Few ideas of the credits

Monologue

We had some spare time in our clip so we needed to come up with idea's how to fill that extra space in, so we came up with the idea of Esme Collins doing a monologue at the beginning, basically speaking about the experience of her death. 

Monologue-

'I was slipping away, my life was giving up on me. Well it’s what I felt like...but I wasn’t afraid. I remembered there was somewhere I was supposed to be. There was something I was supposed to do but then...it happen. I was between heaven and earth. They say your life flashes before your eyes. The days were unchanging and everything seemed so normal. Every night I dreamt the same dream, wishing to come home and be happy again. All I could hear was the screams, no one heard me. I could have been saved. I could hear them calling, the voices of the dead, I wanted to follow the sound to find a way out of this torture and every time they'd lead me back to the mirror, like something inside it was wanting me.I was afraid. If I went back there, there would be no dreams. No body notices when we leave. My name is Esme Collins. I was 23 years old when my life was taken away from me on December the 7th. One moment I could see my reflection... the next I saw nothing.'

The limitations of our horror opening in relation to technology available, practicality, what we can and can’t expect of our actors.

Ghost- The most important part in our opening that the ghost plays is when she screams at the end. Although our actor will be able to do the scream, she will not be able to get a distorted look like you see in most horror films. Also ghosts look very gaunt, pale however dirty and usually have rags for clothing depending on the death of the ghost. With ours we will use makeup to give a more pale and dirty look, but again likewise she won't be able to get the full ghostly appearance. With clothing actor will be wearing a white/grey top but to give it a more dramatic look we would like to add to it and change it, perhaps some stitching come undone and also make it more dirty so that it matches the skin.

Simon (Male detective)- For the scene where this actor is in the expectations we can meet because the main role is to engage in a conversation with Rosemary. However at the end we see Simon walk off and get in his car. We would like him to be able to drive off but due to his age this cannot be done, so we decided for someone to be sat in the car waiting for him so that he walks to his 'taxi'/'lift' then we will see Simon sit in the back.

Rosemary- For the role that this actor plays all they have to do is again engage in a conversation with Simon; the other detective. So there is nothing that this actor cannot do.

All the technology we need is available. The technology we will be using is a camera/video camera and a tripod. Also the facilities we need is available too. We did want to use a normal house room for the ghost scene but due to the times that the actor could do we decided to go with a room in school. For the scene that Rosemary and Simon talk we will be filming it on the promenade with them both stood near the prom wall so in the background you'll be able to see the sea. It would make the scene better if we went to film this scene when the tide was hide so the crashing of the waves would make it more tense but due to the times people could film we have to do it when they can.
For all of the characters we can't expect them to be 5* actors due to them not doing anything like this before, however because of 3 years of doing acting in secondary school they have an idea of what will be expected. We do have a script for them to follow but due to not learning them they could be some mistakes, but we will just keep doing re takes until the lines are correct.

Audience feedback on some fonts (Done by partner Tai)

FeedbackThe feedback given was mostly positive with 6 out of 7 people choosing this font over the others. This is very good feedback as I now know that this font has a very good possibility of being chosen. However, not all feed back was good.

Criticism
One particular person sent back which they thought were the best out of the fonts there, and she said '1 or 5', however, she also commented that 1 is too fancy and 3 is too blocky. Because of this she suggested some other fonts with added techniques which she believed to be better than the ones I have chosen. Therefore, I will conduct another survey to see which font people like, this survey will include the font people chose before, plus the fonts that this person recommended. This will hopefully give me a better understanding of the fonts people like for a psychological horror.

Some flashes for our sequence

This is a newspaper front cover telling you about the death of Esme Collins. These will be two of the flashes when the detectives are speaking.

Fonts for our sequence and audience feed back

Different fonts for our pyschological horror opening ( Done by partner Tai)