ouija board
Dolly and camera
Lighting table
Title book
Insents 
Tuesday, 26 January 2010
Saturday, 23 January 2010
Music
Music
As a group we all have decided for the music, we're going to record someone to sing the nursery rhyme 'Ring O Roses' as we thought that would connect with the opening title sequence quite nicley. As it's a little girl that is summond and lashes out in a fit of trumatisation, we thought 'Ring O Roses' will go well as it is one of the most popular rhymes known but it also will go very well and connect with the 360 degrees shot of the ouija board and the four actors.
As a group we all have decided for the music, we're going to record someone to sing the nursery rhyme 'Ring O Roses' as we thought that would connect with the opening title sequence quite nicley. As it's a little girl that is summond and lashes out in a fit of trumatisation, we thought 'Ring O Roses' will go well as it is one of the most popular rhymes known but it also will go very well and connect with the 360 degrees shot of the ouija board and the four actors.
It is often suggested that the rhyme relates to the symptoms of plague, specifically the Black Death. When song in a slow voice the poem sounds really scary, we recorded Annie slowly sing the song. After we had herd the recording we thought that it was alright but it could be better, so we are now going to get a young child to sing the nursery rhyme and also get someone to do a recording of a piano piece, that will over lap the singing of the nursery rhyme
Thursday, 21 January 2010
re-shooting and location shots
re-shooting and location shots
As a result of the lack of our camera shots and angles we have decided to re-shoot.
This will take place after school on Tuesday 26th, in our Drama studio, however one disadvantage is that the dead line for this course work is on the 29th and we're all showing our opening title sequence in lesson on the 28th, and this doesn't give us alot of time to edit so we're all decided to use all spare lessons and will be staying after school Wednesday 27th for as long as need to get this project finished for the deadline.
We have decided to film in our Drama studio because the room is painted black which we thought would not only connot dark and scary but would also be great to have the lite candles against so you'll have that nice contrast and also the lighting of the candles on the video camera would show up lovey and would have that 'glow' effect.
As a result of the lack of our camera shots and angles we have decided to re-shoot.
This will take place after school on Tuesday 26th, in our Drama studio, however one disadvantage is that the dead line for this course work is on the 29th and we're all showing our opening title sequence in lesson on the 28th, and this doesn't give us alot of time to edit so we're all decided to use all spare lessons and will be staying after school Wednesday 27th for as long as need to get this project finished for the deadline.
We have decided to film in our Drama studio because the room is painted black which we thought would not only connot dark and scary but would also be great to have the lite candles against so you'll have that nice contrast and also the lighting of the candles on the video camera would show up lovey and would have that 'glow' effect.
The Big Picture
Film Group : Kathryn Powell, Annie Hopkins and Jade Mitton
Film Tittle : Child's Play
Characters : Matthew, Amelia, Samantha and John who are paraphycholgist searching for sprits
Mary - (Ghost) haunting because her parents have been killed
Setting : Set in a deserted victorian house, old fashioned, no help for them
Visual Style : Gradually gets darker and duller to connote the narrative getting darker and scarier
Narrative : Equilibrium - All 4 friends calm and happy talking etc
Problem - They disturb the ghost
Action - The ghost kills 3 of them
Resolution - One paraphycholgist survives , leading to sequel
Outside the Box : To make intertextual references to another film/group of films...
Reference to 6th sense - using colour - red tea lights/candles - blood in necklace scene
Peer Feedback :
Green - Know your story line and planned it well
Amber - Why is their reason to go in the house
Red - Describe ending in narrative- what happens before the sequel
Film Tittle : Child's Play
Characters : Matthew, Amelia, Samantha and John who are paraphycholgist searching for sprits
Mary - (Ghost) haunting because her parents have been killed
Setting : Set in a deserted victorian house, old fashioned, no help for them
Visual Style : Gradually gets darker and duller to connote the narrative getting darker and scarier
Narrative : Equilibrium - All 4 friends calm and happy talking etc
Problem - They disturb the ghost
Action - The ghost kills 3 of them
Resolution - One paraphycholgist survives , leading to sequel
Outside the Box : To make intertextual references to another film/group of films...
Reference to 6th sense - using colour - red tea lights/candles - blood in necklace scene
Peer Feedback :
Green - Know your story line and planned it well
Amber - Why is their reason to go in the house
Red - Describe ending in narrative- what happens before the sequel
Tuesday, 19 January 2010
Friday, 15 January 2010
story board change
Story-board remake (second)
As a result of changing the title sequence by changing the credits, we have choosen to draw a second story board that will fit our new opening title sequences and its changes.
As a result of changing the title sequence by changing the credits, we have choosen to draw a second story board that will fit our new opening title sequences and its changes.
Wednesday, 13 January 2010
thought process throughout the project
Thought processes throughout the project
This is my reflective thought processes throughout the whole project where i will explain whats has happened and my thoughts on my Opening Title Sequence.
Thursday 12th November;
today we got given our groups, i was quiet pleased at i ended up with kathryn powell and annie hopkins and us three work well together as we found out in our continuity piece. we then decided to start thinking of an idea for our opening title sequence, annie wanted to do horror and me and kathryn agreed this would be good to do.
wednesday 18th november;
today we did our big picture where we discussed what the idea would be for our openinig title sequence.
