Creating a timeline schedule

I'll be creating a schedule timeline schedule to keep track of the things that I have to do that's important first. I'll be breaking down into sections on what I think best needs to be done first before the due date meets its match. Since the project is due on March 15 I'll try to best prioritize my time into finishing this project and I think making a own schedule for it is a great idea. 

Timeline Breakdown

Finishing up 

1) being able to catch up with the blog posts (typing up to date)

Film 

2) Reasearching/planning (whole introduction plot) 

3) Taking different types of angle shots taken (the paper planner sheet) 

4) Creating fake document paper and making a horror scene room. 

5) Implementing lighting effects on play (flickering, distance lighting, background lighting)

Editing 

6) Adding in horror/atmosphere/suspence sounds effect on to the editing application.        (mostly using Pixabay) 

7) Adding in lighting effect: Creating the scene more suspence and horror 

8). Use the blur effect within the application to highlight important documentations in view.

 

Three opening films, Analysis and Discussion: Horror/Thriller

Credit scene 

Scream (1996): One of the most iconic horror classics in history. As the scene instantly starts innocently with the girl who gets a random phone call but the tension rises when the unknown caller knows about her and wants to play a game. the camera shows midshot of mostly of her to show her reaction to whats going on. But through out the there conversation there tends to be high pitch noises and sudden base suspence when something feels off or when someone about to attack. Prior before when an attack happens all the atmosphere sounds start to dim down or fade away before all of a sudden an unexpected jumpscare happends and the suspence music turns up as well as screaming. 

• The font thats being used throughout the movie is a Scream white sharp font that could blend in with the black background. 

• The placement of credits are at the end of the movie which allows the audience to watch the movie without disruption.

A Quiet Place ll: This movie is a fast pace suspence movie as many things are going on. The starting of the film takes place at a kids baseball game when all of the sudden the atmosphere background slowly dies down and more people start to notice the massive astroid that's coming down from earth, hearing the noise of it coming down, everyone reacts to it and starts fleeing away. This is when the creatures come to show, since they're quick the camera follows it and everyone starts panicking and it becomes a huge mess. Beginning of the movie starts with no credit scenes but just atmosphere sounds for a few min until the characters engage in a conversation. Like the Scream movie, the credits end in the end of the conversation. 

All of us are Dead: A South Korean fast paced zombie thriller series that sets a stage for horror to come. The introduction starts out with highschool students on the rooftop, engaging in a fight with a group of bullies. The fighting scenes uses a close-up shots and many rapid camera movements, with suspence/haunted music that plays in the background. As the students falls down on the floor and transforms into a zombie, we get a wide shoot of the chaos spreading around the school, hinting that horror will come.

The front being used in the movie cover is called FF Folk font, which looks great for a suspence horror series. 

Credits

Ashley Hajimirsadeghi (all of us are dead): https://shorturl.at/QM4oS

Font Meme (All of us are Dead): https://shorturl.at/MfiWq

Melissa Coy (A Quiet Place ll): https://shorturl.at/96Moi

HyperPix (A Quiet Place II): https://shorturl.at/M8PmS

Roger Ebert (Scream): https://shorturl.at/AdLRK

Font meme (Scream): https://fontmeme.com/scream-film-font/?form=MG0AV3

Portfolio project plans

 Approaching The Project 

For my approach for the Media portfolio project, the themes I'm going to pick is going to be Horror/Thriller and the reason why is because I'm a big fan of suspencful horror action myself and I believe that I know best on how to add in some horror suspence drama into my project, to be able to build up suspence and when the right time comes in, bring a big scare into the audience not expecting whats expected. So over the time I've been researching even more information on implementing those genre into my filming along with providing a movie example which I personally think does it well. This will be a murder mystery horror case that I MIGHT be using one of my friends to read a script during this project. The project itself wouldn't have anybody in it but might have signs of people there like for exampe: phone call, photos, images, and shadows itself. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFYDiMe8wSo

A video called Double Vision by Isabelle Kiser, this is one of my own inspiration for starting my own horror/thriller filming. I thought everything about it was good, well, mostly everything about it, didn't really like why she turned off the lights when the killer clone was right infront of her, but to each their own. What I've really liked about it is how was the coloring layout they've picked and the atmosphere of sound you could hear around the surrounding film adn ontop of that the appropriate music that was added on to show suspence.

My project will be somewhat similar to this but will be a bit more suspencful and no one is going to be on the film itself but might show hints of people there like: photos, shadows, movement, and banging from a door or wall (still thinking about adding that to the project). A murder mystery is going around and maybe ontop of that a haunted spirits are living in this house where this project will take in a security office (AKA my room). Camera will be glancing at objects and papers around the walls which will show hints of murderings that took place at before. most of the sound effects that would be use in this project will be taken from Pixabay with its original credit to source. 

