Wes Craven Director Study:

Wes Craven is an American director and writer, known for creating some of the most famous horror films of all time. His successful films include the “Nightmare on Elm Street” series, the “Scream” series; The Hills have Eyes, The Last House on the Left and Red Eye.
After working as a teacher and a taxi driver, Craven became a sound editor in New York. After co-directing a few films, Craven made the horror film “The Last House on the Left”, released in 1972 which was a big success. His second film “The Hills have Eyes” also won a critic’s prize at the Sitges Festival. Craven then went on to produce may other projects and in 1984 he released his best known work by directing and writing “A Nightmare on Elm Street”. After many moderate successes (mainly sequels to earlier films) he then created and directed the hit film “Scream” and its successful sequels. However, after “Scream”,
Craven moved away from directing just “pure horror” films and made the drama/musical “Music of the heart”. Ever since then all of Craven’s films, even the horror films, have a slight twist in them that incorporates some other genres. For example in 2005, Craven directed the hit Thriller “Red Eye”. The film starts off like it is romantic comedy yet it soon turns into a thriller/horror.
As for the future, Wes Craven is currently “in development” of 3 films after a 4 year break so it seems we will be seeing some of his work in the near future.

Shots we took and risk assesments.

There was one shot in our film that we were struggling with, the road shots. We thought about it often and when the time came to try out our ideas, there was no problem. We asked Ren's brother if it was possible to use his car for the shot, he agreed and was also our driver. We then used my camera from home to do all the shots so incase there was a problem we wouldn't damage the school cameras. We held my tripod, with the camera attached out of the sunroof of the car with the screen tilted downwards so we could see the shots we were filming without ourselves having to be out of the sunroof. Everyone was safe and the shots worked perfectly, although a little wobbley. (Once sped up in editing it looked great and added realism.)

The music.

The music fits perfectly with our film after a few nips and tucks of editing. The only problem being now that the eery heaven like music clashes compleatly with the beat we have for the title. We're wondering if this is perhaps good as it shocks our audience or if it will loose their attention. We are in the process of testing this on several peers.

Unabriged film, title choice, plus music details.

The film has been refusing to upload at the moment but hopefully within a few days we'll be able to post the unfinished version.

The film is mostly edited although there are credits, change of soundtrack and a few little editing tweeks to still be done.

We decided to call our film 'The Façade' because of the masked theme throughout. Façade is a term derived from the French, the literal meaning being appearence. In english the term façade is 'to cover up to have a facade is to have a different side of you, or have a side your hiding etc. Note the word is said with a soft c it is not said 'fakade'.

The reason for the music change was due to the music being a little simple, not fitting to the movement on screen and the club like beats in the background were unsuitable really.
I have changed the music to an eery heaven like chorus of vocals with an intro, bassline etc. All this was done on a newer edition of garage band using volume master which changed and helped alot. I made sure movet and pace of the track fitted together simultaniously by checking the time per second on quicktime player and co-insiding this with the time per second on garage band. It was close to impossible to play both of these at the same time without downloading the music and film onto someone elses laptop so i await to see if the time of the film and music co-incide when we download the music onto imovie. wish us luck. :)