Wednesday, 22 February 2012

Final Film Opening


This is our final peice we have changed the ending because we had red background and red writing and it was clear so we changed it so its more clear we also added a voice in saying im going to get my revenge to give the whole opening a meaning so viewers know what would happen if they watched the full movie.

Wednesday, 8 February 2012

Kallam Returns


This is our final and fineshed peice of work or finished film opening in the opening it shows Kallam getting bullied and they take it so far that they end up killing him then Kallam comes back from the dead to gain his revenge. we have left it on a cliff hanger to make the viewer want to watch more so they dont know what is happening and would want to watch the whole movie .
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Wednesday, 4 January 2012

This is our perliminary


This is our final peeice of our perliminary this is completed and been improved from the old one i hope you enjoy the clip.
i hope you enjoy our video.we have done lots of camrea angle shots and lots of editing.when we made this video we never made that much mistakes because we made most of the errors in our draft, so when we done this we knew what kind of camrea shots we need. we had only one problem when we flimed this that was our editing it took my group time to get all the shots to fit properly.

Monday, 12 December 2011

This is our first draft , this is the 1st atempt of what we done we did it quickly we are going to do this again and improve it .

prelimnary research task

Today in our preliminary research task we did our shot of opening a door me and farhan had a few problems with our speech we didn't know what to say . In the end we re done our task about 3 times we still didn't get to our final product we only done our testing ones. we have made an preliminary task now we have tyred    hard  but we could of done better we had to focus on a match on a action shot our match on action shot was when we pulled the handle to the door and when we shook hand.we

Treatment



Equilibrium Theory
Equilibrium – This we be start showing the characters normal live and how they live it so basically show what a normally day for each character would be so the audience gets a understands there background.



Disequilibrium – This is when the climax happens and the victim of the bullies gets killed and everything becomes unusual and the victim dead body is possessed by a demon which comes to kill the bullies changing their life.
New state – This when the killer or demon gets killed by the last remaining bully and everything goes back to normal but in a new way and a new order so everything would be different also changing the characters life and personality.



Setting
The setting of our movie will firstly start off in a classroom of our school because our movie is based on bullies and their victim and the best place bullying mostly happens. We have done this in school so our characters will be school students and it will be very realistic. The second location to out movie will be on the roads/streets to show the victims life so basically his day to day bases life his way to school and the way to his home. The third setting will be the park which will be the main area of the movie will be based on because that’s where the murder of the victims happens and that the dis-equilibrium.


Protagonist and Antagonist
The protagonist is the the good guy in the movie for example like the Batman he is always good mainly the main character who we follow throughout the movie. The antagonist is the bad guy who always tries to stop the protagonist for example like the Joker we also follow him through the movie but not as much as the protagonist. For example like in our movie Kallam is the protagonist because we follow him through out the movie he is the good guy but he also turns bad when he gets his revenge on the bullies.the antagonist is the bullies we see them in most of the scenes with kallam. but after wards they reform so this makes kallam the protagonist and the antagonist because kallam does not forgive them for what they did.



Three act structure
· Set up – The set up is just showing the characters normal life and what bullying can do if you can take it too far they also show the disadvantage of bullying and what it does to people.
· Set back – The set back will be the victim accidentally gets killed by the bullies who comes back to avenge his death as a demon, trying to kill the bullies one by one but gets carried away and takes it to far and become the bad guy.



· Resolution – One of the bullies kills the demon by with the body of the victims by some sort of holy way that he had learnt they used to do in the past leaving one of the bullies to survive.



Character Type
Our character types are very confusing because first we have a hero then we have a anti hero after that the bully turns into a hero.



Binary Oopposition
The binary opposition will be something that’s gives the audience a good understanding what is happening in the movie and the reason behind it so for example if you look at kids vs the geeky weak kid and this will then be simplified down to powerful vs weak by the audience then therefore creating the main binary opposition for our movie. Good vs Bad because it is the bullies vs the victim and at the ned we will see what happens and who wins.



Our Characters
· Ehsham who is the intimidating bully who overshadows Kallam in size and is physically intimidating.· Kashif who follows the other bullies and acts like one of them trying to be big and powerful but is weak but still bullies Kallam.· Farhan looks weak and small but is the main bully or gang leader and he may not be intimidating in size but is a fighter.· Kallam same high as Farhan and not very frightening, much more weak making him an easy target and the victim.

