>>S.A.W. ProductionZ<<

2010-02-17T02:55:00.000-08:00

In today's lesson we edited our film. We cut some of the unnecessary clips and made some other clips shorter because our film went over 2 minutes. We added music which Shahina, one of the team-member, made. We edited some of the shots, music and effects.

Peek-a-Boo

2010-02-17T02:31:00.001-08:00

This is what our scary character looks like. We chose to go for this look because it matches with he title of our film as well as the image that we were going for.

Grudge Girls

2010-02-04T04:33:00.000-08:00

This is an image from the film Grudge. We used this image because it gave us an idea of what are main, scary character should look like.

20/1/10

2010-01-20T02:22:00.000-08:00

In today's lesson we filmed part of our scary video. The part we filmed was when the business man aka (Aminul) was coming from work and going through the graveyard. We couldn't film much because the battery on our video camera was low but we made a dicision that we're going to film later on this week maybe or the next week.

Hide and Seek - Research

2009-12-17T04:38:00.000-08:00

We have researched on this film because this fits our chosen genre which is thriller/horror.

"After the suicide of his wife, the psychiatrist Dr. David Callaway (Robert De Niro) decides to move with his traumatized daughter Emily (Dakota Fanning) from New York to the country to give more attention to her. In their huge old house, Emily finds a new and violent invisible friend called Charlie, making David very concerned with her mental state".

Characters:
-Main character is Dakota Fanning, the little girl.
-She seems vulnerable and very easy to make her cry and upset
-The fact that she is lonely after her mothers death and that she is 'Traumatized', is perfect because it is her weakness.
-The creaters could use this to start the storyline
- She is also represented as being scared, weak and vulnerable

Who is the main character in our production?
-Aminul is the main character in our movie
-He is representing a working - class gentlemen
-Shahina is the dead lady who follows Aminul

Why we changed the conventions is because:
-We want to challenge the stereotypes of women being weak and men being the heroes
-We want something different so the audience be intrigued and interested
-We also want the audience to be engaged to the movie
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Mariam, Zakiyya and Shahina 17/12/09

What We Had Done In Today's Lesson:

2009-12-16T02:40:00.000-08:00

In Todays lesson, we had done many things:
- We discussed where and when to film our movie production
- We also discussed our filming schedule but have not come to a decision of when to film and whom else to film along with
Mariam, Zakiyya and Aminul

Idea 2

2009-12-15T11:29:00.000-08:00

Idea 1

2009-12-15T11:22:00.000-08:00

Target Audience

2009-12-02T02:18:00.000-08:00

In S.A.W. ProductionZ, we aim to:
- Have a target audience for people who enjoy watching horror
- The audience consumption could tend to be:
- Couples
- Teens (rating 15)
We would make it a 15 and not an 18 because we know that lots of people would love to watch horror based films. We could lose many audiences because nowadays, the younger generation are the today's solution. What they want, is what they will get. This is in their expectations list. By creating a huge audience response, it increases the audience consumption. Overall, we will be creating a positive and stimulated response.

Brainstorming Ideas for our Coursework Production

2009-12-02T02:06:00.000-08:00

- A horror based production
- Setting in a church with graves etc
- Characters include:
- Businnessman coming home from work
- A dead old scary woman walking around the church
Main Plot from beginning:
- Man coming home from work at night, decides to take a shortcut which is through the dark church
- He is unaware that he is being followed by the old, dead lady
- He realises he is being followed
- His life is in danger
- He is on the ground unconcious
- Fades away with ambulance sirens

Old Scary Lady

2009-12-02T01:50:00.001-08:00

We chose this picture of an old lady who is the character from Drag Me To Hell. It looks scary which is perfect for our film or an idea of how a scary old women should look. As old women are stereotypically seen "SCARY", it is an excellent choice. She has some sort of deformity such as yellow, mashed out teeth, a dodgy eye, a stapled forehead, old wired grey hair and finally a wrinkly pale skin.
Overall, this image is perfect for our character. We can immediately brainstorm many ideas of how our scary character could look like.

St Dunstans Chruch/ Stepney

2009-12-02T01:49:00.000-08:00

St Dunstan's church is a perfect location. As we researched on it, we found out that St Dunstan's has a lot of historical context. It had a lot of people who owned it and have now passed away. The history behind St Dunstan's is creepy, which is excellent for us as it will automatically create a scary scenio and atmosphere where we will have chills sent down our spine along with goosebumps.

