Thursday, March 12, 2009



I have watched the opening sequence of the others. The beginning shows clues to what the story contains which aren’t a give away as the story has a twist. These clues are shown from shots of pictures. There is also a voice over which gives us more clues. In our film we could create quick shots to show clues to what will be involved within our own film. When we start to film we'll have more of an idea of what shots we need. The music is slowlypaced as is the camera work and the music is timed perfectly to camera, which is something we need to consider in our film. As our film is going to be a horror we may need something faster paced to go with our filming. The first shot of the film is an establishing shot of the house where the whole film takes place, also the words on the screen show where & when the film is set in. For our film we could firstly do an establishing shot of where our film is based. To establish day and time we could put words on screen at the beginning or ending of the 2minute clip depending on where we put whichshots. The film then shows a shot of the protagonist, the first person shown on the film this is important as we know who were following throughout the film. This will be important in ours as we want to show that were following as there will be several characters. As the film begins we hear our protagonist scream, there is only silence after the scream and no music, and this is something we could consider putting in our film. It’s also creating enigmas as to why she’s screaming? & why she’s breathing heavily?. Then there is a long shot took from a side angle showing the other characters walking slowly towards the door. This is something we can do in our film by using different cameraangles to create suspense, e.g. Filming walking from behind. All four characters are dressed in black and there is low key lighting throughout which is usually used in horrors, which is something we should consider using in our film. From this clip i can see general things that are used in horror which we can use in our film. it has also given me ideas for different camera angles to use to create different compositions and what it will be like for the viewer. Jessica. X

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