Attempting Our Filming

We attempted to film a selection of scenes however we only managed to film the opening two shots as it got to dark to film so we will have to go again during the day.

British Board of Film Classification

As the opening of our teen horror film will be a certificate 15 i must know what restrictions there are to films with this classification.

Discrimaination
The work as a whole must not endorse discriminatory language or behaviour.

Drugs
Drug taking may be shown but the film as a whole must not promote or encourage drug misuse. The misuse of easily accessible and highly dangerous substances (for example, aerosols or solvents) is unlikely to be acceptable.

Horror
Strong threat and menace are permitted unless sadistic or sexualised.

Imitable Behaviour
Dangerous behaviour (for example, hanging, suicide and self-harming) should not dwell on detail which could be copied. Easily accessible weapons should not be glamorised.

Language
There may be frequent use of strong language. The strongest terms may be acceptable if justified by the context. Aggressive or repeated use of the strongest language is unlikely to be acceptable.

Nudity
Nudity may be allowed in a sexual context but without strong detail. There are no constraints on nudity in a non-sexual or educational context.

Sex
Sexual activity may be portrayed without strong detail. There may be strong verbal references to sexual behaviour, but the strongest references are unlikely  to be acceptable unless justified by context. Works whose primary purpose is sexual arousal or stimulation are unlikely to be acceptable.

Theme
No theme is prohibited, provided the treatment is appropriate for 15 year olds

Violence
Violence may be strong but should not dwell on the infliction of pain or injury. The strongest gory images are unlikely to be acceptable. Strong sadistic or sexualised violence is also unlikely to be acceptable. There may be detailed verbal references to sexual violence but any portrayal of sexual violence must be discreet and have a strong contextual justification

The Opening Titles from three films

Halloween

1. Production company name
2. Main actors names
3. Directed by
4. Title
5. Produced by
6. Other actors names
7. List of people featured in the film
8. Director of photgraphy
9. Editors
10. Music by
11. Production manager
12. Production Designer
13. Executive producers
14. Location

Mirror Mask

1. Production company's name
2. Producer
3. Main actors and actresses names
4. Sound editors
5. Casting director
6. Editor
7. Director of photography
8. Executive producers
9. Screenplay
10. Story by
11. Designer
12. Title

Arlington Road

1. Production company                                       
2. Co-producers
3. Producer
4. Actors and actresses
5. Film title

After looking at the opening of these films i have realised that the films title isn't always the first thing that must appear in the films opening titles. Many of the films list there main or most known actors and actresses in the first few seconds of the opeing titles and is often in bolder text than less known actors and actresses or those with smaller parts in the film.

Casting For Our Horror Opening

Actors/Actresses and Characteristics :

Stephanie Smith

Characteristics: Caring, Funny, Trustworthy

Liam Copeland

Charicteristics: Honest, Nice, Sporty

Sunil Singh

Charicteristics: Mysterious

Pictures of Location For Opening 2

 

 

Advatages:

Quiet, spooky

Disadvantages:

Lighting, Litter, space

Pictures of Location For Opening 1

In todays lesson we got to leave school to take pictures of our filming location for our opening few minutes of the horror film.

Advantages: Quiet, lots of space

Disadvantages: Lighting, background noise from wind and animals, rubbish

Horror Opening Number 2

In this lesson me and my group thought of our second horror film opening.

The opening involves two teenagers walking into their local town centre to do some shopping and just generally enjoying the day. However when they are walking into town they find it unusual as it is very quite around the area when the pair are walking past the church and their thinking is correct as a mysterious figure appears.

Horror Opening Number 1

In todays lesson we worked independently within our groups to come up with and to write two openings to a horror film.

The first of my openings involves the three teenagers begining at one of their houses with all their luggage ready to pack the car for there journey to there holiday destination and just talking about there holiday.

The Pitch For Our Horror Opening

Three teenagers aged 16 to 19 decide to go on holiday to a country house in a remote location. Three teenagers live on the same street and have known each other for many years. However their holiday isn't as fun as they planned!

