LLM and HG: Treatment

Who’s Next?

Synopsis

It is night, very dark and quiet, a man dressed in a suit is walking home from work. There is an uneasy feel whilst walking and the male begins to feel like he is being followed; he walks briskly towards the house. He opens the door and hangs up his suit jacket, he then shuts the door but doesn’t notice a male antagonist standing in the kitchen as the light flashes on to the slender figure…

The door shuts, and the man walks towards the kitchen to begin making his dinner; in doing so he briefly glances out the window and believes he sees a hidden figure in the shadows of the garden. He wanders outside to take a better look; he walks slowly and carefully being cautious and feeling anxious about what it could be that he saw. He opens the door to the outside, but doesn’t see anything, just the outside light shining brightly onto the gentle garden. The male character returns to house rapidly and shuts the door, the moment the doors shuts completely, the phone rings, the male character approaches the phone and picks it up slowly, he doesn’t answer, he just listens; quiet breathing is heard on the other end on the phone, and then the phone is put down. The male is now getting worried but tries to ignore the situation.

The man continues round the house to turn lights on, putting his mind at rest; the last lamp is in the corner of the living room right next to the window that looks out onto the street. Again the male character believes he sees another unknown figure when going to turn on this light and this time decides to take no chances; rapidly running round the house, he locks all the doors. Without noticing, the garage door is unlocked and he passes it, avoiding locking it. He then runs upstairs to look out the windows down on the street; the first two windows looked out of, he sees nothing, but as he looks out the final window, his bedroom window, the figure is in another location which he spots clearly.

The unlocked garage is then opened gently, and a figure appears. He walks through the house going through each different room; when walking through the rooms the lights unexpectedly turn off, making the house have an isolated feel. The antagonist walks upstairs quietly towards the fearful character that is still looking out the window concentrated on the frozen figure standing unmoved in the street. The antagonist has now reached the same room, the light turns of and the male protagonist realises and turns round shocked, he sees the antagonist standing tall and slender in front of him, and the screen goes black…

The title appears ‘Who’s next’ in bold red letters on a black background

An establishing shot is then shown of the same house but during a clear day, and writing appears reading ‘3 days earlier’.
  

LLM and HG: Concept development #2

 Concept development

Opening Sequence Plot  Timeline:

1.  Male walking home alone , feels followed
2. Enters house and begins to make dinner - looks out of window and thinks he can see a figure
3. Goes outside to have a better look but the figure disappears
4. Re-enters house and phone rings - picks up phone but no one answers
5. Runs around the house rapidly starts to lock the doors
6. Then he sees another mysterious figure out the front window... runs upstairs quickly
7. Antagonist the comes out from the garage which is unlocked - he begins to walk upstairs to where the male is looking out the windows to see if anything is coming
8. Antagonist approaches protagonist but then there is a flash back to the  beginning

LLM and HG: Production log - Wilderness Woods

Here is our recoded production log for the trip to Wilderness Woods

LLM and HG: Wilderness Woods Short

• To edit our Wilderness Woods clip we used Premier
• We began by transferring all our video files from our documents into Premier
• We then took a look at all our clips and tried to place them in an order we thought suited best to create a short film
• At first we thought we got it spot on, but as we began to edit our different parts, we saw that we needed to place different clips in different places to where we first placed them
• We then decided we needed to add sound effects to our short film; we gathered sound effects from our document folder, where we were able to pick out 3 or 4 sound effects that we knew we would use in our short film – placing the sound in the correct place was a difficult challenge
• After completing the adding of the sound effect we moved on to looking at editing certain parts of our short film; We used the dissolve edit at the beginning and end of our clip which we decided was very effective; also we used the colour effect to make certain clips darker or lighter to convey the mood
• Finally we added a title reading ‘To be continued’ in bold red lighters placed on the black background to convey a gory atmosphere to our short clip.

HG: Analysis of Title Sequence

Analysing an opening title sequence

Order that titles came up :

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The difference between this title and the next was 8 seconds

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The difference between this title and the next was 2 seconds

 

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The difference between this title and the next was 3 seconds

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The difference between this title and the next is 6 seconds.

 

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The difference between this title and the next was 3 seconds.

