Media coursework evaluation
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Thursday 22 April 2010
Sunday 4 April 2010
Conventions of genre that we tryed to include
Theme
We got the theme of our work from the film “Se7en”, all the people in my group really was fascinated by the opening when we watched it in class and thought why not use that as our film. Of course we knew we couldn’t copy this, but we wanted to use features that it used, because they was so effective on us as an audience.
Camerawork
We tried to add as many shots as we could into our thriller, in some of our shots we had the camera hand held, but this was to create effect, when we got the film back and uploaded it onto the iMac we realized we may just of over done the shakiness of the camera but we still thought it worked well with the character.
Editing
While editing we decided to use a lot of jump cuts, we did this because we looked at Se7en and realized that the jump cuts seemed to increase the pace and tempo a bit more that a cross dissolve or something like that. We also tried to ad some non-digetic sound at the end with the hand banging against the window, we all thought that that was necessary to create the last bit of tension and mystery.
Lighting
We had a problem with the lighting at first because it was either to light in the room or to dark. We covered the big window at the front with a dust sheet that we was using for a prop so that solve that problem. The lights in the middle of the room were still too bright so we took three of the four bulbs out and got someone to stand there holding newspaper about 15cm away from the bulb to block the light, this worked so we could carry on filming.
Sound/music
We found the music on a site which was http://www.newgrounds.com/ , we was just browsing the web and luckily come across this site, it had the perfect music for our film and most of the filming fitting in straight away with the music which was great. We didn’t have any dialog in our thriller because non of us were good actors so we may of ruined the work by speaking.
We got the theme of our work from the film “Se7en”, all the people in my group really was fascinated by the opening when we watched it in class and thought why not use that as our film. Of course we knew we couldn’t copy this, but we wanted to use features that it used, because they was so effective on us as an audience.
Camerawork
We tried to add as many shots as we could into our thriller, in some of our shots we had the camera hand held, but this was to create effect, when we got the film back and uploaded it onto the iMac we realized we may just of over done the shakiness of the camera but we still thought it worked well with the character.
Editing
While editing we decided to use a lot of jump cuts, we did this because we looked at Se7en and realized that the jump cuts seemed to increase the pace and tempo a bit more that a cross dissolve or something like that. We also tried to ad some non-digetic sound at the end with the hand banging against the window, we all thought that that was necessary to create the last bit of tension and mystery.
Lighting
We had a problem with the lighting at first because it was either to light in the room or to dark. We covered the big window at the front with a dust sheet that we was using for a prop so that solve that problem. The lights in the middle of the room were still too bright so we took three of the four bulbs out and got someone to stand there holding newspaper about 15cm away from the bulb to block the light, this worked so we could carry on filming.
Sound/music
We found the music on a site which was http://www.newgrounds.com/ , we was just browsing the web and luckily come across this site, it had the perfect music for our film and most of the filming fitting in straight away with the music which was great. We didn’t have any dialog in our thriller because non of us were good actors so we may of ruined the work by speaking.
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