Evaluation Question 7

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?

Will's Prelim Response



Katie's Prelim Response

Emily's Prelim Response


Georgia's Prelim Response

Evaluation Question Two

Final Opening

Limitations when filming

First Screening

We screened our first draft to a large audience to gain some feedback on what we could do to improve our film opening.

We created a questionnaire for people to fill in, which we handed out at the screening. In the Youtube video below we discuss the questionnaire results.

 

First Time Filming

Last night our media studies team travelled through to Battle in East Sussex to film for the first time for our trailer. When we arrived at Battle Abbey School we immediately encountered problems. After setting up the camera and tripod to film our establishing shot of the building we found that due to the poor lighting the camera picked up nearly nothing. 

We tried various ways of lighting the building such as hand held torches and even trying to use a car headlights. We then moved on to trying to film the 'action' for our trailer. This too was a disappointment and we found that to pick up our actor she would have to stand less than a three meters away from the camera. Although we did not manage to film much we did get a feel for the building and thought of some new ideas. 

After the poor nights filming I went home and researched different ways of filming at night. Unfortunately the researched made me realise that it was going to be difficult for us to film at night due to lack of lighting and ability to light the Abbey grounds. However my research did open me up to ways of filming in day time and using editing to make the footage look like it had been filmed at night time. In response to this we have decided to film tomorrow evening and edit the footage and see what results we get. 

Possible Filming Location

Location: Battle Abbey School

Battle Abbey is a historical building located in East Sussex. As well as the medieval architecture the Abbey contains 'the ruins' from the collapsed church. The Abbey has been investigated in recent times due to paranormal scares and ghosts. 

Typical locations of horror films: Typically horrors are filmed in and around historical or deralict buildings and 'haunted houses'. They may also be filmed in places that we see as safe such as homes or schools, which shows the audience that anything can happen, this adds fear.  

Genre: a style or category of art, music, or literature

Genre: a style or category of art, music, or literature


Genre can be defined by mise en scene, lighting, sound: diagetic and non diagetic as well as editing and camera movements, shots and angles. This can be seen in television and movies.

Sone typical features of the comedy genre are shown below.

Typical Features of the Science Fiction Genre.

Blog Intro

Hello examiner 
We are Georgia, Katie, Will and Emily. This is our blog, we are going to show you the process towards the production of our movie opening. We hope you enjoy it. Thanks.