GETTING PERMISSION TO USE THE MUSIC

We have commented on the music video and emailed the band to see if we could use their music in our film, however, we have haven't had a response yet.

Question 3 - "What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?"

Inspiration

We have thought of many wasyus to film our opening sequence

Question 2 - "How does your media product represent particular social groups?"

QUESTIONNAIRE RESULTS

Continuity Evaluation

Over all i am pleased on how hour short film came out, we did miss out an important shot that got lost however it still turned out pretty well, we tried to stick to the 180 degree rule we.

When it came to editing, we found it quite difficult at the start however i picked it up quite easily and knew my way around the software quickly and with ease. We used jump cuts in our piece for when Alex was walking down the path to the next building to make it go quicker.

CASTING

We decided that our main character (the stalker) will be rhys, because he looked the most sinister. we then decided that we need to chose 4 girls with all different types of hair colour, so we decided to ask the girls in our media class, thankfully they all agreed to do it.

EDITING 2

Today we went down to the college again to touch up on our first part with a few extra shots we added and now know the exact shots we need to finish our film.

EDITING 1

Today we went down to the college to start editing our film, this helped a lot, not only did it helps us more with our editing skills but it made us realize the shots we need and the shots we didn't.

FILMING 3

Today we went outside to start filming the bits at the train station with jasmine and rhys, this is me trying to get a shot looking through the glass window at the train station to make it look like a POV shot

FILMING 2

Today we got the final shots of the muder board scene, we took a few extreme close ups, some pan shots, tracking shots and a few over the shoulder shots.

FILMING 1

This is our first shot that we tested to see if the lighting was good with the angle of the shot, we really liked this shot as the lighting and shadows really emphasized the mysterious hooded man.
 this is me on our first day filming in the school cupboard, i filmed the parts where Rhys was in the film and then he would check with me to see if we licked the shot and decide if we need to do another take of the shot.

TEST SHOTS

We were told that a time-lapse would look really good in our film, so we decided to test out a shot for a time-lapse, we wanted the time lapse to be a landscape shot where you can see a lot of the landscape eg. cars, trains, buildings, people etc. and this was one of those shots.

NAMES

It was very time consuming to come up with a name for our film that would suit it well, so we made a mind map and had all our class mates and teachers to help us. we decided on "Close Cut".

ANALYSIS OF EXISTING A-LEVEL MEDIA THRILLER OPENINGS

in this post i will be analyzing two existing a-level openings.

the first one is called captive we watched this in class once, then discussed its features.

• the titles stand out
• establishing shot linking into the title 
• all the different camera shots used
• soundbridges
• flash backs
• highpitched music
• continuity
• montage of quick shots

this is the second one we watched and discussed as a class what we liked about it.

• jump cut shots
• over the shoulder shots
• POV shots
• quick fast shots
• different variety of shots used.