Prelim FINAL

This is our group's prelim. We filmed it, looking at our storyboard, just to get the camera angles all right. Most commonly we used over the shoulder shot, because it is useful when they are having conversation(using 180 degree rule). At the beginning we did a long shot, as Mohamed is walking up to the camera. We did a shot, looking at Justina from behind the door.  

First Ideas Of Opening & Group Working On Blog

This our group working hard on the group blogs and tasks.

This is our idea about the thriller movie.

Outline of the film: A paranoid schizophrenic has delusions that a man in a ski mask is chasing here, the audience are unaware of her condition in the opening of the film. The film plot later unveils her condition slowly.

Outline of film: A paranoid schizophrenic keeps having flashbacks in a church about a man in a ski mask.



This is a sketch of the church.

180 degree rule

In filmmaking, the 180° rule is a basic guideline that states that two characters (or other elements) in the same scene should always have the same left/right relationship to each other. If the camera passes over the imaginary axis connecting the two subjects, it is called crossing the line. The new shot, from the opposite side, is known as a reverse angle.

Our Plan/ Brainstorm

This is the brianstorm of our ideas that we came up with.

180 degree rule

The 180 degree rule in film making is a guideline that states that two characters in a scene should have the same left and right relationship. if the rule is broken it would create confusion.

 Below is an example of the 180 degree rule and why it shouldn't be broken

Possible Locations For our Thriller Movie

 Lock-ups,garages and Alleyways.

 Parks, Forests and open spaces.

Places with Graffiti.

180° rule

      The 180° rule  is a basic guideline to always keep two objects or characters in a scene in the same angle. In the scene the characters should always have the same left/right relationship to each other. Whilst filing our prelim we learned that the 180° rule  is crucial, we spotted our mistake whilst editing our footage. The 180 degree rule enables the audience to visually connect with unseen movement happening around, the The 180 degree is crucial for your final footage to have continuity. The image above illustrates the rule. 

Possible Locations

Those images show possible locations for our final film opening. We took the pictures on the phone, and the possible locations are London streets, lock-ups, garages, or spooky alleyways, parks or open spaces, band stands, or places with water around. 

Initial Idea

Overview: A girl running away from a subject in the woods, the audience are kept in suspense by the camera not revealing who the girl is running away from. Tilt angles will allow the audience to engage with how uncomfortable the girl must feel. Tense music in the background, stops when the girl falls over a branch and the audience can now hear two sets of breaths, the subject is coming closer and you can hear church bells in the distance. 

Intertextuality

  Intertextuality shapes the meaning of a media text by other texts. For example, many thriller films have borrowed or adapted the famous shower scene in Hitchcock's 'Psycho'. Intertextuality often happens in genres that are similar or appeal to a similar audience. This adds greater meaning as the audience are more likely to understand it and engage with it. Below is an example of Bobby McFerrin's voice used by the producers of Family Guy

Introcution To Soundtrack Pro

We were introduced to soundtrack pro at this stage seeing as we will soon be needing it for our opening sequence.

We were shown the very basics of the software  to use in our prelim so we get a slight idea of how to run the software and the ways in which we should use it.

Soundtrack pro is a very useful software because it allows us to access sounds that we might not be able to make ourselves and due to these vast amount of sounds its good because it could really help us with our production of our sequence. Also it was very helpful and I'm looking forward to using it in my opening sequence.

This diagram shows us the basics of the programme and lets us know the most important keys.