write up

I think our work would score a 47, we would lose marks for the music on the heart beat part as sometimes it went out of time and may have been slightly too loud for the clip. Also we could of varied our range of shots from close up to long shot. Our lighting was slightly off as we recorded on 2 different days. other than these i think our film was a success.

sheets

Make up design sheet

This sheet helped us know what kind lighting and wardrobe we wanted on our characters.

The lighting design sheet

Using this sheet we knew which lights we wanted to use and tested which would look better for our genre and in the setting we were using .

Question 9 - Leanne

Throughout the planning of the course We split the sheets we did equally. The sheets that I completed were:

Step outline in sound

Shot list

A third of the story board

Make up design

Lighting design sheet

A Textual analysisWe also took turns in doing the group sheets like Narrative textual analysis and the Pitching of our film.

In the shooting of the film I started to playa role in the film but due to illness I took role of camera man and directed some of the shots, although most shots before done were decided by the whole group so we all took part in all areas of the shooting.

In the editing stage I helped out to edit some clips but also gave my opinion on what I thought would look good as well as others in my group.

My main role was ot co ordinate everything and make sure all actors and members of group would meet to film the horror sequence and also picked up the equiptment when needed.

For the evaluations we spread them equally and to the areas we worked on the most. 

Samuel Hutsby Question 9

Contribution.

Throughout this coursework I have contributed in both practical and theoretical sense, in the planning stage I took responsibilty for several documents within our planning,as a group we all took several activities and worked together with seperate sections of one document,

These are just a few of the planning documents I contributed to, also along side the images, I had heavy input into the scripting and other aspects such as costume design and test shots.

When filming, as you can see above, I was involved in acting but when I wasn't on camera I helped position other actors and set up various camera angles throughout filming, helping direct actors on the emotions and also the speech we needed to make our film most effective.  The ideas we used aloud me to maintain constant input into shot types used even when I was going to be in shot.

Finally I took part in several evaluation questions mostly research into IMDB's database for user ratings, and target audiences etc, this was what I found most suited to my abilities.

Question 8 -Leanne

The preliminary task:
http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=1695401048863777753&postID=6254059250410301976 

Our Final film:
http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=9148752754245313632&postID=206458032888775937


Looking back over our preliminary task we have used similar techniques but perfected them and took notice of the rules you had to follow while filming. While watching the preliminary task I noticed a lot of jumps and lack of continuity. Also a lot of shots didn't make sense in a horror film. Throughout the clip there are various mistakes like using both sides of the 180 degree rule and not abiding by the 30 degree rule.  Also there are moments when the camera is not kept steady and where the tracks and pans are too fast and irrelevant.

Here is a shot of the preliminary task's close up shot that we used. Here  you cant really see the facial expression well . This shot should have been more of a close up and the camera should have been positioned more to the left so that the face would have been in the middle of the shot. 

 In our Final piece image on the right you can see the actors facial expression and the positioning of the camera was a lot better. 

In this preliminary image there are multiple things wrong with it. In the background there was people from the public constantly walking around in the background and making noise, this made it hard for filming it and created problems when we filmed it. Also for a horror film it's very bright and sunny which doesn't reflect the mood and atmosphere in which we tried to create. 

In the image to the right from our final film you can see how we changed the lighting to give it a better atmosphere and make it look more 'scary'. Also the area was  abandoned so filming was a lot easier and nothing intervened. 

 Another problem that I found in the preliminary task was the positioning of shots. We didn't use the 'rule of thirds' so found it really hard to be able to catch the shots we wanted originally. In the image you can see what we intended to be a splash in the bottom left corner. The ripple should have been zoomed in and made into a close up so the audience should notice it more. 

In the image to the right you can see that we got the feet in close up and clearly in the centre of the shot.  By using the rule of thirds and zooming in on the shot it made the shot a lot clearer and smoother. 

Looking back at the preliminary tasks I can see how much we have progressed. We have positioned shots better and continuity was no longer a problem in our final film. The sound was a lot clearer and smoother because of less distractions from the public. 

If we were to do this task again I would properly add more shots of the threat and make it more obvious that something was going to happen. I would also just tweak some things in order to make it run more smoothly. But overall I don't think We would change much.   

Question 6. Sam

Distribution

British Film companies have made several horror's over the last decade, these companies aid in the funding and overall supervision of the films.

 

Film 4 have also hosted horror film festivals over digital television to promote british horror.

UKfilm council is a prime example of a British company who produced one of the most recognised horror films of the past decade, 28 days later was released in 2002 and was followed up by the sequel 28 weeks later.

If sponsored by a film company, most of our films finance would be from the company, they would have large input in the content and marketing (e.g certificate)  of the film,  so if they thought more under 18's would be interested in our film then they would maybe cut some of the more gritty content to make it more suitable. 

Besides using a film company another way our film could get noticed is via a film festival, (see above), by entering an event similar to this the film would be viewed by judges and therefore get notification and prestige if it won in its catergory. 

We adapted scenes from several successful films to increase our films potential to succeed, scenes from films such as quarantine and 28 weeks later are key ones that have been copied to boost our success rate.

Question 4 - Leanne

In horror films there are a range of different stereotypes that they use. For gender, they normally use a 'defenseless' girl to play the victim. Their normally the one who goes into the room where the noise came from or need to be rescued. In our film we switched the roles and used a male to play the victim and gets help from a female friend. This challenges dominant ideology for horror genre.

  Another gender stereotype used in horror films is the girl refusing to go into the 'scary' place. For ours we used a 'scary' house and made the girl not want to go inside. This showed dominant ideology.

Manly in ghost horror films they use children as a treat or a older male. We originally went with an elderly male that had a background of hating children but towards the end of our filming we decided that it didn't matter what age or gender it was and left it open for the audience to decide.

The setting stereotype was also something we had to consider in order to make a good opening sequence. In ghost horrors especially the lighting is usually dark or natural to create a mysterious feel about the setting. We did this in ours:

This is a screen grab from the film 'Nightmare on Elm street. We used this film as inspiration for the darkness of the setting. Here you can see the darkness is used as natural lighting just like we tried to do.