Production Logo

We thought that our Production Logo could be of a tree that grew in a few seconds and then the company name could come up which in this case is "C.E.S Productions" which is just the initials of our names.

1. As we decided that the font of the title of our film would be in red that it could be a good idea for our production logo font to be in red. However, we thought that this didn't look that good as the colours clashed. Also, the positioning of the writing didn't look right.

2. The only colour that we thought would look right is white so we then tried it and it looked much better, giving it a more sinister feeling, as the white matched the sky.

3. This one doesn't look as good as the one before but we wanted to try different positions of where the name would go. This one didn't look good because of its position, as it took away part of the picture and made it look odd, as if it shouldn't be there.

4. This is our final Production Logo, which we think looked the best and had a good position on top of the image. It makes it look like the tree has grown out of the company name.

Journal Post 15/12/10

Today we got our storyboard finished and started to think about what our production logo could be. Unfornately we haven't yet decided who the characters will be played by in our title sequence which meant that the titles couldn't be written on the storyboard. 

We still need to:

• Analyse title sequence of The Lost Boys
• Get examples of what our Typography will be and choose the best one

We have also had to change the actress from my sister to Emily Hills who is a part of this group as my sister won't be able to be there when we want to take pictures and filming due to work.

Production Schedule

Filming: 4th January - 24th January

Editing: 24th January - 11th February

Personal Schedule

Over the Christmas Holidays I will have to be taking pictures of my sister, as she will be the person who is acting the role of the Vampire girl, because we want to include an idea of surveillance making it look like she is the prey of the Creator. I will take continuous pictures of her, for example when she is walking down a road or getting out of a car. This is because we want to make it into a clip for our title sequence so that it introduces the character. I will also take random pictures of her wearing different clothes so that it looks like she is being stalked. This is because we will be putting them into either a scrapbook or upon a wall so that it looks like she has been followed for a while.

Pre-Production Research

We conducted an interview with young teenagers to see what they thought of our ideas:


What do you think of the storyline?
- Seems interesting
- Good idea to do something based on Twilight


Would you go see it?
- Girls said yes
- Majority of boys said no


How do you think it could be improved?
- Needs to be elaborated
- Different sides good vs bad
- twists


Do you like Twilight?
- Yes
- Its interesting
- Surreal


Do you like Vampire films? Why?
- Never watched any
- Yes because they're out of the ordinary
- Not into Vampire films 

Researching the Teen Vampire Action Genre

 Things to think about for a Vampire film:

• Mortality and Mortification - How can they be finally killed? What injures them? e.g a stake through the heart, garlic, sunlight, holy water etc.
• Many films and TV shows play around with the folklore of Vampires. Would ours be different?
• Transmogrification - Becoming a vampire
• Motility - Can they turn into bats? Can they fly?
• Dentition - Are fangs fixed or retractable?

Teen Vampire Films:

• Fright Night (1985)
• Once Bitten (1985)
• The Lost Boys (1987)
• My best friend is a vampire (1988)
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)
• Lost Boys: The Tribe (2008)
• Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009)
• The Twilight Saga films; Twilight (2008), New Moon (2009), Eclipse (2010), Breaking Dawn.

Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant is a really good example when relating to our film. This is a clip from a fight scene of two half-vampires. It shows the darkness with the lighting in the scene and it shows the action.  
Budget: $40,000,000 (estimated)
Opening Weekend: $6,293,205 (USA) (25 October 2009) (3074 Screens)
Gross: $13,698,390 (USA) (15 November 2009)
I thought this was a good film to research because of the link in genre with our film. However, it didn't do very well in receiving profits.

The Action genre is where one or more heroes is thrust into a series of challenges that require

physical feats and extended fights. Story and character development are generally secondary to explosions, fist fights, gunplay and car chases. Action films have wide commercial appeal and typically enjoy box office success. The action film revolves around a hero or heroes and the obstacles their character(s) must overcome. 

Things to think about for an Action film:

• Time ticking down
• Theme songs
• Speed
• Gadgets
• Love interest
• Blood
• Close ups
• Fast pace
• Car chase
• Explosions
• High energy
• Physical stunts
• Rescues
• Heroes
• Villains

The Dark Knight: Batman, Gordon and Harvey Dent are forced to deal with the chaos unleashed by an anarchist mastermind known only as the Joker, as it drives each of them to their limits.

