Title 

We came up with Blood Date as our title. We are still messing around will the font of the letters to see which one would look better. The colors that we will definitely be implementing is red and white. We want to cross out the title seconds after it is displayed. We feel that it will add a lot of curiosity and horror in the film. 

I posted three pictures of how the title of some, of the horror movies that I liked, looked like. 

Addition to storyboard 

We finished our story Storyboard! We are super excited to start filming and editing. I'm gonna list each shot and explain them to you guys. 

Number 14 is a low angle medium shot of the murderer putting the heart in the jar. The audience will be able to see what specific organ was picked from the victim. The organ will have something to do with the story of why each victim got killed. 

Number 15 is a close up of the murder's hand opening the fridge door. This is going to show how the murder preserves most of these organs. 

Number 16 is a close-up of the heart being up in the fridge. The camera will be on the inside for this shot. The audience will kinda be able to see the murders but he will be wearing a mask. 

Number 17 This shot is right after the fridge door is closed. The whole screen will go black and the title in red and white letters will come on screen. It will say Blood Date (crossed out). 

Number 18 Is going to be a "5 months before" scene of the girl in her kitchen getting lunch ready. We will try to show a sneak peek of what their life was like. 

Groups input 

Hey guys! So, today is my birthday! I’m super happy. So, today we meet up in groups and talked to other groups about our ideas and such. I had a really good time. We shared a lot of input with each other. We really like meeting with other people that way we can acquire knowledge on a lot of things. We basically talked about everything. 

Here are some things they suggested: 

If my group and I wanted to create the blood for the video that we should use chocolate syrup and dye it red. 

If we wanted to create the sound of the heart being ripped out, we should buy tomatoes and peppers and record the sounds of us eating them. 

They also suggested watching Dark Tourist. 

One of my peers read my post and suggested to go to a website called Grammarly. This website helps correct any errors in spelling, grammar, and more. 

Lighting details 

I decided to go on YouTube and search for lighting videos. The videos that i posted on this blog post have really informed me on how to use lighting on dark spaces and how manipulating lighting may help create a different type of feeling on the film. We don't have as good of resources that some of these video are able to provide but i think that by using some of the lamps that i have around the house i will be able to manipulate the lighting is the scenes that we film. The first video that is displayed showed me how to pull of good lighting on a low budget. Some of the things that i saw him use i have around my house, so that is good.  These videos have taught me that putting the light towards the wall or towards a poster board can have a good effect on the lighting of the room, so that is something that i will definitely be trying. This information is going to be very useful when we start filming in the garage. Hopefully now that we have these video we won't be running into lighting issues. 

Twitter Idea 

Hey guys, this weekend i was scrolling through twitter and saw a video of kids making lava lamps. I decided that the lava lamps really resembled the idea that i had for where the murderer would keep the body parts. I have a feeling that it is going to look great in the video. I like the sciency effect that is gives the water. I will be leaving you guys a video of how to make these lava lamps  from scratch.We will be keeping these body parts in mason jars. I also really like how they are going to look in the darkish lighting that we are going to have in the garage.  I will also be updating you guys as to what my group thinks of this idea. 

Additions to Storyboard 

Hey guys! We met up this week and added scenes to our storyboard. We decided as a group to change the story from a stalker person to him just being full on cannibalistic. We think going that route is going to help us come up with a film that is different from what is usually seen. I hope you guys enjoy the additions we have made to our storyboard. 

Number 10 This scene is going to be a close-up of the murderer grabbing the victim's jar. We plan on showing this so the audience can see how he had it planned out. The other jars next to it will too have names of different people, this will show that he keep his victims parts a way to remember them. 

Number 11 This scene involves a medium shot of the murderer looking diagonally upwards. This scene will help us transition to a picture of the victim and of his other victims. 

Number 12 This scene shows a close-up of the victim's picture and of it being grabbed. This shot was created to get the audience more involved in the murderer's world. By doing this shot the audience will get a feeling as if they are closer to the murderer, since they are able to see things through his eyes. 

Number 13 This is a close-up of the victim's picture and it being crossed out. This shows how he has "gotten the job done". This also shows that the murderer is emotionless, he is able to do that to a person and makes it look like its some regular task that he has. 

Number 14 We didn't have time to finish drawing this one but we will be doing a low angle medium shot of the murderer putting the heart in the jar. This will show what type of body part the murderer decided to get from his victim. 

Schedule 

Hey Guys! I hope you guys are having a really nice week. I just took my first SAT test today. I think it went well and lets just hope it did. I met up with my group on Tuesday and we started talking about the things we need do for our film. We decided that we needed to research more things about human cannibalism, that way we can portrait more of their traits in our film. We also need to figure out the lighting situation, so i will be researching that too. Specially since we are going to be filming in a garage and we need the lighting to be able to see our character really well but still make the background of the character dark. Another thing we want to research is how to make the water were the organs are going to be on gooe. I will be post the research soon and another picture of the scenes we have added to our story board. I truly don't understand how people can eat human parts.. I get pale just by seeing human blood. Yikes..

