Story boarding - Horror Film - Research into horror makeup

         Today my good partner in media Kim and her amazing drawing skills set out to complete our story board and here it is, whilst she was doing this I decided too research costume and makeup within the horror genre. 

     

Jack Pierce born Janus Piccoula

Jack Pierce (1889-1968) was the legendary make-up artist responsible for devising and applying the make-up creations for Universal's classic monsters of the 1930s and 1940s. These include Dracula, The Wolf Man, the Mummies, Werewolf of London, Bride of Frankenstein, Ygor, the Man Who Laughs, and the iconic Frankenstein monster.

While there are plenty of comedic behind the scenes photos of Pierce mugging with later Universal horror star, Lon Chaney, Jr., there are very few of the make-up artist clowing around with Boris Karloff. Most of the publicity shots featuring the two of them are straight forward shots of Pierce applying make-up, or at least pretending to, such as the two top photos here.

Free Sound Example Clips

Here are a few of the clips Kim and I have considered using over our title sequence.


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Animatic

Mr Craddock

How to achieve a level 4!!!

The following information shows the criteria which my blog needs to meet to be awarded a Level 4 mark. This will be assessed at the start of Term 3 in January. It is something that I should all be aiming for, regardless of my target grade.

Level 4 (16–20 marks)

Planning and research evidence on your blog is complete and detailed.

There is excellent research into similar products and a potential target audience.


There is excellent organisation of actors, locations and mise-en-scene


There is excellent work on your script, storyboard, shot list and filming schedule.

There is an excellent level of care in the presentation of the research and planning on your blog.

Time management is excellent - this is clear by the time stamps on your posts.

Free Sound - Introduction

Today Big P introduced to us a website http://www.freesound.org/.

This is a great place to locate copyright free music and sound effects for your film opening.

Mr Henton also felt the need to take photos of us hard at work making our blogs BEAUTIFUL!

 Kim and I

Production Meeting- Casting

CASTING!!!!

Today Kim and I discussed about casting for our opening title sequence, luckily we have decided to use more effects than acting so not alot of this will occur. As we are both Alevel Drama students we have decided to cast ouselves in the roles of Louise and Sarah the two main characters and the only characters in our opening title sequence

Lauren - Me                      OHH THE BEAUTY OF EDITING            Kim - Herself

          

Production Meeting - Location Planning

During a rather excitable trip to the cinema to watch Lion King in 3D, Kim and I walked through a dark alley and discovered a perfect location for our film opening sequence.

Its a perfect location because its very dark, gloomy and has a real eary feel to it. Its a broken down building that is enclosed by a dark woods. Its a very quite area so we will be able to film without having any disruption.

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Production Meeting - Script

We have a small problem with the script for our Main Task.
Our film opening,  has been scripted without any dialogue The only speech in the opening is right at the beginning, where the two actors say a couple of lines each. 
In a way this is a good thing because it gives us more time to focus on other parts of our Main Task and the overall effects of our opening sequence.

Scene1 - This will take place outside our seculded location , so we can have that in the background to establish to the audience where the film will be taking place. Here is a rough version of what we think our script will consist of:


Sarah: Hello and welcome to Project : Shadow! I am Sarah and this is-


Louise: *laughs* Sarah, turn it off!


Sarah: *laughs* Ok, gimme a sec.


While this is being filmed there will be relevant action but in the whole opening, this is the only dialogue that is spoken. There will ve a voice over 'Have you heard the rumours'