Evaluation - Question 1 to 6

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Question 2

Question 3

Question 4/5

 

Question 6

Joshua Platt - Evaluation - Questions One to Six

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Question Three

 

 

 

Questions Four/Five

 

 

 

Question Six

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Research 

Text Analysis - Alien

Technical Analysis - Amityville Horror

Institutional Context - Nightmare On Elm Street

Opening Sequence Analysis - Woman In Black

Horror Research Task - Source 2

Slasher Horror - Mood Board



Logistics

Preliminary Task

Rough Cut - From Second Shoot

Rough Cut - Final Piece

Final Piece

Production Log-Wilderness Woods



Production 

Location Recce - Hargate Forest

Filming Review - First Shoot

Filming Review - Second Shoot

Sound Development

Filming Review - Final Shot

Concept Development - Typography



Evaluation

Questions One - Six

Question Seven

Evaluation, questions 1,2,3,6

What have you learnt about technologies from the from chrisoshea98

Conventions of horrors from chrisoshea98

How does your media product represent particular social groups from chrisoshea98

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Research 

Text Analysis-Resident Evil
Technical Analysis-Insidious 2
Institutional Context-Blair Witch Project
Opening Sequence Analysis-Sinister
Horror Research Task-Why are we afraid of Zombies
Psychological Horror Mood Board

Logistics

Preliminary Task
Rough Cut
Final Peice
Production Log-Wilderness Woods

Evaluation

Questions one to six

Question seven

Production 

Location Recce
Filming Reveiw
Lesson Update
Filming Reveiw
Sound Development
Filming Reveiw
Movie Name
Plot Synopsis
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Production

 

Film review 1

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Logistics

 

Rought Cut

Sequencing

 

Research

 

Location RECCE

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Forget Me Knot - Final Version

Group - Question 7

Anthony Pitts - Evaluation - Questions 1,2,3,4,5,6

GROUP - Final Shoot - Filming Review

On the 31st January, we did our final shoot for our coursework, this time, it went well and we were able to obtain all the footage we needed from the shoot. The whole shoot was done at Christy's house, and we used a shed and his vegetable patch; even though it was aesthetically different to how we were expecting it to be. We adapted our story board and worked with what we had.

Before this shoot, we did a lot more planning than we did for the previous shoots. We storyboarded every shot we were planning to do and we also thoroughly explained each shot to Mr Fiveash, who gave us his approval as we needed this due to the shoots we had previously been on, that did not go well because of a lack of organisation.

We used a wide range of different camera angles, movements etc. For every shot we had, we filmed it three times from different angles so that we had more to work with when editing.

Forget Me Knot - Anthony and Josh

Change in our concept - Group

When filming for this project, we have numerous problems with our footage which has lead to multiple shoots having to be re done:

• Poor lighting - By the time we got to our location after school, it was starting to get dark so by the time we got to the final shots, the cameras were unable to pick up what we wanted them too. However, we did not realise this as the footage looked good on the camera, but when we exported the clips to the computer and viewed them back, we were unable to see what we were hoping for.

• Location - Our location, the bomb shelters was a good idea. We still believe that it is a good idea, however, the poor lighting has made it impossible for us to film there. We tried using torches and our phones to light up the bomb shelter, but this was unsuccessful. As well as this, Anthony took 100 tea light candles and laid them around the edges of the bomb shelter in hope that it would make it lighter and would allow us to film, however, this also proved to be unsuccessful when we did the shoot.

• Title - Our title which was originally Nyctophobia (the fear of darkness) meant that we had to film in the dark. We liked the title and the idea of filming in the dark attracted us as we thought that for our concept, this would be a good for our film. Also darkness is a convention of horror movies.

The shoot we did at Christy's house was successful, we put it together for our rough cut and the rest of the class liked what they had seen. This made us want to carry on trying to film in the dark because our audience liked it. We did another shoot on the 27th January before school, at this time of the morning, it was getting light and we thought that we would just forget filming in the dark because it was too hard. The external shots in the woods were good, however, the internal shots in the bomb shelter were still too dark because there is no source of light. We came into school and started putting it all together and we realised that it was not going to work.

