Finally, our horror film opening sequence... 'Witheld'.

As a small British film, we have decided as a group to aim our film at the British  population. Following this we thought it would be relevant for our film to be distributed by a British Label, British Filming Institution (BFI), therefore we decided to find a horror genre specific Company. Hammer Films seemed a perfect choice as they have a good history of horror films including Dracula, The Curse of Frankenstein and The Mummy. Even more recently they've had hits with The Resident, Wake Wood and The Woman in Black which which is a film that has similar conventions to our film 'witheld' for example the suspense that we tried to build as well as isolation.

Questions & answers about the process

Newspaper creation for opening shot

Here are a couple of newspapers created by Lela that we used for the opening sequence of 'Witheld'. By using tea we splashed onto a table with these and other created newspapers we created a great shot for our opening sequence as it gives the effect of the newspapers looking very old and authentic. Also, we dripped red food colouring on the newspapers to give the impression of it being blood fitting in with the horror genre as a code and convention.

Our production logo and Witheld Presentation

 

Our production logo, this was created by josh and it ties in well with our name as the picture is of a noose, and our production company are called Noose productions. Furthermore, we decided to use a noose as it is a piece of iconography that is included in our film as it is a part of the storyline and is a piece of icongraphy that is typical of a horror genre film.



              

This is our Witheld presentation, created by Lela and Chloe and presented by me and Josh.

These are the slides we used in our film presentation. This slideshow was really well created by Lela and Chloe and then presented by me and Josh. We tried to cover all aspects of the film looking at the codes and conventions and ending with asking the class and teacher if they had any questions. I will be uploading the video to our presentation soon.

This is our script for our film, it will appear at the start of the film at the time of the equilibrium to set the plot for the film.