Post-production

The past previous times in which we had dedicated to editing, the Macs have either not been working or were freezing too much to be able to edit.
    Although, we have been able to look at and decide on a font which will be used for the titles. We looked on the website dafont in order to find our font as there is a wide variety of many different fonts.
 
The font we decided on is called 'Nervous' we chose this as we felt that it would disorientate the audience and convey that the film is a horror. We also decided that we would make the font red, as the colour has connotations of blood and danger, which could foreshadow what will happen in the film.

This is the font that we decided on, we liked how it had a 'shaking' effect.





Night bird and Feast of Flesh were two other of our possible font choices, but after putting all three fonts together, we decided that these two look like they would fit a slasher film rater than a psychological horror. We felt that the two would not fit our titles and instead may add a comedic element to it.

Working Title films

Working Title

Post-production

We are still experiencing technical difficulties with Final Cut Pro, it is not allowing us to download the clips that we need for the sequence, also the Mac's keep freezing, leaving us unable to continue with the work. However, during the time when the Mac's are not working, we have realised that, although our storyboards were helpful in filming, for editing, we feel that some clips need to be rearranged or changed.

We have also chosen a font called nervous and we have used the colour red to connote blood, danger and fire.

Post production

We are still in the process of editing our sequence together but there are currently technical issues with final cut pro and we are also unable to convert our clips.
Although we have decided that our storyboard did not convey the eerie atmosphere that we wanted, so we are using it as a basic guideline and are editing our clip together to how we feel would be the most effective.

Post-production

We are currently starting to edit our title sequence and at this stage we are also deciding on what music to use throughout the majority of the titles. We have listened to many different typical horror tracks and have pick out four that are possibilities. Also, as our film is based in an orphange, we have decided to use children singing a nursery rhyme, This was tricky to decide on one as many horror films have previously used nursery rhymes.

These are the possible choices, and at this point, each member of the group prefer the first track as we feel it creates the most tension and creates an eerie atmosphere.

https://audionetwork.lgfl.org.uk/production-music/blue-mist_37301.aspx 

https://audionetwork.lgfl.org.uk/production-music/ghostly-child_29571.aspx 

https://audionetwork.lgfl.org.uk/production-music/shadows_35205.aspx 

https://audionetwork.lgfl.org.uk/production-music/barren_32640.aspx 

Day of Shooting for 'ABANDONED'

As planned, set out to film on the 30th December, in a muddy and cold woods.
Due to the group being familiar with the woods we were able to have a rough idea in the area in which we would shoot the river scenes. We knew that, depending on the weather, there may have been little-or no water to film but luckily, it had rained several days before we were due to shoot and therefore there was a substantial amount of water. Although we thought that there would be this water, we still brought along several bottles of water in case it needed enhancing, thankfully we didn't need to do this and instead we used the water to clean our muddy shoes after the day's filming.
    We managed to roughly follow our storyboard and film many different shots of the river, we filmed more shots than we knew we needed as we wanted to prevent the chance of needing to re-shoot, this therefore would leave us enough time to edit.

After filming in the woods, we headed back to our second location on nightfall, to film the burning of the doll's house and photo's. We encountered problems with the filming of this as it was windy outside and the doll's house refused to light but after a sprinkling of white spirit, the house lit and gave us the result we wanted.

Overall, it was a successful day of filming.

Production Plan for Abandoned

Title Credits Research

Order of the credits

•Production Company presents

•"Title"

•Lead Cast

•Supporting Cast

•Casting Director

•Music Composer

•Costume Designer

•Associate Producers

•Editors

•Production Designer

•Director of Photography

•Producer

•Writers

•Director

We have decided to only use the ones in bold, as we feel it would not be right to use all of them due to the length of our title sequence.
We also think that we may use the title at the end of the sequence as this is not uncommon. Hammer films is our chosen production company as they mainly create horror films, therefore this company would be most suited.

Hammer Films

Building the dolls house

Building the dolls house took us around Five lessons to complete, however this was okay as we had anticipated that it would take a while to complete. We wanted to make sure that the dolls house would be complete by the time we broke up for the December half term as this was when we decided we wanted to shoot for our title sequence.

We have currently found a few audio tracks that we like and are currently debating what one would fit best with our title sequence, so we will wait until we have shot and edited footage before we think of the music any further.
We are also looking at font's to use, and so far we have found none but we have decided to have the font red as red is a typical colour in horror.