Budget: $185,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend: $158,411,483 (USA) (20 July 2008) (4366 Screens)

Gross: $533,316,061 (USA) (1 March 2009) 

Production co.: Warner Bros. Pictures

I chose to research The Dark Knight because it hasthe Action part of our genre and is very dark and twisted, although we don't want our film to be too dark because of the age range, we still want it to seem dark.

Bitten Pitch

Bitten pitch

This is our transformed film from LOVEBITE to Bitten.

Institution Research

Who would produce/distribute our film?

Warner Bros. Pictures

We chose this because of certain films that they have done, for example the Harry Potter films and the Batman films which relates to our dark and action part of our genre. However, they have also done films like Corpse Bride which is aimed at a younger audience but is very strange at the same time so I think that this would be perfect for our film.

Examples of films they have already distributed/produced: 

• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1
• Inception
• Clash of the Titans
• The Book of Eli
• Sherlock Holmes
• Terminator Salvation
• The Dark Knight
• Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
• Corpse Bride
• The Matrix

Production Brief/ Treatment

Project name: Bitten

Length: 90secs - 2mins

Deadline: Friday 11th February

Group members and their roles: Emily: Director; Me: Editor; Sonal: Camerawoman

Brief overview of content: A girl goes missing but is actually turned into a vampire, by an evil vampire that has been stalking her group of friends for a while and has decided they will be his victims (She was turned into a vampire so she could be the creator's mate, but she is heartbroken over her friends and boyfriend so he has set out to kill the rest so she can be his forever). She is declared dead by the police but her body is never found. After her funeral, her boyfriend is sure she is still alive, feeling like he keeps seeing her face everywhere he looks, and is determined to look for her. One of her friends is then killed and after a lot of detective work the rest of the group manage to find the evil vampire and go to find him. The girl manages to save them from being killed by killing her creator. She disappears from her friends so that she never hurts them but stays close enough to protect them from any more harm.

Target Audience: This film is targeted towards a female audience, around 12-19.

Possible scheduling publishing suggestions: During July/ August as our target audience would be out of school for their summer holidays so they would be able to see it.

What comparable products have you researched?: We have researched Tim Burton Opening Sequences as they are slightly eerie and are usually of a fantasy genre and also 'The Lost Boys' as that is a vampire film which relates to ours. We have also researched The Twilight Saga films as they are related to our niche audience. 

How will you test whether the product is successful? How will you check that it accomplishes the intended effect?:Through Audience Feedback.

What generic codes and conventions will be operating in your text?: The title of our film, Cast and Crew, an indication of the location, time and genre, introduction to a character, and we want to raise intriguing questions with the audience so that they are tuned in to our film and will want to continue watching it.

Identify any resource constraints (time, money, equipment, human resources) that might affect your production and your hopes for your product: I think this will take a lot of our time to film because of the many situations we want to include in it. We will need to buy a scrapbook and we will need to print a lot of pictures of the characters, as well as flowers for the funeral.

Journal Post 08/12/2010

Today in our groups we started to plan and re-evaluate our Title Sequence, which we found out wasn't thoroughly thought out and wasn't being thought of as a Title Sequence but more of a Trailer so we had to go back and change quite a few things. We decided to keep the plot basically the same but a few things had to either be cut or transformed into something that would go better for our film. We had difficulty with this because it threw us right off track and we clearly hadn't realised just how unorganised we were. However, I feel that we are back on track, having changed the title of the film and the genre we can now start to think of it more as a Title Sequence. We do still need to come up with another tagline for our film.

The Purpose of a Title Sequence

Tim Burton - Sweeney Todd

As our group were told to look at Tim Burton Opening Sequences as they could relate to our film, we looked at Sweeney Todd. It starts with Organ-like music which I think makes it seem very eerie and set in an older period, however I think it connotes to a Church which could lead to the film being set in a very Christianised time. It then goes into the first clue to the scene and location, the dark and thunderous sky makes it seem like the film is going to be very dark and gruesome, and you can see many a chimney which makes it look like it will be set in a busy city. The next clue we see about the film is when along with the rain drops there are blood drops which connotes to murder and death which makes the film seem even darker and that perhaps the main character is going to be evil. The blood that drips from the outside somehow seeps into the house which makes me think that his victims could be anywhere and that the blood and bodies gets everywhere. The blood then transforms into mince meat which suggests that whoever's blood that is they have become the meat and are going to be eaten.