Question 1: Introduction: what did you make, who did you work with and where did the original idea come from?

As we were planning to make a horror film, so decided that we would look into other films, and determine just  what it was that made them so scary. We soon realized that it was the placement of phobias into everyday life that did it. Somewhere you would have thought was safe was not!

We were inspired by two films, both of which demonstrated bringing peoples' fears to life. The two films were 'Final Destination 3' and 'It'. It was the featuring of a clown in 'It' that made us decide to use one as the main antagonist. 'Final Destination 3' features the title sequence as a fair ground, which is from which the title for our film 'Fear Ground' was derived.

The presence of the pin ball machine added to the tension, and ended with 'death'. Due to these, we decided to base our film on  the idea of a 'fair of fears'. This is why we decided to to open the film in a house with  a person putting on a clown costume, in fitting with the fairground theme (as we were unable to locate a fairground). After this, a black screen was shown with the words 'Fear Ground' upon it, and for the next scene we decided to feature teenagers in the room of a card reader, showing them tarot cards, and warning them not to leave.  

When first shooting, the camera was out of focus in some places, so we had to reshoot some of the camera shots. Also, in one of the shots you can see the camera light in the window. Before we started filming, we asked the opinions of some members of our target audience of 15-24s. Whilst many thought the concept was a good idea, some were a little unsure about the clown being in the film, as they had coulrophobia, a fear of clowns. Because of this, we decided to include the clown in our film. 

The people in our group were Rebecca, Emily and me amazing Annalise. At first we were all pumped up with our idea of filming at an real fair but we never had the chance due to harsh weather conditions. So after, we decided that we would film our horror film at Emily's house. but due to circumstances beyond our control (redecoration) Emily's house was out of bounds. So we decided to film at Rebecca's house the following day but Emily was unable to attend so we went ahead without her this also happened for the other two times we filmed. An big problem was that one of our members hardly turned up to lessons so we just had to edit the majority of the film.

The IT clown 

By Annalise.