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Deaden Hikes (anagram for ‘hide and seek’)

Genre: Horror Thriller

 Length: 122 minutes (2 minutes opening)

 Target audience: 15-24 years old

Audience appeal:

• Young characters- target audience can relate
• Gives teenagers thrills, however not appropriate for children because of the graphic scenes
• Want viewers to question our film as it addresses mental and gender issues

 Tagline: you are your own worst enemy

 What if you were close but never noticed the dangers around you? What if you were the victim to your own inner demons? What if? 

 The story synopsis: A runner goes for a jog to get rid of last night’s hangover. Meanwhile, in another part of the wood a distressed victim is on their last thread of life calling to anyone nearby. “Please, please, please” but how can you help someone who’s too far gone? When people say live your life like it’s your last, applied to Iyra Marshall on a day basis because she doesn’t remember most of their life. In her last moments she must decide the best way to spend it is to take a life, but who’s?

 Statement of intent: We want to convey the issues of mental illness and bring the saying “we are our own worst enemies” to real life. We like the idea that throughout life we are fighting our inner demons and our main character clearly does that, but is not successful in winning against the little voice in her head.

 Visual realisation: High contrast in many scenes. We want it to have a dark colour but enough that it doesn’t have a bad camera quality. We don’t want to alter the colour too much but rather make it more defined. It’s going to have an intense atmosphere to it so the audience will be able to feel some realism in it.

Rae Griffiths, Niamh Barratt, Courtney Lynch and Hyleana Anthony.

Conventions of the Thriller Film Genre

Art of the Title- Zombie Land opening sequence analysis

Textual analysis using ‘art of the title' from Raae10

Preliminary Evaluation

Finished Preliminary Task

Hello! You'll be glad to hear that we have have finally finished planning, filming and editing our preliminary task. I think Me, Lydia and Ben worked very well as a team, and I think our finished product has come out well to say its our first time doing anything like this. There are a few continuity errors, but we will only learn from them and try and take more notice of the specific things were doing next time to ensure we have less continuity errors.
Here are the jobs we did to make the video:


Camera Work
Rae Griffiths
Lydia Carline


Editing
Ben Locking
Rae and Lydia overlooked ben and did the occasional bit of editing.

Story board and practise shots for prelimenary

We created a story board, and then went and recreated some of the pictures on it to test the different camera angles out, and to make sure they look good for next week when we will be filming.

Preliminary Task

Our first task is a continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue.


I'm working with Ben and Lydia, these two are the main actors and I am mainly using the camera, but I have a few lines to say also, when Lydia will be recording. After we have filmed this short video, we will make sure we have used a variety of camera angles to make it more interesting. After that, we will upload it to our computer and start with the editing.


This task should show us demonstrating the use of 'Match on action'- which is cutting between shots to make it seem like one continuous action, 'Shot/reverse shot'- when a character is looking at another character, and then the other character is shown looking back, then finally the '180-degree rule'- which is when the camera cannot pass an individual axis on 180-degrees.

I will keep you updated with how we're doing, see you soon!:)