That's a Wrap :(

So planning is done, production is done, editing is done and i have come to the end of my 2.5 and 2.6 assignments. I have had a lot of fun doing this but to be honest, i am glad it is over. It is so much energy creating are short film. I am just so happy i got to do it with my best friend Erin. I think if i did it again i would have made a simpler plot, but its too late now. Fingers crossed for good grades...

Other Sounds

I want to create a more tense atmosphere in the scene where Tilly is trying to calm herself. So i am going to incorporate some interesting cinematography (donut pans & dutch angles) with a static wind noise and a heart beat that gets louder and louder until we reach ultimate tension and it burst out into the climactic point of our music.

Transitions

After looking through the transitions on Final Cut Pro i have decided that i really hate over the top or cheesy transitions. So i think that a simple and subtle fade and jump cuts will be all i use. This will build suspense and make the film more serous instead of cheesy and stupid.

Filter Coloring

I plan to use a filter over my footage to make the colors more intense and vibrant. I hope this will draw attention to major colors and create a feeling of unreality - similar to how Tilly feels in her paranoid state. This will hopefully make our color symbolism pop.

Music!!!!

To continue on with our intertextuality, i found that "Hello Zepp" - the theam tune from the original Saw film works very well with our film. It will create unsteady tension and it sounds cool! I want to have the music going through-out the film, stopping or fading down for dialogue or moments of tension.

Intertextuality

I thought it would be a cool idea for our film to contain some references to other horror or slasher films. The music that will be used is the theam song to the original SAW film, the graveyard in our film is called Myers Graveyard - after the killer, Michael Myers, from "Halloween". Our film is set in a quiet suburban are like "Halloween" and "Scream" and we used symbolic color like "The Shining".

Locations:

Filming will take place in four key locations in my local area:

Hillsborough Cemetery - We are filming in the older section of the cemetery with really old grave. It has this long gravel path that goes up the middle between these two raised banks that are both covered in old graves. there are no trees so the light is very bright. It looks haunting and creepy, the perfect place for the ghosts of our monsters victims to hang out in :) . As i said before the section we are using is old and no one ever really goes there so there wont be any foot traffic to worry about.

Little-John St - This street looks like your everyday suburban street, so it fits the setting very well. Also people from our school will know it and be able to identify with our film easily. The lighting in the street is nothing special but it will be featuring in a part of the film where the characters are more important. Traffic and pedestrians could be a problem but we will just have to deal with that.

Keith-Hay Cycle Track - This setting looks so good on camera because of its long path that stretches on into the distance and the contrasting bushed and fences on either side on the track. the lighting is vibrant and will be good for the earlier stages of our film. The path gets crowded during the afternoon due to the schools so we will have to time our filming for more quiet moments

West Park - This is another setting that may be well known to school members as it is local. It has long stretches of grassy bank that are perfect for running scenes and a alley way down the back which looks dark and gloomy. This place will be good for filming just as long as it is not when the kindergarten (which is in it) is open.