Preliminary Task Evaluation

I think everybody in our group equelly contiributted despite our unfortunate luck of having to re-shooting and editting our work. However, i felt although the whole of the background should have been black- so we could have possibly turned the curtain around the room. There were also props that are vaguely seen in the background which I think we could have done without- especially the light in the background in some shots of the criminal. Here you can clearly see clothing/ cloth has been used to cover crops and has been unsuccesful. This is made bolder by the white wall.

I feel although my strongest point within the task was getting the right angle in order to shoot the film and I think I am also rather good at editting and creating successful match-on action within the editting. I think I do however need to work on how to use the camera- such as different settings as I felt although I was asking for help from my peers too much. I should try to gain more knowlege of the camera before shooting out thriller openings. But in conlusion, I think that our Preliminary Task as a whole went very well as everybody equelly contributted and helped each other during the project.

Evidence of my contribution

 

 

I helped import diagetic sound onto our falling down project

I helped construct the presentation on different camera angles.

This is me and sophie importing our photos onto the computer to use in our storyboard.

 

Sophie read the order in which we were to put our photographs and I put them in that order.

This is me importing and reviewing our videos, cutting them into their orginal clips and deletting the un-necessary.

 

 

This is me and Sophie cropping our clips to make them in sycn for match on action.

 

 

 

Directors commentary

To evaluate our group work we created a directors commenty ontop of our video. We did this by recording our voices on garageband, then importing it onto the video clip and saved it as a seperate file. Since our video was only 20 seconds long, we repeated the video over and over again whilst we commentted on what went well and didnt go so well during the shoot. We could have possibly muted the sound in the video so our voices were clearer as a points it's difficult to hear our comments. We could have also paused our video to the points that we were commenting on eg. the match on action we used in our filming. Considering this is our first video together as a group, i am very pleased with the outcome and i think we worked well as a group. As we mention in the commentery, there are some errors but i think we have learnt from these mistakes and we will ensure we will not make the same mistakes during our Thriller film opening.

Preliminary Task

My group and I created an interigation scene as part of our preliminary task- using our fellow classmates as representations of the detective and criminal. We created the movie by using different filming techniques and angles to create a suspisious atmosphere to draw in the viewers attention. We then imported and editted our movie on Final Cut. We cropped the clips seperate from each other before ordering them and deletting the irrelecant clips. We then cut the clips even shorter so no irrelevant details were included and the match on action clips were in sync. I think we editted the film well and is well constructted. Everybody equelly contributted not only to the filming but to the editting too.

Prinilary Task Storyboard

 

This is our idea on how we plan to shoot our preliminary task. We tried to incorperate a range of different shot angles to create a sense of tension and suspision within the clip. Sophie and myself do not plan to act in the film however stood in as the role of the detective and criminal for the photographs. However, i think that these plans may change due to the room availible and wheather these shots are effective or not in creating a sense of atmosphere and to make the clip interesting. We also do not plan to shoot our film in this location as the setting is too bright, but we intend to shoot the footage in a dark room so the audience are unaware of where the characters are suppossed to be locatted.

Hide and Seek (2005) Spoiler Review

Hide and Seek is the story of a father, David, and his mentally unstable daughter, Emily, who experience strange occurrences since Emily makes an 'immaginary friend' she names 'Charlie' following her mother's tragic death which she had left traumatised by. The mystery of the story is to who Charlie is any why he is trying to make Derek's life misery.

The film opens with Emily and her doll spinning round and round on a round-about. This is an ideal way of introducing the child's confused characteristics that are to define her personality shortly having been traumatized by finding her mother dead bathing in her own blood in the bathroom. The colour's are bright and the atmosphere is jolly as the child and mother are laughing. This is ideal in showing the audience Emily's transition from being happy to being traumatized and psychotic.

The last time Emily sees her mother alive, she is in a bright doorway against the dark room which she closes. This is ideal in showing the last memory of the Emily's mother from the her point of view. This scene is very significant as it demonstrates the light closing on her demonstrating life. The scene is repeated several times with the father in the new house, however he does not close the door and leaves it slightly open. Later on in the film I came to realize Emily captures these moments in her drawings. We can learn this as the surrounding is dark.

At the beginning of the film Emily makes what appears to be an imaginary friend she names 'Charlie'- who her father believes is the cause of the strange occurrences. The audience are led to believe that Charlie is a demon due to her drawings and the strange occurrences. But others are led to believe that Charlie is a representation of Emily's evil behavior and knowlege of these strange occurances. However, the twist to this is that Charlie is in reality who she refers to as her father's split personality which is revealed to us in the ending- but David forgets these occurrences as if he is another person.This shot shows Emily's desperation as she moves eagerly towards her father as if for forgiveness, but her innocence is unknown to the audience.  Her figure is darker in the shot in comparison to the light in the background which only adds to the effect.

The location of the film is ideal as it's remote and away from the city. This is shown through the long journey during the opening title sequence. The setting is usually dark when the strange occurrences happen as well. It also rains alot during the film to give a sense of sadness.


The story is repetitive as Derek continues to wake up at 2:06 exactly to be led to the bathroom with a different message in the bathroom- the room in which he found his wife dead. The lighting is perfect as its dark and the candles make the message noticeable and strange as it stutters. The audience are also given the message it is Emily who wrote these messages as it is written in crayon and there is an innocent teddy below it. The audience are also told Charlie wants to ruin Derek's happiness so we know this is aimed at him. We are to learn that Derek was in fact responsible for his wife's death as his dreams gradually unravel the truth.

The trailer briefly shows the finale to the conclusion as Emily is running and Derek is calling her name but we do not directly see him, so the audience can get the impression that she is running from her own father. The film finishes in a dark cave with Emily covering her eyes from the horror of the event, possibly in the hope that it was all just a dream and in the hope that the past does not repeat itself.

In conclusion, Hide and Seek is great psychological thriller as it successfully demonstrates the characters mental illnesses and can make the audience believe in events that are not occurring. This is achieved by using a restricted sequence within the film. I would highly recommend the film to people who enjoy  unsolving mysteries and puzzling elements of a film together to discover the truth.

Overall rating: 4/5

Falling Down Sound Project

As a group, we practiced importing sound onto the opening of the film Falling Down using garageband. We did this by watching the film with the sounds presence in the short clip, then  we imported diegetic sound in the correct places of sequence in the movie by dragging the sound into Garageband, then cropping it and placing it in the correct place so the sound is in sync with the film. I am not very pleased with the result as it takes a while for the sound to come in, but atleast now we have had practice using it.