The Christmas Spirit

Watching many films and thinking about Media studies ... key terms are jumping out at me cant watch them without being analytical makes me laugh.

SE7EN ...Days to recover

Today in class we watched the jaw dropping thriller Se7en,
This is also a psychological thriller like our film

Proud Producers...

Our editing techniques have pulled together to create the first 41 seconds of our film opening, we are pleased with what we have so far the stand alone names is an interpretation of films we researched such as Coraline - which goes with our genre and most contemporary films today.

Coraline

even though this is an animated film, it has the creepy film conventions we want to follow and include in our film..
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'Coraline' 2009 Rated PG for the matic elements, scary images, some language and suggestive humor its genres are Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy and Thriller.
The plot of the film is An adventurous girl finds another world that is a strangely idealized version of her frustrating home, but it has sinister secrets.

Storyline: When Coraline moves to an old house, she feels bored and neglected by her parents. She finds a hidden door with a bricked up passage. During the night, she crosses the passage and finds a parallel world where everybody has buttons instead of eyes, with caring parents and all her dreams coming true. When the Other Mother invites Coraline to stay in her world forever, the girl refuses and finds that the alternate reality where she is trapped is only a trick to lure her.

Here is the opening sequence of the film form art of the title, our group particularly like the arrangement of the credits and the creepy childlike music, which we want to feature in our two minute film opening.

Final Footage.. I'm going to Miss Filming

On Friday, Mac 2 braved the cold weather and ventured out to shoot the final footage for our 2 minute film opening. It was tough. We went far and wide, to the subway under the busy motorway at Enfield Crematorium. we brushed off the stares of the inconvenient passers-by. Our actor suffered cramps and near frostbite. The camera crew cradled and lugged around the heavy equipment from location to location making sure everything was fine for filming. Yes it was a struggle, but it was sure worth it..

Sequencing the Opening title sequence - what's its consistence?

Functions of the Title Sequence

The functions of the title sequence in a film may seem to be fairly obvious. They are designed to tell the audience the names of the people and organisations involved with the making of the film and in this respect they do the job well.

Irrespective of the genre, there is a conventional way of presenting this information in the credit sequence. This information and the order in which it is presented follows a standard format

1st Footage - Evaluation

video voice over footage..

BFI trip - How this whole A-Level is supposed to be done!!!!!

Need to totally re-assess our groups 2 min opening because there is no way we are getting level 1 just because of insufficient planning, we need to slow down and take it step by step and that's the way we get top marks, hence what we were shown and taught by Pete Fraser on the BFI trip and the reason for our allowing us to have this whole experience.

"The main thing is to make your final project look like what it is supposed to be- so if it is meant to be a trailer, you need to be sure it shows the conventions of a trailer, but if it is a film opening, it MUST follow the conventions of film openings!

The OCR AS video task asks you to make "the titles and opening of a new fiction film, to last a maximum of two minutes". Many students fall into the trap of thinking this is a really easy task and they can just have a laugh doing it and walk off with a good grade. Nothing could be further from the truth! Expectations are very high from this production work and you will need to work systematically and be extremely well organised if you are to be successful." 

- Pete Fraser 

Vlogging with Miss Foster

Vlog with Miss Foster

Editing Skills..Maybe that's the best idea

Freaky Friday's Footage

Although we never got in trouble, I think the frustration and embarrassment of filming around members of the public was so much worse. They see a camera and a tripod and instead of carrying on normally many individuals want to stop and get in the shot, or ask questions about featuring in the exciting movie we're apparently filming for. hillarious! some of the characters Mac 2 met that day. Overall some good footage enjoy the clip.

The Future's Bright..

In today's lesson we finalised our location for filming and the date. We will be venturing out onto the busy streets of London, High roads and Shopping malls. Cringe* (hope we don't get in trouble) .. Watch this space.

Presentation nov 4

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Today we finished complying our shots on our storyboard, In this video we are presenting our ideas and receiving feedback from our Media teacher.

From Ameture to Pro

Today Mac2 really stretched our editing skills we made and finalised two projects and uploaded them to YouTube and our blogs; we now know how to confidently apply transitions, sounds and special effects on imovie.