Weekly Updates- Week of 3rd October 2011 (week 3)

This week we looked at our production schedule and acknowledged what tasks had to be completed by the end of the week. I made a start on our target audience research and i was curious to know what people at school thought about horror films, and used them as my sample. Ahmed made a start on the pre-questionnaire and we began to gain insight into what people thought of horror films, and what their views were on our title and plot. We are also curious to find out which gender likes horror films, as in our meeting, we predicted males preferred scary films rather than females. Furthermore, Ahmed made a start on the uses and gratification theory, and in our meeting, Ahmed discussed how he would approach this. We began by discussing how films in general provide entertainment, and horror and comedy films provide the most entertainment. I had to make a start on our script, and by looking at the 2 minute outline; I made decisions about how much dialogue i wanted to include. I finally came to the conclusion that minimal dialogue is not only a convention of horror films, but silence helps intensify the scenes, and create tension. I also considered leaving room for essential sound effects, and referring back to the 2 minute outline. In the meeting we held this week, we made decisions about what would actually happen in the sequence. Our initial idea was quite basic, but I thought it wouldn't be as hard to film. I made a start on the script, Sahir spent the week completing other work and taking pictures of the location and creating location notes, made a start with score notes, and Ahmed continued with the pre-questionnaire and shooting script. This week was good as it helped us move forward with the production, and map out exactly what we wanted to include in it.