Short film CR

 

Our short film Possessed has a lot of connections with some social groups and issues. This short film has a lot to do with peer pressure and how this connects with younger people, in the begging of our short film a group of friend peer pressure one of the friends and make her face her fears. Our short film represents some social groups. Mainly teens/young people because our whole cast in the short film are teens. Younger people tend to enjoy horror movies more than older people. We also advertised our short film on all social medias so a lot of younger people will probably see it. In our short film our main issue that we include is peer pressure. Peer pressure is when someone pressures another person to do something they don’t want to do, but the person is too afraid to say no, or the teen wants to try and fit in with the crowd. This happens a lot in the real world and it could lead to bad things. An example of this is in our short film If the friend group didn’t peer pressure Ava into going into the house then she wouldn’t have found the mirror and she would have never gotten possessed. Another issue that our short film possesses is unity and coming together. In our film Morgan and Jake have to come together and figure out how to stop Ava.  Unity is one of the strongest components in life. So its always good to work together as a team.

 

When filming our movie/ short film we wanted to make sure that our elements in the movie could work together to create a sense of ‘branding’. We wanted everything to connect in some way. We used quite a few elements in our movie that are now branded. One element that we used is the mirror. The mirror was one of the main brand elements that we used in our movie. In our movie Ava finds the mirror and when finding the mirror, she picks it up and ends up getting possessed by the mirror. Also, in the Main picture of our movie and our profile picture for all our social medias it is a mirror with a spirit coming out of it. So, when people think of our movie the first thing that they think of is the mirror. As we know our movie is a horror movie, and all horror movies tend to be dark and have creepy sounds and have dark low lighting. In our movie we kept the theme of having dark lighting and having spooky sounds. That’s another part of our branding is having all those basic horror movie techniques. Another technique we used for our branding was the friend who got possessed. We used her getting possessed to create our movie name “possessed”. This is another main branding source that we used we also used pictures of the friend getting possessed and we used this for our postcard and we used it and posted it on our social medias.

 

In our short film we made sure that the audience felt like they were in the horror movie with us. We wanted to engage with our audience and give them the full horror experience. One of the ways we did this was by having a lot of tracking shots in our film. A tracking shot is any shot where the camera follows forward, backward, or moves alongside the person being recorded. This allows the audience to feel like they are following one the characters. In the short film we filmed Ava walking up to the possessed mirror. We used the tracking method for this shot, we shot her back as she was walking up to the mirror, this creates a feeling in the audience that they are behind Ava. We also do a tracking shot in the beginning when they first come into the house. We made a shot where Jake and Morgan go one way, and the camera follows them to a certain point, then it goes back to Ava and Alex walking over to some old paintings. We tracked them from the side, when walking over and when they get to the paintings it pans to their back. We do this quite a few times in our film because we really want our audience to feel like they are there with us. Another method we use to make our audience feel connected and with us is when we did a Point of View when Ava chokes Alex. This makes the audience feel like they are about to get choked.

 

When researching for our products we did some research on different horror movies. We wanted to look at different horror movies, so we could use some skills on our movie. When researching and looking at different horror movies we saw some thing that we wanted to include in our movie. We saw some thing that almost every horror movie included in their movie and some of those things were creepy sounds or noises, abandoned places or house that the characters go into, dark lighting, and either monsters spirits or murders were the main conflict in the movie. After we saw all these things that they included we decided to use these skills. So, in our movie we used a lot of dark lighting. we did this by filming at night, filming at night was one of the best choices we made. Filming at night really gave the movie a creepy and eerie feeling to the movie. It was a little difficult because sometimes the lighting wasn’t that good, but in the end filming at night was a good choice. When editing our movie, we made sure to use a lot of creepy sounds and music. The music in a horror movie is important it makes the audience get an eerie feeling. The next element that we used was filming at an abandon house. We made one of our houses look and feel abandoned. It was one of the best choices that we made.