We looked into two genres, Horror and Romance. By looking further into each genre we became aware that Romance would be too hard to do and has been done far too many times. We realised that you pretty much can go anywhere with a horror film, giving it is scary.
We attended a BMI Conference on the Art of Film Making. This showed us exactly what the examiners were looking for and what not to do. Art of the Titles was shown to us so that we could study and understand the use of titles and where they was needed.
As a group, we made a storyboard at the beginning of our planning so that we could easily see shot by shot what we would have to film. Our storyboard was a draft as we had everything thought through so well in our heads. This meant that we did not write much information down on the sheet because we was sure some little things might change. Although we knew what we wanted to, it probably would of been easier if everything was written down. This is something that I have learnt from with this project.
Making Our Film
Camera
We started off our media project by completing a Preliminary Task. This benefited us in various ways as this allowed us to get a feel for the camera. We discovered that the sound was very delicate as it picked up noise happening in the next room. This helped us as when we go to film our opening scene, we now know that it needs to be silent.
When we shot our first scene of Poppy being in the mental institute, we practiced numerous amounts of shots. This was to ensure that our film was the best it could be. These shots included 'Close Up', 'Mid Shot', 'Long Shot', 'Wide Shot' and zooming in and out. This helped us massively as when we made our storyboard, we wrote down something completely different to what we ended up using in our final piece. The camera shots that we used were all relatively easy to film as they was either a close up or a long shot. This was easy as there was no movement involved like tracking would be therefore we could not make any errors. When it came to filming each shot, we came to terms with the fact that not everything was possible. For example we wanted to zoom into Poppy's mouth as she screamed but this became a struggle as we could not line it up exactly and you could still see the light.
We used a tripod the majority of the time as this would ensure that the shot was always straight. This was our first time in using a tripod so everything was new to us. We picked up straight away how to use it as it was very easy.
I have learnt a large amount completing this media project just by experimenting with different shots or buttons. I feel that the Preliminary Task helped us a lot as we got a feel for the camera and how it works.
We had some slight trouble with the shot in the loft as David has to pick up the camera and take in downstairs. This was quite hard as we wanted it to be obvious that the camera was moving but not to the extreme where it was making the picture go blurry due to the fact the camera was moving too much. This was overcome by David walking slower and then we sped up the footage when we edited it.
We also had trouble with finding a place to put our title in. We thought that it would look good at the end of the footage but then this made our opening scene look like a trailer, something we did not want.
Editing
When it came to editing our footage, none of us knew how to work the software. This was new to all of us, which was pretty scary. We had to experiment a lot and complete 'Trial and Error' with pretty much every button. We used this software when editing our preliminary task so we did briefly know the basics of the it for example importing the footage. This helped only a small amount as we wanted to add much bigger techniques but we struggled as we was unsure how to work it. I am now familiar with it as we taught ourselves how to use it by experimenting. Our editing time was long therefore we had enough time to practice different edits to the footage. The hardest part when editing was trying to make each shot flow into each other as certain shots we had to cut parts out due to bad editing. This was important that this worked otherwise it would be jumpy and not look professional at all.
The most frequent bit of technology I have used is the internet. This is because I have been on my blog updating all of my work. Every bit of research which I completed was uploaded to my blog.
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