Music for the film

We wanted to use a copyrighted song in our media film as the background music, In order to make sure this was okay with the band i emailed them and asked if it would be okay.

The song we used was Blessed with a curse By Bring Me the Horizon.

I wrote in the email that if i didn't hear back from them that I assumed they were too busy to reply and that it was okay to use the track in our movie.

Above is a copy of the email that i sent to the band, although I never got a reply, we used the track in our film.

Second shoot in march

Later in the month we went to film some more, we decided to leave the final scene, as i had yet to design a zombie costume and have it made. We went to do do some more running/action shots. Since until the very end of out film you don't actually see any zombies on the screen, we needed to create the impression they were there. To do this I went and hid in a bush and made some loud noises whilst James was filming himself. The general idea was to get some snapped twigs, and create the impression something was there. To do this i had to be fairly close by, but obviously not on screen. Lauren took a picture of me whilst i was trying to get into position.



After this the only thing left to do was shoot the final scene where the zombie (played by me) appears and attacks. I designed a costume (pictures will be uploaded) and after that it was onto the editing process.

More filming - march

So the snow cleared away and the forest remained fairly similar so we went off and did some more filming, At this stage the project was nearly half way to completion.
In this session we focused mainly on getting some running shots of James as he runs through the forest escaping the zombie. Whilst we were there filming i took some pictures (which i will post below). These were difficult at first to get right because we wanted to try and vary the shots we used, but also make it looked like it flowed together and looked good on screen. With these shots completed it would just be the final end scene and a few more in between shots to do.






These are the photographs of James (Alex mason in the movie) fleeing from the zombie threat.
It was important here the James always wore the same clothes when we went out to film, and that he didnt get any radical hair changes or new piercings.

Possible target audience

We did a bit of background research and thinking and tried to build up a character profile of what people would want to come see our movie. We know (as teenagers ourselves) that horror movies are popular with young people. They enjoy to go see them in groups or as young couples. An accurate age for a target audience would be 16-24 year olds. The older generation don't seem particularly interested in the horror genre.

Other films of the same genre that have been popular with the younger generation have included Saw, The ring, Paranormal activity and 28 Days later.

  

This is just a rough idea of what a potential audience could be, and in another post I will be uploading a more detailed description and a character profile of a typically audience member that would see "State of emergency".

Film delay

So we so our media film half done and then there was a week and a half of snow. we were unable to go out and film anything, and we hoped that it would clear up ASAP so would could continue our work.
In this time we gave the camera to Lauren, so she could go off and film some In between shots ( that we intended to use for flashbacks). these were set to take place indoors and be the memories of our main character. This was done although as the final piece came together for editing, we did decide against using them. We felt that the final piece flowed better without the flashbacks as it could confuse the audience given the time frame we had to work in.

Filming!

These are the recee shots we gathered for our filming location and we decided to begin filming here. We thought the dark and dense woods would make a great atmosphere for our zombie horror flick! Fitting in with the convention of horror films where (from our research) we found a lot of them are set in woods.
The only problem we would face is that if the filming process were too long, the seasons would change and the trees/woods along with it. We tried to film everything within a couple of weeks and only went back if absolutely neccessary. Before we started filming we checked the weather, (for continuity) and focused on getting all the handheld perspective shots, and the narrative done first.

Blog Delay

 The filming process is now finished and the editing process of our film "State of emergency" is underway. Due to the busy filming schedule of our film, I have been gathering evidence o the filming process to be posted at a later date. Over the next few days I will be posting all of Evidence in photos and videos that have been aquired during the filming process.

Shortly following this I will be posting the Evaluation of our finished movie.