Shooting Script: Garage

Date:

Sunday 2nd March

Place:

• Garage at Charlotte's house

People :

• Charlotte

Equipment needed for shoot:

• Torches (white light/warm white light)
• Tripod
• Macro Lens
• Camera

Props Required:

• Killer's Jars

Aim of Shoot:

• Film the Killer's Jars in which there are 'body parts' and blood.
• Wide range of shots (angles and movement)

Mise-en-Scene: Jars

As my last attempt at making the killer's jars was unsuccessful, I tried again with different materials to make the jar look more realistic and effective.

• I used warm water and brown/yellow coloured materials such as gravy granules, honey and tea to make the liquid inside the jar look old and decayed, to show the killer has kept these jars as souvenirs for a long time. The liquid is also not as opaque as my previous attempt, so the solids in the jar can still be seen.
• For the 'body parts', I used dried orange peel and orange segments as I felt they resembled human insides or decayed human flesh.

 

Overall this attempt was more successful than the previous jar I created, as it looks somewhat more realistic. However I am still not happy with this jar as the liquid was not hot enough to mix all the ingredients together, so some of them stayed solid and stuck to the bottom and sides of the jar, and therefore took away from the effect.

Finalising Credits

• Previously I looked into the typography to use in our film opening title and credits. 
• I have refined it down to using the font 'Biko' which is very clean cut and modern and can be moulded to fit most film genres.
• The original idea for the credits were:

• However I didn't test it out on more than one name which lead to issues of the layout and the overall appearance.
• After taking the factors that went wrong into consideration I redesigned the layout and positioning of the credits.
• Here is the basic structure in which I created using multiple names. 

• I am overall really pleased with the outcome of the new design for the typography credits, they have come out more professional and I particularly like the use of spacing and contrasting font weights.
• However I felt that it would be nice if the credit typography was manipulated to have a slight disfigurement to make a subtle reference to the killer's underlying psychological problems.
• After experimenting with different effects I used this one:

• Here I used an effect called 'Scrape' which distorts and elongates words. I have used it to create this slight disfigurement in the template for the credits.
• I quite like the simple and subtle quirk to the credit and provides that slight disfigurement I had hoped for.

settings I used to create the slight manipulation

• After this I wanted to add a slight bit of movement to the credits as they were looking rather dull.
• After a series of trials I thought the most effective effect was 'Projector' with an overlay of 'Shadows'
• The 'Projector' effect alters the credits to make them shake a little as well as add slight noise to the black background as well as add a slight glow to the text.

• Then the use of the 'Shadow' effect to slightly dull the white text which was needed after the 'Projector' effect increased the white in the text which was just to much/

• Overall the outcome of the credits, I feel, have been well executed and are finished enough to the point of them being ready to use straight away for the opening credits of our film opening.
• The slight shakiness, I feel adds to the effectiveness of our film genre, Psychological Horror.
• I think that these credits will work really well in the film opening and enhance the quality, making our film opening appear more professional
• In the clip above shows the order in which the credits appear as well as the length the credits will stay on screen for which is 3 seconds (at the moment).
• In between these credits will be the edited footage of our film.

Production Company

• To decide which production company is the best to use, we looked at several production companies and the horror films they produced.

• Dark Castle Entertainment has produced several horror films:
• Ghost ship [2002]- Supernatural, Thir13en Ghosts [2001]- Supernatural, House on Haunted Hill [1999]- Supernatural
• But only one psychological horror:
• Orphan [2009]

• Twisted Pictures is similar in that it has produced several horror films:
• Saw [2004-2010]- slasher, Dead Silence [2007]- supernatural,
• but has not produced many psychological horrors.

• Platinum Dunes has produced Texas Chainsaw Massacre [2003]- slasher, The Purge [2013]- science fiction & The Unborn [2009]- supernatural
• But no psychological horrors.

