by friday. i am confident that it will go ok!

Filming

So this weekend we brought the weeks of planning and preparation together and put it on camera, and I can gladly say that so far things are looking good. Just want to say thanks to Rosie Leathers for allowing us to shoot at her home providing us with a location that I personally felt worked better then I first imagined. We did consider other locations before filming at Rosie’s house. Me and Josh had checked out a rundown cottage in Woolpit and although it looked very good from the outside it was near impossible to film inside. We did think of filming the outside of the cottage then bringing the camera inside of Rosie’s house but the contrast was too great for it look believable.
Although Rosie’s house worked well on the whole, we did however experience minor difficulties. When we went to shoot the corridor scene we realised that the camera dolly was too wide for us to track down smoothly, so we decided to do several stills getting closer to the end each time, since this cuts the scene up we will have to cut in with pictures of the victims provided by josh.
We may have to go back during the week a reshoot a couple of scenes since lighting was a slight problem with both the camera and natural lighting coming through the windows, our final scene may also have to be reshoot but this can easily be done inside of school if it is a problem to shot at Rosie’s.
I feel that overall it was a successful day of filming getting all the provided shots; I also feel we worked well as a group with little to no disagreements, Kat took role of director whilst I filmed the majority of the project with Kat helping out with the opening scene. Josh set up the room and provided us with an excellent final map. We are now looking forward to see how it shows on the Mac and editing the piece.

Update #3

Just finishing up the items needed to construct the 'victim' map. Printed off headlines and news articals that i've written to accompany the polaroids. Bought pins and string from the shop (99p each) and have a map prepared for the background. Written out a basic idea for some shots to be used during the montage and will be filming later today. Kat has the camera and a pin board for the background and Goring is bringing story boards etc. Will post soon to tell you how filming went.

update

Just a quick update on our progress, our storyboards are finished but i don't think we'll put them on the blog as my art work is shocking! Our narrative has been fine tuned and we are collecting together props; polaroid camera shots of blonde young women, items to assemble the map with.

We have chosen a location; our friends house- not very imagentitive but we wanted somewhere with quite a long corridor in order to track down very slowly towards the room where our mystery pro/antagonist will be assembling the map of "victims". We contemplated shooting it somewhere quite run down, but then decided an ordinary house would be more creepy as it would be soewhere the audience would be able to relate to and "things that can happen behind closed dorrs" is quite a chilling statement, also it won't make our opening seem too horror. Choosing which house to use did not take much research.

Josh has done our Shot list, and James is currently scoring our soundtrack. The camera is booked for this weekend, so hopefully if all goes well we will begin editing on monday! think that is all for now...

Audience feedback

Apologies as i have only just compiled our audience questionaire feedback!

We produced a questionnaire which we handed out to 9 males and 9 females ranging from the ages of 16-35. As our brief is to produce a thriller suitable for a certificate of 15, it is not only 15 yearolds who would watch such a film, so to have a mixed age group was important to ouraudience feedback. Below i have made some statements from the questionare results, and i have highlighted the things which i think we have tried to encorpoate into our thriller/what the questionnaries have shown to be most popular in a thriller.

Out of the thriller genres; horror, crime, pychological, action and supernatural the male participants preferred to watch action, psychological and crime the most and females preferred psychological, then supernatural/horror then crime/action. It is clear to se here that the most popular thriller genre is pyschological.
90% of male participants like clues in thrillers which is also popular with 100% of female particpants agreeing.
100% of both males and female partcipants like plot twists and extreme camera angles in thrillers.
90% of male partcipants like fast editing with only 1% liking slow instead of fast.
Female partcipants liked fast/fast and slow editing 50/50- indicating an apropriate mix makes for the perfect thriller.
Male partcipants like film noir 50/50 as opposed to female participants preferring it 90/10. indicating film noir is very popular amongst our sample audience.
The male participants were most afraid of spiders, heights, sharks, little girls on swings and dark corners.
The female participants were most afraid of; spiders, darkness, small spaces and being followed. Indicating overall spiders, darkness and "being trapped" scares our sample audience the most.
The favourite thrillers of our male particpants were; usual suspects, seven, vacancy and sin city, where as our females particpants liked;fight club, memento and clock work orange
The general concences of what makes a good thriller by both our male and female participants is a good storyline with planty of twists to keep focus and to keep them "guessing" with a really good ending which explains everything.

Males wanted a thriller opening to have secrecy, action, cliffhangers and montages
Females wanted to see; suspence, mystery, and darkness. This indicates a thriller opening should have lots of suspence/cliffhangers and mystery.
Males wanted characters to be; secretive and have in depth personalities/histories

Females wanted characters to have; mystery and suspence, dark pasts, to be secretive "two faced". This indicates characters should be secretive, unpredictable and dark.

Idea for map

This is an example of what we intend our "map" to look like, this example is from the good old memento and the other is from hero's

We would like our map to have this kind of look, as it shows someone has been planing something for a long time with a lot of thought. In our opening the map will depict the antagonists sinister intentions- to stalk/find/kill innocent girls who all look similar. We feel this kind of map will be very creepy and thrilling, especially as it will be constructed during the opening montage by the "killer" who's indentity will be witheld from the audience. Only his reseidence/place of work will be known as we will enter the room where the "killer" is working away at the map through a voyeristic establishing shot,panning through the window, and down to where the room is located within the house!