Title of our Film

P R E Y   F  O R   H E R 

As a group, we were raking our brains to decide on a suitable title for our film... our ideas ranged from a variety of things - from symbolic dates/times in relation to our initial thoughts of Annika's father phoning her and ordering 'same time, same place'. Another idea was tied in with the religious/spiritual theme, perhaps, including something to do with Satan or a Devil worshipper. 


We eventually decided to go ahead with the religious concept  - many of us really liked the idea of something involving a Prayer. We experimented by incorporating both numbers and letters into the title: 'Pr3yer' -- the 3 illustrating the Trinity (similar to the title of se7en), however, it was simply a case of trial and error and we decided against this. We finally set our minds on the idea of 'Prey For Her' - can be thought of in two separate meanings - as it sounds like PRAY, yet is PREY. Again, allowing the religious idea of praying (for justice/freedom?) to seek through as well as her being her father's prey...

Broken Clock Archive + LGFL Audio Work

Our scary film company logo was finally completed on Friday. We produced the logo on iMovie, having created the text by downloading an 'Urban Font' - a scratchy, typewriter effect - then made it flicker using 0.1 second flashes on each new text box created. Not much other editing was done on this logo, as the image itself was quite a clever shot of me (photographed outside Forty Hall).

As our entire opening does not have any consistent music/soundtrack except from the reversed Swedish talking/whispers, we thought it be perfect to add a good set of sounds to our film company logos. LGFL Audio Work do a website where we are permitted to use their music for our exam! We searched "scratch" and once finding the one we liked, we recorded it on iMovie microphone and added it to our piece. I think the music really completes the logo, making it appear much more professional - allowing the audience to focus on the sudden appearance of our logo - Broken Clock Archive.
[include screenshot of the music we used]

Cat Theme

Cats have always been an animal associated with mystery and uncertainty - sometimes, even considered to be the Omen. Their startling eyes have always struck people to assume their presence is somehow related to Satan or perhaps, a religious spirit. Our film opening is not an outright horror genre as such, however, after seeing The Rite, it is apparent that cats do add a creepy element to any film which is why we chose to include it in ours. The cat in our opening is a small flashback (during Annika's thought process after being asked an interview question) - the cat suggests an aspect of childhood and youth, which she casts her mind back to.         

                                  

New Footage/Walking Shot

After going through everything we filmed last Tuesday at the Priory, despite the majority being outtakes - we realised we had the two clips which are perfect to slot into our opening. 
The first being inside the car - Annika is being filmed from the side, looking through the car window -- appearing deep in thought, whilst she is being driven away to the Priory. During this, we have decided to have a background sound of the interview questions Annika was asked - repeatedly going through her mind. 
The second being a dolly shot of Annika walking - We filmed from the back of a car Annika walking through the pathway of the Priory, where the camera dollied away from her...increasing the isolation and desertion of the shot. Absolutely no sound will be in this final shot, as it emphasises the amount Annika is reflecting about what has and will happen. 
Overall, we are really pleased with Day 5 of filming and it seems to be that we have infact, completed all our filming! (unless we still need to film some small clips of Lilly?) but all our stuff with Annika is done, and we can now concentrate on making everything perfect. 

Second Logo Idea

The creation of another possible logo...

As we are going to have Mollie and her doughnut, as our other logo - we decided to produce something a little more sinister. This is me! Standing outside Forty Hall after Millie used a fancy effect on her camera. 

Religious Idea

Inspired by Devil: 
The film opens up with a quote from the bible, “Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour, 1 Peter: 5-8,” to where the plot of the film follows this quote.
                                                          
After doing a little group research, we found some religious verses which we may extract and translate into Swedish.


1:24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:

1:25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

1:26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature

Sound

Unintentionally, our group have created this sinister, rather haunting sound to use for our opening simply by reversing the Swedish audio clips we had recorded as a voiceover. At some points we have had more than one voiceover with a small whisper or soft calling of 'Annika', adding a peculiar effect to our entire opening. From the very beginning, we were in two minds as to whether to use a a soundtrack throughout and didn't even know where to start in GarageBand. However, now we have found this simple reversed technique, we can always add small accents of different sounds using GarangeBand further into our project.