Media Study Portfolio

Hello Blog we finally finished our fil opening you can view it here   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1qGjLkJJnc I reall enjoyed working on this project so please enjoy

My group and I have finalized our film locations, and our film will consist of several locations. The first place will be a empty house which we have access to, but the exact house is unknown for now as we wont recieve the location of it till next week. The other locations are off of W State Road 84, Markham Park, and my car. We choose to film our driving scene on the side of W Sate Road 84 because there is a little road on the side that no one drives down, and we will have no trouble filming there. I will also attach a picture with a amrked location for filming there. Then we are going to film in Markham Park because this is a gret location for a spooky forest like the one our charcater gets lost in. The trees in Markham park are very mosy and look great (great as in scary) because of their tall and grey look to them. I have circled a spot we would like to film in as there are usually not that many people in the location I choose. We also choose to use my car because we don't have

Today my group and I decided to skype because we are all in different places during spring break. We collaboratively decided we needed to shorten our film, because it was going to run over the 2-minute mark.   My group and I had a total of 5 scenes planned out, but this would take to long to film, so we decided to cut some parts of the first and second scene because they are not as relevant and meaningful as the other scenes. In a full movie these scenes would be very important, but because we only have a 2-minute window we cut out some of the intricate details we had planned out for the first scenes such as the main character getting ready, forgetting to lock his door, and the car having warning blinkers. All these minor details would mean something later in the film, but we have to cut them out. Cutting out these shots allows us to combine scenes one and two to make it into a less than 30 second first scene which gives us more time to film and work on our important or action scenes

I believe all horror films need some sort of music that keeps the audience on edge, for example every time the audience here’s a certain track playing, the audience knows something bad is going to happen soon because every time you hear the music something bad happens to a character. My group and I decided we are going to make a short little track to use once or twice in our film opening to put the audience on edge. Our inspiration for this is Psycho (1960) in this film there was a soundtrack of ‘stingers’ which were made with violins being slashed very hard to create a eerie noise that would bring up all the nerves and butterflies each time you heard it. This tactic has now been mirrored in countless horror films as this certain noise created by the violins just creates the creepy vibe that makes the hairs on the back of your neck spike up. I plan to record this track on Audacity which is a recording software I have had downloaded to my laptop for a while now, Audacity has all the t

Recently in our last class the group and I started discussing on what type of fonts we would use to show the credits and the title of the movie. So, I started researching and deciding which fonts would fit the theme the best. I found that in horror films the color red is most often used because it resembles blood and it is a very bold color. The color red is connotated to fear, aggression, danger, and anger. The red is usually a very bright crimson red to emphasize the pain and horror the character are going to have to survive through. The fonts used in horror films are usually very bold so the viewer feels the impact of the title, no horror film would use Arial or Times New Roman font because this would not allow the filmmaker to convey the genre of horror to the viewers. Horror films also tend to use fonts that seem to be written in blood or some type of liquid, another common font found in horror films is the hand written or carved font. These fonts emphasize the creepiness and ho

 This is our storyboard version 1.2 scene 2. This is a semi detailed version of our storyboard for scene 2. Just like scene 1 we have decided to add many little hints throughout the scene to help the audience figure out the storyline of the film opening. For example the main charcater left his phone at home which makes the audience nervous or worried as he will have no connections or a way to contact anyone if he gets in trouble. The character honks the horn at his friends house to signal he has no phone this foreshadows that the main character will be cut off from comunication and will have to fend for himself during the action of the film opening.