Friday, 18 November 2011

Preliminary Research Task

Continuity Editing

Continuity Editing  is when you edit clips to make the better so you would cut clips and put the together and make your movie more interesting and entertain. Continuity Editing  consists of two category's one is tempral editing and the other is spatial editing . It is when you can slow things down or speed ed  them up this is what makes movies interesting because if there was no editing and clips wasn't cut and put together the movie would be plain boring. editors do this  to show us different scenes . older films was edited but not very good that's why they was not as good as the new movies because they would be less cuts in the film and it would stay on one scene for a long time. also in the old movies you can tell that the editing was poor because you can see the changes but with modern day films you can hardly notice.



This is a example of bad editing because you can see where the cut the film and put it together because the screen goes black this is not good and makes the movie not interesting.



This is a example of a newer film with more editing in there is a lot more cuts and scenes changes what makes it more interesting and make you know what is going on.

Tempral editing

This is when you connect shots to support and create a narrative .this can include flashbacks or flash forwards show the amount of time that passes and goes by.this can go from the start to finis or not . This maybe Linear progression or not.

Spatial cutting / editing

This editing creates unified space through the editing. shots from different angles & framing. Shot / reverse shots. also kuleshove effect . this also includes parallel editing.

180 degree rule

This is when you are filming , it is when the camera or cameras have to be on one side. so if there is two people on the stage  then  the cameras can not be on both sides because it don't make the feeling natural.so you have to have the camera or all the cameras on one side.
This is an example of  the 180 degree rule this rule was put in place because when you have a camera on the wrong side the feeling is not right it don't feel natural.This is really important because it is makes things realistic.

Revere's shot

This is when you have the camera on two people showing a duologue first the camera will show one person speaking to another the it will show the other person taking . this is why it is called reverse shot because it goes backwards and forwards to the different actors and keeps switching. this is mainly uses in conversations with two people to show who is talking to who.

Match on action

This is when the shot changes from a medium shot to close up to show something changing or happening. This  also shows something important is happening  because it zooms in to something . like if i was to open a book the view would change to zoom in to the book. Another example would be someone opening a door first it will show the person walk to the door ant the it will switch to zooming in to the match on action shot opening the door Handel.

This shot shows someone opening the door because in some movies this can make the scene tense when in a horror movie someone opening a door or even in a fighting movie when someone gets punched this shot shows us the action and what is happening.

overall i think that continuity editing is very important because it can make the difference of a movie been really good or not good because editing does allot and can make the movie interesting because if there was not any editing the movie would be on one scene and you wouldn't know whats going on. now with the new movies there is allot of editing so there is lots of scene switches so you get to know whats going on which gets you into the movie so if you compare and old movie to a new one the editing is much more and much better in a new movie. in the old movie you can notice where it has been edited and the new ones you can not tell as much but  it happens much more.

Friday, 11 November 2011

Final Decisions

Costumes

We have come to some of our final decisions for our movie we have come up with some ideas of an costume to make our characters look spooked and a little bit scary. We are going to try and make our character recognisable and make him re memorable. We are going to to make our characters costume dark , its going to be old ripped and all jagged we are going to make it muddy to make it look like he has came back from the dead also add blood to look like he has caused killings. We are going to have a unique mask that stand out so people can recognise it so when they see the image the can relate it to a movie.  We will use different colours in the movie to show the binary opposition so we will use bright colours to  represent good and dark colours to represent bad. Our mask is going to be unique because it will be laughing to show the audience that the person getting revenge is having a last laugh because his normal life was bad and before the bullies was laughing now its him.
This is a piece of evidence of what we could do this image shows good vs bad , because  the devil is bad and Jesus is good , it also show dark vs light one side shows bad dark evil red colour and the other half show good bright white colour.


Lighting

Our decisions for lighting are dark lighting we are going to do this because most people are scared of the dark and dark lighting will make the mood change and make the feeling dramatic. We are going  to use low key lighting to make a mood this will make the viewer not be able to see our characters face . we are going to change our contrast to show our binary opposition in light colours and dark colours. We will make flashes of light to make our scene tens and make it dramatic.
This is a image taken from a movie this is a shot of low key lighting this make a views think because you cant make out the face and you cant tell who it is . It makes you think something is going to happen but you don't know what it is .


Props

Our decisions for props have came to unique weapons and a unique mask to make our character to stand out and it would make our main character stand out from every other evil killer in any other horror movie. Our killers weapon will be a thin metal wire to strangle people or it will be a thick chain to hurt and whip the so they get touched. The chains could be used for sound so when the bullies here the sound of the chains and the jiggling will scare the bullies and bring back memories when they here the sound . Everything we do will be unique .

