First Day of Shooting

On Monday the 17th the group had met up at Liam's house to start the first day of shooting. We had our plan sheet to see what we were going to film and our first shot was the scene when Billy, our protagonist was opening the book. We did the shot four times because we had either had the focus wrong or that we had objects that should not have been there. after we had shot that scene we looked back at it and we determined that it was good enough to be in the title sequences. The clothing that Billy was wearing was a dark hoodie and the hood was over his head. The reason why we had the hood over his head was because we did not want to see the face of Billy as we wanted the protagonist to be a mystery. 

Blog Work

To continue with the Blog, I had to update and work on the blog so it makes sense, and also it is clear. What I did was i put labels on my Blog so when i am on it, the blog is not messy and I know where anything is. I also looked over my other posts to see if they made sense and to see if their was any grammar mistakes and if so i would change them.

Enigma code

The enigma code is when the audience asks question of the film they are watching, for example someone dies in the beginning, the audience asks the question "who done it?" The enigma code works by building suspense, the suspense keeps the audience gripped to the film all the way through until they know who the killer is. Films such as Memento uses enigma code as it build suspension all the way through because the audience wants to know what happens to one of the main characters as Guy Pearce wants to know who killed his wife. Other films that use the enigma code is the Machinist because the main character tries to search for this man and this opens questions such as "who is the man", leaving audiences to watch all the way through to find out their answer.

The Conjuring analysis

The conjuring is the genre of horror, and I know this because in the first few seconds I can hear the eery music, which suggest that the film will be a horror and in the first few seconds we see a family picture in black and white, this is always used in horror title sequences because it tells the background story of the person or demon haunting the family. The photo shows us who the family was, they have shown us this because it is details that does not need be explained in the film. We see another family in the next photo, this tells us that the family has a connection in the film and we need to know their name as they are vital to the film.

When tit gets to the 20 second mark. We see the films director James Wan. For people who like horror films knows that James Wan directed the Saw films. so the audience will be expecting the film to be gory like his Saw films.

When showing other members of the cast, the background for them is a newspaper that tells the audience more backstory to the film as the film will not delve into the subject for the audience. This will be like my groups title sequence because we are showing information that is important to the films.

After 55 seconds we get to see the main actors name, Patrick Wilson is well known in the horror genre and for people who like horror will know that he has been in other horror films such as Insidious and 2. the characters are behind old photos, the photos could mean that the person on the photo is important to the storyline.

In the 1st minute and the 40th second we get to see the production company which is New Line Cinema, a Safran Company, Evergreen Media Group

Finally on 1 minute and 57 second we get to see the title of the film in front of the house and a hanging site. This is important to the film because that is where the film is based.

LOGO

Learning STINCS

On the day 17 the class was put in their groups to do group work and what the class had to do was to point out what our title sequence about and use STINCS to describe how our title sequence was going to feel. Where it will take place. Using STINCS my group wrote that the setting will be a forest and also we will use a room for the title sequence. Then for Theme we put it as dark and mysterious because the room will make the audience ask questions as whats in the room? Or they will ask who is the person in the room? For the Iconography the props that we will be using a book and a few photos for the title sequence. For the Narrative we will be using distorted music and distorted dialogue. Characters that we will be using is the group members and a couple of other students.

The task made me and my group have a long discussion on how we will make the title sequence and this discussion made us have a final  thought and a final plan on how we will make the title sequence.

Codes and Conventions of Horror

• ·         Shows the film clips in the title sequence
• ·         The use of dark settings
• ·         Low angle shots
• ·         The use of the protagonist in the shots
• ·         The use of CGI to show more gory stuff.
• ·         Close up on the protagonist
• ·         Builds tension
• ·         Slow pace
• ·         The use of narrative themes
• ·         Point of view shot
• ·         The use of young teenage characters
• ·         The use of handheld cameras
• ·        Always a female victim