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Treatment "Secured"

The "film Secured" is a Horror/Thriller set in present day about the serial killer (Grant Clarke), who happens to be a teacher at a college. His victims, all girls, are normally students of the college and predominantly his class. As Grant, a local to the area nows the outlay of the college perfectly he uses, his local knowledge to asses the fact that the college is located next to a deserted wood, and uses this factor to his advantage.
The film aimed at 18-23 years olds, is directly aimed at young adults who are still, or just finished the education system. This concept adds the fear factor to the film as its still fresh in the memory (college/school/uni life) for the viewers. Grant the enigma in the story is always seen in his normal clothes, even when changing for DNA reasons. showing that anyone could be a danger and not to judge a book by its cover.  

Preliminary Task Evaluation.

From our preliminary task, we mainly got a feel for the cameras and recording equipment used for the opening sequence later on. This meant we could see how shots need to be used, actions with the camera, how the tripod has to be set up and the background scenery  and placement of props have to be arranged in shot.
The downside to the preliminary task was how we underestimated the length of the editing. the amount of time spent editing in ratio to the amount of actual film was extremely high. For the 30 second clip of our preliminary task around 3-4 hours were spent editing the raw footage to a decent standard.

on a whole the preliminary task was very successful, as not only can time preparations be set for the opening sequence but also, a basic knowledge of all equipment and software has been gained. therefore once we start the main project we wont go into the task unorganised and unprepared.

Audience Research Analysis

For our audience research we set a quiz, as previously posted. We asked 15 people to fill the quiz out and here are some of the results.

What would you prefer to watch?
Horror      Thriller


 Out of the 15 people we asked, 9 said that their preferred genre of film was horror to the 6 people who chose thriller.


Do you watch horror films in high volume?
Yes No 

Do you keep the light on or off?
On Off

The answers to these two questions were less varied. With all people asked saying both yes to the first question and no to the second. This assumes most people in general watch scary films in low light with high volume. This meant not only does a horror film have to comply with low lighting, but also have good input when it comes to sound as this will play a big part in setting the right mood.

If a film had a bad review , would you watch it?(if no why)
Yes No 

Of the multiple choice questions, the last asked was whether someone would see a film if it had bad reviews. This gave a very mixed outcome with results nearly 50/50. 8 saying yes and 7 saying no. the biggest reason for not watching the movie was “me and my friends/family have the same taste in movies and therefore I probably wouldn’t like it either.” And critics get paid to review films, so if they say something isn’t good they’re normally right”

Of the non-multiple choice questions many films kept being referenced to. These included Saw, Scream, Hostel and Freddy Krueger movies.

This shows that depending on what happens in the film, this can appeal and stick to the audience as considering how many horror films are out their many of the responses revolved around the same films.

StoryBoard Update

Our story boards were posted after the problem was solved.

Prelimanary Task.

Below is the first chance we had at getting used to the equipment used in our opening sequence. we had to get to grips with; 

1. the Hd camera (Sony HDVS)
2. the editing software ( Final cut 7, Apple i movie)
3. the time frames needed to film and edit.

Shot list

Shot                               Angle Movement                          Notes
1.  Establishing shot	Dolly	Of the college to show the setting
2. Medium long shot	Downwards tilt	In the classroom shows location of characters
3. POV shot	Left to right pan	Of teacher and board, main characters POV
4. Long shot	No movement	Students leaving the class
5. Medium shot	Right to left pan	Teacher rushing
6. Mid shot/POV shot	Upwards tilt	Teacher watching student walking down the corridor
7.  Two shot	No movement	Character walking down corridor
8.  Long Shot	Right to left pan	Leaving college
9.  POV Close up	High angle shot	Characters POV watching surroundings
10. Medium shot	Tracking	Following character
11. Over the shoulder shot	Eye level	Character checking behind
12. Medium shot	Tracking	Watching girl
13. Close up shot	Tilt downwards	Stalker watching the girl
14. Extreme close up	Pan right to left	Enhance characters emotions, scared
15. Medium shot	Tilt	Stalkers POV
16. Extreme close up shot	High Angle	Girl on the floor