Poster Draft Feedback

I presented my poster to our target audience and this is the feedback I received.

After taking these comments into account I made some changes to the poster to the audiences preference because they are they people who's attention we want to grab through our posters. If we add everything that our audience wants to the poster then there is a better chance that they will like our poster.

This is my improved poster design.

Quote of The Day 2

"Terror is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of what so ever is grave and constance in human sufferingsand unites with the cause" - James Joyce

FILMING DIARY!

FILMING DAY 1

this was the first day of filming when we shot the beginning of the scene of Lana in her bedroom getting ready for the camping trip. Filming for the first time was a definite challenge as it took some time to play around with the camera and understand how to use it properly. moreover, we experimented with lighting for the first time to see what position to keep the lighting in order for the camera to capture what was needed and make it look professional. There was many complications whilst filming for the first time as in the first run we forgot to use a mic. This wasn't good as our voices weren't as clear as we wanted it to and it needed to be projected in order for the audience to hear it properly. 


FILMING DAY 2!


This was the day we filmed the flashback of reminiscing the past of the teenage girls at school when they were younger bullying Naila who plays the villain. We had to get these external actors last minute as the year 7's in our school who were originally assigned to play the actors couldn't make it. This is why we gathered these small group of girls as quick as we could by arranging to talk to their parents. First, I didn't understand how difficult it was to film with young children as they was very giggly and kept forgetting their lines and making a fuss about everything. It also took time to clam them down as they was very jumpy and excited. However, we got the scene completed at the end and we tried various angles and different shots to see which one came out the best starting from a high angle and altering as we went on.

FILMING DAY 3!

 
 













This is the day we went out to film our establishing shot of the graveyard and film the conversation that Inaya was having over the phone to Lana. We managed to get a lot done on this day as we discovered a place in the graveyard to shoot very quickly. We played around with the camera settings and changed the colour of the picture into a more blue toned lighting to portray the vibe of a horror movie. Moreover, we managed to shoot when the sun was setting so it gave it a more creepy setting and atmosphere. On this day, we used various shots and camera movements from when Inaya  was walking towards the camera and talking on the phone to see what looked the best. We ended up using the long shot of Lana walking into the frame as we felt that the camera was too shaky as we followed her whilst she was walking in front of the camera. 

FILMING DAY 4!

 
 












Today we filmed the scene where Naila is on the swings singing her lullaby after she has murdered the girls. It emphasised how Naila has mental issues and there is something not right about her. We tried filming this in different ways such as walking towards her face with the camera as she is swinging on the swings as well as keeping the camera still and just focusing on her face as she sings the lullaby. We also shot it from behind where we could only see her back to the camera and she is swinging on the swings. Then the camera quickly cuts to a close up shot of her screaming into the camera which gives the audience a final fright. The wind in the background was perfect as it gave a good sound effect as well as moving all the park equipment making it look more freaky!

FILMING DAY 5!

 
 













This is the day we went into the graveyard to film the scene where Inaya gets taken away by the police officer. We used LED lights to get the perfect lighting as it was pitch black by the time we went out to film. We filmed the scene in different angles as we first filmed it as a mid shot, then we did a low angle canted shot so the camera was faced looking upwards towards the characters. Finally, we shot the scene from behind a tree to make it look like it was the villains Naila's point of view to show she is looking at the action. 

Poster Draft 1

Permission for equipment

Permission contract letters

AUDIENCE PROFILE FOR EACH CHARACTER!

Audience profile!

Name: Shazmin

Gender: Female

Age: 18

Character name played in movie: Lana

Type of character played in the movie: Victim

Psychographic variable: Trendies- Those who crave attention of their peers

Hobbies and interests: Shopping, beauty,  fashion, makeup, hair, scrapbooking and being creative, baking, planning events, styling, doing makeovers and hanging out with friends and family.

Personality: Bubbly, funny and the girly girl from the bunch of friends

Name: Seema

Gender: Female

Age: 18

Character name played in the movie: Inayah

Psychographic variable: Rebel- Those who wish to remark the world in their image

Hobbies and interests:  She loves to go to the cinemas, explore and travel the world, into fashion and doing makeovers, interested in R&B music, enjoys photography.

