Monday, 6 December 2010
Monday, 29 November 2010
Final Pitch
My final pitch will be of a girl getting dropped off by her boy friend by a shortcut to her house, the boy is worried as she is alone. She convinces him that she will be okay and if she gets in trouble she will call him.
Things take a turn for the worse as she starts to hear noises and starts to get spooked as she feels like she is getting followed, She tries to give the boy a call but there is no signal, she carries on trying not to think about it and walking faster.
The camera will move to look at the bushes just to see to eyes open up and follow the girl as she walks past...The screen will go black and you will hear a scream, as the title comes up in an erie way.
Things take a turn for the worse as she starts to hear noises and starts to get spooked as she feels like she is getting followed, She tries to give the boy a call but there is no signal, she carries on trying not to think about it and walking faster.
The camera will move to look at the bushes just to see to eyes open up and follow the girl as she walks past...The screen will go black and you will hear a scream, as the title comes up in an erie way.
Thursday, 4 November 2010
Movie Pitches
Movie opening idea 1:
my first idea will be a scary film about a man who lives in a cabin which is in the woods. he prays and stalks young woman, eventually killing them.It would start of with the girl walking in to and through the woods, she is scared as it is dark but keeps walking. The camera will turn to a tree standing by the area she just walked from and a pair of eyes will open, the screen will go blank and you will hear a woman screaming, in this opening it is not clear if the woman you just saw was the one screaming or another, this will create mystery so the audience will want to keep watching. After the scream the title will appear with a kind of mist and eeriness about it. I have not decided if there will be voice over or not yet.
This movie opening is very dark and almost disturbed.
Movie opening idea 2:
For this idea I would have to film outside of school. For this film i got my inspiration from Fast and Furious, i would go to a car meet for this as this is a place where everybody goes to 'show off' their cars. it would mainly just be filming of the cars at different angles and the crowds that turn up, there will probably be a voice over telling the story. I hope to have the title by the road and have a car drive into it.
my first idea will be a scary film about a man who lives in a cabin which is in the woods. he prays and stalks young woman, eventually killing them.It would start of with the girl walking in to and through the woods, she is scared as it is dark but keeps walking. The camera will turn to a tree standing by the area she just walked from and a pair of eyes will open, the screen will go blank and you will hear a woman screaming, in this opening it is not clear if the woman you just saw was the one screaming or another, this will create mystery so the audience will want to keep watching. After the scream the title will appear with a kind of mist and eeriness about it. I have not decided if there will be voice over or not yet.
This movie opening is very dark and almost disturbed.
Movie opening idea 2:
For this idea I would have to film outside of school. For this film i got my inspiration from Fast and Furious, i would go to a car meet for this as this is a place where everybody goes to 'show off' their cars. it would mainly just be filming of the cars at different angles and the crowds that turn up, there will probably be a voice over telling the story. I hope to have the title by the road and have a car drive into it.
Preliminary Task
This is our Preliminary task for this we had to include 3 shots: Shot reverse Shot, match on action and the 180° rule.
Our film is about two people having a conversation at a restaurant and then another person comes in that is friends with them but they have forgotten to invite her and they are trying to hide and avoid her.
We Decided to start with the 180° rule, so we had Jodie and Joe start with a conversation that two friends might have when they go out for dinner, next we added the match-on-action as I came through the door. Last but not least was the shot-reverse-shot, we decided to use this as the were discussing what to do to avoid me, the friend who was not invited.
We filmed all of our shots in the dark room at school, we added tables to form a makeshift café.
We had 3 hours to film however we also got time to edit it in those 3 hours. There was not much editing involved with this task as it was quick. I think if we were to redo this task I would film it in the restaurant down stairs to make it more believable.
Monday, 11 October 2010
Reservoir Dogs-Remake Evaluation
Introduction
Planning
We started by watching the original footage and analyzing it to help us with further planning for the timing and places of the actors, this gave us the information for the things we needed and the amount of people and preparation we needed before filming.
In total we needed 8 people for the acting of the characters in the film.
Timings
Actors
This is extremely important to the production of our remake because if we were not as organised as we were I don't think that our final movie would be as good as it is. The planning took us about an hour and a half this is be cause we made it very thorough with the timings, what the actors were wearing and much more.
In the film there are eight, One of our group (Jack) had to be in the film as a last minuet resort, however saying that in my opinion the film came out well with hat sight hiccup. To recruit the actors we asked people we knew, they didn't look exactly like the people in the original however it gives it our own spin on it.

We started filming on the 4th of october and got all the filming done in the 1hr and 30mins located. We filmed in the school on the netball courts they gave us a nice background for the sequence which nicely matched the film, we also had a voice over which Mr Lower played we recorded this in the radio studio with the equipment shown in the photo. The recording went smoothly and I don't think I would change anything it we did the filming again.


Final Result

We tried to use the exact font and colour from the original to make our version more authentic.
Thursday, 23 September 2010
Analyzing Film Openings- Zombieland
For this task we have been asked to analyze a film opening, I have chosen zombieland.
My first impressions are that the movie is an action, however after a minuet or so you soon realize that it is a comedy horror.
throughout the whole first section of this opening there is a voice over from the main character, telling you about what has happened and what his rules are for survieing are.
First I am going to talk about that camera angles/shots and what affect they give on the film and on the viewer:

First I am going to talk about that camera angles/shots and what affect they give on the film and on the viewer:
The opening shot is of the American flag for this they use a close up angle, however you soon realise that it is a handheld camera; this gives the effect that you are in the movie as the character and that what is happening in the scene is happening to you.

The next angle is pan which is also closely followed by whip pan, this is when the camera moves across the screen. They used pan when they want a close shot however they also want to show the audience the whole scene; In this film it shows you America after the disease hit. The whip pan is used when the character abruptly turns the camera back to the original position when a zombie appears on the screen. Whip pan startles the viewer, which in a way sets the viewer up for the shock of the zombie.
Next as the zombie attacks the character the hand held camera falls out of their hand and with that there is an extreme close up of the zombie as he leans in to take a curious look at the camera. With this you get full view of the face and what a zombie looks like it also gives the audience a creepy feeling as the zombie is looking straight into the viewers eyes.
The next shot is a fast enigma which is also going backwards as the actor is running forwards, an enigma shot gives a element of
mystery.

The next shot is a crane shot however it is not static as it comes over the top of the bathroom door, this give the illustion that you are going where ever the character is going, in this case where ever the zombie is going.
There is a long shot which is followed by a slowmotion shot so you the viewer can get the full sense and view of what is going on. I think that they put it in slow motion so that the viewer can see all the action and to give it a sense of mystery.

http://www.artofthetitle.com/2010/04/05/zombieland/


Next as the zombie attacks the character the hand held camera falls out of their hand and with that there is an extreme close up of the zombie as he leans in to take a curious look at the camera. With this you get full view of the face and what a zombie looks like it also gives the audience a creepy feeling as the zombie is looking straight into the viewers eyes.

mystery.




http://www.artofthetitle.com/2010/04/05/zombieland/
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