Horror film Suspense
The Favour
Research
For this project I researched films such as hereditary, the conjuring saga, the shining and more!. During my research I found out what makes scenes in horror films tense and scary, a lot of what makes horror films scary is the audio, the audio creates the tones for each individual scene or throughout the whole film, a horror film with no audio would not be the same, it simply just wouldn't be scary, this is because audio is such a key role in a horror film, whether that is music or just simple sound effects to create that suspense and tension filled scene. I also researched colour grading and lighting and how that plays into making a suspense piece work and making it fit that specific genre.
Design
The production design for the film was all about making it look like it was set in the 18th century, a time where the tales and the legend of vampires were first widley reported, the building we stayed in while filming in whitby was quite old, the building was built in 1934 making it 87 years old. This meant that it was full of time period architecture, we took advantage of this and used the main stairway in the building to film our final scene, which turned out to look amazing when the final edit was finshed.
(Image from the final scene with the stairway)
The whole film is in black and white which helps to make things that look very modern in a colour that it's originally filmed in, to look like it is in a different time or era etc. By making the film all black and white it also adds to the suspense of the film which the task was, i also think by making it all black and white it keeps it simple but not simple at the same time, by that i mean the colour grading is simple but even though it is it still gives off the suspense tone and sets the mood for the whole film.
Production
On set we took photos which we could use in any paperwork that they maybe needed for, or even just for our blogs to show behind the scenes on where we were filming, here's some photos of when we were filming at Whitby Abbey.
Filming at the Abbey was a really fun experience, it was such a great location which gave me as the camera operator a lot to work with, the shots were so atmospheric and it looked even better once the film was finished. Everyone on set did a great job wether that be the cast or the crew both did excellent work and put in 110% the whole production. But there was some issues with a couple areas such as cummunication, communication from crew to cast wasn't the best and definitley could of been improved, also not having specific paperwork on the day which we needed as it would of helped for example not having a shot list on set was a need and we didn't have it, which was my fault because i forgot to print it off, but because of my mistake iv'e learnt to always make sure you have all the paperwork you need on set with you and to every location.
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Filming at the Abbey was a really fun experience, it was such a great location which gave me as the camera operator a lot to work with, the shots were so atmospheric and it looked even better once the film was finished. Everyone on set did a great job wether that be the cast or the crew both did excellent work and put in 110% the whole production. But there was some issues with a couple areas such as cummunication, communication from crew to cast wasn't the best and definitley could of been improved, also not having specific paperwork on the day which we needed as it would of helped for example not having a shot list on set was a need and we didn't have it, which was my fault because i forgot to print it off, but because of my mistake iv'e learnt to always make sure you have all the paperwork you need on set with you and to every location.
Planning/Pre-production
Working up to filming this project we had to create pre-production paperwork, this helped us to make sure everyone on set knew exactly what they were going to do, and when they where going to be doing it, pre-production paperwork is very significant to filming because it makes sure everything is planned and correctly used when shooting. We evenly spread out all paperwork with eachother so that it would take less time to do and so we could take advantage of the time we had after for the actual planning for the shooting days. The planning for this film was quite fun because there were ideas being thrown everywhere, we had a lot of brainstorming sessions which i think helped a lot, because there were so many creative fun ideas that were great and we were so excited to incorporate these ideas into the film, the planning was mostly exciting because everyone was saying ideas to one another then bouncing back of eachother which made for amazing conversations about how we were going to take these plans and ideas and turn them into this great film, which i think we definitley did. Sure we didn't use a lot of the things we talked about in the film but a bunch of good ideas we talked about were put in and looked really good!
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