Monday, 27 October 2014
Sunday, 19 October 2014
Thursday, 16 October 2014
Wednesday, 15 October 2014
Monday, 13 October 2014
Horror genre
When discussing themes with Jojo, we came to a disicion on what theme we will use in our openning sequence. We are going to use a horror theme. So here are some conventions of the horror genre:
The setting is usual far away from people, whether in the mountains, similar to The shinning, or in the contryside, similar to A cabin in the woods, and most typically a haunted house. Usually this setting is unfamilar to the characters.
Another convention is iconography. In a lot of films these are repeated, such as low key lighting, monsters or a mad man. The mise-en-scene is very important here too. Starting with the low key lighting, this gives a very haunted and dark feel to the films. This also limits the character's and the audience's view of what is happening and movies can use the dark to trick us in thinking that there is something there as we cannot clearly see what is happening. Some props such as kinves or chainsaws are used often as they are very dangrous weapons that a person on their own cannot defend against, helping to induce a feeling of fear and defencelessness.
Thursday, 9 October 2014
Prelim task
We were tasked to make an opening scene of a movie of any genre of our choice. The only condition was that our characters needed to sit down at a table and say a few lines of dialog. For this task I worked with josephine and we had one lesson to plan, one lesson to film and one lesson to edit our movies. This is the end result:
Evaluation: In the prelim there were two main problems we faced. The first obstacle was the limited time. Both Jojo and myself found that trying to design and shoot a film in a two hour period proved very difficult. We had to edit the scene and find the music/effects outside of lesson time. This helped to show that time management is very important when we make our actual opening sequence.
The second problem was that we filmed the last scene at two different times. When we came to finish off the scene we had lost track of where each character was stood. We had to quickly change the scene and try to work around this problem.
What we did find very useful, however, was planning each scene with a script and then storyboard. It was interesting to see how the idea of how the short film would plan out from and random idea:
Zoe: "We could do a super hero movie"
Jojo: "Haha how would we do that?"
Zoe: "My super power could be ... making people fall over! Haha."
"Jojo: "No, we could actually do that!"
To a fully planned script and then drawn out story board. Then working behind the camera and directing from both the audience and the producer's view. Overall, doing this prelim-task helps to plan out what i will do when creating my course work.