Wednesday 20 October 2010

WEEKLY REPORT 20/10/2010

This week in media we have learnt things such as how to use the camera's and became more familiar with camera shots and angles. today we went down to the hall with the camera's set them up on the tripod and practiced different camera shots. we have all so learnt about the perliminary task we are going to do. this consists of a door opening, crossing a room, sitting down on a chair opposite a character and exchanging lines of dialougue.

Preliminary Task FINAL DECISION

For our preliminary task we are going to have a few a few shots of someone walking through a door from different angles and view points. the person is going to sit down on the chair and begin to have a debate with the person he is talking to, The other person will then leave the room slamming the door, we will use camera skills to show different angles of the door slamming and then a close up of the person storming off, finishing with a camera shot of the person who was in the room.

Monday 18 October 2010

Preliminary Research Task

Editing :
  • Changing
  • Adding special effects
  • slow down + speed up
  • films made up of 100's of cuts
Shouldn't be able to notice when clips change. - contunuity editing

All shots follow each other in the following order :
  • Establish
  • Set scene
  • Over shoulder
  • Close up
Shot transitions that omit parts of and event causing an ellipses in plot and story duration
Jump out/dissolve - 2 images/clips overlap
Overlapping editing is a common charecteristics of the frenzied king kong addition films in the 80's + 90's
Temporal editing - Plays with time
Spatial editing - 180 degree rule.

Monday 11 October 2010

Film cover

Final Decisions

Soundtrack.
We were thinking of having a mix of both fast-paced music and standard atmospheric music. For instance, fast-paced Drum and Bass would make a chase scene seem faster, and it would make the scene seem tense and it get your heart beating fast.

Sound effects.
For sound effects we would need things like , blood splatters, screams, sliceing sounds, footsteps and heavey footsteps. As we are doing a horror, this would seem rather appropriate. these are all sound you expect from a horror film.
Costumes.
For costumes, the character being chased would need normal clothing, as he is just a normal person. The killer would possibly need a mask and a hood. This makes the killer seem like he is isolated, like you know nothing about him, and not seeing his face makes it more of a mystery. You feel like you don't know the killer, so you can't feel sorry for him because of his background. This forces you to empathis with the victim.

Props.
We would need a mask and an object to be used as a weapon. This is fairly simple as we only need two minutes of footage, so props aren't a major issue. But we were looking at using a weapon that hasn't been seem in a horror movie. This could give a feeling of authenticity.
Lighting.
For lighting, we will proably use night vision and spotlights, this is because we are going to be filming in the dark.

Wednesday 6 October 2010

Comedy mood board

Questionnaire

Valdimir & Levi strauss

VALDIMIR PROPS
  • HERO - leads the narrative, saves the day
  • VILLAN - conflicts with the hero, wrecks everything
  • HEROINE - ussualy some sort of prize award
  • FATHER - offers reward
  • HELPER - helps the hero save the day
  • DONER - helps the hero in terms of gives him clue's and stuff
  • MENTOR - teaches and guides the hero
LEVI STRAUSS
  • man vs. women
  • good vs. evil
  • black vs. white
  • hero vs. villan
  • father vs. daughter

Narrative

Quite simply put, narrative is the general term for telling a story.
Narration is important to explain the story and explain whats going on in the film/movie, without narration, in some films the story line would be hard to understand, narration breaks up the story and tells you whats going on.
The three narrative theorios are :-
  • Bianary opposition
  • Eqilibrium theory
  • Characters type
I think eqilibrium would be the most effective sort of narration because it explains whats going to happen in the movie and often leaves off with a cliff hanger, this makes us want to watch the film even more.
A bibliography also comes into narration, it explains the auhor of a book, the year the book was written etc... bibliographys can be useful for things like documentarys, a filmography is pretty similar. It does the same thing except its with a film, the director of the film the year it was made etc...

Horror Mood Board

This is a mood board, we created this to show what genre we are using.