Upcoming!

This upcoming week my group and I are going to try finishing up the storyboard. As soon as we get that done i will post a picture of the new one and the changes we made to it.  We also want to start getting all the materials we need for the film that way we can start filming. I will try to keep you guys updated as much as i can during each process. I want to start researching ways that we can film in dim lighting and still get all the characters movements seen clearly. I want to find some type of coloring to make the water look cool and scientific where we are keeping the fake human parts in. Another section of the film we should start looking at is the music that it going to be played during this scene. I hope to find a song that goes with the film by providing an edgy and suspensive vibe.

Feedback!

We had a group meeting this week. In this group meeting i got to meet with my other classmates and discuss what we think of eachothers progress. I shared with them the ideas that we had for the storyboard and they also looked at my blog posts. My classmates told me that they really liked how informative my blog postings were but that i should start spacing out the writing a bit more. I think they are right so I’m gonna start spacing out my writing, which in reality makes it a nicer reading experience. I also decided to change the background of my blog site.

One of my classmates told me that for Horror films the key thing is to build suspense. She also gave me some cool ideas like putting some bloody towels covering the body. She told me to look at scream, which is a really well establish horror clip. They told me that it could be hard to make it look like the guy is pulling out the heart and that we should try to go a different route like having it out already. They thought that it would be cool if we did a pan movement through the jar and emphasize on the heart by zooming into it. I plan on sharing this feedback with my group and making some changes to the storyboard. Im gonna leave you guys a link to Scream (1996) in case you can't open the video. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3lSvJ5RXKA

Storyboard Time!

Hey guys! So my group and I started to work on our story board. I’m gonna leave you guys with a picture of the clips that we have thought about. I really hope you guys like. We are trying to putting in shots that are usually seen in a horror film. As you can see under each clip there is a description of what types of shots are being used and what filming process. There will be a lot of panning movements. We are planning on showing the names of the producers were it says “name”. 

So for number 1 we want to show the title of the movie at the door. We thought about it appearing in bold with blood dripping off it. 

Number 2 is going to be him turning on the light and the name of one of the producers appearing were it was “name”. This shot is going to be displayed on mid shot which means only showing half of his body. He will also be wearing a black hoodie. 

Number 3 is going to be a close-up of his feet he is going to be walking into the garage. As he steps into the garage we were thinking on putting the title on the floor and the feet crushing it. 

Number 4 is a long shot of the dead body that way the audience can get an idea of what is occuring in the garage. They are gonna see a dead women there with blood all over her and the floor. 

Number 5 this is a continuation of number 4, the guy  will walk into the long shot frame. 

Number 6 in a medium shot of the murder placing his hand in the body. 

Number 7 will be shown in a low angle and its going to be a close-up of the heart being held. This is metaphoric for the way she broke his heart. 

Number 8 He will proceed to a table in the garage. This shot is gonna be an over the shoulder shot of him placing the heart in a jar. 

Number 9 will show a panning movement across the table. There will be different jar with different type of body parts and the heart will be in the middle of all these jars. 

We plan on getting the fake heart and body part from Amazon. We are really trying to get body parts that look realistic. We plan on getting the fake blood from Party city. We struggled a little with where to film the scenes because my friends in the group don’t have a fridge in their garage but i do. So we are going to do the fridge part in my garage and do the scenes of the girl and the jars and table in another garage, because i don’t really have space in my to put a table and the girl laying down. We also have to find a way to put some dim lighting so it can get a creepy/scary vibe but have to still be able to show the characters movement really well. 

Its happening! We started!

Hey Guys! So this week was the first week that i meet up with my group. We decided on basing our film opening on a Horror genre. I’m so thankful that on my last post I decided to do a lot of research on what it takes to make a horror film. We decided to base our ideas on three really good shows and film such as You, Quantico, and The purge. You is a netflix original it has been getting great ratings since its release. The first day i started to watch it, i couldn’t stop, I really recommend it. You has a great mix of stereotypes. It involved a guy who meets a girl and starts to stalk her every move. I won’t make any other comments because I don’t want to ruin it for you. We plan on bringing quantico into the equation because of the way the story is displayed on most of its episodes. What we loved about the purge were the mask and the edgy effect it has on its watchers. How we plan on mixing these three authentic shows and films you may ask? Well we hope on creating a film opening that shows this creepy stalker and how he kills a girl that he liked. We want to tell the story in a sequence that is similar to the one of quantico. Such as starting from the last scene of the movie. We want to show the killer in the garage and have some cool type of story play out. I will keep you guys updated as to what happens next!

I'll gonna leave you guys some pictures of the two shows and the film. You can find Quantico and You on Netflix. The Purge is on Amazon prime.