Question 5

We started off the opening with our logo to promote our company. We have used lots of shaky effects in it so the audience get the feeling that she is feeling disorientated. To create an effect in the audience we have built tension by contrasting the dynamics of very slow and then it kicks in again. The music and audio we have used has also helped us to create this. For example a moment when this happens is when the girl comes through the door we wanted that to go slowly so you could capture the image of her imaginary friend stood right behind her and out side. Then as soon as she shuts the door the music gets louder and the speed goes back to its normal pace. Another example of us using tension would be the low camera angle shot of the imaginary girls feet coming into the shot this is done slowly with music turned right down. From this we wanted our audience reaction to be quite scared and creeped out. We experimented with the shots we did for example we did shot of the imaginary girls reflection in the window and the same with the girls reflection. We then built the end to be a big climax but it wasn't revealed it was just left so that it was clear to the audience that it was a film opening. to do this we sped up the shot we took of the face when it gets closer so that it was a sudden contrast.

Preliminary

Question 7

We found the difference in how our skills had changed was a great deal compared to when we had done our preliminary task to our final piece. The preliminary task taught us techniques like 180 degree rule the match on action and shot reverse shot. This was very helpful when doing our final piece as it gave us more understanding of techniques we could include to make our filming more professional. It also made us more aware of continuity editing, so we could spot it out a lot easier. We found that when we used did our preliminary task we didnt use a tripod , we learnt from this in the actual task as the shot were a lot more steady and look more professional. We also had quite sloppy editing in the prelim as there is a shot scene of what shouldn't be in there you can tell as it does not match up. There was also a moment where you can see the fade happen at the start. In the editing of our final piece we used effects where as in the prelim we did not. In both the prelim and the final piece we used match on action, in the final piece with the girl coming through the door from out side we then take a front view inside the house of her coming in . We also used the 180 degree rule and the shot reverse shot when we an over the shoulder shot of the girl looking out of the window and then the imaginary girls perspective from out side. In the prelim when the two characters were talking the two techniques were applied.

We used this camera to take pictures of the angles we of the shots we had made in case when we needed to redo some shots we knew where exactly we were facing. The camera did in able us to do this but not accurately .

This was our most important piece of equipment that we used as we were able to get all of our footage with it. I have learnt that when filming we had to wait a couple of seconds either side of the filming as it would fade in and out on each clip. We also had to make sure that we were sure how much time was left on the tape as well as we came over the problem of running out half way through.

Question 6

We have used the mac to do all the film editing i have learnt that it is very time consuming process. I have also learnt that there are many things on the mac that allows you to pay attention to detail on your film. I found the advanced technology allowed me to do a lot more than a normal computer.

Question 4

This is my sister Stef. She is the type of person who would watch our film she is a uni student in Leeds and enjoys a good horror. She likes nights in with her friends/boyfriend eating chinease on a saturday night. she likes indie / a bit of mainstream music. She shops in Topshop, Urban outfitters, Zara and River Island. She enjoys watching tv programmes like come dine with me, hollyoaks, friends. Stef would like to watch our film as she really enjoys horror films just as "the ring" all the "saw" films and "paranormal activity". Which we have compared our film to. She is also not swayed by high or low budget films , if it looks like a good horror she will watch it. she likes to try new things. Which is good for our film as it is low budget and doesn't have any known actors in. Also she enjoys films that keeps her suspicious and on the edge of her seat. She enjoys a film that builds tension and leads up to a climax.

Question 3

Question 1

Beckys 9 Frames

Question 2

We compare our character to samara out of the ring. When researching we found that the colour contrast of the pale white and the dark was really effective, so we decided to do her make up pale white face with dark menacing eyes we then dressed her in a big white t-shirt and ripped it and put blood marks all over it. This indicates trouble. We also found when researching that silence was alot more effective as it created tension. We also made our chararcter move in a simple way by having her hands down by her side and just simply walking. This is very similar to the mannerisms that samara has in the ring. I would say that the imaginary friend in our film opening has more facile appearance as in the ring she had her hair over her face most of the time. We chose to show the face more as we wanted to see the eyes staring as this can be very daunting.

