Whilst edititng our Media film we brought some new ideas to the table, something i personally felt strongly about was making the film look more like an Arthouse film than a big Blockbuster, and a way of doing this would have been to put the film in black and white, by doing this the film would look more creative, but we collectivly saw that some of the mise en scene that we has specifically created such as the use of red nail vanish on the victim's hand, this dramatic look was lost and therefore the feeling of horror and anticipation in the whole movie was lost.
However as i am a stubborn person i did not want to give up on the idea of using black and white so we disscussed turning it into black and white with some areas where there is a a great deal of fantastic mise en scene still in colour. An example of this is the close up of the victims hand in the bath. the red nails are a huge feature and the viewers eye is quickly drawn to them. This is when we decided that it would be a good idea to have the murderer's perspective in black and white, beaucause his fixation is as clear as black and white, just to kill, and then the victims perspective can be in colour enabling us to keep some fabulous colourful shots and still keeping that edgy arthouse movie feel.
Tuesday 28 April 2009
Wednesday 22 April 2009
Thrillers
We found it hard deciding on a name for our film that explained the film but made sense as well.
To start with we played around with words in Latin and different languages to see if anything creative and unusual came up, we quickly realised that that was a silly idea as our film was set in England and there was no foreign connection.
AX TO GRIND was the popular choice as we had imagined the killer with an axe and it also would suggest the man has a constant and relentless vendetta.
However, once we began filming and editing our film, we grew to hate AX TO GRIND and changed it to
FIXATION
DVD SYNOPSIS of FIXATION.
London. Darkness. Women are unsafe.Because something is watching. Something is waiting. Something unknown, unhinged and unrelenting. A man with a fixation. A fixation to kill!As newspaper reported Rachel Gellor (Kate Winslet) investigates a series of brutal murders of women in London, little did she know that she was next on the murderers list.
To start with we played around with words in Latin and different languages to see if anything creative and unusual came up, we quickly realised that that was a silly idea as our film was set in England and there was no foreign connection.
AX TO GRIND was the popular choice as we had imagined the killer with an axe and it also would suggest the man has a constant and relentless vendetta.
However, once we began filming and editing our film, we grew to hate AX TO GRIND and changed it to
FIXATION
DVD SYNOPSIS of FIXATION.
London. Darkness. Women are unsafe.Because something is watching. Something is waiting. Something unknown, unhinged and unrelenting. A man with a fixation. A fixation to kill!As newspaper reported Rachel Gellor (Kate Winslet) investigates a series of brutal murders of women in London, little did she know that she was next on the murderers list.
Thrillers
My blog has been neglected recently due to a mountain of media filming work and drama performances, however, now they are safely out the way i can comment on the hard work and effort that has gone into the making of our thriller scene in the past 4 months.
It was not an easy ride, to start with we contemplated and toyed with dark creepy car parks, an anonymous victim and a cold blooded killer. But we soon realised that the location of this would make filming in our free time very difficult.
We then spent the odd few of our lessons researching and watching clips of horror movies online to give us some ideas, What Lies Beneath, The Strangers, Nightmare On Elm Street and Creep we focused on the way these films had been shot especially What Lies Beneath and Creep to see how they created atmospheric tension and suspense. Unfocused and distorted shots form Creep created a spooky uncertainty which would fit well into the horror genre that we strive to achieve. What Lies Beneath heavily relies on the music to create an atmosphere as the scene that we looked at was set in a well lit bathroom.
It was this clip that gave us the basic idea to set our Thriller scene in a bathroom, it was a different idea to many of the other media groups, it also would enable us to film whenever we please as the location was at my house. We played around with the idea of filming in dark woods as well but realised that the amount of natural light would be a problem.
We then created our Storyboard and the plot for the film. I was to be the helpless victim and Tom was to be the unseen mysterious womanising knife bearing killer. Mr Van Straten filmed us speaking to the class about the ideas behind our film and this is on youtube but currently being on a school computer i am unable to get hold of it but weill put it up later.
http://issuu.com/svanstraten/docs/danni_film_plan_final_260109
this is our film plan containing everything that there really is to know about the ideas of our film.
It was not an easy ride, to start with we contemplated and toyed with dark creepy car parks, an anonymous victim and a cold blooded killer. But we soon realised that the location of this would make filming in our free time very difficult.
We then spent the odd few of our lessons researching and watching clips of horror movies online to give us some ideas, What Lies Beneath, The Strangers, Nightmare On Elm Street and Creep we focused on the way these films had been shot especially What Lies Beneath and Creep to see how they created atmospheric tension and suspense. Unfocused and distorted shots form Creep created a spooky uncertainty which would fit well into the horror genre that we strive to achieve. What Lies Beneath heavily relies on the music to create an atmosphere as the scene that we looked at was set in a well lit bathroom.
It was this clip that gave us the basic idea to set our Thriller scene in a bathroom, it was a different idea to many of the other media groups, it also would enable us to film whenever we please as the location was at my house. We played around with the idea of filming in dark woods as well but realised that the amount of natural light would be a problem.
We then created our Storyboard and the plot for the film. I was to be the helpless victim and Tom was to be the unseen mysterious womanising knife bearing killer. Mr Van Straten filmed us speaking to the class about the ideas behind our film and this is on youtube but currently being on a school computer i am unable to get hold of it but weill put it up later.
http://issuu.com/svanstraten/docs/danni_film_plan_final_260109
this is our film plan containing everything that there really is to know about the ideas of our film.
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