My Film

What Genre will you be creating a poster for?
Horror/ Fantasy/Mystery

What colour scheme would suit this particular genre?
A dark and mysterious theme would be good to communicate the horror fantasy theme. Dark blacks and greys with blood reds and white highlights.

What textures and type of shapes would best suit this genre?
Soft background images that are indistinct and the sharp contrast of the faces with bright red eyes. Also an image that captures the audiences atttention, mine being the White Rose with blood and the gold crown.

Who is the intended audience for your website?
I would rate this film MA 15+ as it contains violent themes. The intended audience is for older teenagers who like horror films but with a hint of fantasy. It boarders along the lines of Twilight and such films however it is aimed at older viewers.

After looking at the websites Da Font OR 1001 FONTS
Which fonts would suit your film genre?

Dingbats - Horror/Halloween Fonts via DA FONT

1001 FONTS - Fire or Horror Fonts

What is an appropriate title for your film?

Snow White & Rose Red - a film based on a twisted version of the classic fairytale.

DVD POSTER

Possible career opportunities in the industry

A possible career opportunity is Multimedia Computing. Multimedia includes animation, game design, web content, art design, graphic design, video, music and presentation. The multimedia industry produces content for entertainment presentation or advertising.

To work in the any multimedia careers personal qualities such as creativity, innovation and artistic talent are useful as well as vibrant personalities and charisma. Such personal qualities will help with the learned skills obtained from degrees. The skills and abilities required may vary from job to job. Multimedia encompasses many fields, meaning students often specialize in certain areas.

Workers usually begin in entry level positions as assistants.


The multimedia industry is a good career opportunity as it involves a number of different jobs and aspects. This can be suited to a wide range of people as everyone likes to different jobs. By specializing in a certain area your career can develop well as you work on just that one aspect.
By learning a number of multimedia skills you can be flexible in the industry and therefore often have plenty of work available to you as you are not limited with what you can do.

Creation Of My Video

Linaah and I were in a group to create our video. we decided on a video about dancing, which we narrowed down to the dance style "Jerking". This was decided due to the fact that we would be able to get enough footage as we have friends who dance this style. On the weekend we borrowed out an art camera and went down to film them dance on the street. We made sure that we got plenty of variety and shots so as to create an interesting video and so that both Linaah and I would have different footage.

Once we had our footage we continued onto our individual work. I uploaded the footage to iMovie and started to cut and play with the different effects. Once I had my footage on the timeline and cut as I liked, I worked on synchronizing the footage to work with the music. I changed songs a number of times, trying to find one that I liked and suited the theme of my video.

After I had finished using the effects in iMovie, my video was still did not have the right effect so I moved it into Final Cut Pro to work with more effects.

FINAL CUT PRO

LINAAH AND MY VIDEO

Film Type:
A Music Video with a message

Brief:
Intention - to show stereotypes among young adolescents

Purpose -to inform people that stereotyping young adolescents is bad

Target Audience - teenagers particularly because it is them who does alot of stereotyping of others and alot of the time they don't understand the effect it can have on those people

Idea (Synopsis) - A music Video that features different youth that are stereotyped such as emos, nerds, fobs, skaters etc

Possible Themes:

Ideas:
Setting - In public and each character will be shot were they hangout such as skates at the skate park and surfers at the beach etc.

Music -

Dialogue - At the end of the film when the footage of the characters has been displayed a message about stereotypes will come up.

Sound effects -

Characters - We are going to get young people who fit the groups of skaters, FOBS, emos/goth/scene, gangsters, surfers, nerds/geeks, blondes, bisexual, black/white, fat/skinny, braces, glasses

Props -

Costumes - Just what the people are wearing

Camera Angles - Close ups of peoples faces

MAKING A VIDEO

1. Executive producer: manages time line and budget
2. Writer: takes the idea or concept and writes the script
3. Producer: in charge of the creative team, secures the service of the production crew,
prepare shooting schedules, on time and in budget
4. Director:directs the cast and crew, tells people what to do, explains the production to
technical crew and performers and has the final say
5. Production manager: coordinates all the different stages, track the production
6. Storyboard artist: draw up rough sketches, visual interpretation
7. Camera operator: shoots the required scenes work with the lighting director who ensures
the desired effect is created
8. Sound technician: ensure the dialogue and other sounds are properly recorded,
microphones and levels are correct, final sound mix
9. Talent: are the cast, deliver the content
10. Editor: finish off the production, cutting footage, music, graphics, special effects and text