Ident

We created our ident by changing the effects and contrasts of the picture to make it stand out more. We also add text to it calling the company "Eye view pictures."

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Mood board

Media Mood Board

Planning questions on film

1. Is it practical?
Yes it is practical, as we are doing it at emmas houseso its easy access. Also we are doing it inside her house house so we wont have a problem with the weather. We do have the first bit out side all we need to do for this is make sure we film at the right time as we want it to be the right lighting. Also all the props we are using for example a knife are house hold objects. Again easy access. We manage to do all the makeup and costume ourselves so we didnt having to worry about that. With both of the actors living near by and close friends we were able to depend on them to be when we needed to film.
2. Is it an idea that works to the strengths of the group?
I think it works to the strengths of our group as we are all interested in this kind of genre. Which means we all watch lots of films with the same genre so we could all give a good eye to the opening. I think within our group we all gave different qualities. For example Rob's i found was quite motivational in the idea thinking stage as he had a variety of different genres of a film opening to do . I think Emma brought good organisation skills. Especially with the setting be at her house she had to organize alot of things. I would say my strengths were thinking of abstract camera shots and also simplifying the film opening so we made sure it was a film opening and not a mini film.
3. Will it show off the skills you have learnt so far on the course?
Yes as it will show shots like over the shoulder shots and keeping to the 180 degree rule, which we had to include in our preliminary task. It will also show a range of varied and interesting shots. Which we have found out through out the course, when again doing our preliminary task. We have also learnt about different things that you can let the audience in on and not. This is shown through different camera shots and different characters/ objects that connote this suspicion. An example of this will be when we have the girl have a flashback to her with a knife stabbing someone. Then at the end of the opening after it has showed her getting more crazy we have her mum coming in with the knife in the camera shot and her mum saying "whats wrong Susie".
4. Is it something you can reasonably shoot and edit in the time available?
Yes as we have planned all our shots our in thumbnails in a storyboard so there is no messing around with camera shots. We know ho we are doing the makeup. We also organized two nights to do it in. When then planned to use the practical lessons to edit in. To help in the lesson time we have set targets fro when we will have things done by. To stick to these targets we will work all lesson and if we don't finish we will go into break or lunch time.
5. Can you get access/ permission to shoot in the chosen location at the chosen times?
As we are using Emma's house she was able to ask her parents if we could film. She negotiated what night would be best for them as they were able to be out of the house. We worked this out to be on the on the Tuesday and Thursday. We were also able to arrange the time at night which is when we needed it in order to create our setting.
6. Can you organise lighting to use in that location?
The lighting was seen as one of our problems as we wanted to get the contrast of being dark so it would keep with the theme of quite sinister, but not to dark so we were able to see clearly. So we asked Emma what kind of lighting she had and she said it should be alright as in the kitchen where we are doing most of our filming have lots of scattered lighting which wasnt to bright. At one point where "Susie" is having the flash back we need to use a torch to create a flickering effect. This was to indicate that her dream was restless.
7. Have you included dialogue? If so, will it work to shoot conversation in that location?
We had a group decision at the start of thinking of this idea that we wouldnt have any dialogue apart from what her mum says at the end. We thought of doing this because we watched a few other sinster opening clips and when they used dialogue it wasnt effective enough to creat tension.
8. Do you have guaranteed high quality reliable actors to play the characters?
We have decided to use our friends who stubdy drama at A level. Our reasons for doing this is because as the are our friends tehy are more likely not going to cancel on us. Also we know from working in dramam with them as well that they are good at acting. They also live near by which is helpul as they are able to get to Emma's house.

