Thursday
Planning: Who Are Our Target Audience
In this task we had to write down what we wanted our target audience to be like.
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| Group Ideas for our target audience |
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Planning: Potential Openings
For each of the openings we made sure to include:
1) Who?
- Who would be in the opening
2)What?
What is going to happen
3)When?
When is it going to happen
4)Where?
Where is it going to happen
Opening One:
The two friends would start at the house and then run away to the woods. This is because they fell out with their parents. They go to the woods and Stephen trips over a log in the woods meaning he gets injured. They go to find shelter and they find an abandoned farm house. They then get split up and mysteriously disappear.
Opening Two:
The two characters look at the house and it then goes into a flashback of 100 years ago. This flashback includes the death of the former owners. It then goes back to normal time and Lewis is helping injured Stephen to the abandoned house. They arrive at the house. They think that the house is safe. There is then mysterious deaths of the two characters.
Monday
Planning: 60 Second Pitch
We had to conduct a pitch. This is to show what our initial idea and working title for the film that we would be creating the opening for later on.
Planning : Initial Ideas
In this task i was asked to write down the initial ideas for our horror films. We wrote down a lot of ideas which i found to be good. The sort of things that we came up with were a haunted house and an asylum. We decided to go with the haunted house as we already know the perfect location for it. Our working title is "The Last Night"
Above you can see the ideas that the group came up with.
Research: Essay: Codes and Coventions in WT, DM and DW
When watching a horror film, you will find that most other horror films also do the same thing. What I mean by this is that most horror films will have the same codes and conventions. The two types of codes are:
Technical
Technical codes in a horror film include things like camera shots, angles and movement as well as lighting, titles, editing and sound. Overall technical codes cover all of the technical aspects of the film and the film making.
Symbolic
Symbolic codes include the main elements of mise-en-scene within a film. This is the parts of the film like the costumes, make up, setting and props. This is so the audience can assume about the character before they even know anything about her/him.
Conventions
Conventions are a set of rules that an audience expect to see within the film. An example of this would be that there is a death in the first couple of minutes within a horror film. If this doesn't happen then you would expect a couple of jump/ false scares at least. Another example would be as the character is about to get away the character would trip. This will likely be over nothing but they would trip and then get killed after.
Dead wood- Synopsis
Four friends leave the city for a relaxing camping trip in the woods. Once they are there a strange women enters the campsite looking for her boyfriend who has disappeared. One of the four friends also goes missing and the rest are now trying to fight against unknown forces in a fight to survive.
Dead Mary- Synopsis
Kim and her boyfriend Matt have just broke up, but they travel together to a cottage nearby a lake to spend the weekend with their friends. The atmosphere changes very quickly because of the situation between Kim and Matt. One of them then suggests to play "Dead Mary". Matt, and two of the friends then summon the evil witch by repeating her name three times in front of a mirror with a candle. Through the night Matt hears weird noises, is killed and returns back to life. The other part of the group is possessed by the fiend that is Dead Mary. The group doesn't know who is possessed and fight to survive.
Wrong Turn- Synopsis
The film opens with two friends rock climbing, when all of a sudden they both get killed. Six friends then find themselves trapped in the woods of West Virginia and hunted down.
Editing and the pace of the editing used is to great effect in all three of the horror film openings. The opening to 'Wrong Turn' is a great example of how editing is used to capture the audience's attention and how easily they can affect the audience with the right editing. During the talking between the two characters in the opening scene the editing is very slow and the cuts between shots are minimal. These cuts that do happen are mostly between the man's face and the women's face. However when the man's body gets thrown off of the cliff the editing picks up a lot of pace in a short amount of time. The shots then become a lot more varied as well as the women gets pulled up the rocks the camera switches a lot between the reel of the harness and the rope as well as the women herself. The camera angles also change a lot. An example of this would be when she frees herself by cutting the rope of the harness and when she is trying to reach the other rope. The camera is at a low shot at this point. In the next shot there is a close up. This is to show the emotion on her face. Dead Wood also uses techniques similar to this. This is when the male victim comes crashing through the water. The editing is very fast paced throughout most of the scene. However this is not the case in 'Dead Mary'. The editing in the opening of this scene is completely different compared to the other two openings. This is because there is no death and the only part we see that could be counted as a jump scare was as the man walked up to the car and dropped the gas canister. The editing was clever in this opening though because you still wanted to know what was going on. Even though I was at ease throughout.
