As a group we had a lot of planning gone into the making of the clip. The only problem that could effect us is the availability of the location. Because of this we decided to come up with another idea but still keep the genre. From watching insidious I discovered we could create an opening scene of just various types of shots while the credits are rolling. My reasons for this is it doesn't give much away so the audience will want to know what going on and what's going to happen. Also because the clip doesn't consist of any dialogue we would need to make sure our prop design is the main aspect when recording. To make the audience get drawn in we need to make sure they understand what's happening and understand the point we're trying to show they the house is haunted. IF the group were to achieve this aim then in my opinion i think our clip will be very successful
The First Week We Were given a brief talk about what we will be doing in the next 2 terms and were Shown Some Preliminary Videos By Mr Goddard And a new teacher that was introduced to us- Mr Middle. This Gave The Class An Insight On How To Create Them, As There Are Certain Rules to which we Had To Follow. There Were Three Rules We Had To Follow In Order To Complete The Preliminary Task, These Were:
-Match On Action -Shot, Reverse, Shot -180° angle We Were Then Put Into Our Groups, My Group Consisted Of Danish, Ben, Nasim And I. We Started To Group All Our Ideas For The Preliminary task And Came Up With A Scenario Where I Cheated On Nasim, Nasim Then Confronts Me And Threatens Me With A Gun. This Was Shot And Edited Within The Week and was uploaded on YouTube instantly, throughout this task I Felt As My Group Cooperated Well. Ben was directing this scenario and Danish was the camera man. As I had already done the subject Media for my GCSE's, I was familiar with many things- such as how to use the camera provided by the school; all different types of camera shots and angles that can be produced; the editing software on apple Mac called Final Cut Pro. Once the whole class had completed their preliminary's and it was all uploaded onto YouTube, as a class we all watched them one by one noting any mistakes we had made and areas we could've improved on. This was a good task that was set out as we would then learn from the mistakes we had made in the prelim, then being able to use our knowledge in the film opening. On The Last Lesson We Were Shown Some Film Opening To Inspire Us To Make Our Own- such as Scream and what is said to be the best film opening- resident evil. We Then Got Together As A Group And Gathered Ideas On What Our Film Opening Could Be. We Came Up With Many Genres Such As Thriller; Horror; Comedy; Action; Film Noir. We carried on deciding which genre would be best to do. This week we had to finalise the genre we were going to do, we were stuck between two ideas- Action (robbery) or Horror (supernatural). Ben, Nasim and I were drawn to the horror genre as it appealed to us the most, however Danish wanted to do the Action genre, with a vote majority ruled and we had to settle with the horror idea- which I was really happy about as it was one that I really wanted to do.
As a group we then started to research films with the same genre we wanted to do and analyse film openings. The four of us split the work to make it easier for us- i chose to analyse the conjuring, Danish analysed paranormal activity, Ben chose insidious and Nasim did the woman in black. From researching the film and finding out that our clip is quite similar to the film we decided it would be best to analyse the film and get some ideas for our clip. From analysing Insidious we decided that our project will be based around this movie because, the opening scene of the movie is very clever, very mysterious, hidden and spooky which gives it that supernatural effect which the group want to achieve in the project. After having a rough idea of what we wanted to achieve, I was made to do the storyboard- which I did not mind doing. At the start of the lesson we didn't know much of what to do in our clip but once a few ideas of the group started to get noted down, a lot more ideas come to the groups mind. We came up with the idea of setting the clip in a house that Danish was planning. Reasons why we wanted to shoot the opening scene in a house is because our clip is based on two people moving into a supernatural house and mysterious trends start to appear for the mother and daughter when entering the house. Our group came up with various shot ideas for example when the family drive up to the house there was going to be a close-up of the daughter showing a sign of fright because of how strange the house is compared to the rest of the street. |