Review - Rajannnnn

'Face of Fear' is a horror trailer which we produced. The plot is quite conventional of a horror film as it features a male villian who seeks to murder a group of teenagers. The majority of the film is violent and contains some graphic scenes. This would appeal to those who enjoy the horror genre.

As the filming for of our production began, our group had immediatly had fallen out. This then lead to a number of arguements over the next few weeks and eventually, we had decided to go our seperate ways and make different productions. Fortunately, we somehow put everything behind us and continued with the same production. Filming was very stressful especially as it was being done during winter at night. Transporting everyone to and from my house was also an issue sometimes. As our production featured alot of stunts and action, it was very tiring and as we would film very late, we would be exausted in school the next day!

Editing started out quite well - untill a full days work got deleted! That just took the p*ss! We then had to re do all of that, however in the end we came out with an outstanding production, especially as the majority of people doubted that it would be a success as it is a horror trailer - and in the past they have not been very successfull, it felt nice to prove everyone wrong! :D

After all of the problems which had occured with our group, we came out even stronger and most importantly, we came out successful!

Raj

Review by Nafisa =)

“Face of Fear” is a horror trailer we produced about a group of friends who get lost in the middle of nowhere which is a typical horror convention. A psychotic man is after the group which then leads to the film involving a lot of violence and action. This would appeal to the audience who enjoy watching horror films and would aim to entertain them.

Whilst filming and producing this trailer we had a lot of fun as well as tense moments. On the first day of filming at Rajan’s house we got into an argument where we then decided to produce our own productions. However, we eventually laughed it off and were reunited as a group again =] We had a lot of fun when filming but got really cold because our filming was taking place in Rajan’s garden and it was cold then. Also when filming some members who were involved in our trailer were not available on certain days which then caused more problems. However, this made our group stronger and also helped us sort out our problems in a convenient way. Filming and the editing process was very stressful and also took a lot of time to do but we were one of the groups who got our editing done earlier which made up for us coming in to edit in the holidays. Overall, producing the trailer was enjoyable, fun and after all the arguments and laughter we have finally completed a successful production!

Nafisa .x.

Review - Simmren

‘Face of Fear’ follows the story of six friends who find themselves lost in the middle of nowhere. They then run into a psychotic man that tries to kill the group of friends, he succeeds but one member of the group manages to survive. It is a film filled with a lot of action and violence and allows the audience to get away from their own life and put themselves into the shoes of the main character. This film is highly recommended to people that find the horror genre appealing.

The process of the production was very long and stressful, even though Rajan was convinced that we would get all the filming done in one day. The first day of filming was a flop as we then realised the battery from the torch was not working so we all just decided to go home instead. The next few days we got a lot of footage however there was a big misunderstanding which lead to a huge fight where we felt breaking up the group would be the only resolution. However in the end through all the laughter the pain the fun and the arguments, we have come together as a stronger group with an excellent production!

Simmren Hayer

Editing !!

Hello!! well yeeahh weve nearlly finishedd editing and were soo happy and proud of our production!! everything goes so well together and we would like to thank Mr Babu and the mentors for helping us out :)

We probably come in for one day in the holidays and just check our production to see if anything is missing. We got the credit block done on friday and we might also look at different effects if they are needed. We are glad we dont have to come in much in the holidays :)

Newhooo not much to sayy buttt a bit tuu excited i think :$ im hypa on sweetiez! lool muhaahha!! toooddlllessss!!

Nafisa.x.

Filming Final Day!

Hello hello!! well basicali me and simmren went filmin nearr jubilee park last week monday. It was an owkaish weather lool :$ and we got alot of different shots that we were told to do such as close ups on our faces. Long shots of us running and extreme close ups of my eye and also point of view shots!

However, we were having problems with the lighting and wernt able to film because it was too dark but in the end we got my dad to use his car headlights in order for us to film! soo it all worked out in the endd!! Soo ii would like too thank ma dadd :) He kinda told me to do so aswel haha!:$

Anywhoo that was our FINAL filming dayy and we was so glad ish finally over!! :) I shall be offf now!! tooodlezz!!

Nafisa .x.

Editing

Hello hello helloo..fort might aswell write some stuff on here because i havent been doing lately, well anywhoo were quite ahead in editing sorted out where each clip is going to be and used dip to blacks on them. It looks wiked and its all going well ..but today we didnt really have much to do, we need to do more filming like a few more scenes and then it wil be done sooner or later, jjust need to sort out the effects and add titles then will finally be done :) feel proud and yeah having fun aswell :) and yeah the media mentors are good aswell and have also given us good advice :D

Me and Rajan working lool! and simmren took the picture hehe:D anywhoo am off byebye xx

Nafisa.x.

