I used this clip from "One Tree Hill" because i wanted to reflect the un-requited love of Peyton and Derek and how Derek will not leave her alone so he goes to her house and makes her love him hence my idea of Jason not leaving Courtney alone so killing her as he can not force her to love him back.

Horror Idea

Horror Idea

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I got my idea from a tv show "One tree hill" when a man stalks this girl because she did not love him back, hence the title "Un-requited". The change i made though was how they met and i made it more scary by him taking her to a forest instead of him breaking into her house and also that he kills her instead of trying to rape her and then he kills himself.

What is a horror film?

Horror films are movies that strive to elicit the emotions of fear, horror and terror from viewers. Their plots frequently involve themes of death, the supernatural or mental illness. Many horror movies also include a villain. Horrors have been dismissed as violent, low budget movies and exploitation films.
The personal part of a horror film is finding out what the audience’s identification of fear or terror is, such as a fear of their body being ripped or being kidnapped by a mental person.
The ideological part of a horror film is the implicit or explicit messages embedded within the narrative and the themes of punishment and rejection at subjects which deviate from “correct” thinking. There are simplistic messages such as the virgin “good” girl surviving at the expense of her rebellious “slutty” friend. Whereas to more subtle fears of strangers and hitchhikers breaking our boundaries or the condemnation of any deviant, such as a non-Christian. More of the ideological part is our perceptions that the power of science can defeat the darkness at the expense of older beliefs in religion or superstition. In modern understanding of fear we can rationalise the supernatural and defeat it with psychology. Modern media creates “demons” by crusading against sections of society or labelling them. Lastly there is the industrial and financial part of what a horror film. The most lucrative genre in the film industry draws in huge audiences justifying the continual re-invention, re-making and franchising of every successful horror product. We re-make lots of films to try and make them better as they were popular the first time hence a 9th nightmare on Elm Street or a lethal weapon 4. Re-making is good as the producers already know it will be popular so they will make money.

Prelim-Post Production Blog

Logging my shots
We learnt how to use final cut server in our last lesson with Matt. We learnt how to access our footage and load it into the programme called Final Cut Pro. First we logged the shots so took out the takes we did not need. We created a log bin in which we could store our logged shots; we took the best of our takes to put in our sequence we were going to create. We logged the shots by going through the footage and pressed I to mark in at the start of the shot and O to mark out at the end of the shot we wanted and then went to modify shot and named it (e.g mid-shot or close up shot) and moved it into the log bin. We did this for all our footage.
Organising my shots
After we got the shots we wanted to use, we had to remember the order in which the shots came in the storyboard we had. We did this by referring back to our storyboard and then matching our shots to the ones on the storyboard. This made it easier with trying to recall the order.
Shot Order
Ours started with a wide shot of both the characters which tells the audience what the main characters are going to be. It then goes to the medium shot of them which shows the characters in more detail so the shots are gradually getting closer to the characters so the audience can see more and more detail. Some of the shots we did had good continuity for example we went to a close up of our actresses hand on the door handle and then made the next shot her closing the door so it matches the two shots to make the sequence make sense to the audience.
Editing in Final Cut
We only did a few shots in editing so far. We cut on the close up on her hand on the door to add dramatic effect of her closing the door and then went to her face looking serious. The trouble we had with the editing is that we had multiple different voices talking at the same time as we cut in the shots so we still had them talking in the shot. Examples of editing we need to do is little details, such as the actress flicking her hair at a time which means she would have to do it the same each time we take another shot otherwise it would not make sense if she suddenly stopped playing with her hair. The same as where the actors stand as they can not suddenly move to a completely different place as again it would be confusing and not realistic.

Continuity Editing
The purpose of this is that it helps smooth the discontinuity of the editing process. It helps the shots to make sense as it matches them to what is happening in the sequence. This makes it easier for the audience to follow the sequence as it puts together the selected shots for it to flow.
Continuity editing can be split into two categories, such as temporal (time) and spatial (space). The important ways to get good continuity are avoiding the ellipsis, using diegetic sound and also using the match-on-action technique to make the shots match. It is important to follow a specific film language to ensure that only the relevant story points are shown and to manipulate time and space (temporal and spatial continuity). Other ways this is important is to force the audience to identify with the right characters which makes sure the story makes sense to the audience.

Preliminary task evaluation

Our group was in the studio when we did our preliminary task. I think this was the best place to film as we had the best lighting and we had a set ready which was a door and a brick wall. It felt more professional than when we first was shooting in the common room. Our group shared the roles when we were filming so that everyone got to experience and experiment with filming in the studio. I filmed a couple of shots in our sequence and said the appropriate terminology when i was doing my part. I enjoyed shooting as i felt in control. We all shared the roll on making sure the camera was in the 180 degrees rule which worked well because we never got it wrong as there were four of us making sure that it was in the 180 degree.

We first had to set up the camera on the tripod and we bubbled the tripod to make the tripod level. We also had to put the colour bars on and record for around 30 seconds and then take turn the colour bar off. Also we made sure we had the right white balance to film. We made the calls for our actors so they know what they are doing and when the camera was rolling. We had to say "stand by" to make sure everyone was ready, then "we're rolling" and then your press the red button to start recording and then once that is on and is filming you say "action" and so that is the actors que to start and lastly once we finish filming we say "cut" to tell everyone that we have stopped rolling. When we were filming if we were filming and it went wrong for example the actors forgot their lines or were standing in a different place that they were in the last shot then we would take it again. A few of our shots we did we had to re-take a few times to make it right which got stressful after a while and was pressurising on the amount of time we had. We made sure we had continuity to make sure that the shots matched, for example when our actress moved her hair in the first cut we had to make sure she did it for all the others and also where they were both standing we put tape where they should stand so that they could not get it wrong which made it easier for them and us.

