Ten: Final Cut

The Final Cut 

9 frame analysis for TEN

8 frame analysis of TEN

This establishing shot sets the scene for the opening, highlighting the innocence of their location as there are swings and slides are in sight. The location symbolises the state of equilibrium they are in. The park is meant to be a safe environment for the youth to be in.

In this shot Jack is about to leave Bonnie to go and hide. This is an important part in the opening as it is when they loose the safety of each other. It sets the scene for the disruption to come.

After Jack leaves his friend to go and hide the state of equillibrium is disrupted and Bonnie becomes vulnerable, filling the stereotypical role of a young woman in a horror film. The long shot provides an example of how she is alone in a world that seems gloomy and unsettled.

This shot slowly turns from a mid shot to a high angle. The high angle shot is used highlight the minuteness of the subject, she seems vulnerable and helpless. The shot reiterates the fact that Bonnie is on her own and is vulnerable within her surroundings.

This mid shot shows the vulnerability of Jack and also suggests he is being watched as the frame is shaking and tracks him slightly.

This mid shot shows jack as the antagonist, hiding from the protagonist. The tree is the only barrier separating him and the protagonist.

Jack appears vulnerable again in this shot, this time with the protagonist in sight. The darkness he is surrounded by is like a dark net holding him still, he is trapped.

A close up shot is used to pick out something particular about the subject, in this case it is the horrified face of Jack.

 

 

This final, over the shoulder long shot, forshadows what is expected to come next. The figures dark appearence brings the aura of danger, mystery and  to the scene. His mysterious precence sets us on edge as we watch, helplessly, as he eyes up his next victim.

 

 

 

 

 

 

First Cut

First Cut of 'Ten'

We watched out first cut with the rest of our media class, and received a lot of constructive feedback, and were able to continue improving our film opening using these criticisms. For instance, some digetic sounds were too loud, and her vocal was too quiet, so we were able to go back and edit this to make the levels correct.

This first cut was also posted to youtube, twitter and facebook where friends and family gave there feedback also. We gained a lot of praise and we gained the confidence and determination to keep improving it. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVHmeo5fbd8

Why Did we choose

Lily and Gareth?

 We chose Lily because she is what anyone is willing to accept as a normal teenage girl. This makes her relateable to the main audience of horror films (16-21ish), and will therefore make the audience feel more involved in her story.

We chose Gareth for similar reasons. His height, frame, and maturity is what the audience would expect of a teenage boy. Furthermore, we needed an actor who would commit to his part, and as Gareth is a dedicated theatre student, we trusted him to do this.

By Emili Hone

Foley Sound Recording

Foley Sound Experiment

We decided that the wind on our footage was too harsh, therefore we needed to rerecord some natural outdoor noise including slight wind, birds ect in order to fill in the gaps with no dialogue. As we stripped all clips of their sound, we needed to film Foley sounds that sounded like swings, as well as rerecord our actress’s dialogue. Here is a video montage of the Foley sounds that we recorded:

We intend on using the sounds we recorded in our film opening.

By Emili Hone and Alexandra Gibson

 

The day we filmed

The day we filmed our Horror Opening

We arrived at our chosen destination to film our horror opening, this was a park close to Emili and seemed suitable for what we wanted to achieve. It had a playground, a set of football pitches and most importantly some woods beside it. Luckily within the woods there was a hollow tree which we decided to use as the hiding spot for our character jack. The weather was perfect, cloudy and almost gloomy; the only downside was that it was freezing.

It took us about 3 hours to film until we were content with the footage. We took turns to film and had agreed before hand who would do what scene by writing the name of the chosen one next to the storyboard pictures. We filmed everything at least 3 times over and did shots in different positions so we'd have a good amount to choose from when it came to editing.

After we finished filming the main shots we took some short clips of things such as the swings and a gate into the playground. These came useful later on when it came to editing because we could put them in-between shots to break up them up, also adding much need tension to the final opening.

Pictures from the day of production

Here are some of the pictures that we have taken while we were filming the film opening to show the equipment that we have used and the process of the filming day.

Filming the first shot of the horror film opening

Using a crane to create the effect that we wanted just before Lily says number '10'

By Melissa Owen, Alexandra Gibson, Emili Hone and Harry Crotty

Health and Safety

Health and Safety Planning and Precautions 

When planning the production of our film opening, we had to consider the safety precautions of filming on our location, as we had young actors involved. We visited http://www.hse.gov.uk/entertainment/theatre-tv/film.htm and looked at the health and safety guidlines for Film, TV and Broadcasting. They outlined that we must have assigned roles to prevent chance of risk, so we all had jobs that we would rotate. For instance:

 Filming: Alexandra    Monitor: Harry   Directing: Emili    Director of Movement: Melissa

Director of movement was an important role in ensuring that Health and Safety was reinforced, as it was about controlling how and where the actors moved. Specifically in our piece where they ran.

Emili visited the location: A park and forest. She checked the ground that our actors would be running on, by testing out running as well. On the filming day we mapped out the paths that we wanted our actors to move in, so that there was no risk of them falling over bumps or obstacles. We assessed the risks of what we asked our actors to do, and decided it was safe on our amateur film to keep the stunts and action to a minimum.

The HSE website

By Alexandra Gibson

The HSE Website