Filming Schedule

Production Company Logo

 

This is the logo of the production company we have created. The colours we used for our logo is red and black, to show danger . The use of these colours is interesting as black is a very dull and dark colour, whereas red is a bright colour. Also these are colours a clown would wear. The name sadistic studios is to emphasise the fact its to do with horror, as sadistic means getting pleasure from inflicting pain, suffering, or humiliation on others.

Our Font For Our Title Sequence

This titles is the font we have chosen to use for our opening.

We have chosen this font because it looks like a circus kind of font and its unusual. We also put it in red as it represents blood and gives a mysterious feel for the audience.

Font Analysis

We have been looking at different fonts, for ideas for the title for our opening. These fonts are a very unusual shape. The lettering goes from fat to thin on both and its very odd as normal text is normally neat and inproportion. I analysed different types of fonts I thought would be suitable to use in a horror film, and from this research I have started to produce a film title for our opening scene. These fonts i chose look creepy and distorted and that's what we were looking for for our opening titles, something scary and eye catching. We could have added sound effects to make it sound like a child was writing it on a chalkboard. We didnt end up choosing any of these fonts as we found a font that suited our movie a lot better.

Casting photos

Location Shots

Script For Our Title Opening

“Dead Funny Part i & ii” By Joe Gamble, Jemma Johnson And Kayleigh Rudland       FAde In: EXT. night scene 1 TRUNCO THE CLOWN approaches the house, walking down road, whilst the young woman is washing up. Until she receives a phone call from Trunco the Clown.   EXT. street - night scene 1 Trunco the Clown’s feet are walking at a fast pace through puddles on the pavement with a distinct walk. (5 steps) EXT. House - night scene 1 THE YOUNG WOMAN is washing up in the sink casually with no urgency or fright. EXT. street - night scene 1 Trunco the Clown’s feet are walking at a fast pace through puddles on the pavement with a distinct walk. (4 steps) EXT. House - night scene 1 The camera has zoomed out to the woman washing up and putting away dishes, casually and with no knowing of the clown. EXT. street - night scene 1 Trunco the Clown’s feet are walking at a fast pace through puddles on the pavement with a distinct walk. (3 steps) EXT. House - night scene 1 The young woman is still washing dishes casually, looking at herself in the window and possibly whistling or singing/humming. EXT. street - night scene 1 Trunco the Clown’s feet are walking at a fast pace through puddles on the pavement with a distinct walk. (2 steps) EXT. House - night scene 1 The young woman is putting dishes in the drawer. EXT. street - night scene 1 Trunco The Clown’s feet are walking at a fast pace through puddles on the pavement with a distinct walk. (1 steps) EXT. House - night scene 1 The woman’s mobile phone starts ringing.   scene 2    INT. THe womans house. night.           THE CLOWN rings THE WOMAN and THE WOMAN puts the phone down. The radio then turns on and is playing an old song which is saying ‘send in the clowns’. THE WOMAN is getting more and more on edge, then the doorbell rings. Voice- THE clown (Over the phone)           Do you want a balloon?   THE WOMAN Umm..no?   Voice- THE clown *chuckles* I know you want a balloon.   the woman No, I do not want a balloon. Leave me alone.           (puts down the phone)   EXT. House - night scene 4 The radio begins to falter and turns to the song ‘Send in the Clowns’. The woman tries to fix the radio, bending down struggling. The clown appears at the window suddenly, yet the woman doesn’t see.   SCENE 5   INT. THE WOMANS HOUSE. NIGHT. THE CLOWN rings the doorbell and THE WOMAN opens it, but when she looks no one is there. She then goes out of the door to look around to see if she can see anyone. THE WOMAN (opens door, looks around to see who knocked) THE WOMEN (goes outside to see if she can see anyone) EXT. OUTSIDE OF THE HOUSE. NIGHT. After doing this she sees a red balloon that THE CLOWN has left outside (but she doesn’t know who it was left by). THE WOMAN goes over to get the balloon, after she has got it the balloon then pops, and it is filled with blood, after the balloon has popped THE CLOWN then pops up suddenly behind THE WOMAN, without her realizing. THE WOMAN (picks up balloon, looks mysteriously at it)(the balloon pops) The Woman (screams) VOICE- CLOWN (laughs)   FAde Out: The End

Props

These are two of the main props we used...

