Welcome to my blog

My blog is going to document what I am doing in my As Media Studies.

I chose Media Studies because I have never heard of this subject before so, I was excited to learn and explore more about it.

I am looking forward for the practice, the shootings and editing, though not particularly for the whole preparation, before putting it into scene.

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FINAL CUT: EXIT LIGHT

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This is our film opening for our As Media Studies but I would recommend watching it with headphones I hope you enjoy.

Improvements from final rough cut:

• Moved 352 ident to end and added audio bridge
• Added zipper sound effect when guy zips up black jeans
• Made stalk shot shorter
• Made lair scene shorter
• Added movement effect to title at the end

EVALUATION Q1

how you used or challenged CONVENTIONS
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How we used or challenged conventions.

EVALUATION Q2

how you engaged with AUDIENCES
how might it achieve DISTRIBUTION
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How did we engage with audiences, and how it might get distribution. From my research I have found out that the gant rule imply to some movies which which results in a successful movie  for example Maze Runner.

EVALUATION Q3

DEVELOPMENT of production skills throughout the entire process
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Development of skills throughout course.

EVALUATION Q4

how you integrated TECHNOLOGIES (software, hardware, online) in the project
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How we used technologies

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In this video I talk about blogger, how we have used it and also how to use it.

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In this video my partner Simon Svensson is talking about Final Cut Pro X. How we have edited our film opening and also the different effects available and what they do.

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In this video I talk about how we have used youtube to help us getting the video on our blog.

Final Rough Cut

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Improvements:

• Added Idents
• Added Titles
• Added phone voiceover
• Added more sound effects when final girl feels like she is being followed, jump-scare sounds and music for chase scene
• Also added Title at the end when final girl gets killed

EXIT LIGHT: Call Sheet and Storyboard

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This is the Call Sheet we used for our car park scene.

TITLE: Audience feedback

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This evidence video shows how we researched different fonts to come up with a shortlist of our favourite fonts with which we engaged with our audience to find the best font for our general and main titles.

EXIT LIGHT: Car Park Scene

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This is the second scene in our film opening.

EXIT LIGHT: Bedroom Scene

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This is the first scene in our film opening Exit Light.

IDENT: ToyCo Productions

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This is my Ident which is called ToyCo Productions.
For this Ident I have used Final Cut Pro and my Canon EOS 100D

IDENT: Gibberish Media

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This is our second ident "Gibberish Media".
We used my Canon 100D and final cut pro x to do some cutting

IDENT: 352 Entertainment

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Last but not least our final ident "352 Entertainment".
For this ident we have used my canon 100D. Sped up and reversed the shot

Pre-Production Evidence

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This video contains:

• Unboxing
• Location scouting
• Directing
• How we got our establishing shots
• Introducing some of the cast
• Some pictures of the cast

Film opening analysis: Bride of Chucky

Directed by: Ronny Yu
Domestic Release date: October 16th, 1998
Box Office US: $32M
Box Office Worldwide: $51M
Production Budget: $25M
MPAA Rating: R for strong horror violence and gore, language, some sexual content and brief drug use.
Franchise: Child's Play
RottenTomatoes: 46%
IMDB: 5.4/10
Distribution Company: Universal Pictures





Sound:

• Non-diegetic music
• Audio bridge
• Ambient sound
• String instruments (slow/high pitch)
• Slow long drum beats (bass drum, soft) 
• several seconds apart
• slow heart beat (impact your psychology)
• makes you holding your breath (tense feeling)
• single beat kicks slows down heartbeat which messes with your heart
• (if fast pace music it speeds up your mood / adrenaline)
• change tio faster notes (drum kicks)
• mess with somebody heart, it combines fast and slow notes which is very effective

Editing:

• Titles:
• Serf font (sharp edged)
• Bubble font attract young audience
• White font and black background coyotes seriousness
• Bits of fonts are faded (decay)
• Also kind of a Bubble font (thick font)
• Hybrid (slasher and comedy)
• Crane shot:
• panning + tilting shot
• we get the sound of lightning and rain (Ambient sound)
• shot of a hand (narrative enigma crated)
• The girl on the phone is the scream queen because she already talks very stupid
• killing with a nail filer signifies that it is a slasher film
• They have challenged the convention by letting the scream queen be the killer

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VODCAST: Deconstructive of Tess of D'Urbevilles

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Film opening analysis: Psycho(1960)

• Non-diegetic music
• Mixture of fast and slow music pace (messes with someone's heart)
• Animated Titles
• ES:
• approaches with a fade in effect 
• cross fade(shot before fades out then next shot fades back in)
• ELS:
• panning shot
• Archetype:
• Scream Queen
• Sexual active (man getting dressed / Blonde)
• Actress:
• Janet Leigh (Scream queen) mother of Jamie Lee Curtis (Final Girl in the film Halloween)

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Janet Leigh in psycho.

