DW #8345 Evaluation

 

Title Designs

For our movie opening I decided to create titles using Adobe After Effects at home. I created two possible title ideas using two different fonts. One was much more simple than the other and after discussion with the other members of my group I decided to use the simpler one in our final piece. Below are the two title designs I created:

 

 

The above title sequence is the one we chose to use in our final piece. We believe it suited the sub-genre of our piece more appropriately and felt as though using a more simple, and bare title sequence looked of a more professional quality.

 

 

 

The above video is the other title sequence I created. After discussion with my group, teachers, and other members of the class. We decided not to use this one as it appeared to be more appropriate for a horror television programme that is more light-hearted than our final piece. Therefore, we did not believe it suited the correct codes and conventions for our sub-genre and horror opening.

Call Sheet and Risk Assessment

This are our call sheet and risk assessment for our shoot at Will's house.
 

Credited Roles

We chose Vertigo Films as our production label due the fact that they are an independent British film company. They suit our film due to producing films on a very low budget. They have a limited amount of resources and usually will use real locations. Because of this we felt that they would be the type of studio that would fund a film like ours. Moreover, we have only a few actors playing within our piece along with only a few workers behind the camera. Thus Vertigo Films suit us due to their use of a skeleton crew.

Oren Peli was chosen due to his directional role within the first Paranormal Activity film and Area 51. Within these films we witness that handi-cam shots are quite prominent throughout. Thus due to shooting in a similar style, we believe that Oren Peli would be the type of director who could take on that very role within our production.  Even though in the past he has predominantly been a producer, he is very suited to take on the role as the director in our film. He isn't very highly credited or well recognized as a top director within the film world, thus feel he would accept the role as director for a low budget, independent movie such as ours.

Allan Niblo was chosen as our producer for multiple reasons. Firstly he was the co-founder of Vertigo Films so would already be involved with the production team. He has experience of both directing and producing in the past but feel he would be best suited to the role of producer due to only directing once before. This is in contrast to the 8 films he has produced. Moreover, he has also took the role of the executive producer in four films previously. Due to his great involvement and experience within Vertigo Films, producing successful films such as Monsters, we feel as a group that he fits the role of producer greatly.

 

The executive producer we have chosen to use in our production is Jason Blum. Even though he is a very successful as a producer in his own right, having major success with Insidious, Paranormal Activity and Sinister, we gave him the role of executive producer due to his limited experience with Vertigo Films. He has become a very respected producer in recent years due to Blumhouse Productions which specialises in producing horror films. Moreover, he worked as an executive

producer for Warner Bros. thus we believe he has the credentials to be a very successful executive producer for our film.

 

Bear McCreary will be the composer for our soundtrack. He is reasonably well established and composed popular soundtracks such as The Walking Dead. As a group we were drawn to the opening of this series and really wanted to emulate something along the same lines, hence the use of a montage within our opening sequence. Thus we felt that someone like Bear McCreary who has already been involved with an opening we would like to emulate, would be best suited to take on the role as composer for our film.