• We decided that Paramount Pictures is the best option for us as they have produced horror films from a range of genres, including psychological horror films:
• Shutter Island [2010], Zodiac [2007]

• As we chose the psychological horror genre for our opening sequence, we felt that a production company that has produced several psychological horror films already (Paramount Pictures) would be the best option.
• Their logo, however, does not appear to fit the psychological horror genre:

• I edited this image, to ensure that the audience realises that the film is within the horror genre, from the very beginning of the sequence.

• Firstly, using photoshop, I made the image darker, and less saturated.
• I also added a grainy texture.

• I created several glitch effects, so that the overall animation would have a distorted, sinister tone.

• Overall, I feel that the result is effective, as it is more clearly from a horror film than the original logo was.
• One improvement that needs to be made, is that the production company itself isn't clear to the audience as it does not stay on the screen for enough time.  To solve this problem, the edited logo should appear again after the glitch has occurred, to become more readable for the audience.

Opening Credits

• We wanted the design for our film title to carry across to our opening credits, so I applied the same glitch effect, using Photoshop, to the fonts that Charlotte had chosen.
• Here are two examples:

• Overall, I feel that this will be effective for our opening, as it uses the same glitch effect that the title does, and therefore, one theme is carried across the entire sequence.

Killer's Jars

To establish the mental instability and obsessive nature of our serial killer, we decided that she would keep body parts of her victims in jars, which we would include in the mise-en-scene of her lair. To prepare for the scene of the lair, I attempted to make these kinds of jars with household items.

• I used tap water mixed with green and yellow paint to create the liquid inside the jars
• I tried to use pieces of fruit as body parts, but these would float to the top of the liquid and could not be seen from the side. They also did not look realistic, and so were ineffective.
• I then moulded red and yellow plasticine into finger and toe shapes, and painted them grey and green to make them look decayed.

My first attempt was not successful, as the liquid looked too bright and was too opaque, so the plasticine models could not be seen.

 

My second attempt was slightly more successful, but was still ineffective as the liquid was still too opaque and the paint on the plasticine came off in the liquid, so the bright colours could be seen and so made the models look unrealistic.

To improve next time, I will experiment with different materials and ensure the ones I use look as effective and realistic as possible.

Production Company

We have decided that the major company production we will use in our film opening is Paramount Pictures.

We made this decision because out of the previous research we conducted on major production companies, Paramount had released more psychological horrors than the other companies researched and so would be more suitable for us to use.

Garage Scene: Mise-en-Scene Log

In this scene, we are shooting our antagonist in their garage lair surrounded by items that establish to the audience that they are a serial killer and are conventional to the psychological horror genre. The mise-en-scene needed in this scene will be:

• The killer's journal
• Photos of past victims on the garage wall
• A desk
• Tools and weapons e.g. craft knives
• Jars full of body parts and liquids

In terms of costume, the killer's identity will remain hidden from the audience, so they will wear dark/black jeans and a black hooded top with the hood up over the actor's face. This scene will be shot in low key lighting with a desk lamp and a torch to create an unsettling and anticipative atmosphere for the audience. 

Killer and Victim Costumes (Our Own)

Victim's Costume.

 



We decided that our victim would be wearing modern style clothing so that our target audience would be able to connect with the character and also since the genre of psychological horror, which is what our film opening is labelled as, is a fairly new genre it also conforms to the conventions of a psychological horror film.

 

Our victim would be wearing a fairly long coat, dark jeans/trousers and low ankle boots. It is a simple costume but also ties into our film opening by being modern and also for the actor to be wearing this type of clothing as our killer is obsessed with youth and beauty so it would make sense for us to use modern style clothing instead of an older look.

 

 

Killer's Costume.

 

 

For our killer we decided that we didn't want their identity to be known to the audience so that it would keep a sense of mystery behind the character and what is going on in their mind. In this case we decided that dark clothing that wouldn't be identified with either a male or female actor would be the best for our killer.

 

We opted for a black hoody/coat, black jeans and dark plimsoll shoes as all of these items could be associated with either male or female. The hoody/coat that we used was also quite big as then the character's figure couldn't be identified by the audience of a specific gender so our killer would still be in a sense of mystery.