Film Influences

 These are the main films that have influenced us and given us the ideas that we have. All these films are horror films and are all about possession/psychological damage and monsters/murder. We have decided to create this type of film because personally we enjoy watching them ourselves and find them really interesting.
     Each film has generally the same sort of story but they tell them differently which we found really interesting.

Insidious

We love Insidious because we love the idea of a young boy being lost in his own dreams and having to find his way back but being trapped by "the darkness". We also love the idea of the young boy being lost because of the house rather than ghosts that live in the house. Finally, we also really liked the fact that the young boy had to be rescued by his father and that what he is going through is genetic.

The Conjuring 

The Conjuring is also one of our favourite horror films. We love the location because we are planning to use a big, old house in our trailer and so we found it inspired us. We also love how just one character in the movie gets possessed by what used to live in the house and we really want to aim to do that with our character in our trailer as well because we think it's really different and not typical.

Mama

We also found Mama a really different film to watch. We loved the idea of 2 little girls being lost and abandoned and then being raised by this monster they called 'Mama'. We found the story line extremely interesting because it wasn't very stereotypical or common which is why we enjoyed it so much. We also loved that the main characters were 2 young girls because it was different and we got to watch how they had become after their upbringing by a 'monster'.

Sinister

Sinister was an incredibly scary movie. We found the plot very odd and interesting as we've never seen anything like that before. We also loved the idea of the main family moving into a house where people were murdered because it made it incredibly gripping to watch because as the audience, we already knew what had occurred there. Finally, we love the use of video tapes in this film. We thought it was extremely different and old-fashioned. The fact that the killer had video recorded the deaths of each families and named the tapes family orientated names like 'Summer BBQ' and 'Family Swim' made the film very disturbing but at the same time, brilliant.

The Possession 

The final film that influenced us is The Possession. We related the most to this film as the main character is a young girl that is taken over by this 'thing' and that is what we're aiming for as well. The young girl became obsessed and mesmerized by this box that she purchased from a yard sale and it slowly takes over her mind and her body until she becomes a completely different person. We have the same idea as this but instead of a box, our main character becomes attracted to this old, abandoned house as it does exactly the same thing.
   
   
   

Title: Take Your Soul Influences

For title influences we first watched 'The Possession' trailer. We saw that the title font used for this was quite simple, plain and bold. Also the word 'Possession' was made bold and so looked significant which we liked. We also liked the contrast of black and white, black for the background with the title in various languages and then white for the title which makes it stand out more and become more apparent.

The second trailer we looked at was 'The Exorcist', just liked 'The Possession' this trailer made one word look more significant than the other. By using the colour red for the word 'The' shows us that it represents blood and so emphasises the Horror featured in the film. Also by using white on the word 'Exorcist' it shows the audience straight away that the film is based on an exorcist and so gives away the plot of the story effortlessly. The font used in this trailer is bold and simple which me and Faye saw was common for Horror films. We liked the font used in this trailer as it is bold and is in some ways eye catching as it is stands out as the background is quite dark.

The third trailer we looked at was 'Insidious', this title had the most simple font and background out of all the trailers we looked at. By doing this it gets the audience to focus just on the name and not anything else. It also doesn't give anything away unlike on the 'The Exorcist' trailer it had the main character in the background which makes the audience look at the character instead of the title. We liked the font used as each letter has a part of it faded out which gave an old creepy effect. Again on this trailer the title is quite simple but with small effects that give off a creepy old look shows which genre the film is.

The fourth trailer we looked at was 'Sinister'. We liked the background of this title because it's quite simple, but at the same time it looks quite scary and relates to the genre of the film. We also like how the corners of the background are darkened to add to the effect. We think the font is different but simple and we wanted to use a font like this for our title. Finally, we like the way the letters are slightly blurred and smudged at the bottom. It just gives the title a bit more of a variety and makes it look more interesting and relates to the idea of 'Sinister.

