Main Task- Equipment

The equipment that we will be using throughout all of the tasks for filming and editing, Is as followed:

• A Cannon Digital Video Camecorder

• Tripod

• Apple Macintosh Computers

• Torch

•  Loaders assistants pouches

Main Task- Target Audiance

 Our film The Whisperer is a dark teen horror/murder mystery film, which I think would be aired in cinemas around the world. I would say that the main target audience for our horror film would be young teen/students who are fun seeking, active young people, high-spirited and most likely to be on a low economic statues. I think all different categories of young people such as Boys and Girls, different races and also people who understand English from abroad would be a prospective target audience. However adding subtitles for different languages would be ideal, as this will create a wider target audience that will get attracted to watch our horror/murder mystery; but this is an option worth considering. When doing my target research I decided to also create a mood bored (below) to show an idea of who we are trying to aim our film at.

Mood Bored

My mood bored (above) shows a variety of teenagers that would be interested in our film, altering from ages fifteen and onwards. I decided that this was an ideal age group to target because it would be easier for us identify the foremost gratification needs they would want.

Age Rating

Given that I’ve decided to go with the age gap of 15 year olds and onwards, we will have that age rating printed out on the DVD covers, posters and billboards. However, the age rating is always showed at the beginning of the movie and trailer, so will be doing something similar.    

                                    

          Age Rating

 





Main Task- Settings

In my main task once I finished my Synopsis, I realised I will have to look at some setting background that I would use while filming. As my storyline was and did not sound like it was set in one place. The setting’s I have chosen each have to fit in with what is happening and I have to make sure that the Mise-en-scene relates and signifies everything. 

However, when thinking about my scenes that I had come up with, I realised they were all set outside except one or two. So when choosing my setting’s I will have to look at were the location is set and not set in a busy or load area.

In these woods the main character will get attacked by a person or creature, however it will be filmed during the night and in foggy weather.

 

The restaurant the friend will be at when she’ll receive the phone call from the main character. A happy load atmosphere will be placed in this setting.

The club both characters will be leaving from, but the main character will stay back for a bit longer. Also the main character will be making the call from here to the other character.

An alleyway where the character will make a short cut while walking towards home during the night. 

Main Task- Synopsis

Throughout my researching into horror films, I deciding that I was going to create a horror film for my main task. I and my following group members had similar ideas based around the horror concept and decided to created a storyboard each and see the idea we came up with. When it came to sharing our ideas in conclusion our storyboard looked similar and our ideas were alike to. So then we decided to combine all are ideas from our group and come up with a horror synopsis for the main task.

            However, we then brainstormed and came up with the following possible names for our horror movie:

• Route 101
• The Night You Never Dreamt
• The Whisperer
• Day vs. Night
• The Whisper
• Shadows

But overall we decided to choose ‘The Whisperer’, as it related to the storyline our group had come up with. In addition, we then together brainstormed three different synopsis and decided our final synopsis. That’s the following:

The horror film is set in the modern 21^st century. The first two minutes opening of the horror film will be as a reverse flashback. Therefore the first one min approx. will be about what has happened towards the end of the film or even at the end; except the rest of the opening will be about the events that occurred that led to the reverse flashback. 

             In the first scene, Alicia the main character is heavily breathing for air, panting as if she’s been running. As we have chosen horror as our genre, the suspense in the two mins we create, will be building up from the start. As a result, in this scene while Alicia’s heavily breathing, she begins to comprehend and identify something or someone is slowly whispering her name behind her. Also the camera slowly zooms out and establishes into a long shot then the viewer’s begin to observe the figure behind Alicia that’s whispering out her name. Randomly Alicia then screams out hysterically. Then the figure fades out and disappears, for the time being Alicia looks around in a panic. From this point onwards the camera would do a 360 degree turn around on Alicia, this shot makes the viewers feel what the character is feeling like right that moment and the surroundings the character is seeing. Followed by the next scene would be a blackout.

             Subsequently the next opening scene starts off with Alicia leaving a friend party and then calls her friend (Chloe) for a lift home. While having a conversation with her friend (Chloe) telling her about a boy (Joe), who freaked out in the party she was at because she denied to have sex with him. On the whole, her friend (Chloe) can’t give her a lift because off her personal issues she’s got in her life. Once Alicia offer of getting a lift gets rejected, she restlessly starts walking home. But as she’s walking home she suddenly feels a hand grabbing her on the shoulder and she then freaks out. Alicia gets furious and tells him to leave her alone. Unpredictably it’s the same boy who was hitting on her at the party; because of this the viewers hint that this maybe the same figure at the beginning who was whispering ‘Alicia’. However, Alicia keeps on walking home and there’s a long shot of her walking. 

           Lastly, the final scene is when she’s walking through the woods while listening to load music. In the background though the viewers can hear something walking and running etc… As Alicia starts changing the song on her IPod, she realizes something is wrong and that someone or something is following behind her. This causes her to become hysterical and then she starts panicking and so forth. But then Alicia comes to a conclusion that it was just a squirrel climbing a nearby tree. As soon as this finishes, all of a sudden a figure puts his or her hand over her mouth. Then the screen blacks out. The last defining shot is of Alicia in the woods, lying on the floor covered in cuts and bruises dead or passed out. The camera then zoom’s out and the viewers see the figure of the murderer leaning over Alicia.

Characters:

• Alicia
• Figure
• Chloe
•  Joe

Main Task- Initial Idea Screenplay

The above screenplay is my screenplay related to my Main Task; though I had to scan my screenplay in because I had decided to do it by hand and not electronically. In our group of four we decided to each make a screenplay and would then decided the final one out of the four. By doing this we would have a lot of ideas and could maybe mix our ideas and create one new storyline with all our ideas involved in it. The below screenplay is done by one of my other group members. However we decided we would work from his screenplay (below), but will add and change bits and pieces from his screenplay. Overall our final film product will be related to his screenplay but will be similar and not same.   

 

Research- Horror Film Opening 'The Amityville Horror'

When making my notes I had watched the clip (The Amityville Horror, Part1) from youtube, but unfortunately it has now been blocked. So I've put a small trailer of the film on to give you an idea, on how the film is.

 

(1/6) The Amityville Horror (2005) (Full Movie Part One)