This is my Thriller and Horror mood boards i created about some things i would find creepy and disturbing. I created these in order to help me come up with some ideas for our opening sequences.
Monday, 29 November 2010
My presentation
We were given a task to choose a thriller or horror movie and prepare a presentation about the opening sequence. I chose Kill Bill vol.1 because it's one of my favourite movies, however the opening scene didn't include the opening credits therefore i couldn't comment on the placing of the words. But there were plenty of other things to comment on such as the black and white effect in the scene which gave it both a memory effect and also not seeing the actual colour of the blood, bruises etc makes it more realistic because a shot that close up and held so long would surely appear to be fake if it was in colour. This opening scene is also very important because it gave us some important information of the storyline and the camera time given to the woman in the scene immediately caused the audience to side with her.
Even though I thought it was a brilliant opening scene, i think some credits could have fitted in there, the leading actors, director etc.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew5EYd5_i6M
Even though I thought it was a brilliant opening scene, i think some credits could have fitted in there, the leading actors, director etc.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew5EYd5_i6M
Opening Title Sequences
When we're talking about opening title sequences, we come up against some very important names such as Saul Bass, Maurice Binder and Kyle Cooper. Saul Bass could easily be considered as the father of graphical title sequences which was extremely futuristic at the time. He influenced many others after him and he worked with very big names such as Alfred Hitchcock.
Kyle Cooper is by far one of the people who have developed hugely in the art of opening title sequences. This is a fast combination of his work, it is truly inspiring to anyone interested in any sort of media.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf2yk1x-Fis
Sunday, 7 November 2010
Saturday, 6 November 2010
PRELIMINARY TASK (second time around :) )
Location:
We used one of the classrooms as a location. Although it wasn't the most relevant location to the script, we were more interested in learning the shooting process rather than the script. We also had a redhead and a blonde (lighting), to support our shoooting. We didn't really know how to use them, so we improvised and set the lighting in a way that their would be the shadow of one of the actors in the background while we were doing the medium close up on the other actor. By doing this we connected them in a single shot even though there was only one person in the screen.
Actors:
We had used two of us from the group for the trial, this time we thought it would be more convenient for all of us to give our full attention to the shooting. For this reason we used two other friends to help us out by acting in our scene.
Shooting:
We were told that we could finish the whole shooting process in only 5 shots (2 close ups+2 over shoulders+1wide shot). Ofcourse, we couldn't manage that because of the classic corpsings (uncontrolable laughters that puts actors out of character), and the occasional camera confusions etc. But in the end we managed to get our five shots ready to go to the editing room.
Editing:
The editing was more complicated than what we had expected. There were some shots that we were rather proud of and some cuts which were hardly flawless, however in the end I think we pulled it off quite well.
Sound:
We were going to add some sound effects using the program Final Cut Pro, and we tried out different options. In the end we decided that the fake sound effects made our scene less realistic, so we ended up not using it. Although we did not use the program, we did spend loads of time on it to learn how it functions because it's certain we'll need it in the future.
We used one of the classrooms as a location. Although it wasn't the most relevant location to the script, we were more interested in learning the shooting process rather than the script. We also had a redhead and a blonde (lighting), to support our shoooting. We didn't really know how to use them, so we improvised and set the lighting in a way that their would be the shadow of one of the actors in the background while we were doing the medium close up on the other actor. By doing this we connected them in a single shot even though there was only one person in the screen.
Actors:
We had used two of us from the group for the trial, this time we thought it would be more convenient for all of us to give our full attention to the shooting. For this reason we used two other friends to help us out by acting in our scene.
Shooting:
We were told that we could finish the whole shooting process in only 5 shots (2 close ups+2 over shoulders+1wide shot). Ofcourse, we couldn't manage that because of the classic corpsings (uncontrolable laughters that puts actors out of character), and the occasional camera confusions etc. But in the end we managed to get our five shots ready to go to the editing room.
Editing:
The editing was more complicated than what we had expected. There were some shots that we were rather proud of and some cuts which were hardly flawless, however in the end I think we pulled it off quite well.
Sound:
We were going to add some sound effects using the program Final Cut Pro, and we tried out different options. In the end we decided that the fake sound effects made our scene less realistic, so we ended up not using it. Although we did not use the program, we did spend loads of time on it to learn how it functions because it's certain we'll need it in the future.
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