Preliminary task

What we did:

This video shows what we have created for the preliminary task at the beginning of the course. We use things like match on action and the 180 degree rule, furthermore we edited this video using final cut express to make it seem smoother and much more realistic.

Narrative:

The story is about an individual (Enid) attending a job interview but has the wrong attitude and is far from prepared. As she enters the interview it all seems fine until she starts talking about how she only cares about the money and doesn't really have any interest in the job, she soon faces the consequences of her attitude and faces being rejected.

Evaluation:

The things that went well in our preliminary task was the acting, the match on action and the camera work as well as the editing. The things that we could have done better were to adjust the lighting in the first scene to make it brighter so it makes it clearer. One of the things I would change is to try a make the video a bit longer and to add a few more transitional effects.  Think that we followed the brief very well by following all the rules such as the 180-degree rule and we included the match on action scene, which was required, we also included the shot-reverse- shot, which was also required and was mentioned. During this task I developed my editing skills on final cut express and also learnt about how to handle the camera and how to use the features on it.     

The Shining

Title Sequence Work Sheet MUJO

Introduction to the Brief

Today we have been introduced to our coursework task and overall i think it will be an exciting but long project. Our task is to create a title and opening of a new film, to last a maximum of two minutes. I feel this will be a tough but enjoyable project due to the fact that we will get to use a variety of technology, it will also be tough because we will have to learn how to use all the softwares, equipment and programmes.

Tidy up trevor

in this lesson we wrote scripts based on children books Tidy up

The opening credits of the film 'se7en' uses many codes and conventions based on its genre: thriller. some of the codes and conventions it uses in the opening credits were: the fast editing, the quality of the scene, the text, the camera angles, the filter and many other things which are used to add to the thriller effect.

within the opening scene of 'se7en' one of the codes used is fast editing, this is something you would expect when watching a thriller, it makes it seem as if everything is going by fast paced and makes it a lot more interesting. The use of the fast editing associates with the thriller genre because you are viewing many scenes over a short period of time; you get shown vital information which may lead to clues later in the film for about 1-2 seconds. It also shows some disturbing scenes for a very short period at a time so the audience becomes surprised when they view it, during the opening scene these images are scattered about so they pop up unexpectedly which also associated to the thriller genre.

Another important convention is the quality of the video, it makes it seem as if it is a very old tape being played and also look grainy. This adds to the effect of suspicion which makes the audience wonder why it is this way and also makes this scene seem like something which has already happened and the audience is watching it because it may lead to clues later on within the film. Another technique that the film maker uses related to this is the filter on the camera, it makes the scene look red, grey and also gives it an earthy tone, this conveys the impression that the life out of the opening scene has been drained, this also relates to the fact it looks old and not very important.

One other important code and convention which is used by the director of the film 'se7en' is the font he uses within the opening scene/credits. the opening credits look broken and look as if they are falling apart, this also relates to the fact that this film is a genre, it makes it seem unusual and also looks like it belongs to a horror film, it adds to the effect of mystery because you are unsure as to what it has to do with the rest of the film. in relation to this (the font) within the opening scene you can see a mans hand and he is writing something, the audience does not get to clearly see what the character is writing therefore this also relates to the mystery of this film because it gives to audience the impression that this will also be revealed later on but for now they are still having to figure out what is going on within the scene, also what this will lead to later on in the film.