Camera movement is used effectively in all three of the horror film openings. The opening of 'Dead Wood' starts with a crane shot, that brings the audience down through the canopy. During this shot, we are transported through a holly bush. This could foreshadow that there is something bad to happen which is going to be painful. Then the camera stops over a murky puddle. There is also some symmetry during the opening. this because after the man dies the women comes out of her tent and shouts his name as the camera cranes back up into the trees. This is to signal that the chase is over and the terror has stopped for a couple of seconds. The opening of 'Wrong Turn' is very similar. It also begins with a crane shot of the forest and all the tree. The camera then brings the audience down to where the man and women are rock climbing and gives us a birds eye view on both of them. This can also be seen as an establishing shot as it tells you where the action is going to take place.
Every horror film opening uses conventions very well. One convention that is used in 'Wrong Turn' is that the victim nearly makes it away from the danger. But as it is a horror film the character trips and dies. The final shot that we see before her death is the car. This is to show how close she was from escape but still how very far away she is. This same convention is used in 'Dead Wood'. This is when the man tries to jump to safety and he loses his footing on the hills and gets pulled back down into the hole. He also falls over before this as well and this is to show that he will die whatever happens. As he trips it means there is less distance between the killer and the victim. This means that he is more likely to die. The last shot that we see in this film is him looking at the tent which would have been his escape. This convention is also used in most horror films. The convention is that the person has nearly made it to safety but then they get killed suddenly. The third film 'Dead Mary' has not used this convention in the starting of the film.
The next convention has all three films using it. This is that the female is reliant on the male character in the film. This is true for most horror films. In the film 'Wrong Turn' the women was reliant on the man to help her up. But as he died she then started to worry more and this is where the camera started to cut a lot quicker throughout the rest of the opening section. 'Dead Wood' is another example of this because the women is left in the car by herself. This could make the audience think that she could die in the opening. This does not happen and the only thing that really happens is that the man comes back to the car with gas. In the opening of 'Dead Mary' it still applies but is weaker compared to the other 2 films. The women looks very worried in the film when she realizes that her friend/ partner has disappeared in the woods.
A symbolic code that I have found in the openings is the amount of make up used. When you see the male in 'Dead Wood' running away from the thing trying to kill him you can see blood on his face. This shows that something bad has happened and that he knows he will probably die later on and he does. 'Wrong Turn' also uses a lot of make up in the film opening. The way that she realizes that the male friend of hers has been killed is that blood drips on to her face. This makes the audience think that she wont escape either as she still has her harness on. There is no relevance of blood in the opening of 'Dead Mary'.
Another symbolic code that is used is the clothing. All three of the females are dressed in a way that is inappropriate. This is a symbolic code. In the opening of 'Dead Wood' the female victim is wearing black. This could foreshadow death. She is also wearing clothing which isn't very good for camping. In the film 'Dead Mary' the female is dressed in blue and is showing a lot of flesh. This is similar in the 'Wrong Turn' as well as she is wearing very little clothes. This is the same as the others as the male in the opening is also wearing a lot. This is not really suitable clothing for rock climbing. In all of the films you don't see the killer either. This makes it more mysterious.
Overall, I think 'Wrong Turn' is the best out of the three films this is because it uses the most of the codes and conventions that you expect in the opening of the horror film. During the opening credits of this film there is non-diegetic sound. The credits that play over the opening are sharp and weird in most ways. They are bright white capital letters. 'Wrong Turn' uses the symbolic codes very well and the technical codes are good as well. In conclusion, 'Wrong Turn' uses a lot of good symbolic and technical codes this creates the most scary opening out of the three.
Technical
Technical codes in a horror film include things like camera shots, angles and movement as well as lighting, titles, editing and sound. Overall technical codes cover all of the technical aspects of the film and the film making.
Symbolic
Symbolic codes include the main elements of mise-en-scene within a film. This is the parts of the film like the costumes, make up, setting and props. This is so the audience can assume about the character before they even know anything about her/him.
Conventions
Conventions are a set of rules that an audience expect to see within the film. An example of this would be that there is a death in the first couple of minutes within a horror film. If this doesn't happen then you would expect a couple of jump/ false scares at least. Another example would be as the character is about to get away the character would trip. This will likely be over nothing but they would trip and then get killed after.
