The fright before Christmas
our preliminary evaluation I done on a slideshare.
This is our final draft for the prelim
Tuesday, 11 October 2016
Monday, 3 October 2016
Juno
This is our story board list for the film opening of Juno. Here we have included the timings of each shot and what is happening.
Props: Our props that we need is a red jumper, a milk carton.
Location: Our main location is outside the school near the bushes, outside the shops because of the fence and the shop corner. We are also going to places near trees so we can have a leafy pavement. Most of it will be shot on Duffield Road.
The clip:
The filming of my task was done quite well, it was hard to keep up with the certain timings,thats why our story boards helped us. The filming is very similar to this juno clip. The filming is shook sometimes that's why we should of used a tripod because just us holding the camera wasn't steady enough.
Our story board was accurate but it didn't include certain bits like camera slides and flips, that's why near the end of the clip I included it as an effect. In our story board it has basic drawings but gives a lot of detail and an idea. Also the timings were the main help here because we needed to know when to end the clip and when to do certain movements. Through out the whole thing we used the story board and watched the video frequently so we could match the scenes up.
In our group we had strengths in working as a team and coming up with ideas and planning things out. Although our weaknesses was not using the tripod, and getting the camera angles of some shots during this short clip.
I got all the footage that I needed to complete the film as good as possible ,but I had a few clips that could of been improved like the end part outside the building-there was a front and side view of the shop as juno in the film walks down the side, but we done it just as a front view. We also could of used a guitar and other good props but that's what I will improve on next time.
Being able to edit allows me to correct some mistakes, by making clips longer by slowing it down. On adobe I learnt how to slow and reverse clips and well as flip the camera shot. Like in one of the shots we had to flip the clip because we filmed it the wrong way, but it looks good still. Overall I have learnt how to do most things on adobe to help with further productions.
Props: Our props that we need is a red jumper, a milk carton.
Location: Our main location is outside the school near the bushes, outside the shops because of the fence and the shop corner. We are also going to places near trees so we can have a leafy pavement. Most of it will be shot on Duffield Road.
The clip:
The filming of my task was done quite well, it was hard to keep up with the certain timings,thats why our story boards helped us. The filming is very similar to this juno clip. The filming is shook sometimes that's why we should of used a tripod because just us holding the camera wasn't steady enough.
Our story board was accurate but it didn't include certain bits like camera slides and flips, that's why near the end of the clip I included it as an effect. In our story board it has basic drawings but gives a lot of detail and an idea. Also the timings were the main help here because we needed to know when to end the clip and when to do certain movements. Through out the whole thing we used the story board and watched the video frequently so we could match the scenes up.
In our group we had strengths in working as a team and coming up with ideas and planning things out. Although our weaknesses was not using the tripod, and getting the camera angles of some shots during this short clip.
I got all the footage that I needed to complete the film as good as possible ,but I had a few clips that could of been improved like the end part outside the building-there was a front and side view of the shop as juno in the film walks down the side, but we done it just as a front view. We also could of used a guitar and other good props but that's what I will improve on next time.
Being able to edit allows me to correct some mistakes, by making clips longer by slowing it down. On adobe I learnt how to slow and reverse clips and well as flip the camera shot. Like in one of the shots we had to flip the clip because we filmed it the wrong way, but it looks good still. Overall I have learnt how to do most things on adobe to help with further productions.
In the next production I will still use the story boards a lot and plan out the timings as well as a good use of available props. I learnt how to use adobe and edit clips very good and how to create certain effects like zoom and slide along etc. and these being used allows certain effect to be given to the watcher. I like how the timings of the clips are in sync like when the camera moves up, it moves at exactly the same time in most places.
Thursday, 29 September 2016
Film pitch and evaluation
Evaluation:
In this presentation for our film, overall I found that the marketing ideas and the title of the film was found to be the highest. Mostly every possible method was mentioned for our marketing, and the title was said to be simple but intriguing because it doesn't infer a lot so makes the audience think what will happen.
