special effects

Special Effects

For special effects we didn't use many but with the help of Adobe we was able to fade in and out all of the parts that was needed to, to help the film have a good flow. We also used Adobe to time stretch a scream, we recorded Kiera screaming separate to the film then we linked the audio with the video but we found that the scream wasn't long enough so we had to time stretch the scream to make it longer. We didn't use make-up in the film as we wasn't to sure on how to do the make-up and we was also worried that we wouldn't be able to get it perfectly the same next time, if we was to do it again we would use make-up because it would make it a lot more effective that both girls are dead.

story and how the opening sets it up

The story line to the film is that its a normal day and two friends (Ellie and Kiera) go for a walk in the woods and find someone lying dead covered with leaves by a pond, this is shown through the use of a high angle shot, this is effective because it shows that the two girls are vulnerable and scared.  This is shown through the angle of the camera that is used, the high angle shot also gives the audience more power over the two girls. As Ellie and Kiera turn around to call the police they see a scary figure in the bushes,this is shown in the use of a medium shot, this is effective because it shows the audience what he looks like.

Once the two girls had saw him they then began to run, this is shown in the use of a medium to long shot. Suddenly Kiera is running alone and Ellie is no where to be seen, we are shown this through the use of a medium to close up shots, this is effective because the angle the camera is it shows the audience where Kiera has run from. As Kiera slows down she hears Ellie scream her name, Kiera then starts to run back to find Ellie, we are shown this through the use of a long shot this is effective because its showing the audience where she is running, as Kiera runs into the light she finds Ellie lying there on the floor dead, she has a carrier bag over the top of her head and a syringe placed on her stomach at an angle, we are shown this through the use of a medium shot that slowly goes into a close up.

We pose a lot of questions to the audience in the opening to make them want to watch the film entirely.They are left asking themselves, why was the girl killed? Why was she placed next to the pond? Why was he watching the two girls? Why did the girl open her eyes? What did he use to kill Ellie? What is going to happen to Kiera as she saw? Why was Ellie and Kiera in the woods?

Video Evaluation of A Day In The Woods

Introduction

This is a video of me and Kiera talking about what our opening two minutes is about.

Everyone's Thoughts

This is a video on everyone's opinions on the opening two minutes. In this clip we hear people talking about what could be better and what was good about the opening. 

Evaluation 4

Evaluation Four

This is an evaluation on what 15 year old's like the reason we have gone for this age is because this is the audience age for our opening two minutes a day in the woods.

In the first picture you can see that it is showing everything that 15 year old's like.

In the picture shown below you can see reason that 15 year old's might like our film.

evaluation activity 3

These are our original production credits.  A production company makes the film and will either fund, part fund or be funded to make the film.  Horror films are often made by production companies such as Lionsgate, who made Drag me to Hell.

Films like ours have smaller budgets and are popular with a younger audience, who are likely to watch films distributed by online companies like Netflix.  Netflix could well buy the rights to a film like ours.  A film like our film could be popular with audiences online who watch films on Netflix because they can watch more films for less than what it costs in the cinema on Netflix, it costs £7.99 per month on Netflix but it costs £10.00 for an adult ticket to go to the cinema. Because of this the younger audience would rather stay home in there own comfort to watch the film for less.

Setting And Location

Setting And Location

Our setting and location isn't the same as what we was going to use at first, we have changed only the location. Instead of being set in Ashtead it was then set in Tadworth, there isn't much difference between the two locations the only thing that is different is that there is more of a woods where we ended up filming, which was more effective because it has more places for the spooky man to hide and watch over who is next for him to attack.

The Title Of Our Film

The Title Of Our Film

We struggled to find a good title for our film, we came up with random names that doesn't really fit with our film, for example Eye's In The Woods and Followed. We didn't think that either of those was that good or made a connection of some sort with the film  so we waited till we had finished editing the film to choose that the name, once we had finished editing the film we chose the name A Day In The Woods.

In this title you can see that the words A Day In The is all in white this is to make the word Woods stand out more. The red writing over Woods is effective because it shows that maybe that is where the film is going to be set and that maybe something is going to go wrong whilst in the woods.