Final Edit

http://connorfieldsendasmediastudies.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/final-edit.html

I was unable to upload the final product to my blog however if you click this link you can see it on Connors Blog

2nd Cut

This is the 2nd cut of our short film

Shooting Schedule- Curiosity

This is the shooting schedule that we came up with and followed in order to get the raw footage for our film.

 This is the editing schedule that we came up with in order to edit our raw footage into our finished product

Curiosity-Title Design

This is the title design we drew up during our planning

Curiosity- Storyboards

These are the storyboards that we drew up in the planning of our film.

Preliminary Task

This is my preliminary task which we did at the start of the year, this taught us the different rules such as the 180 degree rule and shot reverse shot.

Evaluation

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Our Short film, ‘Curiosity’ could be considered a film that fits the horror genre, but also has elements of mystery/thriller. We tried to base our film opening on similar films such as ‘Black Christmas’ which we watched in class, after viewing this film our group eventually decided to make a film rooted to the horror genre. The film opening incorporates features of its genre as throughout there is a feeling of mystery and suspense leading up to the end where the character is killed.

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

In our film we created a stereotypical horror character who goes investigating the source of something instead of staying away, this also leads to his untimely death as is seen in many other horror films. The 'Good' character is clearly shown as Bob is seen to be doing innocent things such as cleaning and walking around the school whereas the 'Evil' character is shown by the figure following him and almost stalking him around the school leading up to Bobs untimely death.

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

When researching film distributors we found that ‘Lionsgate’ would be a good choice of distributor as they have experience with horror films in the past such as the ‘Saw’ Series and ‘The Last Exorcism’. Based on their past experience it seems that they would be perfect for distributing our film as it fits into the genre of some of their other projects and most of these have done well at the box office.

Who would be the audience for your media product 

Based on other films of the same genre we decided that the film would appeal to people aged 15+ with a more specific audience being between the ages of 15 and 20. Our film would appeal to this age group because some of the themes may not be suitable for younger audiences however it would not contain the more brutal and gore scenes that films such as ‘Saw’ contain.

How did you attract/address your audience?
We addressed our audience mainly by the sense of mystery behind the masked figure  and also  the danger that the caretaker was in by being alone in the school with this supernatural being, we also incorporated a sense of mystery and suspense by the use of music and the overall feel of the film.

What have your learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

During the planning and early stages of our product we were taught about rules such as the 180 degree rule, shot reverse shot and continuity editing techniques. To do the actual filming we used DV tape camcorders and during the editing process we used IMacs and a piece of software called IMovie in order to edit our clips together and also add effects and music to them.

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

When we first recorded our preliminary task and we just had the raw footage i had no idea what to do with it or how we could even add it all together to make a continuous film, but through the various weeks of lessons we learnt about editing and how to use imovie in order to put our film together and we made our preliminary task into our first piece of media based work. I then took this experience and put it to use in order to film and edit our short film and i feel that doing the preliminary task gave me the confidence and know how to make the finishing product of our short film a success.

Planning- Curiosity

In our Portfolios in class we had all of our storyboards, and other plans that we had made before the start of filming, they have been uploaded to Connors blog.

To view them please follow this link: http://connorfieldsendasmediastudies.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/opening-to-film-idea.html

Editing

Today we went out to record more footage that we needed to add to the end of our film. We have finished recording all of the raw footage and we are now onto editing our film on the Macs. Our next step is to finish editing and add sound effects and music into the film.

To view our updated film please click the link here http://www.connorfieldsendasmediastudies.blogspot.co.uk/

15th January 2013

15th January 2013

The film sequence we are trying to create is a horror film with aspects of mystery. It is set in a school at night around 5pm –Winter. We chose this to create a specific atmosphere and add to the mystery of the story regarding the school, which is supposedly haunted.

The story of the film is that during the opening a mysterious shadowy figure is seen by the caretaker of the school who is cleaning up after all the students and teachers have gone home. He goes to investigate where the figure had gone to as he suspected it to be a student or teacher at first and then he notices it to be a supernatural being that the rumors said haunted to school, the being then kills him.

20th November 2012

20th November 2012

We learned how to edit sequences of film using IMovie on the Mac’s. We used our footage from last week along with some new footage. We imported the clips from the camcorder into IMovie where we used the editing tools to create a short film. We also recorded our sequence again making sure we got it right and did the shots correctly. During this sequence I played one of the main characters in the story and I was also responsible for suggesting ideas and putting them forward to the group.

13th November 2012

13th November 2012

Today I learnt how to turn on and set up a camera, insert tapes into the camera, set the camera on a tripod and adjust it so it is right for turning.

We recorded a sequence using various skills acquired from previous lessons. Such as Match on Match action, the 180 degree rule, and shot, reverse shot. We showed these techniques for filming in our sequence.

We planned a storyboard prior to this to show are intentions when filming and showed the 3 rules mentioned before clearly.

We are going to continue to practice editing on the Mac’s and put the shoe sequence together to create segments for our coursework.