Production of the Soloist

The story of the soloist came from a LA newspaper, this means its a real life story. To create this realism in the film they used real homeless people that lived there.
The question was asked to "Joe Wright" the producer "how can you have a film without an ending", his answer to this was that he wanted to create a realistic film , including real characteristics of a man with schizophrenia and also didnt want to have a typical happily ever after, as do all hollywood films. It think by doing this it will shock the audience as it will not be expected.
Jamie Fox i think think must have been his most challenging role as "Joe" really wanted him to portray this character right. This is a big risk and and really tested Jamie as they didnt want to offend anyone who had this condition by not doing it right. Therefore this is a very sensitive topic to be doing.
Joe commented that the more he goes to America the more he doesnt understand it. This is the kind of feeling that he wanted his actors to feel when they were acting, this sort of uncertainty.

The Maccabees xray

We first see a high angle shot with two men in white body suits, this connotes that they are some form of doctor doing the xray. They have then used lots of different shots of different coloured pins this relates to the different colours that you see in an xray. As when you imagine and xray you imagine a black back ground with lots of illuminous colours. They have linked these shots by using a flashing effect from one shot to the other, this again relates to an xray as in an xray they take lots of shots of the particular part of your body and this makes a big flash. After this they swap the scene of the two men to doing the same thing out side but with the two men wearing normal casual clothes, this could connote the inside and outside of the body. The clip then changes to a close up of a mans tshirt and different clips of red dots in different places.

Through out the whole music video they have have used jump cuts .In order to create this fastforward , jump cut motion it looks like they have taken many video clips and sped them up, like the one of the two men. Then other cases like the pins on the wall and the red dots on the man tshirt, it looks like they have taken camera shots and created an motion.

In the first shot it shows a clear use of cutaways with it starting the two men in suits and then it cuts to the pins then back to the first shot they also realte to each other.

I think in this music video they have tried to inlude a narrative. As it has two parts to it. The first half is with the men laying out the patteren on thr floor then they have used flashe of the pins, but it builds up so the first flash will be of one pin and then it will build up to more pins. In the middle to this it has a fade out clip to black, it then starts the second part with the pins and then includes the tshirt and the red spots this relates to the pins as it is very similar.

Actors

Joe Wright chose his acotrs knowing that they were brilliant as he has seen them in many films. He Quotes about Jamie Foxx "Jamie is, I think, one of the best actors of his generation and certainly one always wants to work with the best.” Jamie has won awards such as BAFTA awards, Academy award and golden globe awards. He has also been awarded a star on the hollyward walk of fame. In an interview with Jamie. He said that when he read this part he was immediatley interested, so he decided to go to a psycholgist as he felt he needed to know more about it as ha wanted get properly into this character.

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G321 Course Outline Dec 2009 to March 2010

Shots

This will be where the girl will be stood. When the imagenery friend is looking in at her.

We would do an over shoulder shot of the imagenery friend looking in at the girl.

Shots

This will be the imagenery friends perspective when she comes in through the back door. We dont think we are going to have a shot from the imagenery girls perspective as it could confuse the audience as it could appear as someone just following her.

Shots

The close up of the knives is quite important as it is an indication to a murder. We also thought about having a point of view camera shot from the knives perspective. This would add to a range of imagenery shots.

Shots

This will be when the imagenery friend comes into the house we are going to have a low angle shot with the girl susie have he feet and ankles in the picture. Then we will have the imagenery friends feet, which we are going to muddy up and look horrible. They will come into the back of the shot so it shows distance between the girl and her imageneery friend.

Shots

This will show the first shot of in the kitchen . This will be a point of view shot . With showing the first front on shot of the imagenery girl in the window looking in.

Shots

We will have intense music leading up to this shot as in this shot we want to make the audience jump. We intend to do this by having the girls hand sharply coming out of the toilet holding onto the wall. We then will show the normal girl with schizophenia looking quite drained and abit more insane. We will do this with make up.

Shots

Inside the toliet showing her being sick. At a high angle shot.

Shots

We will be using a point of view shot as she leads her way to the down stairs toliet. This will only be shown once in the film opening. She will be going to the toilet to be sick. We will show this in the toliet as a high angle shot lookin down at the head in the toilet.

