Type of File Error

When we tried to use Adobe Premiere Pro 5.5  for the first time our video files wouldn't work and there was this error message that came up

Because of this we couldn't view our files. After Googling why this was we found out that my video camera that we use to shoot the film used the file format of MOD and unfortunatley Premiere Pro is not compatable with this software, therefore I went online and converted all of our files over to a MPG format this way Premiere is compatable with it.

Oren Peli- Influence

Chloe has researched into the film director Oren Peli and as a group we decided to use him as an influence for our film, we decided this because he directs low budget horror films, this is like ours because we obviously don’t have a big budget. The way his films are conventional with the way he always has unsuspecting victims who then fall into the clutches of the ‘villain’. Peli only uses less known actors as his main characters, by doing this he has stopped the audience from relating the actor to a film they have previously seen them in, also the fact that they aren’t well known makes his films more like a documentary rather than a fictional horror movie. Our main interest with Peli’s work is the way they are filmed; they are filmed almost as though the characters are the directors this makes the movie scarier as it seems realistic. For our trailer we wanted it to be as though the girls are filming it themselves, as though they were documenting their experiences.

Our Final Storyboard

This is the storyboard we have chosen to use to help us while we are creating out film. We decided that all of our individual storyboards had some good aspects to them so we decided that rather than using one of them we would create a final storyboard which would encorporate all of our ideas.

Below is the final storyboard. It includes information such as, what sound we will use, weather it will be diegetic or non-diegtic sound, in addition to the length of the shot and the camera angles.

Thinking of a name for our child character

As a group we researched into childrens names for girls, we needed this for the news article which the young girl will be featured in. We decided that her name had to be a common name in the 1960's/ 1970's as this would seem more realistic than if we used a name that is popular  now but was unheard of in the period that we wanted our character to have been born in. We wanted the name to represent innocence such as 'The exorcism of Emily Rose' does. To find a name that fitted with our chosen period of time we Googled 'Popular baby names of the 1960's-70's' and looked through the website to help us fine some ideas. Here are some of the names we discussed:

Alice: We thought that Alice did portray innocence, however we believed that this could make the audience think of films such as Alice in Wonderland, and decided that the name seemed too modern.

Autumn: This is quite a unique name however we believed this name was too modern and wouldn't seem realistic with the fact that the girl was supposed to be from the 1970's.

Sophie: Again like the others this name seems rather modern, and we really wanted the name of our character to be authentic and seem 'old fashioned'.

Molly: We rather liked Molly as a group, however we realised that there is a large amount of young people with that name now, so therefore decided it would not have been the best choice.

Bonnie: We really liked this name as it seemed 'old fashioned' and very innocent, also there is a Nursery Rhyme called 'My Bonnie' which we thought people might relate to their childhood.

We decided to look for a surname for our character as well as we would obviously have to include that in our Newspaper article as well. After some discussion and some more Googling of 'Common surnames' we came up with Lawson as it is ranking 150 at the moment and we thought the overall name seemed very innocent.

Therefore we decided on the name Bonnie Lawson.

Casting for our child character

As a group we decided to discuss who we would like to play the role of the haunted girl. We decided upon a friend of ours who is in year 11 Zuzie as she is quite small and could play a child easily. Also she has long black hair which is what we wanted our character to have as it is seen as a conventional 'costume' for a haunted girl to have long black hair especially since the exorcist was released. In addition to this she is always in the school plays and in the schools Global Rock team, this is very important as she is an amazing actress and is very good at acting spooky and can adapt to any character she is asked to.

My Storyboard

Below is my storyboard. I have included some of the production details, such as the Green Band Rating Card (which is used in most film trailers) in addition to our production company logo, the release date of the film and the title of the film. However I do not believe we will use this as our final storyboard as I have not included such information as camera angles, audio or duration of the clips. I believe that we as a group should look at all of our storyboards and combine them together to make our final one.

 

Change of website

At the start of my coursework I was using Slideshare,  however i have decided to change from this to Skydrive as Slideshare was showing other peoples work once you had finished viewing my slideshow, also Skydrive is linked with hotmail so therefore it is secure and does not link my work with that of others.