Talent Release Form

Talent Release Form

Talent release form from DemiWrenn

Planning Shoot requirements.

Production Meeting. (3)

Production Meeting.  - 3

In this production meeting, we have all decided to rethink our ideas again. As our old ideas were too fast paced and had to much action being shown, our film opening became more like a trailer. 


Our decision was that we would keep with the home video filming style, like Noah and Ava were filming themselves (With the battery life and dare still shown). During this filming, they will pan around themselves so the audience are able to catch a glimpse of the clown in the background. When the clown is spotted, the camera quickly switches back to a medium close up shot of Noah as he spins around to see if there is actually a clown behind him. This shot will not show the clown in it, before it fades to black and the title appears. There will be various shots throughout the opening scene, linking back too a room where pictures of the couple are seen to be burning or their eyes being scratched out. This will keep happening multiple times, so the audience can interpret there is someone out for revenge but is not noticed by Noah (The male victim) as he is shown to think it's his imagination. 

Brief Synopsis

Brief Synopsis: 

Production Meeting. (2)

Production Meeting

Last meeting we all decided on a basic storyline that will create an film opening. We all choose to assign us different tasks that can be completed but also tasks that they we will do together to complete on a fair opinion. This production meeting will be about the conventions that is needed in our film opening but also the classifications and why these are needed. 

Classification:

The film opening:

The chosen classification is 15. The reason for this is that it contains violence, strong language to an extent and blood to a certain extent. The reason we are not choosing an 18 is because the violence and language in not frequent and there is no sexual/ nudity revealed in this clip. 

Trailer:

The chosen classification is 15. The reason for this is that the same rules which we have kept through the film opening will also be used in the trailer as the scenes will show this sort of content throughout the film that is sensible for a 15 and older viewer or audience. 

Conventions:

• Location - We will use a field with an empty park at about dusk when it starts to become dark. This field and park contains bushes as well which can also be used. The filming will take place obviously at dark, but also when it is quite and not populated with other people.
• Blood - We will have a pool of blood next to the male victim's body when he is found by his female girlfriend/ friend. The knife will also contain this. The blood will be placed upon watered down fake blood.
• Death. - The male victim dies in this film opening
• Scary music. - This will be edited through the clip, once the film has been filmed
• Scary costume. - The clowns mask will be wore by the killer
• Abnormal behaviour. - Kidnapping and the murderer the killer does. 
• Dark lighting. - We will be filming at dusk which makes the film opening dark throughout but has enough lighting for the audience to be able to see what is happening
• Weapons. - The killer will be shown with a blood covered knife which would be used and resemble violence. 

We have had a bit of discussion and have come to the conclusion over our opening in which we have created an alternative idea. We have decided that instead of the 'Killer' murdering the boy and then the girl going to go find the boy, we have changed it too that the Killer can walk up  behind them before stabbing the man, after the stabbing from behind he will place the knife in the male victims hand to make it look like a suicide. Before the girl can run away after trying to protect the male victim, the killer then lifts her up and walks away with her. The filming of this will all be handheld camera actions as the actors will 'pretend' too film their selves in the park about eachother. At the beginning the killer will be seen in the background of the camera, later when the man is killed, the camera will drop and fall to the side while filming the action of the kidnapping. 

Film Institutional

Importance of Genre / Classification

Main influences. - Planning Film opening.

Main Influences

Many horror films create a big influence on the audience as if they could create a film opening theirselves. Unlike them, we can. The following films revealed with their own plot summaries will be bullet pointed on what the influences are shown. These can be from lighting too sound to other things. At the end of the bullet points, a brief explanation of the positives and negatives of the film opening will be explained.

Dark Touch - Created in 2013.
Dark touch is a film based in a remote town in Ireland. This eleven year old girl called Niamh finds herself a sole survivor of a bloody massacre, which killed also killed her parents and younger brother. Due to suspicion that the massacre was a gang if homicidal vandals, the police ignore the explanation from Neve, that the house is the culprit. Neve was soon taken in by the dutiful neighbours to help ease the trauma with the supervision of a social worker. This troubles Neve's peace more, as she tries to find it among the wholesome and nurturing couple, and horrific danger which continues to manifest. 

• To begin the film opening, the production logo of IFC was shown with its personal animation. The music was also revealed to be cheery instead of eerie, before the whole production logo faded to black after a few seconds of revealing itself. 

• The eerie music of a piano playing but also a violin together was played throughout, this music became tensing and on-edge for the audience watching.

• Against the black background, the white text in small is shown to appear to reveal the credits to the film. The all used the fade in and fade out effect. The black background faded out after the credits for the participation of other fundings, productions and images was shown. 

• The scenes for the film opening faded in, in very dark lighting which had also a blue tint. The only light shown was through little amounts as a reflection or the highlight of an object.  The first fade in shot, revealed the side of a shelving unit. 

• While the scenes were shown through two different camera movements, the credits continued in white text across them all until these scenes completely faded out. 

• The two camera shots in this film opening was the movement of the pan shot and tilt shot. These would have been used to reveal the full imagery of the furniture in the house in a more eye-catching way. Even though the furniture was shown unclearly in the dark lighting effects, the camera movements managed to travel from one piece to another and gave the audience the clear idea that it was actually furniture being shown. 

• Cut-ins was also used, when the rooms changed or the close-up shots of objects changed but kept the same camera movement. These cut-ins were used regularly and are extremely noticeable. 

• When the inside of the house and furniture but also credits finished, the whole scenery faded out to black before the fade in of branches outside were revealed. While the branches kept a distraction for the audience to begin with, the focus began to slow disappear before the title 'Dark Touch' appears in capital letters but also in the colour white.

Title Ideas. - Planning film opening

Title Ideas.

Mind map with selection of possible titles, reduce down to three and then vote for the actual one.

In our production meeting we have thought of and made up title ideas, after this we reduced them to our favourite three; Slaughtered, CLOWN and The Red Nose Murderer. After this, we thought carefully and decideded that the title CLOWN would fit perfectly into our film opening.

Production Meeting. (1)

Production meeting

 The production company is based on the group I am in with, these two people are Nathan and Demi. 

Planning film opening:   - Tasks which have been split up. 

Shannon:

• Main influences
• Location scouting sheet
• Planning for shoots.  - Requirements for - hair and makeup, costumes, props and locations
• Shoot plan - to cover make up, costume, lighting shot types and influential imagery
• Call sheets

Demi:

• Brief Synopsis
• Site plans
• Talent release forms
• Shoot list
• Edit decision list 
• Audio permission 

Nathan:

• Storyboard
• Risk assessments  - Completed By Shannon.
• Location release form   - Completed By Demi.
• Resultant footage.
• Developing your company logo  - Completed By Demi

All of us:

• Title ideas - Mind map with selection of possible titles, reduce too three and and do vote for an actual one
• 4 page Sample Script
• Production schedule