Question 7
I feel like I understood the conventions of horror better than I did before. When starting the main task I started to understand the conventions of a typical horror due to the fact I was analysing many films based on the horror genre. I found out that a lot of films used both non diegetic sound and diegetic sound, bold titles and gore in their opening scenes and trailers, by doing this the audience would get an idea of the narrative and the genre of the film, pulling them in with intensity. This helped highly with my overall film opening as I was able to create a typical horror narrative, scene and add conventions.
During our preliminary task, we used a tripod. However I do not think we used the tripod as effectively enough. Due to the lack of knowledge of cameras and tripods our preliminary task was not focused and the camera was not used as well as it could have been. Our shots were average, capturing what was needed but it was not clear enough. However during our main task we used to tripod again and this time the tripod helped with keeping our shots steady and at the right height as you could adjust the tripod to correct height using the extended legs. This meant our shots were clear and sturdy. This time knew what I was doing and how to do it, our shots looked more professional and overall our filming was successful. However some of our shots weren’t up to standard, during close ups and the tracking shot our camera skills were wobbly. We didn’t have the right equipment to film our tracking shot so we had needed to come up with an alternative so we used one of my sisters toys to place and hold the camera on, it wasn’t ideal but the shot was essential in the beginning of our opening scene. Overall our camera skills had improved but there were areas of development.
The quality of framing shots during our preliminary task was not very set out and did not look clearly into the lighting and mise-en-scene. This was due to it being filmed in school and having to use any equipment we could get our hands on. During our actual film we used many shots letting the audience know what was happening between the two characters. This leads on to the quality of selecting mise-en-scene (colour, lighting, setting ect..) During our preliminary we used zoom quite often to help focus on the timer and the character running however this was not successful as the lense would become less focused, unclear and dark. The lighting was not a problem as most of our film was based outside of the building. There was no editing done to the actual film apart from cropping and resizing the clip. On the other hand our actual film was not successful when it came to lighting as my brothers bedroom (where the film opening was based) was dark and had low lighting so during the editing we tried to change the contrast brightening up the clips. When it came to zooming we had learnt it wasn’t the best idea as the clips would become unclear which was the opposite of what we wanted so instead of zoom we used a tracking shot, this is where we moved the camera closer to the main object. Also mise-en-scene was not a big success as our props and costume were not great and didn’t give the right impression of it being a horror type opening although majority of horrors are normally based in ‘normal’ houses, clothing and props. So overall we could say the mise-en-scene was ideal for the film.
We did not edit our preliminary task greatly as we focused on cutting our scenes and putting them together. During the making of our media product we combined many different transitions e.g. fading in and out of our titles and dissolves. This helped to make the video make more sense. We also used simple tinting, vignette
We did not plan effectively for our preliminary task, as the
task was simple and would not take to much time meaning we had time to start
and finish it in lesson. For our film we organised set dates by using the
script, storyboards ect… However even though we had planned so far ahead we wasn’t
always available on the dates that we had planned to film on this made it hard
to get our film done on time and finding actors to take part in it. We came to
the conclusion to play the actors as well as edit and film. This was more time
consuming as we didn’t rely on people.
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