We had a task to do a sequence with two actors. We got a storyboard which we had to follow for the main shots. We had to do shots such as a wide shot of the two people, over-the-sholdour shot, close up and medium shot of our actors. We did the wide shot first and runned through the script in wide shot so we can pick out the ones we want to keep. Next we did our medium shot which involved the two of them again but with more detail. We did two different over-the-sholdour shots, one which was an over-the-sholdour of our actor's point of view so looking at our actress and after we ran through our sequence in that shot we then went over to our actress and shot the sequence from her point of view. Also we did close ups of both the actors to get the expression in their faces, for example when our actor has to look worried and has his hand over his face at the end of the sequence.

We also added some of our own shots such as a close up of our actress closing the door which we made just to see her hand to add to the dramatic atmosphere we were trying to create. We also did hero shots of our actress to show that she is in control and that she has power in the sequence and then we did a shot looking down at our actor to show that he is in a weak position.
The lighting we used was hard on our actress because she was more of a dark character and more of a powerful character. We made the harsh light with a hanging lamp in the set. This was important in the scene because it helped establish her character to the audience. Towards the middle of the sequence the argument gets more heated and more intense so we thought we would change the lighting slighty to add to the atmosphere and make it more dark and to show the audince that they have had a fight and that he is scared and worried. We did this by taking away one of the lights in the set which made it darker.

About ME

Hey my name is Joanna
I go to Hurtwood House. I live in putney and i was born in Holland. So far i am enjoying media studies as i am excited as what has yet to follow. I am interested in films a lot. Some of my favourite would be the notebook, bridget jones diary and wanted. These are three different genres of film which shows i have a variety of interests in films. I have always wanted to know how they film these fantastic films and i have thought of doing a career in the filiming industry so media studies would be useful. My favourite thing i have done in media so far is the photoshop as i am creative and imaginative and i do a lot of editing photos with friends which we have a good laugh about and we have fun.

I hope you enjoy looking at my blog!

Intro to Video camera

In our lesson of learning about the video camera we got shown how to essemble the camera and we learnt how to put it on the tripod. We also learnt how to essemble the microphone. Our teacher then taught us the symbols on the camera screen. There was the battery symbol with how many minuites were left to tape in the top left hand corner. There was the time code . In the bottom right hand corner there is the mode that you choose to record in, for example DVCAM. There is also the white balance marker in the bottom left hand corner of the screen which you use to adjust the lighting, you can have it high so you can use it in night mode. In the same corner there is the DB which adjusts the picture quality, if you have it high so the picture is slower and more blury whereas if you have it low it is very fast capture so you barely see the detail so you have it at around 50DB which is normal pace. Ther is then the focus marker which is shown as a hand symbol which means the focus is in manuel and you adjust it with the focus toggle. We learnt about all the buttons and what they do such as the volume adjustment, the DB ajustment, the power button and the zoom. We learnt that there are more than one zooms however some people prefer different ones, for example they might find it easier to use one than the other.

Intro to stills camera:

I have learnt that there are many of different camera shots, for example Extreme wide shots, very wide shots, wide shots, mid shots, medium close ups, close ups and exteme close ups. Close ups have the most detail whereas wide shots have visible view of the subject or just takes up half the frame.There are also camera shots such as over the sholdour shots, point of view shots and two shots. An exampe of two shots would be in skins when Effy and Tony are in the same frame which we learn represnts their closeness in relationship. An over-the-shoulder shot is similar to a point of view shot as you see the view of the figure which the camera is behind.

The picture at the top right would be an example of a very wide shot so the subject is barely visible. The picture on the left is an example of a mid shot so the subject shows some part of detail but you can still see the rest of the subject in less detail.

We have learnt about hot spots which you use on posters etc which is the places on your poster which attracts the person's eyes. You would usually have four hot spots on each corner. So you would have something for the person to view on each hot spot, for exampe text or the subject, e.g a face or building.

Another shot is a hero shot. This is when you have a person looking up at "the hero" so that hero has the power over the person who is weak and has no control. This is used in posters for action films when they want to show who is meant to be the bigger figure, for example in the gladiator poster. Also to make this effect you can have the camera at a high angle to make it look like the subject is weak and the opposite when the camera is low as it makes the subject look high in importance and powerful.

We had a lesson on a photoshop which we learnt how to edit photos for example making them change colour or make them have a black eye and even making parts of their body enlarge or decrease, for example making the horror poster. I made her face change colour to make it look more scary and also adding text to the poster i did on photoshop.

We have also learnt about camera movements such as tracking shots when the camera moves on tracks to follow the subject, for example on a platform on wheels called a "dolly". If not a dolly you can also use a steadicam whch uses weights and balances for smooth movement. We learnt other movements such as:

tilt - whch is a subtle movement on vertical

crab - which is also a subtle movement on horizontal

crane - which the camera is mounted on a crane and can move dramatically up or down and from left to right

handheld - this makes a feel of reality as the movement can be shaky but creates a good point of view

zoom lens - illusion of movement by alternating the lens length

Horror Poster

I got a picture of the woman from the internet and edited her face with photoshop to make her look as scary as i could, e.g. making her face look white, changing the colour of her eyes, adding dark makeup, changing the size of her face and then moving it to where i thought it would be appropriate. I then put the writing in with red to add to the atmosphere. I liked the background how the light shined on a certain place and how everything else is black which makes it look mysterious...
I wanted to achieve a thriller with a killer (the white woman) and i wanted to make the poster seem intreging with the dark background. I got the idea of the woman from other horror films i have seen, for example the grudge.