Production diary

Week 1-2
We learnt that themes, characters, location, titles, production logos and establishing the genre were all the conventions of a opening scene. This helped me to come up with ideas for our own opening of a film.
Week 2-3
We learnt all the types of camera shots, what they can show and suggeest (extreme close up, close up, mid shot, mid long shot, long shot. extreme long shot). We also learnt how to analysis a still image using mise en scene and clamps.
Week 3-4
We learnt about genre signifiers and what things are used to show what the films genre is. You can normally tell what the genree is within the first 2-5 mins of the films. This helped me to know what must be included in my opening scene to make sure the audience know what the genre is.
Week 4-5
We was told what we had to do for the first part of the preliminary task. We had to pick a genre from a list and complie a 30secs-1 min opening with the use of the 180 degree rule and use a shot/reverse shot. The opening also had to include a character crossing the room and then he/she had to sit down opposite to another character.
Week 5-6
We had to finish and edit our opening scene from last week and then upload it to our blog so we could analysis it. We had to write what want well with it and what changes i  would make to it. We also had to have the script and the storboard uploaded with it.
Week 6-7
We were given the next task of recreating the opening scene of juno. First we had to write down every shot that was shown so we could then keep refering back to it. We were given a week to finish and edit the opening.
Week 7-8
We had to finish off anything like the juno task or any unfinished work and make sure its uploaded to our blog.
Week 8-9
over the holidays we were told to think and come up with some ideas for our actual film opeining. for example we had to think of what genre we wanted to do and what cosists or compiles in the genre we chose. This helped me get a head start on our task so i had a rough idea of what i am doing when i come back.
We also had to go back to our prelimary tasks and other task and improve on our editing.
Week 9-10
We have been told to think of idea for our Film Opening so we know what genre we are going to do.
We were told to create mood board so we could use it and get even more ideas for our opening. This helped us find idea for the lighting, props, setting, costumes and everything in mise en scene.
We were also given the task to analysis a few titles and write what effects they give and how they fit with the genre. This helped us to think of ideas for our own title and what is expected in a genre like ours.
Week 11-12
We needed some market research so we created a questionnaire to find out what the audience likes to see in films. we compiled the data in graphs so we can see the results clearly. we will apply the data to our own opening, for example we found that the audience wanted to see a male protagonist so we have decided that what we will use.
Week 13-14
We started to compile all of our ideas so we could start our storyboard. We have a basic idea of what we want in our opening. We are going to have a man taking a normal daily trip to the shops. The twist is that the when he views the world though his own eyes the world is different and strange, for example when he walks past someone and looks at them all he see is a coat and shoes.
Week 15-16
We finished our storyboard and decided that we wanted the mood and feeling of the opening stay the same throughout the video. We will have no dialogue in our opening because then when people watch it they we be learning about the character and his surroundings better and therefore be more amerced into the story.
We also had to come up with the titles that will appear in our opening so we found placed to put them and wrote them on the storyboard. Because we want people to be amerced we decided we would try and fix them to the video so they don't float around and distract the audience.
Week 17-18
We filmed most of the footage but we couldn't do it all because we wanted the lighting to be the same so the shots that are in the real world don't lose there realism. Where we had took to long to film clips the lighting had changed so we thought it would be best to film again the next week. We made a compilation of fonts and uploaded it to our blogs.
Week 19-20
We finished filming the rest of our opening and uploaded it to the computer so it is ready to film. We created animated logos for our producer and disruptor called "smokehouse" and "shard". After we found all the music and sound effects that we wanted. The music took a very long time as we needed to create a mood that inspired mystery, tension and suspense.
Week 21-22
We found out how to do all the special effects that we wanted to create in our opening from "videocopilot.net". we learnt things like how to stick images to a certain spot while the camera is moving and how to add a sort of  an overlay to the pov shots. This is also where were learnt how to animate logos.
After we found how to do it we started to apply what we just did and edit some of our clips.
Week 23-24
We kept editing our video. we are concerned about the length as we would like it to be around 2.5 mins and it already about 2.4 and its only about half done so after we are going to have to cuts loads out.
Week 25-26
We finished editing the opening with all the titles and special effects working properly but it is around 4.5 mins long so we uploaded the rough version to our blogs as a reference and then started to go through the video and take out footage.
Week 27-28
We finally got the video to around 2.5 mins and uploaded it to our blogs. The Next task now to write our evaluation which consisted of 7 questions.
Week 29-30
We got most of the evaluation questions done but was told we should have shown in different ways so we made question 1 into a power point.

Preliminary Task Script

Detective Matthews: "who are you"
Possessed Girl: (looks up and stares at detective Matthews)
Detective Matthews: "I'm Detective Matthews and I'm here to help"
Possessed Girl: "Help" (laughs in a patronizing way)
Detective Matthews: "what do you want" (shouting)

Preliminary task

Still images of the crime caper

Still images of the crime caper from bubbtoby

Improvement
I believe that the second image is more effective than the others because the lighting is more apropriate than the others. A crime caper is suposed to be mysterious because you are constantly trying to work out the villain. The First and the Second images are very bright so you can read the facial expressions and the body language of the villain however if we kept it dark it would have gave off a bigger effect because you would still be trying to work out the villain and find out what he thinking. He would still be mysterious even though he has been caught. The second image is very dark and even though the villian is in the shot it is hard to see him and see his facial expression.

Camera shots of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

Camera shots of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End from bubbtoby

Movie poster Brave

Movie Poster from bubbtoby
Improvement
The font style of the title is used to show that it is a fairy tale to show that it is a mythical and enchanting story. The writing looks like it has been carved out of wood this is to show that the film is set in the past or in a simpler time compared to the present. This writing is used in most disney films to show the audinece what they can expect its about. 

