Continuing Our Pitch (2O/1O/2O1O)

In today's lesson we carried on with thinking about the general storyline of our groups horror film (me, Stephanie and Chelsea) and then finalised the synopsis, adding the names of the characters and the working title, and it's now ready to pitch on Monday 1st November.

Making Our Pitch - 18/1O/2O1O

In todays lesson we talked about the three different stages of production. These are Pre-Production (everything before filming), Production (filming), and Post-Production (everything after filming, like editing). We then started to Pitch our ideas for our horror film, which need to be finished on the 1st of November.

Preliminary Task Storyboards

These are my groups Preliminary Task's storyboards. The storyboards helped me and my group to film our footage for the task. However we added and changed some footage that we had planned on our storyboard to improve it. One change that we made is Stephanie walking inside the building after the opening establishing shot, instead of walking outside it. The other change we made was me and Stephanie walking out of the room after our dialogue and walking out of the building having a conversation, instead of zooming out of our conversation to finish. We also added a long shot of me and Stephanie walking out of the building to finish.

Editing Prelim Task (11th October)

In today's double lesson we finished editing our Preliminary Task footage together on the Mac's. We added transitions to our footage, and we then added opening credits. Our opening credit is called 'Lunch Time'. We added the names of our two actors to our footage, and then added end credits. After we had finished editing our footage we exported it as a quicktime movie and saved the finished Preliminary Task to each of our memory sticks.

Preliminary Task (Filming) - 5th October 2O1O

On the 5th October my group filmed our Preliminary Task. We used a range of camera movements and camera shots in our footage, so that when we come to edit our footage we can edit it together smoothly using a wide variety of techniques.
After filming, we uploaded the footage onto the mac's so that we can begin to edit our footage.

O6/1O/1O - Wrong Turn

Today we looked at an article about the opening of the film 'The Shining' and then we watched the opening few minutes of the film 'Wrong Turn'. We watched it twice and noted down the visual and audio effects that are used in the opening.

Homework
Visual and audio effects include:

There are a variety of different visual effects used in the opening of 'Wrong Turn'. These include shots like bird's eye view, and point of view shots.
The bird's eye view shot at the very beggining is significant as it shows that the characters are isolated and in the middle of nowhere, and highlights danger subtly.

There is also a point of view shot from the top of the cliff, and this highlights how high up the characters are and again that they are away from any other people. Another point where the point of view shot is useful is where the woman is running away from whatever is chasing her, and the camera is hand-held which helps it look more realistic, and creates more tension as it is from the woman's point of view and the audience cannot see what it is that is chasing her.

The editing gets closer together as the openning progresses and also when the characters are in danger which helps build up the tension. There is a point on the cliff where the woman looses her grip on the rope and falls down slightly and screams. This is significant because the audience get a 'false scare', before the actual danger arrives.

The music increases in speed and volume (tempo) when the characters are in danger and as the opening progresses, and the music is stringed (orchestrial) which is good because it sets the scene and creates anxiety for the audience. Drumming in certain points also pinpoints the danger.

When the rope is cut, and when the rope is being pulled up the cliff, we hear it louder than it would normally be as it is enhanced, and this technique also helps to build up more tension for the audience, as they can clearly hear what is going on.

O4/1O/2O1O

In today's lesson we were introduced to the conventions of a horror film, and we watched the first five minute opening of the films Jeepers Creepers (2001), Jeepers Creepers 2 (2003) and Dead Wood (2007). 

The History of Horror Films

The history of horror films

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29/O9/2O1O

In today's lesson we were introduced to the concept of the horror genre and looked at different horror movies and conventions of a horror film, and talked briefly about the history of horror films.

27/O9/2O1O

Today's lesson was a double lesson.  We were split into two groups, one half went out to practice filming for the preliminary task for an hour and the other went to the media room, and at the end of the hour we would swap round. We went to the media room first and learnt how to upload footage from the camera's onto the macs. Then me, Stephanie and Chelsea went to practice filming in the second hour.