The Black Pages

Short twisted horror film.

After finding an old book lying in a creek bed, Caitlin is lead to an abandoned building with a lonelly phone ringing inside, it then becomes obvious that the tattered book she found is no ordinary book, but a directory to the dead.
But are the voices on the other line what they seem?

This was filmed for my year 12 VCE Media SAT.

Filmed on a Sony DCR VX 2100.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• short
• twisted
• horror
• film
• directory
• dead
• ghosts
• 12
• VCE
• media
• SAT
• sony
• vx
• 2100
• top
• screen
• 2008

[xxuselessbulletsxx]

hey sweet film!!! i wonder how you did the fire sequence? the smoke, and the shot where caitlin was running away with the house alight in the background? Also, the newspaper? the headline? and whereabouts did you film this? it looks amazing!!

[andrewpearce89]

The smoke was done with a smoke machine (with a bit of red colour tint in editing). The burning lounge room was an outdoor set-up which i set on fire . And the distant house fire shot was done by overlaying shots of fire into the windows. The newspaper material was all made up with a bit of cut & pasting.

And finally the film was shot in Kergunyah, which is a country town in Australia. Cheers :)

[allison88888]

Wow.... Haha like pretty much everyone else here im trying to get into Top Screen this year and yeahp I don't stand a chance. The Cinematography in this film is beautiful. Where abouts did you film this?

Is the Sony cam you used your own?

And also...the music wow. Did you get the rights to this or are you some sort of amazing composer as well? haha

Amazing film! Great job!

[andrewpearce89]

hello, thankyou :)

this was filmed in the small country town where i live near wodonga, just wondering from farm to farm getting differnt shots pretty much.

yeah i was going to hire a good vid cam, but there was no hire places in the area, so i just went out and brought one, which was a good move for me. haha no not my music, i got permission to use the music royalty free as long as the film isnt used for profit. i got permission just by emailing the artists.

thanks.

[Harvision]

You are a film god!, easily the best film at top screen, just went to see it. So my first question is did you use a lens adapter? my second is what are you doing now? are you still pursuing film? I'm in year 12 this year, my goal is to get into top screen, i can try haha.

[andrewpearce89]

thankyou :) i didnt use a lens adaptor, but i boosted up all the colour options in the camera, used manual focus, and paid close attention the the white balance, to get the either full colourful of greens and yellows or the cold blue look.

i actually did this film in year 11, so im doing year 12 this year to. im thinking of going to victorian college of arts for film school, but still wondering.

good luck with top screen, hope it all works out.

[darkonefilms]

@andrewpearce89 awesome work man i love your film

[Mewthree1704]

Aaah...! I remember seeing this on deviantART and...I thought it was...amazing! :D

[IkkleMissMuffin]

i just watched this and the other version and i think this one is better because the music fits better unlike oasis... :)

[johnjohansson]

Wow! Amazing! This was truly inspiring for a wannabe filmmaker like me!

This shows what you can do with relatively cheap equipment. The song in the end is so right on the spot! Love it! :-D

[gorboy]

Pretty damn good. Very original plotline - somewhat - that's hard to do nowadays.

Th acting was also good, which was a pleasant surprise.

[bubblycarla]

(continued) SPOILER ALERT

Hillary doesn't hear the phone, and dies in the fire. The little girl waits up and hears the fire brigade. In the morning she is getting ready for the boy's funeral when she sees the paper that tells her Hilary died. She runs to the death pone to call her, maybe to say sorry, but when Hilary picks up she says the exact same thing that the boy did. The girl calls other names from the book, and they all say the same thing. She realizes she murdered a girl for nothing.

[bubblycarla]

SPOILER ALERT! Do not read if you haven't watched yet.

FANTASTIC film btw.

OK. In case you didn't get it,

The girl finds a phone to call the dead, so she calls to see if the boy was really murdered or not. He answers, and says "someone did this to me. They need to get what they deserve." The girl then overhears Hilary saying "he deserved what he got," and thinks that she is the murderer.

She decides to burn down the house, but calls first to make sure Hilary isn't home. (see continued)

[Mandarene6]

i had to think about it for a while before i fully understood the plot line... but oh my god! that's really freaky! this shows so much talent. if you don't get it, just think about it...