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Jamie Lee Curtis

Film opening analysis: The Lost Boys (1987)

• We hear voices before we are in the car (audio bridge)
• Several ELS (helicopter shot) every shot gets closer until we are in the specific car.
• Very similar to the film psycho. ES pans right left until we are in the specific house

Editing:

• Every first shot beat changes beat

Location:

• In an environment where's a lot of green (trees) which signify a small town.

Music:

• Mixture of fast and slow music

• Cross-fade / ellipses (day to night time)
• High angle to signify that they are vulnerable 

CONVENTION: Ident

Idents is one of the simplest area of all in the aspect of film openings. They are a production or distribution companies logo that is played before a trailer or film. It is usual for the idents to be between 1-5 seconds long. It is common to see several Idents about 2-3 that way the risk is spread. It could be possible to only see one Ident but it is very unusual. There often is an audio bridge between the Idents. However, you are going to find more signifier, intertextuality and horror colour scheme in company Idents that are more focused on horror genre.

Below are some examples of Company Idents.

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In addition, there are variations for Idents. The companies change their Idents to fit with the genre or film subject. They fit their Ident to a variety of different genre for example comedy, action, sci-fi and horror.

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Original Ident

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Horror Genre

DEADLINES

comprehensive Conventions (including APPLYING evidence throughout draft/planning posts) research; 15.03.17


Industry (including technology, distribution, budgets, box office, production strategy); 15.03.2018

Audience (including feedback + response to this); 29.03.2018

Planning for all shoots (including full storyboard, screenplay, shoot behind-the-scenes/'rushes', production schedule/updates, H+safety check, permissions); 24.03.2018

final blog check (tagging, links lists, flaws like small text, lack of illustration, lack of sub-headings); SL 31.03.2018

SS 30.03.2018

full rough cut with titles + sound/music; 17.03.2018

final cut; 24.03.2018

Q1; 12.03.2018 (Film date: 09.03.2018)

Q2; 25.03.2018 (Film date: 23.03.2018)

Q3; 22.03.17 (Film date: 18.03.2018)

Q4; 18.03.2018 (Film date: 16.03.2018)

DENOTATION 10 Second Clip From Film Opening

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Denotation 10s clip from film opening from lau samuel

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EVAL reflecting on creative approaches

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Q1a: how you used or challenged CONVENTIONS
Q1b: REPRESENTATIONS of social groups/issues
Q2a: how you engaged with AUDIENCES
Q2b: how might it achieve DISTRIBUTION
Q3: DEVELOPMENT of production skills throughout the entire process
Q4: how you integrated TECHNOLOGIES (software, hardware, online) in the project

Creative Process:

Q1. Street interview/Q+A in car

• Walking around in town and asking people questions about Conventions.
• Driving around and picking actors up and ask us questions about conventions

Q2. Presidential campaign/Q+A on stage (Nigahiga video)

• Big audience + Journalist asking a lot of questions of how we engaged with the Audience
• Photographers ( Flashing lights )
• Bodyguards behind the president in suit 

Q3. Who Wants to Be A Millionaire

• Game Show
• 1 question 4 answers ( Skills developed throughout the process)
• including our own adverts

Q4. Apple Advert

• advertising FCPX
• showing the audience the possibilities
• Including features

our influences:
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CONVENTION of Slasher films

The Final Girl:

• always a virgin
• innocent
• she starts building confidence towards the end
• the clothing may not be sexually attractive
• unlikely to be blonde

The Killer:

• identify is often unknown
• archived by a mask or creative lighting
• likely to be a man
• their choice of weapon is a knife or chainsaw and anything sharp, they prefer hand held weapon
• towards the end the killer's identity is revealed
• silent and unstoppable

Location:

• quiet and a suburban town
• low in population
• far from civilisation

Lighting:

• add tension
• mostly dark to add tension
• one of the most important aspect

Rough Cut 5

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This is our second attempt of the bedroom scene.

PODCAST 8

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We are talking about the issues we had with the past rough cuts and why and what we are making to fix the issues. Also what we did and what we are going to do. In addition, the deadlines for our film opening. There are also some behind the scene of us getting the establishing shots.