Ideas for the production S.B

One of the main issued we faced while planning our opening sequence was the fact that we had so many ideas and different story lines that would have all worked well and gave the same horror feeling  when watching them They also seemed very easy to create and carry out. We overcame this by listing all the idea we had and discussed what we had to have while filming it and how the editing would have been like. 

As you can see above one of the first ideas that we had was a group of teenagers sitting in a forest drinking and playing spin the bottle, while playing the bottle lands on a girl and she is dared to go into the woods were it is known to be hunted. The girl accepts the dare as she did not want to seem like a wimp to her friends but while she is walking she has her boyfriend on the phone who was also playing spin the bottle with the group to make sure nothing too dangerous happens. As she is speaking to her boyfriend and he is reassuring her that she will be fine the sound on the phone changes to a deep voice who continues to swear at her and call her names and goes on to warning her and telling her that she should have not entered the woods. As the girl continues to walk she trips over an old fashioned wooden box that was hidden under leafs. The girl opens the box and finds an old fashioned necklaces inside which she throws away as she says "what is this rubbish" she then continues to walk but shes a shadow which she thinks is one of her friends trying to scare her so she continues to walk towards it but as she gets closer the figure turns around she realizes it is a face which is drained in blood and this is when the audience hear a scream and the screen goes black. We thought this idea would have been very effective as it uses most of the aspects like being in a forest and triggering something that is evil, having a group of reckless teenagers and someone being isolated from a group of people. As we continued to plan this we realized that it would have passed the two minute mark and getting a group of friends would have also been very hard as our group only consisted of four people so it would not have been as effective. Another issue that occurred is the fact that we could not find a location which would have been every effective and carried out the story well. So we continued to plan a different story and tried to keep some of the original aspects.

The second idea we came up with also included a group of friends but this time we did not need as much people as the first idea so we could use our group to film the scenes without needing an extra cast which would have been very hard to have access to. This idea consisted of a group of female teenagers standing around in a park drinking and talking about their relationships. As they continue to speak one of the girl's boyfriends turn up and calls her over. The audience come to find that the boy is very violent and possessive and that he has beaten up the girl in the past as she refused to do what he said. This idea was based on the fact that the girl was pregnant and was too afraid to tell him because he will force her to get an abortion and hurt her if she refused it. The girl then runs away and she trip over a box with baby things which has been placed there by an older lady who was unable to have kids. She then throws the stuff in the box away and continues to run as she is crying, The girl sees a hooded figure who slowly turns around and is holding a baby dole with scratch marks on the cheek and a dagger on the heart. The screen goes black and the audience hear a scream. This is very similar to the first idea with just a few changes to the story line. This idea did not work out due to the fact that the props that were needed were not available to us and were not very easy to get at such a small budget. We also realized that this would go over the two minute mark with added extra minutes so we had to change our plan again and make it more suitable in terms of the budget and the timing.

The third idea that we had was the idea that we decided to use which is presented on this blog.

Sound S.B

We used three different royalty free audio tracks to add to the production. In the 3 cases the tracks are used to make the audience react in a different way and add a different aspect to the production.

The first music we used was to add suspense and make the scene a little scary. This was inserted when the two friends where playing a prank on  the girl who was visiting her friend. When this music was added it made that scene very dramatic at the beginning and scary at the end. We did this by making sure the music faded in which made the audience ease into it which created the suspense and made it more scary at the end. At the end of the audio we were able to make it add to the scene by making the music end at the exact same time that the friends scared her, we did this as it is a typical thing that happens in horror films as it adds to the scene and makes them more scary. The music ended as soon as the friends touched the girl to scare her. This was done because the audience didn't know it was a prank so they were expecting the worst.

The second and third sets of music were used towards the end of the production when the actual murderer come in contact with the girl. When we were doing our rough draft we only used one set of music in this place but when watching it and over and figuring out what we needed to improve we found out that the first set of music did not work as it came out of no where and did not help the production flow. We fixed this by getting another set of royalty free music and adding on before the first set started to ease in the music and make the production flow. We did this by fading in the music as the girl was getting ready to leave.

While doing our research we realized that almost every horror movie uses sound to built up and the scene and make it more scary. So we added the music to make the production more effective.