Location Research 3: Ashtead Common

Our third and final location that we have considered as our film setting in Ashtead common, which is near Ashtead's train station. It would give off a similar effect to one of our other choices of locations, Leatherhead Park, as it is a public location, where we could make a group of friends hang out at, or make them walk through this location.

Likewise, we could also film in the dark with this location, as it would add the effect of horror to the audience.

Location Research 2: Leatherhead Park

Our second choice of location for filming our opening scene is Leatherhead Park, near the river mole, Leatherhead. We feel that this would be a good choice of location as it is a public place, where people would meet up as friends outside, or could walk through this area.

A consideration for how we could use this location is film when darkness hits, which would add an element of horror to our film, as a common setting for many horror films are darker.

Production Titles Final Decision

Production Titles

We have chosen to you this design as our production titles as we feel that the black background will represent horror and fear, which is the genre of of our film. The use of  yellow/green text against the background is effective as it will stand out to the audience.

We also decided to use this style of title as it was a popular choice from the people that we asked. The use of a circle of sand is effective as it links to our production title name. We feel that "Sandstone Films would be the best production title name out of the options that we had after researching a number of production titles online.

Production Titles Ideas

                                Production Titles Ideas:

For our film, we are going to need production titles, that will appear at the beginning of our film. We have found these production titles online and feel that these would be best for our film "Return of Kezia." As a group we will make a final decision together on which of the following production titles to use.


                       PRODUCTION TITLES IDEAS

Looking Glass Studios	Spinning Wheel Studios
Continuum Films	Green Fuzz Productions
Off the Spectrum Productions	Fly on the Wall Films
Pendulum Film Company	Sweet Kiss Studios
Sandstone Films	Offspring Entertainment

Costume Research

Costume Research

Clothing: Grey crop top with black necklace
This shows to the audience that Shannon is a protagonist

Clothing: Casual black jumper with blue jeans
This shows to the audience that I'm also a protagonist of the film

Clothing: Black jumper with black jeans:

                                               This shows that Anna is the antagonist as dark clothing represents horror.

Clothing: Black Jumper with beige chinos
This shows that Baily is also a protagonist of the film

Location Research 1: Shannon's House

Our first choice of location is Shannon's house. The video that is filmed here shows the loft that is in Shannon's house. We feel that the loft in Shannon's house would be a good choice of location for a horror film, as it is a smaller old house with wooden beams as features. This will have a good effect on the audience, as it shows to them that we are in a more scary location.

Another reason why we feel that this will be a good location to film our opening scene to our film is because it would be a good place for a group of friends to meet up at, as its one of the friends houses. The living room, for example, could be the place in the house where the friends could hang out.

Due to the house being older and smaller than other ones, it would be a more likely location where you could expect paranormal activity to occur.

Opening Titles Idea

After looking at horror films which are similar to ours, we feel that this is the best style of opening titles for our horror film.

We feel that as our opening scene ends on a blackout, this title can be used after the scene as the background will be the same colour. The colour black represents horror and fear and would give off that effect to our audience

Interviews of Actors

This video shows us interviewing each other, where we asking questions about our film.

Certificate Research

Certificate Research:

After reviewing the plot of our film as well as other films that are similar to our own, we feel that our film should be given a certificate rating of 15.

Our film contains occasional swearing and mild horror, in which audience members under the age of 15 could be affected by this. We felt that an age rating of a PG or 12 would be too low for our film, mainly due to the swearing. However, an age rating of 18 wouldn't be necessary for our film, as the swearing is occasional and there is no violence. One of the films we have compared ours to is "the conjuring." Because of the similarity in plot/storyline, we have given our film an age certificate of 15,  which is what the conjuring's film rating is.

Research and Planning Targets

In order to improve your research and planning grade you need to provide a lot more detail regarding your choices and intended outcomes - and your level of analysis in your research could be added to in greater detail.  Make sure you are evidencing the creative process in the post-production stages of development.

Location Research

We have several locations that we have considered to use as filming locations. They are all of houses, in which a group of friends could meet up at. 

This house is a location we are considering to use for our opening scene. This is because it is a house where you would expect a group of friends to go to and meet together.

This house is also a location that we are considering to use in our film. Unlike the house above, this house is smaller, which isn't a general stereotype of a horror movie location, however it is an older house, which is a general stereotype that you would associate with a horror film. Like the house above, it is also a location that friends could meet up with each other. 

Spider diagram of our film ideas