Sawyer Hartman

Sawyer Hartman is a You-Tuber that I've subscribed to, I watch his videos as it teaches me a variety of different filming techniques that I could use when creating my horror clip such as time-lapse, pull focus, worms eye view, aerial shot etc...

In this video Sawyer has collaborated with a variety of his best shots from the short films that had previously done and put it all into one video. My favorite short films of his are Welcome To Tokyo, Parallax, Lost Island and Strangers. Strangers was Sawyers second attempt at creating a short horror film which was a remake of the actual film 'Strangers' released in 2008 which is about a young couple staying in an isolated vacation home which are terrorized by three unknown assailants.

Playlist of his Short films



Short Horror film (Strangers) by Sawyer Hartman


Strangers • A Horror Film by Sawyer Hartman on Vimeo.

Schedule

Evil Dead Make-up tutorial

I was searching for videos on YouTube to show me how to recreate the special effects makeup that was done on the girl playing Mia in the film ‘Evil Dead’. I came across this video tutorial which showed really well how to do it, and decided to practice using SFX makeup on myself.

Deconstruct shot by shot

I have made a short presentation on prezi, which has detailed annotations of each different shot of the Evil Dead clip that i'm remaking.

Deconstructing Trailer & Poster

Evil Dead Clip

Why I've chosen to recreate a short clip from the film 'Evil Dead' is because after watching this movie I'm convinced that I'm capable of shooting a video to replicate a scene from this film. 

The scene that I'm making a short clip of is the part that the protagonist/main character is running through the woods after her car crashes into a lake where she sees this supernatural demon that shes running from through the woods and ends up tripping over branches and and falling into vines.

Reason why I've chosen to make this clip is because I have an advantage as there is a local woods in the area that I live in so I already know where I'll be filming for the location of my short remake of this clip, and I'll only need two actors;the female victim that'll be screaming and running through the woods and the villain which is the demon that'll be played by someone else.

Audience Research

THE CONJURING (Reactions to the clip)

In this video I have made I used three people’s reactions from watching a horror clip I had previously analysed. The clip they watched was from the movie ‘The Conjuring’ which is an American supernatural horror film that’s based on 2 paranormal investigators - Ed and Lorraine Warren who both work to help a family who are being targeted by a dark presence that’s haunting them in their farmhouse. Reason why I chose to show them this clip was to see what certain scenes triggered them to become frightened, which will be useful when I create my own horror clip as I will be recreating a horror clip so I want to evoke a strong emotion-Fear from my audience. From their reactions it showed me that when the clip progressed and the background soundtrack (creepy music) began to get louder to build more tension it made them begin to appear more uncomfortable and a few of them began to frown but kept their concentration on the screen. When there was more movement e.g. when the wardrobe doors creaked open, it made Nia (the girl that was most scared while watching the clip) more fearful of looking so she franticly covered her eyes, showing me that certain sound effects make a clip turn from boring and plain to frightening. 

THE RING (Reactions to the clip)

EVIL DEAD (Reactions to the clip)