Dead wood- Synopsis
Four friends leave the city for a relaxing camping trip in the woods. Once they are there a strange women enters the campsite looking for her boyfriend who has disappeared. One of the four friends also goes missing and the rest are now trying to fight against unknown forces in a fight to survive.
Dead Mary- Synopsis
Kim and her boyfriend Matt have just broke up, but they travel together to a cottage nearby a lake to spend the weekend with their friends. The atmosphere changes very quickly because of the situation between Kim and Matt. One of them then suggests to play "Dead Mary". Matt, and two of the friends then summon the evil witch by repeating her name three times in front of a mirror with a candle. Through the night Matt hears weird noises, is killed and returns back to life. The other part of the group is possessed by the fiend that is Dead Mary. The group doesn't know who is possessed and fight to survive.
Wrong Turn- Synopsis
The film opens with two friends rock climbing, when all of a sudden they both get killed. Six friends then find themselves trapped in the woods of West Virginia and hunted down.
Editing and the pace of the editing used is to great effect in all three of the horror film openings. The opening to 'Wrong Turn' is a great example of how editing is used to capture the audience's attention and how easily they can affect the audience with the right editing. During the talking between the two characters in the opening scene the editing is very slow and the cuts between shots are minimal. These cuts that do happen are mostly between the man's face and the women's face. However when the man's body gets thrown off of the cliff the editing picks up a lot of pace in a short amount of time. The shots then become a lot more varied as well as the women gets pulled up the rocks the camera switches a lot between the reel of the harness and the rope as well as the women herself. The camera angles also change a lot. An example of this would be when she frees herself by cutting the rope of the harness and when she is trying to reach the other rope. The camera is at a low shot at this point. In the next shot there is a close up. This is to show the emotion on her face. Dead Wood also uses techniques similar to this. This is when the male victim comes crashing through the water. The editing is very fast paced throughout most of the scene. However this is not the case in 'Dead Mary'. The editing in the opening of this scene is completely different compared to the other two openings. This is because there is no death and the only part we see that could be counted as a jump scare was as the man walked up to the car and dropped the gas canister. The editing was clever in this opening though because you still wanted to know what was going on. Even though I was at ease throughout.
Camera movement is used effectively in all three of the horror film openings. The opening of 'Dead Wood' starts with a crane shot, that brings the audience down through the canopy. During this shot, we are transported through a holly bush. This could foreshadow that there is something bad to happen which is going to be painful. Then the camera stops over a murky puddle. There is also some symmetry during the opening. this because after the man dies the women comes out of her tent and shouts his name as the camera cranes back up into the trees. This is to signal that the chase is over and the terror has stopped for a couple of seconds. The opening of 'Wrong Turn' is very similar. It also begins with a crane shot of the forest and all the tree. The camera then brings the audience down to where the man and women are rock climbing and gives us a birds eye view on both of them. This can also be seen as an establishing shot as it tells you where the action is going to take place.
Every horror film opening uses conventions very well. One convention that is used in 'Wrong Turn' is that the victim nearly makes it away from the danger. But as it is a horror film the character trips and dies. The final shot that we see before her death is the car. This is to show how close she was from escape but still how very far away she is. This same convention is used in 'Dead Wood'. This is when the man tries to jump to safety and he loses his footing on the hills and gets pulled back down into the hole. He also falls over before this as well and this is to show that he will die whatever happens. As he trips it means there is less distance between the killer and the victim. This means that he is more likely to die. The last shot that we see in this film is him looking at the tent which would have been his escape. This convention is also used in most horror films. The convention is that the person has nearly made it to safety but then they get killed suddenly. The third film 'Dead Mary' has not used this convention in the starting of the film.
The next convention has all three films using it. This is that the female is reliant on the male character in the film. This is true for most horror films. In the film 'Wrong Turn' the women was reliant on the man to help her up. But as he died she then started to worry more and this is where the camera started to cut a lot quicker throughout the rest of the opening section. 'Dead Wood' is another example of this because the women is left in the car by herself. This could make the audience think that she could die in the opening. This does not happen and the only thing that really happens is that the man comes back to the car with gas. In the opening of 'Dead Mary' it still applies but is weaker compared to the other 2 films. The women looks very worried in the film when she realizes that her friend/ partner has disappeared in the woods.
A symbolic code that I have found in the openings is the amount of make up used. When you see the male in 'Dead Wood' running away from the thing trying to kill him you can see blood on his face. This shows that something bad has happened and that he knows he will probably die later on and he does. 'Wrong Turn' also uses a lot of make up in the film opening. The way that she realizes that the male friend of hers has been killed is that blood drips on to her face. This makes the audience think that she wont escape either as she still has her harness on. There is no relevance of blood in the opening of 'Dead Mary'.
