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.