During the filming of 'The Woods' one of our actors hit the camera unintentionally whilst performing a stunt. The camera was perfectly fine afterwards but the footage created a white noise effect for a split second.
Tuesday, 27 March 2012
Equipment damage
During the filming of 'Slaughter shadow' (our second project) we noticed a screw was missing on the tripod which caused it to collapse. This was a danger to the camera as it nearly hit the ground twice during the filming. This has been reported to the media equipment department.
weather whilst filming
The weather whilst filming 'The Woods' was very dull during most of the footage which was great for the effect of the horror film. Towards the end of the filming during the punch scene the sun starting shine ruining our our footage with continuity. We recently discovered this scene was not needed at the end when it was cut out to make the film shorter.
YouTube help for using Imovie HD
Imovie HD was a very intimidating program to me at first. I used the website http://www.youtube.com/ to my advantage by searching for some guides on the basics of the software
Slasher film research
I have researched a couple slasher films to find the best techniques to make a film connect effectively with the audience.
Saw
The film saw connects with the audience by telling a background story behind the main character, this make touches this audience making them want the character to survive and by feeling the emotional pain of the main character when one of his/loved ones has died. The saw films all use dark lighting in almost every scene to show negativity to link with the killing and gore. Saw also has a very clever traps and torture techniques that are explained well to the audience that may interest people that like that sort of thing
Friday the 13th (remake)
The friday the 13th remake used younger adolescent characters so the audience can connect with as they have so much in their lives to live for. Teenagers can have less courage than adults and can make dumb decisions which also help to connect with the audience giving them less hope for the characters survival.
Nightmare on elm street
This film uses a very interesting way of killing characters as they are killed in their dreams. This makes the characters seem more vulnerable as a dream is a fantasy world meaning anything can happen. The idea of Freddie being in a dream scares the audience which could keep them awake at night. This is a very clever idea but could have not been accomplished without the menacing characteristics of Freddie Kruger himself.
Saw
The film saw connects with the audience by telling a background story behind the main character, this make touches this audience making them want the character to survive and by feeling the emotional pain of the main character when one of his/loved ones has died. The saw films all use dark lighting in almost every scene to show negativity to link with the killing and gore. Saw also has a very clever traps and torture techniques that are explained well to the audience that may interest people that like that sort of thing
Friday the 13th (remake)
The friday the 13th remake used younger adolescent characters so the audience can connect with as they have so much in their lives to live for. Teenagers can have less courage than adults and can make dumb decisions which also help to connect with the audience giving them less hope for the characters survival.
Nightmare on elm street
This film uses a very interesting way of killing characters as they are killed in their dreams. This makes the characters seem more vulnerable as a dream is a fantasy world meaning anything can happen. The idea of Freddie being in a dream scares the audience which could keep them awake at night. This is a very clever idea but could have not been accomplished without the menacing characteristics of Freddie Kruger himself.
Actors Input
The actors used in our horror film were good friends of mine which made it easy to get in touch with and communicate. They were also happy to help me in my project as they knew i was struggling and that it was important to me. There was a disadvantage to this as they fooled around a lot during the filming making it hard to direct especially as i was the only one to direct as it was quite awkward for Sadia being the only one in the group that didn't really know the crew.
Working on a Macintosh
Although it was a good experience, this year was the first time i had ever touched a Mac and felt as though i had been dropped in the deep end. A lot of features and programs we had to use on the Mac were extremely hard to use and left me confused and frustrated and at points. Imovie HD seemed very basic and limited and i felt as though i could have made the same movie using Windows movie maker on a PC which i would have know my way around well. I also struggled using Adobe Photoshop on the Macs as i have learned to use it on a PC and some minor changes on the mac version made it difficult to use at times. I think i would have performed better overall if we were given the option to create our movie using a PC with video editing software such as Sony Vegas pro to make things fair.
Group
I think this project has been very hard mainly due to group issues. This big problem was the fact that my original work partner had decided to drop the subject during December with short notice. This made it harder for us to work more work had to be done by each member. Another issue was that the two members in the group (Me and Sadia) weren't too well acquainted which lead to lack of conversation and disagreement in the group. A disadvantage of the group was that my partner Sadia wasn't a very big horror fan which hindered our group as she had lack of experience on the genre. I feel as though this has been a bad year for my AS media and i am expecting a poor grade.
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