Another symbolic code that is used is the clothing. All three of the females are dressed in a way that is inappropriate. This is a symbolic code. In the opening of 'Dead Wood' the female victim is wearing black. This could foreshadow death. She is also wearing clothing which isn't very good for camping. In the film 'Dead Mary' the female is dressed in blue and is showing a lot of flesh. This is similar in the 'Wrong Turn' as well as she is wearing very little clothes. This is the same as the others as the male in the opening is also wearing a lot. This is not really suitable clothing for rock climbing. In all of the films you don't see the killer either. This makes it more mysterious.
Overall, I think 'Wrong Turn' is the best out of the three films this is because it uses the most of the codes and conventions that you expect in the opening of the horror film. During the opening credits of this film there is non-diegetic sound. The credits that play over the opening are sharp and weird in most ways. They are bright white capital letters. 'Wrong Turn' uses the symbolic codes very well and the technical codes are good as well. In conclusion, 'Wrong Turn' uses a lot of good symbolic and technical codes this creates the most scary opening out of the three.
Thursday
Research: Codes and Conventions in Existing Teen Horror Film Openings
Please find below the title of the essay you need to complete by 3pm on XXX. This essay will be valuable for your planning and evaluation.
- This essay should be done as a post to your blog. You can, if you wish, punctuate your essay with screen shots from the openings.
- The word count should be targeted at 750 words
- You should select appropriate examples from the openings to illustrate the points that you make. You do not have to write about everything that you see and hear.
Analyse the codes and conventions of horror films as shown in the openings of 'Dead Wood', 'Dead Mary' and 'Wrong Turn'.
Research : Codes and Conventions of Existing Teen Horror Film Openings (Wrong Turn)
The opening of 'Wrong Turn' which we have analysed in class.
Research : Codes and Conventions of Existing Teen Horror Film Openings (Dead Mary)
The opening of 'Dead Mary' for you to analyse.
Research : Codes and Conventions of Existing Teen Horror Film Openings (Dead Wood)
The opening to 'Dead Wood' for you to analyse.
Friday
Research: Conventions Commonly Found in Horror Films
Secluded Location
Most of the time horror movies place a character in a location where nothing is around them an example of this would be the woods, a ghost town, a summer camp or a house in the middle of no where. This is done so it makes the viewer of the film feel on edge and make them feel like something is going to happen.
Characters Forget about any threat
Most of the time in a horror film there is a danger that people know about but they carry on and go to that place anyway. This is almost always a negative part of the movie and you know that something will happen later on in the movie.
Power is Cut
At the perfect time the power is always cut. This is so the viewer knows that something is going to happen. When the lights first go out the character in the film usually goes to check what did it. This is also to build intensity.
Phone Lines Are Cut
The killers always take out the phones. This is so the victim can have no connection with the outside world. In nearly all horror films at least one of the phones are cut. Since the introduction of mobile phones they have had to change the way it works. They had to make sure the mobile dies just before the victim tries to call the help that they needed.
Someone investigates a strange noise
This is one of the most overused horror film conventions. A lot of horror films use this to try and build tension. If there was someone screaming then someone would stupidly go over to the noise to try and find out what it was.
Someone Runs Upstairs Instead of Outside
People will always run upstairs instead of outside. This is to try and build tension in the crowd. If they are unable to do that then it will be harder to scare the audience.
Victim Cowers In Front of a Door or Window
They sit and cower in front of the doors or windows so that the villain can break there hand through the window or door so that the victim will get scared. This could also be a jump scare.
Victim Falls Over at the Worst Time
They do this to try and build tension.
Car Wont Start
This will always happen with any car or bike. This is also so you can build tension. They do this very well in most of the films.
The Fake Scare
A fake scare is a very old and over-used convention in a horror film. They use this just before a jump scare. This works really well and can scare people a lot when it is used well.
Warning Goes Unheeded
It is natural if you get told not to go somewhere then you don't go there. But with this convention even if they do get warned then they will still go into the haunted forest or something like that with the warning still in their head.
Someone is killed in the first 5 minutes
When this is done well it can be very effective. But if it is done wrong then it can make it look like a parody film. This if done wrong could ruin the whole film for the viewers of the film.
