Unit 10: Creating a short movie

Attack in the Dark

During the beginning stages of coming up with ideas for my short movie, it was all about what would be suitable for a college movie project. So, for my short movie I went with a simple idea of a killer hunting down some college student for all of their wrong doings. The short starts of with the camera placed at the killer's feet, to start of the movie with a intriguing opening that will get the audience interested, and it will also show the audience that they will be watching a horror movie with this opening.

The next camera movement will be the camera slowly moving upwards towards the killer so that it shows the audience that the killer is ready to do some evil things in order to get what he wants most...vengeance.

*cut to black and name of movie appears*

*music plays over opening credits*

Two weeks earlier...
Opens back up on college students standing in the corridor smiling, laughing and talking.

*cuts to long shot of a "mysterious figure" standing still with their hood up* Students still laughing but the "figure" has "disappeared"

*cuts to black, killer gets closer with each cut to black*

*on the last cut to black, the killer tilts their head at the camera and smirks*

The ending and the beginning will be the same shot because I will try to show that my movie will be shot out of order wherein the start will also be the ending point so the middle section will be telling the audience what happens in between and what has happened.

This part will mostly be about what the killer has been up to and how he plans to "take out" the students, and will include his motivation for doing so. (This turns out to be vengeance, for all of their wrong-doings). The ending of the movie will be the same as the beginning because it will give the impression that the killer is always watching what people do and is sub-consciously judging them on their various actions.

Self-evaluation:

In the beginning of making my movie there were a few things that went as well as I could've hoped that they would, this included the plot and how the movie would be filmed. This would be very helpful because I need to know which parts of my movie would work well while also knowing which parts would need to be changed or cut out all together. For instance, the part where the killer stabs the camera-man has been removed because it doesn't fit well with the rest of the movie and overall my movie will be better off without it being in.

Another thing that was changed was the fact that the killer was originally going to be more threatening and sadistic but while filming it didn't really work that well and would've been a bit of  a waste. One thing that will be in my movie is the scene were the killer is seen walking towards a door to get to the students and stare at them before looking directly at the camera (This will be included because it's important to know what the students are up against and what the dangers are when they meet this killer).

In the latest portion of filming I wanted to try and get a sinister feel to make it a bit mysterious where the "killer" would walk through a door that would have the students talking and laughing. This would be where the "killer" shows up and stands between the students, looks at both of them then stare at the camera.

During today's portion of filming, I took the movie outside to see how well it would work and what the differences would be with doing so. There were quite a few differences, the first being how much more room there is so I could use a bigger space for my movie and it would make the audience think that it was set over a number of days. Another thing that was different was that now the killer has his victims cornered and where he wants them ready for their attacks.

Below is a screenshot showing the clips in a certain order ready to be edited together with other clips to make my movie.

This is showing the order that the clips are in and how they've been edited, also showing the title card for my movie.

This are screenshots of the clips that I recorded for my movie but I only used a few of them because I didn't want my movie to be too long and boring.

These screenshots are of the ending credits and of what the editing looked like a few days ago when it was a first go through but now that it's finished the updated version of this screenshot is further above.