Monday 30 November 2009

Production Roles for our coursework

Director: Shamima
Producer: Mirza
Actor: Sabina and Rashid
Camera work: Shamima
Editing: Shamima and Sabina

A scene from Final Destination 3



Lewis' Death:
This is when Lewis dies in an unaxpected way, when we see the knives come down we (the audience)think he is going to die or his arms are going to cut off. however the knives cut the ropes off the weights that Lewis is using; then we see something really unexpected happen the weights come and CRUSH his face and blood splatters out. This meets the generic convention of a thriller, because something happens that the viewers dont expect and there is blood.

Amusement [2008] Theatrical Teaser



This meets the generic convention of a thriller, because you see the weather is really bad. the characters are in an isolated place, they cannot escape. there is something coming out of the walls, that you dont expect and at the end of the trailer there is someone standing right necxt to the actress with a mask on. And she is really terrified.

P2



This meets the generic conventions of a thriller, because, the actress is alone, it is christmas time; she should be going home to be with her family. when she goes to the car park it is dark. She tries to start the car, but it refuses to start. She tries to start it over and over but it doesnt work. In addition her cell phone has no signal because she's in the underground of the building where she work. we see something moving really quickly. all the lights turn off, which tells us that something 'BAD' is going to happen. there is also alot of action as you can see, the place fills up with water, the actress is a victim and she has been kidnapped.

Ideas for the opening scene of our film

The first idea we have is that we are going to film a girl running away from something that we (audience) dont know about. She would be running in an isolated place/road. Then she would dramatically stop running and start looking around and she is looking really worried and terrified and saying "what have i got myself into?"

Another idea we have is that a lady is coming out of a building (could be her workplace) and walking towards her car in the car park at night. She is talking on the phone to her husband saying she'll be home in half an hour. Then she reaches out to open her car door when suddenly she feels something moving behind her, then she turns around and theres nothing there. We then see it again and then we it blacks out and we hear her scream.......

Genre Research

The genre that we decided on is 'THRILLER'.
Normally thrillers would involve sudden plot twists and makes people unsure and guessing what is going to happen next. It creates suspence and can get almost unbearable.

The generic conventions of a thriller usaully involve
>> Murderers
>> Kidnappers
>> Guns
>> Blood
>> Violence
>> Victim - women, child, step father
>> Death
>> Vengeance
>> Bad Weather
>> Isolated Suburb Area
>> Large Empty House
>> Evening/Night Time
>> Abnormal Activities
>> Chases
>> Unexpectedness

There are different types of thrillers. Theres horror thrillers like: Saw, Final Destination etc...
Theres also action thrillers such as James Bond, Die Hard etc...

Thrillers are seen because its exciting and it gives the audience an adrenalin rush from seeing things that dont normally happen in real/every day life.

Thursday 26 November 2009

preliminary excercise



This is our preliminary exercise

Tuesday 17 November 2009

Today we finished editing our perliminary exercise. Now we started on the transitions and the sound/music. the lesson went well in general. By shamima and sabina

Thursday 12 November 2009

perliminary exercise

Today we edited a bit of our perliminary exercise. we edited a lot but then the laptop crashed and all our edited work got lost as we did not save it. however we did then have a bit of time to still edit our work a little. we learnt a very valuable lesson today which is to save our work all the time. next lesson hopefully we'll be finished our perliminary exercise. overall the lesson went good and we have some good edits.

meeting take 1 (meating) Mirz, Ruhul and Afsal





In this video i was in charge of the camera. Ruhul and Afsal were acting and so i did not participate in the acting much. However the camera shots in this video were not as good they should be because this was my first piece of work and after this video i learnt the different types of camera shots and so improvements can be seen in the next couple of videos we made. By MIRZA RAHMAN

Meeting (Take 1) Rashid and Tayef

This was my first clip in AS media so the quality of the video is in poor standard.However, after my first attempt, I improved and my camera skills improved. In this video I did some acting and some camera work.