This document contains a student's proposal for a short horror film project. The proposal outlines the student's rationale for choosing film as their area of activity, describing skills gained from previous media projects. The concept involves a group lost in woods being followed by an invisible monster. Research plans include existing horror films, scripts, costumes, effects, lighting and music. A production schedule is provided across 18 weeks for tasks like research, experiments, planning, production, editing, evaluation and presentation.

1. Proposal
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Centre Name and Number:
York College 48357
Student Name and Unique Learner Number:
Charlie Watson
Project proposal title and date:
The Box
Main area of activity:
My in area of activity will be in film.
Rationale:
Throughout the last two years I have created products such as a music video, podcast and a video
game and a short documentary. I have learnt vital skills in software such as Premiere Pro,
Photoshop, Audition, and InDesign. I have learnt how to edit clips together, add various effects to
clips, add music coordinated with clips and various other skills I would need to create a short film.
The print skills I have learnt during the magazine project I did will also be helpful for creating things
like posters and DVD covers. Audio skills that I learnt during making a podcast/radio show will also
be helpful during the production stage as I can create interesting sounding audio to go over the
video section of my video, foley skills wish I also learnt during the audio task will be helpful as
resources for recording sound on the days of filming could potentially be limited.
Project Concept:
My project is going to be a short horror film about a group of people who get lost in some woods
and are followed by a monster they cannot see. I also plan to create a poster to go alongside.
There is a lot of research I will need to conduct to make sure I have the best idea for what I am
doing when planning out and creating my project. I will research existing films, within the same
genre and themes. I will research scripts and storyboards and shot lists from already existing films,
costume design specifically for villains/monsters, SFX and postproduction. Alongside this I will
research lighting and camera techniques used in the horror genre and music in the horror genre as
the score is a particularly important part of creating atmosphere and tensity in films. Researching
these things will really help me in production as I will have a noticeably clear idea of what I am
doing going into it, especially since there is a lot of uncertainty around the production aspect of this
project now.
How will the project be evaluated and reviewed?
I plan to evaluate my work by doing an evaluation at the end of every day, writing about positives
and negatives, what I could have done better and including screenshots of the work I have done. I
will also do a final evaluation once the project is completed. I also plan to do a peer evaluation at
the end of the production stage, which alongside my own evaluation, I hope will help me to
understand strengths and weaknesses better than I have done with past products. Although this is
my final evaluation, I hope to use it to develop on my work and methods of working if I choose to
go into higher education.

2. Proposal
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Bibliography:
1. BirdBox, 2018, producedbyDylan Clark,ChrisMorgan (distributedbyNetflix) 124
minutes
2. Charlie Watson. (2021) Target Audience Research Survey (conducted in February 2021)
3. Carrol, N (2003). The Philosophy of Horror.?: Taylor & Francis. 272
4. Dan Firth. (2021) Target Audience Interviews (conducted in February 2021)
5. Reyes, X (2016). Horror Film and Affect.?: Taylor & Francis. 206.
6. Hush, 2016, producedbyMike Flanagan,Kate Siegel,(distributedby Netflix) 81minutes
7. The Blair WitchProject,1999, producedbyRobinCowie,GreggHale (distributedby
ArtisanEntertainment)81 minutes
8. The CreepyHorror Podcastby JohnGrilz
9. The Invisible Man, 2019, producedbyJasonBlum, Kylie DuFresne (distributedby
Universal Pictures) 124minutes
10. Squires, J. (2020). Bloody Disgusting. Available: https://bloody-disgusting.com.
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Week Tasks to be Completed: Specific Tasks
1 Pre-production  Background research – Researching existing
directors.
2 Pre-production  Background research & Proposal - Proposal and
contextual proposal
3 Pre-production  Research- primary and secondary - Researching
existing films, posters and DVD covers.
4 Pre-production  Research- primary and secondary - Audience
research
5 Pre-production  Experiments - Colour Grading
6 Pre-production  Experiments - Experimenting with audio
7 Pre-production  Pre-Production and planning - Location scouting,
shot list, storyboard.
8 Pre-production  Pre-Production and planning - Planning posters
and DVD covers.
9 Production  Production and reflections - Creating text
overlays.
10 Production  Creating poster - Creating 3 posters
11 Production  Draft peer feedback - Getting peer opinions on
work so far.
12 Production  Editing - Editing trailer
13 Production  Editing – Editing audio for trailer.
14 Production  Evaluation - Evaluating work
15 Evaluation  Evaluation - Evaluating work
16 Evaluation  Presentation - Preparing for presentation
17 Moderation  Prepare ideas and resources for show - Prepare
for show.
18 Show Preparation  Prepare for show – Prepare for show.
19 Show  Show Work - Presentation
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