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Editing [11.03.08]

Heyylooo ..oh my we stayed at school till 7 today it was so long but fun as well as dry :S if you get me? :S lool but nah we done a lot of new things today and had fun. We got jaspreet to look for songs for us and he found some appropriate ones but others sounded like [aliens] as simmren says but yeah lol was wiked and we kinda know what song to do and its all going well.

We even recorded ourselves speaking in the D block were the stairs are and we got a nice echoing effect which sounded wiked and goes with the whole trailer. We cut down alot of the scenes because they were quite long and we needed short sharp scenes so they just flash at you like a trailer so yeah that was okay aswell.

However, we did get tired and HUNGRY well i reckon that was just mee but yeah and we messed about aswell. But we would like to thank JASPREETO for helping us today as well as yesterday and forever and ever:) until we are finished lol!

Ohh and one more thing for all them people who are saying things about our group..i rekon you should keep your comments to yourself and we will see what happenss okayy :D muahhah!!

Well ima b outii due to im chatting on msn and this was meant to be short and sweet but i rekon its long but owell. Toodles .x.

Nafisa .x.

Filming...again! [09.03.08]

During our first week of editing, we were advised to film more footage containing more close ups etc. As you can imagine, we wernt too happy about this, as filming tends to be very tiring and time consuming. Well, fortunately for everyone else, it was only me that done filming this time which didnt make it very fun :

What makes things worse is that I couldnt find the make up I used on the previous days, so I had to use charcoal from my BBQ : however overall I believe some of the shots captured were quite good as I look evil and dominant which is obviously my role. ( Nafisa & Simmren, its your turn next! muahahaha ) ok bye!

Rajj

Editing Day 1 + 2

Heyy well we all came earli in the mornin to do some editing and also stayed afta skool till 5.30. We just about finished capturing all our shots and have also put them in order of how we want the trailer to be.

Me and simmren also came in today in the morning at 8 to finishd of putting the footage in order. So far so good looks amazing haha :) and were just going to start proper editing soon using the different effects which will be long due to there are alot of different things you can choose from. The programmes a bit confusing but we'v got use to it and also have past experience on different programmes that are similar to this one which has made it easier for us :)

Well im at skool nw so i shall be off. Byeeeeeeee

Nafisa .x.

Last Day of filming [25.02.08]

Hellooo well im soooo ill after yesterdays filming but it was soo funn and we had such a laugh. Me,Simmren and Sid went to Rajans house. We done like four scenes of filming and it was really cold, i rekon it was the coldest day of filming. We got to Rajans at 6.45 and finishd filming around 8 something. It toook us agesssssss just to do a few scenes, but we started off by doing the makeup which took agessss due to some people couldnt do the makeup and it didnt stay. LOL but in the end it turned out wiked and looked ugly but in a nice way LOOL! Simmren done Rajans and my makeup and sid just had a bruise and tiny bit of blood on his face.
We filmed good scenes and had to do them over a few times because we kept laughing, after we finished the recording, Simmren just started filming us and we were just messing about but it was soo funny!! and embarrasing though haha! We also took alot of pictures as you can see because were so glad weve finally finished. FINALLYY!!!
We would like to THANK SID [IQBAL] FOR ALWAYS COMING TO RAJANS TO HELP US AND BEING IN OUR PRODUCTION! THANKYOU :) and we would also like to thank Rupi and Robbie for also being involved in our production!
Well we havent got much left to say but were SOOOOO GLADDDDDD WE'V FINALLY FINISHED WOHOO!! but now we will have to do the editing but atleast it wont be in the cold!! :D Byeee x


Haha as you can see the pictures above are the fun moments we had and things we can look back at haha!

Nafisa .x.

Third day of filming [21.02.08]

Heyy well we went to Rajans again today and i was feeling ill but still decided to go :) and we got a lot of scenes done and we thought it would be our last day filming but i guess we were wrong, we got another day of filming then were finally finished wohooo!! its so long to film in the dark and its sooo cold aswell!!

We done some of the scenes we done last time again because they didnt come out right and we done some new scenes. We actually had fun this time and we (the girls) were wrapped up warm this time so we didnt really feel that cold.