Personality: She’s a brave individual who is has an outgoing personality and is not afraid to challenge herself

Name: Jamila

Gender: Female

Age: 18

Character name played in the movie: Saliha

Type of character played in the movie: Victim

 Psychographic value: Trendies- those who crave attention from their peers.

Hobbies and interests: Enjoys Disney movies, spending time with family and friends, favourite subject is English, likes reading jaqline Wilson books, loves to dance and is a traveller.

Personality: She is the kind and caring character who always looks out for others and has a loving personality and fun to be around.

Name: Marzana

Gender: Female

Age: 18

Character name played in the movie: Zahrah

Type of character played in the movie: Victim

 Psychographic value: Innovator- those who wish to make their mark

Hobbies and interests: Camping, swimming, writing stories, listening to pop music, she enjoys watching scary movies and her favourite boy band is One Direction.

Personality: She is the wise one in the group with a bold and bright personality who is always playing jokes in the group.

Name: Majiha

Gender: Female

Age: 10

Character name played in the movie: Nailah

Type of character played in the movie: Villain

Psychographic value: Rebel and innovator.

Hobbies and interests: plotting revenge, being alone, playing in the woods, playing with dolls, she enjoys watching horror movies.

Personality: Cunning, sly, mysterious, unknown, quiet and deadly

Interview With Film Practitioner

Production Schedule

production schedule for editing:

DATE	TIME	LOCATION	ACTIVITY	PERSONELL
15/12/14	9:00 AM- 10:40 AM	Classroom	We are going to be editing the scene that we filmed in the bow cemetery	Fahima
16/12/14	11:00 AM -12:40 PM	Classroom	We are going to be editing Lana’s bedroom scene by adding in the background music and deciding what shots to use as we shot the same scene in different angles.	Shazmin
22/12/14	9:00 AM- 10:40 AM	Classroom	We are going to be editing the scene of the flashback where we need to cut out all the giggling and laughter. Moreover, we are going to edit the marmoreal scene by adding in sad background music to give it a sad atmosphere.	Jamila
24/12/14	10:40 AM -1240 PM	Classroom	We are going to edit the park scene by speeding it up to make it look like the atmosphere is tense and fast.	Fahima and Jamila
15/1/15	9:00 AM- 10:40 AM	Classroom	Edit the scene of us in the graveyard in our camping trip. We need to edit in sound effects such as twigs breaking, sound of heart beat racing and giggles and laughter from Nailah.	Shazmin and Fahima

Planning Narrative Theories

Costume and Props List

• Creepy doll- This will be used when the girls go camping and the doll is sticking out of a characters bag as well as creeping up in particular scenes such as when Lana is in her room getting ready for the trip, the camera will focus attention on the doll.
• Bag pack for each teenage girl- This would be needed to show when the girls arrive in the graveyard that they are ready to start their trip with their essentials inside. 
• Hairbrush- This will be needed to in the first scene where we see Lana getting ready in her bedroom and brushing her hair.
• Lighting- We will need lighting for every scene as good lighting is needed in order to make the camera quality pop. We will need lighting in Lanas bedroom scene and the camping scene such as LED special lights in order to give the effect of us being around a campfire.
• Kids are going to wear school uniform- The kids in our flashback will be needing to wear school uniform to show how they are in school bullying Nailah as a child. Them wearing the school uniform will set the scene as make it look realistic that it is a school environment.
• Teenage girls are going to wear winter outdoor clothing (winter scarves and coats)- This is important as we need our characters to dress the part of the weather and look cosy as if they are going out to a camping trip so they have to dress nice and warm. 
• Blankets- This will be needed to set the mood and atmosphere as the girls will be huddled around the campfire, eating marshmallows and warming up telling stories. 
• Marshmallows- This will be used for eating around the campfire as marshmallows on sticks are a common prop used in the movies when friends go on a camping adventure.
• Skipping rope & outdoor activities- These props will be needed to show how the chilren are in a school environment playing outside as they would do in break time. These props sets the atmosphere of being a in child friendly area.
• Knife- This will be needed when Nailah kills the teenage girls as she uses this weapon to start her revenge.
• Naila will be having stitches on her face (done by makeup)- This is done to make her look like a dangerous and evil villian as then it will be easier for the audience to identfy that she is the bad character in the movie.
• Naila's face makeup will be pale- This will show that there is something wrong with her as illistrate how she is not a normal healthy little girl.
• Candles- The candles will be used during Nailahs funeral as the candles will be laid next to Nailahs picture to show her sad passing.
• Bunch of flowers- These will also be used in Nailahs funeral as it will show her friends paying respect of her passing as they lay out flowers of her remembering.
• Revenge note- This revenge note will be written by Nailah 

