Main Task Film Name and Production Company Logo

Main Task Film Name

When researching what i should title my main task as, I thought that i should use a straight forward title, that represented the theme of my film quite well. The theme of my main task circles around an experience involving the perception of someone really important in life not being present.  I decided to research different words that would best reflect psychological horror and the situation of the whole film as well as a title that would be easy to remember and read.

HALLUCINATIONS

A hallucination  is seeing, hearing, tasting, feeling, or smelling something that is not there. Therefore, some people experiencing hallucinations may be aware that the perceptions are false, whereas others may truly believe that what they are seeing, hearing, tasting, feeling, or smelling is real. 

This name fits in with our main task and pitch as the university student Leena Wilkes (Oria Malik) has lost her mum because she has died, but due to this loss she is now having Hallucinations of someone always watching over her and gets freaked out every time shes alone. This is also a Psychological disorder which again links up with the concept of Psychological horror and puts a straight forward message to our target audience.  

Why did you choose this title?
Why we chose this title?

We chose this title name because we thought that it very relevantly summed up our movie opening in one word, also we thought that it was quite an interesting title and could have a lot of meanings behind it, therefore grabbing the viewers attention. By using the word "Hallucinations" it suggests to our viewers that it will be a psychological horror, rather than slasher or comedy horror, which automatically attracts people that know they will enjoy a movie like ours.

What connotations do these words have?
The words that we have used to connotate our title represent mystery, psychological problems, a dark past and for something to have gone drastically wrong in their life.

How will this title appeal to your target audience?
We feel this title will appeal to our target audience because of the word "hallucinations". Our target audience are teenagers, and generally you can associate teenagers as sometimes feeling lost. Part of hallucinating is feeling lost. But because our title is short and sweet, we hope that it will leave the target audience intrigued and wanting to know more about the short clip, therefore resulting in more people coming to view it.

Production Company Logo

Why did you choose this text and design?
We chose this production logo because we thought it was an effective way to give the viewers a gist of what our film is about We also thought that it was clever to use the shape of a head with clog works filling it. We thought that this strongly linked with how the brain can work in many different ways and shows it clearly. For us, it worked because the film is about a young girl and she sees things in a different way to 'normal' people, so the picture with the clogs filling the head, represents how her brain works.

Do the colours or images have any specific connotations?

The colours we used are black, orange and grey.

The black represents darkness in someones life. Black is always associated with bad things, for example death or sadness. In our film, the main character loses her mother and her life is then full of sadness. Black is a mysterious color associated with fear and the unknown. It usually has a negative connotation (blacklist, black humor, 'black death'). Black is not a colour, it is the absence of all colour. This links with the way our main character feels after her mother has passed away. She feels her life has no meaning anymore.

Orange is associated with joy and sunshine. Orange represents enthusiasm, hope, happiness, determination, success, encouragement, and stimulation. Orange is a power colour. It is one of the healing colours. This colour links in with our main characters life because even though she has lost her mother, she still has hope in her life to finish her education and be successful with determination.


Grey is the color of sorrow. Grey is the symbol for security, maturity and dependability. It connotes responsibility and conservative practicality.Its energy imparts void, emptiness, lack of movement, emotion, warmth and identifying characteristics. Because of this, gray can be restful. It has a detached and isolated feeling. This strongly links in with our characters life because her life is empty with no meaning now that her mother is deceased. She also feels isolated because when she tells her friend that she see's her mother sometimes, her friend doesn't believe her. This causes Lena (main character) to feel lonely and isolated.

Psychological Horror Inspiration

Our inspiration for our Main Task has come from this film which is called the "Orphan", this  film is also a Psychological horror about a girl called "Esther", she has been adopted from an orphanage home after a couple has a miscarriage and sees no hope but to adopt a child. But the couple are unknown of what "Esther" has been through and what problems are awaiting with her presence in the family.

For our own Main Task we have decided to use a university student rather than a younger child because we think our target market will be more wider. We also thought that instead of the typical orphan we decided to make a unusual opening sequence by our protagonist already having loosed her mum and the opening would be the after life of this consequence for her, this would make it more interesting and scarier.

Main Task Storyboard

For our first shot we are going to be using a establishing shot of my house, this shot establishes the context because is shows the relationship between its important figures and objects.  We will also be adding an ambient sound effect to create a insecure atmosphere when the audience is looking at the frame.

For our second shot we will be using a long shot of our protagonist 'Leena Wilkes' and her friend 'Maya Stone', this shot typically shows the entire object or human figure and is usually intended to place it in some relation to its surroundings.

