Refineing the first draft

In order improve our mark, we had to come up with new exiting ideas to push our project forward. There fore we brainstormed and filmed new "artsy" shots to be featured in our film.
Holding a shot steady, where appropriate
Firstly, a tracking shot using a dolly, of the monster of the film dragging his victim down the school corridor. This shot is hard to do and with the use of a dolly we should be able to pull it off to create a variety of shit, and interesting camera movement.

To establish that the school is empty, a number of long shots (once the character had been introduced) Will be at an angle, when edited will be part of a series of jump shots to move time on in the two minutes we are given without ruining the continuity. Together both shots will be at different angles to put the audience more on edge, because when using these shots, subconsciously we are on edge because something isn't right, and the brain will process this, and you will feel the emotion we are trying to create.
(people walking out of school, find out term)

Framing shot, including and excluding elements as appropriate / (shooting material appropriate to the task set)

The close up of the text message on the phone, is now an extereme close up, to further exclude any unnecessary elements, which also reveals the time of which the message was sent (3.08, just after school), which will further sell the fact that this is set after school once we edit in the new long shot scene of the school gates closing and all pupils leaving.

Using a variety of shot distances as appropriate / (shooting material appropriate to the task set)

There was not enough variety shown in our fist draft, a vital shot missing from the piece, which is typically seen in the opening scene of a feature film is a long shot, this establishes the setting, and what we may expect, with distance, to start out journey into the film.

Non-diagetic sound / diagetic sound.

This music was found to replace Beethoven's-love story, its fits in well with the mood we are trying to create, one of enigma and fear. This piece of music is featured during the title sequence all the way up to the moment where the hand is famed in  the shot, when water drops from something unknown, where the sound will then change to create a new effect and suspense.

Diagetic sound will also feature, when the shot fades black, and a deathly scream will be heard, the screen is left black to leave the violence and drama up to the audience, which is usually more gruesome than any thing a director can portray on screen. This  idea comes from a famous scene in the classic film [Insert film and director], where the door is left ajar, and the male character attacks the female, and all that can be seen is the shadow of his hand and screams from the woman, which sends chills up and down your spine as you imagine what he is doing to her! The imagination is more powerful than any moving picture on a screen.

The on going battle, with the non-diagetic sound.

The underlining theme of our feature film is classic ideology's, which is the base of any horror film which is, love, passion and perhaps social outcast, which will result in the monster becoming obsessed with erotic killings. this is what we wanted to achieve but with subtlety. So the Non-diagetic music is essential to us, which we have had numerous discussions and a contrast of ideas had arises, we had decided to use 'love story' which was a brilliant idea, however imperfect, the song is to upbeat, which could have cause a juxtaposition between the theme and music, however because the story is not clear yet because we only see the set up, even though usually in drama this concept works, something is notright. However I do believe that a classical piece would be most perfect, however less upbeat the a more sad and deeper meaning.

Title sequence (Dilemas and solutions)

So, initially we were all completely in love with Stanley Kubrick's cheap however, effective title sequences, which produced a raw emotion of fear from his striking idea. Red as we thought, and many would, would be the perfect colour for the font, in the art world this powerful colour represents love, passion and death, all of which are themes of our The video of our first draft, (below)contains our initial idea, which gave the look we were looking for, however red titles against a black and white film, now we know was quite a ridiculous idea, it makes no scene what so ever, but "love is blind" and Stanley Kubrick had broken out hearts.

After realising our mistake, it was back to the drawing board to find a solution to our dilemma, which was simple giving our basic knowledge o classic horror's and black and white films, the titles are always in white, in horror they are always bold, and have a dripping effect, however the Mac we were working with gave us little to work with, so the closest font to the desired one, was a the font 'cracked'. By enlarging the fort to dominate the screen, finally gave us the feel our film craved, which is now much more suited to the genre of classic horror.
Inspired by

Media Studies AS Project - 1st Draft

(exam question, on the representaion of gender, lighting, mise en scene, camera angles/ movement, editing)