Ideas for our film

Initial Ideas for opening of our film

Mood Board

This is my mood board. I have included pictures of the forest that we are going to film in, Richmond park. I have included some deer because we decided to have the film quite calm at the beginning with the deer then we cut straight to the action where the girl is running, this could help to build tension as it is a juxtaposition. I put in some costume ideas including a hoodie and converse, but also with the costume we need to put some mud on the clothes to show the girl's struggle through the forest. In addition, we included the car and the crash and also a road to show where the girl is going to run. The crime scene tape is to show that our film is a crime/drama film and there will be an accident. Also I have used pictures of clouds and fog because we are hoping to pick a day to film that is going to be cloudy and foggy to add to the creepy feel of the film. 

Analysis of other G321 blogs 2

http://media.ksgs.cumbria.sch.uk/blog/wiilliamwilson-as1/

I really liked this person's use of screenshots when analysing clips of film and their openings. It makes his blog look tidy and neat and is also a good way to present parts of the opening. I use screenshots sometimes to show different parts of the clips that I am talking about but I might start to make a small collage of these pictures to make my blog look neat and more presentable.

Preliminary Task

 For my preliminary task, I worked with Ashleagh and Zoe. I filmed the task and I tried to get in as many techniques as possible, for example, 180 degree rule and shot reverse shot. Unfortunately, some scenes are quite jumpy when transitioning to the next but I now know that I need to work on that, also for my real opening I need to remember to film a lot of footage in order to have enough in case some isn't very good. I learnt a lot from my Preliminary task that I can now use when making my real opening.

Diary Post- Preliminary Editing

Today in class, we tried to edit our preliminary task. We used iMovie to edit all of our clips that we filmed of Ashleagh and Zoe. We tried out different techniques like splitting clips and moving the clips together. Unfortunatley, we discovered that we hadn't filmed enough footage in order for the clip to flow smoothly. This made us realise that we have to film lots of footage in order for the movie to look good in the end, this mistake will help us when we come to doing our end film.

However, we tried to carry on with what we had and we also got some music to put in the background when Ashleagh was walking down the corridor and opening the door.

In order to improve, next time we should film more and also make a better ending to our film because it stops quite abruptly. Apart from that I think our camera angles when the conversation is taking place were good!

Analysis of other blogs!

http://georgihonnorasmedia.blogspot.co.uk

I found this G321 blog that I thought was very well presented. Instead of just using text to talk about her tasks, the student used lots of different media to keep her blog looking great and more helpful to read. She used SlideShare, Prezi and also filmed videos to answer questions about her preliminary tasks and evaluation. I think that this is a good blog because it is easy to understand and read. The student put a lot of detail into planning the props, cast and setting of her final film and this makes for a better and more organised final film. 

The student also includes if they had changed ideas and for what reasons. This shows that they are flexible with their ideas and also that they want to make sure that their film is exactly how they want it.

From looking at this blog, I have decided that instead of having chunks of text that could be quite boring to read, I am going to have videos, pictures and various types of media to make my blog look interesting.