Shots

This will the the first view of inside the house for the audience. The hall way is going to be shown alot in the opening as she will be stubbleing through it and then we will see it again when the mum comes into the room.

Shots

This the Front door and the porch that she will be stubbling up to. Its a bonus that the door is red as it indicates death. I also think it will add to the video as it will add some colour . As we wanted to keep the effect quite dim and dark.

Shots

This is just before she comes into the house at this point she is really disorientated and goes to look behind her as if she thinks someone is there but infact its his schizophenia.

Shots

This will be a shot from behind the girl walking up to the house we will then start the noises which will represent her head going and her schizophenia coming through and talking over. The noises will only be very slight so not much talking as we dont want much dialogue.

Shots

This location is outside the front of Emmas house. This is going to be our first shot where the girl is walking upi to the house and first starts to feel her head going.

Costume Picture

This is the kind of costume we have been thinking about for the character of the imagenry friend. By using this sort of scary and ragged costume it allows the audience to feel the atmosphere we want to create. For example if we dresswed the imagenery freind in normal clothes. There would be nothing to create suspition. Also it would not match our theme of scary horror. Doing this it takes a normal everyday life disorder into alot more scary situation. If the imagereny friend wears this it singles here out from everyone else as this is not a normal way of dressing.

1. The action: identify the event your idea is based around; what actually happens (discovery of a body, an illicit meeting, a witness seeing a crime being committed, a criminal act taking place, a telephone call, a chase, a short journey etc)?
The girl has got schizophrenia and she has to control it by pills, which she goes to get but sees she has none left so this then means that she then can not control her imagenery friend, her imagenery friend then controls her and tells her to do these bad things . She then has a flash back of her holding a knife. This then links to the end scene of her holding the knife whilst looking at her mum. This indicates that she is going to kill her mother.
2. The theme(s): what should it make the audience think about or feel, what ‘issues’ will it raise (revenge, sexuality, voyeurism, stalking, obsession, greed etc)?
We want to make the audience feel on egde and want to keep watching the film. It may raise the issue of corcern for her mental disoder and if it is making her capable of killing her mum, what else she might be capable.
3. The narrative: how is it structured - classic narrative pattern or break with convention, real time or different time zones, flashbacks/forwards, dreams etc. Will there be dialogue? What about diegetic/ non-diegetic sound?
Ours is a classic pattern with a break of convention, we have used a flash back. We are also using non diagetic sound. There will only be abit of dialogue.
4. The character(s): who are they, identify their roles, what are their characteristics, including gender, appearance etc?

Susie: Hatty

She has schizophenia she will quite normal. She will then end looking stressed

Imagenery friend: She will be suspious and will look really scary

1. Is it practical?
I think ours will be easy to for us to film as we have the location in lutterworth so not far to travel. Also the actors are close friends and live near by. The only thing that might hold us back slightly is that we want ours to be in the night so any practical work that we might be set in a lesson we might be stuck with nothing to do. This means we would be wasting time. This also means that we would have to do it in our own time and take a camera out for a night.

2. Is it an idea that works to the strengths of the group?
I think we all add something to the group as emma is very artistic and has been able to show our idea down on paper. I think this is really important as you find when it comes to a practical idea its very hard to explain and to have someone in your group who can do this i think its a really advantage. I think rob is a motivator of the group especially when it came to the ideas. He had alot of ideas. Some that went on to a completely differernt genre this is good as it gave us range. Then my role came in when we had a lot of ideas i would simplify them down and see the bigger picture of whether we will be able to do certain camera shots, whether they will look tacky or not. Or even if it was possible at all as we dont have any money budget, so we were unable to do anything with big specail effects.
3. Will it show off the skills you have learnt so far on the course?
Yes we are including match on action, over the shouldre 180 degree rule and a range of different and imaginative shots.
4. Is it something you can reasonably shoot and edit in the time available?
Yes as our location is in lutterworth and so are our actors. We also have a Macs at school that are available in our lessons.
5. Can you get access/ permission to shoot in the chosen location at the chosen times?
Yes as it is emmas house we will be able to do it at any time.
6. Can you organise lighting to use in that location?
This shouldnt be to much of a problem as we are filming alot in emmas kitchen and there is alot of small lights scattereed around the room. This should there for allow us to create a dull effect to fit in well for the theme of the opening. If this does not work we will be able to use colour contrasts and colour effects to help create the atmorsphere.
7. Have you included dialogue? If so, will it work to shoot conversation in that location?

