Friday, 30 January 2009

Wednesday, 28 January 2009

Followed. from previous blog






following on from my other blog. Here are some pictures that were taken while filming.




filming a shot from a low angle in the graveyard location. We experiemented with different angles to find the most interesting. This scene was her reading a letter. We ended up filming looking up at her reading it.


In studio. Setting up tv and sorting lighting so it was right.



By Luke

Tuesday, 27 January 2009

research into directors

ive decided to research into the famous director Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, who is well known for his techniques in making suspense in his physcological thrillers. His films are believed to have been extensively story boarded with the finest detail.

pace in thriller films is very important and its important to keep the pace to the music as this is what builds up the atmosphere of tension.

In many of his films he did this. I also noticed by wathing trailers of the films that the use of lighting is very important too. The more shadows and the less the audience can see the more uncomftorable they feel.


Luke

Music in a thriller

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=tMOeZmJ1yt8

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Zo4r6yVdONE

Here are some of the ideas we wanted to involve in our soundtrack.

The second one is more realistic and creepy and works well in thriller films as it builds up tension and suspense.

Luke

Editing the movie

The program we used when editing was Final Cut Pro. At first i found it very confusing and hard to understand but as i got more familiar with it i managed to start being able trimming and puting clips together.

Originally we wanted to do something different in the editing process and make an effect for one of the actors faces to fade into another. Although we realised that this was a bit hard and with such little knowledge on the program and with not much time it wouldnt have been practical.

When editing i did some of the basic things such as adjusting the colour/exposure/contrast so it all matched. (we shot the outside location over 2 days as the lighting got hard to work with) in the footage it was very noticable so i had to correct it which took a while.
Above is a picture of the kind off effect i wanted to bring into the film with the fuzzy tv screen. On certain shots i added "old tv effect" to make it look as though it was being watched on a tv by somebody making it a bit more edgy.

Luke