Main Task and Evaluation

Timeline of horror genre

A timeline of horror movies from mary lawson

Treatment

We filmed our media product in the day time which meant that it was very bright and on original viewing it did not give off the horror feel we wanted to portray:

We decided to use the colour wheel to change the overall colour of the footage to a blue colour, this made it look more dull and gloomy, just as we had wished:

We then used the luna curve feature along with the feather tool to create an vignette of light within the footage that accentuated the dark gloomy background:

We added audio over the top of the footage, this was background music for the duration of the opening with added audio with things such as panting and the scream at the end:

We added in credits throughout the film opening with the use of key frames:

Producing a company logo

To begin with, I found a picture of a cartoon tree on Google and opened this in Photoshop. I chose to use a cartoon tree instead of a real one as it would be easier to outline this and I felt it would look better as a logo.

As I wanted to fill the image of the tree in black, I used the pen tool to select and outline the image of the tree. I made sure that I followed the edges of the tree as accurately as possible, but it was not a problem if it was slightly off as it would be filled in black anyway and so you would not see the original image.

I then used the fill tool and a pure black colour to fill in the outlined tree. I then inverted the selection tool so that the background was selected as I wanted to delete this area of the image. Below is the before and after of deleting the background.

I then went onto 1001fonts.com and found a font that I liked and felt would be suitable for my logo. We chose the 'SMZ' as it was the first initial of each team member and we felt that the name 'smz productions' sounded catchy.

In Photoshop, I placed this quote beneath the image of the tree. Below is the final image of our logo.

Planning for shoots

Hair and makeup- All cast members to have natural hair and makeup, straight hair all hanging down, no bright lipstick/eyeshadow, very plain and simplistic.

Costumes- 3 antagonist characters to wear all black, black boots, black jeans, black top and a black jacket if weather essential. 1 protagonist character to wear all black as above, however should wear a grey speckled coat to symbolise a difference between the two.

Props- Sticks made into stick men, twigs to rip up, paper to write credits on.

Locations- Forest.

Call Sheets

The following documents are the call sheets for the shooting of our film opening. These are important to the production of the media product as it informs everyone involved where they need to be, when and what to wear. It also ensures us as a company that everyone who needs to be on set will be there on time, therefore we can start shooting straight away and we won't have to waste time and money for our production company. 

Head Shots

These are the head shots of all cast members of our opening titles, we took head shots of each actress so we had a clear idea of how we wanted them to look in the final edit.

ECE CELIK- Protagonist

MARY LAWSON- Antagonist

SINEAD GRACE- Antagonist

AIMEE TYRRELL- Antagonist