Foundation Portfolio: January 2010

Health and Safety considerations:

Lighting:
When using either the red heads or the portable lights we must make sure that any waires are taped up and that the lights themselves are on a stable base as so thay do not fall and cause injury. GLoves will be used when handling these lights, especially when they are turned on to avoid buring

Props:
As we are planning to use knives in our film we must make sure that we handle them with care, especially around other people

Trains:
We are going to be filming at a train station so we must take obvious precautions to not endanger ourselves or other people that may be at the station

Synopsis of Thriller opening - David, Chris and Jamie

We want to keep the story of our thriller opening simple, but we also wish to make the veiwer want to carry on watching the rest of the film. We will do this through raising Enigma codes and use of restricted narrative.

The plot of our thriller will be based on a phycotic murderer who is pursuing a victim. We will base this in a village and the targeted victim will be at a train station when the attackes choses to strike. The victim is then taken back to a house where he is gagged and knocked out by the murderer, with the use of knives the killer will kill people from his list of targets. The list is kept in the form of pictures.

The film starts whilst the victim is on the floor of his house, there will then be a flashback and the story will follow from there.

Tuesday 19 January 2010

Chris Forrest Peer Evaluation

Peer Evaluation

Today, we watched each other preliminary films. The comments we gathered from the class about our product are listed below.

- Good use of colour

- Nice framing

- Match on action used well and effectively.

- Gets a bit Scooby Doo/Benny Hill like towards the end

- Good use of fades in the last sequence

- Good use of a canted shot.

How to Improve:

- Use Sound effects, and a soundtrack

- Could’ve had better continuity editing

- Make sure the white balance is correct.

- Make sure there isn’t any unnecessary background noise.

Sunday 17 January 2010

Wednesday 13 January 2010

Our help with the 180 degree rule

We watched this videio befor ein class and it gave us a clear understanding of how and when to use the 180 degree rule. We did include a scene with dialouge at the end of the film where we tried to show our understanding of the rule.

Help with our match on action

We didn't use the specific examples shown in this video but we reminded ourselves of the concept of match on action. Our match on action mostly contained opening/closing of doors, this was a simple and easy way of demonstrationg our understanding of the match on action.

Tuesday 12 January 2010

Inspirations for our film

Film uploaded onto mac and editing finished

We have finished editing our film and have uploaded it onto the completed film folder

Tuesday 5 January 2010

Tuesdasy 6th of January

Our Location Shots have been uploaded

Sequence Narrative of Preliminary Task

The three of us have decided on the idea and rough story that we will be basing our video on. We have chosen to attempt to create a thriller based sequence, as this is not only a simple way of creating tension with a variety of shots but it will also provide some practice for our Thriller coursework next year. Despite the film only being one minute long we beleive that having some narrative will focus our ideasl; and the film should make more sense to the veiwer.

Our sequence will not provide too much insight into the story of our film as to build suspense and to keep the focus on the quality of the shots and of the editing. Our short film will contain a stalker persuing a vistim, and we beleive that there is much potential in many parts of the college campus for a cold thriller film.

Peer Evaluation - Jamie Hunnisett

In our class we watched everyones videos and gathered valuable infomation and views from others who peer assesst our short film. They said the following:

-We tilted our establishing shot, which was good.
-The fading shots were good in the dark room.
-We could have included a sound track, and maybe used spound effects to add realism
-The story started off seriously, but ended up a bit like a Benny Hill sketch

What we would do differently:

We would focus more on the dialogue scene, and concetrate on soundtracks

David Duffy

Positives:

- Good use of fades in the dark room scene

- Match on action was well used

- Did not brake the 180 degree rule

- Use of dolly

- Good use of the pan shot

- Use of tilted camera

- Good presence

Negatives:

- Need to film more to explain narrative

- Better continuity editing

- Could lengthen the dialogue scene

- Make sure that white balance is set up correctly for every shot

- Use rule of thirds

- Put more soundtrack over film to hide sounds from environment

- Dolly was loud

Foundation Portfolio

Rav Raav (David)

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