Props List

Paranormal Productions
Props List	Provider
Table	School	School Source
Chair (Simon’s room)	School	School Source
Mirror/Perspex	School	School Source
Paper/Card	School	Art Department
Pencil	School	Art Department
Costumes
-- Black Suits	School	Drama Department
-- Jeans and Top	Lydia	Lydia
Make-up	Crew

We have chosen simplistic and naturalistic props firstly to save us money and because we thought it would be more effective and so that the audience would concentrate on the story and the action of the scene. All costumes are black or white. We are going to dress our interrogator in a black suit with a white shirt so that he looks like an official and the colours show good and evil. This could give the audience mixed messages about whether he is a 'good guy' or a 'bad guy'. We are going to dress the young girl in all black to represent her dark and mysterious character.

New shots for our developed idea

Shot 1: CU of Lydia looking down and suddenly looks at the camera. (As she looks at
the camera her iris’ turn red and her face pale.)

FADE TO BLACK

Shot 2: WS/OTS establishing the room with Lydia drawing and John, a Government
Man on the desk, watching Lydia drawing.

ZOOMING

Shot 3: Zooming in to a MS of Lydia and John on the desk.

CUT TO

Shot 4: Montage Sequence
Shot 5: ECU of Lydia’s’ Hand frantically drawing.
Shot 6: Low Angle MS with Lydia’s face but focusing on John and his reactions.

Shot 7: MS of just Lydia staring into the camera. Eyes red face pale. But still drawing
Shot 8: ECU of Lydia’s red eyes and pale faces.
Shot 10: ECU of Lydia’s hand frantically drawing (repeat of shot 5)
Shot 11: MS of Lydia staring into the camera, her eyes are no longer red, her skin is
no longer pale, and she has stopped drawing. She is shaking looking scared,
she drops the pen.

END OF MONTAGE

Shot 12: Low angle MS from in front of the table of John taking the piece of paper
out from under Lydia, who is lying face down on it, and looking at it for a
few seconds, as he looks at it his eyes turn red.

FADE TO BLACK

Shot 13: OTS from Lydia watching John walking towards the glass.

CUT TO

Shot 14: OTS from the government watching John walking towards them.

Shot 15: OTS from the government of John placing the paper on the glass. Through a
Tannoy system.
Government: “So 5 days, 5 places, 5 explosions?”
John: “Yeah.”

FADE TO BLACK

Shot 16: ECU of Lydia’s eyes turning red and her face pale.

CUT TO

Shot 17: CU of the paper with Lydia’s Drawing burning from the middle out. END

Chosen Thriller Film

Storyline of FIVEA man is taking revenge on the fact that his wife has been murdered. He is quite a spiritual man, not Christian but weird rituals. He has a ritual that he wants to perform, to regain his wife and the only way it can work is if he uses victims that resemble his wife. It takes him a year to collect his four victims. Meanwhile the daughter is witnessing all these women being taken away and then never seeing them again. On the fourth victim she plucks up the courage to go down to the basement where she has been told not to go, she then hears screams and other terrifying sounds. When the time comes for the fifth and final victim the ritual says it must be the family blood of the man. Unfortunately the man has turned completely delusional and the only person he then sees that has his family blood and reminds him of his wife is his only daughter. The ritual doesn’t end up working because the daughter isn’t actually his! His wife had an affair and the daughter was from that relationship, unbeknown to the man.The opening sequenceI’d like to have three close ups ofThe man’s hand, drawing the chalk circle.The woman’s face, with a tatty blindfold on.Bird’s eye view of the circle with the star inside.She becomes curious, peers around the top of the stairs, she starts quietly walking down the stairs to the basement door. When she gets there she gently pushes the door and it swings open, she can’t see anything inside because it is so dark. She steps in, and sees pools of blood at each point of the star, except the top point. In the far corner there is a body. White tunic dress and a tatty bit of material around her eyes. There are heavy footsteps coming down the stairs, she runs and crouches in the corner. The steps stop by the door; there is a silhouette of the man in the doorway. The heartbeat of the girl can be heard and with each beat there is a flash of the circle with a girl lying at one of the points, and at the next heartbeat there is another girl at a different point. Without another sound the man is leaning over the girl. He lifts his arm holding a knife, and then there is a long scream.