Friday 15th January;
As me an kathryn was in an exam, annie had loaded our footage and start cutting up and deleting things which are not needed for example laughing, and she said she was really getting quite worried and 'stressed' because she had notice the lack of Camera angles and shot and personally we felt it really had brought down the whole footage as we and others thought the lighting was lite perfect.
we all agreed with annie, so now we all have decided as a group to re-shot our footage. And also we had noticed we didn't stick to our original plan; 'The Big Picture' because in our storyboards, we had 4 people doing the Ouija board and in our first shooting we only had two, so now we are going to try and stick with that original plan.
Wednesday 20th January;
Today in lesson, the whole group sat down and discussed our opening title sequence about re shooting and our ideas. we then came up with this new idea for the shooting of the Credits, instead of having the pan across, we're going to make this prop; a old looking book witch some how flys open onto the credits written inside in black ink.
firstly we thought this would look much better but also it would fit into our opening title sequence much better, as the writing will be written 'childish' of which would be the child that is summoned through the Ouija bored.
Tuesday 26th January;
Today the group decided to make our prop for the credits, a book.We decided to write a Diary Entry in it as an extra feature along side of the credits.Annie wrote in a joined handwriting italic, also we decided to write the title 'Child's Play' on the cover of the book instead of on the tags as we thought it would relate more. Also Annie came up with this idea that we could use perhaps with the Diary Entry; we could have an over voice of a girl to say the Entry, which we might add in, but we are not sure yet.We are re filming today after school and hopefully everything goes to plan, may have to stay a little late but luckily everyone is willing to. So lets see how it goes...
Thursday 28th January;
Today is the showing day to the rest of the class and I'm a bit nervous, as we are not completely finished. however, this is just a practise one so that groups can get feed back and be informed on how others think the sequence could be improved and why they like it. soon will make a new post on our feed backs and will appear below. Filming on the 26th went according to plan and the footage, personally, i think was better than the first time we shot as we had three actors rather than 2. the editing yesterday after school went okay too which i am pleased about. Today we also agreed to have an extra piece of sound in the background throughout the whole opening title sequence of a piano piece, of which our drama teacher Ian Emslie will compose for us once we shown him our title sequence. we are keeping the "ring o ring o roses" and that will appear a quarter way through on the 360 degrees. Showing time...
This is my reflective thought processes throughout the whole project where i will explain whats has happened and my thoughts on my Opening Title Sequence.
Thursday 12th November;
today we got given our groups, i was quiet pleased at i ended up with kathryn powell and annie hopkins and us three work well together as we found out in our continuity piece. we then decided to start thinking of an idea for our opening title sequence, annie wanted to do horror and me and kathryn agreed this would be good to do.
wednesday 18th november;
today we did our big picture where we discussed what the idea would be for our openinig title sequence.
Friday 15th January;
As me an kathryn was in an exam, annie had loaded our footage and start cutting up and deleting things which are not needed for example laughing, and she said she was really getting quite worried and 'stressed' because she had notice the lack of Camera angles and shot and personally we felt it really had brought down the whole footage as we and others thought the lighting was lite perfect.
we all agreed with annie, so now we all have decided as a group to re-shot our footage. And also we had noticed we didn't stick to our original plan; 'The Big Picture' because in our storyboards, we had 4 people doing the Ouija board and in our first shooting we only had two, so now we are going to try and stick with that original plan.
Wednesday 20th January;
Today in lesson, the whole group sat down and discussed our opening title sequence about re shooting and our ideas. we then came up with this new idea for the shooting of the Credits, instead of having the pan across, we're going to make this prop; a old looking book witch some how flys open onto the credits written inside in black ink.
firstly we thought this would look much better but also it would fit into our opening title sequence much better, as the writing will be written 'childish' of which would be the child that is summoned through the Ouija bored.
Tuesday 26th January;
Today the group decided to make our prop for the credits, a book.We decided to write a Diary Entry in it as an extra feature along side of the credits.Annie wrote in a joined handwriting italic, also we decided to write the title 'Child's Play' on the cover of the book instead of on the tags as we thought it would relate more. Also Annie came up with this idea that we could use perhaps with the Diary Entry; we could have an over voice of a girl to say the Entry, which we might add in, but we are not sure yet.We are re filming today after school and hopefully everything goes to plan, may have to stay a little late but luckily everyone is willing to. So lets see how it goes...
Thursday 28th January;
Today is the showing day to the rest of the class and I'm a bit nervous, as we are not completely finished. however, this is just a practise one so that groups can get feed back and be informed on how others think the sequence could be improved and why they like it. soon will make a new post on our feed backs and will appear below. Filming on the 26th went according to plan and the footage, personally, i think was better than the first time we shot as we had three actors rather than 2. the editing yesterday after school went okay too which i am pleased about. Today we also agreed to have an extra piece of sound in the background throughout the whole opening title sequence of a piano piece, of which our drama teacher Ian Emslie will compose for us once we shown him our title sequence. we are keeping the "ring o ring o roses" and that will appear a quarter way through on the 360 degrees. Showing time...
Tuesday, 5 January 2010
Production Process
During the production process we researched ouija boards, how they look and what happened when people played them. we printed off images and created our own ouija board to look like the photo we had.
when we was ready to shoot we set it up on a black table in a dark room with just the spot light on for effect. we changed the candles position a couple of times to see which layout of the candles looked better. when we was happy with the lighting and the postion of the actors we done a couple of test runs to see how it looked through the cameras eye.
when we was ready to shoot we set it up on a black table in a dark room with just the spot light on for effect. we changed the candles position a couple of times to see which layout of the candles looked better. when we was happy with the lighting and the postion of the actors we done a couple of test runs to see how it looked through the cameras eye.
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