These are our two different types of weapons that might be used . these are unique because people have not used these as weapons before in horror movies and it relates to how out Innocent child died by strangled by a swing chain .

Mis-En-Scene

We have decided to use a normall day to day life scene to make it realistic but when our Innocent child dies it will be in a park playground. We are going to do this because it is a mixture because when you think of a park you think fun , kids , playing but we are going to change it into death , horror and scare . That will be a mix up and make it interesting because its unique and no one has done that before.


This is a image like we are going to shoot but we are going to take it at a dark time so it creates a scary mood because like when you walk through a park at night its like scary.

Tuesday, 8 November 2011

Narrative

Narrative is a person that explains a book or a movie to get it going  it tells you the what the story is based and what topic it is based around.
narrative is important because it explains what time the story is from and what it is based on .  For example once up on a time this shows that it is in the past. once up on a time has no evidence to back it up so people just believe that it is a fairy tale.Narrative is a very important part of the movie  because directors try to make the audience understand the concept of the movie. Narratives can be fictional and non-fictional.



This is evidence for a narrative beginning. this has been taken from Sherk this is make the reader or viewer believe that it has happened in the past and makes you think there is a long story behind it.







These are the three main narrative theory's.
Equilibrium is a normal start to a movie or story line its when someone would start and have a normall life and everything is plane and simple.

Disequilibrium is when everything changes in the move and things are not usual like a character would not have a normall life weird things would happen and the persons day to day life would change and things would happen.
New state of Equilibrium is when everything has a new start and its like everything has been refreshed in the movie like the character has started life over again and thong's have been reset.

I think the most important narrative theory for our film opening  to create an effect will be equilibrium because our movie is just an opening so it will be all normall it will be a school kid getting bullied and the coming halfway through the opening it will be disequilibrium because the boy will commute suicide and come back to life as a demon torch er the other guys that bullied him.


Movie : Shrek
Year :2001
Directors:Andrew Dmson ,Vicky Jenson
This is my evidence .


Thursday, 3 November 2011

Primary Research

What kind of killer are your scared of in a horror movie?

we found out that  paranormal acivity and serial killer are the best so now that we have got this information and we know what people would prefer we are going to use the paranormal activity killer.

What setting is the scariest?
we asked this question because we wanted to know what setting for our scene would be best and what the viewer would want to see in our movie and we found out that graveyard would be the most scariest setting for our horror movie.

What sub-genre so you like combined with genre?
we asked this question because we wanted to know what to combine our horror movie with because horror is one of the most popular and then we thort we would get ideas from the viewers what they would prefer to be combined as a sub genre.



What serial killer do you prefer?

we asked this question because we wanted the audiences ideas on what would make the best killer so we could base our introduction along them lines so the viewers like it.

 
Does blood make a horror movie scary?
we asked this because we was not sure if it would make it scary or if it was just to make the shots look good so now we know it is not really that important.

What age group are you?
we asked this question to find out what out target audience would be and who our movie would be aimed at so we can make it suitable for that age group and we found out its teenagers to young adults.

What do you believe is the best thing about horror movie?
we asked this to find out what is the best thing to make the movie good and it was the storyline so the story line is important and it has to be good so we have been careful with the story board to make sure it is not boring.

What gender are you?

we asked this question to see what people would mainly be watching our clip that we make so we can aim it more for their gender because boys like somethings more than girls and girls prefer different things from boys.


What do your expect happening in a horror movie?
we asked this question to we could base our introduction on what was most popular and people recommended the hero and the villain dies.


Do you like horror movies?


we done all done this questionnaire to gather information and find out what the audience want to see in a movie and introduction so that we could use them so we can get our introduction up to the viewers expectations and give them what they would prefer.

Final Cut Introduction



Today we recorded a blue screen shot we did this in our hall and we played a roll of aliens blowing up the white house. our aim is now to change the background to the white house. we was going to do this by editing it on final cut. we could not do that straight away because the was a problem with final cut wouldn't support our footage file so we have to convert the file in order to edit it on final cut this has delayed up by at least 15 - 20 minutes. To make sure this problem don't occur again we have to convert the file to support the file of final cut. when we over come our problem then we will use the apple computers to edit our background and make the clip look like we was at the white house. below i will show you what we are going to do but in our own way .






This image has been made by blue screen editing thisis because it was edited on final cut express.