We used a red balloon for the clown to hold. This was a vital prop in our opening titles as it is used throughout the titles. We used a red balloon oposed to another colour as red represents danger as its the colour of blood blood. Also a balloon is normally associated with partys, happy events and children, completly opposite to what its used for in our opening titles for horror. We was going to put blood in the balloon so when the clown popped the balloon the blood went all over the woman, however we found that this would be to difficult to do so instead we used it without the blood and it looked just as good.

Another of one our main props was a knife. Knives are perceived as a weapon and danger so we used this because of that. However we also used it as a normal household object by having the woman washing up with it, but having a creepy edge to it when she pours the red fairy liquid onto it.

Costumes

This is the clown costume we used in our filming. We chose this as the colours are mainly bright, like an ordinary funny clown. However there is also dark parts of the costume, like the black colar round his neck, this gives the costume a mix of the 'horror clown' and the everyday 'normal clown'. Also the mask of the clown is very scary and brings across our theme of horror.

Analysis of Props

I have researched the props used in Scream as this film is related to our horror opening titles, as there is going to be a 'mysterious phone caller'.

Here i have collected various different pictures of props used in the film 'Scream'.

A phone was used in scream because a 'mysterious caller' kept ringing, which soon turned out to be the murderer.

A knife was also in the scene.

A mobile phone was also being used.

I also researched props from the film 'Dead Silence' as this film has a clown in it. This will give me and my group ideas for our opening titles as we are including a clown in it.

There is a radio shown towards the beginning of this film, this links in well with our idea for our opening titles as we are going to be including a radio.

They used various different dolls in there film, this is considered quite unnatural and scary as dolls are normally associated with children which is ment to be bright and cheerful. However in this film the dolls are very dull and eerie.

Storyboard for our Titles Opening

Synopsis of My Idea

 Our Idea

Our horror film opening includes a terrifying clown and a ordinary woman. We named our film 'Dead Funny' because its a play on words as 'dead' is a very negative word and 'funny' is a very positive word, meaning they're completely opposite. This should intrigue the audience and hopefully capture their imagination.

Our story begins with a regular housewife cleaning the dishes, in her kitchen.  Her home is just a normal house on a regular street. Nothing out of the ordinary you might think, but her world is about to change! As the camera films the house wife the camera will switch to the clown walking down that regular street. At first his footsteps will be slow and steady. The camera will capture the speed of his movements. 

Next the camera will return to the kitchen scene, where our innocent housewife will receive a chilling call from our evil clown. He will ask if she likes balloons! an innocent question with deadly intent.  Our housewife will ask the regular questions, like who is this? What do you mean? She will hang up but now a niggling seed has been planted in her head. 

The camera returns back to our clown. His footsteps are now picking up pace, he is moving with more purpose, adding to the building tension. A heartbeat can be heard and is speeding up ensuring the audience will be kept in suspense. 

Back in the kitchen the housewife hears the doorbell ring. Already slightly spooked by her phone call she walks slowly to the front door and peers thought the peep hole. Seeing nothing, she slowly unlocks the door and peeps out.  There on the doorstep is a balloon. Stepping out she gently picks up the balloon to examine further. The heartbeat that has been gradually beating faster  and louder suddenly stops when the balloon explodes, saturating the housewife in blood.


Selling points of our film

• Clowns have recently been featuring in the news a lot, as there has been a lot of clown spottings in many different citys and towns, so we thought that would be a good idea to use a clown in our opening because people would be more on edge watching a film about a clown.
• We are going to make the film as scary as possible if not people will not want to watch it as its just like any other horror and we need to make it different and new.
• Many people enjoy watching gory horror films that have a twist and this is what our horror film includes.

Our Prezi for our Pitch

This is the prezi we used in our pitch.
We recorded our pitch, and this is our video of us presenting it...