Developed Thriller Idea

To help develop our idea further, we were asked to present our idea to two experienced media teachers. After much debating, criticism and new ideas our film had been changed quite dramatically-FIVE-A blind twelve year old girl name Lucinda has been held by the Government to help save the global phenomenon. Her in normality has been heavily influenced by the devil and her once disadvantage give by the devil has now become a unique gift that will save lives. She naturally starts to draw the pentagram that answers all questions. A governor sits over her observing and waiting. She finishes her drawing and the members of authority now are completely aware of what they must do…The rest of the film goes as follows-Immediately, a security is called and prepared for what may save or destroy the world. The five points of the pentagram show the five cities that will be blown up by the devil. The Government are forced to contact each city that is under threat. Inhabitants must evacuate their city and find a secure place to stay. Each police force are asked to stay in the city to prevent this colossus threat. Under twenty four hours from then, every police officer in all five cities are and the devil in still unknown.

Storyboard

We had to create this storyboard to creat an accurate picture of what we wanted to produce. Creating this storyboard gave as a good outline of our product that we could follow. This allowed us to follow a structure and stick to our oringinal ideas.

Process of storyboarding

This week, we began the process of creating our storyboard, which would assist us in creating a logical order for shooting. We had to finalise our main idea, and then began to create specific shots and construct each shot. A storyboard is designed to provide an accurate technical account of all aspects of sound and vision and to act as a guide for the crew on shoot, and to assist the editor in constructing the time line. Our story board provides specific details of
- Location
- Shot/Movement
- Sound
- Lighting
- Edit Transition
- Timing

We then work out the finally story, the elements of it, and the order in which it would go. We then wrote up a draft of the order in which each shot would go, had it reviewed by our teacher and then could go on. We split the shots between our group, and used the template provided to start filling in the story board. This was then printed off so we could draw the pictures on it, to show the action and what is happening in the shot.

These are our Shots

• Point of view – First tarot card is revealed with first credits.
• Extreme Close-up – Ryan’s hand drawing chalk line on the floor.
• Extreme Close-up – Dead woman’s face, with her eyes covered in a blindfold.
• Extreme Close-up – Ryan’s hand placing a candle, it then lights itself.
• Point of view – Second tarot card is revealed with next credits.
• Wide Shot – Amber peering round top of the stairs and starts to walk the first few stairs.
• Point of view – through handheld, Amber walking down the stairs and opens the door to the basement.
• Point of view – Third tarot card is revealed with next credits.
• Wide Shot - Basement, dark room with candle, bodies and a vague shape on the floor.
• Wide Shot – Candle in foreground and Amber entering in background, she hears heavy footsteps, and runs into the corner.
• Point of view – Fourth tarot card is revealed with next credits.
• Wide Shot – Silhouette of Ryan in doorway.
• Wide Shot – Candle in foreground and Ryan entering in background, he starts moving towards one of the bodies.
• Mid-shot (lower half of torso) – Face in foreground and heavy boots walking towards the head. They stop, and then Ryan bends down to face.
• Wide Shot – Ryan reaches towards the face of the body and in the background Amber crouching in corner she shuffles to make a noise, Ryan spins.
• Point of View – From Amber of Ryan spinning to look at her.
• Close-Up – Amber’s reaction to his spin.
• Point of view – Fifth tarot card is revealed with next credits.
• Extreme Close Up – Candle goes out.
• Extreme Close Up -> Wide Shot (Birds Eye View) – Reveal of pentagram.

Cast List

We chose teenagers so that our product would appeal to a young teenage audience. We also used an attractive middle aged man so that we would also be able to attract an older audience. We used a teenage girl as she represent innocence, and we wanted an attractive girl so it would appeal to male audiences.

