Final Deadline Edit.

Why We Researched Titles - Chloe Lawler

The research we have done (at looking at film titles) has allowed our group to expand our knowledge of what generic conventions of a horror film title should look like. Seeing other film titles showed us how our own film title should look and has given our group some ideas of what we want our opening title to be. This research has also shown us what we need to include in the opening credits, such as the director and music producer. The title openings of different horror films has made our group discuss a variety of different options of what we want our film opening credits to look like. We have also begun to create many titles that we believe would suit our genre. Having these options gives our group a diverse range to choose from and allows us to pick a title that we all think would be best suited for our opening.

Newspaper Article For Our Opening By Afsara Tasnim

This is the newspaper article we used in the additional scene in the end of our opening. At first, me and Yasir were struggling to come up with a title for the newspaper as it had to be bold and effective, and also relate to our film narrative. After coming up with other titles such as "Shelmadine Murder", we both decided to keep it simple but also include our title name in it as we thought that it would make the headlines look more significant to our film. 

Opening Title Analysis (wording) By Afsara Tasnim

As we were coming to an end of our editing process, we started looking at different horror films and in particular focused on the wording of the opening titles. We already have  rough idea from our previous research of the style and the movement but now we'd just like to get the words right.
The Eye opening scene-

Lionsgate (production company)

 Paramount vantage (production company)

Lionsgate and Paramount Vantage present

JESSICA ALBA

ALESSANDRO NIVOLA

PARKER POSEY

RADE SERBEDZIJA

RACHEL TICOTIN

OBBA BABATUNDE

DANNY MORA

CHLOE GRACE MORETZ

CASTING BY

NANCY NAYOR BATTINO, C.S.A

AND KELLY MARTIN WAGNER

MUSIC BY

MARCO BELTRAMI

MUSIC SUPERVISOR

JAY FAIRES

COSTUME DESIGNER

MICHAEL DENNISON

EDITED BY

PATRICK LUSSIER

PRODUCTION BY

JAMES SPENCER

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY

JEFFREY JUR , ASC

LINE PRODUCER

JACK MURRAY

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

MIKE ELLIOTT

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

PETER CHAN

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS

ROY LEE

DOUG DAVISON

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS  

MICHAEL PASEORNEK

PETER BLOCK

TOM ORTENBERG

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

DARREN MILLER

PRODUCED BY

PAULA WAGNER

DON GRANGER

MICHELLE MANNING

BASED ON THE CHINESE-LANGUAGE

MOTION PICTURE “THE EYE”

(aka “GIN GWAI” AKA “JIN GUAI)

BY JO JO YUET –CHUN HUI,

OXIDE PANG AND DANNY PANG

SCREENPLAY BY

SEBASTIAN GUTTIRREZ

DIRECTED BY

DAVID MOREAU AND XAVIER PALUD

THE EYE:
Findings

1. ·     The names of  cast members are written in a big bold font
2. ·      The main actors and actresses name is shown at the beginning of the film opening by itself 
3. ·      The font fades in and fades out
4. ·      The music also prepares the audience for the genre of the film which is horror. 

The opening sequence of "The Eye" is really long which explains all the credits that were shown in the beginning of the film. The credits only start to appear at the disequilibrium of the story when everything is at it's pace. The credits appear slowly following by the still calm music that plays in the background. The font is white and the names of the cast members are shown in capital letters. Also, when the text appears, it fades in and fades out.

       THE GRUDGE

 COLUMBIA-A SONY PICTURES ENTERTIANMENT COMPANY

GHOST HOUSE PICTURES

WHEN SOMEONE DIES IN THE GRIP OF A POWERFUL RAGE…

A CURSE IS BORN.

 CURSE

THE CURSE GATHERS IN THAT PLACE OF DEATH.

DEATH

THOSE WHO ENCOUNTER IT WILL BE CONSUMED BY FURY.

