http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8tVBAIi7uY&feature=youtu.be
- Eddie, bea's and my prelim youtube link.
Friday, 7 December 2012
The Main Location:
We used this Victorian house as our main place for filming. 
This angle of the house and the taller tree shows the area of which we recorded in. for example we filmed the tree, the front of the house, the porch and the grass infront of the house which at the time was covered in leaves. 
This is the drive we filmed the stalker walking up to the electric gates. We felt this was successful and helped set the scene appropriately.Thursday, 6 December 2012
Preliminary Task - Made In Chelsea spoof
Task - stability task – film and edit the character walking, opening door, crossing a room, sitting down in a chair opposite another character, the characters must be involved in a brief conversation.
Planning - We based our prelim on a current programme called Made In Chelsea. We planned our shots with a story board, the shots included:
- close up shot of feet walking down a street or stair.
-extreme close up of the character answering the phone
- over the shoulder shots for the conversation
- match on action (picking up the coffee cups)
I felt that our camera work was successful as we used a tripod to make sure the filming was steady and not wobbly, we also used a range of camera shots to help create the appropriate effects for our storyline and task.
For our misene-scene we were very careful with props, settings and being accurate when we stopped recording and where everything was placed so when we started filming again there would be very few mistakes. This was also to help the footage run smoothly and make sense. The props we used was: x2 phones, x2 coffee cups, one table and x2 chairs. The setting was in an outside shaded eating area for our school canteen.
We didn't use sound effects or music as we had a large amount of dialogue which I thought was appropriate for the task in hand as we didn't want to over complicate our piece. Due to this we limited our editing which in some ways did work but it could have been better if we had have edited it slightly. With titles we also kept these simple and only used them to introduce the character and for the end credits, to improve this we could have created a title or an introduction to our piece to make sure the audience understand it completely.
Overall I was happy with how it turned out the only improvement largely would be the planning as it was rushed and last minute. We could have made our storyboard a lot clearer and then we would have known what to do instead of more on the spot and seeing how it goes.
-This is a prime example of the over
the shoulder shots for the conversation which we used for our own filming.Planning - We based our prelim on a current programme called Made In Chelsea. We planned our shots with a story board, the shots included:
- close up shot of feet walking down a street or stair.
-extreme close up of the character answering the phone
- over the shoulder shots for the conversation
- match on action (picking up the coffee cups)
I felt that our camera work was successful as we used a tripod to make sure the filming was steady and not wobbly, we also used a range of camera shots to help create the appropriate effects for our storyline and task.
For our misene-scene we were very careful with props, settings and being accurate when we stopped recording and where everything was placed so when we started filming again there would be very few mistakes. This was also to help the footage run smoothly and make sense. The props we used was: x2 phones, x2 coffee cups, one table and x2 chairs. The setting was in an outside shaded eating area for our school canteen.
We didn't use sound effects or music as we had a large amount of dialogue which I thought was appropriate for the task in hand as we didn't want to over complicate our piece. Due to this we limited our editing which in some ways did work but it could have been better if we had have edited it slightly. With titles we also kept these simple and only used them to introduce the character and for the end credits, to improve this we could have created a title or an introduction to our piece to make sure the audience understand it completely.
Overall I was happy with how it turned out the only improvement largely would be the planning as it was rushed and last minute. We could have made our storyboard a lot clearer and then we would have known what to do instead of more on the spot and seeing how it goes.
Tuesday, 4 December 2012
Studio System: It's decline and the institutes today
Before:
- no studies or institues - just directors and film makers.
However as soon as cinema is realised to be a lucrative it became widely popular.
Southern California (why? - cheaper, nicer weather, deserts, beaches, mountains and other usefuls scenes.)
- Start to "buy" sets, directors and stars, could even own their own cinema.
Actors could only appear in films distributed by the studio who owned them.
Big Five
The programme tells the story of the rise and fall of the lost comic genius of silent Hollywood - Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle - who was charged with the murder of a young actress after an illegal drinks party went wrong. Paul Merton makes a powerful case that Arbuckle was an innocent man, an unfortunate victim of a new type of fame created by the Hollywood studios which had been turned against them. In their rush to clean up their act they were prepared to make the genial Arbuckle a sacrificial victim."
1924-1954
*Golden Age of Hollywood*
Why did it end?
