Thursday, 25 February 2010
Wednesday, 24 February 2010
Dialogue
We only have few lines of speach in our title sequence this is because we thought it would be more suspenceful if we used the shots to explain what the film was about rather than using actors to expalain through dialogue. The dialogue we did used was between me and lainey when we found the bag of the missing girl 'natalie grey', at this time we do not know that natilie grey is missing were as the audience does. So from this diologue the audience can tell that something bad may happen.
Camera&Equiptment
The camera we used was a Sony Dv Handcam. Everyone was given this camera to use so it was how each group filmed that makes our title sequence different. We used a tripod for some of our shots, this was beacuse we needed the camera to be steady so all of our shots were not to busy and shakey. For our running shot Lainey ran behind me and shot me running from behind, this shot turned out very shakey but this is how we wanted it as it was supposed to look asif i was being chased. we also did another chase shot of me holding the camera. I held it up by my face, and ran so to the audience it looks like you are looking through my eyes. I think this builds tention really well.
Actors
Me and Tim are the main actors in the title sequence. Lainey has a small line answering one of my questions. Lainey and I are part of the group of teenagers who go camping, and we will find the bag belonging to Natalie Grey. There will be some speech asking who's bag it is and wondering who Natalie Grey is. They are supposed to be a group of clueless teenagers camping in the woods, oblivious to danger.
Tim played the murderer. There is no speech required for the killer, because we dont see his face and don't directly know who he is. The veiwer would easily recognise that tim is a male due to his physic. We chose Tim to play the killer because he is so tall and broad. The fact the killer preys on innocent youth is emphasised by Tim's physique, which is intimidating in itself. Tim will also be available to film whenever we plan to film, so casting was easier because of this factor.
I decided to be the unknown gril that is being chased by the murderer. I was quite happy to volinteer to be the main charecter. My group also thought that i would be the most effective actress for this as i have some of the same features of natilie grey, Blonde hair and blue eyes. There isn't too many similarities but there are some which links the unknown girl to the killer and Natalie Grey, like out of the two girls featured, who the killer was more likely to prey on.
The killers clothes are all dark and this shows how he is a dark character. The girls clothes are lighter and fashionable, teenage clothes. They are mainly what me and lainey were wearing that day because the unknown girls are supposed to just be teenagers going camping, so we wanted to keep the clothing casual.
Tim played the murderer. There is no speech required for the killer, because we dont see his face and don't directly know who he is. The veiwer would easily recognise that tim is a male due to his physic. We chose Tim to play the killer because he is so tall and broad. The fact the killer preys on innocent youth is emphasised by Tim's physique, which is intimidating in itself. Tim will also be available to film whenever we plan to film, so casting was easier because of this factor.
I decided to be the unknown gril that is being chased by the murderer. I was quite happy to volinteer to be the main charecter. My group also thought that i would be the most effective actress for this as i have some of the same features of natilie grey, Blonde hair and blue eyes. There isn't too many similarities but there are some which links the unknown girl to the killer and Natalie Grey, like out of the two girls featured, who the killer was more likely to prey on.
The killers clothes are all dark and this shows how he is a dark character. The girls clothes are lighter and fashionable, teenage clothes. They are mainly what me and lainey were wearing that day because the unknown girls are supposed to just be teenagers going camping, so we wanted to keep the clothing casual.
Props
We used quite a few props to create our title sequence.
We used the darkroom and all the props inside the darkroom such as the tongs and photo developer. We thought the darkroom would work well in our title sequence as it creates a 'eery' feeling as it is obvious that the photograph the killer was developing is an image of the unknown girl that is seen thoughout the film (ME).
Another prop we used was the newspaper articles that were found on the internet, from these images we created a board of a variety of the images ripped and roughly placed. We done this as in our film the murderer (tim) circles the image of natilie grey with a pen, this shows the audience that the murderer may have been planning to kill his victims.
We also used a range of different bags in our film. We thought it was important to show that it was natalie greys bag so we added a tag onto it which we have a close up shot of in our title sequence. We did this because we wanted to show the veiwer that natilie grey was already missing.
We used the darkroom and all the props inside the darkroom such as the tongs and photo developer. We thought the darkroom would work well in our title sequence as it creates a 'eery' feeling as it is obvious that the photograph the killer was developing is an image of the unknown girl that is seen thoughout the film (ME).
Another prop we used was the newspaper articles that were found on the internet, from these images we created a board of a variety of the images ripped and roughly placed. We done this as in our film the murderer (tim) circles the image of natilie grey with a pen, this shows the audience that the murderer may have been planning to kill his victims.
We also used a range of different bags in our film. We thought it was important to show that it was natalie greys bag so we added a tag onto it which we have a close up shot of in our title sequence. We did this because we wanted to show the veiwer that natilie grey was already missing.