Disscussing 3 opening films (horror and thriller)

As I continue to develop my own horror/thriller film opening project, I've been reasearching about how films established their tone, character, and suspense in just a few minutes. Having an great opening can immediately draw the attention of the audience in, which sets the expectations for the rest of the film. My goal is it create a tense, suspence opening, I've been paying close attention to cinematography, sounds, and pacing. 

In this post I tend to break down three horror/thriller openings that I found pretty effective: Scream (1996), A Quiet Place (2018), and Get out (2017). They each use different techniques to be able to build up tension, and I want to take inspiration from them from my own project.

Film Studies 

Scream (1996): The film starts out with a highschool girl Casey, whom she's home alone. She answers a phone call which seems to be harmless however it gets more threatening. The caller tells her that she's watching her and it ends with her dead in violence, which sets the stakes high.

Fiming and editiing 

Scene starts out with soft lighting, neutral lighting and slow, The camera moves slowly making everything feel normal at first. Soon the shots get tighter, and the editing becomes faster, which increases panic use of framing. Most of the shots are her isolated in the frame reinforces that she's pancking in fear.

• The phone ringing starts to become an unsetteling and strange by just hearing the ring itself and nothing else playing in the background, building os suspence 
• Background noises are like crickets, dog barking contrast with the silence of the house. 
• The voices on the phone changes from normal to menacing, which manipulates the audiences emotions.

I like how the scene opening builds suspense through any directions before any actions occure. The shift from slow pacing to quick cuts is something that I'll incorporate when my own scenen escalates. 

A Quiet Place (2018): Its an post- apocalypic setting where a family goes through a deserted store. everything feels strange, when the youngest child activiates a noisy toy it leds to deadly consequences, monsters as you can say will come after you...

Filming and Editing 

• It uses long shots and slow tracking shots in a way to show silences.
• Camera lingers on some small details (like showing the foot steps of the feet or language) by informing the audience of the films world without having to show dialogue.
• close up on some facial expressions which show emotional tension making the actions feel important.
• They implement silence as their key, since every tiny sound they make feels somewhat exaggerated or dangerous..
• Sudden burst of sound (that's coming from the toy) is horrifying, and just shows how deadly noises can be in this world
• they focus the audience attention more on ambient sounds 

The opening shows how you can create tensions without dialogue. For my filming project I want to implement silence in my own scene with a bit of suspence music in the background. Maybe tenstion to remain quiet whie something lurcks by using small sounds which can be effective. 

Get out (2017): A young man (Andre) is walking through a surburban neighborhood during the night. All of a sudden a car slowly follows him. He gets assulted and kidnapped 

Filming and Editing 

• Usages of long films makes the sence feel realistic.
• The slow pacing at the start which makes the attack more unexpected 
• smooth tracking camera movements,frequently quiet.

From this film, I like to add the idea of building suspence slowly and implemneted more slowing pacing. I would probably implement the use of diegetic sound since it could be a good way to create contrast in my scene 

 

Find The Right Genre

Horror/Thriller Reasearch

Going through my Cambridge portfolio project, I think it's time to select my possible genres choices for my project. For during the past week, I started brainstorming the different possible ideas and concepts of what to do. I was the kind of person who loves thriller and horror. They're somewhat similar when creating suspence to the audience but in different ways by bringing them into a fear factor shocked. I've always found suspence and fear to be exciting yet, intriguing to what's going to happend next. Thus, For my research blog I'm going to disscussing the type of genres and how they would be implemented onto my film project.

Basic Reasearch: Horror vs Thriller

To understand how they would be implemented into my video project, it's important to understand how they can be used and what they are. Horror is designed in a way to give somewhat of an unsettling and shock to the audience, in which can explore events like supernatural or monstrous themes, aiming to envoke fear and suspense. Its main goal is to make the audience feel shock or discomfort, so they highly focuse on imagery and sound.

You can take Goosebumps as to a genre of horror, as it sets unsettling situations that often relate to childeren fear in mind. With each episode focuses on different paranormal events that happends but with less fear and suspence since it's suitable to watch for kids.

Thriller on the other hand is all about tension, suspence and mystery. Unlike horror with supernatural scares, thriller uses an alternative method like conflict, crime, and other high dangerous actions to keep the viewers entertained in watching. Their goal is to create suspension and excitement instead of fear, and focus on plost twist or high dangerous situation that just puts you in fear.

The movie World War Z is a zombie fast pace apocalypes in which the main characters have to make some difficult choices into surviving. With close calls with horders of zombies running into their way. This shows a best representation of thriller as though out the movie shows suspence and quick moving decisions in order to stay safe from being bitten

Implementing horror/ Thriller into my project. 

During my video project representation, a little sneak peak to it but it'll be about a murder mystery case, which there would be no main character showing on camera but you can see hints of a person on camera through a shadow, movement, sound, and suspence. I want the style of the project to be slow and fast paced. And you'll see a lot of information that's important visual wise.