Final Product

Our final product is 1 minute 55 seconds, which is only 5 seconds underneath the 2 minute boundary so therefor we are hitting that target. Our music fits the genre and the action of the film, and fades out at the end so the film doesn't come to a complete holt. We have tried to keep the drama to a maximum but not to the extent where it turns into a complete trailer. The mental illness the girl suffers with is schizophrenia I believe we have got this across as best as possible, however the audience may not be completely clear until the title Two Minds at the end. 


We have tried to get a smooth movie with no bumps of fuzzy shots. The transitions we have included all blend the shots and titles in as best as possible and we have tried to achieve a consistent theme throughout and not break any continuity points.

Schedule

Editing

After the first mishap we have luckily been back on track and on target. We have managed to catch up with editing and have luckily put all of our clips in the correct order. Without credits it was 1.38 which is 22 seconds under the recommeneded 2 minutes. But now that the credits and fade in's and outs have been put in it has now hit 1.57 seconds which is a perfect time for us to stop.

Our font has all been on a black background with a white font on top. It has a fade into the text and a fade out of the text onto the footage. We picked our font out from the website www.dafont.com and there were a great selection but finally we chose a font called; Nightbird as it fit the horror elements well.

 We also considered the font Nyctophobia, but decided we prefered the boldness of Nightbird.

Choosing our music was by far one of the hardest task, we wanted music that fitted our footage but didnt over power it. We wanted tension but not the whole way through, so after listening to several pieces we decided on one called 'Gathering Darkness'  we got it from www.incomptech.com it was given the taglines; 'Screeching dark, electronically chatty. Nightmarish' which fitted the idea of our opening perfectly. The beat is continuous and not too loud which means fading out at the end was no trouble.

Filming

Me and Alice were due to film on Saturday the 14th and then do any last minute shooting during the week, but due to other commitments were unable to hit this target. Instead we chose our double Media period on the 19th of January and managed to get it all filmed during this slot.
The footage was then editted during lunchtimes and afterschool ready for the Friday the 20th deadline.

We filmed on Woodlands Rd in Portishead, and used the surrounding area of woodlands for the rest of our footage.

This is Woodlands Road, Portishead.

Our main characters, Frankie Toft and Joe Thompson, in their costumes ready for filming.

Frankie Toft, with her full face of makeup. We used black eyeshadow and smudged it all over her eyes to give her a demonic look. We then used red lipstick and smudged it all over her mouth to represent the victims blood.

Joe Thompson with his victim make up on, the red listick arond his reck represents the wound caused by the girls knife. His face is also a off white grey colour which represents death.

We shot all of our footage on a Cannon EOS, the picture quality was great and we were lucky enough not to get any grainy footage. Also it appeared good on the mac computers which was must to our surprise and favour.

Planning

After taking into consideration all of our audience research, we now decided it was time to plan out what was going to take place in our title sequence. We jotted down some potential ideas before finally coming up and deciding upon our final idea.

We finally came up with the idea of a schizophrenic young girl who was innocent for all eyes to see but her other personality broke through now and then which turned her into a murderer who would kill innocent victims. The opening of our film is the girl walking through a abandoned road in-between the woods with only her teddy for company. She walks past a strange looking man who is jogging, this is key role reversal as the girl looks like the victim and the man looks like the murderer. But in actual fact it is the other way round, she attacks the man. She stalks after him before hiding and murdering him, we have her laughing as though no remorse is portrayed, she also looks like she will strike again which makes the audience want to continue watching the film. The name of our film is 'Two Minds', this fits the schizophrenia element as she is a split person and has two different personas. 

We aim to have the killing in small little flashes in-between scenes of her being normal and innocent. This should scare the audience as it is unexpected and a twist on typical horror movies. It also see's the break between her normal everyday self and her murderous self.

The final storyboards are below;

This is the location we are shooting our horror in;

Woodlands Road, East Wood, Portishead

Below is the road in which they will walk and to the side is the ariel view of the whole area in which the film will take place.

Here is a list of the props in which we will use;

A teddy; this is to represent the young girls age, as she is a young child, preferably 9 year old girl. It is also to show how innocent she is, this is so her murders come as a huge surprise.

Fake Blood; this is to show the brutality and gore of the girls attack on the man

Contact Lenses; preferably all white or maybe red, this is to show the change from innocence to evil. 

The costume we will use consits of;

A summer dress - For the innocent girl, to represent her age and will enable us to try and portray her as innocent and incapable of the things she does.

The same dress will be used for the girl, but she will have different colour eyes and have blood all around her mouth, this will represent the attack she has just made.

The victim will wear mud stained clothes that are ripped and distressed they will be in casual jogging gear to make it clear they are there for a purpose.

We will also need a spare shoe for one of the shots, as it will represent the rough dragging of the victim.

The characters in our play are;

The Girl played by Frankie Toft

The Victim played by Joe Thompson

Dog Walker played by a random extra on scene.