Final Product Questionnaire & results

Final Product Questionnaire

Link to questionnaire results

Successes and Failures

 

Successes and Failures

 

All in all I was very happy with the film we produced. For example:

 

The hospital scene looks very real.
 

The screech sound effect and the zooming

of the car really looks like it is speeding towards

the camera

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The ambient sound we used throughout our

opening creates a very eerie and tense atmosphere.

 

 

However, there are some things about our film I would change. Such As:

 

I believe we could get away with more gorier

makeup than what we used to make Penelope look

more like she has just been run over.

The lighting in the torture chamber looks slightly different in Penelope's scenes and Carlisle's. This is because they had to be filmed at

different times.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The whole process of creating our film ran pretty smoothly, however we did have on problem when one of our actresses changed the colour of her hair. As a result we had to re-film some of our footage in the hospital. Despite this, we do not break any rules of continuity editing, such as match on action.

Film company Logo

  

 Our Film company Logo

We've made our Company logo to look to have the generic conventions of horror, to show that our company would specialize in horror films.
The letters "HCD" just simply stand for the initials of our names, as that's what we decided to be named.









We got our ideas from logo's like "Film Insomnia", as it looked like a basic design, but got the point across about what sort of films are produced by them.











We also liked the idea of this logo by "Red Letter Studios" which has a sinister/scary effect to it, but is still quite a simple design, yet you can also see that they would most likely produce horror/ thriller films.

Whole Film Treatment

Treatment

Title of Film: 

Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes

Audience: 
15-30 
Mainly female
Those who enjoy horror films based around real life, (such as Paranormal Activity and Insidious).
Those who enjoy films which messes with their mind.

This is because the characters in our film are around this age and therefore the audience can relate to their lives, for example, attending parties and arguing with friends. This link between the audiences lives and those of the characters means the film becomes more realistic and so the horror part of it is more scary for them to watch.

Distributors:

Our film could be distributed by an independent film company, such as Maxim Films or Brain Damage Films, as these two companies focus on producing low budget horror films.

However, mainstream companies, like Momentum Pictures, have produced films in the same genre with similar story lines. One example is Insidious, which was a very popular horror film when it was released.

Storyline:

Teenage girl is hit by a car on the way back from a party where she has just had an argument with a group of friends and due the impact and drugs, she is sent into a coma where she dreams and hallucinates about the same man who run her over and he is trying to torture her. In each dream she is helped escape by a friend she has argued with, making up with them in the process.

Beginning

A teenage girl is at a party, arguing with her friends. She storms out in rage and starts to make her way home, when she is hit by a car. An ambulance arrives and the last thing she sees before blacking out is the friends from the party she was upset with.

Middle

The girl experiences dreams whilst unconscious where she is tormented by the man who run her over. In order to get away from him she must work with her friends to escape. In each dream she is in a different place that is significant to the relationship between the two characters where she manages to settle the differences between them.

End

The teenager wakes from her coma in a hospital to find all her friends sat by the side of her bed. She begins to tell them of the dreams she experienced and how they were all in it. In the end, they makeup.

Individuality: 

What makes our film different is the fact that it involves two worlds - real world and coma. As a result, the fact that comas do exist in real life, makes the film more realistic and therefore, scarier to the audience.
The settings we included in our film are also different to other horror films. For example, the fact that she is tortured in a garage, rather than an unrealistic setting makes the film individual and more scary. Another example of an individual setting is the authentic hospital room we filmed in, again, making the film more realistic.

What also makes our film individual is the fact that it is aimed at a mainly female audience, where as horror films are mainly associated with males, who watch them to prove their 'macho image'. Usually, girls are too scared to watch horror films and so out film is potentially risky to aim it at teenage females.
All in all, the main difference between our film and other horror movies is the physiological aspect of our storyline, which will leave the audience not knowing the difference between what is real and what is imaginary. 

2 Minutes Treatment

Treatment

Title of Film: 

Duration: 2 Minutes

Audience: 
15-30 
Mainly female
Those who enjoy horror films based around real life, (such as Paranormal Activity and Insidious).
Those who enjoy films which messes with their mind.

This is because the characters in our film are around this age and therefore the audience can relate to their lives, for example, attending parties and arguing with friends. This link between the audiences lives and those of the characters means the film becomes more realistic and so the horror part of it is more scary for them to watch.

Distributors:

Our film could be distributed by an independent film company, such as Maxim Films or Brain Damage Films, as these two companies focus on producing low budget horror films.

However, mainstream companies, like Momentum Pictures, have produced films in the same genre with similar story lines. One example is Insidious, which was a very popular horror film when it was released.

Storyline: The first two minutes we will film will contain the following action:

Firstly, there is a scene of the girl walking home from the party, still annoyed and distracted from the argument. A screech is heard and the audience sees her reaction before the screen goes black.
The action flashes back to the start of the argument. The tension gradually builds up between the group of girls until someone reaches the end of their tether and screams at her as she walks out of the party.
The sound of their argument is asynchronous as the girls scream in the last scene is replaced by the screech and crash of the car as it transitions into the next scene. All sound stops and the screen goes to black.
A siren can be heard as all the friends crowd around her body on the floor in a point of view shot, shouting her name. The shot cuts out and back in as if she is blinking until it totally cuts out as if she is unconscious, but the shouting of her name continuos .
The girl wakes up strapped to a chair in a dark room. She tries to pull against the restraints as she can still hear people shouting her name. The volume increases as footsteps begin to be heard. The girls thinks it is her friends coming to find her but instead a creepy looking man comes in the door holding a needle to torture her with.
As he goes to inject the shot cuts to her in the hospital, as it matches on action of the needle as a nurse just pulls away from taking some blood. As the shot pans out, all her friends are crowded around their friend who is still unconscious.
The doctor walks through the door and he is the same man as in her dream and asks her friends to leave whilst he does some checks. He draws the blind so they cannot see in and the darkness matches on action to the next scene.
The girl begins to scream due to what he injected into her and the mans facial expression is shown as the action matches back to the hospital where her body begins to shake and machines beep causing all her friends to panic.

Individuality: 
Within the first 2 minutes, the main individual themes are introduced tot he audience, such as the inclusion of a real world and coma. This is the main reason our film is different, as it emphasises the reality of our storyline in comparison to other horror films.
Also within the opening scenes, we included an authentic hospital and torture in an everyday setting. This individuality in our film,  makes it even more realistic to the audience.

The fact that our film is aimed at women makes our film different, as it is often assumed that the horror genre is mainly for males, as women are 'too scared'. This is shown in the audience by the introduction of the 3 main, female characters.

Taking editing into consideration, the fast rhythm of the scene when the car accident happens will also make our film stand out from the rest, as car accidents are something that should be feared and can lead to comas, where as ghost that are included in normal horror films are not centered around real life events.