Personal
The audience’s own identification with the fears or terrors of the narrative:
• Fear of the other/monster in the darkness
• Fear of the body being ripped/mutilated
• Our own personal boundaries being transgressed
• Emergence of terror at any level being enjoyed from a safe/vicarious distance.
Ideological
• The implicit or explicit messages embedded within the narrative
• Themes of punishment, rejection and/or revulsion at subjects which deviate from ‘correct’ thinking, from simplistic or basic messages (the virgin ‘good’ girl surviving at the expense of her rebellious ‘promiscuous’ friend) to more nuanced or subtle fears of strangers/hitchhikers breaking our boundaries. Or the condemnation of any deviant (i.e non Christian) religion.
• Our perception that the power of science can defeat darkness at the expense of older beliefs in religion and superstition…
• In our modern understanding of fear we rationalise the supernatural and defeat it with psychology.
• Modern media creates ‘demons’ by crusading against section of society and labelling them
Industrial/financial
Perhaps the most lucrative genre in the film industry horror draws in huge audiences justifying the continual re-invention, re-marking and franchising of every succesfull horror product.
Friday, 27 November 2009
This is my idea for my Thriller
My Ideas For My Thriller 2
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My idea came from some of my own fears, things which when i watch make me feel scared. This is why my idea has a man in a mask. I find that not being able to see who is behind the crime adds a huge sense of mystery through hiding your most identifiable feature.
Monday, 19 October 2009
Editing Pre-lim Production
We began are editing process by opening FINAL CUT PRO. We then got our edit proxy, (a digital copy of our movie) favorite shots from the different angles we have chosen.
When setting up a log bin you open “create new” and then name it "LOG BIN". Log bin, this is where we store our chosen shots which we edit into are final version of pre-lim sequence.
When setting up a log bin you open “create new” and then name it "LOG BIN". Log bin, this is where we store our chosen shots which we edit into are final version of pre-lim sequence.
You log your shots by, at the being of the sequence you have chosen pressing "i" which stands for "in" which marks the being of the sequence at the end of the chosen sequence you then press "o" which stands for out, to mark the end of the sequence. You then click "modify clip" in the drop down menu of modify. You then drag your chosen shots into the log bin. This is important as you can apply a range of shots to show diversity and create different emotions toward the different characters. Furthermore by picking out your favorable shots this cuts down time and makes the final sequence neater and creates a greater sense of understanding, this also ensures only the relevant story points are shown, forcing the audience to identify with the characters making the story make sense.
This also links back to our story boards as by editing the shots this pulls are story together to give a greater depth to the story and almost increase the intensity of the argument by cutting from one shot to the next to focus on their emotions.
An example of this is when we “matched on action” a wide shot of our actress coming through the door and mid way through her closing the door a close-up of the door closing. When doing this we had to make shore that the continuity was maintained so that she did not close the door and then we had the close up of her closing the door again, this would be a continuity error and it would not seem as seamless.
We then continued on editing our piece so that it was compressed into around a 2 minute sequence, and furthermore so there was no continuity errors and it ran seamlessly. Through editing we didn’t select one character for the audience to have a preference to through choosing shots which put one character in a position of power and the other in a position of weakness. So we gave both characters equal film time as we wanted the audience to see the sequence through both perspectives of the characters.
Friday, 9 October 2009
Evaluation of Preliminary task part 1
My group were abel to film are task in the studio which benefited us as it had good lighting and we were able to film from a range of different angles.
Are sequence consisted of of two people shouting at each other, over one of the characters feel pressured to "do something".
Before we started filming it was important to access our roles in the group we decided that we shoot split the work equilly between the group, such as when one person was being the director and directing the actors, one person would be setting the continuiti of the scene making shore everything matched up with other scenes. while other would be making shore that the lines said are correct and everbody is doing something beneficial to the sequence.
We first started filming the whole sequence from an establishing wide shot, we then continued on to do a medium shot of the whole sequence, furthermore we then did close ups of the actors faces to express the emotion they were feeling, in addition we finished filming the shots from our story board by filming the over the shoulder shot shooting the other character in the scene. We then experimented with some of our personal decisions on what would look good in addition to what we had done. we decided to do some extreme close up of intense moments of the sequence, for example when are female actress storms into the room we have done an extreme close on her closing the door to show that what is to come is not from everyone to here.
my group then experimented with lighting. When the argument between our two characters got more intense we took out the back light to signify the argument is getting darker and more evil as the female characters is trying to pressurize the male character into doing what she wants.