We decided to use only one bit of dialogue in ours, this is from the mother and she says "Darling whats wrong". Our reasons for doing this is because we wanted to sustain a constant atmosphere and tension throughtout the whole opening this allowed an element of secrecy in the opening. Which keeps the audience engaged.
8. Do you have guaranteed high quality reliable actors to play the characters?
I would say that they are quite reliable as they are both drama students and live near by they are also close friends so they are more likely to be commited.

25219172 Audience Profiling Sheet[1]

This clip from hollyoaks shows newt and his imagereny friend eli. we thought that this idea would be a good twist to our film opening as it worked very well in hollyoaks. we aslo thought taht we would be able to do many different and experimental camera shots with this. But then at the same time you have to be careful with the camera shots so it is made clear to the audience that its an imagenerny friend and not just another person. We hope to achieve this by using proxemics between the girl and the imagenerey girl. Also by using a blur effect. In this clip at the stage were lauren newts friend has taken his pills and there is about three camera shots that show her to be quite disoreintated these are shown in a point of view shot. This helps the audience to see how she is feeling. We are hoping to do this in our film opening. We would show this when the girl can feel that her head is going and needs to take her pills. This will be at the start of the opening. I think a point of view shot is key in our opening as it is important that the audience know how the girl is feeling and what she can see. The difference with our film opening and how we are going to portray this imagenery friend is quite different to the way hollyoaks did. This is because we know that eli is newts imagenery friend because he has been to the doctors and they have told him he has got schizafrenier. But with ours we are not using dialogue so it is going to be harder to portray this without it looking like some one following or stalking a girl. This will have to purely be done through camera shots. We will show links like pills and a dizzy head. I think without the dialogue in hollyoaks you wouldnt have known eli was his imagenery friend as he i just shown like a normal person.

saw 3 anaylis

://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucqya3dUgow

This opening scene of saw 3 really inspired me to do a scary theme for my opening scene. It starts with a shot of a torch which is for the set lighting and is used to set the scene. This is the only light used on the set. Infront of this light is a gun and a man on the floor struggerling and reaching for this gun. I think this is a real strong opening as it gets you straight into the action and instantly sets the atmosphere. This is shown at a low angle shot. They have done this so it can help the audience to feel the struggle that this man is feeling. Also with the audience being so close to the action it adds to the atmosphere of the uneasy and uncomfortableness. The lighting stays the same throughout the opening.The torch light creates shadows which emphasises that he is on his own as it gives off a clostrophobic feel. Its mainly dark then there is a slight light shone on key props that help the audience to get a better idea about whats going on. For example the light is shone on a chain that is attached to his ankle. The light is the shone on a saw which he is holding next to his foot which indicates that he is going to saw at his foot. to get out. There is many point of view shots in this as the man is holding a torch which is the only light, which means there will only be light where this man is looking. The man then turns around and finds another man dead on the floor with a trail of blood behind him and this other man foot detached from his body still held on by a chain. This then tells the living man and the audience that this is what this man is going to have to do to get out of this chain, to saw his foot off.

They have used non diagetic sound in this and it was continuely playing throughout the whole of the opening. I then notice the music got to a higher pitch when the man was about saw his foot off. This is to help bulid the suspence of the climax.

I thought it was really clever the way that with the lighting being very dark that the audience were still able to get a clear idea of what was going on in the scene. By shining the torch light on key props. This has inspired me to experiment with camera angles, and especially lighting.