Thriller Posters

Out of these three horror posters, my favourite one it the Saw poster. As it is not telling you much about the film, or what happens, but what you first see, is this chair that does not look at all comfortable, and you see these women boots that are chained to it, which automatically makes you think it is a women sitting there, until you move up the picture and see that there is a women's head on the body, which completely throws you, and what you thought you new about the film all just changed, and you are back to knowing nothing.

What is a Thriller?

A Thriller is a meta-genre, this is the emotions and reactions that should come from it, for example fear. Thrillers rely heavily on the plot, fear within the audience, suspense, apprehension or basic worries which people have. These can be simple fears that make the audience emotionally involved. They usually contain universal themes and work with a sense of delay, as they use the time that the audience sitting there waiting for something to happen, to build up suspense so the audience become even more scared. Thrillers as a genre work because they are sadomasochistic, as the audience likes to see somebody else feeling discomfort, to make the audience believe what is happening they use ambivalence, and too make them emotionally involved in what is happening. There are various different types of thrillers:
Espionage/Spy Thrillers. E.g. James Bond
Psychological Horror. E.g. Saw
Supernatural Thrillers. E.g. Drag me to Hell
All these genres are classified and identified by their key conventions, which are their intricacy of plot, a focus on fear, a complex unraveling narrative, a sense of delay, apprehension and suspense, and enigma codes, which are mysteries and questions, that the audience will be asking throughout the film as to what is happening, meaning there is something unknown with the audience.
Other conventions are that the audiences are pleasure derived from the discomfort of individuals, and voyeurism, meaning to be aware of something that the character isn’t. If a thriller contains each of there conventions it makes them a good thriller and it fulfills the expectations that the audience have.

Account of editing preliminary Task

We used final cut to edit our Preliminary Task. To gain access to the programme we had to enter a password and then find our groups filming, which our teachers had kindly uploaded for us. We then double clicked on it and got to our work place where we were then able to edit the sequence. There are two screens, both in the top right hand corner, in one you can let one sequence take play at one point, and have it start at another point in the other box. It is important when cutting the sequence that you put the sequence into the timeline and then cut out the different shots by pressing “I” when it starts and “o” when it ends. Then this single shot you will have as a separate file. Once you have done this with the whole sequence, we needed to then put them all together and in the correct order, then beginning and ending to make everything fit. For this, we just needed to take the shots and put them in the correct place on the timeline so it all fitted and looked smooth. As our microphone on the camera had a fault on it, we just did a voice over for the sound and added that on at the end.

So far on our course

So Far In Media

Over the past four weeks, there has been a far amount to learn in media. From analysing a clip from a TV Drama, to an introduction to Photoshop. It has been a lot of information to retain, and there is still more to come.

One of the first things we learnt in the first week was camera techniques, there is the EWS- extreme wide shot, WS- wide shot, ELS- establishing long shot, MS- mid long shot, LS- long shot, MS- mid shot (head and shoulders), CU- close up, ECU- extreme close up. These are essential things to know, as you need them for analysing an extract. We then went on to learn about another camera technique angles. Low angle, eye-level, high angle, worm’s eye, canted and bird’s eye.

The angle of shot is the direction and height from which the camera takes the scene. The view point is the apparent distance and angle from which the camera views and records the subject. POV- point of view is a shot made from a camera position close to the line of sight of a performer. A two-shot is a shot that has two people in it together.

We then went on to learn about another form of camera technique, movement. You have, pan left and right ( where the camera swivels and the base stays in the same position), crab left and right (the camera moves left or right) , track in and out (the camera itself moves smoothly towards or away from the subject) , zoom in and out (the camera does not move, the lense is simply focused in and out), ped up and down (the camera moves up and down the shot) and tilt up and tilt down ( a vertical movement of the camera, while the camera is in a fixed position).