Our pitch

Me and my group presented our pitch to the class in our lesson. However we need to re-write our pitch because it wasn't correct as we gave to much detail into what we were going to included in our horror film such as the audio nioses. We now have to alter our pitch with less detail in our next lesson

Absent Lesson

My group completed the editing of our preliminary task and converted the film to a quicktime movie and put it on a memory stick

From Pitch To Screen

In todays lesson we looked at the three areas of production. These are Pre-production, production and post-production. Pre-production is everything from the initial idea of the movie to getting the production team together and the acting cast arranged. Production is only the filming of the movie and the this must be completed in the quickest time possible to minimise costs such as the location of the filming and the wages of the actors. Post-production is were all the editing of the filming happens and this can take some time to get the film in order and to make the film make sense and flow from scene to scene. Me and my group also started to plan our pitch for a teen horror film which we have to present.

Finalising our Preliminary Task

In todays lesson me and my group finished our preliminary task by editing together the footage we took and checking that it was all correct. We then added titles by adding scrolling text at the begining of the film. We listed who starred in the film and who filmed the footage.

Filming Our Preliminary Task

In todays lesson we filmed our preliminary task. Our preliminary task involves two people, one must sit down at a table and wait for the other person to arrive. This person walks down a corridor, opens a dorr and walks through into the room, closes the dorr and then the two people have a short conversation. After filming this we uploaded what we filmed and edited the footage so it made sense and was in the correct order. We used a program called final cut on the mac's.

The Opening Of Wrong Turn

In todays lesson we looked at the visual and audio conventions of the opening few minutes of the horror film wrong turn. We watched the opening minutes of the film once and wrote down the visual and audio conventions we found then watch the same clip again to find things we missed the first time of watching wrong turn.

The visual features in the opening few minites of wrong turn were, bird's eye view camera shot,  fast camera movements through and over trees, high and low angle camera shots which showed danger, lots of different shots in a quick space of time to make the film seem likes its going at a fast tempo to show danger.

The audio features in the openong few minutes of wrong turn were, sharp noises of weapons grinding together, enhanced sound of footsteps to ensure the viewer heard the danger, close ups and extreme close ups to interest the viewer.

The opening few minutes of wrong turn took place in a remote location. When the audience started to think there was danger there would be a camera shots in the film that suggested they would get away such as the shot of the second rope on the cliff and the car in the remote location. However these were just tricks to the audience and the teenagers didnt get to the car and get away. They keep the audience thinking by dilliberatly not showing the what is after the teenagers so the viewers have their own take on what is going to happen next.

The Opening Of Horror Films

In todays lesson we watched the opening 5 minutes of Jeepers Creepers, Jeepers Creepers 2 and Dead Wood. We were looking at what conventions were in each film. We found that all the films had a threatening character or object in them.

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Media Studies Lesson 29th september

In todays lesson we looked at what you would expect to find in a horror movie such as darkness, storms, evil and weapons. I was then given the horror movie, jaws which i am to complete a short presentation on this in my own time and also a short presentation about horror movies in general.

Filming, downloading and editing

In our double lesson we learnt how to download video footage to the mac's and also had a go at editing the video by cutting, adding audio sounds and adding transitions between different shots. In the second hour of our lesson we started to film our preliminary task.

Media Studies Lesson 22nd september

In this lesson we were shown how to use the cameras for filming our preliminary task so we would be able to veiw playback of what we filmed, zoom in and out and also be shown how charging the video camera works. Each group was given a group name of a famous director and my group name is tarantino.

3rd Media Studies lesson

During todays lesson me and the rest of my group continued to storyboard our preliminary task.

My Second Media Studies Lesson

I have learnt all the camera shots, camera angles and camera movements needed for my preliminary task. I also started to plan my preliminary task by storyboarding and for each scene including the camera shot, angle and movement that me and my group will use.

My First Post

I've set up my Media Studies blog and also registered with slideshare to upload powerpoints during the course