Credits

The credits at the beginning

• Name of production company/companies (always respect people with the money); e.g. "A Big Name Production" - A Sweet Disposition Productions
• Producers - Bella Warren, Laura Brown and Ellie Plummer
• Actors - Ellie Plummer
• Screenplay writer - Bella Warren, Ellie Plummer and Laura Brown
• Film Editor - Ellie Plummer
• Sound Effects - Freesound.com
• Director - Bella Warren

Credits at the end

• The film title - Amelia

Originally we were going to have the film title at the beginning of the two minutes but we decided to change it as we thought it would be more effective having it at the end. The credits at the beginning will appear during the shots of Amelia in the classroom. We decided to place the credits here as those shots are quite long so we thought that the credits would brake it up a bit.

Our preliminary task

Changes to our film

Originally, our film was going to be set in the 80s and about a girl called Amelia who finds her mother dead. For the opening two minutes, we would have showed too much so we decided to completely change our idea and keep it simple so we didn't go over time. That's when we came up with the idea of Amelia finishing school and walking home through the woods but someone is there watching her. We also decided to leave it on a cliffhanger so the audience will not know if Amelia will survive or die.

Film Title

Our original movie was going to be called 'Amazing Grace' as the main character was going to be called Grace but there is already a horror film by the same name. Because we had to change the name of our film, we decided to change our film idea completely and we came up with our current idea.
Our movie title was originally going to be 'You Can Run But You Can't Hide' but we decided to change it as it was too cliché. Because of this, we changed our title to 'Amelia' which keeps it simple and effective. We aim to have the title come in at the end of the two minutes.

Shooting Schedule

This is our shooting schedule

Location planning

At the beginning of the scene, Amelia is alone in a classroom doing school work. We chose this location because it was isolated so it would go with the horror conventions. A classroom is usually known for being safe and secure as many students see it as a second home which could potentially create more fear for the audience because they know school to be a safe environment and they can relate to this kind of setting. This classroom is quite old which makes it seem eerie.

For the rest of the scene, Amelia is walking home alone through the woods.The woods is also another horror convention but it also creates a sense of the unknown as anything could be hiding in the woods. The woods shows that our film is set in Britain because of the weather and scenery. We decided to have a British setting because then our target audience can relate to it as they can with the classroom.

Camera shots/movements

Types of Camera Movements:

· Panning: Describes the location or follows the action. It gets a much more wider shot of the scene 

·  Tilting: Describes a person in relation to the place they are in. It also can be used to reveal a location in stages to build suspense or shock.

·  Travelling: Can create a first person perspective, put the audience in the eyes of the character

·  Dollying in and out: Depends on speed, dollying in to a still object can be quite unsettling if at speed and it emphasises the importance of the object, dollying builds up tension, and can make the place feel claustrophobic.

·  Dollying/Tracking/Crabbing along side: Builds up anticipation if you are dollying along with a moving object, describes the place but it makes you feel like you are on a journey, to arrive to the next scene

·  Oblique: Sometimes the camera is tilted to suggest imbalance, transition and instability  This technique is used to suggest point of view shots. 

Our new opening synopsis

Our film is set in Norwich at Ormiston Victory Academy in 2013. The film is focussed on a 16 year old girl called Amelia. She is intelligent and cares about her studies, she wants to gain the best grades possible.
Amelia is first seen studying in an empty classroom. As she is studying she gets a strange call from an unknown number but she decides to ignore it. Shortly afterwards, the bell goes so Amelia walks home through the woods. As Amelia is walking home, she hears strange noises and gets another strange call from an unknown number; she decides to ignore it. Amelia then notices a lot of blood on a tree and gets a bit scared. She starts hearing noises and asks 'Is anyone there?' Amelia keeps walking but someone grabs her by the shoulder.

We changed our synopsis as we included too much. As we are only doing the first two minutes of a horror film we couldn't give away the killer like we originally planned to do.