Editing techniques were the next thing on out list to learn. The main eight that we were advised to learn well were, jump cut, cross0cut, cutaway shot, reaction shot, insert shot, buffer shot and fade/dissolve mix. These are all forms of a cut; cuts are used to change the scene, compress time, and carry the point of view or to build up an image or idea.

All of these different camera movements and editing, were then all used in various lessons, to practice our analysing skills, when analysing an extract I find it helpful to make a table with the following headings, ‘camera shot, camera angle, camera movement and edits.

We then had an introduction lesson into Photoshop, where we learnt all the basic tools, and then some that our teacher thought would be useful to know. We then went out took some photos of ourselves in our group, and had a practice editing the photos using the new tools we had just learnt.

Our next practical lesson was learning about the camera and tripods we would be using over the next year. I was not here for this lesson, but I was given a sheet with some information as to how the tripod functions, and some tips on the camera. We then went on to using them in our next practical, in our groups, shooting a 20 second clip of our choice. This was to practice basically everything we had learnt already, and to make mistakes so we didn’t make them when it comes to the really important filming.

We have briefly been introduced into sound, for the purpose of analysing a film extract. There is background sound, sound effects, diagetic, non diagetic, ambient sound, dialogue, monologue and soundtrack.

The final thing that has been introduced to us in media is our blog. We have learnt what a blog is what it does and how it works, I will be using this blog for the next two years to record everything that I do in media.

Two main key words I have learnt and need to remember are:

Juxtaposition- making something out to be something it is not later going to be.
And
Mise-en-scene- is an expression used in theatre and film to describe the design aspects of a production (the clip in the frame of the shot).

Introduction to Still Cameras

Introduction to Still Cameras

Composition:
Photography is a visual language which our universe in starting to understand more and more. Understanding how it works is one thing but we also need to know the vocabulary that comes with it. The main vocabulary is, shapes, textures, patterns, lines, and colours, shade of light to dark and sharp to blurry images. Just like we learn to arrange words into proper sentences, in order for what we say and read to make sense, we must also do this with our visual elements, in an organized manner, in order for our photographs to convey their meaning clearly and vividly.

Composition is the placement or arrangement of visual elements or ingredients in a work of art, as distinct from the subject of a work. It can also be thought of as the organization of the elements of art according to the principles of art.

The Rule of Thirds:
This is one of the most popular rules in photography.
It is based on; imaginary lines that are drawn dividing the image into thirds both horizontally and vertically (like a noughts and crosses board). The aim is to place the important elements of your composition where these lines intersect. Using this rule, helps produce nicely balanced easy on the eye pictures. You have to position things relatice to the edges of the frame, this helps get rid of ‘tiny subjext surrounded by vast empty space syndrome.

Preliminary Task Evaluation

For our preliminary task we shot in one of the media class rooms. This location ending up working well for our task, as the lighting was good to work with, the the ambiance the room gave worked. I helped set up everything at the beginning and instructed the actors as to what they were to do and where they needed to be. My other job was also to stand out side and tell Archie when he needed to enter the room. I thought that the lighting should be dark with some light so you could just see their faces and body, this gave the effect or tension and something bad happening in the scene. The lighting was effective as it showed Millie scared and Archie as a big guy who was forcing Millie to do something. Our camera was set up correctly, we did colour bars at the beginning on the tape for 30 seconds and set up the exposure and aperture right, the only issue we had with the camera was it had a faulty microphone, so we would just have to dub the voices in using a voice over. At every shot we made sure the tripod was level and at the right angle. We checked the frames on each shot to make sure they were correct, and each take we did, we repeated to make sure we had the best shot we could get. The angles were appropriate for the shots, to make Archie look like the more dominant one and Millie to look weak. We used the storyboard to shoot our shots, and we started with all our wide shoots first, and had our actors run through the storyboard over and over again until we thought we had all our shots we needed. We then did the same for are mid shots, close ups, point of view shots, and our different angle shots. The reason for re taking all the shots, is so in editing you can cut the ones that you do not think fit as well, and have the clip looking natural.

