CCR

Final Project

Today is the Day

Today is the day that I was going to film but as with everyday in South Florida the weather is unpredictable, we got all of our equipment and actors out on a back road near US-27 to begin filming when the rain started to come down hard, and it didn't stop raining the entire day.I am going to have to postpone my filming and I will add my completed storyboard in my next blog posting.

My Cast

I casted two of my friends to act as the killer and at least one of the victims.

Vicente Faret:

Vicente will most likely be playing the murderer in the story, although we won't ever actually see his face, I feel that his presence as someone who is six foot tall can be made to seem intimidating to the audience.
















Wade Iben:

Wade and his goofy personality (as you can tell by the photo) I believe will be perfect to play one of the victims (I haven't decided if there will be more yet) his ability to contort his facial expressions I believe will help the audience relate to him as a victim.

Finalization of my idea...

So, after many hours of deliberation with myself over what my plot should be, our class had our first group meetings. Going in I still didn't have the best grasp over what I wanted to do with my opening but I was planning on using the input that my peers provided me with to help build it. So once my turn rolled around, ideas just came spewing out, and eventually I found my plot. It is going to be about a serial killer who disguises himself as the victims. I would like the intro to not show the killer, much like "Jaws" never actually shows the entire shark just parts of it's body.

"Jaws" (1975)

I'm going on a trip to California next week so my plan is to film this weekend then edit the next.

Even More Inspiration

In my last posting I discussed how I wanted to incorporate a car chase then quickly realized how unrealistic that was, however in the days since a new bad car experience occurred in my life. While driving down some back road by himself at night my friends car broke down, and the car wouldn't even start when we tried to jump it. So him, another friend of mine, and I were all out there until about 4 in the morning trying to start his car until eventually we had to be picked up by his aunt who lived about an hour away. But, this terrible experience gave me the perfect idea for my film opening, while a kids car brakes down one night he is attacked or some sort of thing like this. One scene I am taking inspiration from is a scene from the first episode of Stranger Things in which Will is kidnapped. 

Stranger Things: (Start from 5:06)

I haven't quite worked out the logistics of it but a picture is beginning to form in my head of what I want to see out of it. According to psychologytoday.com, fear of death, the dark, creepy crawly things, scary places, disfigurement, dismemberment, suspense, spooky music, lightning and thunder, and fear of the unusual are what makes horror movies scary and I am confident that I can incorporate many of these things into my two minutes. 


Citations:
 Riggio, R. E., Ph.D. (n.d.). The Top Ten Things That Make Horror Movies Scary. Retrieved March 17, 2017, from https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/cutting-edge-leadership/201410/the-top-ten-things-make-horror-movies-scary

Inspiration

I finally have an idea of how I want my opening to start, and I found inspiration in quite an unusual way. Me and my friends were on I-595 blasting the radio, and then a thought popped into my head that no one would want a driver to be thinking at that moment, I thought to myself: "Woah, if I were to crash right now the world would continue turning and the radio coming out of my speakers would continue to play." Then another thought popped into my head: "That would make a really cool movie opening." So after I got home that night I began to look up some movies that had integrated a crash sequence, whether it was intentional or not. The best one's that I found were from movies like Fast and Furious, and The Matrix Reloaded.

The Fast and Furious:

The Matrix Reloaded:

After watching these videos I believe that it would just be super unrealistic to do anything related to a car crash. So then I thought about something a little more realistic like a car breaking down, but this means I have to come up with a whole new idea.