Sophie Tindall's evaluation:

Evaluation Sophie Tindall

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The most noticeable convention we use is open spaces. These connote danger and juxtaposes what is going on. Often the antagonist is very secretive and private and doesn’t show much emotion. To show a wide open space as our opening connotes the vulnerability of Katie. Typically, the open space is used to show the audience that the character has nowhere to hide, this therefore contrasts the character of Katie as her entire purpose is to stay hidden.

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This is an example from sority row. The murdered female is dressed in white, immediately connoting her innocence. This is juxtaposed against the storyline also as she has seduced a male within the film, who was the boyfriend of another female. Therefore the white used, like our film, is ironic.

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The convention of fire is used here. This is effective as the colours all merge together connoting the merging of all the different characters which feature in the plot. Fire denotes destruction and can be the cause of death in a violent way. The audience automatically regard fire as something dangerous and therefore this could be seen as a prediction as to the forthcoming events of the film.

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This is also an example from the film sority row. The shot is a wide angle and the fire fills the screen, this therefore focuses the attention of the audience drawing in all the thoughts of fire.
The most noticeable and typical conventions of a horror film is blood. Blood denotes something has happened to injure the character themselves or another character and too much blood often is the cause of death or the sign that death will happen.

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Here we use blood to signify something has happened to Annie, and as she is lying still the audience presume she is dead. The blood on the white t-shirt, which connotes innocence and purity, connotes how katie’s innocence has been tainted.

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These are examples from saw and our film. Blood is used as a sign more clearly in this as the blood is a result of a situation the audience are watching and this is common within gore horrors such as saw. Our film uses blood to show something has happened to a character somewhere to entice the audience whereas saw makes them wince away.

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This is our title of our piece which takes place within our title sequence. This is the only title which, asides the production company and the logo at the start, which features against a background that isn’t the film. The red is constantly a generic signifier within films. Red denotes blood which connotes death or injury of a character. This within our film is foreshadowing events that are to come. This is the only title that is in the colour red. We do this to make it stand our against the white that all the other titles are in and to connote the blood and death. The background of this title is black and this connotes the danger of Katie and also the secrecy surrounding annies death, which is the red title.

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This is an example of the font and colour we use for the other titles, for example production designer and director. We used this font as it looks similar to bones which again denotes death, and also the decay of a dead body. We used white to connote the innocence which contrasts against the font which looks like bones.
We decided to put these titles in the bottom right corner to connote Katies shrinking away from society in her hiding place.

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This is an example of the title sequence from the film catch me if you can. The iconography tells the story and the setting. Although this is effective, this is something we would’ve been unable to do as we needed the first two minutes of a film, including the title sequence. This title sequence showed us the order of which we needed our titles and how they should be placed and with what time approximately.

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Overall i think we follow the typical conventions of a horror film. We decided to follow conventions as we, who are an audience also, know the effects that the horrors with these conventions have upon an audience. Through making use of generic signifiers, such as blood, we follow these conventions well and get to the point we wish to make and to generate the desired effects of fear within our audience.

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Resit - Why we chose the font for our titles

We chose this font from iMovie as it clear and easy to read. What attracted us to this particular font was that it looks similar to bones, representing horror clearly. We chose white as the colour to connote the innocence of Katie to begin with. Our first couple of titles lead into the title of the film, Peephole. We decided to make this red to connote blood and death, which is the theme of our piece. Red also connotes how the innocence has been tainted. The background of our title of the film name is black to connote the danger and secrecy included within the piece. All the colours work well together and are very plain, simply and easy to read.

The title!

We put our titles in the right hand corner as we thought this looked most effective. It connotes the shrinking away of Katie in her secret place.

This is the font we used.

Resit - Final Cut

This is our final cut! We made the changes to our piece and have kept our titles consistent. When looking through other opening sequences we noticed that the title of the film was a lot bolder and more noticeable than the rest, so this is what we chose to do. We made the title closer to the start and changed to colour to red to connote blood. This is also a generic signifier common in horrors.

Now the feedback we recieved is as follows:

• "Excellent work! Believable storyline." - Aged 39
• "Everything is kept consistant and is clear to follow." - Aged 20
• "Extremely reflective of a horror film, I like the fact the audience are kept in suspence. Would definitely see this at the cinema.! - Aged 18

Resit - Rough Cut

This is our rough cut of 'Peephole'. The feedback we recieved from our subject teacher was as follows:

• The title of the film needs to appear earlier
• Your titles need to be consistantly placed
• The stalker chasing her is unbelievable - she is too close!
• It's like the film has already ended, change the end.