Synopsis of Thriller FIVE

The story is set in 1963 in the American countryside. A 52 year old American man, Ryan, who needs to seek revenge of the murder of his wife. His wife, Suzy was a lot younger than him, she was 29 at the time of her murder, also an American. She was murdered by the wife of the man she had an affair with. Ryan was quite a spiritual man, not Christian, but Black Magic. He has as ritual that he wants to perform to regain his wife, and the only way it can work is if he uses victims that resemble his wife. It takes him a year to collect his four victims He chose them as they all had different characteristics to his wife. His four victims were Ella, Estelle, Caroline and Harriot. Mean while, the daughter is witnessing all of these women being taken away and never seen again. On the fourth victim she plucks up the courage to go down to the basement were she has been told not to go, she then hears screams and other terrifying sounds. When the time comes for the fifth and final victim the ritual says it must be the family bloody of the man. Unfortunately Ryan has turned completely delusional and the only person he then sees that has his family blood and reminds him of his wife is his only daughter. The ritual does not end up working because the daughter isn't actually his, his wife had an affair with the husband of the women who murdered her and the daughter was his and not Ryan's.

Shining

Account of shoot day

The planning for out shoot day consisted of our pre-production pack. Which had our story, storyboard, props list, cast list, set and lighting plans. The studio and lighting had been set up prior to our shoot day. As our story changed a number of times, our finished set was no where like our original storyboard. We were probably not as well prepared for our shoot day as we should have. We new how we wanted out characters to look, but as our story had changed a lot we were not entirely sure as to the exact shots we wanted and the order we wanted them in, I think we would have benefited from a little more planning time.

As all of our shooting was done in the studio we were on the same set all day. Which was less stressful, as we didn't have to think about how long we would spend on each set. We used a lot of lose-up shoots to get the full feel of the expressions and emotions on the characters faces. We didn't do many camera movements as they were not necessarily crucial for out shooting. The shots I like the most were the close-up shoots we had of Lou, the young child. Being so close meant you really saw her expressions and believed there was something wrong with her. The shoot I liked the least was the birds eye view shot, I just felt that we were to far away from what was happening to really get into what was happening.

We chose to use the studio as our location, because our story was only set in one place. We made the studio into one room which looked like an interrogation room. We then had a two way mirror so we could film the 'government' people on the other side. Just using one location meant we didn’t waste and time moving from set to set, or in setting up. The only thing I thought was wrong was the set, was it was quite small, so was hard to get some of the camera angles.

Our props were the table, chair, drawings of the pentagram, and a pen. Our story did not require us to have lots of props, we kept it simple. Russell, the man who was interrogating the little girl, wore a simple work suit, to show he was important, and a business like man. Lou who was the little girl, had crazy/messy hair, pale makeup and worn looking clothes, to give the effect of a strange girl, who is clearly not entirely normal. The three other 'government' men, wore shirts and suit jacks, to show they were important, business people.

We had an external actor for the main guy. We chose Russell because he looked like he would fit the character. We needed someone who looked important, and slightly scary. He was a great choice to use, as he really fitted into the part, and made it convincing that there was really something wrong with this girl, and sense to all the stuff she was doing. We chose Lou to play the little girl, because we needed someone who looked a young age. Lou was extremely convincing in her acting, and mad you believe she was possessed by the devil, so it was a good choice in casting. The other three men, we chose three boys who had old looking faces, as not much of them was seen so it suited.

In the interrogation room we just had a simple light bulb hanging from the ceiling. In order to use the two way mirror we had to have direct lighting from above and angle it correctly, this was already set up for us. We then had blackboards which went around the set to lose the reflection of the camera and crew, when using the two way mirror. I feel our lighting was successful. We did no use any separate sound recording but we will be using some prerecorded sounds in editing.

My role was the camera girl. I was on the camera all day, setting it up for each shot, filming the shot, saying whether the lighting was to bright, or off. Lottie, was watching the mini screen, telling us if the shot was off, what was wrong, whether it was good, if something needed to be changed. Millie was helping me holding the microphone and helping me move the camera around, and directing the actors as what to do. Emma, was writing down the shots list, did the makeup for the cast and directed the actors in their parts.

