Changing our idea again (final)

Our group had a production meeting, to dicuss our thoughts and ideas, we said we would like all our pre production tasks finished before we got back to school after the half term so we can focuss on our shooting when we get back. We told our teachers about our haunted house idea, but they weren't keen on this idea as well as the previous ones. We have changed the idea yet again, still continuing with a short film. We made a brain storm and all camw up with different ideas:

My idea: I came up with the idea of a short horror film, this is about a haunted house. A man goes into a house and realises it is haunted and is scared. He hears a lot of different scary sounds such as taps dripping, creaky doors, creaky floor boards etc. There would would be different shots such as a point of view to show what the characters looking at and mid shots, we thought to use a shaky camera inspired by the movie paranormal activity.

Ainsley's idea: A film about a long race, this genre will be comedy as there are going to be a lot of funny events that happen throughout the film to distract the racers i.e tripping over things and being distracted by females assets. There would be 6 runners who are running for charity, this idea is different to mine so there are more of a variety of shots, since the location is outside we would use close ups, mid shots point of view and wide shots.

Danielle's idea: Is a short suspense thriller, a man drops his wallet on the street but does not realise, he is scared as he realises some guy is following him and doesn't understand why, really the other man is just returning his wallet. Over the shoulder, panning shots,close ups and cut away shots will be used for this.

New idea

We had a group meeting and decided to change our idea, We have decided to do a horror film. This is a completely different to our old idea which was previously a drama. This is a challenge starting all over again, but i think it can be done. The idea is set in a house, a "haunted house". We were thinking to use a lot of different diagetic sounds to create suspense such as the sound of taps dripping, floor boards creaking etc. I also thought of using pictures of a portrait and going back to the camera and the image changing.

Does post modernism apply to our media text?

Our media product does not challenge post modernism as the characters are all straight and there are males and females, however post modernism is striaght verses gays, males verse females.

Change in idea

We went to MRC, and went to take pictures for our poster. However when we told Mr Jarrett our idea, he wanted us to clarify what genre our film was. We told him that it was drama and he said he doesnt think this idea, really shows its a drama text, he thought this poster shows a more romantic dreamy genre. So he told us to we should come back with another idea. We decided to have the two girls on the poster facing back to back with a tense impression on their face looking down at the page, and at the bottom of the page there will be a picture of an arm with a bracelet, this shows that the bracelet plays a significant role in our movie. The two girls back to back shows the drama element.

Potential idea for poster

We have been looking at ideas of posters for our idea we thought above this poster:



We thought this idea would be good for our poster, because its quite simple and i believe shows that the girl is not completely happy with her boyfriend so i think this is suitable for our poster.

Looking at other posters

We have been researching different film posters to see how a drama poster looks like so we can have a rough guide for us so we can create our poster.