Finished Caretaker. film opening

Here is our opening to the Caretaker.

 

Question 7 of the evaluation

7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from that to the full and final product?

When we first began to prepare for out preliminary task, we were introduced to a wide variety of new things based upon camera shots, mis-en-scene and sound- although we were beginning to become familiar with these, we only introduced to the basics. The camera shots were merely;

Tracking Shot; Moving the camera backwards and forwards, and in/out.

Side Ways Tracking Shot (Crab Shot); Moving the camera from side to side.

Tilt Shot; Simple up and down on an axis.

Zoom; Moving in or away; same effect as tracking.

Arc Shot; Full or semi-circle around character; increase intensity of narrative.

Crane Shot; Camera attached to crane, moves up and down

Panning; Camera mounted on tripod and moved from left to right.

Since then we have been educated into knowing many more shots than above, these include;

• Crane shot (establishing shot)
• High Angle
• Low Angle
• Depth of Field 

We have also learnt how the camera dictates exactly how we see things, this had to be considered when planning for the main task in order to make it successful and meeting the criteria of the horror genre.

Since our preliminary task, we have been introduced to the use of sound, such as diegetic and non-diegetic sound- this could have been included in our opening, however we only used non-diegetic sound.

When completing our prelim task, we learnt to edit using iMovie-which was relatively easy, but when we began our main task we had to learn to edit using Final Cut

- at the beginning this was proving do be a difficult task to learn but we eventually learnt to use it correctly and effectively as it has made our opening what it has become.

Evaluation questions

In todays lesson we have found out the evaluation questions to complete our evaluation on our horror film opening.

Evaluation Questions

1. In what ways does your film opening use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real film opening.
2. How does your film opening represent particular social groups?
3. What kind of media institution might distribute your film opening and why?
4. Who would be the audience for your film opening?
5. How did you attract/address your audience?
6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Our group will be splitting up these different questions and making various different presentations using different programmes such as Slide Share and Prezi. We will do the evaluation once we have completed our filming and any out standing tasks. 

Production: Colour correcting our footage

Although we used a decent qulaity camera, we still have to make all of our footage the same colour. We did this by colour correcting the footage on Final Cut Express.

Setp 1: On Final Cut Express, we had went to the drop down menu at the top of the software. We clicked on 'Effects', then 'Video Filters' and then finally 'Brightness and Contrast (Bezier). This would creect the colouring of the footage, either making it lighter or darker, but in our case we wanted the footage to be lighter as the shot was in a dark place.

Step 2: Once clicking on the correct option, two colour wheels appear for us to use. By clicking and moving the colours wheels around change the colour of the shot. For example, we wanted this shot to become more brighter so we put more red into the shot to make it a little more brighter. To add more brightness or darkness, you can use the dials below the wheels to change the colour. We have now colour corrected our footage and can now do this process to the other video footage.

Evaluation questions 2-6

I have made a Prezi presentation on evlaution questions 2-6. To start the evlauation prezi, click 'Start Prezi' This Prezi includes videos, images and text.

Question 1 of the evaluation

1.In what ways does your film opening use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real film opening?

Here, we have made a power point answering question one of the evaluation.

Evaluation questions from aimeehullkbamedia

Question 2 of the evaluation

2. How does your film opening represent particular social groups?

Here, me and Aimee have made a short video answering question 2 of the evaluation.