g321media: November 2015

As a group of three ( myself, Tilly and Sarah) we were tasked with creating a short film within the horror genre lasting around about 2 minutes. As a group we needed to decide upon: Plot,Genre,Audience and the dissemination of tasks between us.

Together we decided upon the name being "the sunshine killer" as it would reflect most of the plot revolving around a psychopath named the sunshine killer who murders teen girls and leaves behind a mark that looks like the sunshine but drawn in blood. We began the process by story-boarding and then we moved onto writing a script for the initial shoot. We then had to move onto finding a suitable location to shoot at. With this we decided a park would be a suitable location and so we went to the nearest playground to scout it out. After all of this was done we headed to shoot the scene. After this in the editing stage we realized that the wind in the clips was drowning out the speech so we used 'Foley' in order to recreate the speech. After merging this scene with the previous one ( a news scene shot in the school to describe the relevance of the killings) as well as this we used some basic horror music in order to show the genre which was inserted within the editing stage. Below is the final cut of the short

Big and Small budget films

In our lessons we also learnt about the difference between big and small budget films within the industry. The first of these that we learnt about was the big budget films. We found that they tended to be blockbusters and produced by big company such as the big 6. There budget tends to range above a budget of $12,000,000. However a small budget film is more commonly produced by an independent film company and will cost much less than a big budget film due to lack of financial support.

evaluation of film industry task

Upon completing a film pitch between our peers we were given feedback as to how to improve.
These included showing all details of the plot as well as giving a more in-depth description of the narrative and enigmas within the film itself.

Pete Fraser Talk

On this day we were visited by Pete fraser from the bfi and he gave us an insight into how to achieve good media as well as respectable editing techniques to help with the prelim and final task.He also showed some clips of some huge films like 'Catch Me If You Can' and explained to us how they were able to come up with such a great opening scene and how their transitions affected their opening scene.

Titles task

The opening scene i chose to analyse was that of the bond film 'Die another day'. By watching the film i found that the titles with the longest lasting sequence tended to be those of importance for example the production company, Lead actor and the films title, whilst other actors would get a slightly shorter sequence to promote the importance of the main characters/ company's. As well as this certain famous actors are given a section devoted to them generally due to the draft of they're contract making them the only people allowed to be displayed in a certain frame