The History of Horror

Early Horror Film:

This is the first horror film ever made. It is called "The Devil's Castle" and was made by George Melies in 1896.

Evaluation of Prelimaninary Task

Overall I felt that we depicted the contents of the task well through effective regard to continuity and 180 degree rule. Whilst planning we carefully thought about where the camera would be placed to get a certain shot, we mainly used medium and close up shots. The storyboard we created was clear and allowed a guideline, but we also added around this whilst filming as we came up with more ideas. Although these elements were successful I felt that at times the continuity and sound was unsuccessful, there were jumps between timing and there was background noise throughout due to problems finding a quiet environment.

Nine Frame Analysis of Preliminary Task

Establishing Shot - Our Preliminary opens with an establishing shot of the school grounds, this depicts to the audience the setting.

Close Up - This low angle shot of leaves that are moving in the wind is suppose to show the peace that is outside, this later juxtaposes the drama between the two characters.

Long Shot - Shows our character in its surroundings, sets the scene. The room is dark and acts as representation of the characters emotions.

Close Up - We see the main character closer up now and it allows the audience to fully see the emotions being radiated. 

Mid-Shot - Appearance of the second character, this shot allows the audience to see the character fully, also the characters action of turning on the lights gives a different atmosphere to the film

Long Shot - A panning long shot clearly shows the audience the characters intentions and gives a wider scope of the setting 

Mid-Shot - This is the first that we see the two characters together, its sets the mark for the 180 degree rule to be used effectively and shows the beginning of the dialogue.

Close-up - This is the first shot when the conversation begins, it shows the character from the right of the camera, meaning to effectively apply the 180 degree rule the next shot must be to the left.

Close-up - This shot apply to the 180 degree rule, showing the second character to the left and allowing continuity between the shots to make the dialogue between the characters easy to follow. 

Preliminary Task Information

Who Featured:

Emma Stepkowski: Teacher

Jess Henderson: Troubled Pupil

Scripting:

Teacher: Jess, please try and be mature about this.

(Pause)

Teacher: Jess, I need you to talk to me.

Pupil: There's not a problem.

Teacher: Jess, there is, we need to talk about your behaviour yesterday.

Pupil: I've done nothing wrong.

Teacher: Jess taking your problems out on others isnt the answer.

(Pause)

Teacher: Jess, you just need to find someone you can talk to instead of bottling all your problems up.

Pupil: Like who?

Teacher: Like me, or any of the other teachers.

As the preliminary film was the first time the group had ever filmed a piece and been faced with editing it, we use t as a 'practice' meaning we got to experiment with all the skills we had learnt about and also with using programmes like imovie and grageband. As a result of this we can now see having reviewed it and compared it to our final horror opening how far we have come.

Preliminary Task

Set Location Photographs

These are the set locations for our preliminary task...

 School Grounds

 Classroom (Inside)

 Classroom (Inside)

Classroom (Outside)

Preliminary script

 Preliminary exercise script

Teacher (Emma): Jess, please try and be mature about this.

Jess: (says nothing, continues to stare out of the window) 

Teacher (Emma): Jess, I need you to talk to me.

Jess: There's not a problem.

Teacher (Emma): Yes there is Jess, we need to talk about your behaviour recently.

Jess: I've done nothing wrong.

Teacher (Emma): Jess, taking you problems out on others isn't the answer.

Jess: (ignores her, looks distressed)

Teacher (Emma): Jess you just need to talk to someone rather than bottling all your problems up.

Jess: Like who?

Teacher (Emma): Like me, or any of the other teachers you feel you can talk to.

Jess: (sighs, turns back to the window)

Preliminary Storyboard

Camera Shot Requirements

The Preminalary must show a continuity so appropiate cameras shots must be used to achieve this, . The task must invlove filming a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he exhanges a couple lines of dialogue. This task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180 degree rule.

· Shot/Reverse Shot - where one character is shown looking at another character (often off-screen), and then the other character is shown looking back at the first character. The characters are shown facing in opposite directions.

· 180 Degree Rule - An imaginary line called the axisconnects the characters and by keeping the camera on one side of this axis for every shot in the scene, the first character will always be frame right of the second character, who is then always frame left of the first. If the camera passes over the axis, it is called crossing the line or jumping the line.

 
By Oliver Endersby

Preliminary Task

For our preliminary exercise we as a group had to produce a short film clip of a new fiction film that lasts a maximum of two minutes including titles. The continuity task that involved both filming and editing had to include the following elements: a character opening a door, a character crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom he/she exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. The task should demonstrate a match on action, shot, reverse shot and the 180 degree rule.  

Project Brief

This is the basic brief instructing us of what we need to include in out coursework...

Coursework context: Create the titles and opening of a new fiction film, lasting a maximum of 2 minutes. All of the material in your opening must be original and produced by the candidates only.

Your film opening must include;

• Titles
• Use of sound or silence
• A wide range of editing techniques
• A clear genre
• Conventions of the genre
• Conventions of a film opening
• Camera shots and angles relevant and effective to the genre

Welcome to the Zonular Films blog

Welcome to the AS Media blog for Zonular productions by Oliver Endersby, Alex Nicholas and Alex McBride. In this blog you will see the creative process we went through to reach out final horror film opening 'Shutter'

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