Some general feedback we recieved was:

• "I like the opening! Your transitions work well, but your titles are not consistent." - Aged 17
• "She is very close to her with the knife, I think the other girl might notice if she was that close and turn around." - Aged 19
• "Scary!" - Aged 11

We will now make the changes asked of us to improve our opening two minutes.

Resit - Filming Diary

Date: Wednesday 10th November 2010
Actors: All
Time: 12:30 - 4:00 PM

We aimed to film everything today and this was successful! We filmed our shot of Annie and Chris walking in the park first and we took this shot about 5 times so we could decide which one we thought looked the best when it came to editing. We used a long shot to show the wide open space they are in, which connotes how happy they are.

When we got to our filming destination, Field House, we put out set together and sorted out the costume for Katie and Annie. As we had time constraints and also due to the cold weather we aimed to complete each shot quickly. The first shot we took was the wide shot of our trees and this was to set the scene of our film. We were aware of the sun being bright so we were using as many techniques as possible to block the sunlight out. For this shot we opened an umbrella to hold over the camera to shield the sun rays from the lens, because the sun will not achieve the horror element correctly.

The next shot we took was the low angle shot in front of the candle. The aim of this is to have the flame in front of Katie's face to achieve the sinister look we want. The problem we faced with this shot was every time we attempted to light a match for the candle, the wind blew and we lost the flame. We tried to shield the flame using our hands and also using an umbrella to also keep out the sun. We were attempting a focus pull on the flame, so this was something else we were trying to create with the camera, but were unsuccessful. We decided it looked good as it was without the focus pull. We took this shot 3 times so again we could see which was the best shot when we edit.

The next shot we took was the extreme close up of the pictures we pined to the tree. We used a panning dutch angle to create the effect that someone is looking at them. The problem we kept encountering was the noise so we took this shot twice, to make sure.

The next shot we took was the high angle shot of Katie's monologue whilst holding a picture of her and Chris. We took this several times, again to have a varied amount of shots, but also to have it perfect. A problem we encountered was holding the camera steady here, as it was a high angled shot we wouldn't be able to use a tripod. We had to make sure all our set was perfect here because you can see the entire space within this shot.

The next shot we took here was the over the shoulder shot of Katie holding the picture. When editing this will be a jump cut. Here is where we want Katie to burn the picure. The main problem we had with this was because of this wind, it was hard for Jenni to light the match, as it would always blow out before she got it to the picture. We also had to make sure we had a watering can ready for when we wanted to stop the flame. We had to be careful of the flame beause the ground was damp and it was a hazard we had to consider carefully. We kept the flame going for as long as possible so we could cut the clip to the exact moment we wanted as we didn't want to take the shot twice due to the difficulty and also the fire hazard.

The next shot we took was where Katie follows Annie. We took this shot several times and from several different angles to make sure the knife was clear for the audience to see. As the light was shining on the blade of the knife, it was making it hard for the camera to pick up and make it clear. Because we attempted lots of different shots, we could easily pick the one we thought looked the most effective with the knife. We tried the knife in different positions, including holding it higher, as well as by her side. Also different angles of the actors. Ones we attempted was Annie walking away from the camera with Katie behind with the knife down, then the same one with the knife higher. Then we attempted Annie walking towards the camera with Katie appearing from some trees, again with different knife positions.

The next shot we took was of Katie humming as she dragged the body, ultimately trying to pretend she hasn't commited the crime. This wasn't as successful as we planned so we may cut the sound out and use a voice over or a sound effect instead. The shot following this was of Katie dragging Annie's feet. We tried this several different ways, again. Firstly, we attempted Sophie pulling her own body backwards but this sometimes didn't work, and sometimes it did, so by catching every attempt on camera we can see which looks best. We also tried with Jenni actually dragging Sophie so we could see if this worked any easier. We will see which shot looks the best when we edit.

The final shot we took twice. It was of Katie leaving Annie's body and walking towards the camera. We wanted this to look really sinister and leaving the feeling the something else will happen. The first shot didn't look as we wished it to, so we took it again trying different positions and expressions on Katie's face to see which was the most effective.

Overall, we were extremely pleased with the co-operation of our cast and the way our filming went during the day.

Resit - Film Brief

Film Brief

This is the film brief, I have written a detailed film brief which gives the audience a clear picture of what happens throughout the film. Also, I have done a short version of the film brief which shows that the film can be expained in very little detail. Also I have done the justifications explaining the relations to theorys.