X Years Before/Later
This indicates a prologue of the film, setting up the events that will happen later on in the film. If it says 15 years later for example then it means that the prologue has ended and the main film will start.
The Stormy Night
This is to try and build tension. It is also so that they can add thunder as part of a jump scare.
The Short Cut
This is so that the person is put in to a dark alley. This is to try and build tension in the audience which could lead to a jump scare.
Thursday
Research: Things about fear
The purpose of this was to research in to different peoples fears. This is so that we can use it in the main task as and when it comes to doing that. These fears that are on the picture above are seen a lot in horror films as it seems a lot of people are scared by the same sort of things.
Research: The History of Horror Films:A Journey Through Time (1980)
The Thing(1982)
Little-seen on its release but now hailed as a classic, John Carpenter's masterpiece is actually a remake. He took the Howard Hawks' 1951 sci-fi thriller (based on a short story by pulp author John W Campbell calledWho Goes There?) The Thing From Another World and turned it into a gorefest that has never been equalled. Retrospectively, The Thing has proved itself to be one of the most important horror movies of the 1980s, despite not being a box office success at the time. It is now seen by many as visionary, from a technical (the special effects far outstripped anything previously seen and certain scenes are horrifying to watch even today, nearly three decades on), and from a philosophical perspective. Like Invasion of the Body Snatchers it offers a discourse on what it is that makes us human, by examining what happens when our humanity is engulfed by alien biology.
The Shining(1980)
The Book
Stephen King's 1977 bestselling novel is a spin on the traditional haunted house story. When King and his wife, Tabitha, paid a late-season visit to The Stanley Hotel in Colorado, they found themselves the only guests in residence as the staff packed everything up for the winter. King was spooked by the silent, empty corridors, and, after a nightmare featuring his son running screaming through the hotel, came up with the bones of his novel.
The Movie
Stanley Kubrick's movie is substantially different to the book. Rather than being about a family, it's about a location. The Overlook, as imagined by Kubrick, is a series of nightmare-inducing spaces that simultaneously cause claustrophobia and agoraphobia. Kubrick eschews the supernatural explanation that the hotel is an evil entity which manifests via a spectral corpse in the bathtub or topiary creatures that come to life. Instead he suggests it's an extreme case of sick building syndrome: something rotten in the architecture and the carpet designs burrows into Jack's brain and sends him over the edge.
Child's Play(1988)
Another serial killer with a smart mouth and a not-so-snappy way of dressing appeared in 1988, launching another successful franchise. Child's Play(1988) introduced horror audiences to Chucky, who, as well as drawing on the long tradition of malevolent dolls on page and screen, provided an interesting nexus between the monster children of the 1970s and the serial killers of the 1990s. The self-aware irony pre-empted the tone of the post-modern Wes Craven movies of the1990s.
Nine...Ten Never Sleep Again:A Nightmare on Elm Street(1984)
Wes Craven, the former college professor responsible for two of the darkest and most deranged movies of the 1970s (Last House on The Left and The Hills Have Eyes) unveiled a brash, commercial franchise in 1984: A Nightmare on Elm Street. The monster, a hideously scarred Freddy (named after a kid who bullied Wes Craven at school) Krueger represents a successful blend of humour and horror, a deranged killer who doesn't lurk silently behind a hockey mask but menaces in full view, spitting one-liners as he sharpens his trademark glove.
Little-seen on its release but now hailed as a classic, John Carpenter's masterpiece is actually a remake. He took the Howard Hawks' 1951 sci-fi thriller (based on a short story by pulp author John W Campbell calledWho Goes There?) The Thing From Another World and turned it into a gorefest that has never been equalled. Retrospectively, The Thing has proved itself to be one of the most important horror movies of the 1980s, despite not being a box office success at the time. It is now seen by many as visionary, from a technical (the special effects far outstripped anything previously seen and certain scenes are horrifying to watch even today, nearly three decades on), and from a philosophical perspective. Like Invasion of the Body Snatchers it offers a discourse on what it is that makes us human, by examining what happens when our humanity is engulfed by alien biology.The Shining(1980)
The Book
Stephen King's 1977 bestselling novel is a spin on the traditional haunted house story. When King and his wife, Tabitha, paid a late-season visit to The Stanley Hotel in Colorado, they found themselves the only guests in residence as the staff packed everything up for the winter. King was spooked by the silent, empty corridors, and, after a nightmare featuring his son running screaming through the hotel, came up with the bones of his novel.
