What i learnt last lesson

last lesson i learnt a couple of new things,
the first of witch was the assment brief of are practical mark in media witch is worth 50% of our over all grade. The brief is for us split into groups to make the opperning of a new fiction film to last a maxium of 2 minutes.

when given the brief we was all given a mask scheme with it showing what criterias we are need to meet in order to get the grades necessary, my personal target is to achive the hight grade possible witch is a level 4 to do this i need to make sure the quality of my work it to an excellent standerd anything below this would be unexcepable. Also i learnt witch was made very clear by my teacher was that even though you are working in a group and essentualy it needs to be a group effort to make the film your going to be marked indevisual on your contributions and efforts, this is to ensure that people in the groups do not try to take credit in work they did not them selfs part take in.

Also that lesson we begain to discuss and find out, what makes coventions of a good thriller. As a group we managed to work out most of them witch was:

-Shock tactics
- Strange and tension building music
- edgy audince
- mystoreis
- More sophisticated/intelligent characters and story lines
- dark (night time)
- Violence
- Unexpected drama
- Scream sound effects
- Mist/fog
- Split personality
- Complicated twists
- Crime
- Victctims
- serspence

We learnt if used correctly thease were the perfect ingreedence to make a smash it thiller film !

towards the end of the lesson we started to watch a film called Memento, which was a American film made by Nolan in 2000.
When the film started i Immediatley started to look for signs of the conventions, and found some. For example the fist shot we saw was a blood scene witch strait away mad me as the audine think "hmmm whats going on" witch comes under the convetion of mystory.
One other smart covetion of a good thiller i never learnt untill i was watching the film was the ability to input non linner naritive in it, witch ment that as a audince we was almost cluelous for the fisrt 10 mins and then all of a sudden things came together witch made the story line clever and effective.

Prior to watching the film something i learnt was that often people get confused between the dffences and deffent coventions of horror and thriller.
when discussed this i learnt that horror films are more grity and gory with alot of obvouse plots, blood scenes and murrder, icluded realy to try and make the audince squing and squeam. Were as a thriller is more of a lead up to the gory part were actualy you hardly ethier acutaly see it but only antisipate it wich keeps he audince on a knife edge, also its much more interlectual and sophisticated were the audince needs to be completely engaged to follow the story line.

Refection on editing

When we finally had all the shots we needed it was time to edit i found this quit difficult as i was new to editing on imovie .I really struggled with this part of the task but was relieved when Casey and Elise said they used it before at GCSE level. I feel the editing process became slightly more difficult as when cropping clips form are video clips dare was loads of half cut scenes of each shoot. Eventually after selecting which shot was preferred out of each of the three shots filmed for each section he began to come much easier. When coming to the opening and closing of the door we saw by continuity editing it wasn’t quite right following the 180 degree, we managed to correct this problem as well as possible considering we had already taken are shoots and times was running out. In able to complete our editing we focused on continuity once again, this made it capable for us to adjust our sections so that they did not jump nor freeze, I found considering the end product came out reasonable well consider the massive problems we encountered.

Reflection on filming

when we started filming form the of we had problems as we were missing one of our group members Jacob who was sick, this put me and Elise in problems as when could shoot the scene where we was to show conversation and reverse shot reverse but we tried as best as we can to at least get the opening part to are sequence then try to address the problem when we came to it. Although we encountered these problems it seemed easy as the planning was done in allot of depth and detail. After we shot a couple of scenes we had another group member added (Casey) this made it much easier as now we had someone who could have an audience view point through is video shooting.
Another problem hit us as we began shooting again the next day we realised we never had the same close on with would make the continuity of the video clip pointless so we though quickly and decided to start again still basing it on are storyboard.

During the filming process the continuity seemed slightly harder than we first thought, enabling everyone to look as if they haven’t moved in separate shots was hard to confirm especially during the opening and shutting of the door process. Other parts which seem to cause us a little problem was the 180 degree rule when going through a door showing the character from behind of the opening to the camera in from of the closing I feel this was because of the very tight angle we was shooting at while coming through the door. For the majority of the filming period we used the camera on a tripod, however in one sequence Casey was looking round the set room examining it from his own point of view, to do this shot we used a point of view shot which would allow the audience to see the various movements in Casey's point of view, we believed this would be really effect as it would lead us on to shot reverse shot quickly without too much scenes in-between making the video clip not drag on and become boring to the audience .

Reflection on planning

At first we was all singly separated, and all given our own story bored from this we had to come up with our own ideas on how to incorporate all the continuity techniques while following the guide lines of the task, this was reasonably easy to do. but then got more difficult when we was put into groups of 3 where we had to debate and conversate over everybody’s different idea’s and opinion on what and what should not be put in the clip. After a while or tossing ideas around we was capable of choosing a which plan suited the hole group.

When we was given are final story bored as a group it seemed like a really easy task but when we thought we was finished, we discovered to realise there was much more details we needed to include to make the whole point of continuity to work, for example when turning on a light in the dark, it couldn’t just go from dark to light we had to actual she a person search for it this comes under match on action. A another big decision that caused just a little bit of problem was deciding who does what in the actual video clip, whose shooting and whose acting. In the end of planning it all worked out without encountering to many problems all we did was keep in mind that if we was the audience would it make sense.

Explanation of the task set

What we had to do in are plenimarny task was to create a scene showing we know and have a correctly understanding of continuity editing showing all the five elements of filming;
master shot, match on action, 180 degree rule, eyeline shot and reverse shot reverse.
Also while inclueding this we needed to follow the filming criteria of opening the door, walking across a room, in engaging whith dialoge with some one.

Continuity editing

Continuity editing is a continuig movement between two camera shots while enshuring the scene setout and time remaon the same even though it could be shot on two different days this is so th shot moves smoothly from one shot to another making the aduence stay engaged to the plot of the story line without question if it makes if the scene makes sence or not

The types of continity editing are:

Master shot-
The master shot is used to establish where the characters are and the location or area thier in, this is to make it easer for the audince to belive sounds that they cant see for example police sighrines in mastar shot of heavly populated city street

180 degree rule-
The 180° rule is a basic guideline in film making. Its two characters (or other elements) in the same scene should always have the same left/right relationship to each other. If the camera passes over the imaginary axis connecting the two subjects, it is called crossing the line. The new shot, from the opposite side, is known as a reverse angle.

Eyeline match-
The eyeline match is of a character looking at something off camera and then the next shot of what the character in the shot befor was looking at. it helps th audience to understand

Shot reverse shot-
shot reverse shot is where the camera would switch between two characters while having a convosation by doing this it shows the reactions on thier faces in response to the other persons question and vise-versa.Using this techniques is good as it makes the audience feel more part of the convosation

match on action-
match on action is a match from one scene to the next. The action is carried on between two scens making it seem like the scene hasn;t changed to th audience for example say a man was just putting a pint of bear in his/hers mouth in the next shot his got to be showin drinking it or someof the liqued as gone down