Choices Made

Title- ‘Ready or Not’

Choosing the title of our film was very difficult, we only decided on a name after we had finished editing the film as we spent a lot of time trying to think of a perfect title to reflect what our film is about. Some of the other film names we came up with were, ‘Footsteps’, ‘Trapped’ and ‘Possession’. The group felt that these names were not very original and they didn’t fit with the storyline of our production well enough. We decided that ‘Ready or Not’ fitted best as the opening scene is almost like a game of hide and seek between the protagonist and the villain.

Production Company- ‘Nebula Productions’

Our original thoughts for the production company name was ‘Majestic Giraffe’, as were thinking of random word pairs and they sounded catchy together. Although we had come up with a good logo idea for this, with a walking giraffe, we felt it was too comical for a thriller production so we decided to change the name. After much discussion and brainstorming, we came up with a more sophisticated name- ‘Nebula Productions’.

We felt we could manipulate this name in order to achieve a space theme with the font of the writing and some space-like effects and animation. The darker colours in this logo set the mood of a thriller movie much better than our previous idea.

Music

We got our music from http://www.purple-planet.com. It is a website that offers loyalty free music that suits a range of genres; it made it easy for us to find thriller music and put it in our film.

‘The Orphanage’

We chose the song ‘The Orphanage’ in the ‘tense’ section of the website as we felt it sounded good as a sinister backing track without being overbearing for the viewer, allowing them to focus on what is happening in the film, yet still helping to set an ominous atmosphere.

We then added a sound called 'conspiracy and danger' to certain parts of our film to create tension when something out of the ordinary happens. We decided to use this for the deep bass notes which create an ominous tone. It also reaches a loud crescendo at the end which was perfect to fit in with the scream from Holly, leaving the audience on a cliff hanger.