The Cabin in the Woods
Storyline: Five teenagers head off for a weekend at a secluded cabin in the woods. They arrive to find they are quite isolated with no means of communicating with the outside world. When the cellar door flings itself open, they of course go down to investigate. They find an odd assortment of relics and curios but when one of the women, Dana, reads from a book she awakens a family of deadly zombie killers. There's far more going on however than meets the eye as the five campers are all under observation.
- The budget for this film was $30,000,000 (estimated), that is around £18,239,299. However this film made $66,486,080 (£40,421,984).
- The genres of this film are Horror, Mystery and Thriller.
- This film was filmed in the USA.
- The locations that were used to film this were Vancouver, British Colombia Institute of Technology, Coquihalla Canyon Provincial Park, and 2605 West 5th Avenue (Canada)
Title Sequence
- 0.00 - 0.016 - Lionsgate
- 0.022 - Lionsgate presents
- 0.029 - A mutant enemy production
- 0.34 - A Drew Goddard Film
- 0.41 - Cabin in the Woods
- 0.46 - Kristen Connolly
- 0.51 - Chris Hemsworth
- 0.55 - Anna Hutchison
- 1.00 - Fran Kranz
- 1.05 - Jesse Williams
- 1.10 - Richard Jenkins / Bradley Whitford
- 1.15 - Directed by Joss Whedon
Planning
I am booking out my equipment for my filming on the 14th February.
The locations that I will be using will be an alley next to Swan park. I will be doing a tracking shot going through the alley almost as if someone is walking through it. There will also be several shots of the view and the alley to show where the scene is taking place. I will do this to set the mood/atmosphere of the film. I am going to film my opening on a day where it is gloomy and dark. I want the weather to be gloomy and miserable as it will contribute to the horror genre. I will then have a boy walking through the alley way turning around and constantly thinking that he is being followed, he then proceeds to light a cigarette and he is still conscious of the things around him. He carry's on walking when a friend calls him to see where he is and he says the near 'The Laurels'. This is when the audience will know something is going on. In the next shot we see the boy running and he has dropped his cigarette on the ground, this makes the audience wonder what has happened and what was said on the phone. It also makes the audience want to watch on to find out what will happen later on this the film.
After I finished filming
I filmed many different shots and then I edited them together to make all the action flow together smoothly. I filmed several shots that I could not use as they were not still, I could not use them as my film would otherwise not look professional. To edit all my shots together I used 'Final Cut Express'. To get all my footage onto Final Cut Express, I had to import it onto 'iMovie' and then through that programme I could import it onto Final Cut Express.
To get all my music for my film opening I used a website called 'audionetwork.lgfl.org.uk', I spent a lot of time on this website choosing the appropriate music for my piece. The music that I finally chose were: 'Way of Life' and 'Frozen Teardrop'. The first piece of music is light and calm which is suitable for the first section of my film opening as there is not action going on. However Frozen Teardrop is very mysterious and creates tension, this is a perfect piece for the second section of the film opening as it creates tension and it makes the audience wonder what is going to happen.
The Final Destination
Storyline : In a car race in McKinley Speedway, twenty-something Nick has a premonition of a deadly car crash with many casualties in the audience and convinces his girlfriend Lori and his friends Hunt and Janet to leave the place. They are followed by the security guard; a racist guy; a mother with her children and a mechanic, that are saved from death. When the racist guy and the mother die in mysterious and creepy incidents, Nick and Lori research and find many similar cases in Internet. They try to lure The Ripper to break the chain of deadly events and survive, but destiny does not help them.
- The budget for this film was $40,000,000 (estimated) and it made $186,167,139
- The genres of this film are Horror and Mystery.
- This film was filmed in the USA.
- The locations that were used when filming where Harahan, New Orleans (Louisiana), Mobile (Alabama) and Orlando (Florida)
Title Sequence
- 0.00 - 0.04 - 'The Final Destination'
- 0.07 - Bobby Campo
- 0.12 - Shantel VanSanten
- 0.16 - Krista Allen
- 0.22 - and Mykelti Williamson
- 0.26 - Nick Zano / Haley Webb
- 0.32 - Andrew Fiscella / Justin Welborn
- 0.35 - Casting by David H. Rapaport, csa / and Lindsey Hayes Kroeger, csa
- 0.38 - Costume Designer Claire Breaux
- 0.41 - Associate Producer Tawny Ellis-Lehman
- 0.44 - Visual Effects Supervisor Erik Henry
- 0.48 - Music by Brian Tyler
- 0.51 - Music Supervisor Dana Sano
- 0.56 - Co-Producer Art Schaefer
- 0.59 - Edited by Mark Stevens
- 1.01 - Production designer Jaymes Hinkle
- 1.05 - Director of Photography Glen MacPherson, asc, csc
- 1.11 - Executive producers Richard Brener / Walter Hamada / Sheila Hanahan Taylor
- 1.16 - Produced by Craig Perry / Warren Zide
- 1.19 - Written by Eric Bress
- 1.25 - Directed by David R. Ellis
