Film feedback

We decided to go into a year 11 form room, during form time and show them our film opening so that they could give us some feedback. We chose year 11's as they were closest to our age group that we were targeting our film at. We basically had about 20 students sitting in the room watching our film.
Here is a few things that people said about Aura...

Choosing our location

To find out the best location to set our film, we all went on a walk in the woods too look at possible places. We found some places that we didnt think were suitable especially when we went into a field with mud and got stuck! And other places weere really good too. As you can see above kelsey commented on each photo and stated why some places were good/not good. We really wanted our setting to relate to the film, so the mise en scene would link in with the genre of horror.

 

 

Narrative of our film

A 9 year old boy is belived to have gone missing one day after he ran off into the woods after his dog.

After many years of searching for the missing child the police close the case as and declare him dead, the family never gave up hope. However after getting into finanical difficulty the family are forced to move house much to their regret. A new family have now bought the property. Sam and her family move in and Sam soon discovers that not all of the last family left. At first Stephen terrorises her but as the film goes on Sam finds out more and more about Stephen and sets out to help him.

 

First idea of how the film will open is that the film will begin in a short dream with a quick sucession of shots building tension and confusion with a blury vision.

The dream will end on the image of the boy and cut to a girl waking up from the dream, where the girl will then get up look for her mother to realise she is out. As she starts to hear noises she will go up to the loft to investigate where our opening ends with a shot of the missing boy. 

By kelsey duffy

Final film animatics

Consent letter

By Zak

Brainstorms for Aura

Emma and Zak are in the video writing down the ideas in brainstorms.

My film opening Evaluation

Evaluation- Question 5

Question 5 for my evaluation

Film opening- Aura

https://plus.google.com/u/0/109672343707353878171/posts/Khgw8SYTHeK

This is our final film opening.
Created by Pandemic pictures;
Hannah Edwards
Zak Rodgers
Kelsey Duffy
Emma Bradshaw...

We hope you enjoy it :)

9 frames of Aura

Preliminary task ideas diagram

This is the brainstorm ideas at to what our Preliminary task could be.

Horror Questionnaire

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Institution research (2 companies)

Film companies

Dream works studios, (1994-present). Officially DW II Distribution Co., LLC, also known as DreamWorks, LLC, DreamWorks SKG, or DW Studios, LLC, is an American film studio which develops, produces, and distributes films, video games and television programming. It has produced or distributed more than ten films with box-office grosses totalling more than $100 million each. DreamWorks began in 1994 as an attempt by media moguls Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen (forming the SKG present on the bottom of the DreamWorks logo) to create a new Hollywood studio of which they owned 72%. In December 2005, the founders agreed to sell the studio to Viacom, parent of Paramount Pictures. The sale was completed in February 2006. In 2008, DreamWorks announced its intention to end its partnership with Paramount and signed a $1.5 billion deal to produce films with India's Reliance ADA Group is led by Anil Ambani DreamWorks' animation arm was spun off in 2004 into DreamWorks Animation SKG.

Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., also known as Warner Bros. Pictures or simply Warner Bros, is an American producer of film, television, and music entertainment. The company have been making films since the 1910’s. It is a major film studio. It has several subsidiary companies, including Warner Bros. Studios, Warner Bros. Pictures, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, Television, Warner, Warner Home Video, New Line Cinema, TheWB.com, and DC Entertainment. Warner owns half of The CW Television Network. They have created films such as Harry potter, I am legend, The hangover, Sex and the city, Slum dog millionaire etc. These are all well known films, which show that this film institution is successful

Setting Animatics

This is a video to show the area of where our film was filmed. Some of the shorts in this video werent included in the main film. Its just to give you an idea and shows the ongoing theme we wanted to use.

Animatics

Script for dialogue in Preliminary

Here is our script from our Preliminary task, this script is the exchanged dialogue spoken by Zak and Kelsey.

 ZAK: I knew you would come

 KELSEY: why am I here?

 ZAK: You know why you’re here; the time has come, and now you must pay for what you have done.

Our dialogue in our preliminary was short as we only had a small time limit for the overall task, and didn’t want our one to be just about the speech. We wanted it to have a sharp effect on our short film, but more so the setting and build up would lead finally to the dialogue. This would also lead to the viewers watching the film to want to carry on watching.

Storyboard for preliminary

Here is the storyboard for our preliminary task.
Made by Zak.

