Friday the 14th November 2008

For today's lesson, as a class we watched the opening sequence of hide and seek to give us an insight of what the codes and conventions of the thriller genre are. As we watched it, we analysed each scene thoroughly for the deeper meaning of every scene the director has created.

For our homework, we had to watch the rest of the thriller films analysing the opening 5 minutes of each film. The films that we got were: Birds ( Hitchcock), Panic Room, Hide and Seek, Seven and The silence of the lambs.

By analysing thriller films, this helps with our main task of a 2 minute opening to a thriller production of our own in our groups.

Understanding the codes and conventions of these narratives, makes it alot easier to come up with our own narratives.


Wednesday 19th November 2008

Today, as a group we decided on our thriller narrative. As a group we decided to use the same person who plays the "villian" from our preliminary task for our main production, because his image fits the criteria of a stereotypical Villian in most thrillers.

Plot:

Genre: Action/ Sci fi
Possible locations: Sarah's house/ School hall/ Courtyard.
Associated films: Jaws, Alien, Psycho
Theme: Scary - dark
Following - disappearing
Running - Fear

3 main characters one main killer
2 get killed, the last one, reveals the killer.
Association with Psycho: No visual murder, no physical attack

Storyline:

Victims: Martha, Louise, Saturday

Title: Dead End.


Friday 21st November 2008

After coming up with the plot to our main task, we drew the plot onto our storyboards and animatic.

Today after school, we recieved all our camera equipments and went straight to Sarah's house to film.
We set up the house accordingly to our storyboard. Each scene was filmed maximum 3 times, minimum 2.
The filiming, went very smoothly, with a few jokes now and then. As this house was Sarah's, she knew every corner and angle we could use for each shot.
We planned that filming would take atleast 3-4 hours, however, we finshed in just 2 hours including a directors cut at the end. This included the directors and the characters were, we each commented on how they felt about filming this. In my opinion, everything went smoothly, apart from the cold weather.


27th November 2008

Today, we spend the whole day at the CLC editing our main task. We had to edit it in pairs so myself and Kanar paired up together, and sarah worked on her own.

Wednesday 5th November 2008

In todays lesson we went through all different type of techniques in thriller films.

Friday 7th November 2008

Today was the last lesson of editing our preliminary task. I finally got the hang of editing, and managed to finish editing, with effects. However, the piece of music for the clip is missing, and hopefully if we get the chance, we can add it in soon.