Progress Report -Rabia (:

23rd January


concentrated on the story board as an individual, as Naomi, Ramita and I split the story board in to three sections. This helped us include our own ideas to each section and in the lessons we are able to discuss and change certain areas.

story board-

our first story board plan

Progress Report -Rabia (:

16th January - 21st January


We have been focusing on our story board of our trailer. We have asked Mr Unugur and Mr Bush for feed back.
We have added more ideas to our original plan however we got stuck on the climax and how we are going to show it.


By asking Mr Bush he said: we should add more description to our story boards, for example the type of shot and the movement and how we need to add a beginning, equilibrium, to build up the storyline, not to just go in to the disequilibrium.


Mr Unugur helped us plan our title, he said suggested that our genre, physcholoigical Horror movies tend to have only one worded titles. Therefore we had decided for Enigma.


Now knowing what the title will be, we will be able to construct a symbol that the killer would put on the letters and people she has killed.

Progress Report - Naomi :)

Christmas Week:   

When I, Rabia and Ramita met in the holidays to discuss the narrative of our horror trailer, we went through several plots and tried arranging them by using ideas from each also thinking about the codes and conventions.  It was quite difficult to get a complete idea that involved a good build up and climax. We all had great ideas for the beginning and end other trailer but we needed to decide how this developed into a really ‘horrific’ psychological climax.

After a lot of discussion, Rabia came up with the idea of a letter where then me and Ramita added to the ‘riddle’ element which is then sent in a form of a letter.  From there we developed other narrative revolving around why this young girl decided to kill people which aided the psychological convention in the movie.

In my opinion, I think that from my own evaluation of myself, I contributed various ideas whereby as a group we could bring together into a full and clear narrative.

4^th Jan:]

We all met in class in school ready with our presentation with lots of information on codes and conventions, mise en scene, film language and audience for our film trailer. We modified our presentation by making it more interactive with more video, les writing and more pictures so we could attract our key audience in front of us. We also organised who is presenting each slide with a little rehearsal.

Evaluation of Presentation: 

I think that all three of us presented very well in the way we addressed to our target audience in front of us. We all knew what we were saying and presented in a confident way without reading off the board. Clear points such as narrative and research were clearly and constructively spoken about to ensure that our audience understood our main aim.

Personally, my own presentation skills by interacting and looking at the audience was good however I think that I’ll create key points for me to follow to keep it short and informative.

Overall, we each contributed equally through the planning and presentation which enabled us to have a complete structured and detailed narrative that is doable.

Progress Report - Ramita

During the Christmas holiday period, me, Rabia and Naomi decided to meet up. When we met up we decided on our plot and possible titles for our film trailer. We also decided how we were going to pitch our film trailers and went on to research different areas that we would need to cover in our pitch. 

Firstly, we all had different ideas on what we would like to be in our trailer, we put them together in order. However we faced difficulty when we had to decide what the climax will be in the film. Also we wanted to avoid filming the trailer at school so we had to slightly change our ideas.  

My participation in the group was equally the same as Rabia and Naomi. We all had different ideas and brought them together into a story. We used the codes and conventions of horror and decided what type of shots, characters, music will be needed. 

The Next Step (=

The Others is a Psychological horror rated 15. As you can see there is no sign of gore or violence, the different angles and lighting creates the tension and what you cannot see is what frightens the audience and keeps them alert because the audience are eager to see what it is that is there, or not there.







The Unborn shows different aspects to what you usually would see, they do show what and who is doing things to her but we are not sure why it is happening and as the trailer goes on you see different angles being used and the lighting. One main feature is when they want the audience to engage to a specific object or person they put the key light to that object or person, for the audience to put there full focus on that. Even though the audience is able to see what is doing on. They are left with so many questions. The music is also what builds up the tension and suspense throughout the trailer.







The Ring uses also uses music to build tension, they use a sound bridge for the movie trailer to flow, as the trailer goes on you can see long shots and close ups used often because they want the audience to feel as if they are the actor or they are in the scene.At the end the tempo speeds up to show the events happen often and quickly to show come scenes of what happens, leaving the audience wanting more.


Here are some examples of 15 certificate movies that are Horror, manly psychological horror because there are not using extreme violence and other uses of horror, they are leaving the music and lighting to frighten the audience. The also use this aspects because some of the story lines are unrealistic but it gives a feel of it actually happening.
Rabia 

Evaluation on Powerpoint- Ramita

In my opinion, our pitch on our film trailer idea went really well. This is the first time I am working with Rabia and Naomi and I worked well with both of them. I personally think that our pitch idea went well for many reasons. The main reason why our pitch went well was because we were prepared as we didn't use notes and did not read straight of the board. We also kept eye contact with rest of the class and made the audience interact with our pitch as we asked them to vote for title would be suitable for our trailer idea.


I think that I interacted well with the audience well as I used examples and hand gestures to explain my point.
However I think that we could have researched more into 15 certificate films by evaluating codes and conventions of a 15 film trailer as our film trailer is going to be a 15 certificate.
Also personally I could have improved on being more confident, as I was nervous I kept jumbling my sentences up and starting all over again.