Each member of our group has had tasks designated for them so that we each have an equal amount to do and we can each focus on something and this way our tasks will all get done sooner.
I am doing the story board for our group and that will be put up soon so that we can see how our opening will flow that will be done by the 10th of decemeber we have decided.
I believe that I will finish before then but once we have done that and are happy with the story board we are going to start with the animatic so that we can actually watch our opening; the good thing about the animatic is it will give us a good oppotunity to decide if anything needs changing within our story board as we will be able to watch how it goes.
I have also got the role of costumes and so I have to choose what to dress the characters in, I am finding this a challenge as we have yet to fully decide on how the male and female characters are going to be presented but I will dress them accordingly making sure they fit with the image we are trying to portay of the characters.
Tuesday, 30 November 2010
Planning - Our ideas:
We are going to go with the horror thrillier genre of film; we decided that we would go with this as we can fit the typical thriller conventions but also put in elements of horror so that we can add gore into the opening to make it seem scary as well as thrilling.
Our idea is to start with a typical opening of a thrillier with pictures of a girl all over a wall - we decided that we would go with this as the starting frame as it is expected of a thrillier to have a stalker/a phyco kind of character.
We then decided that to fit in with the horror genre the majority of our opening will go to a girl lying dead on the floor simply showing different parts of her body this will keep the opening ery and will leave the audience wanting to know what happened to her. Even though there will not be more to the film it will be a good opening and will leave the audience geussing and also by keeping an opening like this we wont have to have much of a story line which I believe works best within a thriller opening because it leaves room for anticipation and suspence.
We have decided on the setting of our opening: we are going to use a kitchen as the setting for our opening, by using a setting like a kitchen it will hopefully add a little to the suspence as a kitchen is not somehwere were you usally expect murder to take place. We have also decided on the gender of the murder and the victim, we have decided to stick to the original style of have the male as the stronger character whilst the female is the weaker character. We decided on have this as we believe that this will fit the conventions of both a thriller and a horror. We may however change the idea about gender and the way in which we represent the characters depending on how we wish to portry them.
Our idea is to start with a typical opening of a thrillier with pictures of a girl all over a wall - we decided that we would go with this as the starting frame as it is expected of a thrillier to have a stalker/a phyco kind of character.
We then decided that to fit in with the horror genre the majority of our opening will go to a girl lying dead on the floor simply showing different parts of her body this will keep the opening ery and will leave the audience wanting to know what happened to her. Even though there will not be more to the film it will be a good opening and will leave the audience geussing and also by keeping an opening like this we wont have to have much of a story line which I believe works best within a thriller opening because it leaves room for anticipation and suspence.
We have decided on the setting of our opening: we are going to use a kitchen as the setting for our opening, by using a setting like a kitchen it will hopefully add a little to the suspence as a kitchen is not somehwere were you usally expect murder to take place. We have also decided on the gender of the murder and the victim, we have decided to stick to the original style of have the male as the stronger character whilst the female is the weaker character. We decided on have this as we believe that this will fit the conventions of both a thriller and a horror. We may however change the idea about gender and the way in which we represent the characters depending on how we wish to portry them.
Monday, 15 November 2010
Evaluating other groups continuity task.
When marking the other groups continuity task we had to use the brief we were first given with the directions for the task which informed us of the different things we needed to include as well as using the marking criteria.
For
Heather, Laura, Brogan and Sam: We gave them a level three. We thought that they were to good to be a high level two and therefore should be in the threes. There use of different shots and angles was good and they varied them throughout. They also followed the brief and did everything asked of them. There audio was also very clear and easy to understand. http://heathercaseymediacoursework.blogspot.com/2010/11/continuity-task_3657.html
Luke, Jess, Serenna and Hannah: For this group we gave them a low level two. This was mainly because there footage wasn't finished and therefore they had not even completed what they were told to. The audio was okay on there piece and they tired to use a different variety of camera angles within there shots which takes them off a level one.
