Main brief editing

After our first successful filming session for our main brief, we came together to make a start on the editing and fitting all of the shots together. We watched the videos we filmed of each shot and chose which ones was of the best quality.

Sound research for own piece

Sound is very important in horrors as without it, suspense would not be very effective and scare the audience. Therefore, we must take into consideration the type of sound used and when to used them throughout our opening.
Due to our film being based on clowns, we decided that to end our film, we were going to incorporate this theme by adding clown music. However, we soon changed our minds as we found that it seemed to take away some of the suspense which made it less scary which was not our aim.
We also decided to add a digetic sound of footsteps as the girl is walking down the hallway. We included this in order to create more suspense.

Filming day

November 4th - Our first filming day

Once we arrived at our filming location, our main actor and extras began to get their theatrical make-up on whilst we set up the camera and prepared everything ready to start filming. We ran through our storyboard once again to remind us what shots we want to get. We began filming at approximately 4:30pm and by this time, it was dark outside meaning we had to take into consideration continuity throughout to give it a sense of realism. It rained whilst filming but luckily we had finished all of the shots we needed outside before the rain started. We finished filming at around 6:00pm.

News reporter audition

After holding these auditions, as a group, we came to the decision that candidate one would be ideal for the role of the news reporter.

Feedback video of storyboard and narrative

Film title for opening credits

Most horror film titles are bold yet simple. For example, the title for 'Mama' only consists of two main colours, black and grey. However, it is still effective and noticeable.

Due to the horror film logos being simple, we also made ours very simple and onlu used four different colours. We followed a very simple design which suited the narrative of our film very well as the main antagonist is a clown. The redness of the nose makes the logo stand out and the title is incorporated into the logo as being the smile of the clown face. We created this logo using Abode photoshop and the font can be associated with the circus and children.

Institution logo design

A large number of successful film institution logos have a background which is an evening sky with clouds which can be associated with a variety of genres. We like the idea of the sky background as it can suit the horror genre as the night time and darkness are conventions of a horror and peoples fears. From looking at the different logos, every title is bold and takes up most of the screen. Therefore, it can be easily recognisable.

For our own institution logo, we included a cloudy night sky background to be associated with the horror genre. We also included dripping bloody on the institution title which would ensure the audience that our film will be a horror. The colours we decided to use connote gore, danger and mystery. We created this logo on Abode photoshop and the moon and the bird had been edited before embedding it onto the background in order to make them darker and fit the darkness of the background.