Credit List

If I created a whole film, I would need to put credits at the end. this is what I would put on the credits.


Director and producer

Morgan Ash

Casting director
Ronnie Doherty

Cast 
Niamh McIlroy ... Samara
Keeley Askew ... victim
Jemma Maretti ... Sophie Longhorn
Bethany Preece ... Lisa Sutton
Jake Lawrence ... Liam Donalds
Scott Wright ... Harry Wickens
Connor Parnell ... Jake Walis
Yasmin Jackson ... Beth Johnson
Del Brown ... Mr Kingman
Lucy Day ... librarian
Taylor Ash ... bus driver
Micheal Stokes ... Policeman #1
Harry Garner ... Policeman #2
Natalia Zapata ... girl #1
Keesha Long ... girl #2
Alex Polydorou ... boy #1

Editor
Morgan Ash

Music
Rose Sainsbury

Sound editor
Aaron Saluci

Script writer
Paige Funnel

Costume designer
Jack Greenwood

Make up designer
Melissa Stevens

Graphics designer
Sam Hows

Stunt coordinator
Dan Locket

shot list

I created a shot list with the basic details about each shot that I took for my opening title sequence.





what my film is about

It starts of in a room with a girl panicking about something. She keeps on saying that she needs more time and is rushing around looking for something. The door then opens and the TV switches on. This shadow figure then enters the room and the girl looks very frightened. The shadow figure gets closer ad we then hear a loud scream. The scene then ends.
A group of kids are on the school field playing. This group of kids decide to stay late and break into the supply room which the police are keeping locked due to a crime investigation. Inside the room they find a locket on the floor. One of the girls (Sophie) picks up the necklace and opens the locket. Inside is a picture of a woman and a young girl. She then looks away and calls her friends over however when she turns back to it, the picture of the young girl is missing.
When Sophie gets home, she puts the locket on and falls asleep. She starts having strange dreams with the young girl in the picture in them. She wakes up all panicked and stressed and doesn’t realise what the dreams were about.
She gets ready for school and decides to forget about the dreams until she starts seeing the girl around. She sees her out the window, on the bus and by her school. She is there for seconds and then disappears. Sophie starts to freak out and tells her friends. Her best friend Lisa takes the locket from her and wears it herself.
The next day, Lisa tells Sophie that she was having the same dreams and seeing the same girl. They both then decide to go look up the case and find out who she is.
They go to the library together that afternoon and use the computers to look up the case. They find out the girls name was Samara. She was 8 years old when her parents left her to burn in their house. Her parents trapped her in her bedroom and set fire to the house. Lisa and Sophie both realised that that is what they were seeing in their dream; a burning house. Sophie then found out that Samara’s parents were then found hung in their new apartment.
It was getting late and they were the last ones in the library. All of a sudden the lights went off and they both see Samara in the distance. She starts walking towards them but then the lights come back on and she’s gone. As the girls get up they see Liam, Sophie’s boyfriend, dead on the floor. Both girls scream and run out the library. Sophie falls to the floor and cries whilst Lisa calls the police. After a few seconds the phone cuts off and the street lights start to flicker.
Sophie and Lisa get in the car ad start to drive away. On every corner they see Samara standing and staring at them.
They get back to Lisa’s house and run to her bedroom. The girls are panicking and keep saying they need more time. They are rushing around looking for something which ends up being the locket. The lights go off and Samara starts to walk in the room. They both scream. Lisa continues to look for the locket; however Sophie’s is too frightened and backs into the corner. Samara starts walking over to Sophie first.
Lisa shouts out that she has found the locket and turn around. When she looks over to Sophie, she sees that Samara has already hanged her from the door. Lisa cries and screams. Samara starts walking over to Lisa and Lisa looks her right in the eyes before smashing the locket into tiny pieces. Samara screams and vanishes. The lights turn back on Lisa calls the police straight away.

The next day, a group of kids are walking in the park. One of the girls treads on something and looks to the floor to see the locket. She picks it up. The scene cuts off.

Opening Ttile Sequence

 PLOT FOR THE OPENING TITLE SEQUENCE 

Starts of in a dark room with a small light on. A girl is going through her draws all panicked and frightened. She keeps saying she needs more time and is rushing around looking for something.

The light then goes of and the door automatically opens. The TV then turns on to a grey and black fuzzy channel. The girl is sitting there very scared.
All of a sudden this shadow figure slowly starts to enter the room. the figure starts to walk over to the girl. The girl is trying to back away and pushing things in the way.  
the shadow figure gets close and the last shot the audience see is a hand bang against the window and slowly slide down.


 CAST 
Niamh McIlroy - Samara
Keeley Askew - victim 

 LOCATION/SETTING 

My bedroom. Dark.

 MUSIC 
Dark
Eerie
sound effect of heart beat and creaking door

My logo

For my production I had to create a logo to say that I created the trailer.
At first i tried to think of a way to put my name into it and I decided to go with my surname.
I then played around with what I could link to my surname and I came up with fire.
finally I looked at different font styles for the text and color for the text and image as well. I then looked at effects that I could put on it to make it look more professional.

This is what I came up with for my logo.








some terminology

some terminology to use in essays

Audience – viewers, listeners and readers of a media text. A lot of media studies is concerned with how audience use texts and the effects a text may have on them. Also identified in demographic  socio-economic categories.

Context – time, place or mindset in which we consume media products.

Diegetic Sound – Sound whose source is visible on the  screen 

Non Diegetic sound – Sound effects, music or narration which is added afterwards


Hypodermic Needle Theory – the idea that the media can ‘inject’ ideas and messages straight into the passive audience. This passive audience is immediately affected by these messages. Used in advertising and propoganda, led to moral panics about effect of violent video and computer games.

Ideology – A set of ideas or beliefs which are held to be acceptable by the creators of the media text, maybe in line with those of the dominant ruling social groups in society, or alternative ideologies such as feminist ideology.

Image – a visual representation of something.

Institutions – The organisations which produce and control media texts such as the BBC, AOL Time Warner, News International.

Mise en Scene – literally ‘what’s in the shot’ everything that appears on the screen in a single frame and how this helps the audience to decode what’s going on.
mise en scene included:

  • props
  • body language
  • facial expression
  • costume
  • lighting
  • set
Non-verbal communication – communication between people other than by speech.

Representation – The way in which the media ‘re-presents’ the world around us in the form of signs and codes for audiences to read.

Sound Effects – additional sounds other than dialogue or music, designed to add realism or atmosphere.

planning the essay

The Notebook - planning the essay!!

looking at a scene from the film and analyzing the way the different classes are presented.

point - the lower class seemed to have more fun and are high spirited.
sound - upbeat, fun, laughter. all talking together and everyone being able to talk freely. diegetic, country music starts through the scene. 
costume - casual clothing, shirt and trousers. dull colors, bit dirty. shows they don't need a lot to have a good time. Noah and Ali are allowed to hold hand and kiss and express their feelings. 
close up on facial expression, shows smiles and happy feelings.

point - higher class are more snobby and think they are better than everyone else.
the dad makes jokes about being a millionaire.
its a quiet atmosphere.
everyone is wearing white and the scenery is white. this is to show purity and richness and the fact that they think they are better.
Noah and Ali sit together but don't feel like they can act as a couple. 
they were shocked by how much Noah earns at his job. facial expressions show shock and awkwardness.

editing - fast,choppy scenes with lower class party to show the fun, hyperactive activity.
long slow scenes with higher class to show the awkwardness and the snobbishness of the people.
Noah's dad welcomes Ali into the family. Ali's mum tries to push Noah away.