Thursday, 12 February 2015

Cast for the summoning

Bill-


what we expect him to do- to act appropriately to the theme of the film (horror)

how we expect him to act- he will have to act in an appropriate way as in act scared, terrified, mortified, nervous, tense etc.

How he will incorporate stereotypes into his acting- normal guy means acts nervous of the unknown, a bit tentative to the idea of spirits.

Zoey-

what we expect her to do-We expect her to perform her role to the appropriate standard and she should be able to say her lines in a creepy manner

how we expect her to act- she will have to act in a less scared way because she is the one who brings the Ouija board

How she will incorporate stereotypes into her acting- blond maybe relating to naivety, suggests the idea to the group and is unaware if the consequences.


Billy-

what we expect him to do- act in character, stay in character, good facial expressions.

how we expect him to act- more scared then most other people there, he will have to use a variety of facial expressions to get his feelings across

How he will incorporate stereotypes into his acting- nerdy character is supposed to be scared of pretty much everything, doesn't want to take part in the ritual, afraid of being left out, forced into everything.


Matt-

what we expect him to do- perform well as his character, stay as the jock/leader

how we expect him to act- less scared then anyone else as he is the leader and is maybe naive to the possibilities of spirits

How he will incorporate stereotypes into his acting- as the jock he is supposed to e headstrong and doesn't think before he acts, we can see this in our film as he is quick to jump on board the idea of the Ouija board, he would be less inclined to react as he maybe doesn't understand the scenario seeing they are stereotypically stupid

Conor-

what we expect him to do- he will have to stay as the dark guy, be less scared and more open to the idea of the Ouija board

how we expect him to act- we expect him to act in an appropriate manner where he will stay in character, keep a neutral expression and not be too fazed by anything which happens.

How he will incorporate stereotypes into his acting- as the dark guy he needs to be into the idea of the Ouija board and the dark themes surrounding it, this means that he shouldn't be scared of whats happening, we can see this with his rather subdued reaction

Luke-

what we expect him to do-give his creepiest face as the monster and to stay in character

how we expect him to act-creepy, spooky, turns up out of no where

How he will incorporate stereotypes into his acting- As the monster he needs to have a scary element around him, therefore his facial features have to be a creepy smile as that it usually what scares people the most, his body language needs to be quite dominating, he can achieve this as he is the tallest in the group and therefore can look down on everyone

Wednesday, 11 February 2015

Interviews With Actors


Whilst we were interviewing our actors we found that specific people fit specific stereotypes which you would find in a typical horror film cliché.

Wednesday, 28 January 2015

Lionsgate


Lions Gate Entertainment Corporation (or Lionsgate) is a Canadian-American entertainment company. The company was formed inVancouver, British Columbia, on July 3, 1997, and is headquartered in Santa Monica, California. As of November 2013, it is the most commercially successful mini major film and television distribution company in North America and the seventh most profitable movie studio. Lionsgate Films is not to be confused with Robert Altman's former company, Lion's Gate Films, although both names refer to the same Vancouver landmark, the Lions Gate bridge.

Lions Gate Entertainment Corporation (Lionsgate) was formed in 1997 by Frank Giustra and Avi Federgreen with a $16 million investment including another $40 million from other investors which included Keyur Patel and Yorkton Securities' executives such as G. Scott Paterson.
The distribution of selected recent non-in-house films for pay-per-view and on-demand are under the supervision of NBCUniversal Television Distribution under Universal Pictures (Universal formerly held home video and television rights to many of the early Lionsgate films), while all others (particularly the in-house films) are distributed for both cable and broadcast television through Lionsgate's syndicated division.

On September 13, 2010, Lionsgate and Televisa formed a joint venture, Pantelion Films, to produce for the next five years eight to 10 films a year targeted for the U.S. Latino market. Lions Gate sold off its Canadian distribution unit, Maple Pictures, in September 2011 to Alliance Films.


On December 23, 2013, Lions Gate announced they have crossed over $1 billion domestically and internationally for the 2nd year in a row with the success of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Now You See Me, Instructions Not Included, and Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain.

Paramount Pictures.

Paramount Pictures Corporation (commonly known as Paramount Pictures or simply Paramount, and formerly known as Famous Players-Lasky Corporation) is a film studio, television production company and motion picture distributor, consistently ranked as one of the "Big Six" film studios of Hollywood. It is a subsidiary of US media conglomerate Viacom. Paramount is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). It has distributed several successful film series, such as Transformers, Mission: Impossible and the Universe series.

Paramount is the fifth oldest surviving film studio in the world after Gaumont Film Company (1895), Pathé (1896), Nordisk Film, (1906), and Universal Studios. It is the last major film studiostill headquartered in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles.

Paramount Pictures is noteworthy for having three films that have surpassed the $1-billion-mark in worldwide box office sales:
·         Titanic (1997; $2,186,800,000)
·         Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011; $1,123,794,079)
·         Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014; $1,065,153,989)

In 2006, Paramount became the parent of DreamWorks SKG. Soros Strategic Partners and Dune Entertainment II soon afterwards acquired controlling interest in the live-action films released through September 16, 2005, the latest film in this package was Just Like Heaven. The remaining live-action films through March 2006 remained under direct Paramount control. However, Paramount does own distribution (and other ancillary) rights to the Soros/Dune films.

Wednesday, 21 January 2015

Filming Attempt 3

Two days after our second day of filming we were back on location to complete this stage of the process.

Filming Attempt 2

 Some time after our failure that was day one of filming, we resolved that we would film our project not at some abandoned house that may or may not exist, but at Bill and Matt's house. The house suits the criteria of looking old and creepy, while also having the advantage of not taking hours to get to.
  So we set out with camera and costume to finally begin filming the scenes that would later become our opening two minutes.
By the time we were done for the day, we had filmed the establishing shot and the hallway scene; we were around halfway done.

Monster Makeup

Based on the tutorials and examples we researched, Zoe applied makeup to our monster, Luke.