Friday, 25 March 2016
Question 7
Reflecting back on the preliminary task, I've learned a lot more about using different technologies, such as I movie in order to construct a finished product. But before filming, I learnt a lot about the researching process and finding original ideas or ispiration from other films which we could manipulate and re create.
I aslo learned that story boarding and planning takes a lot of detail and has a massive thought process, because of how much understanding you need to have and ideas of what you want to create and what kind of product you want to achieve.
Working in a group was very different for me as I like working as an individual. It start with lots of ideas that flow and then you start to get on different pages and you compromise and small debates start to happen. It also can cause a lot of stress if a member in your group is ill or haven't completed their talks for the deadline as you agree to take on that extra work, and you worry about whether you have taken on too much or not done enough.
When it came to planning and shooting out opening, I found this to be the hardest part of the production in my opinion as everyone needed to be available all at the same time for a matter of hours for just seconds of quality footage. After you had footage and it came to looking at how much you had, pick up shots were need per if something could have been re done or look more effective.
editing however was the longest and the biggest process we had to go through. As we had to decide where to cut and where to match our angles and shots so it looked like one continuous movement throughout. Colours and print styles for what would attract our audience but stick to original horror conventions.
What I would change next time
Next time I would create my own edit. As I could base it purely just on my ideas instead of having to compromise yours to fit into how other members want it to look. I aslo think I would have managed my time differently by going into more depth instead of waiting for my group so we could move on.
I aslo learned that story boarding and planning takes a lot of detail and has a massive thought process, because of how much understanding you need to have and ideas of what you want to create and what kind of product you want to achieve.
Working in a group was very different for me as I like working as an individual. It start with lots of ideas that flow and then you start to get on different pages and you compromise and small debates start to happen. It also can cause a lot of stress if a member in your group is ill or haven't completed their talks for the deadline as you agree to take on that extra work, and you worry about whether you have taken on too much or not done enough.
When it came to planning and shooting out opening, I found this to be the hardest part of the production in my opinion as everyone needed to be available all at the same time for a matter of hours for just seconds of quality footage. After you had footage and it came to looking at how much you had, pick up shots were need per if something could have been re done or look more effective.
editing however was the longest and the biggest process we had to go through. As we had to decide where to cut and where to match our angles and shots so it looked like one continuous movement throughout. Colours and print styles for what would attract our audience but stick to original horror conventions.
What I would change next time
Next time I would create my own edit. As I could base it purely just on my ideas instead of having to compromise yours to fit into how other members want it to look. I aslo think I would have managed my time differently by going into more depth instead of waiting for my group so we could move on.
Thursday, 24 March 2016
question 1
Through my research i found The Genre horror is established through a series of conventions. These repeated conventions can help to set up an audience expectations. One convention i found to be key in communicating genre was the title and it's font. I found that in horror films such as: Saw, the title comes up at the beginning and immediately relates to the story, for example:
Saw has a black background with a sharp serif font and is in capital letters. The effect is quite stark and we focus on the simple word and it's connotations. The fact the title is blue creates a cold and clinical feeling. This links into the start of the film as it is set in a dingy bathroom. The cold colour helps to establish the unsettling tone of the film from the outset.
Saw has a black background with a sharp serif font and is in capital letters. The effect is quite stark and we focus on the simple word and it's connotations. The fact the title is blue creates a cold and clinical feeling. This links into the start of the film as it is set in a dingy bathroom. The cold colour helps to establish the unsettling tone of the film from the outset.
On the other hand with our film opening Viral Terror, we have a thick red font, giving our audience this idea of danger and violence. The font itself is also broken up as if it was digital, again this links into our plot and story by having it look like a form of technology, Which links nicely into our story of Viral Terror. Which suggests that our killer had a broken and distorted mind.
We have also used the colour Yellow for our credits. We decided to subvert the typical Blocky, red letters and go for a light yellow colour in an optima font. Which i found actually worked better than red. As yellow has generally positive connotations, such as being bright and energetic or soft and pastels. However the yellow we have used is quite sallow and it looks unhealthy. We took this inspiration from the Conjuring, where they use a yellow and it creates the same effects of sick and unhealthy.
From my research i found another convention of horror openings was the use of iconography. This applied to all films from slashers like Scream and Saw to psychological thrillers, like a Nightmare on ElmStreet and the Shining.
As you can see from these images- weapons are heavily featured. This helps to suggest to the audience, the idea of threat and danger.
However in psychological horrors we see close ups of the killers sinister expression is seen. This gives the audience a disturbing insight into the killers mindset. For example we have applied this to our opening, as we see charlie's sinister facial expression when he approaches the camera.
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