ALL - Sample Opening: Halloween

Halloween (John Carpenter, 1978) 

Budget : $320 000

US Box Office : $47 000 000

Serif font signifies horror movie but contrasting sans serif font production texts signifies a comedy
Red text connotes blood and danger
Text changes colour to reflect the pumkins flickering flame
Flame imagery sinifies hell
Combination of slow notes and fast piano keys effect heart beat
Binarry opposites = White text and black background signifies good and evil but it also connotes a serious film
Alot more black than white signifies alot more evil than good
Illinois adds anchorage on the setting
Establishing shot, point of view using stedicam
Shadows on house make it alot more scary
Blue tint to lighting especially the moonlight on the house which signifies a cold or supernatural feel
Isolation added because house is detached

SP - Sample Opening: Madhouse

Madhouse (William Butler, 2004) 

Budget : $3 000 000 

Box Office : Not Available 

Remake of the 1974 film  

The time period is signified by the quality of the cameraand the windows, doors and lights also look slightly dated 
There are very quick shots of a woman wearing an old dress standing in the corridoor which also signifies the time period is quite old 
We see a hooded character who is having flashbacks in a bare, plain room which signifies it could be a run down buliding 
The male character is wearing trackies and a hoody which signifies the flashbacks he was having are of what the building used to be like 

The character escapes and starts running through a nearby wood and we can see that the building is secluded 
People wearing white clothes start chasing him and this signifies they are pure but also that he cant be let out into the real world 
We see another character in a car. We never see his face which is narrative enigma but it could also connote he is the villain.

ALL - Podcast Number 1: Coursework Group and Idea

Podcast Numer One: 

This podcast outlines who is in the group and what their initial idea was for the coursework. After pulling all our three different ideas together we came up with one coursework idea which we were all happy with and thought was the best 

 

Asa Newmarch
Nickname: Ace of Spades
Role: Cinematographer
Favourite Film: Inception
Famous Quote(s): "Where is she?" "Where have you been?"
Hobbies: Gaming, Watching Anime, Surfing the web 
Favourite TV Show: FullMetal Alchemist 
Subjects Taken: Media Studies, ICT, Buisness Studies
Idol: Guillermo del Toro

Rob Shaw
Nickname: Stanley
Role: Producer
Favourite Film: Tron Legacy
Famous Quote(s): "Stella!!!!" "Dingham"
Hobbies: Gaming, Blogging, Guitar
Favourite TV Show: Mythbusters
Subjects Taken: Media Studies, Geography, English Literature + Language, ICT
Idol: Matt Bellamy

Sam Pollock
Nickname: Cherub
Role: Director
Favourite Film: LOTR FOTR
Famous Quote(s): "The game" "1-0"
Hobbies: Football, Cricket, Facebook
Favourite TV Show: The Simpsons
Subjects Taken: Media Studies, ICT, Geography and English Literature + Language
Idol: Steven Gerrard

The Group

The Snicket (My Idea): 
This is my pitch that I did infront of my class and it was about my coursework idea

The Groundsman (Group Idea):

1. A man is seeking a groundsman job in the newspaper.
2. He throws the paper on a and circles the job description in red.
3. He then rips out the page in the newspaper with the address of the house advertising a job (circled in red).
4. He travels to the rural house by car to find the people advertising the job 
5. The screen fades to a girl on her phone talking to her boyfriend 
6. She says "I've got a free house all weekend, come round later".
7. Suddenly the door knocks
8. The girl then says to her boyfriend "I'll call you back later".
9. She then goes to answer the door
10. The girl invites the man inside and says "You might want to take a seat my dads on his way...he said he will be five minutes"
11. The man sits down in the lounge and the girl asks if he wants a drink. 
12. She goes off into the kitchen to get the weapon
13. The man then shouts "What's taking you so long?" to which the girl replies "Just give me a minute".
14. This is because the girl is looking through the draws to find the weapon.
15. She returns to the room (Over the shoulder shot)
16. POV shot of the man watching the TV when suddenly a knife comes from behind him (in his periferal vision)
17. The screen fades like he is passing out to end the opening.

Here are the 'Initial Storyboards' for our coursework idea 
Initial Storyboard


Initial Storyboard

Here is some 'Sample Footage' of our coursework idea. We wanted to test some shots to see if they worked and to look for any other shots that looked better. As this was only a practice we did not have our proper actors or any costumes. 

 

Click on the picture below for some feedback on our sample footage and with this feedback we will make some changes that are relevant to what people have said 

SP - How To Improve My Prelim Task

1. Faye needed to be included in the shots.
2. Some camera shots were shaky so we should of used a tripod.
3. We needed to edit in the purposely broken 180 degree rule to show how it does not work.
4. We could of had a set genre rather than just an everyday theme.
5. We needed appropriate props and setting. 
6. The acting needed to be more serious and thought out before hand rather than just last minute decisions. This is because we only had an hour so we would of had an idea of what to do during the filming.
7. In the background we can see Sam so we should of made sure there was no one behind what we were shooting. 
8. We needed to have narrative enigma. We could of kept Charlie's identity hidden e.g. shot of feet coming through the door rather than his face.
9. There are a lot of jump cuts so we should of taken more shots.
10. The shots we took we should of varied and taken long shots as well as close ups. There is a shot when Harry says that he is much better than Sam so we should of taken a low angle shot to show him as bigger and more controlling.
11. To show the viewers anchorage of where we were we should of taken a master shot of the room and its surroundings.

SP - Prelim Task

Preliminary Exercise:  Continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. This task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule.

Match on Action: A match on action, a technique used in film editing, is a cut that connects two different views of the same action at the same moment in the movement. By carefully matching the movement across the two shots, filmmakers make it seem that the motion continues uninterrupted. For a real match on action, the action should begin in the first shot and end in the second shot.

Shot/Reverse Shot: shot reverse shot (or shot/countershot) is a film technique where one character is shown looking at another character (often off-screen), and then the other character is shown looking back at the first character. Since the characters are shown facing in opposite directions, the viewer assumes that they are looking at each other.

The 180-Degree Rule: Within a scene, two subjects should always have the same left/right relationship, e.g person A on the left and person B on the right. However, if the camera passes over the imaginary axis, is called crossing the line.

SP - Swede Film

SP - Mise en Scene Task