The Platform - Final Cut

This our final cut of our opening sequence.

Credit List

For our film we have created a create list which occurs during our opening sequence of the film, our credit list consists of:

• Written by: Alex Oakley, Danielle Feaver, Emma Brice and Liam Jeffery

• Produced by: Alex Oakley, Danielle Feaver, Emma Brice and Liam Jeffery

• Edited by: Alex Oakley, Danieille Feaver, Emma Brice and Liam Jeffery

• Actors: Emma Brice and Alex Oakley

• Music: Alex Oakley

From this credit list you can see that as a group we have all be involved in it and all had our even share into making the film into what it is at the moment.

Liam's Editing

Editing is a key part to a film it can make a average film into a movie blockbusters. I did a lot of research on how to edit on Adobe. TV, I used the help manual and also video clips on youtube showing how to use different types of editing and effects on your movie. This research helped as it improved my knowledge on adobe and on editing, I then began to play around on adobe with the knowledge I already had and get used to what there was to use and try new things and after a few hours practising I moved onto editing our film.

One effect of editing I used on my film was a fade to black. A fade to black between a change in two different sections of the films added a sinister effect to it and gave it a continous effect with no stop starts or jumps.

Also with my film i used lighting to add an effect and create the characters' personalities. I made the film dark in stages where the antagonist was to show he is a dark, mean character and is one to keep away from. Where we cross cut between the antagonist and the girl, i made the scenes with the girl alone in lighter to show her innocence and how vunerable she is. When the antagonist, this creepy old man, walks through the carrages of the train i made the darkness follow him to show this has meaning and he is up to no good.

Photo Storyboard

For our photo storyboard all four of us went out as a group and took photos for our storyboard which linked to our sketch story board and told the story of our opening sequence. We all took part in taking the photo's but I put the photo story board together.

Props mood board

This post is me analysing the props used in the making of our film. These consist of blood stained hands, a knife, a train, train ticket, a mobile phone and many others. Here i explain the reasons for the usage of them and there purpose in the film.

Locations mood board

Here i talk about the locations used in our film, listed above which consist of a garage, train station and also a modern day house. They are all used due to the film taking place at these specific locations the majority of the film.

Influences mood board

This post is me talking about other films that we have seen as a group and which have provided us with ideas and influenced us with how we have approached making our film. I give examples of films such as "Lovely Bones" and the tv series of "Dexter" which provided us with the main ideas to our film.

Titles mood board

This post is me analysing how other films have used their titles and how we have taken ideas from this. I also talk about the techniques they have used in their titles and how that has helped represent an effect that relates to their genre of film. Not only did i analyse that i also went into detail about their uses of fonts and colours schemes and related it back to how we are going to use similar approches towards our title to give the effect of the "Horror" genre.

Costumes mood board

This post is for the analysis i done of the costumes used in our film. In this section i talk about how we have used a leather coat to add an effect to our character and also what this coat represents our character as.

Mood Board

This is our mood board i created for our film we are making, this mood board consists of analysing the points of other film titles, film influences, props used, costumes used and also locations used in our film.

Film name suggestions

Here are a few of our suggested names for our film:

· Platform
· Platform 3
· The Platform
· No Escape
· No Looking Back
· Train Journey
· No Way Out
· No Way Home
· Locked
· Train Ticket To Hell

These are a few suggestions for names for our film that we come up with as a group. We took a liking towars the use of the word "Platform" in our film name as we believed it was relevant to the storyline of it occuring at a train station and wanted the film name to be relevant to the film. As we wanted "Platform" in the name this ruled out all of the other options. "Platform 3" was a strong contestant to be the final name be we figured our filming would have to then revolve around a platform 3 at a train station and it could have become challenging and difficult when it came to filming. We wanted our film name to be short and snappy but also meaninful and of course relevant. As a group we come to the final decision of naming the film "The Platform" as it fitted all the needs and demands we wanted of it, we are all happy with the name and believe it is a very good choice.

Questionnaire

Name:
Age:
Gender: Female Male

What is your favourite film genre?

Action Romance Comedy Horror Other

(If other please state what ……………..)

Why do you favour this genre?
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Do you enjoy the genre Horror/Thriller?

Yes No

What do you expect to see in a Horror? (Key Features)
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What costumes do you expect to be used in a Horror?
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Would you get suspicious feelings towards a man in a long leather coat?

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Are there any obvious locations you would expect to be used in a Horror?
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Have you got any interesting suggestions to add to our Horror?
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Do you like the film name “The Platform” and state why / why not?
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Thanks for taking your time to fill this out!

Story line

THE PLATFORM

The storyline to our film is based on a girl called Ellie who is 16 years old and is the next victim on the list of our male character Gary. Gary is a 41 year old man who faced serious problems as a child and for the past 15 years has taken an enjoyment to stalking young teenage girls and kidnapping them which leads to sexual assault and murder.

Gary's next victim Ellie sits next to him on the train which is where we see the first signs of Gary's mind games and how he approaches his ways of getting these girls. Ellie is then followed off the train by Gary and then the 16 year old girls life is likely to be down hill from here unless she can safe herself and escape from cruel fate that awaits her.

Logo

This is our logo for our media group that I have designed. Our media group name is "Lead Productions" we wanted our logo to relate to this so have used a pencil in it to represent the "Lead" in our name and also the lead that is found in a pencil. I have postioned the pencil in the logo to make it look like it has wrote out "Lead Production". To also add an effect I inverted the colours on the pencil to mkae it look unusual and unique and also as i got the picture from google so by changing the image i have made it my own and don't have to worry about copyright issues.

For the font of the writing i went for a creepy, scary look to it to stick to the genre of our film being a horror so the logo is relevant to it and also the genre. From research we done as a group we found out that for horror's the writing for things such as titles, credits etc. have a unusual scary look to them and use the main colour scheme of red and black. I used the bold red font colour for our logo's writing, to give it a blood effect and to also fit in with other horror films who also use the same basis as we have.

As an overall conclusion i am impressed with this logo and i think it is suitable for our group. It is relevant to not only the group's name but also to the genre of our film, so overall i think our logo is acceptable and appropriate.

Garageband Test - Alex Oakley + Liam Jeffery

Lead Productions Alex + Liam test

Shooting Script

Main Task - Shot List

This is our shot list for our main task.

Preliminary Task

This is our pleliminary task.

Liam Jeffery's 32 slide opening sequence analysis

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