British Film Institute

   Last Wednesday, the media group visited the BFI in London. It was a helpful and freezing trip, ending with our own year head leading us the wrong way home and me getting a snowball to the face.

I'm sure speaking for everyone in the conference, we all know what NOT to do. We learnt some helpful tips and tricks; I found the talks from the two editors of 'Monsters' and some of the Bond films highly interesting.

   After a lunch on comfy sofa's, I personally enjoyed the past examples, one or two were amazing, maybe just the one, and a couple maybe not so, but we gained a knowledge of definitely not what to do.

  Here's a short video of our trouble's there and back

Ridiculous (on purpose) editing and out first attempt tracking.

Heather and I were simply bored in our free time and decided to have a mess about with the iMovie, obviously Ms Foster found it mesmorising so asked for it to be uploaded. I'm pretty sure this isn't a reflection of our movie, so don't worry guys.



This was our first attempt tracking, it's clearly not our greatest.

Snorricam

Ms Foster has gone all out and decided as a class we are going to make a Snorricam. To be honest I don't have a clue how we are going to do this, but we will! Many of us have great ideas that could be produced with this camera, the shot would be pretty effective..

Obviously this is not going to be the easiest thing to carry off, some of our small media student may topple over, but I'm certain it will all pay off.







This is a video that reflects what the snorricam will produce, obviously won't be quite as easy to make as we can't casually 'make one after work!'.

Lily May Profile

This is our little star Lily May. It's just a little video for all of our many fans that want a small insight of what we had to go through (just imagine her older sister if you think Lily May's a maniac).

Se7en

 Last Friday we watched the thriller, Se7en. It was most probably one of the twisted yet well put together films I have watched. The shots are incredible as well as the plot. The characters play their part so well, which create the build up for the end scene. I think the symbolism of God Vs The Devil comes across relevantly in this film. Kevin Spacey who plays the vulgar killer, makes you feel very uncomfortable without his face being on screen.

 Whoever directed and wrote this film, are outstandingly intelligent. To think of such a plot that makes one jump, laugh and question your own sanity deserves a pat on the back (or maybe an award). I've been told that the film has two different endings, and I would love to see how they put together the second ending.

Character Profile

Character Profile stolen from my fellow media pals

 A shot of Lilly looking intimidated by her father (me!)

 Lilly looking depressed, possibly after the fact she was told she had to wear a nightdress

 THE DEBATE! Do we tuck them in/not/roll them up?

 The best part of filming with 7 year olds is the fact they have one of these

 Millie sad she couldn't get goosebumps (cold-hearted vampire)

 In the process of filming the close up of Millie smoking

 Me showing off my fantastic filming talents

The amusement/annoyance of the day- Squashing of the many ladybirds

We started filming for our media project on the 27th of October and it went reasonably well. It was a very stressful and time consuming day. From the tantrums of Lilly not wanting to wear a nightdress, to the several ladybirds trying to get a sneak peak of the set. The weather didn't start to our favour but it turned out to be a sunny day, but our patience run out and we had to finish our efforts and decide to finish on another day.

Marking Criteria

G321 Marking Criteria

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Practice Smoking

This is some practice filming we did for our smoke shots. It also includes some practice of speaking Swedish for our real piece, and a few light-hearted outtakes.

Practice filming/editing

This is just a little something we put together in our free periods. Obviously not that serious, but please ignore the end as i had no say in whether it went in or not!

Prelim

Obviously I will be famous by friday, and I will be the Queen Vic's new Landlady, but this is Mac 1's Preliminary Exercise!

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

The girl with the dragon tattoo is well worth watching. I would recommend it to anyone interested in thrillers and mysteries and anyone interested in the Swedish language! It's definitely got moments where you would want to leave the room, which Millie experienced, but other aspects make the film different from others I've seen.

I was lucky enough to watch this film with Millie and Yasemin with thanks to our generous teacher Ms Foster.  Apart from the fact that the volume was ridiculously quiet for the last fifth of the film, many shots caught my eye, and I love how the story has two parts that become solved: What happened to Harriet, and what happened in Lisbeth's past. The fact that the director also uses smoke shots is very similar to the idea we hope to portray in our project. I love the flashbacks, and I love the contrast of Lisbeth at the start and then at the end. I would definently watch the film again, it's just very unpredictable.

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Media Presentation

 This is Mac 1 presenting our Media Pitch, quite close up. But this is our crazy Swedish film.

Media Pitch

Media Pitch on Prezi

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Genre

In our media lesson yesterday we were discussing Genre's. After brainstorming, I have taken note of a few that my group could revolve our 2 minute opening on.

Here are some examples of the Genre's we were focusing on.

Comedy Parodies/spoofs: Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz

Alternative 500 Days of Summer, Juno

Horror/Thriller Se7en, Panic Room, Room 1408

Chick Flick Clueless, Sex and The City

Action The Matrix, Die Hard

Hand Held Shakey CameraBlair Witch Project, Paranormal Activity

DocumentarySupersize me

This is an article about the openings of films
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/sep/23/bass-opening-credits

Mean Girls Analysis

This is the opening to the one, the only 'Mean Girls'. I guarentee every teenage girls can recite this film back to front!



Here are some screen shots of the shots I found from the clip above of different camera shots I noticed.

This is a close up of one of the actresses from the clip. As you can see, it focuses mainly on her face close up.

This is known as a wide shot, or long shot. The camera manages to fit a whole person and background in to view.

This is known as a medium close up, which focuses on a certain thing or person. As you can see the shot is focused on the Headteacher walking in to the room.

This is known as an Over The Shoulder Shot. It cuts off the actor's heads and gives a shot from just behind the ears to view the person in front.

This shot is known as a Point Of View. It's an effective shot which gives the audience a sense of perspective from the actor's point of view.

This is known as a Medium Close Up. They are usually framed from the top of head to the top of shoulders, as shown. It gives the audience a detailed version of an actor.

Jaws Shot by Shot

This is the example i used to help me write my shot by shot analysis for Mean Girls

Jaws Shot By Shot - Part 1

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Dawn of the Dead

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e110orTbj5Y

As i can not embed the scene due to youtube playing up i have attatched the URL. Dawn of the dead has a great opening. It is obviously a horror film, and although it shouldn't it made me feel like laughing. The credits are very uneasy and quite gruesome, with flashing images of scary zombies and lots of blood. The song that commences with the credits is a very upbeat song, but once you listen to the lyrics you realise it's very fit to purpose, as the song's called "it's the end of the world (as we know it)". The camera effects are very creepy and gruesome, which make the opening professional. The opening credits have news footage which makes it look realistic.
This film also has a spoof called 'Shaun of the dead' which is appropriiate to the genre I would like to look at. It's a horror/comedy film, which I would like to look in to for my media piece.

Se7en

Se7en is undoubtedly a scary film due to the opening of the film. The fact that it doesn't show any faces gives the audience a sense of the unknown- all they see is fingers which can give an eery appearence. The media and credits are all of an eery atmosphere: very creepy and on edge. For me, the cutting of skin makes me feel very unsafe and shows how the film will be of horror. The music suits the credits completely as they both link in with the horror-mystery them. The director Kyle Cooper obviously made the beginning very dark and dull to reflect the mystery of the film and show the nostalgic that will appear throughout the film.
All of these link in with the fact that Se7en is a very professional horror, and the beginning kickstarts the eeriness of the whole film.