Horror Opening Sequence

Here is a horrific film opening made by a group from another school. We discussed and watched it in class and I decided to upload it on my blog as I thought it was a great example of something we'd like to achieve by the end of this course. From the effects to the use of music, this opening sequence gave me chills and was most certainly creepy. It also made me think about whether we should start with our soundtrack or filming first. I personally think we should begin by finding the audio, as we can build and be inspired by the sounds we hear on the soundtrack.

Thoughts on what we could include...

Finally a vlog with one of my team members!

Practicing with Effects

 

Yet again... my 'amazing' acting skills were used! We wanted to experiment with the camera and effects to create this short clip. Sophie was the camera woman; making sure the positioning was still. We decided to do a longshot of Palace Gardens but, unfortunately, we got in trouble for shooting there so we had to switch locations, so we chose the market. A reason to why we decided on shooting in the market is because it is quite a busy area and we thought it would be perfect for the effect we were going for. After a few interruptions by the market stall owners (who insisted on making me laugh and lose concentration), we managed to get the shot we needed. I stood still for a good two minutes whilst the people around me continued to go about their business. We sped up the recording and came up with this pretty cool effect. I feel this kind of scenery is intense as everything is moving around the subject (character) and she looks like she's in deep thought (can I mention my 'magnificent' acting skills again). I and Sophie considered using this technique for our final film opening... I wonder if Elena agrees...

Second Vlog -Practice Task

....Starring Lucy, walking in the background.

First Practice Filming

Here is our practice video. We investigated different camera angles and experimented with music and effects. I thought being behind the camera was great as I had never got the chance to do that before. I realised you need VERY steady hands to be a camera woman and it's not easy to find amazing scenery in Enfield Town. As we're hoping to create a psychologically disillusioned movie entry, we decided to use creepy music and make the video black and white. I'm pretty proud of that!

My First Vlog!

Russell Howard's Good News - Justin Bieber Time Travel

Here's the video from the show Russel Howards Good News that had inspired our script for our preliminary task. I thought it was hilarious.

uh oh... OUTTAKES!

MUST SEE!
Miss Foster guest stars in our outtakes video. Her hand gestures have become viral... we like to call it the bouncing sandwich.

Preliminary Task

Finally our group has completed our prelim! After the disagreements of who's going to star in it... we had decided to pick names from a hat and unfortunately my name was picked, followed by Sophie's. At least me and Sophie got to show off our 'amazing' acting skills. Elena was behind the camera, capturing the shots. She managed to get all my bad angles. THERE IS NO WAY I'm going to be acting in the final movie opening!

Preliminary Exercises

This was a preliminary exercise from the year before the last's media group. I chose to post this one up because, as well as me finding it humerus, I also like the camera angles they've incorporated.

Above are images from last weeks lesson. They are still shots from the preliminary task a couple groups managed to complete during the lesson. I feel our group was lucky to not be the first few recording as I had a chance to examine what I'd have to do for our preliminary shooting; what angles we could uncooperative and what was possible.