Wednesday 30 December 2009

Thriller opening final idea.

As a group we went through all of our inital ideas and discussed which on we liked the most and which one could be used. We ended up not chosing any of our original ideas and came up with a new idea for our opening.

We wanted to stick with a phycological thriller and discussed different movies which we liked and wanted our opening to be simular to. In the end we all agreed that we all wanted our opening to be like the movie 'Watchmen' we all really like the tention and suspense it creates throughout the opening.

Our idea...

(photocopy of idea here)

Tuesday 15 December 2009

Our continuity review

This lesson our continuity task was reviewed by our media studies teacher and our peer group.
After watching our continuity task the class and teacher agreed that our work was at a level 2, 24 out of.

Positives
We included a variety of different shots, camera angles and movements in our continuity film which were each very effective.
Long shots
Close ups
Mid shots
low angle
Tracking
Tilting
An over the shoulder view

Also the sound was pretty good, although the background noise got a bit loud at times. Also the framing was very good, apart from one point when person A walks into the room.

Negatives

Broke 180 ° rule
Different errors that need to be looked out for, the ending when you hear a loud voice in the background that should of been edited out.
Editing choice/ position of shots - needed to be more carefully thought- (TI)

Overall I am very happy with the comments and I will be taking everything on board for when I start to film and create the film opening. Whilst creating the story board I will be thinking more carefully about the different shots and why they are being used. Also I will not break the 180 ° rule a this is a must. I will think carefully about mise-en-scene as I know how important things like colour can be. I will make sure that the light and sound is perfect whilst filming and editing because if you can not either see or hear whats on screen then you will loose interest, this is why I need to look into this more carefully and not make the same mistakes in my continuity task.