Research and Planning: Planning the Opening.

Our opening will be turned into a montage with credits, transitions and coloured clips. The first 30 to 40 odd seconds will consist of this montage and then it will go onto the acting part.
More will be added to this once we have completed other tasks.

Research and Planning: Audience Profile

A typical audience member for my film will be between 15 and 25, generally male but perhaps female, middle class, perhaps a student educated to A level. One word to sum up my audience might be 'individualistic'. A typical audience member for my film might spend their spare time doing things such as going to live music events, surfing the web, studying, and might be a film fanatic. I imagine my typical audience may be drinkers, perhaps smokers, who enjoy socialising and reading.

Research and Planning: Risk Assessment

During our film there are many opportunities for injury or accidents to occur so in order to prepare for this we must write a risk assessment.


- Tripping over, during our film there are many times when Paige is running and may trip over things or fall, to try and stop this we will clear all routes and ensure Paige is familiar with her surroundings.
- Shutting fingers in door, during the film the door is opened and closed regularly with some slamming, we will ensure Paige is careful and aware.
- Falling over pets, there is a cat in the house which may be hurt or tripped over.
- Tripping over the camera tripod, to target this we will be extra careful and ensure the tripod is not left out when not in use.

Title Sequence Analysis: The Grudge

This opening is 3 minutes long.
This is my second opening analysis and I've chosen to study the Grudge.
Like Thirteen Ghosts, my first study this film opens with the Columbia Pictures logo with slow, slightly creepy music.The screen then goes black and the second credits come up which are the production company, Ghost House Productions. With this film being a supernatural horror, the music and the appearance of the ghost house production logo sequence.
Unlike Thirteen ghosts, The Grudge has an opening involving words.

Every time words come up and fade away a single word remains making the opening more interesting. Along with the writing , creepy music is being played.

This happens for 1:03 minutes. Then opens to roads, bridges and traffic noises.
This then continues to a man looking out at the view, at this point it doesn't give any feeling that something will happen. A close up of this face determines something is bothering him and makes the audience wonder what he is thinking or is going to do. His partner speaks to him but remains silent, this starts to build tension up for the audience because of his strange behavior.

His behavior also suggests that he doesn't know what he's going or doesn't understand something.
Then out of the blue he throws himself off the balcony. This gives the audience the idea that something strange is going on. Before hand an impression from his partner suggested that there were no problems.

A useful way of cinematography is used here, as the man has just jumped to his death the camera is used to allow the audience to see what he is seeing when he is falling to his death.

This is the view that his partner see's when she runs to the window. When the audience see a chose up of her face, they get the impression of confusion. 'Why did he do that?'
As the shot is playing weird creepy music is being played over the top of the partner's heavy breathing.

Camera movement is then used to show the audience how far he fell by trailing his falling pattern.
The camera comes down and pan's over to the body, capturing the crowd collecting not far from his body.
While this is happening the strange sounds are still being played.

Once the dead body is shown the music gets louder and dims into a black screen where 'Sam Raimi and Columbia Pictures Present', now with eery watery sounds playing in the background, still with strange sounds.

Risk Assessment

Risk Assessment:
Trip with camera (perhaps whilst walking backwards to film)
Drop camera
Fall down stairs whilst filming 
Break camera
Drop camera in puddle (electrocution)
Trip over tripod
We filmed near a construction area, so avoid hazards


We found a location in college which was suitable for filming. We chose this particular location because it fitted in well with the idea we came up with. It looked how we wanted it to and it was a safe and realistic place to film. We created a storyboard which covered the following events: Me walking through a construction site mission impossible style, walking sneakily down the corridor, looking around, running down the corridor, entering a room (which was our eye-line match and match on action), a room for a conversation (this is where we filmed our cutaway). We decided to have a student rolling her eyes as our cutaway as it suited the scene and made the story easier to understand.

