My Mood-board
In my mood board i have gathered photos together to associate with my film idea, so first of all the series will be based around kidnap and murder through the use of social media, the two examples i have used are Misery and the film prisoners as examples. I also want to try and include situations such as hostage.

Research

 

Jose discussed how the genre of horror is beginning to die due to the frequent overused technique called a jump-scare. although he mentions that the film is still scary. between there are similar comments but they mention that the jump-scare had made this segment in the film.

Jose Rivera 2 months ago

Jump scares ruin a LOT of potentially good horror scenes. This is part of the reason why horror in general is dead.  I'll be perfectly honest. Heart was racing throughout but when the jump 'jump scare' happened I was disappointed.

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Then a user Yarwhal mentioned a mistake or questioning if this would purposely be here.

  

                 Yarwhal 2 months ago

I just realized that the jump scare shows the monster jumping towards us, which might be a shocking moment for some of us. However, when you think about it, doesn't that mean that from the woman's point of view, he (it?) just sort of derp jumped out of the bed away from her screaming?

Due to people mentioning about the use of jump-scares in thrillers and horrors i will try to avoid this style of editing for the purpose of not copying or using mainstream techniques as much.

My Pitch: FOLLOWED

The short film I am pitching is going to be called 'Followed'. The reason I chose the name Followed is because I have associated the short film with social media. For example, if you were to follow someone on Twitter, it would be made out that you were following them in real life. 

The main character is a girl called Emily, she is an outgoing 19 year old with a broken family, but has a large friends group. One night after leaving her friend's party, she discovers that an anonymous user has followed her on Twitter.  One of the tweets posted by the anonymous person mentioned the location, date and time of the party. She assumed that this was a prank from one of her friends. Then the user began to tweet usernames, but then the next day, these user names would turn up dead. This is an idea of which my series would be based on. I want to involve a stalking aspect to create suspense and fear towards the audience.

In order to achieve this i need to consider:

Facts
The pay scale of film crew can be very expensive.  First of all, we have our production workers, Earn £250.00 per day.  Then we have our lighting crew, Earn £500.00 per day.  At this stage we have to decide whether it is a single camera or multi camera production.  This can affect how many camera operators we have on set.  With every good visual in a movie, it provides good sound. so a sound crew would be on £450.00 per day. 

Finance 

When wanting to create movies and you realise you need money they're certain methods for example

• Kick-starter - is the world's largest website which help people fund ideas and projects over the world.

• BFI - this stands for the British Film Institute which helps smaller companies get promoted.

•  Private Finance - is a loan company which is used for specific specifications.

• Investors - will venture into your projects and support you financial for either the whole of the cost or part of it with a group of other investors.

• National lottery - offers funding on a charitable basis to charities who work on projects.

companies such as these invest money into small content creators.

Time

When trying to film your first short film, this will require us to be organised when hiring equipment from our college.  With this we will have to consider how many days we spend shooting and how long we will spend editing.  A reason to consider this is that it will give you the option to reduce costs and may leave a small budget for eventualities.    In order to keep the crew organised I would have call sheets which will keep my crew in order and prepared for any situations that they may face.

Facilities

When filming my production I will need obvious things such as lighting which will affect how professional my film looks.  Also I will require a tripod to hold the camera still.  For post production I will need an editing suite with programmes such as Final cut pro, Photoshop to add various special effects.  Due to me being in college I will not have to pay to use resources, but if I was not a member of the college to dry hire an editing suite would cost £250.00 a day.

Material

When trying to find when certain material can be used when trying to avoid the Copyright Act.  Companies such as Apple would be paid for product placement.  If a payment was avoided, this could result in Copyright strikes or even being sued by the company itself.

Contributors

When casting actors you would have to go through certain agencies in the result for publicity.   With me being in college, I will not have to pay actors and they will be my fellow classmates or friends.  This results in a low budget which allows you to spend in other areas of the production.

Locations

When finding locations to shoot, it can be very difficult if you do not have permission and often payment is required for the use of their location.  As I am a student I would have to ask for permission from the property owner or organisation to where I can shoot my webisode.

Health and Safety

Health and Safety would be paramount when making my webisode as in today society, people or staff will sue if an accident and their safety in put in danger.  This to consider:

location -  Are there sufficient to say filming is taking place, also tape to highlight area when the production crew are situated.

Equipment - has all equipment been PAC Tested to ensure that the crew do not have any electric shocks.

Props - Are all the props in good working order.

Mise en Scene

Locations: the location i would use would be filmed in an urban and city outlook due to the actors being matched apropiatley to their enviroment