Also the enigma code was rated very highly because people want to know if Stacey can do her dreams in time and most of all they want to know what her top dream is.
The target audience was said to have been aimed at very good, because it makes them start to think what they want on there bucket list.
Most people said the characters in it were well known so it was good but Jim Carrey is known in funny comedy films so people thought he wouldn't be such a good actor in a serious but fun film.
There is improvement's that can made ,like the age of Stacey becoming younger instead of around 18 years old, and adding a quote to the film poster. We overall got 60/70 and as a group we are happy with our score.
In this presentation for our film, overall I found that the marketing ideas and the title of the film was found to be the highest. Mostly every possible method was mentioned for our marketing, and the title was said to be simple but intriguing because it doesn't infer a lot so makes the audience think what will happen.
Also the enigma code was rated very highly because people want to know if Stacey can do her dreams in time and most of all they want to know what her top dream is.
The target audience was said to have been aimed at very good, because it makes them start to think what they want on there bucket list.
Most people said the characters in it were well known so it was good but Jim Carrey is known in funny comedy films so people thought he wouldn't be such a good actor in a serious but fun film.
There is improvement's that can made ,like the age of Stacey becoming younger instead of around 18 years old, and adding a quote to the film poster. We overall got 60/70 and as a group we are happy with our score.
Institutions
they do adverts at the start of the films and they get most of there profits from selling food like pop corn and drinks. Which they sell very expensively.
If you want your film to be in the cinema ,you have to sell it to the distributor first, and then they decide whether or not to use it.
A distributor is a person who is responsible for the marketing of a film.
Independent VS mainstream film:
An independent film makes you think and ask yourself questions, it is also associated with critical success. Whereas a mainstream makes you laugh/cry and is often associated with commercial success and is only made as an escapist entertainment.My logo:
High budget VS low budget films:
Here I am picking a low budget film and an high budget film and analysing them both, to see the differences and similarities and seeing the production companies and what they normally produce in films. Here I have put together a PowerPoint which I have converted to a video.
Film langauge
In this lesson we had to speak about mise en scene,camera ,editing,and sound for the following opening scenes.we use anagrams to help.
In boyz in the hood you can see that this film is trying to say that the surrounding presence of white dominant culture, even in a black-majority neighborhood,You cannot escape it. Racial difference is a thing. Racial difference is constantly emphasized and re-emphasized.
In this film opening you can see that what these children have seen and experienced is not normal. Like when the boy was walking down the street and a fight was going on and it just seemed like normal life. The whole film is based around crime and you can tell this neighbourhood is a violent place to live, and that fighting and violence is part of the culture there.
In boyz in the hood in the first seconds you can see nothing but you can hear the noise of as gang and what sounds like bins being thrown and the sound of trash. sooner on, you can hear the noises of the shooting in the background even though it happened in the past and were now in the present. There is a lot of non diegetic sound in the opening of the group talking about what they are looking for. There is also sirens and the sound of people screaming, it really makes the audience fell for what's just happened and start making the audience put themselves into the peoples situation.This stuff that only the audience can hear ,has an impact as the characters in it cannot, so things can become clear to the audience but not the characters.
I think the screen is black when this happens because it allows the audience to think clearly about what is being said ,whereas if there was things happening on the screen, the words would not be emphasised. The shot in the street to the class room ,changes as the children begin learning about it in class, which links the whole thing, and it comes up with a drawing from a child about the shooting, as if its a story being told. The camera pans across the classroom later to the teacher. The amount of time on the screen shows the main character's and we can tell that this child is the main character and everything is revolved around him. However in this there is a lot of screen time on children. No other age really. This shows that this film is clearly about youth and the upbringing of these children and how this violence can affect them. Even showing the way the street is shows most things.
The setting is obviously in a rough street area and this being the area links to the whole film and its meaning The costumes used are normally nothing that is poor looking but nothing that makes you look rich. Being portrayed as normal people. Which links to the whole film that these ordinary children are normal but there street isn't. The lighting varies but stays quite bright and normal.