Overall I think we worked well as a team, although some could have perhaps got involved a bit more. But we had no arguing on the day and all agreed with everything said, so we were effective overall.

Shooting the last shot was so good to do, as we new we were done and it went successfully. We were happy with all the shots we had got and how they turned out. The footage did not follow our storyboard in anyway, as on the day, the actors and cast all contributed little ideas to the story, so the storyline grew and change significantly. Which I
think was an improvement to what we had already got. The changes really grew our overall story, and the shoots we were then able to do were even better than the ones originally planned to do.

Sony PD170

Once switching on the camera, you need to ensure you are in manual mode, and that manual focus is selected, You then need to set the white balance. Before shooting, you need to do colour bars for the first 30 seconds of the tape.

The Tripod

There are 9 main parts to a tripod.

1. The camera plate

2. Tilt lock

3. Pan & tilt bar

4. Tilt tension lever

5. Pan lock

6. Quick release lever

7. Level adjustment

8. Height locks

9. Spreader

Using a tripod allows you to film things with the footage being steady and not at all rocky. You can adjust the height of the tripod and you can put each leg out at different lengths, so that is your surface is uneven you can make your tripod level. You can use the pan and tilt bar to obviously pan and tilt, and the tilt tension lever to change the bar to make is easier to move.

Four major rules to remember.

- Make sure you never over tighten the screwed on the plate.

- Never let go of the camera until you are absolutely sure that it is locked in position.

- Don't lose the camera plate.

- Never let go of the pan and tilt bar with the tilt lock off.

The Studio

On our first practical lesson, we went into the filming suite where we sat infront of the camera and had someone interview us and ask us various questions. These were the questions in the interview:
- Why have you chosen this subject at AS?
- Do you have any existing skills/Past knowledge about this subject?
- What is your favourite film and why?
- What is your top TV programmer and why?
- What type of music do you like?
- Name two of your most played tunes on your ipod
- Name the film that you last saw at the cinema.
- Can you tell us a joke?
And finally.. What do you hope to get out of the subject?

Film Analysis on the film Cody Banks: Destination London

The genre of the film is an action comedy. It is the sequence film to Agent Cody Banks. The film is set in America and I can tell this by the accents have the people and that the teenagers are at a camp, which is like the camp in America. The general characters in the film are teenagers or young children. The temporal is modern and this can be analysed by the clothes that the people are wearing and their hairstyles. The spatial of the film is set from the day and works through until late at night, you know it is late at night as everyone is asleep and in bed. There are three main sequences to the 10-minute extract. There is the opening sequence, where it is setting the scene of the camp in the daytime, and moves along to when the parents start to arrive into the evening and the third sequence is later on in the evening when everyone is in bed and the action scene occurs.

The establish shot, is a close up on the main character Cody. The close up is off the boy in camouflage in amongst the bushes. The beginning sequence is an action montage, using various shots from a wide shot, a long shot to a close up. The angles of the shots vary from high to low angle and eye line view. This establishing shot and sequence ends on a mid shot of Cody successfully winning the camp competition. On the second sequence, the first shot is a three person shot of Cody talking with two boys, and the angle of the shots goes from either point of view. The whole of this sequence involves mid shots, long shots, wide shots and extreme close up shots, these shots are establishing the children turning the CIA camp into a regular camp before the parents come, this sequences ends on a two person mid shot. The last sequences starts on a close up on the helicopters flying into the camp, again there is a montage sequence, consisting of long shots, mid shots and wide shots. All of these shots are used to establish the setting and the surroundings, and to add emphasis onto the aspect, which are important to the story line.

