Fake knife cut with blood

This is the knife trick we have used in our film. This trick is easy and cheap to do as all you need as a fake knife, a pipet and fake blood. In our film it works quite well and looks realistice although it took 2 takes to make it look right.

Props

As a group we had almost decided on which weapon choice the killer will use on his victim, but to see what the audience thought we did a poll to see what they would most like to see the killer use. After 5 day the poll closed and the killer using a knife was the most popular so we decided to go with that as it is what the audience would like to see, as well as it's easy for our group to act out.

This is the actually knife that we will use to kill the victim, played by Matt Davison.

This syringe is going to contain blood in it so we can carry out our knife cutting trick to make the audience think the murder is real.
The tubing pictured above is a very important part of the knife trick. This connects the knife to the syringe so the blood can squirt out realistically.

The pictures above and below are what the finish product looks like when it is all put together. when we show the killer using this we will use a close-up/extreme close-up of the knife cutting the victims neck so that we cant see the tubing or syringe.

Questionnaire Feedback

After collecting all the questionnaires and looking at the data we have found that mostly male audience like watching horror films as well as action and comedy films. Some females also like watching horrors but not as much as males. Female viewers like to watch comedy's, romantic and chick flick films. Vast majority of the people who took the questionnaire said that the first several minutes of the opening part of the film is important, as it is supposed to grip you and make you want to carry on watching the film. You can quite easily tell what the film is going to be like from just the first five minutes. When asked where do you prefer to watch a film there was a mixed review between the cinema and at home. This is because both have their plus sides and their negative sides. The pluses for cinema is that you can enjoy the wide screen and surround sound experience, no where else to be seen, but then when it comes to price you end up spending around £15-£20 on ticket and Food & Drink. Where as at home you can go to the shop and by what ever food & drink you want at a cheap price and DVD's cost around £10 if not less. The only negative is that you do not get the full experience of a film compared to the cinema

Questionnaire

This is just a little questionnaire to see what you as the audience of many film, like to watch, where to watch, and whats important to you as the paying public. please respond to the questionnaire by clicking on the 'comments' just below this post and write your answer there!!

• Age................

• Gender................

• What is you favorite genre of film and why?......................................................

• What is your favorite film and why?.....................................................

• Do you prefer to watch a film at the cinema or buy/rent a DVD, and why?................................

• What encourages you see a new film? (actors, storyline, friends etc.)...................................

• Do you think that the opening two or so minutes in a film are important? and why do you think this?..............................................

Audience Profiling

I have used the pearl and dean website which is great for looking up any film you want and reading review and what kind of people watch certain films. I looked at films similar to ours and who where the target audience. This can help us decided who we can present our film to.

The Unborn

Halloween

Update & Time Management

As you know from a couple of posts ago we have started filming just before we broke up for half term. We have set a deadline to have all the filming finished so we have plenty of time to edit by the last week of march. This will give as a solid week to edit and add any bits we want to make it better.

Filming starts!...

Just before we broke up for half term, our group managed to get about 40 minutes of filming in, for our 2 minute opening. We where only concentrating on the first minute of action but a lot of time was taken up by us discussing what kind of shots we think we should use and so on. We decided to film each take from 3/4 different angles, this would give us a different perspective from many angles allowing us to eventually pick the most effective angle or angles. Once we finished filming we put what we had filmed onto adobe premiere elements which is the editing software. I have so far edited half of the footage and at the moment as a group we are not sure whether or not we will even use all of the footage that we have filmed so far.

Change Of Script!

Shaun walking to his detention

Shaun enters the room

Silence

Mr Oswick - Oh, nice to see your on time for once Shaun. Get on with the work you didn't do period 3, I've just got to go and photocopy this.


Door closes as Oswick walks out, Shaun sits waiting.

Shaun - Oh F*** this he aint coming back, I'm going.

Shaun throws his pen at the white board and walks to the door. The door is locked. Shaun pulls harder and harder try to open it, the lights flicker and go out but then come back on. He turns around as there is a sound from behind him, there's a message on the board.

Shaun - What the F*** (start to scream and shout)

He tries harder to get out. Amplified sound of foot steps coming up behind him. loud screaming of agony.

Update & Time Management

Yesterday we went through a quick practise run of our two minute opening scene. This was to ensure that everything was in place, we all knew what we where doing at particular points and that we all knew what needed to be included, such as props. Doing this rehearsal enabled us to make sure we where happy with the camera movements and angles that are going to be included in our two minute opening. We have actually filmed about 40 seconds as well so we can all agree on how we are going to film it when it comes to filming our actually scene, next week.