By the End of today lesson

I will know what software and instrument will be using for the backing track for our opening movie sequence or I may even use a royalty free music source for the music

Almost Time. XD

It is almost time for us to start filming after weeks of planning and looking at places we could film we have found a corridor that will be almost perfect for filming the scene however the only problem I see coming is the corridor that we have chosen is quite a busy corridor and fingers crossed that in the end of school that there will not be any disruption while we are filming.

We have got together a cast which we think are fit for the role, so let me introduce to you the cast:

Kristian - Teacher
Ala - Student

EXTRAS

Faisal - Student #1
Abdiallai - Student #2
Usman - Student #3
Shamakee - Student #4
Anthony - Student #5
Abdulaziz - Student #6

Know Your Role?

We have finally configured who is doing what without any arguments.

Sajjad (Me)-  Camerawork, Music, (Some Editing, Writing)
Abdulaziz - Director, Editor
Filip - Writer, Editor

The reason why Filip and Abdulaziz are editing is because they have experience from filming in GCSE level and gained an "A" for the video, I have experience in editing  but on a different software called " Sony Vegas".

I wanted to challenge myself and get out of my comfort zone by producing some music for the video, I have got some ideas and I am going to be reseaching at home non-stop but if I do not produce anything decent we will need a back-up option which I will need to find over on some non-royalty sites.

A Waste of Time !!!

Today a lesson went to waste, When our script writer (Filip) did not turn up to lesson because "The bus routes where ruined" this has caused made a bit of a problem for us as we can't start nothing without the script, so me and Abdulaziz decided to tell him over Facebook that we will be starting the script without him, which has made him a bit frustrated, but it is essential that we get all this work done.

The story looks promising, hopefully when we print it out in black and white it will look better.

Demographic

Gender: Horror is a

Preliminary Exercise Evaluation

In this blog I will be evaluating the Preliminary Exercise and going frame by frame to analyse every flaw in this video.

I am embarrassed to call to call this "Our Preliminary Exercise" however I think from all the mistakes we have made in this exercise we can improve the main task of making the horror opening sequence.

The first shot of the video is a medium long shot of "The Boss" (Me) fiddling with my thumbs waiting for "The Spy" (Filip).

Focus Group 2/2

Horror movies do not always need amazing story lines as people do not  to see a horror movie and want to see a perfectly structured movie, people want to feel scared and afraid and Mr.Halsey mentioned The Blair Witch Project which was completely made with a handheld camera, the movie was made in a really small budget and was a massive success in 1999, Cherish made a comment about see didn't feel scared that maybe because of the blood and guts we see in the modern horror movies like Saw and maybe after another 10 years people would say that Saw is not scary at all.

Mr. Halsey near the end of the Group Discussion mentioned the movie title of seven which is extremely simple and all there really was wear flashing images and close-ups of blood, picking fingers, making tea etc and I will make my next blog entry about that.

Focus Group 1/2

In the lesson we had a class discussion about horror films and we got some interesting responses from some people, for example I asked the group "Does 3D affect the film when you are watching it" and Mr.Halsey said that he is not a big fan of 3D as it covers up for the story not being good, which is interesting as I had never thought of that and I agree with that as a year or so ago I went to watch Tron: Legacy and I thought that the 3D was a complete waste of time, Marko said "They want stuff to come fly at you" which I totally agree on as Jackass 3D it really didn't work too good as it was in a home video structure, However the animations in the beginning of the movie look terrific.

I think that we can use this information for our own video as we don't what to get carried away with the amazing transitions but we need to give it that horror factor.

Zombieland

Zombieland is a action-packed comedy/horror which I recommend to anyone who is a fan of zombie movies, The movie follows a boy called "Columbus" on a quest to find his parents but the world have been taken over by zombies and he meets some extremely funny characters along the way.

The movie has some amazing camera work which keeps the pace of the movie going very fasy but still maintains to keep a element of tension for the audience, The editing has got to be one of the best in recent years with words popping out in block from every which which way possible.

This Weekend

This weekend I'm going to watch Zomieland as the trailer seem to show a lot of good camerawork and according to the tailer it seems as if it is a Horror/Comedy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=071KqJu7WVo

Plenary Exercise Summery 1/2

I think that this plenary exercise has not gone down as how I though it would in my head, as there are a lot of problems with: Audio, Framing, Mise-en sen, Pace, Camera Work.

We should have been more aware of our surroundings and what was around us and what was in the background   you could hear some students in the background talking, We decided that we maybe able to fix this problem by rereading out lines and tiring to sync it with our video.

Guy Ritchie

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels is personally one of my favourite crime movie as it has a unique twist of comedy, Hilarious quotes and probably best of all the unorthodox style of directing by Guy Ritchie.

Snatch is was the second movie he directed, it was more famous for the camerawork and with the same tone of humor from Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels the most notable scene being when  Abraham "Cousin Avi" Denovitz an American criminal and jewel dealer coming to England and how he has a shot of vodka before boarding the flight.

I think that the editing and camerawork is something that we could look into for our project;