My opening credits with jelly babies

Also in this lesson we made our opening credits using jelly babies.

Opening film Credits

In today's lesson we spent most of our time analysing open film credits. What we all noticed is that the name of the film never came first as we call assumed the producers name would always come first, how every we watched to different opening sequences from two differerent periods of time. "Se7en" which which was filmed more recent than the other film "Vertigo" which was filmed in the 50's, however the same structure still applied so it was almost tradition to have the title later on in the sequence. One thing we were able to identify is that with the older films the opening credits took a lot longer than the moden film but the begining reflected what to expect in the film.

Vertigo

Se7en

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My first experience of editing my horror movie

In today's lesson my partner and I had been editing the footage that we had filmed over the weekend.

The editing obviously wasn't the main challenge as we had done quite a lot of practice over the last couple months, it was the filming itself. However me and my partner did foresee a problem with lighting and we did try and find a way around it but this did not work exactly how we planned. We wanted to use the early winter darkness to our advantage to make the audience get the feeling that everyone was unsafe for they wouldn't be able to see what was coming but it got dark quicker than we thought, therefore there was a lot of editing that would we needed.

And for that reason there was a lot of editing involved not only with what was visual but with audio also as we did all our filming outdoors that day. We both did end up cutting out a lot of footage as some sounds and footage was irrelevant and/or unusable. We were able to use different techniques with the sound and hopefully we will be able to improve our skills to make the film opening look as good as possible.

Breakdown sheets

Feedback

My partner and I presented an animatic film to our class, and the feedback we received was very good. However we did encountered a problem whiles presenting the video as some of the photos which were uploaded had been saved on my portable hard drive and not on the computer network other than this problem they were still able to view the film, only had a the sound and the a couple scenes missing. Our peers said our film opening was good build up to the rest of the movie. They also gave us a couple tips and idea on how we could do our flashback (doing the scene in black and white) which would makes it obvious that it had happened in the past. The only criticism we had was that we had used to many mid-shots and close-ups so they said that we would need to more of a variety of camera shots but they couldn’t tell as we did have a couple images missing. They were all agreed that we had a good location as it fits very well with our story line.

Our location

These are images of the locations my partner and I are planning if using in our film. Half of the pictures taken was taken in the day time, hopefully when we film the darkness would make a spooky atmosphere.