1957 - cold war
- civil right
-invention of T.V (wasn't invented at this point, it became popular)
- American New Wave
- Versions of old studios and new ones (lots of small ones)
- Independant film makers (like myself, I am an indepenant filmmaker compared to Universal.)
- no studies or institues - just directors and film makers.
However as soon as cinema is realised to be a lucrative it became widely popular.
Southern California (why? - cheaper, nicer weather, deserts, beaches, mountains and other usefuls scenes.)
- Start to "buy" sets, directors and stars, could even own their own cinema.
Actors could only appear in films distributed by the studio who owned them.
Big Five
Little Three
Paul Merton's Birth of Hollywood (a section):
DW Griffith was a great director and believed in himself and
his own ideas. In 1908 he produced 60 films and in 1909 he made over 100. These
films were often improvised or had very little script work done in advance.
Griffith gained a reputation as a director who was good with actors. As all the
films were silent he could coach and direct his actors through the film as he
wanted to get the best possible outcome and view he had an example would be
Mary Pickford in The New York Hat.
"Paul Merton's journey through early Hollywood reaches the 1920s when in
prohibition America the cinema industry was on a collision course with its
public because of a run of drink, drugs and sex scandals.
Having cynically used the popular press to promote its stars and keep their
reputations spotless, it now faced a media obsessed with exposing the dark and
decadent side of their glamour.The programme tells the story of the rise and fall of the lost comic genius of silent Hollywood - Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle - who was charged with the murder of a young actress after an illegal drinks party went wrong. Paul Merton makes a powerful case that Arbuckle was an innocent man, an unfortunate victim of a new type of fame created by the Hollywood studios which had been turned against them. In their rush to clean up their act they were prepared to make the genial Arbuckle a sacrificial victim."
1924-1954
*Golden Age of Hollywood*
Why did it end?
1957 - cold war
- civil right
-invention of T.V (wasn't invented at this point, it became popular)
- American New Wave
- Versions of old studios and new ones (lots of small ones)
- Independant film makers (like myself, I am an indepenant filmmaker compared to Universal.)
Monday, 3 December 2012
My Research: Questionnaire
Media Thriller Questionnaire
1.
How old are you?
15-25 26-36
37-47 48+
2.
Gender:
M F O
3.
What is your favourite film Genre?
4.
What are your interests?
5.
What scenery for a thriller is most thrilling:
Wood:
Old house:
River Bank / Dyke:
Normal house / school:
6.
Do you enjoy thriller films?
7.
Yes or no would you prefer to see a male or
female lead in the thriller?
8.
What is your favourite thriller if you like
them, if you’re not a fan what is the most famous thriller you know of?
9.
What is your occupation?
10.
How many films do you watch a month roughly?
0-2
2-4 4-6 6-8
8-10+
Results:
Media Thriller Questionnaire
1.
How old are you?
15-25: 6 26-36: 0
37-47: 4 48+:0
2.
Gender:
M: 2 F: 8 O
:0
3.
What is your favourite film Genre?
comedy - 7
Action - 2
Thriller - 1
4.
What are your interests?
5.
What scenery for a thriller is most thrilling:
Wood: 8
Old house: 2
River Bank / Dyke:
Normal house / school:
6.
Do you enjoy thriller films?
Yes: 6
No: 0
Not always: 4
7.
Yes or no would you prefer to see a male or
female lead in the thriller?
Male: 1
Female: 2
Either:7
8.
What is your favourite thriller if you like
them, if you’re not a fan what is the most famous thriller you know of?
Dracula
The Bone Collector
Spiders Web
Phone Booth
Hunger Games
Pulp Fiction
Shutter Island Orphan Amityville Fight Club
9.
What is your occupation?
school: 6
Commercial bank manager
Free lance Equine Instructor
Teacher Assistant
Tesco's employee
10.
How many films do you watch a month roughly?
0-2 : 2
2-4:
4-6: 6
6-8:
8-10+: 2
How did this iunfluence my Final piece?
These thrillers all have the theme entrapment and luring their victims in with a twisted game. In these thrillers they have mind games and unexpected out comes. With our thriller opening we will be going along with the theme of a mystery, where you won't properly see the abductor. With this in mind we will also be looking at the woods and open spaces to give an idea of being in the middle of nowhere and a struggle to escape. We are also looking at rating our thriller at a teenage target audience so 15+ but due to the content in our openning we would rate the film at a 12.
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