FURY

SAM RAIMI AND COLUMBIA PICTURES present 

A GHOST HOUSE PICTURES PRODUCTION
A FILM BY TAKASHI ZIMIZU
THE GRUDGE
JASON BEHR
KADEE STRICKLAND
GRACE ZABRISKIE
ROSA BLASI
RYO ISHIBASHI
YOKO MAKI
TAKAKO FUJI
WITH CLEA DUVALL
AND BILL PULLMAN
CASTING BY NANCY NAYOR BATTINO
KELLY WAGNER
EDITOR JEFF BETANCOURT
MUSIC BY CHRISTOPHER YOUNG
PRODUCTION DESIGNER
IWAO SAITO
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
HIDEO YAMAMOTO
CO-PRODUCERS
MICHAEL KIRK
AUBREY HENDERSON
SHINTARO SHIMOSAWA
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS
JOE DRAKE
NATHAN KAHANE
CARSTEN LORENZ
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS
ROY LEE
DOUG DAVISON
PRODUCED BY
SAM RAIMI
ROB TAPERT
TAKA ICHISE
BASED ON "JU-ON: THE GRUDGE"
  WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY
TAKASHI SHIMIZU
SCREENPLAY BY
STEPHEN SUSCO
 The opening sequence of "The Grudge" is also very long but here the font used for the credits has some character to it. The style of the font looks archaic and old fashioned which gives it simple yet sinister look. The 3 factual statements tells the tale in summarised sentences.

From Our Character and Costume Research..By Afsara Tasnim

From our character and costume research, we particularly focused on an actress such as Jessica Alba who had that naive and innocent look to her face which will immediately portray her as the victim to the audience. Her costume choices in this image below: represent her as a victim as she is a wearing white vest top while she's looking in the mirror.

In our opening sequence, Chloe's (actress) costume choices reflects a sense of danger. We all decided that the victim in our opening should wear the colour red as it connotes danger and also makes her stand out as the protagonist of the film. She wears a red tshirt with her hair let out while sleeping. The reason why her hair was let out was because her scene was shot while she was sleeping and like Jessica Alba, we also wanted to give her that naive, vulnerable look to her face.

Our Calendar By Afsara Tasnim

RTB crew met up the following dates to film and to discuss the progress we've been making throughout our given deadline and also our editing and filming process. These meetings have enabled us to be more organised as we all were constantly discussing what we can do in our next filming session.

RTB ENTERTAINMENT’S CALENDER 

Monday 9th January 2012	Afsara, Chloe, Brian, Yasir Shelmadine close-3:00pm
Tuesday 17th January 2012	Yasir, Afsara and Chloe Tower Hamlets Cemetery- 10:00pm
Saturday 21st January 2012	Afsara, Chloe, Brian Tower Hamlets Cemetery-3:30pm
Sunday 22nd January 2012	Afsara and Chloe Afsara’s house-2:00pm
Sunday 29th January 2012	Brian and Yasir -Were supposed to film but the camera broke off

New Film Title

Chloe and Afsara came up with an idea of a title for film. They suggested 'Deadline'. I thought it was a good idea and so made a title in Photoshop, using the name 'Deadline'. This image shows the different types of effects I've experimented with for our title. Once the members of the RTB team view this image, I will make further improvements for the final title for our film.

8 steps to our Title

Trailer

This is the opening that we have made so far. We all agree that it is quite good and has some potential; however, we seem to have mutual feelings about our film opening so far. It looks more like a trailer and not a film opening. Though we find it easy to explain the storyline, there is no clear narrative shown by our video.

We think that it is our music choice which makes it seem like a trailer. It builds up the tension to the last point, as the music drops at the end. This is usually used in trailers, accompanied by ‘COMING OUT SOON’ at the end.

However, it is not only the music, but the lack of dialogue. Throughout our video there is not a lot of diegetic sounds and only the music is heard.

We have all agreed to add an extra scene to the end with dialogue.

School bell rings

Noisy playground

Chloe: Oh my GOD! I just had the weirdest dream ever, last night.

Afsara: Never mind that, have you seen this morning’s paper.

Throughout this scene, more light is shone onto our narrative. Through this we can see that the it was all happening in her dream, “weirdest dream”, however we find out that it was happening in real life as well.  

Script by Afsara Tasnim

This is the FINAL script we followed after having discussions with our group members

Afsara: Chloe! What you doing here?
Chloe: I just came in to collect some work
Afsara: What's wrong? You look upset
Chloe: I just had the weirdest dream last night
Afsara: Really?
(Chloe reacts to the screen where she sees the newspaper of Brian's death)

A Template Of Our Call Sheet By Afsara Tasnim

		Date: 17/1/12
		Call Time:                 10:00am
Exec.   Producers:	Chloe

School/ Production Office	Nearest Hospital	Call Location/ Address
Sir John Cass Foundation and Redcoat Secondary School Stepney Way London E1 0RH	The London Hospital Whitechapel London E1 Emergency contact:	Tower Hamlets Cemetry

CREW LIST

Crew grade:	Name	Phone	Email
Production Manager	Afsara		a.tasnim@hotmail.co.uk
Director	Chloe		xxmiss_babyblue-eyesxx@hotmail.com
Camera/ Lighting Operator	Yasir		lilyas111@hotmail.co.uk
Editor	Brian		kyalobrian@yahoo.com

EQUIPMENT  and instructions for responsibility
Camera	CHLOE
Tripod	AFSARA
Props list	:                                                       :
(costume pieces)
Shooting Details:
Storyboard section- middle part
Details/ information of what is being shot: Gravestones-establishing shot
Extra info/ not on storyboard

Props For Our Opening By Afsara Tasnim

For our opening we used a few props that the RTB crew thought was necessary for our filming.