Group Meetings

Meeting 1 - 23/09/14
Time: 12:00 - 12:15
What We Discussed:
The age group for our film should be teenage girls aged 12 and over so the film will be the classification of 12A. The type of sounds we want in our horror film is a child crying, wailing, little giggle sounds and laughter as well as creepy lullaby music in the background whilst portraying the evil child. We decided that for the mise en scene we would like to focus our film on a creepy doll that a little girl always carries around with her to show her innocence but reveal the devilish side behind the meaning of the doll. We also wanted the little evil girl to have weird, horrific makeup such and messy hair to illustrate how she is not a ordinary child! We decided to include camera shots such a tracking shot by taking the action along with the audience, a point of view shot from the evil characters point of view so we see exactly what she is plotting, long shot and establishing shot to show the scenery and narrative of the place. In the next meeting we will discuss what we will name our characters that will play in our film and how many characters are needed. 

Meeting 2 - 1/10/14
Time: 11:00 - 11:10
What We Discussed:
-In this quick group meeting we discussed how many characters will be in our film and we thought it should be a group of 4 teenage girls going camping and we needed a evil character named "Naila" so we used one of our group members little sister. We decided to name her Naila because in Arabic this means One who succeeds/accomplishes as Naila's character will succeed in her revenge. We also will decided to use Naila's group of friends to show how they used to hang out together in the playground as part of a flashback. We decided that the names of teenage girls would be Inayah, Lana, Saliha and Zahrah. In our next group meeting we will discuss editing techniques used in our film such as a flashback or a fade in. 

Meeting 3 - 26/10/14 
Time: 10:50pm


During this whatsapp conversation we were deciding what type of editing technique to use when showing the doll to the audience. We came up with using a focus editing technique to portray how the doll is an important aspect to the horror movie and we decided that the camera will turn close focus on the doll whilst a showing a character. We also discussed how the doll will be haunting the girls in the camping trip as the doll will be popping out of a girls camping bag to show shes lurking around and haunting the girls!

Meeting 4 - 3/11/14 
Time -10:50 
What We Discussed: 
We went to Wellington Primary School where we are going to film in for our flashback. As well as visiting the place we handed out the permission letters for the young girls participating in our film and handle the permission letters to the teachers. We also went and visited the location of the park we are going to use by looking and we looked around to see if the location was well suited for what we wanted to film. The location was good as it had swings which was the main prop needed as we are going to use Naila the young girl who will be swinging on the swing at the end of our film.

Meeting 5 - 10/11/14
Time - 3:10 - 3:45
What We Discussed:
We received a call back from Wellington Primary School with the news that we will not be able to film there as the parents of the children will be against it. Due to this we had to decide on a different school playground setting as soon as possible as the time for our filming was nearing. After much consideration we opted for Malmesbury Primary School which is a 5 minute walk away from our school so it would be very convenient for us. After visiting the school we managed to get permission for the filming. This led to another problem as we had recruit four new young actresses for the flashback scene as parents of the students at Wellington would not allow their daughters to travel to Malmesbury for our film. We then decided to recruit our relatives who are around the same age as the character of Naila.

Meeting 6 - 20/11/14
Time 12:40 - 1:30
What We Discussed:
We got together to discuss what we want our poster to look like. The poster survey results we did earlier were of great use at this point as it outlined what our target audience want to see in a horror film poster. This led to the decision that the main image will take up the entire poster and the writing on top will be in pastel colour dripping blood. The rest of the poster will be very gloomy using white black and red font colour. To be on the safe side each of us created our own posters so we were left with three to choose from at the end.

Meeting- 7/1/15
Time:12:00- 12:15
Today we presented our offline edit so far to our target audience they thoroughly enjoyed watching it and gave us some improvements these include.

