Vlog 8 - Det. Carter's Office

In this scene, we see Detective Carter get frustrated at her work, and then have an epiphany about something in the case.

Vlog 7 - Basement Victim Scene

This scene is the main victim scene that will be used in the climax of our trailer. We applied make up and some fake blood to the face, arms and neck of the actress in order to establish the idea that she had been a victim of abuse at the hands of the murderer. This also helped immensely with showing mise-en-scene appropriate to our genre.

Vlog 6 - Staircase Confrontation

This was the scene that we filmed on the staircase in our 6th form centre. Here, Detective Jo Carter is giving Detective Kerry Lewis the opportunity to confess anything she has done wrong whilst involved in the murder case the plot follows. 

Vlog 5 - The Report Scene

This was the day we spent in the chapel of our 6th form centre filming the report scene that will later be used in the exposition of our trailer for it's audio.

Character List

Beneath are the list of characters that will be in our trailer. Some are main characters see throughout, others just passing characters that we see very briefly.

Detective Carter - Dorthea Darby
Detective Lewis - Daljit Kaur
Fr. Anthony - Eisen Eugenio
Main Victim - Ciara Gay
Potential Suspect - Cedric Onchuru
News Reporter - Alicia Jordan
Victim 2 - Patrick Manginsay
Confessor - Chantelle Anonuevo

Vlog 4 - St. Anthony's with The Priest

Filming inside the church to get some shots of the actor playing the priest in a religious environment.

Vlog 3 - Inside St. Anthony's Church

This day was used to get some establishing shots of the inside of the church, enabling us to continue to establish religious iconography.

Music Research

When finding music for our trailer, we want to find a number of royalty free tracks that create both suspense and a sense of accelerating drama as the trailer progresses. We need to have multiple tracks so that the music does not become boring for the audience, and also to show the change in pace from the beginning to the end. Some options for music are:




Straight away this piece opens with an eery sound to set an ominous tone. The lack of time signature, as well as creative use of silence and diminuendo on the sound effects in the first 5 seconds is quite disorientating for the listener. This is then punctuated by the entrance of the drums, which follows a driving rhythm that continuously builds throughout the piece, until we eventually reach the climax point when the cymbals enter. This progressive development increases the tension and excitement felt by the audience as the piece goes on, which may make it useful to use towards the climax of our own trailer.



The melodic motif heard at the beginning of the piece is based loosely on a minor triad, which sets quite a dark tone to the piece. The introduction of the drums could be used in our trailer to represent the violence in our plot.



The use of fast quaver rhythms almost immediately, coupled with the crescendo and addition of more instruments heard for the first 50 seconds of the music makes this section of the piece appear to be where the drama builds. We could use this part of the music after the exposition of our trailer, where the pace of the plot will begin to quicken.


The piece uses a lot of supernatural noises which create a sense of foreboding. It is also atonal, so there is no sense of the music settling or being defined by key which is both disorientating and disconcerting for the listener. Although it is unclear where, having this somewhere in our trailer would help to establish the horror genre.



The vocal part of this piece sounds quite hymn-like, which is an aural representation of the religious aspects of our plot. The use of semitones in the melody helps to establish the minor key, and the build from a solo to choral vocal part also helps to build the tension created by dissonance via suspensions in the accompanying choir part.


The lyrics "Darkness is coming" represent the genre of horror well because darkness is often used to show the presence of evil. The choir arrangement of this piece adds to the religious representations that we need to put in our trailer.

Film Plan Sheet

This is what our group has planned for the film days ahead for our upcoming film trailer 'Penance'.

Vlog 2 - London Establishing Shots

These shots were taken around Westminster to really establish that our media product is set in London. We got a mixture of pan, tilt and still shots so we would have a lot to choose from. We will edit this footage later on in order to portray the dystopian side of the trailer.

Storyboard

 

This was the initial storyboard we planned on sticking to for the trailer, however it has been changed in order to help introduce the characters earlier in the plot and to make a more organised structure like traditional film trailers have. Here we still bring in the establishing shot of London to present the main location as well as violence and religious iconography. We plan on keeping some of this initial planning but want to change the order or add and remove a few bits, in order to make a more thrilling trailer.