Music

2009-11-25T13:06:00.000-08:00

These are the music that we will be using in our production:

>> Saw
>> Screams
>> Church Bells
>> Holloween
>> Ambulance
>> Rewind Effect
>> Doorbells

Production Roles

2009-11-25T12:55:00.000-08:00

Camera Operater: Mariam
Producer: Zakiyya
Editor: Aminul
Director: Shahina
Actor(s): Aminul
Actress(es): Shahina
Other: Preist if needed

PLANNING OUR PRODUCTOR
characters, actors(Aminul and Shahina). More characters could be used if needed.

SETTING: In a church/ maybe the Limehouse Docks or maybe the Bow Cemetary

PROPS: make-up to make the characters look scary
masks (if nessesary)
Suits/shirt for actor
PJs/long gown (black or white)

Conventions of a Thriller/Horror

2009-11-25T12:51:00.001-08:00

>> Violence
>> Victim - women, child, step father
>> Death
>> Vengeance
>> Bad Weather
>> Isolated Suburb Area
>> Large Empty House
>> Evening/Night Time
>> Paranormal Activities
>> Chase/Games

Saw

2009-11-25T12:50:00.003-08:00

Saw

2009-11-25T12:50:00.001-08:00

With a dead body laying between them, two men wake up in the secure lair of a serial killer who's been nicknamed "Jigsaw" by the police because of his unusual calling card. He is known as a psychopath who believes that the people are not living their lives the way they should. He believes that they are being taken for granted, this is why he comes down to punishing them, but gives them a chance to live.

2009-11-25T12:49:00.002-08:00

Paranormal Activity

2009-11-25T12:49:00.001-08:00

Paranormal activity is based on true events which took place in a house. The woman claimed that the paranormal activities began taking place when she was 8 years old.
This film is set in the suburbs.
A desperate couple who took risks just to catch a deadly entity, they manage took catch footage of these taking place. The reason they began recording these footage is to prove to the audience that these events are following her wherever she goes.

Freshy Hit's England 2

2009-11-25T12:45:00.002-08:00

2009-11-25T12:45:00.001-08:00

This is our new and improved preliminary task. We have made many improvements and corrections by evaluating our first preliminary task. We have improved the way we handle the camera along with the tripod itself. Every camera angle we believe was perfect. The only mistake that was made was when there was a slight zooming in between the conversation between the freshy and the interview woman but overall, everything was going great.
we had got different actresses who seemed very confident and happy to act. It took us under an hour. we were pressured as we had limited time but successfully, we managed to complete it.
The editing was really straight-forward. Transitions along with font/text adding was simple. We had managed to complete the whole preliminary exercise in one whole hour. Thank god!

2009-11-22T10:45:00.000-08:00

Freshy Hit's England 1

2009-11-22T10:30:00.000-08:00

This was our first preliminary task that we had to do. we made another one because we realized that we had many mistakes on our first one but we managed to improve the task in the end. The problems that we had were that the tripod wasn't leveled, the camera angles were not perfectly horizontal. The audience was confused on were the camera was set. there were many distractions with other students which made it difficult to concentrate. We now have made a corrected version of our preliminary task.

Constantine

2009-11-22T10:28:00.000-08:00

2009-11-22T10:25:00.000-08:00

Constantine the Opening Scene
This movie is called constantine. it is based on evil forces such as Jinns and angels taking away people's souls and exorcism. it is really scary and the trailer even demonstrates it.

there are always typical characters such as ladies being possessed and men who are the heroes. the establishing shots show places such as mexico, letting the viewers know where the problem is and what is happening

it could help us on our movie by giving us ideas. we could have someone possessed in our production or maybe even a hero. however, it is only an opening scene. we cold maybe start it off with someone getting possessed and who seeks help. either way, it is effective and will work

Amityville Horror

2009-11-22T10:24:00.000-08:00

2009-11-22T10:22:00.001-08:00

Amytville horror
The Amityville Horror The opening Scene
This film is really popular. It is because it is based on a true story. The genre of this film is horror. it shows the opening of the Amityville horror. the establishing shots show that it is based on a true story. it uses writing to show the viewers what it is based on "A True Story". Other things such as location, lighting, etc is very intriging.

There are typical characters such as an abusing dad, a little girl and boy, their mother whois stressed etc.
the location is in a rural place with just the house.

This clip demonstrates the features of what we will use for our own movie. It gives us ideas of what type of props to use, where to film it, how the characters will be like, the lighting, the location etc.