11. Define brief: Intention, Purpose, Target Audience, sets the limitations of the proJect
such as budget and time frame

Pre-production

12. What is the purpose of the pre production stage?
Plans of the shooting are put into place
13. What are some of the tasks done in the pre production stage?
scripting, scene breakdown, storyboard, shot list, casting, locations, equipment hire,
catering, transport, informing people
14. Why is the pre-production stage so important to the production process?
It is preparation
15. What are three important things to remember in the pre-production process? Making sure you had an available setting,

Production

16. What is the production stage also known as?
The doing stage where the shooting of the film takes place
17. What are some tasks done in the production stage?
camera operator and lighting, sound,
18. What are three important things to remember in the production process?
shooting schedule is followed, variety of camera angles and shots, safety issues
19. What does ‘continuity’ mean? Why is it an important consideration of the
production stage?
making sure that certain objects and items are still in the same place

Post-Production

20. What is one of the major tasks completed in post-production?
Editing
21. What is the difference between an off-line edit and an online edit?
Offline (rough cut edit) On-line (final cut edit)
22. What are some of the tasks done by an editor?
Cutting footage and audio together, graphics, titles, sound mixing, work with
Producer/Director
23. What task is done after an edit? What is the purpose of this task?
A sound mix can be made where a sound technician adjusts sound so they are correctly
balanced

EXPERIMENTAL PHOTO SHOTS

FILM & GENRE

BLARE WITCH
THRILLER

The Simpsons
CARTOON

THE GOD FATHER
CRIME/EPIC/HISTORICAL

MOULIN ROUGE
(HOLLYWOOD) MUSICAL

ALIEN
SCIENCE FICTION

SAVING PRIVATE RYAN
WAR FILM

FRIDAY THE 13TH
HORROR

BRAVE HEART
HISTORICAL FILM

27 DRESSES
ROMANTIC COMEDY

WILD WILD WEST
WESTERN

LIFE OF JOHN BUTLER
DOCUMENTARY

INDIANA JONES
ADVENTURE

ARMAGEDDON
DISASTER MOVIE

CASABLANCA
ROMANCE

TITANIC

MISE EN SCENE:
LIGHTING: There was warm lighting in the machinery room to give a sense of heat and a lot of work going on, Blue and dark creating a suspense feeling and sad, tragic feeling
SETTING: The deck of the boat shows what is happening around the ship and the iceberg that is drawing nearer. The machinery room shows what is happening in the ship and what all the workers are doing.
ACTING: Sweating
PROPS: Iceberg, steering wheel, machinery,
CINEMATOGRAPHY:
CAMERA SPEED:

SOUND

EDITING

EDITING

MISE EN SCENE

This is the combination of all the visual elements within the frame (frame: the physical boundary that contains what the audience sees)

SHOT TYPES

EDITS

Fades
Wipes
Dissolves
Cuts

HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGER

CAMERA MOVEMENT: The start builds up anticipation by flowing the camera slowly with the movement of the girl then builds up to fast. The slow the camera movement to show the action in slow motion and also go back to the people watching

CINEMSTOGRAPHY

NOTTING HILL

GENRE: Romantic comedy because it was a warm and happy setting that developed into a more intimate relationship between the two lovers.
SHOT TYPES: close-ups to create the sense that the audience is with the characters to create an intimate encounter. Wide long shots to create a context of whats happening.
LIGHTING: Warm lighting to give that warm fuzzy feeling in the house and then that warm loving moonlight to create an intimate moment between the characters
PROPS: Clothing is designed so that it could be someone you know to connect the audience to the characters. Brownie and the fence emphasised how different they were a characters. The wheelchair and the park bench was a symbol for love.
SETTING: Warm laughing household then o a moon lit park that is soft and loving.

BASIC FILM TERMINOLOGY