Shot List

After we made a story board, we jotted down the shot list and the props we need for each:

1. Close up of either match lighting or a flickering candle
2. Zoom out to show the full candles and part of the table
3. Zoom out to show a medium range shot of the sister and the psychic sitting opposite each other on a table.
4. Close up of sisters hands putting down pictures of her brother and herself.
5. Over the shoulder shot of sister looking at pictures.
6. Series of flash back shots of young brother and sister being together/playing. (long shots)
   
7. Back to medium shot of sister and psychic talking.
8. Bright reminiscing shots of brother playing.
   
9. Shot of sister sitting and crying.
10. Sister gets up in anger and shouts at psychic.
11. Close up of sisters angry face with tears running down her cheeks.
    

To show that our film is a supernatural thriller with a female lead, we plan to shoot the shots of her at a slightly higher angle to show her authority over who else is in the shot.

*NEW SHOT LIST*

1. Close up of either match lighting or a flickering candle
2. Zoom out to show sister crying and looking at pictures
   
3. Close up of sisters hands putting down pictures of her brother and herself.
4. Over the shoulder shot of sister looking at pictures.
5. Series of flash back shots of young brother and sister being together/playing. (long shots)
   
6. Sister walking in the graveyard looking at her parent's tombstone.
7. Quick shot of her staring at her brother's tombstone.
   
8. Series of shots showing the sister's growing fear for her brother e.g screaming etc.

The credits will be against a black background in between all the shots. There will also be a voice over of the sister explaining what happened.

Analysis Of Gothika And The Ring

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Opening sequence of The Ring.

Opening sequence of Gothika

Moodboards

These are our mood boards showing ideas of our sound, location and, story line ideas.

Main Story

Our story's a supernatural thriller with a female lead role. The story's inspired by The Others and The Forgotten, our opening sequence is inspired by opening sequences of Gothika and The Others.

Our story is about an orphaned sister who's 4 year old brother has gone missing. Desperate for help and without parents to go to, she goes to a psychic who at first says she can't help, but then suddenly says that her brother's died and that he can't be found. The sister refuses to believe the psychic, and thinking that going to her was a bad idea, returns to seeking help from the police. However, she starts getting visions and there are supernatural occurrences throughout the film The rest of the film looks at her struggle from keeping sane and trying to find out the truth about her missing brother.

Pitch:
Supernatural Thriller With A Female Lead

The Ring
Gothika
The Exorcism Of Emily Rose
The Forgotten

The opening sequences of these films are quite subtle in the amount of supernatural activity, they just try to set the scene and portray the characters and genre without giving away too much.

Analysis of Gothika Opening Sequence

Gothika, a 2003 horror/supernatural thriller movie directed by Mathieu Kassovitz and written by Sebastian Gutierrez, is the story of a psychiatrist (played by Halle Berry) in a women's mental hospital who wakes up one day to find herself on the other side of the bars, accused of having murdered her husband.

Genre:
Thriller
Horror
Mystery

Opening credits are set against a black background, black being a 'Gothic' colour, it works well for the title of the film. The font is white and ghostly and zooms out. The music is eerie and slow. All this gives us a good idea of the genre of the film.

Fonts

These are the fonts we found that would work well for the production title. We thought that the first one will probably be the one we work with.


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Possible Production Names

Because we are planning to do a Supernatural Thriller with a female lead role, we thought that the production name should reflect that type of genre, these are our first possible name ideas:

Hidden
Superhuman
Uncanny
Curious
Insolvable
Sphinxlike
Eccentric
Eerie
Spooky
Dark
Secret
Chilling

We watched a few production logo animations and realised that quite a few logo's have an adjective and a noun, for example; Black Horse Productions and Stoopid Monkey. We thought that we could use a word from the above list and add a noun to it, the names highlighted in red are our favorite names so far:

Hidden Giant
Eccentric Bee
Eerie Pig
Spooky Shadows
Dark Colours
Secret Box
Chilling Wind
Creepy Crawly
Phantom House
Crazy Hands
Scarred Shadow





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Analysis of Walt Disney and Pixar Productions logos

The Walt Disney logo's famous for all the Disney films it appears in. The main image of the logo, a castle, portrays the production company as a creative company. The font of Walt Disney is cursive and works very well with the castle image making it portrays itself as a company that produces fantasy films for younger audiences. The logo is a good example of one that does not use animation as much as it uses the main image to make itself recognisable.

The Pixar logo also portrays itself as a production company that produces films for younger audiences. The Pixar logo's font is very simple and plain. The main feature of the logo is the little lamp that bounces around and replaces itself as the letter 'i' in Pixar. It's the only feature that makes the logo memorable and east to recognise. Te logo's a good example of how a very plain lettered logo can be made easily recognisable by some animation.



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Analysis Of The Golden Compass Opening Sequence

Based on author Philip Pullman's bestselling and award-winning novel, The Golden Compass tells the first story in Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy. The Golden Compass is an exciting fantasy adventure, set in an alternative world where people's souls manifest themselves as animals, talking bears fight wars, and Gyptians and witches co-exist. At the center of the story is Lyra (played by newcomer Dakota Blue Richards), a 12-year-old girl who starts out trying to rescue a friend who's been kidnapped by a mysterious organization known as the Gobblers - and winds up on an epic quest to save not only her world, but ours as well. The Golden Compass stars an ensemble cast that includes Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Sam Elliott, and Ian McShane. The film is written and directed by Chris Weitz (About A Boy, Antz) and produced by Deborah Forte and Bill Carraro (Frequency). It is executive produced by Andrew Miano and Paul Weitz (In Good Company)

Genre:
Adventure
Family
Fantasy

Opening credits, floaty and effects like fireflies, giving an immediate feel of magic and fantasy.
After The Golden Compass title has shown up, the shot merges into a starry atmospheric night sky, with a womens voice over talking about the two dimensions and our dimension as being the one that is unusual by having our souls inside our bodies. The first block of voice over tells us how the story is going to plan out, by telling us about the compass and that the fate will depend on it.

We can tell that the film is a children's fantasy from a combination of misce-en-scene, camerawork, sound and editing. From the opening, we can tell who the main character of the film is from the voice-over that says "Only once can read it", the camera then cuts off to the shot of the girl who finds a compass. The camera zooms in on her and that gives us reason to think that she is the main character. This shows that kids can identify with the main character if they see the movie through her eyes.

We can tell that the theme is fantasy based from the title of the film "The Golden Compass". The font is golden and sparkly and seems magical. The voice-over talks about another world which also shows that it's fantasy.


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