All through out the opening it is very dark, to show a negative effect. That's why the police at using flashlights. In this the women is made out to be very strong and stronger than the men. But towards the end, she is then shown to be weak as she gets hit by a truck. The males in this are made out to be very brave and have a lot of courage and at first they think she is weak, and it is easy, in till she fights back. Normally women as portrayed to be weaker than the men. The binary opposites are used between the men and women.
In this the passage of time is showed to pass by them doing different things eg.them getting married. Also they cleverly show years passing on by the putting on Carls tie. The sound is generally up beat music, and the camera uses zoom ins and outs, including a glides across the screen. Overall the whole lighting of the clip is bright and colourful, showing a positive affect and that they both had/have a good life. The actors are very different as Ellie at first is the energetic one and Carl is the one that need sot catch up where as at the end its the other way round. There personalities seem quite different but they seem perfect together. Overall the screen time just focuses on these 2 characters just showing them and there life story.
This starts with a close up view of the books and then zooms out till we can see a man doing push ups in a prison cell. The overall colour and setting is dull and dark representing this man and his mood. It is clever when he is released form his actual cell and he is being escorted by police offers and you see the camera angle change and follow him out, as if you are there and your following him out. Right at the end of the release there is a long shot of the prison and it waits in till he walks towards the camera and doesn't use any zoom ins.
In boyz in the hood you can see that this film is trying to say that the surrounding presence of white dominant culture, even in a black-majority neighborhood,You cannot escape it. Racial difference is a thing. Racial difference is constantly emphasized and re-emphasized.
In this film opening you can see that what these children have seen and experienced is not normal. Like when the boy was walking down the street and a fight was going on and it just seemed like normal life. The whole film is based around crime and you can tell this neighbourhood is a violent place to live, and that fighting and violence is part of the culture there.
In boyz in the hood in the first seconds you can see nothing but you can hear the noise of as gang and what sounds like bins being thrown and the sound of trash. sooner on, you can hear the noises of the shooting in the background even though it happened in the past and were now in the present. There is a lot of non diegetic sound in the opening of the group talking about what they are looking for. There is also sirens and the sound of people screaming, it really makes the audience fell for what's just happened and start making the audience put themselves into the peoples situation.This stuff that only the audience can hear ,has an impact as the characters in it cannot, so things can become clear to the audience but not the characters.
I think the screen is black when this happens because it allows the audience to think clearly about what is being said ,whereas if there was things happening on the screen, the words would not be emphasised. The shot in the street to the class room ,changes as the children begin learning about it in class, which links the whole thing, and it comes up with a drawing from a child about the shooting, as if its a story being told. The camera pans across the classroom later to the teacher. The amount of time on the screen shows the main character's and we can tell that this child is the main character and everything is revolved around him. However in this there is a lot of screen time on children. No other age really. This shows that this film is clearly about youth and the upbringing of these children and how this violence can affect them. Even showing the way the street is shows most things.
The setting is obviously in a rough street area and this being the area links to the whole film and its meaning The costumes used are normally nothing that is poor looking but nothing that makes you look rich. Being portrayed as normal people. Which links to the whole film that these ordinary children are normal but there street isn't. The lighting varies but stays quite bright and normal.
The matrix
All through out the opening it is very dark, to show a negative effect. That's why the police at using flashlights. In this the women is made out to be very strong and stronger than the men. But towards the end, she is then shown to be weak as she gets hit by a truck. The males in this are made out to be very brave and have a lot of courage and at first they think she is weak, and it is easy, in till she fights back. Normally women as portrayed to be weaker than the men. The binary opposites are used between the men and women.
up
In this the passage of time is showed to pass by them doing different things eg.them getting married. Also they cleverly show years passing on by the putting on Carls tie. The sound is generally up beat music, and the camera uses zoom ins and outs, including a glides across the screen. Overall the whole lighting of the clip is bright and colourful, showing a positive affect and that they both had/have a good life. The actors are very different as Ellie at first is the energetic one and Carl is the one that need sot catch up where as at the end its the other way round. There personalities seem quite different but they seem perfect together. Overall the screen time just focuses on these 2 characters just showing them and there life story.
