Institution research

Paramount Pictures 
Paramount pictures has been around for more than 100 years. It started off in 1912 and is the operating and only major studio remaining in Hollywood. They won their very first Academy Award for best pictures in 1927. They have worked with Directors such as Cecil B, D.W Griffith and Alfred Hitchcock. They have also worked with well known stars such as Elvis Presley, Bob Hope and the Marx Brothers. They worked with these people in there earlier years. In most recent times some of the well known actors/actresses they have worked with include; Steven Spielberg, Tom Cruise and Angelina Jolie. They have produced many films but one that has stuck out is Titanic. It was the highest grossing blockbuster of all time (1997). Some other films that they have produced are; Forrest Gump, Grease, Top gun, Indiana Jones and many more.

Lionsgate
Lionsgate is an American film production/distribution studio. It is the largest and most successful mini - major film studio in North America. It was formed in the summer of 1997 by Frank Giustra. Its main focuses are foreign and independent films and has created films series such as The Twilight Saga, The Hunger Games and The Divergent series. Its first major box office success was American Psycho in 2000. The Hunger Games grossed $68.3 million when it premiered at the U.S box office on March 23, 2012. The Hunger Games then grossed to a massive $152.5 million , making it Lionsgate's highest grossing film in three days. Lionsgate films are mainly based on horror. Lionsgate occasionally co produce films with other major studios. They teamed up with Miramax films in 2004 and produced Dirty Dancing.

Blumhouse Productions
Blumhouse Productions are also another production company that focuses in horror. They have Produced films such as Paranormal Activity, Insidious and The Purge. It is an American film and television company founded by Jason Blum. Blumhouse has a first - look deal with Universal pictures. Blumhouse produced the paranormal sequels. Insidious grossed over $97 million worldwide on a budget of $1.5 million. It also produced Sinister which grossed $77 million worldwide from a budget of $3 million. Blumhouse has worked with directors such as James wan, Mike Flanagan and James DeMonaco.

Initial ideas

This is our mind map of our initial ideas. This gives you a ruff idea of what the film will be about. We want to included horror movie cliches but whilst doing that change it up a bit with the characters that we will include. For example you do not normally see a typical gay best friend in a horror movie and this is what we wish to include.

Production titles

    

These are the production titles we created ourselves. We used adobe to create this, it was quite straight forward. All we had to was find an image and think of a name to call the production titles. I then found an effect to make it look more professional. This was quite a straight forward task and a fun one as well. A strength of our production titles is that they look professional and we were able to use certain effects to make it look more interesting. A weakness of our production titles wouldn't exactly be about the final product but about the process in making it. I found it difficult to find a picture and to also think of a name for it.

Mood board

This is our mood board. We created this to show most of the key ideas we have and that we will most probably be including in our film.

Audience profiling

This is the audience profile for a similar film to ours aimed at the same international audience and age range that we would be aiming at.  When this film, the Exorcism of Emily Rose, was released it's interesting to see who it was popular with.  The main age group that went to see this film is aged between 15-24. This is good to know because it will help us choose what age rating to class our film as. We are also able to see from this picture that it appeals to a wide audience, this is because 15-16 year old's are able to go to the pub for dates so they choose the cinema instead and they find horror films that appeal to both genders so they both enjoy it. This will help us with our film as we will get an idea of what we need to include to attracted both genders.

A 15 rated film means only people 15 and over are able to watch the film nobody under the age should be watching it. In a 15 rated film you are allowed to show drugs being taken but you must not promote or encourage the use of drug misuse. this means it should not so how easily they got hold of the drugs and highly dangerous substances. Dangerous behaviour is accepted just as long as it is in context, it should not show in great detail people being hung, suicide and self harming. Weapons are allowed to be shown but as i said earlier depends on the context, setting and realism. Strong language is allowed to be used and very strong language is as well but it depends on the manner it is being used in. Horror films are allowed to use nudity as long as it is not shown in great detail, but they do not usually include it as it puts the audience off the film when they are watching it. They are allowed to include strong threat and horror, this is always included in all the horror films i have watched as it creates a sense of tension. Horror films are allowed to use strong violence but should not have extended injures that are sustained, they are also not allowed to include strong gory images. 

Preliminary task

Strengths
A strength of our video is how smoothly it runs and how the cuts between each scene are that noticeable, especially at the start. Another strength of our film is that we included all three shot types that were required (match action, shot reverse shot and rule of thirds) this definitely made our video look very good and professional.

Weakness
A weakness of our video is that we should have focused on staying in the same position if we was siting down etc. This would have then made the video look more effective as it will look like it was taken in one shot which would have distracted the audience from noticing the cut between the two.

We created this video by using adobe. This is very good software to use when you are creating a video as there are so many things you can use on there to improve and make your video look more effective and professional. The thing that was quite hard was matching up each different shot. this was where was was trying to achieve match action by having the same activity by just looking at it from a different camera angle. This was quite complicated but we managed to do it in the end. I am very pleased with the way our video turned out. At the start of the video and at the end we put and effect in called fade to black, this just gives the video a more finished look rather than just leaving to end with someones face or body etc.

"What are you doing here?"

A strength of our film is it includes different shot types, which shows our understanding of each one, it also makes it interesting as there is not one shot that is same.

A weakness of out film is we filmed two of the shots on the wrong side, this may confuse the audience as they character is on the wrong side from where they should be looking, but we fixed this issue when we were editing it.

We made this film in adobe. We found that inputting the clips and cutting them was rather easy. This was straight forward as all you had to do was drag the clip that you wanted to use down the video bar. The difficulties that we faced was trying to flip the characters round so that they were on the correct side. In the end we managed to find an effect that flipped the character round to what ever angle you wanted, after we found it and used it a few times we got the hang of it. Another thing that was quite challenging was trying to zoom into the face, this was very hard as there were no indications on how to do it or where we could find the tool. Overall i would say we got the gist of things in the end but will need a bit more practise using this piece of software in the future.