Final Question 9- By Tom Nunn

i am in a group consisting of myself, Sarah Ellis, Daniel Smith and Kimberley Osbiston. we were asked to plan and produce he introducing 2 minutes to a horror film.

Planning:
whilst we were planning we go together well as a team and discussed our ideas such as what type of horror film we would make etc. i made lots of suggestions with ideas about what could be done and thought of the idea of a girl and nursery rhymes which were used in the film. i also thought of writing the title in blood on the window, which was my bedroom window as we used my location choice as a setting to the film. as a team we discussed how many zombies should be involved and who should be the zombies, and originally in the first shoot i provided 3 of the zombies.
i completed the recee sheet- to allow us to use the location and called West Park School to confirm that we could use the location.
i helped add to the story board as we all did our individual sections, and provided pictures that gave clear stage directions with the environment.
i also did the original zombie test shoot- to get try and test for the best zombie look, which i used the skills to help prepare our actors before shooting- but we later replaced it with the one done by Sarah.



 During the filming:
We re-shot our film 4 times in order to achieve the end product which everyone is happy with as it has lots of shot types, and is a lot scarier through improvements such as more close ups. we used lots of angles so that we could use a variety in our film.

this is the blood that i helped make and i suggested jelly to provide a texture to make it look like insides and told the actor to let it spit out his mouth as he's hungry for more.

we decided to film this at my house as to get a shot of the garden as an over the shoulder shot overlooking the woman being attacked, and we all made fake blood that took adjusting multiple times to stop it looking to bright.

this is the panning shot i suggested so we could see all the zombies and there movements in one shot so no action was missed.

i also provided an opinion to choose where we were going to take the angles such as the shot of the zombies all crowding around the camera at the end to provide a view from the girl on the floor who gets eaten.

this was the shot of the zombies crowding the camera

i also provided my dad and mum as actors (zombie attack victim in the introduction, and zombie man gargling blood everywhere.)
I helped provide stage directions as to direct the zombies where to run in order to get the best angle and shot types all included and to give the zombies an apparent purpose.



After the filming:

i helped the garage band- this is adjusting the volume and when the sound is introduced from quieter to louder.

the musical typing keyboard allowed us to chose the instrument and what pitch we used to create atmosphere.

this was our completed movie soundtrack that me and Dan Smith both worked on half and half.

i helped edit the soundtrack with Dan, and used garage band to create an eerie and exciting soundtrack that matches what you see on screen. i helped record the ring a ring a roses nursery rhyme and the loud bang at the end of the rhyme- "we all fall down..." BANG! which was my idea. i then helped some of the video editing by using using the transition in which the zombie girls eyes stay over the back ground as the two school pupils start walking from the school.

 we also growled and made gurgling blood sounds together and breathing down the microphone on the macs in order to create a tense effect.