This is a mid shot of the two characters studying, and the protagonist is looking away. The reason why we chose to have Leena looking away was to show that she is being distracted by something and her mind is elsewhere. Also, we decided to change the characters names from Jennifer, to Lena and Ellie to Maya because we thought that the name Lena and Maya suited the characters face more than Jennifer and Ellie.  

For this shot, we decided to use a close up shot of Lena’s face to show the expression on it and to let the audience know that even though Lena is denying that anything is wrong. Her face expression is saying otherwise, and that perhaps she is holding her emotions in for some unknown reason. 

This is a close up shot of Maya talking to Leena. We have written that we'll use a close up shot, but we may change it to mid shot to enable the viewers to be able to read the top half of their body language. We are going to use shot reverse shot in this scene to show off the skills we learnt from the preliminary task. Also, we think that it is an appropriate technique to use to show off conversation.   

We used a close up point of view shot from Maya, facing Jennifer, this was to show the viewers her face expression so they can keep up with the story and understand it.

This is a mid shot of Maya from Leena's point of view, this was again used to show body language and to show that Maya is worried about her friend, Leena. 

This shot is a point of view from Maya, with a close up of Lena. This was used to build suspense and to let the viewers know that there is now definitely something wrong with Maya; we will fade out and into the next shot to create a sense of mystery

This shot is showing a pan movement around the room. It will be a long shot so they viewers can see what is going on. In the background there will be a suspicious non-diegetic soundtrack playing to create suspense.

This shot is a mid shot of Maya from Jennifer’s point of view, to show body language, the non-diegetic sound will still be playing in the background to create even more suspense

This is a close up of Lena from Maya's point of view to show emotion and a reaction shot from what Maya has just said. We used shot reverse shot in this scene because its the best way to show a conversation between two people.

This shot is a long reaction shot of Maya, after Jennifer has just said something to her. We chose to use a long shot so the viewer is able to read her body language.

This is a mid shot of Lena from Maya's point of view. We used mid shot because she was sitting down and we thought it would fit well

This shot shows Maya leaving the room with a long shot and pan movement. We may decide to have her doing a voice over talking about how worried she is about her friend Lena, this would allow the viewers to connect with the film because they have an insight into how she is feeling and that is something that only she would know.

This is a long shot showing Lena sitting down. We chose to use a long shot for this scene so that it is clear to the audience that after her friend, Maya leaves, she sits back down

This shot shows Lena's deceased mothers face appear on a TV screen, which turned on by itself. We will put some kind of non-diegetic horror/suspenseful soundtrack over this part.

This is a shot of Lena getting scared when the TV turns on. We chose for this shot to be close up so that the viewers are able to read Lena's expression easily. We will end this shot with it fading to black, this is to create a sense of mystery.

This shot will be a mid to long shot and it will shot Maya exiting the house but hearing a scream. Then it will suddenly go to a close up shot so the viewers are able to see the expression of worry on her face.

This will be a long shot of Maya rushing back in to the room, we have chosen for this shot to be a long shot so the viewers are able to see her walking fast, there will also be tense non diegetic music playing over this scene to make the viewers feel scared and tense.

This will be close up shot of Lena looking scared and nervous, we used a close up so the viewers are able to see her face clearly and follow along with the story-line.

This will be another close up of the TV from Maya's point of view with nothing on the screen, we chose for this shot to be a close up so it will become clear to the viewers that there is definitely something mentally wrong with the main character (Lena Wilkes)

This is a mid shot of Maya looking for the remote. We chose for this to be a mid shot so it is clear to the viewers what she is doing (looking for a remote).

This is a shot from Maya's point of view looking for the remote. We chose for for this to be a point of view shot so the viewers feel more connected with the film, seeing things from a characters eyes.

This shot shows Lena standing up to reveal that she was sitting on the remote. We have chosen for this shot to be a long shot so it is clear to the viewers that she stood up to reveal the remote

This is a shot from Maya's point of view, to reveal that she has seen the remote and she now thinks her friend has gone crazy.

This shot shows Maya and Lena having a heated discussion, a long shot is used so that the viewers are able to read the two characters body language, there may be some tense non diegetic music playing over this part.

This is a mid shot of Maya talking to Lena, this shot was used so that you are able to read the characters face expression as well as her body language

This is a shot of Lena crying, we chose for it to be a close up so that the viewers are able to see the distress on her face and feel sympathy towards her.