Questionaire

1.       What killer are you scared of in a horror film?
·         Masked silent killer
·         Paranormal monster
·         Female killer
·         Serial killer

2.       What type of setting is scary
·         Abandoned school
·         Graveyard
·         Haunted house
·         Woods

3.       What type of horror sub-genre do you like?
·         Slasher
·         Psychological
·         Paranormal
·         Thriller

4.        What type of killer do you prefer?
·          The joker – Freddy Krueger, Nightmare on Elm street
·         The silent masked killer – Jason Voorhees, Friday the 13th
·         The one that is mentally unstable – Norman Bates, psycho
·         Paranormal, Ghost/demons, paranormal activity.

5.       Does blood make a horror film scarier?
·         A little bit
·         Not really
·         Yes
·         No

6.       What age group are you?
·         13-20
·         21-30
·         31-40
·         41-50

7.       What do you believe is the best thing about horror films?
·         Storyline
·         Blood/gore
·         Atmosphere
·         Suspense

8.       What gender are you?
·         Male
·         Female

9.       What do you expect to happen in the horror genre?
·         Villain kills everybody
·         The hero dies and so does the villain
·         Hero survives and villain dies
·         The villain becomes good

10.   Do you like horror films?
·         Yes
·         No
·         Don’t really care
·         Half and half

Friday, 21 October 2011

Audience Research Task

Audience research is very important because you find out what people want to watch and what type of genre they are into and what genre is most popular.you would do audience research because you would want loads of people to talk about your movie and make it popular so you can make a good profit. It is also good so you know what age group fit in to a certain category so you can aim your movie at a certain age group. This is called demographics this is when you categorise a audience by their age or even a female film or even a film for males. This is stereotyping because if it is about shopping and nice men it would be aimed at girls and if it was about girls and cars it would be aimed at boys that's stereotyping people all film makers do this.

Three main theory's: These are the 3 theory's that I think are the main ones.

Reception analysis this is when the producer makes a movie and it has a different concept to every movie so people have different opinions some people might like it and some people might  dislike it. so everyone has their own point of view.

Hypodermic needle this is the theory that suggests the media is capable of mass manipulation. This is based on the assumption that the audience believes what they see so the maker of the movie in paranormal activity is trying to convince people .The audience that demons  actually exist to scare them so they get hooked in the movie and want to keep watching so they can make money for the different films.

Two step flow

This is the theory when someone watches a movie and then goes and tells another person that is why it is called a two step theory because it involves two people. this theory can keep on going because it goes from one person to another and it can last forever. This happens allot sometimes you don't even realise because you say i watched this movie and it was good this is a two step theory. This is mouth of word .

Bibliography this is when you have all the details about a book like who made it , when it was made and what it is about.

Filmography this tells you about the film and when its made , who made it and what its about.

Wednesday, 19 October 2011

The main theme of our film opening is that there will be a group or also known as a gang of bullies who bully a shy, nerdy boy. Then it goes to far which make the victim of the bully’s commits suicide because of all the struggles he goes through, but he comes back to live as demon but in other word possessed. He then makes it his goal to get revenge on those who made fun of him and goes to the extreme as he decides to kill them all one by one.
The main character is Kallam is very believable as he is a class geek who keeps his head in his books and is very shy around the rest of the people in the class who also dislike him for his awkwardness.

Kallam’s main goals were trying to succeed in his exams as a geeky teenage but due to killing himself and coming back his main goal is to get his revenge. Kashif, Ehsham and Farhan are the bullies who have made his life a living hell but regret it all. They soon realize what they have done to Kallam and how his family feels depressed and sad. The bullies also realize the Kallam is back because of the fact one of the bullies die’s a few days later after Kallam’s death. Their main goal turns into to stop Kallam in his track before he succeeds in his goal.

At stake are the bully’s lives and their families feeling the same way as they made Kallams family feel and they try all their best to stop him.

The film takes place in a school and in a graveyard where we take Kallam to make him scared and in the school where we see him getting bullied and outside of the school on the journey home.

We have created 4 interesting characters:

· Ehsham who is the intimidating bully who overshadows Kallam in size and is physically intimidating.

· Kashif who follows the other bullies and acts like one of them trying to be big and powerful but is weak but still bullies Kallam.

· Farhan looks weak and small but is the main bully or gang leader and he may not be intimidating in size but for sure is a fighter.

· Kallam same high as Farhan and not very frightening either, looks nerdy but due to bullying is frighten and flinches a lot around people.