For our media task we are going to produce an opening sequence for a film in the Psycho-Thriller genre. We decided this because we thought it would be the most interesting to create. We have a lot of ideas that we can incorperate into one opening sequence. This genre jumped out to us because we enjoy watching either psychological films or thriller films and as a group we thought we could incorperate them both together.

There are 2 other members in my group other than myself and I feel we will work well together. We are an all girl group consisiting of Sophie, Stephanie and myself:

Sophie is a very energentic person, she does Media, Sociology, Drama at college and wishes to become a primary school teacher when she is older.(www.sophieebenson96.blogspot.com)

Stephanie is a lover for pyscho thriller films and studies Media, English Language and Drama at college. . (http://stephanieocampo.blogspot.co.uk/)

Evaluation of preliminary task.

We could have improved on our dialogue issues such as choosing a better place to film so that we could hear the dialogue more and so the background noise wasn't as loud. Another issue we needed to focus more on was making sure our continuity was equal in all shots.

1) Explain what you were meant to do and how you prepared for the task:
We were asked as a group to film a preliminary task which included match on action and 180 degree rule, we were then asked to edit this in a certain sequence.
As a group we prepared for this by creating a storyboard which explains what we will be shooting, in what sequence and using who. The storyboard also indicated what type of camera angle and shots that we would be using.
 

2) Explain how you filmed each part of the task:
During the duration of filming our task I was mainly in charge of the camera work, with the help of the rest of the group. To create match on action, we placed the camera to the left of the area of shooting, this is so we could capture character a walking a Ross the scene and to start to open a door, we used panning shot to show character a on the move, the next shot was character a closing the door and walking away from it, this shot was used to tighten the sequence but still being able to show what character a is doing. Shot reverse shot was used to show conversation, this is because we wanted to show the characters emotion and response to the things being said. We did this by placing the camera over the same shoulder of each character.
Character a in the first scene was placed on the side of the screen but is also the only one in shot. This is to show that character a is the main character and shows high importance. Throughout the film character a is always in shot to show that yet again she has more power.

3) Were you happy with the final result:
In the end I was happy with the result, this is because I thought it flowed very well. However there were a few continuity errors that we found whilst editing. There was a shot where a phone was and the next shot the phone wasn't in the same place. We managed to overcome this problem by reversing a shot to make it look like the phone was being put back in her pocket. We were then able to proceed with the rest of the film, it did how ever make it look like it didn't flow as well. 
I believe we worked really well as a group, we managed to film without any massive disagreements and we equaled out all the editing so that we all had something to do and all have an input.
I am very confident about using iMovie as I have used it before previously however I feel there are better editing programmes that we could use. I am also confident about using the cameras but feel it would benefit us all as the group if we used different cameras!

Psycho Stills.

 This is a still from the film Psycho and the famous shower scene where a lady has been stabbed by someone. This is a screen shot of the plug hole of the shower where the woman has been killed, it shows the blood slowly being washed away down the hole. This connotates the loss of life and the blood can connotate the the lack of meaning to her life as the blood is being washed away with water making it less red and show less meaning. This image also connotates her soul flying away or being washed away.

This is another still taken from the shower scene, the woman who has been stabbed has collapsed on the floor and the camera zooms into an extreme close up. The extreme close up is to show emotion, and this image shows that there is still life left in her eyes even though she has just collapsed.

Being in the shower is seen to be an everyday activity so the fact that she was killed in the shower can be seen as really unusual. The noise of the water poring out of the shower head can be used to drown out any noise that may be made during the stabbing. The shot that is used can also be seen as her point of view with her on the bottom of the bath tub after shes been killed and thats what she is staring at. Her last view is dull of water pouring on her.

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A New Start,

Here we are again! Starting year 12 again, time to redo everything I did before. A new year a new post.