Jack Bevens proposes to create a horror film titled "Death Birthday" about a killer who murders party guests. He will film in both BSL and with subtitles to make the film accessible to both deaf and hearing audiences. He will experiment with different font styles and colors for the subtitles. The film will be influenced by Halloween for its warning theme and The Human Centipede films for their disturbing style. Over 9 weeks, Jack plans to conduct research, experiments, pre-production, filming, editing, and evaluation to create the film and supplementary materials like a trailer and DVD box. He will document his progress and challenges through weekly development diaries and a final self-reflection.

1. Proposal
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Bibliography:
Centre Name and Number:
York College 48357
Student Name and Number:
Jack Bevens 343970
Project proposal title and date:
Death Birthday
Main area of activity:
Film
Rationale:
It is very important to me to create subtitles for my work because I am Deaf and I want create a
film that Deaf people can access. I will experiment in using different fonts for subtitles, by using a
website called “DaFont”, this website has hundreds of different styles of fonts.
I will also experiment in adding some colour to the subtitles, I want to make the Deaf audience
attracted to reading it, but I need to make sure the colour isn’t hard to read. For example, in my TV
advert and my music video I used subtitles, for the music video I used red subtitles and for the
advert I used orange subtitles.
This time I will definitely need to use more camera shots because when I created my music video I
didn’t use close any up shots because it meant that the audience wouldn’t have been able to see
my sign language, but this is something I have learnt from.
Project Concept:
My idea is to create the horror film. My film will be about a birthday party, a stranger will come and
kill all the people at the party, apart from one.
I will create the film with BSL and subtitles, because I am Deaf and I want to share my Deaf
community and my world with the people who will watch my film. I want to prove that Deaf and
hearing people are the same, it can be fair and Deaf people can do all the things that hearing
people can do. Hearing people are welcome to watch my film, and instead of just using BSL, I will
also have subtitles for the hearing people who don’t understand BSL (British Sign Language).
One film I really love is called Halloween, which is directed by John Carpenter, I feel like my idea is
quite similar. The film influences me because they have a warning, and I want to warm my
audience to protect themselves at parties because I know the party can be unsafe and also the
daylight can be unsafe as well. I want my audience to keep safe from dangerous situations.
One of my influencers is called Tom Six, who directed all of The Human Centipede films, I really
like his style because his films are really sick and creepy. More so than other horror films that I
have seen, these types of films are very dark and disturbing. When I was watching it, it made my
stomach feel funny, it didn’t feel right, it was really horrible to watch. I think everyone who watches
that film must feel that way and I’d love to make my audience feel the same.
How will the project be evaluated and reviewed:
I will create development diaries every week to help me evaluate weekly and improve. Analysing
my work regularly will be useful, because I can see any mistakes I have made and I will be able to
improve them. It is important that my subtitles are right, e.g if the subtitles are dark and the
background is also dark, it will make them very hard to read.
I will also complete a final self-reflection. Evaluation is very important so I can prove my skills of
editing and camera shots in the year.

2. Proposal
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1. Halloween Movie (1978) (March 2019)
2. The Human Centipede II Movie. (2011) (March 2019)
3. LightsOut Movie (2016) (March 2019)
4. Most HauntedTV Series(2002 – 2010, 2014 – present) (March2019)
5. The Blair WitchProjectDocumentary(1999) (March 2019)
6. The Blackwell GhostDocumentary(2017) (March 2019)
7. AmericanHorror StoryMake-up(2013) Unknown (2013). American Horror Story make-
up - Make up Artist Magazine. Unknown : Unknown. Page 40 onwards. (March 2019)
8. HalloweenThe Inside Story(1997) Unknown (1997 ). The Hammer. London : Unknown.
Full Book. (March 2019)
9. Just write : the Virgin guide to telling your story (2007) Mander, Gabrielle
(2007). Just write : the Virgin guide to telling your story. London : Unknown. Full Book.
(March 2019)
10. Halloween The Inside Story DVD (2010) (March 2019)
Week Tasks to be Completed: Specific Tasks
1 Initial Ideas and Proposal  Use PowerPoint/word software to explain about
who and what influences me to create my film.
 My proposal will be mainly talking about what my
film will be, and some of my ideas.
2 Research  Researching what I need and I want to research.
This might be audience research, primary
research, secondary research etc.
3 Research  Experiments with film. I an experiment in different
locations. I can also experiment with different
lightings such as dark and light. I can use Black
and White to see what it looks like compared to
colourful shots.
 I can also experiment with the different colours
and fonts for my subtitles.
4 Pre-production & Planning  Use storyboard, create a list of shots and create
the script. I will need to carefully plan and think
about each scene and what scenes I am going to
use.
 I might also plan some additional scenes as a
back-up plan in case some of the scenes don’t
work out well.
 I will need to think about where I am going to film,
and who is going to act in my film.
5 Production  Filming my scenes. Some of these I might not
use but I can keep them so that I can reflect on
them and why I didn’t use them when I am writing
my evaluation.
6 Production  Editing my film. This will take a long time; I will
need to choose the best shots and put them
together in Premiere. Some of the shots I will not
use.
 I will also need to edit the subtitles onto my
scenes.
7 Production  Trailer editing – here I will make sure I have
watched some existing trailers so that I can see
how they are created.
 I want my trailer to be exciting and I want the
audience to then want to watch my film so I need
to make sure my trailer is thrilling and scary.

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8 Production  DVD box editing. I think I will create a DVD Box
for my film. I will want the box to look scary and
horrific. I might use a dark background with some
blood around. I will use lots of pictures. I can take
screen shots and pictures from my scenes. The
box will also need a blurb about what the film is
about.
9 Evaluation  Explain about what has gone well through the
weeks, and what I have found hard. I know I will
find some things easy and some things difficult
so I will talk about those.
 I will also talk about my strengths and weakness
during filming.
 I want to talk about what it has been like to film
too, and how it has been to work with other
people, sometimes they might not listen or might
not act in the way I want them to.