The Summoning (my Evaluation!)

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Sunday, 13 December 2009

Pictures

this is me lying as a DEAD BODY = it was very cold...... :













The Director and the camera women making sure the shot is perfect!














me the editor getting ready to film the walking scene. you can see how cold i look...












our Producer/actress freezing while we film her walking forward!!! so much talent !! :)













the knife shot, the hand of our director! :D







The producer and the editor filming the Crab! trying to find the perfect shot!

Filming on Tuesday 1st December

We filmed on tuesday the 1st of December, the day was a very cold one, it was extremly hard to stay warm especially as we were filmin outside in a park. Our main person cast who is also our producer had the most difficult job, as she had to wear a nighty and stand in the cold weather with nohting else on. but she is a natural actor, and i am very grateful to her for being so brave and puting up with us giving her orders while she was freezing to death. =) our first location on our schedule was Tootting Bec park, before we went to the location we collected all our equipment and took them to tooting bec park in our directors car. the first scene was the policeman investigating a dead body, the dead body was actually me lieing on some white sheets on the floor and i had white sheets with blood splatered on it this is used ina lot of horror films. blood is a very big icon in the genre of horror, films such as Saw use blood. it was very cold as i lay on the floor while the group got the scene perfect. after this scene was done we carried out the jumping scene of Elizabeth who is played by our producer. we had to stop every now and then so that she could warm up as it was very cold. thankfully the scene looked good becuase the weather was not wet, it was dry and sunny. so the lighting was no problem. the actress (producer) had to put in some white contact lenses which shows that she is different, we had to do her make up aswel. we also shot a hand held camera scene of some one running through the woods it wasa point of view shot, and we had a bloody hand at the end. hand held camera shots are used alot through out horror. Clover feild inspired us to do this shot. we were finally finished with the tooting bec park scenes, therefore we could move on to the scenes in the directors house.

the next scene was the bath tub scene where the actress (producer) had to be liying in water and then she would suddenly come out of the water and be gasping for air. this was hard becuase we had to be very careful not to get the camera wet, that is why before that i got a square piece of glass to put infront of the camera so it would not get wet, but the water didnt splash much so we didnt use the glass at the end. we had a few issues to think about here, especially because the safety of our actress was invovled. the water was making her slip and we did not want her to hurt her self so one of our members was holding on to her to prevent her from slipping. this made it quiet hard to film the scene but we got there at the end. water is used very often in horror especially shower or bath tub scenes, for example Carrie has a shower scene, Psycho also has a shower scene and The Grudge to name a few. so we were inspired by the affect it gives.

after the bath scene was accomplished successfully we moved on to the knife shot, where some was holding a knife in their hands very tightly that it made it bleed. we had to think about the safety of teh actor in this. therefore we made sure that the knife was very blunt and we wraped lots of soft tissue around it where the kinfe would be in the actors hand, so that they do not cut themself. we used blood on this scene aswel to show that the cut has caused blood to come out. and finally we completed on a crab scene, this is where our actress (producer) done the crab walk and you can see her eyes, it was quiet scary. although it was a very long day we accomplished quiet a lot and we were all very happy =D.

Monday, 30 November 2009

Production name

we have been thinking a lot about our production names and here are some of our ideas:
  • Dark Child Productions
  • Bloody Productions
  • Necropsy Productions
  • Omen Productions
  • Triple6 Productions
  • 666 Productions

after thinking which one will suit our group best we have decided to use 666 Productions.

it fits in perfectly with the genre horror.

Locations for shoots

  • Tooting Bec Park
  • Graveyard - West Norwood cemetry/Thornton Heath cemetry
  • Mariam's house
  • Sufia's house
  • Sufia's shed
  • Sufia's car
  • School

Prop List

After thinking about where we are going to be shooting and the mis-en-scene we have come up with a list of the props that are aquired:

  • An old woman's picture
  • A White nightgown
  • Imitation blood
  • An antique knife
  • Make-up
  • White sheets
  • Torches x 2
  • Lots of candles
  • Contact lenses

Our Synopsis of the Horror Movie

after thinking and coming up with so many ideas we as a group have put our ideas together and come up with the story line and synopsis.

A reserved, quiet and religious young girl is traumatized by her family life as she grows up without a mother and a mentally disturbed father. Elizabeth hardly has any friends, she tends to spend time praying in front of her late mother's photograph. Until one night she receives a mysterious phone call. Evil, destruction, murder and rage falls upon Elizabeth's life as a turn of events causes the biggest tragedy of the century.


we came up with other storylines, like for example:
1) a haunted house, a couple move into a house and the women senses that there is something wrong with the house, she trys to tell her partner but he says its nothing. her partner goes on a business trip and bizaar things start to happen things that can not be explained. she also finds that there have been some murders occuring on the road and is very frightened.

2) A group of friends decide to go to one of their friends house as her parents are away. they want to do something daring so they use the Ouija board. not everyone is happy about this. however they decide to go along with it. when they do start with the baord they get scared becuase the ouija board says some uncomfartable things. the friends do not take notice of these messages and ignore them, but they do not know that this will change their lives for ever.

Shooting schedule for Tuesday 1st December 2