Storyboard

Location

The location we decided to use as a group was a simple room located in a house. The room has blank white walls and has bright lighting, but the shots we were planning to do were at night so the daylight did not effect us.We planned to then empty the room to simply leave a dressing table and have Hope seated at it.

☆ Dubstep ☆ The Widdler - Technobabble

 In order to find music which was not copyrighted we researched examples of dubstep music on MySpace. After looking through many examples of music we found a song in which Antar was able to edit on Garageband to create an effective piece, which would be able to build up tension, whilst keeping with the trends of a teenage girl.

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The song we used as a template for our movie is named "Technobabble".

In lesson we edited the song we previously came across and enjoyed, we felt parts of the song needed to be removed in order for it to fit well in our work. To do this we edited the song and removed parts using garage band. In doing so we made it suitable for our film.

Whilst experimenting with ideas to use in our movie we looked upon how we could use everyday items in order to create suspense. For example we thought of using the image of a zoomed in blow drying brush of which looks like a deathly object up close. The irony would be when zoomed out it would be an ordinary object.

Another example is using red nail varnish in order to trick audiences in to assuming its blood dripping/spilt at a first glance. We could then reveal that it is simply nail varnish which would be effective. This is similar to examples used in the "Dexter" morning routine.

Dexter: Morning Routine

We found that the morning routine in Dexter was a clever way to hint to as who the killer was in our film. The subtle hints as to a murderers way of killing is through the everyday life activities of preparing for a day at work. Examples of these are through using flossing material to look as if it could be used in a murderous activity such as strangling, squeezing red fruits to make a smoothie which looks like bloody parts of the body, or cutting in to bacon to look as if cutting in to flesh. We decided as a group that doing something along these lines would be a creative idea, so we decided to experiment with ideas similar to these ourselves. We came up with ideas such as using a close up filing nails to seem as if it is sawing a body part, using red nail varnish to look as if it is blood etc.

American Psycho - Intro to Patrick Bateman

We found that the technique used in the movie "American Psycho" of showing a contrast between the everyday routine of a normal man with the hidden life of him being a psychopath murderer, is an effective way of showing how a killer is not necessarily based upon one appearing as a typical unpresentable killer like in many movies. As we are using a woman in our movie, showing Hope's routine of getting ready would be a good idea as it would allow us to show how indifferent she is to an ordinary teenage girl.

Why We Picked Horror For A Genre

As a group we came to the decision that Horror was the best genre for us after brainstorming ideas and watching various movie clips to check out different styles. We knew our main aim was to create a clear obvious opening sequence which linked to the genre chosen, this led us to believe that the genre had many conventions we found to be of interest to us. It would allow us to experiment with sound, graphics, styles and use abstract ideas in order to create an experimental piece. To add to that the genre also interests me personally, so found that making an opening sequence of this kind would be enjoyable.