The opening shot is at eye line view, showing the importance of the main character Cody. The majority of this shot is montage, for the action purposes. In this sequence it mainly uses tracking in to out, and out to in, and pedding up to down and down to up. The second sequence has four main camera movements, zooming in too out, tracking left to right and right to left, and panning left to right and right to left. The final sequence also has a montage scene of the in action fighting against the official men in the helicopters, and uses panning and zooming as the movement of the camera. All of these aspects add to the intensity of the shot and to exaggerate what is happening to the audience.

The establishing shot is a fade in from a black out, and through out the sequences a jump cut is used to go from scene to scene and place to place. A jump cut means there is never a pause at the movie continues and never stops keeping you interested in what is happening. Motivated cuts are also used, which immediately makes the viewer want to see something, which is not currently visible. The cutaway shot is used in the fighting scene at the beginning, showing the fight and the campsite surrounding. An insert shot is used once, when they are preparing the camp for the parents arriving.

The main sound in the film is the dialog; there is dialog between the people in camp, and people on walky talkies on the helicopter radios. Non diagetic and diagetic sound is used, and during the fight scenes there is music which is not heard by the characters but by us, but there is background noises of animals in the forest and so forth that the characters can hear.

Analysis on Image Production

For my contemporary horror film poster I re-enacted the poster for the film ‘The Ring’ (American version). My main aim of the poster was for the signification to be scary as it was a horror poster.

My poster is made up of various paradigms, which together give me my main syntagm. I started to think about creating my poster by brainstorming various ways in which I could portray the main idea of ‘The Ring’ without giving any of the film away but still being effective.

The various paradigms in my syntagm are colour, the image of the girl, and the landscape, such as trees, grass, and plants. The main focus of the poster was on the girl. In the film the girl is portrayed as scary, which is how I was aiming for her to come across in the poster. I took a long shot of a girl in various stances so I could then use them in Photoshop to manipulate them into a way I wanted, to show her on my poster. Not being able to see her face was a key factor when taking my photographs. Not being able to see her face symbolises to me that there is either something wrong with her face looks wise, or that she is just a very shy disturbed girl.

The main image is of the landscape, I used an empty field with a dark forest behind it because in a lot of horror films these two things are symbolised with loneliness and being terrified.

The focal point of my camera is not necessary one thing, but the main images your eyes are drawn to in the centre are the various images of the girl fading into the distance. The position of the camera is between a low angle and in eye view. The main image is an extreme wide shot, with some long shots and mid shots manipulated into it. I used the rule of thirds to position my images carefully so the most important aspects of my poster are noticed and in a relatively good order.

Just from looking at the girl in the image you are not given very many clues as to who she is. All you can tell is that she is a girl with long dark hair. This way not a lot is given away of the film, therefore people are inclined to want to watch the film. I did not use colour in my poster, because I thought it gave more of a dramatic effect, and made things seem scarier. As if the poster had been in lot of bright colours it would not of had the same effect as with dark gloomy colours.

Introduction

Hiya,I'm Shahla Dowley, i have just started studying As media at Hurtwood House. Throughout my studying at Hurtwood for media i hope to come out of my year with the ability to be able to create my own movie sequence and the knowledge of the media that surrounds us daily. The programmes i most enjoy watching on television are the typical soap operas that are on at really inconvenient times of the day, like Neighbours, Hollyoaks and Home and Away, I'm not sure why i like these so much they are just really addictive to watch and know what is going to happen the next day.My ultimate reality series would have to be The Hills, i refuse to ever miss an episode and can watch re-runs all day. Being a girl my typical movie genre is not action pact, with lots of killing, it's the more soppy chick flick romantic films, my all time favourite film would have to be The Notebook, there isn't one time i have not cried while watching it. I'm generally pretty easy with the genre of music i listen to, but one thing i will not listen to is heavy metal, i actually hate it. I have only had three weeks in media so far, and it is proving to be very challenging and demanding, but I'm enjoying it. Photoshop is cool, but oh so confusing to work, but the more i use it, the better I'm getting at it. There is a fair amount of essay writing to be done in media which I'm not best at but will get through.Yep that's pretty much it.