Low Budget and High Budget

Low budget film from bubbtoby

High budget from bubbtoby
Improvement
We can see that Spiderman the  high budget film was distrubted by a big movie company (Marvel) so you would expect them to make more because they have the money to advertise it and put it in the cinema. Also because its Marvel you would expect it would make more because people may go and see just because its marvel. If we look at colin we can see that it only got ditsrubted as a dvd because it did so well at the film festivals so it did not make a profit. compare to spiderman 3 colin was made with a miniscula amount of money. spiderman 3 made a 300% where the profit of colin is unknown but it did make some profit.

HWK Binary Opposites

Binary Opposites These are two things that are the exact opposite to each other such as hot and cold, hero and villain and law vs crime. in the end it has to be one of them who wins and loses in films. Actual Definition: the way opposites are used to create interest in media texts, such as good/bad, coward/hero, youth/age, black/white. By Barthes and Levi-Strauss who also noticed another important feature of these ‘binary opposites’: that one side of the binary pair is always seen by a particular society or culture as more valued over the other. Some examples of binary opposites in films are: Batman vs Joker (batman) Vader vs Luke (star wars) Prisoner vs Prisoner (Shawshank Redemption) Alien vs Human (Alien) Jake vs edward (twilight) Harry vs Voldemort (Harry potter)

HWK Vladimir PROPP

thor Hero: The hero is Thor. He is motivated on getting back to Asgard and setting thing right with his father. Villain: The the villain is Loki. He want to take over Asgard and has always felt second best compared to his brother in law The Donor: Thors Father is the donor. He provides Thor with the hammer hoping he would one day use it to command Asgard and build a new society. The Helper: The Helpers are Sif, Fandral, Hogun and Volstagg. They are the people who have known thor nearly all his life and when he needs them the most they are there for him. The Princess: The princess is Jane Foster. She is the first person Thor ever meets on earth and in the end falls in love with her but cannot stay because he must return to Asgard. Her Father: Erik Selvig is like the father. He is the oldest one of the science group and Jane Foster looks up to him for guidance. The dispatcher: There are two dispatchers in Thor. one is Thors Father as he is the one that banishes Thor and sends him to earth. The other one is the gatekeeper since he is the one that controls travelling to different worlds. The False Hero: Loki can be seen as the False Hero. Loki believes he can make a better place of Asgard so he sees himself as a hero.

HWK Gaze, Equilibrium and Reception theory

Media HWK Equilibrium: Man of steel 1. Superman lives a normal life with his family as a baby. 2. The planet is destroyed and he is sent to earth. 3. Superman grows and find the man that destroyed his world. 4. Zod and superman battle it out for the Earths safety or destruction. 5. Superman wins and earth is returned to normal. superman finds a new life. The theory of the male gaze The gaze is the idea of how the audience view people in the way they are presented. For feminists it can be seen in three ways. • How men look at women. • How women look at women. • How women look at themselves. The picture below is a typical example of the male gaze, a simple way of putting is that if I played the actual footage of the film (transformers) most people would not be able to answer a simple question like what colour is the car because they are too busy looking at the woman. https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKL-fn3FeBjU0rd58PHdP1hCQQB2mQey4WdaT3njHlqMOSzFSc791X6CFH7VzaMWItejNW3fvyd7DVPeUTeZ2HSad7Cvjn2CfC7IaTxUxyZSDSf-r-d2tmC7LMz6ZkK9wG6vnqs_VxPhw/s1600/megan-fox-transformers.jpg Reception theory (Stuart hall, 1980). In films the director may using something that has more than one meaning, like a object or something that is said. A good example would be the ending of the film Forrest Gump when you see the feather floating away. http://www.speakinggump.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Feather_Floats_Off_At_Movies_End-300x204.jpg The feather in forest Gump can be seen in many ways: • Some people may think that it’s how Forrest Gump has accepted his wife’s death and is now at peace. • Others may see it as Forrest’s way of look at life. Everything happens accidently for a purpose. • Another way to look at it is how he started the journey with the feather and now that his story has been heard his journey is over. The director’s way of portraying the symbol or text is the true meaning however people see symbols and text differently so that’s why there are many different views on one thing.

Genre Signifiers (thrillers)

 Thrillers

Actual Definition: A thriller is a suspenseful adventure story or play or movie. Thrillers concentrate more on suspense, although gore and violence may be shown at times, the focus is on the suspense. Thrillers are characterized by fast pacing, frequent action, and heroes. Devices such as suspense and cliff hangers are used extensively. Thrillers combine action and suspense in to one group. They do this by including twists or secrets whilst including fights or action shots. Thrillers also concentrate on the intensity of emotions they create especially exhilaration and tension by showing the emotional break-down or emotional mind state of the hero. The audience identifies with the main hero either through emotion or fear of the situation. The music in thrillers are normally very quiet so it makes you concentrate more on the characters and the scene, this builds up suspense. The music then changes when something jumpy happens like a killer jumping out of a closet. After this the music will change its pace to be more faster to give the idea of fear and that adrenaline rush. Key items used in a normal thriller are normally weapons like knives, blunt weapons, swords like objects because this mean the killer has to get up close and personal with the victim where as a gun would not make a good weapon in a thriller because its quick and clean. The colours used in thrillers are normally very dark except at the beginning when you are introduced to the characters. The dark atmosphere is perfect for thrillers because in films like these bad things normally happen at night.   

There are many sub-genres to thrillers, including action thriller, drama thriller, crime thriller, psychological thriller, spy thriller and supernatural thriller. These thrillers may differ to each other in terms of pace, for example, an action thriller would be quicker paced than a drama or physiological thriller.