http://imsocoolibakecakes.blogspot.com/2010/11/continuity-task-end-product.html
Callum, Tom and Ellie: For this we gave them a level two-three. This was because they did what they were told to do and followed the instructions. They also used different camera angles and the audio was good I thought on this piece.
http://elliebiddle.blogspot.com/2010/11/continuity-editing-task_15.html
For
Heather, Laura, Brogan and Sam: We gave them a level three. We thought that they were to good to be a high level two and therefore should be in the threes. There use of different shots and angles was good and they varied them throughout. They also followed the brief and did everything asked of them. There audio was also very clear and easy to understand. http://heathercaseymediacoursework.blogspot.com/2010/11/continuity-task_3657.html
Luke, Jess, Serenna and Hannah: For this group we gave them a low level two. This was mainly because there footage wasn't finished and therefore they had not even completed what they were told to. The audio was okay on there piece and they tired to use a different variety of camera angles within there shots which takes them off a level one.
http://imsocoolibakecakes.blogspot.com/2010/11/continuity-task-end-product.html
Callum, Tom and Ellie: For this we gave them a level two-three. This was because they did what they were told to do and followed the instructions. They also used different camera angles and the audio was good I thought on this piece.
http://elliebiddle.blogspot.com/2010/11/continuity-editing-task_15.html
Continuity task.
We were given the task of creating a continuity task which focused on producing a short clip of one minute which showed the ability to use the camera along with a range of different angles.
We were given a short of list of things which we would need to include like having a person walk in to a room through a door and exit from the same door, as well as having two people having a conversation.
My group found it hard at first to think of an idea which would be easy to shoot in the day we were given to use the equipment provided. After some discussions about who would be needed to act in the task the ideas came to us and we were able to think of a simple idea which was able to include all the things asked from us.
When filming our task we found it okay as we had the tri-pod to keep the camera still and we were able to develop techniques when using the camera which I believe will be very useful when filming our main coursework.
Editing the film wasn't as hard as I had first anticipated and actually once you are able to learn the basics, editing the short piece is simple.
I think that for my group the role that we took when making the continuity task worked for us and we were able to get the task completed a few days before it was due which left us with more time to make sure it was the best we could make it with the footage we had taken.
I think that for my group the role that we took when making the continuity task worked for us and we were able to get the task completed a few days before it was due which left us with more time to make sure it was the best we could make it with the footage we had taken.
I believe after studying the marking criteria and focusing on the video section that I would give our group a high level 2 to a low level 3 as I think we managed to do what fell under the level.
As for the audio this is something my group struggled with when having it on the mac. This was because of the sound of the music which we had chosen to accompany the sense, as I nor anyone else in the group was sure how to make one sound louder than an other and save it there so it wouldn't change the next time it was viewed and this was something that I think my group should of worked on. Because of the loudness of the music in some senses it was hard to hear what was being said. For this I would give our group a level 1 as I personally didn't think it was as clear as it should have been.
Overall I think our video probably scored a level two from the teacher.
From doing this task my group were able to under how the camera and mac worked and the different ways of using them. We also learnt the different things that need to be done when editing a piece of film. There are still things that need to be learnt but I believe that from what we have already learnt it will help us in our main production of our film. We have also been able to learn the different strengths within the group and this therefore will help us in deciding who will do what when doing our final AS piece so we can be organised.
As for the audio this is something my group struggled with when having it on the mac. This was because of the sound of the music which we had chosen to accompany the sense, as I nor anyone else in the group was sure how to make one sound louder than an other and save it there so it wouldn't change the next time it was viewed and this was something that I think my group should of worked on. Because of the loudness of the music in some senses it was hard to hear what was being said. For this I would give our group a level 1 as I personally didn't think it was as clear as it should have been.
Overall I think our video probably scored a level two from the teacher.
From doing this task my group were able to under how the camera and mac worked and the different ways of using them. We also learnt the different things that need to be done when editing a piece of film. There are still things that need to be learnt but I believe that from what we have already learnt it will help us in our main production of our film. We have also been able to learn the different strengths within the group and this therefore will help us in deciding who will do what when doing our final AS piece so we can be organised.
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