After all of this, we have now decided to change our idea but keeping the idea of the rope. We are now going to be filming at Christy's house in his garden. In his garden he has a vegetable patch which we are going to use. He also has a shed at the back of the garden which we will use to keep someone 'hostage' whilst his death is being planned out. As we are now filming during the day, we have decided to change our name from Nyctophobia to forget me knot. We are going to be shooting this on Saturday 31st January and we are hoping this will be the final shoot as we have  carefully planned it out and Christy has also completed a location RECCE of his garden.

Location RECCE

GROUP - Filming review-28th Jauary 2015

We re-filmed the footage we did on the 26th but this time at the crack of dawn, which was much more efficient due to the much improved lighting. The pictures were much clearer and you could see much more of the actor, expressing the mise-en-scene through the actors costume, his non verbal body language and the location in much more detail, which is vital in horror movies. The camera work was much better as we could see the pans better and the different angles of filming were much more visible. In terms of sound there was some very effective diegetic sound we filmed such as birds chirping and the closing of the metal gate. We explored many movements using the track and dolly, and different angles including a high angle from on top of the bomb shelter showing ant entering the bomb shelter.

GROUP - Lesson-27th January 2015

One of the main focuses for todays lesson was cutting in the usable shots from our latest shoot and making them flow with the shots from our rough cut, and cutting down the longer shots and removing those that we found were not vital, and making the unnecessarily long ones shorter. we are still discussing if there's any better options than filming at the bomb shelters as there may be places that have more light.

GROUP - Filming reveiw-26th January 2015

Yesterday was supposed to be our final filming session, it was a repeat of our first shoot and included Anthony entering the woods past two of his former victims and into the bomb shelters to conduct the murder of his final victim, this part of the shoot was fine as the bomb shelter was illuminated with candles, as we though this would help improve the mise-en-scene of our production and making it seem more like Ants lair. The scenes outside the wood were good due to the lighting of the street and the blurry cars in the background, however when we entered the woods the torch we were using ran out, despite being fully charged, so it was not possible to film these scenes as the lighting was poor, we are going to redo these shots on Thursday morning and edit them to look like night time.
 

Ant Pitts	Actor-main character Filming assistant Co-Editor
Christy O’Shea	Actor-Role cancelled due to poor lighting Main cameraman/Director Co-Editor
Josh Platt	Actor-Role cancelled due to poor lighting Chief Editor
Ed Roebuck	Actor-Final murder victim

Rough Cut - Group

Here is the rough cut of what we have so far. We still have to do more filming in the woods which show the people who are being murdered in the bomb shelters as Anthony has now left the house and is on route to the location of the murders.

Feedback, what went well: 

- Good continuity editing. 

- Composition of shots 

- Light of external location, outside Christy's house. 

- Credits on the wall. 

What could be improved?

- Too many shots on the stairs so we will need to cut that down. 

- More sound needed in certain places, which we were planning to do but didn't have time to put in the rough cut. 

Sequencing - Anthony Pitts

Today I have been doing sequencing for the project. I have been putting all of the shots in the order and cutting them down to ensure the scene is continuous. As well as doing the sequencing, I have been using freesound.org to get sound for our project. So far, I have sequenced all of the footage which we have so far.

Sound Development- Josh Platt and Christy O'Shea

Today Chris and I have been looking at different sounds to include in our production. We have mainly focused on synchronous sound, like background noise such as distant car alarms and wind rustling through trees. Due to a problem we faced of not actually being able to work the alarm clock, we decided to use sound effects and we found some very good ones that add more of a scarier edge to the film. Sound effects such as the car alarm can be used as sound bridges to help link different shots, as the house is in a different location from the woods/bomb shelter. The car alarm is a strong example of extra diegetic sound as there is obviously not going to be a car when shooting inside. Another strong sound we found was the croaking of a rope, which is a difficult sound to capture on our cameras.

 

GROUP - Filming Reveiw-20th January 2015

On Tuesday 20th January, Anthony and Christy did filming round Christy's house for the opening of our scene. The shot went well and we used a wide range of shots and angles.

From the shoot we learnt that we need to do more than one take and use a wide range of angles as sometimes the footage was not as good as we were expecting. We did not have the rope we were planning to use so instead we borrowed from one of Christy's neighbours which we used to tie in to a hang mans noose which was used to show that I have an obsession with rope and there is something wrong with me.