The Movie
Child's Play(1988)
Another serial killer with a smart mouth and a not-so-snappy way of dressing appeared in 1988, launching another successful franchise. Child's Play(1988) introduced horror audiences to Chucky, who, as well as drawing on the long tradition of malevolent dolls on page and screen, provided an interesting nexus between the monster children of the 1970s and the serial killers of the 1990s. The self-aware irony pre-empted the tone of the post-modern Wes Craven movies of the1990s.
Nine...Ten Never Sleep Again:A Nightmare on Elm Street(1984)
Wes Craven, the former college professor responsible for two of the darkest and most deranged movies of the 1970s (Last House on The Left and The Hills Have Eyes) unveiled a brash, commercial franchise in 1984: A Nightmare on Elm Street. The monster, a hideously scarred Freddy (named after a kid who bullied Wes Craven at school) Krueger represents a successful blend of humour and horror, a deranged killer who doesn't lurk silently behind a hockey mask but menaces in full view, spitting one-liners as he sharpens his trademark glove.
Main Task Set Brief
The titles and opening of a new teen horror film, to last a maximum of two minutes.
All video and audio material must be original, produced by the candidate(s), with the exception of music or audio effects from a copyright-free source.
Monday
Preliminary Task Evaluation
Preliminary Task Evaluation
Continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. This task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule.
Continuity is the idea of a continuous scene or concept where everything must be correct. For instance clothing, and location must not change throughout the scene to create a effective continuous scene.
Match on Action is a cut to another camera to show the important object in that particular scene.
Shot/Reverse Shot is a shot with is mostly used when dialogue is used. Most of the time this shot is an over the shoulder shot.
180-degree rule is a rule in filming. Imagine an imaginary line through the middle of the scene. If you cross the line then you change the viewers perspective on the scene completely.
Pre-Production
At the start of pre-production we sat down as a group and spoke to see i we had any similar ideas. We seemed to know as a group where we were going with this task. We knew what we wanted to happen. We had the range of shots that we wanted. These were the long shot, establishing shot, mid shot and the POV(point of view) shot. We knew from the start who our cast would be and we knew who would be waiting and who would be walking into the school. We also knew what our knock knock joke would be be. We then had to write down the first ideas. We did this on an A3 sheet. To the right you can see the picture where i am holding the sheet. 
We then had to do a storyboard so we knew where each one of the scenes that we were doing. We had 20 in total. It also gives you a lot of information that you can also use in the clips that you record. This was very useful. This is because we then knew why we needed to do for every shot. These were then posted on to the blog as well in different post. Here is an example of one. Once we felt that we had done and we had a good layout.
Overall, having a pre-production where we could right down our initial thoughts. We could also right down all of the different techniques that we had. This is shown in the picture to the left.
Production
We filmed our Task on an IPad. This made the audio really bad. You can get around this by putting the audio up on the editing software. Some of the audio on this was so bad. Most of the audio that we had we had to get rid of completely. Also during filming we could see some reflections of the team as we were filming. This could not be helped. The day that we decided to film was really windy. This was a really bad idea and if we had the option we would have filmed on another day.
On the right you can see a picture of one of our POV shots. This is what i meant about having shadows on the ground. You can also see the IPad in the picture and this is also a part that we didn't want in the presentation. Post Production
In this stage we used the clips and cut them down to the right size. We then put the clips into iMovie. This is shown in the picture below.
Once the clips were in iMovie i dragged the clips into iMovie and cut the clips down to the size i wanted.
Once the footage was in the timeline i then edited it down to size by simply dragging the edge of the clip down to the size i wanted.
You could then add audio to the Movie if you wanted to. The green boxes on the picture below are the audio files.
Evaluation
Here is The Joke as a final product. In my opinion i did pretty well for a first task. We thought of some good ideas from the start but i didnt know how they would end out. We only encountered a couple of issues.
The first problem that i found was the clips could have been wrong. We should have filmed the clips more than once from the start. One problem that i also found was the panning shot wasnt very good. This is due to the camera man having a shaky hand. Another example would be when filming a P.O.V shot of our actor walking into the main building you can see the shadow of the camera, which could be prevented if we took more time to sort it out.
Overall, i felt that the task was an overall success. The planning and filming of this was all round good. Next time there would be a few things that i would change. This was good for my first try.
Thursday
Creating a storyboard for the preliminary task
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