Unit 5

https://youtu.be/ETFnaiq8VFg Mese-en-scene is the arrangement of scenery, props etc. in a scene to connote what's going on. Our film is a horror film so we tried to use as much as we can to give it that dark and gritty vibe. The types of props we used were to go along with the the characters and gory bits. An example is in the first scene when Amin is talking to the others there is a dumbbell in the back ground if the shot which was meant to convey that he is the strongest member of the group as he is the last one to survive out of them. Another use of props was when the monster was sat there devouring the bodies we used a fake ripped of hand that he was chewing with the added affect of blood squiring and bone crunching sound effects that I got from Royaltyfreesounds.com.  Another key component of mese-en-scene was lighting as this helped us form the different types of tones for the film such as the characters just sat talking in a room compared to the more disturbing scenes such a...

https://youtu.be/nL1MRc0-oLA Scene 1  This piece of unedited footage from scene 1 includes so me generic horror conventions such as tone and lighting, by using chiaroscuro lighting which  emphasizes shadow and light . O nly using natural diegetic candle light to partly light the characters faces, a common tool when creating mystery and to  draw the viewer's focus and attention. Another common horror convention is having  relatable protagonists who makes dreadful decisions, the dialogue and costumes are very realistic to the characters age and how a real teenage friend group would act. https://youtu.be/0fvsm6AIkqE Scene 2 This piece of unedited footage from scene 2 has met generic conventions from the horror genre, this is because of its dark lighting and other techniques we used. The dark lighting helps to conceal most of the background and when the creature appears in focus for a short time. ...

“THE RITUAL” SCENE 1 Scene description/opening FADE IN: The scene starts with an extreme close up of the TV reflecting onto Harry's eye as the movie they're watching ends the movie ends the credits roll and Teej turns the lights on BEN well that was awful HARRY nah, I thought it was decent BEN Can we watch spider-man 2 now? TEEJ (Amin sighing and looking bored) were not watching Spider-man 2 again, you say this every time BEN What’s up? AMIN we’ve watched 3 films tonight can we do something different I’m kind of getting board. HARRY yeah so am I to be honest TEEJ Well what do you want to do then HARRY I don’t know, I’m just getting a drink (harry goes downstairs, he comes back up with 5 candles and the other things needed for the ritual) AMIN Nah bro are you dumb HARRY What, I thought you were bored? BEN Fine, how do you set it out  TEEJ Were you not watching the film BEN Shut up tee jay AMIN 5 one each for us and 1 for the demon TEEJ Why candles though? HARRY When w...

For the outside shots towards the end of the film we had to wait until it had stopped raining, this was to protect the camera equipment, also before Amin ran outside, because he wasn't wearing shoes we had to check the ground to make sure there wasn't anything man could trip or hurt himself on such as dog toys and other things. laying on the trampoline was ideal to get the low angled shot as showed an establishing shot, it kept both Amin and the window(where Amin tuns to look at) and was cleaner then the ground and allowed me to stay there comfortably as it took a few tries to get the shot.    Setting up the tripod was important for our film, this was because it helped us achieve new angles and cinematic footage, the tripod also allowed us to keep the camera still and get rid of the shaky cam which would happen if it was hand held. with setting up there tripod we also had to follow some safety guidelines such as moving things around on set to not get in the way of the actors o...

The Fly (2008) https://youtu.be/16ymmfya3i8 The fly is about an uptight getaway driver waiting outside a bank whilst his team mates go and rob it. He has three nerve shredding minutes to get through before they return, all he has to dot is focus but instead this goes completely wrong as a little annoying fly enters his car and starts tormenting him which causes him to start breaking things whilst trying to kill it. By the end of it the fly manages to win and makes the getaway driver screw his car up and hurt himself. The genre is an action comedy/crime. The film can be applied towards Todorov's theory as shown here: Equilibrium - Theres a bank robbery going on and the main character is a getaway driver  Disruption - The fly comes along and starts annoying him, he then realises e can't cope with the fly being there  Restored order - The Getaway driver tries the kill the fly  New equilibrium - The thugs have been caught trying to rob the bank as there is no car and you can ...

When our film was ready to be watched, we presented it in a screen test along with a survey we created by using  surveymonkey.co.uk. The purpose of making this survey was so that we could see what people thought of our film, each question asked people to think about different parts of the film for example the acting, cinematography etc. This allowed us to further improve our films in the future and see where we went wrong. Q1 everyone  enjoyed the film  Q2  For our film the feedback that we got were mostly positive, some people said they'd change some of the dialogue, add gore and experiment more with he costumes and set locations. One of the main complaints was that the lighting was too dark and you couldn't see as much. A majority of the dialogue was loosely scripted, as I allowed all the actors to improvise some lines as a way to make the dialogue feel as natural as possible. With the costumes and setting I wanted to keep it very basic and realistic and somet...

This is an offline edit which means its all of the footage that was shot in order but with ought any of the edits. So for example none of the extra sound effects and music are in it and all of the clips that have been colour graded were reset to default. Also some of the clips such as the POV shot of Ben walking are were to slow slow so I sped it up to 115%, however In this offline edit they were also reset back to their normal speed.  This offline edit compared to the final story board is mostly accurate such as the opening shot where it's a close up shot of Harrys eyes.

In this screen shot I am lowering the volume of the music to a specific point so that you can still hear it but in the background the the monster spots the victims spying on them, there is a short sharp eerie sound which I increased the volume on to make in into a jump scare and this helped a lot with the horror aspect of things because it catches the audience of guard and makes the whole scene tense as the other sound effects cut off. Short sharp sounds are very important when it comes to horror films because it's all about scaring the audience. The reason why music an sound I also very important in these type of horror films is because it add an extra layer on tension to the audience whilst they are watching it and keeping them on their toes mot of the time. The audio also reflect what's happening in the scene if there's something tense or calm In this scene the monster is eating the victims and to make the scene really feel and sound disturbing I went on sound cloud and ...

Throughout the first couple of scenes the lighting is very bright and eye catching and the blacks are a lot more visible compared to the other scenes when we see the monster. This did not feel right because it did not capture the horror vibe so to do this I color graded some of the more brighter scenes. I used the same settings when color grading the scenes which were decreasing the highlights and the darker tones so that the blacks are a lot darker and less visible which meant that the lighter color's popped more on screen. I also toned down the exposure slightly to make sure the brighter color's arrest too bright and don't wash out the colours. Some of the scenes after editing them were still quite choppy and did not feel right for example there would be noticeable gaps between people talking and sometimes you could hear people talking in the back or the camera man saying " 3, 2, 1, go" . To resolve this all I had to do was cut down the clips to right point whic...