Target audience 

The target audience is important as it ultimately helps to make money, it also helps show what conventions need to be followed in order to appeal to the audience. It is important in making choices also, in telling the narrative, placing the right props, using the right characters and casting. Furthermore, the target audience is used to market a film to the right people. 

Our movies target audience is Horror enjoyers, this can appeal to both genders, men and woman. This is because our opening scene doesn't have any specific classification about a gender it relates to. 

Our movies age rating is a 15, this has been inferred by looking at similar movies to our idea. The movies that are similar to our opening scene include the movie Wrong Turn and the Scream movie trilogy, although these are both 18s our opening scene is a lot less violent. Our target audience would be towards anyone over the age of 15 that enjoys horror, this is very broad but when it comes to horror movies, a horror enjoyer can be anyone of age. 

set

 In our opening scene my group is creating a cultist massacre, this is because our scene is based around a demonic creature that was summoned by a girl, and the massacre will be the remains of this poor girls body, with pieces of her all around the place. This set will be based deep into the forest of Holmbury Hill. 

The materials we will need to archive this is fake blood, butchers meat including intestines and pig heads, in order to make the set more demonic. As well as symbols, these symbols will be used to create the sense of a cult summoning.     

The possible problems we could face are if it rains, or we leave the set too long, and it begins to become dirty or the fake blood loses its colour-way. Furthermore, our opening scene is strict on timings so we need to be aware of how long we spend on creating this set. 

What my group is picturing the scene to look like is a terrible terrible mutilation of a girls body, this will be made obvious by ripped up pieces of dresses as well as blood and loose multitude parts all around the place, as well as demonic and weird props around to signify the cultists presence. 

We are building this instead of just using the location with a 'dead body' because we are trying to create a environment of horror, and this is required in order to show a terrible event has taken place, this set needs to be created in order to startle the dog walker and create a big sense of horror, that the whole build up of the opening scene will eventually come too. 

call sheet

 

A call sheet is needed for my group in order to contact any of the crew/cast if a problem was to take place, in getting props and costumes and if a unfortunate last minute drop out, which could be due to a member being ill or injured.

shot list

Our group roles

 

 My role is editor, my job is to edit the final sequence of our opening scene, I will be responsible for adding sounds and editing all the recorded camera shots into one video. 

We have to prepare before the shoot to record what editing techniques we are going to be using as well as knowing our shooting time so we are not late. We also need to prepare to make sure we have all the props on the shooting day, in order for us not to be missing out on any items. 

The material we need are all our props as well as our phones in order to have access to our shot list and our story board in order to know all the camera angles we are filming as well as a step by step record of what we are actually going to be filming. 

My role is so important as I am responsible for the finished copy of our opening scene, this opening scene has an importance to my group as it is a big proportion of the course work, as well as we have been working on and preparing filming for over a month. 

The problems I can foresee on the shoot day is weather, this will be very challenging as it will be hard to setup the set of the massacre if rain gets all over our props, which includes fake blood being washed away. 

Foley Sound

Foley sound is the recreation of everyday sound effects that are added to films and other media in post-production to enhance audio quality. 

Foley sound is used to enhance the quality of the audio, to make the sounds more realistic. Foley sounds are often created in a recording studio during post-production, usually created with everyday objects that you would find around someones house. An example of creating foley sound is crunching celery to create a breaking bones sound effect, this video shows how this foley sound is created and very effectively also-

An example I have found is using an inhaler, the sound that I have used this for is a burst of smoke coming out of a pipe. 

Here is an example I made over the classic Jurassic park opening kitchen scene, here I used a belt and brushed it across my desk to make the big door opening and closing sound, I then tapped a shoe across a wood floor to create the running noise. I then used my shoe and hit it against a plant pot to create a crashing sound. Finally the last few noises were created from using the sound of a inhaler for smoke, and using a pen across a fan to create the weird creature noises.

Editing workshop

 The editing software which we used was Adobe Plus, Premiere Pro.

The reason there are four different video sections is to make everything in editing more accessible and easier to use. On the top left this is where all the footage is played, the bottom left is where all the footage is stored in files, and then the top right is total film, then the bottom right is the actual editing, the live feed of what is actually in the film.

The reason we have to constantly save is because we can't account for everything to go perfectly all the time and sometimes we may face problems, like the computer crashing or the software crashing, furthermore, it is just more effective to save all the time so you have backups if anything goes wrong

The footage is what you have filmed and the rushes is this film being inputed into the folder on the software, and daily's is the American term for rushes. 

The cutting tool is used to split the footage into two different sections, so the footage can be cut more precisely and you can take sections out in between. 

The cutting tool short key is I and the arrow shortcut key is V.

In and points is the first are the first frame of the clip that you want to be the sequence and the out points are the last frame of the clip that you want to be in the sequence. 

The + key zooms into the footage so you can see more of the film and so you can edit easier, the - key does the opposite and zooms out so you can see more of the edited footage.

The key we use to undo is CMD C 

The reason you need to be careful putting the footage onto the timeline because if you overlap footage it deletes the footage below it, and also the footage at the top of the timeline is always the one that plays.