rough planning

so we as a group decided to go with a thriller/horror type of two minute film opening so we brain stormed; and came up with a few good ideas such as we wanted it to be like a chase type of scene which would allow for some fast pace music and quick cutting shots. We came up with the final story board of a man saving a woman or child from a locked room but he gets locked up. All these are just rough ideas that to me sound really good and if we can recreate some of the scenes that i am playing in my head then we should have a very scary and exciting film. However I recognise that we have to budget and in a production team of men we would need to hire a women, so there are still some problems to overcome.



The short synopsis of the film clip is that we see a man drive up to a wooded area and get out. Time would pass and we see a jogger run past the car, when he hears screams. We want to flash images of the woman looking gray like the girls or flash backs from the shining. So as the jogger runs to help the tension builds as the audience sees the man from the car following the jogger. When he gets to the source of the screaming, an old shed, and when he goes in he sees the girl in the corner as he walk towards to help the doors close behind him.


that is the basic plan.

preliminary task.

Here is the finished product of our preliminary task. i think we attcheved the desired fluency of the cuts; but problems such as background noice made the cut more obvious and clunky. the video doesn't have a story its just a attempt at getting the basic camera angle and editing.

The Begining!

First Who are we?

This is me (Martin Aberson)

this is Harry Phillips

this is Olli Cannon

Back in september I started media studies for the first time and this year’s practical course work we were asked to make a two minuet opening for a film. The choices of genre were horror, comedy and documentary, we chose horror/ thriller. The reason we chose this type of film was because it is very hard to create a script for a comedy that will be funny to everyone and not just to the writers, also a documentary was not an interesting idea.



All of these ideas dont mean much though if you dont know how to film so our first task was to make a preliminary. This was our first time with the camera; and the preliminary test allowed us to know how to create a story board and a work with camera angles to see what works and doesn’t work. But the bit that i liked doing the most was the editing; making the transitions smoothly was one of my personal goals in making this short film. At the end I would have like to get a reverse shot in so that we could see the girls face but we didn’t have enough time to film it.