self evaluation of our initial film

we have shot our initial film before half-term,and we decided not to accept it.
here are some problems we found to be disappointing--
1. although we had make up for the actress, she didn't seem old enough to be a little boy's mother. not to mention that the actor who we planed to play the little boy's role was another teenage boy.
2. when editing, we found that the image isn't as clear as we thought to be. so we decided to make sure that the camera is well focused before shooting.
3. there are couple of mistakes we made in the clips, such as--shoot in front of a mirror so that you can see the camera in the film; to shoot a foot in the image when it ought not to be there
due to all of these reason above, we decided to change our story and shoot again.

The Planning of our horror film

Production Company Logo Research

Universal Pictures

in this oldest logo( July 22, 1914-1919): We see a circle with "UNIVERSAL" written above and "FILMS" written below. Inside the circle is some really small text that says "TRADE MARK". A Saturn-like ring surrounds the circle, which reads "THE TRANS-ATLANTIC FILM CO. LTD." (Universal's British distributor at the time).
it only has black&white on it, for at that time they can only product black and white films. also they are silent films so there wasn't any sound effect ass to it. as we can see, it is composed right in the middle of the frame.

1930's logo (clip):from this logo, we can still observe similarities to the older one--the global, the company name, but with a motion, with a little plane flying around it.

in this logo, witch is shown in universal's 75th anniversary ,we can see they add the classic scene from E.T( witch is made in 1982 and really shocked the world)  to the original one. by now, the textural part used to surrounding the global  that suggesting their company name has been replaced by the black paper-cut like picture. and  there is a clear title relating to the film ET.


here is an excellent clip including most of universal's logo showed before the film and the newest --100 anniversary logo ---

Horror film poster research

I really like those poster because they are all base on eyes. It's because in my opinion,eyes are the most horror and attractive part of human body. It's mystery and bring It will bring horror. Therefore,In my poster. I would like do focus on the eyes as well.  

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This is how we consider our make-up for Ms Wright when Jimmy dead.
She looks very depress and that's how we want to show to the audience.

production companies reaserch

Hammer

Hammer is a London based production subsidiary of Exclusive Media Group and a legendary British film brand. In addition to Hammer, Exclusive is the parent company of Los Angeles based documentary film specialist Spitfire Pictures, US distributor Newmarket Films and Exclusive Films International, the international sales & distribution arm based in Los Angeles with an office in London. Since its resurrection in 2007, Hammer has released Let Me In, The Resident and Wake Wood, with The Woman In Black due for release internationally early 2012.

let me in 

this film is probably the most famous horror film this company has made. it has been regarded as the most successful horror film in year 2010. from some of its posters, we can't get much information about the story line, but they have some connection to the tittle by relating to the door(eg: shows the actor trying to get into the house ) 

  trailer:

 there are two different types of poster can be found on the internet: the first one apparently wants to show more hints of the film in order to attract audiences.  while in the second one, audiences have to figure out the story from its title and the image. 
 

fantastic films 

FANTASTIC FILMS INTERNATIONAL, LLC is a self-styled, efficient operation with a commitment to finding and distributing quality, independent films internationally.

unlike hammer,fantastic films dose not only make horror films, they do produce other kind of "entertaining" films such as animations.

SHE WOLF RISING

from the posters we can get much infomation about the story (make-ups), on the other hand, the tittle also suggests about the story. a lot of horror scenes are shown in the trailler in order to attract audiences. 

in thetrailer：

 

Our Film Location

These are the pictures of our film loaction, we are going to shoot our whole film there.