22nd feb
We have now finished our main task. We manged to add all of the titles in time for marking. I am really pleased with our final outcome I think the effects we added to our shots have really helped to set the scene. We added effects such as different contrast levels to make our film look like we shot in the eveing rather than the day time. We finished the shots and made some shots longer or shorter. For example, Me Running. It is in slow motion, with heavy breathing as the audio. This creates quite a bit of tension and is good because it then contrasts with the speed of the train later and the Natalie Grey tag on the bags.We added some natural background noise so that there was more audio than the music. We also added a scream at the end of our film so it adds suspence and makes the veiwer want to find out what happend. We re-recorded the audio and edited them back into the sequence because the original audio wasn't very clear.
I am really plesed we managed to produce our main task on time, me and lainey really put the effort in to finish our film on time and i think we did a good job!
I am really plesed we managed to produce our main task on time, me and lainey really put the effort in to finish our film on time and i think we did a good job!
22nd feb
Music
The music used on our title sequence is called 'Ghostpocalypse 4 Temptress'.
It is quite eerie and chilling, and it builds up, creating a little tension.
Me and lainey looked at quite a few websites to get this music from. It took us quite a long time, but we found it in the end.
I wasnt able to add a preview of the music because i was unable to turn it into a vidio as it was just audio. Lainey managed to add it from her home computer and it has been posted on her blog.
The music used on our title sequence is called 'Ghostpocalypse 4 Temptress'.
It is quite eerie and chilling, and it builds up, creating a little tension.
Me and lainey looked at quite a few websites to get this music from. It took us quite a long time, but we found it in the end.
I wasnt able to add a preview of the music because i was unable to turn it into a vidio as it was just audio. Lainey managed to add it from her home computer and it has been posted on her blog.
Tuesday, 23 February 2010
Blair Witch Project
Here is a trailer to a film that i think relates to our film in some ways, like us they have used a handcam to record all of this footage, they have also set the film in a forest so i think it realtes to our title sequence quite well.
We have used this trailer to base our title sequence on. I like the shakey cam effect when the teenagers were running through the woods, also the running is shot from behind so you cannot see their face which also is how our title sequence has been shot. It creates a bit of tension for the audience because it appears as if they are closer to the person/thing than the actors on screen.
We liked the idea of teenagers camping in the woods and that something scares them.
The lighting changes throughout the film as the teens saty in the woods for days, so this means there are parts where the film has been shot in day light and parts where it has been shot at night. The night shots are always the more 'eery' as we can only see the actors face and we cant see what is around them. The lighting in the trailer is dark which gives the audience a more dramatic feeling as we cannot see what is happenning around the actors.
Due to the lighting, and style of the film, it gives a very diconcerning, eery feeling. The scene where Heather is talking into the camera, making her apology to her parents etc, from 1:26-1:34, is good as it adds to the ominous feel of the film.
In this shot she is saying goodbuy so it is clear to the audience that something bad has happened. This shot makes the audience feel uncomfortable and scared for her, which is the sort of effect we would like to create.
We have used this trailer to base our title sequence on. I like the shakey cam effect when the teenagers were running through the woods, also the running is shot from behind so you cannot see their face which also is how our title sequence has been shot. It creates a bit of tension for the audience because it appears as if they are closer to the person/thing than the actors on screen.
We liked the idea of teenagers camping in the woods and that something scares them.
The lighting changes throughout the film as the teens saty in the woods for days, so this means there are parts where the film has been shot in day light and parts where it has been shot at night. The night shots are always the more 'eery' as we can only see the actors face and we cant see what is around them. The lighting in the trailer is dark which gives the audience a more dramatic feeling as we cannot see what is happenning around the actors.
Due to the lighting, and style of the film, it gives a very diconcerning, eery feeling. The scene where Heather is talking into the camera, making her apology to her parents etc, from 1:26-1:34, is good as it adds to the ominous feel of the film.
In this shot she is saying goodbuy so it is clear to the audience that something bad has happened. This shot makes the audience feel uncomfortable and scared for her, which is the sort of effect we would like to create.
Friday, 12 February 2010
friday 12th feb
On monday, we carried on editing the shots for our film. We have had a little trouble on agreeing what we wanted to do but finally we decided on what order we wanted to put the shots in. Me and Alice were looking at the start of other films to see what credits we needed at the beggining, we managed to find these and wrote them down for when we needed them.
Then on wednesday we had another lesson which we didnt get very much done as i think there were to many of doing the film. So, me, lainey and alice stayed after the lesson and manged to find our music we wanted to use for our film. We then added the music. Today (friday) we are finishing our film by adding the effects and titles. I am really pleased with the way our film is looking at the moment, i think it had really progressed in the last couple of days and am very happy with the way it is coming along. Now we just need to get it FINISHED!
Then on wednesday we had another lesson which we didnt get very much done as i think there were to many of doing the film. So, me, lainey and alice stayed after the lesson and manged to find our music we wanted to use for our film. We then added the music. Today (friday) we are finishing our film by adding the effects and titles. I am really pleased with the way our film is looking at the moment, i think it had really progressed in the last couple of days and am very happy with the way it is coming along. Now we just need to get it FINISHED!