1. Lana will press play so the music starts so we know where the music is coming from

2. Music ends when Lana’s phone rings

3. Close up shot of Lana putting on lipstick so we have a range of camera shots 

4. Point of view shop of the bullies running around Naila in a circle to show how irritating it is for her to be bullied in this constant circle 

5. Flashback colour change, so it would represent an unhappy time, the colour red which will be used links back to the horror genre 

These improvements will be added on to ensure our target audience are satisfied with what they are watching. 

Group Meeting 8
10/1/15
TIME: 3:30-4:30
Today we met up after school to have a makeup trial on our villian Nailah. We had to decide on the makeup look we are going to do on her to make her look as scary as possible. We started off by deciding that she will be wearing all white so she picked out a simple white dress to wear. We also added scratch marks in her face to give her appearence that something is wrong with her. We gave her black under eye patches and made her look dead with a pale face. We finished off by making her hair very messy like and untamed to give her a viscous and dangerous appearance. 

Radio Trailer Script

Speaker: Introducing the scariest horror film of the season...

(Sound of heartbeat/drums)

Speaker: BITTER REVENGE!!!

(Non diagetic sound heightens dramatically)

Speaker: Be prepared for a hair raising, eye popping and nail biting thrill of horror

It all started off with 4 ordinary girls living in an ordinary world…

(Sound of teenage girls having a laugh and having fun in the background)

(uplifting music in the background to portray happiness) 

Speaker: But little did they know that this camping trip was the last adventure they ever took... AS DANGER APPROACHED THEM

(Use of silence)

(Sound of naila giggling) x3

Speaker: How could you think a sweet, innocent child could be so..

(Whispering) DEVLISH, A DEMON, A MONSTER!

(Sound of a little girl crying in the background)

(Characters voice) “Huh what was that sound?”  (Sound of twigs cracking)

(Characters voice) “HELP”

(Sound of police sirens)

(Policeman’s voice): “ I am arresting you on suspicion of murder…”

(Silence)

Speaker: In cinemas now!

Quote of The Day

“The 3 types of terror: The Gross-out: the sight of a severed head tumbling down a flight of stairs, it's when the lights go out and something green and slimy splatters against your arm. The Horror: the unnatural, spiders the size of bears, the dead waking up and walking around, it's when the lights go out and something with claws grabs you by the arm. And the last and worse one: Terror, when you come home and notice everything you own had been taken away and replaced by an exact substitute. It's when the lights go out and you feel something behind you, you hear it, you feel its breath against your ear, but when you turn around, there's nothing there..." - Stephen King 

Our film, Bitter Revenge, would be the second type of terror according to Stephen King because it doesn't have any gruesome scenes that make people sick, nor does it create fear without vision. It is the second one because our film has the unnatural aspect to it as the dead character, Naila, comes back to life!

Risk Assessment For Equipment

EQUIPMENT	HAZARD	HOW MIGHT IT BE HARMED?	HOW WILL I PREVENT IT FROM HAPPENING?	HAZARD RATING
LIGHTING	There is a risk of breaking the lighting equipment as we carry the lighting from location to location since we don’t have any other form of transport other than walking.	The lighting could break as the pole can snap if not handled properly. Also if dropped the glass may shatter which could enter someone’s eye.	To prevent it from breaking there will be two people holding the lighting and carrying it the locations so if there is a less likely chance of it being dropped.	4/5
TRIPOD	There is a risk of the tripod getting knocked over whilst filming and damaging the tripod along with the camera.	The tripod may be harmed because if you are placing the tripod in a classroom and near a door, when somebody enters the classroom they might unknowingly knock it down.	To prevent it from happening we will make sure there is a sign on the door in the classroom we film in to prevent people from accidentally entering.	3/5
DIGITAL CAMERA	One of us might end up dropping the camera on the floor whilst filming because our focus will be on the characters.	The camera may be harmed as the lens could break upon dropping. This could also cause us to lose any previous shots.	To prevent the hazard from taking place, the person in charge of filming must be careful at all times when filming with the camera and must be precautions.	5/5
Mic	There is a risk that the mic gets broken or damaged.	This risk can occur if somebody accidentally stamps on the mic and smashes it. This could also happen due to the rain.	To prevent this hazard from taking place whoever is using the mic needs to be careful and hold the mic properly. I it rains all equipment should be kept under shelter.	3/5