Week 3 Posting (Fonts)

 After looking through many fonts our group has come up with a few options that might work for the credits. These fonts are to the point and will accomplish the goal of credits. However, the title for our title will be different.
 Credits

EB Garamond

Credits

Courier New

Credits

Merriweather

Credits

Oswald

Personally, I am leaning towards courier new because of the fact that it is rounded and not so squared off. This gives off less of a corporate feel.

Week 3 Posting (Storyboard Update)

This week we have been working on refining our storyboard. As a group, we have transitioned a general plot into a more shot focused outline of our film opening. Here are pictures of the storyboard:

This is still subject to change however, at this point we are planning on going through with this storyboard.

Week 3 Posting (Location)

We have started looking for locations for the graveyard scene. We have found this place in a local park that would work for what we want. We will have to bring our filming equipment, props, costumes, and actors to the shoot. We also need to find locations for the two other scenes of our project

Week 3 Posting (Props)

In this week we have begun to discuss our set design. The two props we have begun working on designing are the gravestones and the blood. We have found an online recipe to make the blood

The ingredients are 2/3 cup of chocolate syrup, 

1/3 cup of Tide detergent, and 4-6 cups of red food coloring.

For the gravestone, we are going to use a material such as styrofoam and then spraypaint it gray to look like stone. We hope to reach an end product that looks like this

Week 2 Posting (Shooting Schedules)

After speaking with my group we have decided on this filming dates. These are subject to change and will depend on how long it takes us to design the costumes, create the props, and design the set. We are planning on doing these things in increments split up by scene. The last scene with the writing on the walls will most likely be the most time consuming to develop the set so we will have to take this into account.

Week 2 Posting (Plot)

We have decided on the outline of our film opening. We want the film to open with people standing around 4 gravestones then it will cut with a graphic match to the 4 bodies lying dead in a dimly lit house. These 4 bodies will be part of the same family. This family will have 5 people in it a mother, father, one daughter, and two sons. The living son will be implied to have killed all of them. We will do this by putting a marking on each of the bodies head. Aster this graveyard/house sequence elapses we plan on showing the title of the film. After this, we will cut to the start of the film which will be in the surviving boy's bedroom before he killed all of his family. We will start with him tapping a pen following by someone grabbing his hand. The boy will begin to freak out and then he will storm out of the room. This will cut to a shot of the room showing that there is writing all over the walls. These writings will be patterns implying that the boy is a psychopath. The person who grabbed his arm is his mother and she sees a piece of paper on the floor, picks it up and sees the same symbol that was on her and the other 3 bodies heads. This plan is still subject for change but right now this is what my group plans on doing for our film opening.

Week 2 Posting (General Plot)

After speaking with my group we have decided on a general outline of how we plan on creating the plot for our film opening. Since we have chosen the genre thriller/mystery we need to create suspense through visual and auditory techniques.

The opening of the film will be in a graveyard in the daylight

These shots will transition into those in a dimly lit house

Then we will cut to the film title followed by the first scene at the start of the beginning of the movie in a boys bedroom with patterns on walls

In a later posting, I will go in depth about what will be done in each scene and how we plan on creating each set.