Sid had to go to footie so the boys left earlier and we stayed for a bit and done some more scenes which came out pretty good. Me and Rajan had some fake blood and makeup on our faces to look like we were injured. But i didnt even get a scene were they showed a close up on ma face so i was disappointed!! Well anyways we would like to thank Rupi for the makeup and doing our faces haha and thanks to Sid, Robbie, Sumeet and Rupi again for being in our production and helping us throughout the trailer :) Also we would like to thank Neelam for helping out!


We've nearlly completed our filming and im so glad we have and finally get onto doing the editing and then the production will be complete hehe! Im so glad we finally worked through this and sorted out our problems and now it feels like nothing even happened to begin with :)Well im off out now got things to do haha byebyeexx

Nafisa .x.

Second day of filming [19.02.08]

Hello well yesterday we all went to Rajans house again to carry on filming but this time only [Me,Simmren,Rupi,Neelam and Sumeet] went due to Robbie is on holiday and Sid couldnt make it however we are planning to film again on Thursday were everyone will have to go to Rajans house again.

Well we got into a bit of a problem because we didnt know how to get to Rajans house at first we were meant to be getting dropped off by our parents but then they were ill so we needed someone else to drop us and we didnt want to catch the bus incase we got lost and he lives quite far away, finally we got our friend Richard to drop us, so thanks for that Richi :) haha anyway when we got there we were filming the moon aswell as the sunset and it looked so nice i was getting amazed, it was a pinky blue and looked wiked!

When it began to get dark we started to film and it was freeeeeeezing cold we couldnt feel our toesss :( We didnt do many scenes but we got a scene were Rajan(villain) put Simmren(one of the 6 friends) into a wheelbarrow and took her somewhere, we also tried to get a scene where i had to say 'Hello is anyone there?' and Rajan was sitting on top of the hills, that looked like such a good setting and scene but the camera went dead so i rekon we have to film that on Thursday. Thanks Rajan haha

Heres a picture of Rajan when he had some makeup on around his eyes to make him look scary and trust me he was scary!! when he gives us that scary look and makes them weird noises i get scared and always think its real!

This is the picture of us when Rajans giving the audience that Scary look and i just looked scared or shocked and Simmren is smiling i think :S ahah im not sure but we was meant to look scared so hmm!

Thats another picture of us when we were meant to give a funny look so Rajans got that massive smile, Simmrens smiling and i just decided to cover my mouth :S haha!

Well thats it for now so hopefully ill get back to you and tell you everything that happened on Thursday :) Byebyee..Toodles..Bless :);) x

Nafisa .x.

First day of filming [31.01.08]

Today we went to Rajans house to do some filming, we went straight after school (Me.Simmren.Rupi.Neelam.Sumeet.Sid and Robbie). When we got there we were just playing pool and waiting for it to get dark so we could start filming.

We began to film and it was okay i suppose. We had fun whilst filming and got some good scenes where the villain was after us and we were screaming it was funny, even though i got a bit hurt when i was getting strangled but it was okay haha. I enjoyed it and we had a bit of fun but towards the end we had an arguement which was really scary and put us all down. I will not mention what happened but all im saying is it was *scary* and i reckon we should have filmed it as i was telling Rajan it would have been good :) haha!

Anyways now things are finally sorted and we havent filmed for two weeks but before they were a bit weird and we didnt really talk due to the arguement we had but we have sorted out our differences and are now planning to film soon so ill keep you updated on what happened:)

Nafisa .x.

Genre Conventions

The genre of our film trailer is Horror and we will be following the normal conventions that you would expect to see in horror movies such as using females as the main victims in the trailer. This is because they appear to be more vulnerable and the audience sympathise them. We are going to stick with the common convention of having a male “killer” because this is also what you expect to see in movies. We have decided to stay with the typical horror conventions as they are what appeal to the horror fans.

The film will challenge the common representation of White protagonists and villains and will feature Asians instead. This is something we have decided to change to show that other people can also appear on these movies and so it is different to other horror movies.

As, this trailer is being targeted to a wide audience, it would be ideal to include some elements of a Hollywood trailer. This will be done because it will attract the audience more, however keeping elements from an art-house trailer is still essential.

The whole midnight and darkness atmosphere will be formed due to it is what makes the ‘horror’ genre and helps to make the movie seem more realistic and scary.

Nafisa .x.

Overview for our production -'Face of Fear'

We are creating a horror movie trailer, called 'Face of Fear'. Our trailer will include some of the classic horror film conventions, such as a female protaganist. The villian will be a male. We are doing this so that the victim's appear more vunerable and also the villian will appear more powerful. This is a stereotype, showing males more dominant that females, however we are sticking with this because this is what horror fans like to see so that they can sympathise for the hero.

