Jake - Individual Evaluation

Looking back at mine and Richard's 40 second re-make of last year's slasher film there are a number of good and bad points that came up with our filming and our final editing. Firstly we are very pleased that with the whole of our filming we managed to keep a steady shot to allow the viewer to see what's going on very clearly. We are also pleased with how well we framed each shot because what we tried to do was that we tried to use the same shot selections and shot types in our film and we managed to do that. However we did miss out two shots that were included in last year's film which we forgot about. When we finished editing our 40 second film we could clearly see that we applied the rules of continuity because of how well each of our shots flowed together. We made sure that with our filming we got the correct camera angles in order to apply the rules of continuity. As we were filming we kept looking back at each shot that we had to do in our 40 second film and we then compared how similar the shots were. Looking back we do think that we used the right people to help us in our filming. Me and Richard struggled to find people to help us so Richard and I both did the recording and the acting while our friend Lewis played the character who was found dead in the bath. We also think that the props we used were also very good even though there weren't that many props used in last year's film. All we had to include was a phone which the victim carried most of the time, a knife which the killer held covered in fake blood and when we enter 'Jessica's room' there were close up shots of some toys on her bed. These were very easy to include in our filming and they were each shown rather clearly at the correct moments. However the main problem that Richard and I faced was lighting. When we did our filming it became very dark and that is clearly shown in our final film because most of our shots were so dark you could hardly see what was going on but it still made sense because you could still quite make out what was happening in each shot. But we also think that the location we used (Richard's house) was very good because I certainly thought that there was plenty of room for our filming. In our film I played the victim, Richard played the killer and Lewis played the dead guy in the bath. I also helped with the filming by setting up the camera at some points and Richard did most of the planning by selecting the 40 seconds of the film that we were going to re-create. Improvements that we would make to our final film would be to use a location with more light where it's not that dark, and with some of our shots we didn't use the whole screen. For example when I first walk into the bathroom there's quite a lot of space above my head and in the final shot where we see Lewis in the bath, you see him at the bottom of the screen. So the improvements to be made here would be to not have so much un-used space in our film so that you can see each character in full detail. What we are planning to do differently is that we might use an outdoor setting for our film not an indoor setting.

These images show the recee sheets for Jake and Richard. On our recee sheets they show an arial sketch diagram of Jake's house and Richard's house so that it gives you an idea of what our houses look like and what areas of our houses we will use for filming.

Storyboard and Shotlist

These are the scanned-in images of our storyboard and shotlist for the original slasher film the we will attempt to re-create.

This is our 40 second re-creation of the original slasher film. There were quite a few mistakes that we made throughout our 40 second re-creation. Two mistakes we made straight away was that we missed out two short shots that were used in the original. The two shots were of a light bulb turned off and and a close up of Jake's hand trying to turn on the light switch. Also we think that our film didn't run quite smoothly even after we finished editing. For a few of the scenes it seemed like Jake jumped from one place to another. The best example of this is when Jake is walking up the stairs. He begins walking up the stairs from an over the shoulder shot but then the next shot is when the camera is looking down on him coming up the stairs and it looks like he's just skipped one or two steps. But our main problem was lighting. For the first few scenes the lighting was fine and you could see everything pretty clear but then the last few scenes were too dark and you couldn't really make out was happening. But looking at the original the lighting and the scenes look pretty similar to ours with lighting and what happened in each shot.

Richards House

These are photos of Richards house, (hallway, living room, dining room and stairs in order), We think that this house will be better to film our 40 seconds in as the layout of the house is similar to the original video.

Pictures of Jake's house

These four images are of my house (Jake's house). These four images show the four main areas that were used in last years slasher horror film. If our group decides to use my house as the backdrop for our horror film then this is what the viewer will mainly see when watching our film. The first image is the livving room where the film would start from. The second image is from the top of the stairs where the victim would walk up. The third image is the bathroom where the victim meets the killer and where the film ends. The final image is the hallway where we would see the victim trying to turn on the light switch.

Patrick. - Storyboard and Shotlist.

These particular pieces of work are my Storyboard and Shotlist in which plan the appropriate things i need to o assure when i proceed in creating my 30 second film which is based on a students previous horror film.

These two images are our test pictures to show what our killing character might look like. In the first image we see Richard just normal whereas in the second image he looks dark and scary as if he was a killer.

This film we did is another re-take of our last piece of film for composition. We did this because we were told that our first piece of film for our composition was too basic because it was all shot from one angle. So with this new piece of film we did we shot the film from all different angles which made it look even better and make more sense. the editing went great along with the filming so it ran very smoothly again with no errors.

Composition

This filming sequence is probably the best our group has done so far. We still had to do some re-takes but not as many as we did with our other filming sequences. It ran really smoothly with no camera errors so every scene we did came out correct. However when it came to editing the film we decided to delete some of the scenes we filmed because we thought that they weren't that good and they didn't make much sense. Also between the first 2 scenes it seems that Richard kind of jumps from one place to another but other than that we are happy with how this film came out.

continutity exercise

We have finished editing our next continutity exercise. We had a few problems with our filming process and when we imported the film. One of the main problems that we had when filming the sequence was that we kept on making a couple of mistakes which meant we had to film the same scene more than once until we got it right. Then when we imported the film there was an error which then cut most of our filming making 2 of our scenes very glitchy and one of the scenes shorter than what we filmed. Other than these problems the rest of our film once we finished editing was that it ran very smoothly and made raesonable sense of what was happening.

First Continuity Exercise

Within today's media session, we had to re-create a scenario in which a character is walking along a corridor and then goes through a door, he then walks up to a friend and they both say hello to each other.  One character then asks for the time- the character then leaves realizing he is late. The good thing about our short movie is that, it is easy to follow the narrative, and it ran rather smoothly and had less continuity errors than our first video. The bad thing was that we had a bad camera interference which effected a lot of our recording, especially with the close-up shots of the watch, and the point of view shoot from behind Richard which made the scenes look shorter than they actually were, this caused two of the scenes to be ''jumpy'' and you couldn't really see much of what was happening.