Let Me In (2010) IMDb research and facts.. AM

'A bullied young boy befriends a young female vampire who lives in secrecy with her guardian'

Director: Matt Reeves

Taglines: Innocence dies. Abbey doesn't

Motion Picture Rating (MPAA): Rated R for strong bloody horror violence, language and breif sexual situation
UK: 15

Production Co: EFTI, Goldcrest Post Production London, Hammer Film Productions

Runtime: 116 minutes

The Blair Witch Project..IMDb research and facts.. AM

'In October of 1994, three student film makers disappeared in the woods, near Burkittesville, Maryland. One year later, their footage was found'

Directors: Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sanchez

Synopsis: Three film students travel to Maryland to make a student film about urban legend.. The Blair Witch. The three went into the woods on a two day hike to find the Blair Witch and never came back. One year later, the students film and video was found in the woods. The footage was compiled and made into a movie. The Blair Witch Project.

Taglines: Everything you've heard is true

Motion Picture Rating (MPAA): Rated R for language
UK: 15

Production Co: Haxan Films

Runtime: 81 minutes
Soundmix: Dolby SR

Friday the 13th (2009) IMDb research and facts.. AM

'A group of young adults discover a boarded up Camp Crystal Lake, where they soon encounter Jason Voorhees and his deadly intentions'

Director: Marcus Nispel

Synopsis: Young friends Whitney, Mike, Richie, Amanda and Wade, end up missing in the woods near the abandoned Camp Crystal Lake, after allowing their curosity to get the better of them and visiting the site where a psychopathic killer resides. Meanwhile Trent, invites friends Jenna, Bree, Chewie, Chelsea, Lawrence and Nolan to his cabin on the lake for a weekend of sex, booze and drugs. However, this seemingly fun weekend soon escalates into a nightmare after lone traveler Clay shows up looking for his missing sister Whitney and the young adults soon find themselves face to face with evil reborn, reimagined and rebooted, and his name is Jason Vorhees.

Taglines: 'Jason lives. Many will die.'
'Prepare for the day everyone fears'
'You know his name. You know the story. On Friday the 13th, witness his ressurection'

Genre: Horror

Motion Picture Rating (MPAA) - Rated R for some strong bloody violence, some graphic sexual content, language and drug material



UK: 18

Ireland: 18



Company Credits

Production Co: New Line Cinema, Paramount Pictures, Platinum Dunes

Technical Specs

Runtime: 97 min
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital

Online resources.. AM

http://www.bfi.org.uk/education/teaching/pdfonlyresource/doing_media_research2.pdf

Whist doing research on the British Film Institute website, I have come across this website which is a 36 page booklet for students on how to complete their media research. I feel that this is really useful and by working with tips from this booklet, it can complement our research and help us along the way.

Tips for Better Film Editing...AM

1. Cut Tight - taking out unnecessary pauses between actors' delivery of dialogue lines. This may mean having to tighten the gaps within dialogue sentences or losing redundant lines of dialogue
2. Temp music - people tend to fall in love with the temp score and then it is hard to get real music that feels good and temp music thus becomes a crutch. If a scene can stasnd on its own, the addition of sound effects and a score will make it better - expectation is a visual montage set to music.
3. No 'Dragnet' edits - original Dragnet television series used a certain approach to cutting dialogue scenes - audio and video edits tended to be made as straight cuts betwen actors without overlaps as they delivered their lines. Our brains react better to edits where the change in picture and sound is not always together - split edits 'Lcuts/Jcuts'. Editing in a style where images often precede or follow the dialogue edit feel more natural to our minds and make the scene flow more smoothly.
4. Matching action - Important = matching actors' hand positions, use of props, eyeline and stage position. The greatest weight is given to whether that cut drives out the emotion of the scene or moves the story along. The audience will often ignore many minor continuity differences from one shot to the next if they stay totally engrossed in the story - job as the editor is to cut in ways that they do.
5. Moving camera shots - In an action scene, moving the camera around is a stape of action sequences. This is designed to create a level of tension.
6. Don't cut back to the exact same angle - If you have a choice of several camera angles, do not automatically cut back to the same angle which was used in the previous shot.
7. Cut for the eyes - When cutting an intense dialogue scene, look at how the actor's eyes play in the scene. Do they convey the proper emotion? What is the reaction of the other actors in the scene?
8. Shaping story - It is said that there are 3 films: the one that's scripted, the one that's been filmed and the one that's edited. When editing, pay close attention to the story chronology and don't be afraid to veer from what was written or filmed if it makes sense to do so. Notecards on a story board help create a visual representation of the storyline. This helps to ensure that you reveal things to the audience in the most logical order and that nothing is inadvertently edited out of place.
9. Make your choices, but be prepard for others - The choices you make in cutting tightly or altering an actor's performance all factor into the look and feel of the film. E.g. you can heighten the tension between characters in a scene by cutting their dialogue in a way that one actor overlaps or steps on, the other actos lines. When you make such a choice, it alters the emotion of the scene and should be done only if that serves the story.

Glossary of camera and editing techniques...HT

http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/short/gramtv.html

^^^ we should refer to these when we come to editing our teaser trailer and use them to create the tension and suspense our teaser trailer is wanting to achieve.

How to create tension within a scene...HT

This website gives a good insight into how we can shoot a scene with creating the most suspense as our main focus. This website gives a step by step guide to help organise a group into filming a supsense filled scene and also what to do and what NOT to do, when wanting to create a film full of suspense and tension. One thing which this website makes very clear we will be doing when we film and edit our teaser trailer is NOT to show the 'scary thing'. This will help to make tension rise dramatically. Another thing to take into account in the editing stages of things is to try and portray all sights, music and feelings through sound effects.

This website also reflects the view and thought our group had which was to make the 'scary thing' visisble but not easy to see, this will leave the audience guessing who or what is around involving them in the story. An example of this can be seen in the strangers when the girl is in the kitchen and you can see in the background the stranger walk in building supsens of what he might do next.

Another thing which makes strangers such a tension filled piece is the use of masks this leaves the audience having to guess who the 'strangers' are, involving them in the piece and therefore capturing and keeping their attention.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KkOMxTFUFaoJ:www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Suspenseful-Scene+how+to+edit+to+create+tension%23&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk