After our re-shoot...

Today we imported our footage after re-filming. When watching our footage we discovered the horrific mistakes we had made. This has completely disheartened us.
To begin with we realised that our actress had a different hairstyle to the first time we shot. This means when combining the first and second shots, continuity was not kept as at one point she would have curly hair and then following shot straight hair and vice versa.
Secondly we discovered we had made a grave error. When slamming the door after Gemma has entered the building, my body is visible through the glass in the door. We did not realise this would happen at the time and this means when we come to re-shoot we will have to cover up the glass in the door so you cannot see my body.
Finally, when going through our footage it is obvious that we need to re-do a lot of bits, in order to improve them, make it more realistic and to add atmosphere  to our film as a whole.
We are going to re-film again and hopefully change everything that needs to be and ensure that our film is a success!

An example of our mistake: my body been shown through the glass in the door...

Evaluation Question 1 by Rachel Nolan.

1. Introduction: what did you make, who did you work with and where did the original idea come from?
The brief we were set was to create the first two minutes of a horror film. It could be any type of horror film, from psychological to zombie, but we chose to do psychological. The reason we chose to do the psychological genre is because we found these the most realistic type of horror films, but also some of the scariest - as they play with the audiences minds and draw them into the film.We watched a lot of psychological horrors before coming to the decision to definitely follow the genre and we found that they were all very successful in achieving a scary film with a tense feel,  which is what we wanted to achieve for our own film. 
Before beginning to plan or create our horror film we did a lot of research into what a psychological horror consists of and we did this by watching psychological horrors. 
The film Paranormal Activity inspired our original idea, as we liked that there was a very scary threat, yet never physically seen by the audience. We used this concept for our film, with throughout the whole film there was a threat present, yet never visible. This is typical for horror films of the psychological genre and we intended to mainly follow the conventions.
I worked with two other people, Conor and Niall -  we had done other practice exercises previously and we found that we worked really well as a group and decided to do our final project together. As our group get along really well it definitely has helped in us creating a successful piece of work, that we are all proud of, as we all bring something different to the group which I think is very useful. We have not had any problems in our group and I think that this is because we all listen to one another's ideas and nobody took control and tried to manage the group, however we all had the ability to take control when necessary and to tell one another what to do when we felt it was needed. 
Here is a picture from the film Paranormal Activity:

Here is the trailer for the psychological horror film 1408, we watched the beginning of this film and drew inspiration from the build up of suspense, with the use of music, mise en scene and camera angles/shots, for our own film:

This is a shot seen in the trailer for 1408. We like this shot because of the use of lighting and mise en scene to create a scary, foreboding feeling for the audience. The dim lighting creates effect, but the lightening which is illuminating the main characters face allows him to be the thing to which the audiences eye is drawn to in the shot and the sense that something bad may be about to occur...

This is another shot from the trailer of 1408 that stood out to us. We wanted to include a lot of close ups in our film as they show exactly how the character is feeling, allowing the audience to understand and feel how they are feeling. Also close ups are one of the main conventions of psychological horrors.

Editing our film...

Today we went through what we have of our film and edited it, cutting bits we do not need and darkening shots etc to add atmosphere. To do this we had to do each shot individually, choosing the darkness- this took quite a while as we had to let it render!
Today we also created the sound for the writing on the whiteboard, using a board marker and a whiteboard!
Next week we are going to re-shoot, ready for more editing in next weeks lesson!

A shot we like...

We like this shot because we think it looks good how the swings are moving in opposite directions and is a good opening to our horror film. It is creepy because the park is deserted. 

To improve it we will darken to make it look more eerie and scary.