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The difference between this title and the next is 15 seconds

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Analysis:

The start of the title sequence shows who the produced the film in this case it was “ BEX productions”. It then was quickly followed 4 seconds afterwards by the director “ Rebecca Mathews”. After this there is quite a large gap of 8 seconds when a name associated with the film appears on the screen “ Kelly Sirens”. Then  a very quick transaction of 2 seconds see the next slide” The fear of the unknown”  this induces the audience and breaks up the  title sequence. The next title to come up is the art director, this came 3 seconds after the slide before. Then 2 titles with names associated with the film are shown before a large gap and the film title is shown “ The insider” 

The titles are engraved within footage conventional of the horror genre. The way the titles come up and disappear with the footage make the title sequence ( which is normally boring) very exciting and makes the audience want to watch on after seeing this title sequence as the film is going to be related to the horror genre portrayed.  

All the titles are in a white colour and appearing in different ways. The white colour on a black background in most cases or dark help to show the titles better because of contrasting colours. This is an effective way for your titles to stand out on the title sequence. Conventional of the horror genre is red titles to represent blood in this title sequence white might of been used to create enigma.

The sound in the background creates tension as it is slow. The music creates enigma along side with the footage being played really set the tone for what the film is going to be about. This title sequence allows the audience to see the titles in way that is innovative as it action behind the titles makes is less tedious. 

This is my attempt of making part of a title sequence:

 

I made the title mostly red as this connotes blood and is very conventional of the horror genre. I outlined it with a black pen to help make it stand out. If made it so the text looks like it is dripping of blood to try and make it look scary. If I could make it again I would probably use a black background so that the two colours contrast each other so it stand out more

 

LLM and HG: Call sheet and Risk asesment - Wilderness Woods

LLM: Analysis of Title Sequence

Order of Titles

• First showing on screen is text, lasts 2 seconds
• Next text is 2 seconds later, same layout, lasting also 2 seconds
• Text on screen explaining ‘true events’ and is narrated 3 seconds on
• 1 second later another reading comes on to the screen, still narrated. Continues again twice with different readings and then screening starts; there is a pattern present between these 3 screenings because the narrator is reading as the texts unfolds, and there is a link between each text, involving crime
• The title ‘The Strangers’ is shown at the end of the sequence in block capitals and bold letters
• The content an order of the titles as they appear are very clear; the narration of part of the readings help to outline a clear understanding of what is displayed

Typography

The first title on the screen shows two present company’s, being ‘Rogue Pictures’ and Intrepid Pictures’; this is done using block capitals and orange coloured writing to show the importance of the two. The words ‘and’ and ‘present’ are in lower case letters, but are still visible to the audience, but clearly not as important as the Company’s names. The same format is used in the next title showing with ‘Vertigo Entertainment’ and ‘Mandate Pictures’ being in block capitals as the production companies.

The next three parts of text which is illustrated on screen is narrated to the audience; this is telling the audience that the film is based on ‘true events’ but events are not ‘entirely known’. In these three screenings text is all in orange, placed on black background, but is not in block capitals because its importance is less than the film titles.

The final screening shows the film’s title ‘The Strangers’; this is revealed in block capitals, again in orange font on black background.

The reason that all titles have been in a colour such as orange, displayed on black background is because the contrast in colours is very conventional of the genre horror, giving a scary and spooky look to the film. Also the difference in two colours show the titles clearly so the audience can identify certain importance’s.

Relationship between texts and visuals

In this opening sequence, the relationship between text and visuals is outlined by the dark orange text placed on a black background. Both these colours convey the narrative of the film. The black background connotes an uneasy atmosphere and the horror genre because darkness is very conventional of the horror movies. Further, even though the text is not in the usual red colour which emphasises a gory slasher movie; the orange shows that the movie has a thrill factor and there is going to be some taunting of characters involved, alike to the film ‘Halloween’.

Own production title

• For my production, I am looking at the slasher sub-genre of horror and have an idea that the film title could be ‘Who’s Next’ .
• For this I have created a few fonts in ‘Photoshop’, ‘Premier’ and have gathered ideas of the internet.
• I have an idea that the title will be in bright red conveying blood and a gory scene, placed onto a black background exploiting a spooky atmosphere.
• Another Idea I have come up with is, at the end of my scene, the antagonist has blood on his hands from the killing, and so writes the words ‘Who’s Next’ on the mirror, to create a scare factor to the audience. 

Here are some of my trials: