Brainstorm
Today we developed our ideas for the storyboard. After taking pictures for our animatic, we realised that we needed to add a lot more shots to create a scary atmosphere. We brainstormed our ideas, then added them to the storyboard. We now need to re-draw the storyboard to finalise our ideas. Then we need to finish the animatic and use the editing software to see if our trailer in achievable.
Monday, 14 December 2009
Friday, 11 December 2009
Animatic
Now we have completed our storyboard, we have to create an animatic of our trailer. A simple picture of each shot is taken so they can be put into order to see if it is attainable and so we can pre-visualise the motion picture before filming it.
Now we have completed our storyboard, we have to create an animatic of our trailer. A simple picture of each shot is taken so they can be put into order to see if it is attainable and so we can pre-visualise the motion picture before filming it.
Dead-ucation
A sixteen year old boy (Peter) gets up for school. His parents have left early and left a note on the fridge saying that they had to leave for a conference at work so he is on his own in the morning. He walks down the stairs with a hoody and MP3 player in both ears. He's eating his breakfast cereal in the kitchen and the radio is playing an emergency broadcast explaining that there is an outbreak of a highly infectious virus which turns people delirious and is highly dangerous and the reader reccomends all listeners to stay indoors and to keep their children from going to school. Peter cannot hear this because of his music. He walks to school unaware of all that has happened. He comes across a disoriented young boy, as he is walking, who is from Peter's school and he has school uniform on and this boy just stares with a pale face and mouth open. He then begins seeing disoriented pupil and teachers in school who seem like they feel threatened by Peter as that start slowly trembling towards him. He sees a few other fellow students who are not infected running through the school gates as they are being chased by several infected individuals. He then meets up with them in the vacant reception in Upper School. These friends consist of Lisa, Henry and Simon who are all in his Year Group. They then realise that all school exits and surrounds by infected individuals. So they form an alliance to fight through the school grounds and get to the towns train station to evacuate. This is a daunting task as nearly 2500 pupils and teachers are abundant in the school grounds.They are trapped in the school assembly hall and trying to find certain implements to use as weapons to combat the infected as they now know they are dangerous and seeking to kill. Steel chairs are used to fight off the ever growing foes in the Hall scene. As they then break out of the hall, they run for the sports field to hide in the tall trees. They run past the sports equipment shed, which is open and grab some hockey sticks to use as weapons. They then run across the field, bringing down each enemy as they pass until they reach the trees. They use this time to carefully devise a plan to escape the school. They loose Henry and Simon to the infected so Peter and Lisa escape the town and eventually get to the train but their is a twist at the end as we find out that Lisa is infected after suffering a minor bite to one of the infected earlier on in the film. The film ends here. So there will be a sequal.
A sixteen year old boy (Peter) gets up for school. His parents have left early and left a note on the fridge saying that they had to leave for a conference at work so he is on his own in the morning. He walks down the stairs with a hoody and MP3 player in both ears. He's eating his breakfast cereal in the kitchen and the radio is playing an emergency broadcast explaining that there is an outbreak of a highly infectious virus which turns people delirious and is highly dangerous and the reader reccomends all listeners to stay indoors and to keep their children from going to school. Peter cannot hear this because of his music. He walks to school unaware of all that has happened. He comes across a disoriented young boy, as he is walking, who is from Peter's school and he has school uniform on and this boy just stares with a pale face and mouth open. He then begins seeing disoriented pupil and teachers in school who seem like they feel threatened by Peter as that start slowly trembling towards him. He sees a few other fellow students who are not infected running through the school gates as they are being chased by several infected individuals. He then meets up with them in the vacant reception in Upper School. These friends consist of Lisa, Henry and Simon who are all in his Year Group. They then realise that all school exits and surrounds by infected individuals. So they form an alliance to fight through the school grounds and get to the towns train station to evacuate. This is a daunting task as nearly 2500 pupils and teachers are abundant in the school grounds.They are trapped in the school assembly hall and trying to find certain implements to use as weapons to combat the infected as they now know they are dangerous and seeking to kill. Steel chairs are used to fight off the ever growing foes in the Hall scene. As they then break out of the hall, they run for the sports field to hide in the tall trees. They run past the sports equipment shed, which is open and grab some hockey sticks to use as weapons. They then run across the field, bringing down each enemy as they pass until they reach the trees. They use this time to carefully devise a plan to escape the school. They loose Henry and Simon to the infected so Peter and Lisa escape the town and eventually get to the train but their is a twist at the end as we find out that Lisa is infected after suffering a minor bite to one of the infected earlier on in the film. The film ends here. So there will be a sequal.
Wednesday, 2 December 2009
Research- Textual Analysis
Jeeper Creepers teaser and theatrical trailers.
1. What is the genre of the film?
Horror.
2. How is the audience able to identify the genre of the film?
Eory Music creates a tense and spooky atmosphere which is conventional in most horror films.There is also significant evidence in the first shot of both trailers where it shows a long shot of a truck on a very empty road and what looks like an empty area. The theme of isolation immediately makes us aware of the genre of the film.There is also alot of iconography when there is a crane shot of the chruch going up to the crucifix at the top, there is also a crow sitting at the top which signifies evil.
3. How does the trailer target an audience?
4. How long does the film trailer last?
1 minute 29 seconds.
5. How many shots are used in the trailer?
31 including titles.
6. What transitions are used in the trailer?
There are fades to black in between shots from the film and this created an uneasy effect on the audience.
7. How is digetic sound used in the trailer?- Focus on dialogue and sound effects.
In the teaser trailer there is very little digetic sound. Although there is the sound of footsteps and screams to add to the suspence.In the theatrical trailer, there is alot of digetic sound ranging from speech and vehicle sound to explosions.
8. How is non-digetic sound used in the trailer?- Focus on music and sound effects.
In the teaser trailer there is the disturbing sound of a heartbeat as they approach the pipe and this also makes us aware of the genre of the film.In the theatrical trailer, the non-digetic sound is slow and creepy which builds up as the equilibrium is being disturbed and eventually turns into loud, face paced rock music.
9. How does the trailer present character and their relationships?
In both trailers we are not revealed much about the relationship between the two main characters, only that they care for eachother as the female goes after the male when he goes missing down the pipe.We laern quite alot about the monster from the representation that is given in the theatrical trailer. We learn that the monster is hiding its true identity when we see a person throwing bodies into a pipe at the start. It is wearing a black wastecoat and hat and trying to look like a normal male, this costume has major connotations of evil. We also learn that the monster is clever, in the teaser as the titles in the fade to blacks say certain things e.g "A PERFECT PLACE TO HIDE". This indicates that the moster has a plan and that it has chose to hide away near a church because it is were nobody would expect it to be.
10. How does the trailer create a sense of narrative?
11. What does the trailer reveal about the plot of the film?
From both trailers we can establish that its theme is pursuit because we know that the male is rescued by the female and gets out of the underground lair of the monster. They try to escape the location of the film and on their way out the monster tries to trap them and retrieve the male and possibly the female. This immiedaitely gives the audience a sense of pursuit.
12. How does the trailer create a code of enigma?
The mystery and the question posed to the audience is "What is the monster?"
13. How does the trailer use titles to communicate with the audience?
The trailer uses fade to blacks to use titles with white text. The text is also moving and this creates an uneasy effect on the audience.
14. How does the trailer establish the mood and expectations of the film?
Jeeper Creepers teaser and theatrical trailers.
1. What is the genre of the film?
Horror.
2. How is the audience able to identify the genre of the film?
Eory Music creates a tense and spooky atmosphere which is conventional in most horror films.There is also significant evidence in the first shot of both trailers where it shows a long shot of a truck on a very empty road and what looks like an empty area. The theme of isolation immediately makes us aware of the genre of the film.There is also alot of iconography when there is a crane shot of the chruch going up to the crucifix at the top, there is also a crow sitting at the top which signifies evil.
3. How does the trailer target an audience?
4. How long does the film trailer last?
1 minute 29 seconds.
5. How many shots are used in the trailer?
31 including titles.
6. What transitions are used in the trailer?
There are fades to black in between shots from the film and this created an uneasy effect on the audience.
7. How is digetic sound used in the trailer?- Focus on dialogue and sound effects.
In the teaser trailer there is very little digetic sound. Although there is the sound of footsteps and screams to add to the suspence.In the theatrical trailer, there is alot of digetic sound ranging from speech and vehicle sound to explosions.
8. How is non-digetic sound used in the trailer?- Focus on music and sound effects.
In the teaser trailer there is the disturbing sound of a heartbeat as they approach the pipe and this also makes us aware of the genre of the film.In the theatrical trailer, the non-digetic sound is slow and creepy which builds up as the equilibrium is being disturbed and eventually turns into loud, face paced rock music.
9. How does the trailer present character and their relationships?
In both trailers we are not revealed much about the relationship between the two main characters, only that they care for eachother as the female goes after the male when he goes missing down the pipe.We laern quite alot about the monster from the representation that is given in the theatrical trailer. We learn that the monster is hiding its true identity when we see a person throwing bodies into a pipe at the start. It is wearing a black wastecoat and hat and trying to look like a normal male, this costume has major connotations of evil. We also learn that the monster is clever, in the teaser as the titles in the fade to blacks say certain things e.g "A PERFECT PLACE TO HIDE". This indicates that the moster has a plan and that it has chose to hide away near a church because it is were nobody would expect it to be.
10. How does the trailer create a sense of narrative?
11. What does the trailer reveal about the plot of the film?
From both trailers we can establish that its theme is pursuit because we know that the male is rescued by the female and gets out of the underground lair of the monster. They try to escape the location of the film and on their way out the monster tries to trap them and retrieve the male and possibly the female. This immiedaitely gives the audience a sense of pursuit.
12. How does the trailer create a code of enigma?
The mystery and the question posed to the audience is "What is the monster?"
13. How does the trailer use titles to communicate with the audience?
The trailer uses fade to blacks to use titles with white text. The text is also moving and this creates an uneasy effect on the audience.
14. How does the trailer establish the mood and expectations of the film?
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