Research - The Kuleshov Effect

The Kuleshov effect was discovered by Lev Kuleshov who was a Soviet filmmaker.

This is one of the techniques discovered through juxtaposition. His experiments and research led to him finding out that depending on how a certain shot is taken; the audience are able to attach a specific meaning or emotion to it. So in a way, it's what the audience stereotypes the actions to be.

To test his theory of how the audience viewing psychology; he carried out an experiment which used a picture of a man whose expressionless, a girl in a coffin, a bowl of soup and a pretty woman on the coach. The results of the experiment said that the audience saw the man being sad (picture with the girl in the coffin), the man was hungry (picture with the bowl of soup) and the man was lustful (picture with the pretty woman on the coach).

Even though the man showed no expression in the scene before each picture; the audience was still able to come up with a different emotion for each of the different 2-sequence footage.

Our group can apply this effect onto our trailer through the use of a hidden priest followed by a shot of the weapon. The audience will be able to tell that the person is a killer straightaway with the link of the two scenes. Another way this effect can be applied to our trailer is with a shot of the detective walking over to an area then another scene of a close-up of the hand of her picking up the piece of evidence. Straightaway, the audience will think that she's the jealous type or she's the convict possibly (the guilty party) with these 2-shots.

Film Intro drafts

Down below are the links to film intros we have been working on. It involves our company name "Hyde Productions" and "Universal" as universal own a separate distribution company that distributes horror films and our film is a hybrid of horror/slasher and dystopian future

There is also the distortion intro which we decided to use in the beginning of our trailer which was inspired from 'The Purge Trailer'. We decide to do this with the date and social media links as well combined with a glitch noise to create a better effect and add to the idea of chaos and disruption.

The great thing about this is that  we got input from a variety of different people who were able to tell us what was good and bad and eventually we ended up with the distortion effect rather than using video loops like before which makes it ook more proessional





Link 2






In the end we went with this last one because it works well in showcasing our genre. The distortion effect is used effectively in 'The Purge' to present the same idea. It stands out as well and looks more professional than the others.

Vlog 8

Here we were filming a short clip of a scene to be used in the montage.

Vlog 7

This Vlog is of the scene where a victim is abused to death. This is to help indicate the stalker/slasher scenes with more emphasis with the actual iconography of blood and characterisation. This shows several ways and shots of showing this genre.

Vlog 6

This is a quick vlog on the staircase scene of both detectives, this would be the scene to help intensify both partners at their work with the case they both have.

Vlog 5

This is a Vlog for the news report and the interview with the "Priest". This is the significant link towards religion with the dystopian future aspect and his opinion with the murders.

Vlog 4

Another Vlog in the church, attempting several different shots of the priest.

Vlog 3

In order to have religious iconography we would have to take shots from the church. This is a vlog to represent the day spent taking establishing shots and stills of the church.

Vlog 2

This is the second day of filming for Hyde Productions and we followed the plan we created earlier in the year. We filmed establishing and pan shots of parliament with big ben and the river thames. These shots are going to suggest to the audience that the film is set in London.

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Vlogs 1

This is our first vlog as a film production "Hyde Productions".

Our first film location is the outside of St. Antony's church.

We decided to take a few shots of the outside of the church in order to represent the religious iconography and to possibly be used to represent the dystopian future with editing.

Trailer inspiration examples

Inspiration #1 - The Lazarus Effect




The inspiration we plan to gain from this trailer is the use of the inter titles to create a very dramatic effect and helps bring the trailer to the climax with the shuttering image that was in sync with the sound used. It helps bring the horrific ambiance to the trailer especially for a climax, it will appeal to the audience more effectively

Inspiration #2.The Devil Inside

This trailer involves religious iconography, we take inspiration from this trailer to portray religion throughout the trailer in order to create emphasis on the inportance of religion. The basement scene at the end has brought to thought that such a scene should be included in our trailer, bringing a dark enclosed end to the trailer to bring thriller to the slasher genre we have.

Storyboard ideas for trailer

Sketches and notes provided by Chantelle A.



This was the initial storyboard process we planned on sticking to for the trailer, however it has been changed in order to help introduce the characters earlier in the scene and making a more organised formation like traditional film trailers do.Here we still bring in the establishing shot of London to present the main location as well as violence and religious iconography. We plan on keeping some of this initial planning but want to change the order or add and remove a few bits in, in order to make a more thrilling trailer.

Character Lists Trailer

Beneath are the list of characters that would be used for our trailer. These are the main characters and not all and some have minor roles compared to others in the trailer.

Detective Carter - Dorthea Darby
Detective Lewis - Daljit Kaur
Fr. Anthony - Eisen Eugenio
Main Victim - Ciara Gay
Potential Suspect - Cedric Onchuru
News Reporter - Alicia Jordan
Victim 2 - Patrick Magansay
Confessor - Chantelle Annonuevo

Trailer Shot lists

Shot Lists

Establishing shots:

·      We went Central London to get shots of London (Parliament building and bridges).

·      The Church to get the religious element of the film we needed to take shots outside and within the church.

Mid Shots:

·      The news report scene as this is typically used.

·      Also inside the church with the priest and or statues to connote the religious iconography.

Two Shots:

·      The news report interview with the priest to introduce him.

·      The detectives at the crime scene in three different scenes to represent two parts of their relationship, their partnership and the difficulty the have.

Long Shot:

·      The chase scene with the apparent suspect. Also, we see the church and the priest to make him appear innocent and mundane.

Tracking Shot:

·      The priest walking in the church to give more detail into his character.

Shot-reverse-shots:

·      This will be used to portray the difficult relationship between the detectives only and portray one of them as a ‘fake’ suspect.

Over-the-shoulder shot:

·      This will be used to show the real suspect and their lair where they plan things.

Eye line match:

·      This will be used to show the apparent suspect loitering about before being caught.

Cutaway:

·      This will be use to show how society has crumbled in the dystopian society.

Victim scene preperation

We filmed a scene exhibiting the more stalker/slasher elements of our trailer by using the basement underneath the school to shoot a victim scene. We wanted the mise-en-scene t play a significant role part in this scene so we used make yp on our actress to make her appear dirty and bruised as though she had been trapped in the basement for a while. We also put rips into her shirt to heighten the idea of her being abused by her captor