Preliminary Video And Evaluation

The Preliminary task was by far the most challenging so far though i have had my ups and down in the experience but i have come out the other side more prepared and more realistic about the problems that i might later on face in my main task. The first attempt on our preliminary failed and we had to re-film which took away valuable time. The roles within the group were very fixed and everyone was positioned in a ordinary fashion. Daniel and I filmed the preliminary with Dee acting in it. iI also checked that continuity was not a problem in our filming. I looked at the film from a viewer's point of view and checked what we did wrong and what we need to control. I also made sure that the setting was as perfect as it could get. Dean and Tyler helped us a bit with the filming and in return we helped them with theirs as well.

I changed the convention by making the post production sounds humorous and I enjoyed using Premier Pro and Logic Pro to do this. However on a more negative note our work was analysed by Mr Foley and he made us realise what we had done wrong and what went right. This gave me more idea as to how I could turn around the negative stuff into positive in our final project. Firstly the shots where good but not fluent throughout and filming was a bit tiring and even made us timid sometimes because we were making sure that continuity would go right for us. The sequence and transaction of shots were not followed trough continuously, this is due to when the first character was introduced, in the shot after he came off the stairs the loop wasn't right. this is due to my inexperience with premier pro. I need to make sure to not repeat the same mistake in the final project as this would affect our final grade. the shot when the first character sat down in his chair to look at the papers was very boring when we watched it back again. The last thing we want is to make the audience bored of our project. We didn't realise it in the filming process but now that we know what we did wrong, we must make sure not to repeat that same mistake in our final project. The sound that I added didn't go right with the product. This was done on purpose as I wanted to make the concept seemed predictable and I wanted to surprise the audience by giving the what they weren't expecting. I made a mistake by not following The 180 degree rule correctly. I broke the rule and this exemplifies how inexperienced I am with media which means that I have to learn more about the 180 degree rule concerning any future filming. I have received both positive and negative comments and I still want to hear what you think about my preliminary so feel free to add any comments. thank you... :)

Preliminary Group Video Evaluation

The whole class took part in a verbal evaluation of our Preliminary. They stated all the things that went well and that didn't and what we could be improved upon.

The main factor of disappointment was the fact that our timing is not right and we shall make improvements on all these.
Anna quoted that the shots are good but the music just doesn't make sense with the preliminary and that i shouldn't leave the audience this confused for our main production. Veronika agreed and added that the shots were to cut through and did not flow and maybe we should think about fading out the music to make the whole thing smoother. Dean pointed out that the lighting was very bad and if effected the quality of the filming dramatically and we need to think about these issues before hand with where we place our characters. Dawn suggested that we shouldn't leave our audience second guessing about certain things, for example Bushir came out from no where no visions of what door or anything this was not realistic and was presented as a stage show not meeting up with general key factors of making a clip or film seem realistic and flow. 

This is a print screen of the prliminary video evaluation from our group discusssion

Setting for our Final Media Filming for AS

Dee was looking at certain settings where we could produce our Establishing shot/s. When she came across her alleyway in the dark night as she was walking home she flipped out her phone camera and took pictures. We are aware that most of the images are not as clear but she thought if she does not turn her flash on, it will give the scene a scarier effect but she realised she was wrong because it just looks plain and simply dark! i don't want the alley way to be a long timing shot just to set the mood of the whereabouts of where the victim lives. The shot of the front door will definitely be used just to create a extra suspicion and reveal that the action is going to take place indoors in the comfort of her own home and hospitality's. 

These pictures are all of the area that our final filming is going to take place. We have chosen this place because of our horror/thriller genre. It looks horrifying as the only way out of the estate into main road is through the alleyway which is quite dark without the night lights. As we have chosen to film nighttime, this is perfect for us because it will be easy to manipulate effects in it. Also we wont have to worry about continuity because the only thing that will affect our continuity is the weather.

Group meeting for our final product

FINALLY! Today we had our group meeting and although we are all aware that allot of work needs to be done we have all come up with with out final idea. We decided to mix up Dee's ideas with Daniel's and have a mixed genre, mainly Horror but sub-genre it with thriller. We could not come to a agreement of whose idea was better to have multiple ideas/mix and match. I drew out a plan for our team so we know roughly what we want to include in the different sections of our opening clip. We wrote that maybe in the beginning we could have an establishing shot of the house outside in the night-time to show where all the horror is going to take place or maybe even an empty road, or even Daniel's idea of  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3bRwB5fDFo lapses in light to show the whole area and city. In our middle most wanted to involve the main killing scene but some argued that they wanted that in the beginning with visions of body decompositions in the middle to make it different to other horrors/thrillers/Goore. We thought if we could come up with every day items to make them abnormal and scary this can contradict and play around with audiences emotions, Lord Of The Rings does this allot with the ring being a sacred treasurement  to them, in this case maybe use a plate instead of a knife and enrol the 'least expected' not only does this bring up questions but also keeps the viewers intrigued  and shocked. Daniel and I really like Dee's idea of involving a radio and Daniel said that he can do more research on that and find out if his Granddad will let us borrow his. We had other suggestions that were out the box, i thought of having it based on Halloween Day this would be perfect and we could inspire from other films. Daniel planned that maybe we can record others wile they trick or treat but I pointed out that no one comes around my area to enjoy the events which resulted to me and Daniel coming up with the same realization. We are definite with our setting in Dee's house and can't wait to get cracking.

This is a picture of us going though what we've discussed and written down

This picture shows that we are confident and double checked what we've gone through