Before we starting filming we had to set up our camera by first setting up our tripod and making shore our tripod was bubbled, this means making shore our camera was level. the bubble refers to making shore the little bubble on the tripod is level(in the circle). we had to adjust this every time we moved our camera. After we had finished setting up our tripod we had to make shore the camera was ready to record. We did this by setting our colour bars on and recording for 30 seconds this sets the camera up to speed so that you do not miss the beginning of your first shot. we also had to make shore certain things were correct such as; making shore we had 0db and making shore that because we were inside that we had the tungsten light bulb and not not the sun, this allows the camera to get the correct light balance and acknowledge that we were inside and had unnatural light. To make shore we had the correct light on set, we had to make shore, from where we were shooting each time that we did not have our back light in the fame as this would unprofessional film work. Most of our scene was shot in hard light as this portrayed the hardness of the argument that was commencing between the two characters.
We wanted to portray the man who was being pressured as weak and vulnerable so we shot him from an high angle looking down on him. Further more when the argument gets more intense we did close ups to show the intense emotion of the actors.
We also made shore that when we were filming we didn't cross the 180 degree line that we had set ourselves. We made shore we didn't do this by putting markers down on the floor out of the camera line. In addition to what we did with camera shots we had to make shore that there was a professional atmosphere on set and that we had things done promptly and did not waste time so we had to use appropriate terminology so that everyone on set knew what was happening such as "stand by",-response from the crew " standing by", "camera rolling" you then give yourself a 5 second quiet interval to make shore that the camera is up to speed, then to finish the director says " action" and the sequence begins.
Are sequence consisted of of two people shouting at each other, over one of the characters feel pressured to "do something".
Before we started filming it was important to access our roles in the group we decided that we shoot split the work equilly between the group, such as when one person was being the director and directing the actors, one person would be setting the continuiti of the scene making shore everything matched up with other scenes. while other would be making shore that the lines said are correct and everbody is doing something beneficial to the sequence.
We first started filming the whole sequence from an establishing wide shot, we then continued on to do a medium shot of the whole sequence, furthermore we then did close ups of the actors faces to express the emotion they were feeling, in addition we finished filming the shots from our story board by filming the over the shoulder shot shooting the other character in the scene. We then experimented with some of our personal decisions on what would look good in addition to what we had done. we decided to do some extreme close up of intense moments of the sequence, for example when are female actress storms into the room we have done an extreme close on her closing the door to show that what is to come is not from everyone to here.
my group then experimented with lighting. When the argument between our two characters got more intense we took out the back light to signify the argument is getting darker and more evil as the female characters is trying to pressurize the male character into doing what she wants.
Before we starting filming we had to set up our camera by first setting up our tripod and making shore our tripod was bubbled, this means making shore our camera was level. the bubble refers to making shore the little bubble on the tripod is level(in the circle). we had to adjust this every time we moved our camera. After we had finished setting up our tripod we had to make shore the camera was ready to record. We did this by setting our colour bars on and recording for 30 seconds this sets the camera up to speed so that you do not miss the beginning of your first shot. we also had to make shore certain things were correct such as; making shore we had 0db and making shore that because we were inside that we had the tungsten light bulb and not not the sun, this allows the camera to get the correct light balance and acknowledge that we were inside and had unnatural light. To make shore we had the correct light on set, we had to make shore, from where we were shooting each time that we did not have our back light in the fame as this would unprofessional film work. Most of our scene was shot in hard light as this portrayed the hardness of the argument that was commencing between the two characters.
We wanted to portray the man who was being pressured as weak and vulnerable so we shot him from an high angle looking down on him. Further more when the argument gets more intense we did close ups to show the intense emotion of the actors.
We also made shore that when we were filming we didn't cross the 180 degree line that we had set ourselves. We made shore we didn't do this by putting markers down on the floor out of the camera line. In addition to what we did with camera shots we had to make shore that there was a professional atmosphere on set and that we had things done promptly and did not waste time so we had to use appropriate terminology so that everyone on set knew what was happening such as "stand by",-response from the crew " standing by", "camera rolling" you then give yourself a 5 second quiet interval to make shore that the camera is up to speed, then to finish the director says " action" and the sequence begins.
Monday, 28 September 2009
Intro to stills Camera
In my intro to stills camera the exercise we did was to venture around the Hurtwood campus and capture photos of are group. The purpose of this exercise was to become familiar with the camera and the angles at which your photo best portrayed what you were trying to show, for example the over- the - shoulder shot shows the closeness in the relationship between the two in the shot.
The angle of shots can make the audience feel emotions toward the person in the photograph. for example by taking the photo from an low angle looking up angle puts the person in the photograph in a position of power, this sets the person up to be a "hero". This is used in movie posters such as Gladiator.
"the hero shot"
This is similar to the way if you take a photo from above looking down it puts the person in a position of weakness and venerability. The "hero shot" puts the person in frame in a position of power and authority over others.
Film Poster
This is my movie poster...
I used a picture which i took in one of are lessons and edited it into a picture i took of the Internet of a woman looking down at a dead man. I added the blood to make it look more menacing and change the direction of the photo so it had an element of death and mystery. I expanded this feeling of mystery by burning the corners so it feels dark and evil........
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