Brainstorm for Preliminary ideas

Premilinary analysis

Pscyho Essay- The representation of the villain or victim in Psycho.

        The representation of the villain or victim in Psycho.

We are first introduced to the representation of the villain or victim in the credits. As soon as they start the loud daunting non digetic music it creates a mood of danger with the loud and fast effect of the music. The editing in the credits goes nicely with the effect of the music because its sharp moving lines that come together then separate. This represents the victim’s death of the action of knives, and also portrays the villain’s split personality of how he is acting as him and then his mother.

In the beginning of the opening there is a panning aerial view shot of the town in black and white setting the era, the camera angle looks like it is searching for someone in the way that it moves. We are first introduced to the characters when the camera intrudes on a man and woman in a hotel room. It establishes where the film is set .Which could contrast later on in the film when Marianne goes missing. From the audiences point of view we get a sense that neither of them are married as they aren’t wearing rings and that the relationship between the two might be a fling, as their in a hotel room which could represent the sense of security of the two. The camera shot is another bird’s eye view, high angle shot above the couple which shows them close together showing the audience that they have a bond, so we know that there is a connection between these two characters. The girl is vulnerable as she is in her underwear with the man, and when the film was set this would normally never happen and would appear to people as a shock. Especially because she is with a man, who has more power than women in the terms of being in control.

When Marianne arrives at the hotel the hotel it’s raining heavily which could represent the blood that’s later to come in the film and the shower. The Bates motel sign is viewed from Marianne’s view point and isn’t in the middle of the screen which has an odd focus to it. There is then dialogue between her and Norman bates when she is greeted by him, he then takes her to the reception. This is tense and awkward, because he seems like he is too happy to see her. Whilst the dialogue happened the camera was cross cutting between person to person changing who the most focus was on in this scene which created a sense of disorientation as the viewer. He picks the key up with suspicion as he goes through from 5-1, like he is counting down the hours to when he is going to kill her and is emphasising the fact that she is alone, and goes down to room number 1 which is the closest room to him. As the audience we feel as if she again in a very vulnerable position as she’s all by herself with a strange, lonely man and this is when we feel like she’s represented as victim and he’s the villain. She signs the guest book with a sharp pen given by Norman bates which contrasts with the knife that is later on shown in the shower scene where Marianne dies. Hitchcock places us in the killers view point looking down on Marianne which shows the power between the relationships of these two strangers. In her room there are loads of dead stuffed birds, they are high up and look down on her as if she was prey which is what Hitchcock is trying to represent. The two birds also portray as if they are representing Marianne and Norman, when they exchange awkward dialogue the birds are in the middle of the two like that are trying to separate them it is also a mid shot of the two and you can’t see below the waist which represents being cut in half. Norman then proceeds to show her the room quite happily however until he shows her the bathroom and doesn’t switch on the light, this is juxtaposed by the light in the other room and darkness in the bathroom with his evilness and good side.

He then leaves her but not quite as he removes a painting from the wall connecting his room and hers together and watches her get undressed which is quite disturbing and perverted. This is when his weird personality starts showing and she is very vulnerable at this point as she’s being watched, also the birds are watching her too in the same way.

Murder scene

Whilst the murder scene starts off Marianne is getting undressed ready to take a shower, during this time the camera follows Norman going into his house he goes to go upstairs but then suddenly decided to stay downside. This is mysterious and strange as we don’t know why he has stayed downstairs. As she gets undressed the mood is very tense. When she’s getting into the shower the sound effects are very harsh of the sound of the pulling the curtain, this could link to her getting murdered and the hurt she will be in. The vulnerable feeling towards her is felt because she is naked in the shower alone, when the water falls on her the mis en scene creates the comfort of the warm shower so we forget whats going to happen to her. However we are now in the view point of the killer, suddenly there is movement coming from in front of her which is where the door is and then we see someone is coming in with a black like hooded figure comes in. The harsh sounds return with the loud dagger sounding digetic music which then flows with the knife coming into action. Then all of a sudden the loud sound of the curtain being pulled back happens this is when we feel like she is in very big danger, and then the villain stabs her continuously as she puts her hands out to try and protect herself with. After several stabs she falls forward grabbing onto the curtain until it rips off the rail, this could represent the steps up towards her life which suddenly gets taken away from her bit by bit.