Cape fear
This starts with a close up view of the books and then zooms out till we can see a man doing push ups in a prison cell. The overall colour and setting is dull and dark representing this man and his mood. It is clever when he is released form his actual cell and he is being escorted by police offers and you see the camera angle change and follow him out, as if you are there and your following him out. Right at the end of the release there is a long shot of the prison and it waits in till he walks towards the camera and doesn't use any zoom ins.
Thursday, 22 September 2016
Editing task
Here we had to edit film clips and add in our own audio and effects. To do this we used adobe premiere. This is the my finished clip. I used many special effects like fade, colour blend, black and white colour change, roughen edges, vertical flip and many more. I cut my clips very short and mixed them all together so they match the audio, like when the beat drops, the video changes into a different effect and so the dance moves match the tune and beat. eg. so when they stop dancing or dance slowly, I made sure there was not up beat music to a slow dance. I included loads of black outs as an effect because it creates effect to the watcher.
Monday, 19 September 2016
Auidence
Who creates what we watch?
Both the media and the audience create what we watch, the media creates it but the audience also puts their views across, and what they want so that the media can create it, the media publishes it and the audience sees it and tells there views.
Can the media exist/ Function without the audience?
I think that the media cant exist without the audience, if there is no audience the media will have no point, there wouldn't be a use for the media.
Who is more powerful: the media or the audience why/how?
Who is more powerful: the media or the audience why/how?
The audience is more powerful because they have a reactions and the media want to get a reaction. If they don't get reaction then there's no purpose for the film and less people would watch it.
Can the media control an audience?
Yes, I think the media can control an audience. I think they do this by influencing the audiences views and beliefs.
Uses and Gratifications
It is said in the gratification theory that each film has to have one of these 4 forms:
Identify- to see the product/person in the film form.
Educate- being bale to get information, and knowledge from the film
Entertain- something that should be enjoyable for you to watch
Social Interaction- is an exchange between two or more individuals and is a building block of society.so for a film to make people talk and interact with one and another.
my experience:
Most of the films I watch are mystery and horror. so especially with these mystery films you ask people a lot of questions, so you can make a judgement. Like when I watched the film Dark Places, you ask questions to one another consistently ,about who killed this women's family.so there is a lot of social interaction going on between people.
Also
my experience:
Most of the films I watch are mystery and horror. so especially with these mystery films you ask people a lot of questions, so you can make a judgement. Like when I watched the film Dark Places, you ask questions to one another consistently ,about who killed this women's family.so there is a lot of social interaction going on between people.
Also
What do we mean when we use the word 'film'?
A film is a story or event recorded by a camera as a set of moving images and shown in a cinema or on television.
Do you think it means the same as the word 'movie'?
A movie is a film generally or the film industry
what about the word 'cinema'?
The word cinema is a theatre where films are shown for public entertainment.
My top 10 favourite films:
A movie is a film generally or the film industry
what about the word 'cinema'?
The word cinema is a theatre where films are shown for public entertainment.
My top 10 favourite films:
-The conjuring
-The hunger games
-Harry potter
-The other women
-Insidious
-The sorcerers apprentice
-the lovely bones
-dead silence
- 22 jump street
As you can see by my favourite films I like the genre of horror and action a lot, all these films are common to one and another because they are all something that wouldn't happen in your day to day life, and they all have an area of mystery.
-The hunger games
-Harry potter
-The other women
-Insidious
-The sorcerers apprentice
-the lovely bones
-dead silence
- 22 jump street
As you can see by my favourite films I like the genre of horror and action a lot, all these films are common to one and another because they are all something that wouldn't happen in your day to day life, and they all have an area of mystery.
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