Lighting task

Lighting task from charlcooke

Genre conventions of a Thriller

Genre conventions of a Thriller

 

Thriller - a novel, play, or movie with an exciting plot, typically involving crime or espionage normally with a high level of tension and suspence.

 

Types of thrillers:

·         Medical

·         Political

·         Forensic

·         Spy

·         Military

·         Psychological

·         Horror

 

Conventions:

 

Normally thrillers may involve a murder or some sort of grand crime and so usually have a hero and a villain, however a lot of thrillers are recognised through there shooting, editing and sounds. Common camera angles used in thrillers are low angle shots and quick moving shaky shots. Also the lighting used in the shots Is normally quite dark and gloomy and if any light, is usually a grey tinge giving a cold and uneasy feel, and is normally filmed in quite rural areas. The editing usually has a fast pace between shots with less continuity sometimes giving an ‘unedited’ feel as though its being filmed In real time. Added sounds are used quite a lot in thrillers to emphasize a certain action. Sounds such as footsteps or a telephone ringing are usually quite loud and emphasized compared to the other sounds and are normally added in a very quiet moment.

 

Other key elements: (picked certain features from a blogspot post)

·         Cliff hangers

·         Plot twists

·         Red herrings

·         Adrenaline

·         Mind games

·         Paranoia               

 

 

 

 

Editing of titling

 

 

In the first title, I have changed the wording, the text type and the way it is transitioned. In the original titling, it introduced the stars and there was no video transitions between the titles making it look less smooth and continuous. Here, I  have added a 'barn doors' transition so the titles flow into each other, and make the titles look more interesting without being over edited.

I added an extra transition effect here, as before the film cut and just went straight into titling with the black background. Again I added the 'barn doors' effect for it to flow into the titling.

     Between many slides like here, I added a 'cross dissolve' to keep the smoothness and continuity but    

however still tried to give enough time for the slide to be read whilst not dissolving (because that would

be pretty hard to read!!)                                                                                                                                 

The Forbidden Room - Textual Analysis

The forbidden room – textual analysis from charlcooke

Evaluation: Feedback from others Q5

Feedback from Sav&co

Good:

• The match on action has no flaws
•  The sound isn't over powering, so you can still hear the talking
• Different range of effects used e.g black and white effects, and the fast forward effect

Bad:

• Make sure to use the same cameras throughout so the video flows better
• Try to add more dialogue where you can, and a more clear shot/reverse shot

Evaluation: Contribution to groups work Q6

 I believed I contributed well to the group as I played the main part as actor as I knew Brooke and Annabel weren’t as confident in that area. Also did a lot of the first stages of the editing (adding the clips together and clipping them so they flow smoothly), as Brooke and Annabel were absent.

I wouldn’t say I was flexible as I did like to do things my own way,  that way I knew that the things I wanted to add would be. However was always open to what everyone else wanted to do and everyone took parts of editing in turn.

From doing this, I have learnt many different technological skills such as setting up the camera, using all the different effects during editing and also social skills such as the group work, allocating roles and sharing/ helping roles when needed to.

Overall, I think our group had a good dynamic as we all had roles that were more suited to certain people, however shared the workload and help each other throughout without someone lackin or taking over.

Evaluation: How well did you meet the brief? Q4

Evaluation: Areas for improvement Q3

Areas for development

We planned to do many of the shots in a classroom rather than a social area, and we did this because the classroom was not free for us to use at the time. Although it didnt make much difference, next time we will hire out where we want to film or do it at a time suh as after school when it is not in use.
Also we changed the camera in a couple of shots which shows less continuity due to the quality and saturation. To make sure this doesnt happen, we would keep the camrea consistant throughout and again try and hire it, so no one will be using it when we need to film.

You can probably guess which one is the better camera, but here on the right uses the DSLR camera, where as on the left uses the older lower quality video camera.

 

Evaluation: Areas of success Q2

Areas of success

Overall, I believe our preliminary task has gone a lot better than I expected it to and looks like an actual piece of film rather than just some random filmed footage just all being put next to each other, with it not actually making any sense.
As a group I believed we worked well as a team as all had different roles that suited us well, without anyone being uncomfortable with their role. We all contributed and were never afraid to add in extra shots and scenes, and always came to an agreement.
Although I'm not the best actor, I think that I've done well with being confident in front of the camera and not letting it phase me.

Evaluation: What have you learned? Q1

Prelim eval q1 from charlcooke

Our finished task! 'The Fight'

Go watch our preliminary task video at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmVgTsUVsJI

Storyboard

Storyboard for preliminary task from charlcooke