Monday, 8 February 2010
Friday 5th feb
Today we logged the rest of our shots. we managed to get the camera to capture so we captured the shot that we had recored in the previous lesson. We then began to edit the filming, we havent got alot done so we really need to get on with editing now so we can be finished for friday. We still need to add qall the effects music and directors names so we have alot to get on with. Im worried that we wont finish in time so today (monday 8th feb) we are planning on editing in our frees so i am hoping my group is still up for doing this.
Wednesday, 3 February 2010
Wednesday 3rd feb
When i first started media i wasnt to keen on the course, i thought that we never got much done and found it quite boring to be honest. Now i am enjoying the classses alot more, I am attending each lesson which means my group is getting alot more work done as i am there to pitch in. I admit my attendance has been quite poor. But i have realised that if i out effort in i get alot more out of my media class. i also think my relationship with my group has improved alot which makes me want to come to lessons, I will deffinatly not go back to my old ways as i would like to get a good grade in thos course. I am very happy with how our filming is going and once we have shot the last shots we need to get we can start properly editing! Woop!
Wednesday 3rd feb
Today, all of my group were here so we were able to get some of the shots that we had planned to do. We managed to shoot a variety of different shots of tim cirlcing the board. We also got a shot of tim developing a photograph in the dark room, and also the dirty hands shot. Now all we need to do is get a shot of tim with the knife by his feet. i think now we have these shots it will really improve our film because we needed something to scare our audience. We also tried to capture these shots today but unfortunatly we were having trouble with this so we have decided to try and do this on friday instead. Hopefully we will also be able to do the knife shot on friday aswell. Once we have got these shots and captured them we will be completly ready to edit. We have begun to edit already but without all of our shots it is quite difficult.
Broken
Here is another film that i think related to our idea of the forest stalker well. In this film the actors are being hunted by someone and this is the same type of film we would like to create. As this is a trailer it is very graffic, we have to remeber to make our beggining credits not as graffic as we dont want to give to much of the story line away.
The trailer starts with a slow peiceful peice of music and then is cut into by someone talking, i think this works effectivly as the music is broken into by the sound of a worried person. I like the idea of using sreams and heavy breathing as it really adds to the effect that somone is after them, this is why we think it would be a good idea to use sound effects such as these during our opening credits.
At first some images come up of the scenery such as trees and birds, this is a contrast to the film as it puts the message across of a peicefull place, and infact it is the complete opposite. Most of the shots are dark and mysty which shows that something bad may happen as this is what we would expect in a horror film. There is alot of flashing from shot to shot which builds up tention, we need to think about this when editing our beginning credits as we really want to put out the same sort of feel as this horror film. Also the lighting is dim in all the shots and the colours of the background have been changed so they flash in other colours (red) this is to build suspence and i think this film has done it effectivly. I think they used the colour red as i think it supposed to represent blood. We can tell from this trailer that the people are being brutilly murederd which is why the colour red is shown through out the trailer. I hope we can create something along these lines.
The trailer starts with a slow peiceful peice of music and then is cut into by someone talking, i think this works effectivly as the music is broken into by the sound of a worried person. I like the idea of using sreams and heavy breathing as it really adds to the effect that somone is after them, this is why we think it would be a good idea to use sound effects such as these during our opening credits.
At first some images come up of the scenery such as trees and birds, this is a contrast to the film as it puts the message across of a peicefull place, and infact it is the complete opposite. Most of the shots are dark and mysty which shows that something bad may happen as this is what we would expect in a horror film. There is alot of flashing from shot to shot which builds up tention, we need to think about this when editing our beginning credits as we really want to put out the same sort of feel as this horror film. Also the lighting is dim in all the shots and the colours of the background have been changed so they flash in other colours (red) this is to build suspence and i think this film has done it effectivly. I think they used the colour red as i think it supposed to represent blood. We can tell from this trailer that the people are being brutilly murederd which is why the colour red is shown through out the trailer. I hope we can create something along these lines.
Tuesday, 2 February 2010
Monday 1st feb
We have also been looking at the trailer 'shrooms' we want to create the same sort of film as this, we have been looking at this film to see what shots they have used in the start of the film and are trying to create our own versions. this is the beggining of 'shrooms'
Monday 1st feb
On monday me lainey and alice started to edit our shots. We put our shots into the order we wanted them to be, and began to edit the shots to make them shorter. We have decided to do quick snap shots in our film. We want to have a range of different shots with the names coming up with a black screen in between the snap shots. We had a few arguments about what other shots we needed, but finally decided that we need to get some shots of a knife so our film makes more sence. We are planning on filming more on wednesday the main shots we need to get are;
-Tim in the darkroom developing photos
-Knife swinging by tims feet as he is walking
- Dirty hands, (with or without a knife)
I think once we have got thses shots it will improve our film dramatically because at the moment we have lots of shots of running away from someone, and i think we need to give the audience an idea of who or what we are running from. So hopefully if tim is in the next lesson we will be able to do this.
-Tim in the darkroom developing photos
-Knife swinging by tims feet as he is walking
- Dirty hands, (with or without a knife)
I think once we have got thses shots it will improve our film dramatically because at the moment we have lots of shots of running away from someone, and i think we need to give the audience an idea of who or what we are running from. So hopefully if tim is in the next lesson we will be able to do this.
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