Introduction Of Group S 12

We are group S. We have worked together as a group to try to create the opening of a horror film that lasts for roughly 3 minuets. We view ourselves as hardworking and passionate students who have put all their efforts into this project to try to create a fantastic opening sequence. We all have different qualities which help to bring the group together. Carmen is very good at filming as well as planning story boars. She is a very organized person who acts as a natural leader when organizing the group. Ella is also good at filming, she too is a hardworking and organized student who will try her very best to get the group working well. Alex is very good at editing, although he has never been taught how to edit, he has played around with final cut to teach himself how to edit, he is a fast worker and is very particular about the editing as he is so fussy, but it pays off as the editing always looks very effective. And lastly Harry is very good at garageband and drawing up and planning story boards. Harry used garageband to create a song which will play as our credits are rolling. He was also the one who drew up the storyboards which looked very effective.
(Left to right; Harry O'Donnell, Ella Tibbott, Carmen Konstantino, Alex Sadler)

Group discussions

From the very start we knew that we wanted to base our opening sequence on a horror movie opening. From there we moved onto the storyboards, we have a lot of ideas to start with be then we changed and made it so that we focused clearly on the whole horror/suspense type of filming.

We came to the final decision of the horror by sitting down for around 45 minutes and discussing our total options and decided it would be best if we continued with the horror theme.

The reason we stayed on the horror Path was because it seemed like the best idea and as we had all done media before we knew what was coming and how it would pan out.

filming alleyway

On Monday 1st March me (Ella) and Carmen filmed the Alley way scene and the station scenes. We asked two of our friends Liza and Jack to act for us. We had to plan exactly when to shoot the shots as we needed  the lighting dark but light enough to see whats happening in the shot. We met at 7:30 at Loughton station as this time was perfect as it was just starting to get dark but was light enough to see.
Firstly we filmed Liza walking out of the station, we stood a distance away and rested the camera on a shop window ledge, whilst Liza walked at a normal pace across to the alley way. We had trouble at first as the station was busy at times from when people were coming home from work, so we planned when to shoot it carefully. We were just about to start filming when a man stood completely in the way, but I think he soon realised and moved, after this we filmed and it was fine. Next we stood halfway down the alley way to film Liza walking found the corner and past the camera face on. As she reached the camera we panned round to see the back of her, we then panned back to show Jack as the stalker stood at the start of the alley way face down with a black hoody on. After this we filmed a point of view shot from Liza and then we did the same with jack, with Liza stood walking in front of him. We then filmed Liza walking whilst Jack tapped her on the shoulder, Liza turns around and nobody is there. We decided to film lots of different shots with different scenarios just to be on the safe side. After shooting some of these different shots, we decided to do a low angle shot of Liza walking past and then close behind her Jack was walking. We also filmed Liza walking down the steps of the alley way, I think this shot looked very effective as there was a bright light shining above the alleyway which lit up the stairs. We then walked to the other end of the alley way in which we filmed Liza walking up the stairs , we tried this from a mid angle and then a high angle. We had to then walk to Carmens house to film Liza getting her key out of her bag to open the front door. We had a bit of a problem here as Carmen does not have an outside light and we found it was way too dark to see what was happening so we switched Carmen's mums car headlights on to shine by her front door so there was a good level of light.