Saturday, 24 February 2018

PODCAST 10: Recent Activities:

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This is the 10th podcast, in this podcast we talk about the titles we are going to use, how we are going to make multiple and choose based off of audience feedback, how the drone we wished to use for our establishing shots is broken and the rough cut we have finished

TiITLES The Ones We Will Use

  1. LugNut Productions and Clinnick Media
  2.  A Gingerbread Films production
  3. In association with Twisted Films 
  4. An Oliver Stricker film
  5. Ailsa Sarah 
  6. Co -starring Christian Stricker
  7. With Aiden Rigby
  8. Introducing Julie Bek
  9. Casting by James Clinnick
  10. Music composed by Nathan Guth  
  11. Costumes designed by Christian Stricker
  12. Editor Oliver Stricker 
  13. Director of photography Michael Goi
  14. Production designer Marek Dobrowolski
  15. Screenplay by James Clinnick 
  16. Executive producers James Wong Jason Blum
  17. Directed by Oliver Stricker

ROUGH CUT 3

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Our newest rough cut where we have 90% of all the clips included. We have identified the clips we need to add and will have a new rough cut produced very soon after. We have to include our own made sound effects but these will mostly outline the final product.

TITLES Slasher Main Titles

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Thursday, 22 February 2018

VODCAST 6: Slasher Titles and the Titles we will use

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In this vodcast we go over the titles used in 6 different slasher movies and we talk about how they are effective. We go over the way the titles are designed to connote the horror genre. We also go over the fonts we will be using for our own titles and personal preferences along with audience feedback.

Tuesday, 20 February 2018

SAMPLE SCENE Killing scene (SOUND EDITING NOT DONE)

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Here is a rough-cut without sound effects of how the killing scene is going to play out. It is a base design and needs improvement. This needs to be refined and added to the newest rough cut which will be uploaded soon.

What we have filmed / what we need

To Film:
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  • Establishing shots
  • More realistic opening of door during garage scene
  • Better false scare
Have Filmed:
  • Bedroom scene
  • Jigsaw like Santa on t.v
  • Stabbing
  • Getting dressed

Friday, 2 February 2018

CS SLASHER Research on Cherry Falls

Verdict

The film opening of Cherry falls(Geoffrey Wright)(2000) is of a couple who are being intimate and showing obvious sexual attraction between the two. The cuts are mostly close up and are short. The editing is fast paced with sinister music in the background which makes the audience hold their breath. The couple have a small argument and the shot goes from inside the car to the outside from a stalkers POV. There is non- diegetic  sound in the background to achieve verisimilitude. This is created using crickets and wind. There is another car that pulls up and the male gets out of the car to play the role of the strong hero, while the girl stays and watis for him to return. The actress holds her fright and sadness throughout the film opening and never 'recovers'.
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To sum it up

  • Fast paced editing.
  • Large variety of different shots.
  • Use of close ups (with hand placement, to show more emotion).
  • The characters are frightened throughout. 
  • Use of diegetic and non - diegetic sound achieve verisimlitude.

How will we apply this to our film opening?

  1. We will use a variety of shots and shorten our takes from our previous rough cut.
  2. There wil be close ups of hand placements to signify more emotion.
  3. To achieve verisimilitude the actor/actress will need to seem frightened even after the scare.
  4. Have fast paced editing to keep the audience engaged. 

Thursday, 1 February 2018

PLANNING Scenes to Reshoot

1. Establishing shots with drone
2. False scare
3. Add shot variety with false scare to show fear
4. Tiffany needs to stay scared for longer, use angles to show this
5. Whenever there is a SFX used to show fear adjust camera
6. Shot variety of going down stairs
7. arguing about going to garage

Overall:
- failure to reflect some key general + genre conventions
- some audio issues- editing pace and length of takes generally- taking out some shots that don't really add much- general lack of cross-cutting as a tension-building device- lack of shot variety in several sequences (especially 'cutaway' shots)

VODCAST 5: Interview with a guest speaker

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This is an interview with a guest speaker, we answer a variety of questions about our blog, coursework including the problems we have had, how our idea has changed and what may surprise an outsider about our work.