The list of props that we used are:

• A bed- for Chloe's scene where we filmed her waking up from a bad dream. 
• A knife- with fake blood all over it 
• Newspaper- to show the headlines for Brian's death in the opening sequence

Video Entry To Our Camera Problem... :(

Problems We Are Occurring :( - Afsara and Chloe

Today we were supposed to upload our footage onto the computer to edit the shots. However, we do not have the correct cables to connect the videocamera to the PC. We have discussed taking the camera home and searching for another wire, or burning the footage onto a CD from the TV. This problem has set us back an hour of editing time.

Here is an image of the video camera we used

Filming on the 22nd of January - Chloe Lawler

Today Chloe went round to Afsara's house to film the final shots. We covered filming all the parts in the storyboard and also the alternative scene with the knife. So far the filming has gone to plan, however, there were slight issues with the auto-focus and keeping the camera steady as we did not have a tripod. These were solved quickly though as we found everyday objects to help us keep the camera in frame.Tomorrow we all plan to film the final scene with Brian. We will film the part where Brian is backed up against a tree and zoom into his eye. This will be our final shoot.

Filming on the 21st of January - Chloe Lawler and Afsara Tasnim

Today Afsara, Chloe and Brian met up in our chosen location to film the final shots of the opening of our film. Unfortunately, Yasir was unable to attend as he was feeling unwell. The location we chose for our opening was the Tower Hamlets Cemetery as we all decided that the graveyard would fit for our genre perfectly. The atmosphere in the cemetery helps to set the scene of panic and the idea of being trapped. In addition, we covered the middle section of our story board and also filmed some additional shots as Afsara & Chloe thought that the alternative shots of the gravestones would be helpful throughout the editing process.We didn't come across any difficulties whilst filming however, it did not go as we planned. At first the plan was to wait till it's dark but then we all decided that it'll be best to film and edit the brightness afterwards. This helped us film quicker and also we were able to film all the shots as planned. Tomorrow Afsara and Chloe are going to meet up and film the last shot of our storyboard which is where she opens her eyes to reveal that she was dreaming. We are also going to film an additional shot that includes a knife dripping with blood.

Recording On The 15th January- Chloe & Afsara

Today Chloe and Afsara met up to film the first opening scene. We went to Afsara's house to record in her bedroom and discussed how we would like to approach the situation of filming from above the bed from a high angle. The eye scene was quite simple as we used only a few selections of shots including, a high angle shot, a medium shot, an extreme close up and a close up. During the recording we had a few issues with the auto-focus of the camera, as it was not focusing as we zoomed into the eye. We decided that the best option was to slow down the zoom speed of the camera and this helped to solve the problem. We also took different shots of the scene becasue we believed this would help us choose the best shot out of many. After we had finished filming we then went on to discuss our options and whether any additional scenes should be inputted into our opening for example, images of objects or places that we think will give the audience the chill factor. However, because Brian and Yasir were not there to discuss these decisions, we are all going to have a meeting in tomorrows filming session. Tomorrow we will plan to film the ending and futher scenes that we think will help to associate the footage with our selected genre.

Filming On Monday the 9th January - Chloe Lawler

On Monday the 9th of January, Run The Block Entertainment crew went to record the opening scene of our film. We gathered the equipment we needed, including two cameras, two tripods, a torchlight and our storyboard. We all went down to a backstreet behind St Pauls Secondary School, Shelmadine Close, to film the running scene. We chose this location due to the fact that the buildings around that area are old and the enclosed space allows the camera to capture the action with ease. We found that the camera could not zoom into the eye as fast as we would have liked it to, so we had to change the settings during the filming process. The camera angles were discussed also when we were talking about the shots in our storyboards.  We were then focused on filming the running scene in two sections where both cameras involved filming at the same time. It began to get late while filming, so the torchlight came in handy for planning backstage. During the filming we experienced some problems when choosing the location and the camera settings set us back in recording. However, we managed to overcome these difficulties without any issues. During our next filming sessions over the weekend, we will be filming more of the running scenes for the opening clips.