Audience Feedback (Class Discussion)

We had a class discussion evaluating each others work.

In our work Mr.Halsey and Mrs.H were being quite of out plot where as the rest of the group which consisted of 15-16 year-olds seem to enjoy the opening sequence and said that they would be willing to watch on and the target audience being 15+ I think that we have hit the nail on the head with the elements we used to get the attention of the teenagers for this horror movie.

Production

This is the end product that we have created

So Close To The Finish line

We have created everything, the only thing left is that we need to synchronize the music to the video to have a perfect fit, I am proud of what we have achieved but if the production has turned out the way I want it to only time will tell.

There has been a little problem with the audio in the video editing software so I have had to delete all the audio and insert it again and the DEADLINE for our production is today.

Music Created

I have finished the production of the music and I am proud to say that the music is completely copyright free and I have created it 100% on my own, and to be honest it does not seem very difficult to make, I saw that creating our own music would quite possibly get us a better grade than using royalty free music and then typing the name of the creators in the titles, I have used a very cliché film soundtrack.

There have been a few technical difficulties with the fade ins and outs on the video editing software as the music seems to be quite loud hopefully we will be able to make sure that everything will be all right by the deadline.

Logo Created

I have created the logo for the movie as I said before I have kept the hand feature like in the "Shawn of the Dead" title,  however for the the "I" in "detention" I have used an a hand, this in my view also relates to the hand being the trademark of the villains killings and the title in represents death.

I chose the colour red as that signifies death and is a popular comparison to blood,
if you were to see this title before you even saw the film opening you would be able to tell that the movie was a horror movie and that is the type of font that I wanted for the project.

Logo Research

I have been looking through some of my personal favourite logo for horror films.  

I think that the text is fairly simple until you see that the heart has a dagger going through it and that shows the subversion of the meaning of "Mothers Day" which is showing appreciation for all that your mother has done for you throughout your life. And I love how the heart is meant to be the "O" I think that we will use something like that for our logo.

  

 This is a classic logo as there is not alot of elements of horror in this logo apart from the logo being red which gives it horror feel I think that we should also have our horror being red with a black background as it gives a good colour scheme to work with, and the face looks as if its using a thermal camera for that shot to be taken.

Creating Logo

I am creating a logo that will fit our horror film, I personally want some form of text that has a hand symbol because you can't see the villains face through out the horror movie however you do see the hand of the villain so I would like to have a hand on the title for example in the dawn of the dead.

Research: Gallows - The Riverbank

This is a short introduction for an album from a hardcore punk rock band called Gallows, I was listening to music on my Ipod and I came across this song and it immediately reminded me of the media production and the way it was a cliché type of sound with the organs and the sound effect of the water rumbling, it builds a lot of suspense and that is something that I am personally thriving to get in our production of this horror movie.

SFX DONE!

I have found some SFX browsing through the web and have taken some royality free SFX such as: a school bell, Clock ticking and some more, I am yet to show it t the group and I hope that they like it, It should make our movie look more as a horror movie and less as a Action/Thriller and put more of the suspense factor into the movie which at the moment it is lacking.

Some Music FINALLY Created.

I have created some tracks for the death of the teacher and where the killer puts two lines that symbolises two deaths (Teacher and the Student).

I am going to take the samples into school to show it to the group I hope that they would like it and it fits the video and give that extra edge to the clip as at the moment there does not seem to be any horror, It is now that I am making the music that I see how much the music and audio play a role in movies and in our case horror music .

Started Making some Music

I have started creating some music on Fruity Loops and I started to get the gist of the software, I am going for an cliché music to set the horror scene, I personally want the audience to feel a lot of tension during the clip there are a lot of things I need to think about while making this music, whether it be that I need the sound of  the organs louder than the rest of the instruments,The research that I did seems to suggest so.

As I was going for a cliché sound I was looking up classic horror movies and they all seem to start off a really slow pace deep, then the sounds get faster and the pace of the notes being played increasing a perfect example of this is the Jaws theme which is the most notable theme of the horror/thriller genre.

Sampling some Music

I have tried to create music on a software called "Fruity Loops", I am getting the hang of the software I need to get all of the music done before the editing process is over, The reason why I have choose to make music on Fruity Loops is because it is compatible with Windows and that is the operating system that I have at home, and that way I will not be disrupting other departments by using their music rooms after school hours.


I should have the music done by the end of this week, I think that this is a realistic target and would be round about the time where the rest of the group finish editing the video. 

Editing almost over

After seeing the video preview, I saw that the group just need to edit just a little bit more before they are finished, which is great because they would have finished it a few days before the deadline, on the other hand it puts a lot of finishing the music which I am creating.


For the chase scene I need to create an almost a Jaws track so it would raise tension dramatically, of the villain spying on the teacher and showing that the teacher is in danger and in a bad situation also during that continuous clip the villain runs after the teacher as the teacher is on the phone. 


There is one clip that I have been told needs to be re-recorded, the clip of the student writing and that will be the shot where we will be adding the title of the credits (I think that it will be my name), It is quite frustrating since it is the last few days of the project and the pressure is mounting on me and I am sure on the rest of the group also.