AICE Media Studies 2017-2018

       The backup location that we looked at is what we call "the ditch". Its another runoff river by my partner's house. It has a lot of foliage and has a pathway that our actors can walk under for more footage.  This runoff river had dry patches in it so we can have a scene where Jaxon is playing and trying to hop onto those dry spots.  View from the other side of the bridge, has a high concrete/rock formation that we can have one of our actors stand on like they are looking for the unexplained voice.  View of the bridge, has a dry pathway that we can have our actor walk through for a cool shot.        However, we decided not to use this location because, as shown in the image above of the bridge, there is graffiti with inappropriate messages about the use of drugs.  

       The second scene is located in a forest park behind McIntosh Middle School. It had a beautiful trail that we can have Jaxon run on, and then also some places where it is dead and scary looking. SO this forest has the best of both worlds. First location of the bridge and entrance to the forest.    Location we might use, it's spooky with a lot of dead trees. This canopy area is really beautiful, we will probably have this location first when Jaxon walks into the forest. He sees that it is a beautiful place and is "safe". Me :) This will be the last location shown in the movie, it's a gated off bridge and has a dangerous and creepy vibe to it. 

Chloe and I scouted the areas that we plan on using in our film. The first on site location we plan on using is my front yard. We are currently building a play-gym above the overflow river that goes through my front yard. This will be the location of the first few scenes of the film. The Jaxon will wonder over to another place in my yard that is closer to the water, filled with more foliage. View from playhouse. The angle that Jaxon is going to be looking in when he first hears the voice. This is a shot that we are thinking about making. It's through the trees to show that something is watching the kids play, more specifically Jaxon. This is the image of the runoff river in my front yard that Jaxon is going to go near to find the mysterious voice. When you get further down, there is a lot more foliage, so it can look as if its a dangerous place for a little kid to be going.

Chloe and I met after school and wrote the rough draft of the script. There are general camera movements and angles that we have and scene movement from the actors. This will probably change when we actually start filming to see where we are on time. The dialogue between Jaxon and Jayden is meant to show that Jaxon is a curious person and his sister, Jayden, looks out for her little brother. She is skeptical about things she cannot see and things that cannot be proven. ACT 1 SCOUTED LOCATION: 4250 SWIFT ROAD RUN OFF RIVER (WIDE SHOT)  PAT, JAYDEN, AND JAXSON ARE PLAYING AND WORKING ON A TREEHOUSE LOOKING OVER A RIVENE. (CLOSE-UP)  WHILE JAXSON IS PLAYING HE HEARS “LAUGHTER”, AND FOLLOWS THE SOUND. HE CONITNUES TOWARDS A ISOLATED SECTION OF THE RIVENE, FOLLOWING THE NEW SOUND OF RUSTLING BUSHES. AS JAXSON GETS CLOSER TO THE MOVEMENT… JAMIE (MUFFLED) HEY GUYS, LUNCH'S READY! (WIDE SHOT)  PAT MAKES HIS WAY TO THE HOUSE. JAYDEN BEGINS TO MAKE HER WAY INTO

       The horror movie Poltergeist was filmed in 1982 with a budget of $10.7 million dollars.  Its gross income from the box office was about $76.6 million dollars. This film was nominated 3 times in 1983 at the Academy Awards for Best Effects/Visual Effects, Best Effects/Sound Effects Editing, and for Best Music Original Score. It won 1 award in 1983 at the BAFTA Awards for Best Special Visual Effects.        The beginning of the film has a black background and has the names of the contributors of the film in a retro font, fading in and out. The names shown are the producers companies sponsoring this film, and then the name of the film. After that, an image of an old TV screen sows the image of an American monument or the fallen soldiers of war. The national anthem of America is played in the background until the TV program ends and all there is left is static. The camera zooms out of the TV, while remaining stationary, to show a man laying on a couch and this man's room bein

       The budget for making A Nightmare on Elm Street was $1.8 million dollars and it made about $25.5 million dollars in revenue. The film has been nominated for 3 awards, nominated twice for the Saturn Award at the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films, USA and it won the critics award in the Avoriaz Fantastic Film Festival.            The opening starts off with the logos for the production companies, which all fade in and out to black. Then the movie starts off with a low angle shot which is pointed at a mans shoes, he then reaches down to grab a bag off the floor. The camera moves right to left with a pan. The next shot is an aerial shot stationed above the mans hands, the shot is showing the bag that the man grabbed from before now emptying its contents onto a table which is already cluttered with junk. He finds what he needs from the bags contents, which are a knife and a metal looking tube, and then the next shot comes. It is a still shot of him grabbing a pai

       The second opening to a horror movie I watched was the rebooted version of the original 1990 IT. The rebooted version, IT, was filmed this year in 2017 and had a budget of $35 million dollars. It made more than $123.4 million dollars opening weekend in the box office. This movie holds the record for the biggest debut for a horror film in history. This new movie however has not been nominated for any awards, it may be in the future.                      The opening scene shows Bill, one of the main characters, making his younger brother, Georgie, a paper boat. He tells Georgie to get the wax from the cellar and then Georgie then questions if he really has to go down there, one can tell he is scared of the cellar. Georgie then, take a walkie-talkie down with him to the cellar. He makes his way down stairs and stops at the top of the stairs leading down to the cellar, Bill then comes in on the walkie-talkie telling him to hurry up. Georgie tries the light switch, but surprise, i

           One of the horror films that I have chosen is The Shining from 1980. The budget for this film was about $15 million dollars and had brought in about $44.4 million dollars at the box office just in the United States.        The opening to this film is just ariel shots. The first ariel shot is moving along a river, then fades into another ariel shot that get closer to a light, yellow buggie. Throughout the two minutes of the opening scene, the camera follows this light, yellow buggie as it makes its way to a mansion in the snow capped mountains. When switching to different angles of ariel shots following the car, the shots dissolve into one another.            The names showed at the beginning don't start util about minute into the movie, but the first thing to show up is the producer and then followed by the main actors. After those couple names comes the title of the film. Then the featured actors come followed by the executive producers, screenplay writers, dir