In what ways does your media project use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media projects?
Throughout the opening scene we used a lot of close up shots to show the different expressions on the two characters faces. Using close up shots in a horror movie is quite normal as they are used to exaggerate the shocked or scared expressions on the characters face. We decided to use a mix of different camera angles when filming this opening scene to build tension throughout the scene, and to make the viewer wonder what is going to happen. Using close up shots helps to build the tension as we are showing the viewers a close up of the characters facial expression. With the close up shots, we made sure that all the shots change quite quickly to build the tension and the make a sort of mystery in the scene.
For our movie title we decided to make the colours
red as we thought it would show danger and death. Also we thought the
colour red would make it stand out amongst other colours. We had a bit of trouble filming the movie title as we original made it on powerpoint. We weren't sure how to add the title to the editing program that we used, Final Cut Express, so we decided to film the powerpoint presentation. This was hard because we had to get the right angle on the camera so you couldn't see the reflections of everything in the background. If there was one thing that we could improve in our opening scene it would be this as it doesn't look very professional.
The music isn't played throughout the whole opening scene as we felt that it would look better if it started just after the start so it would build tension. For the music we made two different soundtracks. One to start off the music and the other to build a lot of tension. We created these pieces of music through 'GarageBand' and we uploaded them onto sound-cloud. If we were to improve the soundtrack slightly we could increase the volume for the instruments that we used, as I felt that some of the instruments were a little quiet. When making the soundtracks we wanted quite loud instruments like a drum. We used this to build tension throughout the scene and to make the viewer scared and feel very tense. Overall, I think that the soundtrack did it's job and made the scene tense.
Lastly, we filmed the credits. For the credits we wanted to be quite artistic and adventurous because we didn't want the credits to be boring and dull like credits in other films. We thought a lot about what we could do for the credits and we came up with an idea. We filmed the actress who played the murderer, Nadine Head, typing in the names of the people starring in the film and the people who created the film. We had to re film it a couple of times because you couldn't see the text very well with the lighting and also some of the words were spelt wrong. I really like this idea, however I think that it makes the opening scene look more like a short film. If we were to place this shot at the start of the opening scene it wouldn't really make any sense to the viewer, so when improving the opening scene we might have to show the credits in a different way. Although, with that being said, we have had quite a lot of feedback saying that people like the credits at the end and the way we did it, so we might have to think about either keeping it the way it is or showing the credits a little differently.
The music isn't played throughout the whole opening scene as we felt that it would look better if it started just after the start so it would build tension. For the music we made two different soundtracks. One to start off the music and the other to build a lot of tension. We created these pieces of music through 'GarageBand' and we uploaded them onto sound-cloud. If we were to improve the soundtrack slightly we could increase the volume for the instruments that we used, as I felt that some of the instruments were a little quiet. When making the soundtracks we wanted quite loud instruments like a drum. We used this to build tension throughout the scene and to make the viewer scared and feel very tense. Overall, I think that the soundtrack did it's job and made the scene tense.
Lastly, we filmed the credits. For the credits we wanted to be quite artistic and adventurous because we didn't want the credits to be boring and dull like credits in other films. We thought a lot about what we could do for the credits and we came up with an idea. We filmed the actress who played the murderer, Nadine Head, typing in the names of the people starring in the film and the people who created the film. We had to re film it a couple of times because you couldn't see the text very well with the lighting and also some of the words were spelt wrong. I really like this idea, however I think that it makes the opening scene look more like a short film. If we were to place this shot at the start of the opening scene it wouldn't really make any sense to the viewer, so when improving the opening scene we might have to show the credits in a different way. Although, with that being said, we have had quite a lot of feedback saying that people like the credits at the end and the way we did it, so we might have to think about either keeping it the way it is or showing the credits a little differently.
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