Where i got 'The Woods' idea

Over the past couple of years i have watched many horror films. Not many of which were slashers though. When thinking of the idea for the film i tried to think of my favourite slasher horror films for inspiration. The main one that came to my mind was Friday the 13th which is set in the woods with a murderous man in a hockey mask killing teenagers. This film gave me the idea of the woods as a setting. The idea of the killer being a ghost came from just watching horror films general as this makes the film seem more spooky and paranormal. I needed  to give the characters a reason to enter the woods and thought that the idea of entering as a dare or just curiosity would make the plot seem believable.

Storyboard - Main story

Storyboard - Opening Sequence

Film company logo

I originally created this logo to go on the title screen of the film but it is a very nice logo therefore i have adopted it as my logo for the group. 

Creation of the heart beat sound

I created the heart beat sound FX using a program called Fruityloops studio 10. The heart beat sound was created using a bass drum found in the default libary. I selected an area low down on the keyboard and repeated   a low sound quickly followed by a slightly higher bass sound every second. I then exported the music file as an mp3.

Soundtrack problem

Our group was unaware about the soundtrack being our own work. We have used a few copyright free soundtracks found from various places on the web. However we didn't really have a lot of time to create the soundtrack and lack of experience made this much harder. The special effects are our material created by me using the software 'Garageband'.

Inspirational posters

The cabin fever poster is an inspiration because it shows a tree in black and white which represents a forest/woods which is the setting used for our film. The Friday the 13th poster is also set in the woods but also shows a picture of the killer in the center of the poster.