The fifth and final trailer we looked at was 'The Grudge'. We really liked the font and thought it was really different and unusual and didn't really look like it would be a horror film. However, the background of the title makes up for this. Again, there is a contrast between the black background and white font. The film is about 'demons' and 'ghosts' and so the smokey effect in the background gives a feel to this and allows the audience to get a idea of what the plot of the film is before it has even started.

Story Board

Practice Story Board

We decided that it was a good idea to practice drawing our story board before filming it. This meant that when we filmed our actual story board it made the process a lot quicker and there were no mistakes. Below are our pictures of our practice story board that we followed when filming our actual story board.

Below is our completed story board. We decided to make it into a video and do a voiceover so that we were able to go in depth of what each shot was and what was happening.

Trailer Ideas

These are a few idea's that we've put together to help us create our trailer. We think these will be useful when putting our trailer idea's together.

Production Logo: Effects

These are the different effects we used when making our production logo.

We decided to add the 'Bad Film' effect because we liked the way that it flickered and we thought it gave an old fashioned and spooky effect to the font and it looked really different and interesting. It also gives a scratching effect to the font which we thought looked like someone was actually writing it themselves which is the effect we wanted. It also changes the colour of the font and makes it darker and lighter occasionally which creates mystery and wonder.



We added this effect on top of 'Bad Film' as we thought it represented our production logo name, Tremor Films, very well. Tremor is when you are shaken by something and by adding 'Earthquake' it made the font look as if it's shaking from a fright. As we used the colour red for the font it helped to emphasize the fear/tremor from humans as the colour represented blood, specifically human blood. Combining with the 'Bad Film' effect made the production logo look more spooky and so fit into the genre 'horror' well.











We decided to use 'Bad TV' at the end of the production logo because it looked really good with our already chosen effects. All the other effects made or font on our production logo look like the camera was breaking, and so we decided to use 'Bad TV' at the end of our font to make it appear like the camera had broken and then the font disappears right at the end. We really thought this was effective and makes it obvious to the audience what genre our trailer is.

Here is a print screen of all the effects that we added to our production logo. We had to go through each letter of 'Tremor Films' and ensure that each letter had the exact same effect on it and that it entered and finished at exactly the same time. It took us around 2-3 hours to do this to the best of our ability.

Production Logo: Font

When making our production logo, we had to decide which font we think suited best for our genre, font is a key aspect when making a production logo as it contributes to making your genre able to be identified.

The first font we look at was called ‘Face Your Fears’, his was our favourite one as we liked that it made it look as if it had roughly been drawn on with paint. We thought by making this red it would look like a blood and so give off the effect that someone has written our production logo in blood. We thought that this font would look quite gruesome once it was the colour red and was quite simple and not over the top. We thought this suited out genre perfectly and so decided to use this one for our production logo.

The second font we looked at was called ‘Oh No’ this had similar features to the first one. This font also looked like it had been drawn on with paint but had splatters of paint which we thought would be a good effect to have as it would look like blood. Unlike the first one this was drawn rougher which we liked the look of and so we were stuck between these two as they were similar but ad small differences.

The last font we looked at was called ‘Night Bird’ this was also had similar features to the first and second font. This font was bolder and all letters were in capitals. We liked the style of this as when this font is changed to the colour red it would look like it had been written in blood, just like the first two fonts, and so we liked this font as this was the style we were looking for. We decided not to pick this font as we thought it was too bold. 

The third font we looked at was ‘Something Strange’. We liked the dripping effect it had under words as we wanted our font to look like blood. By having the dripping effect underneath once the font was red it would look like blood dripping. We liked the look of this font but then realized it was similar to our other production logo we made last time and we wanted to do something different also we thought that this was too neat and didn’t look like it had been spontaneously drawn, which is the effect we wanted.

25 Word Pitch

Ella, a 16 year old girl. An old, abandoned house with unknowing secrets just down the road from her own. What could possibly go wrong?