Preliminary Task - Video Production

The preliminary task is a continuity task which is basically filming and editing someone opening a door, crossing a room/walking down a corridor, sitting down with another person present involving some dialogue. This will show a match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule, also including a cut in.
Here are some quick photos of how we want are video to look:-
















An actor sneaking up to the door in a 'James Bond ' stand
















A close up of the actor walking slowly towards the door.
















A close up of the actor opening the door.














Close up/Zoom of actors hand.
















Full body shot of actor posing.




























































Another full body shot of actor creeping down a hall-way.














Mid-shot of actor posing.




































Close up of actor opening a door.














Another actor found in the room. 'Caught in the act' atmosphere
















Another Mid-shot of actor thinking/ 'playing innocent'

Research and Planning: Planning the sceniero

 Since me and my partner love supernatural horror we came up with this unique idea.
The film will be called "Purgatory". 
As our film genre is horror/supernatural, we have decided that our main character is going to be a helpless female who has just moved in to a new house with her father, who is not home. She's unpacking boxes and looking through photo albums when she hears a strange noise from upstairs. She investigates this noise and enters a dark room when suddenly the door slams shut, seconds later she screams. The location we've used to film is our actress's home, which is right next to an old church and graveyard.
We want our film opening to have a montage effect So we plan on taking a camera out and go look for objects and areas around the house that look creepy to create this effect. This will happen through out the acting parts of the opening.

Research and Planning: Planning the film

In the film opening our main female character will be present, 'Anna'. Another will be present who will be our ghostly creepy character (which will be the ghost of Anna). The audience will know who the main protagonist is through the use of close ups, we will do this to allow the audience to really connect with Anna, also as she will be the only main character in the scene. There is one binary opposition in terms of Proppian roles, this will be Anna vs her ghost self. This fits in well with the theme of the film as the idea  is that she is her own worst enemy, and at war against herself. The audience will know this by the narrative and dialogue between her and her dad. In terms of casting we have an idea for a main character, she is a young dark haired girl with a slight rebel side. We want her to wear average teenage attire when she is playing Anna. When she is playing her ghost self we want her to wear a white nightie with bare feet, messy hair and ghostly white make-up.  We will film at a friends house. It is an average sized family cottage based in Ombersley, it is exactly how we want it and suits our storyboard. We want the interior of the house to look as if the girl is unpacking and just moved in, we will need props such as boxes. We'd like to create a slightly creepy atmosphere with tense moments and plenty of enigmas. In terms of mise-en-scene we will create an awkward atmosphere and the feeling of a paranormal thing being present through the use of camera shots, angles and close ups. Almost all of the filming is going to be indoors so we have little need to worry about weather. We are going to use the local churchyard for some filming and have asked the church verger, he said this was fine as long as we didn't film any new graves, as this is disrespectful to families. For example, we can't show a grave that was put there this year but can film the ancient graves. We will film just before dusk so the lighting shouldn't be a problem. We will use enigma codes to ensure the audience want to keep watching, we will do this by using shots to give the idea that another person or spirit is present and plenty of unanswered questions. Action codes will be used and by the end of the sequence the audience should feel on edge, tense and interested to find out more, they will know who the main character is and the basic story line. We will use white writing on a black background for our titles with eerie fonts. Smooth transactions mixed with sudden flashes of scene to credit. The information on the titles will be; "Decorus Nex productions presents", "starring Paige Sturgeon", "Filmed, edited and produced by Hannah and Georgia" and any other necessaries entered at a later date.

Filiming risk assessment

 While filming there are opportunities where injuries and accidents can happen. These areas were assessed and avoided while filming.
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  1.Tripping over, during our film there are many times when our actress is running and could trip over things or fall, to try and stop this we will clear all routes and ensure our actress is familiar with her surroundings. 
  2.Shutting fingers in doors, during the film the door is opened and closed regularly with some slamming, we will ensure our actress is careful and aware.
  3.Falling over pets, there is a cat in the house which may be hurt or tripped over.
  4.Tripping over the camera tripod, to target this we will be extra careful and ensure the tripod is not left out when not in use.