Our production will begin with a group of six teenagers (3 boys & 3 girls) leaving their car to ask an old man for directions. The old man then persuades the group to stay the night in a cabin of his as he feels it is far to late for them to be traveling. the group eventually agree's and go to the cabin. They struggle to open the door, so they send one of the guys to ask the old man for assistance. On his way to the back to the old man, he is assaulted and murdered by a mysterious man. The man vanishes as the group finds their friends body in a puddle of his own blood. The rest of the trailer will show a number of diffrent shots from other scenes and music will replace speech.

Our setting for this production can be seen below.

Raj

Past Student Production Analysis

Media Language:

• The trailer is mainly set in a house, however some scenes are shot in the park. As she is in the park herself it represents loneliness, solitude and enigma. The setting has many tree's as it is a typical genre convention such as The Blair Witch Project.
• The lighting that is used is low key to create a sinister atmosphere and suspense. A black and white affect is used and connotes enigma.
• There is non-digetic sound which is used throughout the whole trailer, however there is some digetic sound towards the end of the trailer. The music that is used created tension and suspense as it parallel to the text.
• The typography that is used in the trailer is red which connotes danger and death, also the rugged affect suggests torture and pain.
• Cuts are used to create a fast pace trailer which creates suspense and shock, this editing tool is used to suture the audience.

Institution:

• The trailers distributor is Dark Castle Entertainment is a division of Silver Pictures, a production house affiliated with Warner Bros.
• Dark Castle Entertainment was formed in 1999 by Joel Silver, Robert Zemeckis and Gilbert Adler.

Genre:

• The genre of the trailer is horror which is designed to frighten the audience. It is a typical horror trailer that displays supernatural events.
• Representation:
• The victims are represented typically as scared, and high angle shots represent vulnerability of the victims.
• The villain is represented as isolated.

Audience:

• The audience for the trailer is probably for both males and females but mainly males, at the age of 18 or above.
• The secondary audience for the trailer would be people that enjoy watching horror.

Simren..x

The Setting for 'Face of Fear'

This area will be used as the setting for the majority of our practical production. It is a very dull and messy area which fits with the horror genre conventions. The weather at this time of year is also good for us, as it tends to be quite dull and foggy. The sun also sets quite early so darkness will make it look alot more like a horror film trailer.

Raj

'See No Evil' Trailer

We have watched the See No Evil trailer a number of times because it relates to our practical production. This is due to the fact that we are also doing a horror film trailer. This trailer has been produced by ‘WWE Films’ and 'Lions Gate Films'.

In the trailer is a group of people within their late teens – early twenties. They are the victims in the movie of the main character which is a huge man named Jacob Goodnight. During the trailer, Jacob is shown as a dominant force on a path of destruction destroying everyone and everything he see’s. Jacob appears to be wearing a scruffy, ripped, grey t-shirt with black jeans. His facial expression is angry to make him look more intimidating. He is represented as a demented psychopath. The group of victims are all wearing casual clothes with common hairstyles (straight open long hair for females, short spiked hair for males). They are represented as vulnerable and helpless people.

The lighting in the trailer is low key. This is because the aim was to make the environment a dark and scary place. Many camera angles and shots were used during the trailer. The most commonly used was the low angle shot. This was used to make the villain Jacob, look powerful and unstoppable. Another common shot used was the high angle shot. This was used on the group of victims to make them look vulnerable. Close ups were also used to show the characters emotions, especially when victims were screaming in fear. An extreme close up was used to show Jacobs eyes. This was done to show that his two eyes were different. Long shots are used when Jacob is chasing his victims, and an over the shoulder shot is used when he has caught a victim and has pinned them against the wall. A special effect which I noticed is making the camera “negative”. This means making the characters look a lot frightening. This effect is used for only 1 second. Many shadows were produced due to the lighting in this trailer. This would add a more chilling experience to it. The sounds in this trailer begin with the sound of water coming out from a shower. This is because a female victim is having a shower; however the doors then creeks open due to the fact that Jacob enters the bathroom. Sounds which are made by characters are victims screaming and shouting. Jacob also makes noise by stomping a lot when running after victims. Not much music is played in this trailer until at the end, where an electric guitar and drum kit is played for about 10 seconds to create more tension in the chase scenes.

The target audience for this film is mostly males above the age of 18, however the secondary audience is females over the age of 18.

Raj