Animatic Feedback

We recieved mixed feedback from our animatic. Our teacher complemented us on some of our shots, such as the establishing shots which set the scene, but said there was room for improvement on others. She did however like the fact that we used a vast number of different types of shots.

The under the arm shot of our killer looking at a family through the window was one of her favourite shots as it was relevant to the killer despising family life. The shot shows the killer clenching his fist at the sight of the family.

Although we were complimented on our establishing shots we will attempt to make them even better by making them slightly more exciting for the audience. We will do this by adding more spooky elements to the shots, such as the killer lurking in the shadows.

We also recieved criticism as we had not added titles to our animatic shots. Therefore we currently have no visual evidence of us knowing where the text will go or when the title of the film will be revealed to the audience. We will use the feedback we have recieved to ensure that we have improved any weak shots so that they are as good as possible for when we come to filming.

The Recluse - Animatic

Shot List

Sound FX

We tried a number of different sound fx after we had recorded the first part of our film. Although we selected a few different sounds from the internet for our opening shot, we discovered that a scissors sound effect is very effective. Not only is it quicker as we can record it in a few minutes it also works very well with the first part of our footage.

Group Job Roles

Will Turner:
Editing
Acting
Filming
Props
Scrip



Lyle Petts:
Editing
Acting
Filming
Sound & Music



Jamie Branston:
Editing
Acting
Filming
Location
Costume

Risk assessment

We decided to create a risk assessment so that there was no chance of any of us getting injured or into any danger whilst filming. We were aware that the weather was likely to be the biggest problem as it could restrict valuable filming time, meaning that we would have to reschedule when we all had free periods, which could lead to further problems with the production schedule. There were other more serious factors which could affect us like falling debris from inside th church, but we felt this was more unlikely to happen.

Props for filming

Our killer will have a personal scrap book which will contain pictures of each of his victims, along with pieces of their clothing. There will also be a written description next to each victim which includes their name, date of birth and gender. The scrap book will be very old and dirty to give the impression that it is very personal to our killer.

The killer will wear a very clean, smart looking suit, which supports his title of being very deranged as although he enjoys brutally murdering inncoent people, he likes to look very respectable. His personal hygiene however will be very poor, wearing clean surgeon gloves to cover his dirty hands. The killers identity will be hidden by wearing a morph suit, not only does it cover his face, as it is simply a plain white piece of clothing it is similar to his personality, very plain, with no emotion.

Candles will be lit inside the killer's lair, giving it a somewhat homely atmosphere.

The killer's main weapon of choice for carrying out his sudistical crimes is a gun or knife, we are trying to avoid the more common murder weapons.

This is a picture of our poduction schedule. We have allocated time slots for each part of the production, the squares which are pink indicate the time we have allocated for pre-production. The yellow squares represent the production tasks, however some of the yellow squares show times we have allocatedfor pre-production, this is because we had to move the date of our first cut forward. The blue squares symbolise the post production stage, with the one red square stating the dat of the final deadline, which is the 6th December. After we have shown our final cut we will begin the ancillary task, which we will create a new production schedule for.

We drew the images above before we made our animatic, we decided to do this so that we could present all of the ideas we had on locations, shots, props etc as individuals so that we could then put all of the ideas together as a group for filming. The first picture is ideas for filming at Cold Christmas church, in Thundridge. The second picture is different types of shots at presdales woods, one of three selected locations. The third picture shows an idea we had of a classic horror film shot, where the killer is looking through the window, but the camera is waist height and behind him. The final picture is a spider diagram of a number of different ideas we had, showing different locations, ideas about our killer, and magazine clippings of different attires for our killer.

Feedback for our pitch

Once we had showed our pitch of our film (The Recluse) we recieved some mixed feedback. We were told that we did not have enough visual evidence of our killer, instead we had just explained what he would be wearing, such as his suit, gloves etc. Therefore we decided to add a further slide showing inspirations from other films of the same genre. The images on the slide included the mask from the killer in 'Dead Man's Shoe's' as we thought it would be a good piece of costume to hide the killers identity. We also collected pictures of a suit and surgeon gloves as we decided as a group that was what our killer would be wearing during filming. We recieved criticism on our plot of the story, as the class felt that we had not entirely thought the story line through.

We was told that we presented our horror film trailer very well, with the majority of the class liking our ideas. They were all in agreement that a number of film companies would be interested in showing our film on there channel, with Warp or Film4 among the most popular. Our choice of locations was also appreciated as some of the places we are choosing to film at are fairly difficult to get to.

After recieving the feedback we have decided to make a few changes to our pitch so that a production company would be more likely to purchase our film. The main changes will include a better plot summary, showing that we have a better understanding of how we are going to make our film, also to add more images to show exactly what atmosphere we want our film to have.

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