Presenting our Films Initial Ideas - G321

                                             
Here me and my Co-directing partner Eleanor are Presenting our film Inhabitant including our very first initial ideas and what we changed and why,The location we filmed at and the obstacles we faced alongside the strengths of our production. Our first initial idea was to set our film in the local woods as we thought this setting would connote horror how ever we changed our mind as filming in the woods in Autumn could be very inconvenient for us as we could not control the weather that would have an impact on our production for instance if it started raining or if the wind was too strong. Also as we were filming our film towards the end of October the time we could film for was restricted due to how long the sun would be out for as it would usually get dark buy 4pm. Another factor that influenced us to change our minds on the setting was competition with the other films as a lot of other films done by our classmates were set in the woods therefore in order to give our film a unique selling point we tried to make our film more original.If had the chance to carry on filming the rest of our film the film story line would be about two young adults moving in to a new house and then realizing that there is a ghost of a girl who lived their before them , the  young couple are haunted by this ghosts past in the house  and they both start loosing their sanity as they cant afford to buy a new house but they may not survive any longer if they continue to live in this house through out the film the audience follows the couples journey into insanity. Our film was set in a house that had an attic we thought this was perfect setting for our movie as it supported our story line of girls moving into new house, we thought that by having the story set in a household and having scenes of the film filmed by hand home made footage it would appeal more to our target audience as it is a modern set idea so our audiences could relate more to the characters in this film as having it in a household makes it personal.It was also a convenient location as the house we filmed in is near to where me and Eleanor live about 5 minutes by car also as in that house we could control the lighting and weather would not disrupt us. The obstacles we had to overcome was filming in the attic that was the scene that took up the most time because at one point in the attic we have to turn of the light and it is pitch black so it was hard to film and as an actor is was hard to position myself in the attic as i could not see where I was and i got frightened. That was when the idea of using the torch on our phone emerged as When the character Eleanor was playing is in the attic and the lights turned of she pulls out her phone and puts on the torch on it so what ever she shines the torch on is visible to the camera.Also getting the pop up scene at the end of the film as accurate as we possibly could as we wanted to create a very quick shot of The supernatural beings face popping up on the camera as Eleanor pans up the camera we had to re do that shot many times and we had to edit with sound to make the shot effective. I would say that the strengths of our production would be the editing we used to create the home footage effect where the footage would suddenly buzz out because of bad connection that made it seem very realistic also the font we used to create the time and date of the footage makes it more personal to our audience as if they are watching real footage,alongside that we used clean jump cuts.