The Preliminary Task

In our Preliminary Task, we were asked to produce a short film, in preparation to the filming of the masterpiece that is The Holepuncher, we asked appropriate teachers if we could use their classrooms for filming, they happily obliged us with minimal fuss.

We began filming, we tried to hard to make sure we kept techniques and continuity on the top of our list of things to pack into this beautiful piece of art. we used low angle shots to see the entrances of Nick. we used a close up of the door handle when Nick opens it, we tried to keep the same sort of framing throughout and incorporated a shot reverse shot to some shots, I played myself basically, we used medium close ups so we could see a good portion of both characters and our surroundings, I was sitting at a desk typing on the computer whilst Nick entered and we begin the converstaion about theuse of a Hole puncher and the whereabouts of it. For Nick's entrance to the room we used match on action to show the door opening from the corridoor and the room, we also used a long shot for Nick's entrance aswell as we needed to see the distance to the desk clearly.

All in all i was happy with the group's work as we worked well together, and got through the filming and editing processes quickly and with minimal fuss from anyone, in order to improve the film i feel we could have used a few more difficult and flamboyant ideas, i feel that with this movie we have tried to play it save in order to get the foundations correct, as we left a bit of our dialougue out of the original piece we had to improvise, so we placed a voice-over in the piece so it would connect up the shots and pick up the action and move it along the timeline of events.

I personally feel that this movie overall has been a success, my skills with the camera demolish my skills on Imovie, as I feel that the soft ware is a lot harder to use than the hardware.

Memento and Insomnia

In our lesson we looked at the opening titles of the movies Insomnia and Momento

In Momento there was a black title screen with the blue bold font coming into focus, we then see a man's hand holding a polaroid photograph, the photo has already beeen complete, the shot then reverses, so the photograph then undevelops, the whole of the opening titles appears in reverse, we see blood on the wall appear to climb upwards, the shell casing of a pistol round appears to fly back to the chamber of the gun, we then pools of blood disperse. finally we can see a man with glasses on being shot in reverse.

In Insomnia, the opening credits of the movie appear to be blurred, this gives the feel of daziness which means lack of sleep, we then see a blurred view of a piece of fabric/cloth with blood seeping into it, we see multiple shots of this blood red colour seeping into different fabrics, the shot then pans out to see a man trying to wipe the blood from his sleeve, we then see an establishing shot of the Alaskan mountains.

I personly prefer momento as it is a more dynamic approach to the opening of the film.

SAW

I have decided to talk about the terrorfying graphic horror SAW, it is about a man with an alias known as "jigsaw", he is a mastermind and a serial killer who is dying of cancer, he is obsessed with teaching people the value of their own lives.

Jigsaw builds horrorific traps for his victims, eachg trap is different and represents the thing that is missing from the subject's life, each trap is thought as a game for Jigsaw, he tells them the game they are playing and the rules that they must follow eother by audio or video tape.

The rules of a game are normally things that the victim must do to him/her self in order to survive. This film is majorly iconic as it was basically the first film of its kind that shocked its audience in the way that it did.

In the whole franchise it is one long story spread across 6 films at the moment and apperently there is another 3 films coming out soon.

In SAW the main character is Jigsaw, but this is only because the main character of each film is normally killed of near the end in one of Jigsaw's games.

The actor that plays Jigsaw is Tobin Bell, his voice is known throughout the world of horror and delivers bone chilling performances constantly.

As we have decided to have Horror as the genre of our film we will probably use techniques and ideas from this Horror world wide francise

My Horrific Group Chums

Hello my minions of the damned, welcome back to THE BLOG!!

In this post i am going to describe my media studies group members and what we are doing in our fan dabby dosiac project.
rightio.... here we go.

firstly There is my great chum Nick Veira (he's a misunderstood fella) who loves to star in our movies and is a great laugh overall. he is starring in the motion picture and editing that chaotic bananza that we hope to make in the end.

Then we have the lovely Anika Franzwiak she is as German exchange student but speaks great english (shes a gem) we don't know what we would do with out her. she directs,films and edits the movie and pretty much holds the group together.

After decades of disagreement and fan mail we have decided to make a terrorfying epic horror movie that will leave you mildly spooked
yer!!
frightened??

BATES
xxxxxxx

Warner Bros

Here are some facts on the Warner Bros studio facilities:

The Studio was originally built on a plot of farmland in 1926

Warner Bros. Studios maintains one of the largest collections of period and contemporary costumes for film, television, theater and commercial productions.

Warner Bros. Studio Facilities has a total of 35 Sound Stages.

There are two principal structures on the lot, Stage 16 and the Mill Building, and one exterior set, Midwest Street, STAGE 16 is the largest on the lot.

The studio enjoyed making such landmark films as "A Clockwork Orange" ,"Klute" ,"Dirty Harry" ,"The Exorcist" ,"Blazing Saddles" ,"All the President's Men" and ,"Superman".

Warner Bros also own a number of companies here are a two:

Castle Rock Entertainment, Inc.

StarParks S.A.

The Dark Knight

There are 3 main stages that a film goes through, these are:

Production

Distribution

Exhibition

http://www.warnerbros.com/?page=movies&pid=f-ce83422e/THE%20DARK%20KNIGHT#/page=movies&pid=f-ce83422e/THE_DARK_KNIGHT&asset=064159/The_Dark_Knight_-_Original_Theatrical_Trailer&type=video/


This is the warner brothers' home page of 'The Dark Knight'. It gives a plot line of the film, character information and pictures and trailers of the film.

Once you open the page there are 2 trailers one is the blu-ray and the other is the original theatrical trailer. these both have the same shots but the thetrical trailer is much longer.

at the bottom of the page there is a synopsis of the film along with special ability to download items of the film like trailers and images.

PSYCHO

This is an image from the classic horror PYSCHO, it shows the knife as a signifier for the scene.