Our responses to our film.

Lauren: Over all I am very pleased with the outcome of our opening sequence! a few weeks back our video file got deleted, therefore we had limited time and still managed to creative something pretty good/catchy. Although, it's a shame we didn't have that much time to focus on the sound and editing as I wish we had. The sound had to be done very quickly, but it still flows pretty well with the sequence and the shots. I think that there are a few things, in which we could have made our project more successful, but nevermind. We have had many people say they like our opening sequence, which is also great news. Our project "The Slayer" matches well with other horror films, which is exactly what our group planned to do!


~Posted by Lauren 

Our Final Film

Here is our final film that has been uploaded to YouTube. There is also a URL direct link below if you do not wish to watch it through Blogger and want to watch through YouTube directly.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkcSvzKN0Uk&list=PLCE0D39A5C0005A47&feature=plcp

Why we chose our idea?

We wanted to make something that would scare and freak our audience out. We wanted to be able to go extreme with our given brief. We are aware of how hard it is to attract an audience and to frighten them, but this is a challenge our group wants to take on board. When we had a thought about it , we realised that many horror films seem to love blonde young beautiful victims, so we decided to try this out in our story, so people get the idea straight away that she is a victim with no hope. Our group became inspired by "Halloween" the idea of POV shots and having the killer as the main character of the story. Along with that we were also inspired by inspired some of the earlier crime films where there are important detectives to the story, who are the good people in the film, as in most horror films there is a mixture of good/bad as contrasting can be more exciting.


~Posted by Lauren 

Our decided title

THE SLAYER 

• Gives the genre away.
• Gives the audience the idea that there is a killer or something
• When you hear the word "slayer" the theme of violence and blood may get into the viewers mind
• Tells the audience that it's most likely focused on one a main character: shows that it's the type of film where the bad guy/girl is possibly the main character of the film.
• Sounds scary.

~Posted by Laurenn =D

Finished filming. =DDD

~Posted by Lauren

Script

Throughout our opening sequence, we didn't really want much of a script as we thought it would be more thought provoking, so instead we focused on more action happening rather than people talking.
The only piece of dialogue in our sequence is from detective 2 saying "we gotta go now", this was to show that they have a big problem to deal with and it has to be done quickly.


~Posted by Lauren

Inspiration to our music

Although Hitman may be a shooting game we think that the Hitman
Contracts Theme. The same kind of ambient sounds, techno,
string sounds are used like in our sound for our horror opening
sequence. We created our music on garage band using similar
sounds as the ones in Hitman, because we got inspired.
In Hitman, there is a main tune played throughout it, and then
there are added in sounds which are either at a higher or
lower pitch, making the sound often rise and fall, just like our
sound for our opening sequence.


The sounds we got inspired from in this game are the electric
sounds, and the high key sounds , as you can see the variety
of high and low pitch scratchy sounds make a very
scary mix.

~Posted by Lauren and Daniel