AS opening sequence

prelim task

Friday 20 November 2009

Third draft of DEADLY SINS

Sound of school bell. Black screen
Fades into the whiteboard where it says silence, to show that it is a detention room

Dark atmosphere

Camera pans across classroom showing 5 students at their desks looking extremely bored. Showing their individual character through various actions eg: basketball player in his uniform playing with a ball. Geek reading, whilst the geek flips the page of the book she gets a paper cut, but she doesn’t but she doesn’t make a big deal out of it and she carries on reading. Goth listening to loud music with his eyes closed, class clown lying back trying to distract others. A camera pan, until BIANCA is in the frame and she is fidgeting and tapping her pen. She wriggles and then you can see her face,

BIANCA
I’m going toilet

She then leaves her seat looking frustrated

Subtle music

Long shot of her walking out the door. She looks at herself in the door window to see her reflection. Camera bounces back to her and shot turns to a point of view shot, of her walking down the corridors to the toilets then a title comes up and it turns to a birds eye view shot.

She opens the toilet door (close up of her hand) and walks towards the sink. She runs her fingers through her hair, while doing so she looks in the mirror and sees a figure of a person in black behind her in the mirror. She turns her head around seeing no one there. Then there is a close up of her face looking scared. The music goes very squeaky (horror music)
Suddenly goes to a black screen and then the titles come up.

Thursday 19 November 2009

horror film

A horror film is a film that is made to scare the audience. It is usually about death, the supernatural or mental illnesses. Most of these movies include a central villain. Horror movies expand to the emphasis of supernatural agents that bring horror to the world.
One well known directors of the horror genre is Rob Zombie, who has made films such as Halloween, House of 1000 Corpses etc.
Halloween is a horror film because it is about someone who kills people, it actually shows him brutally killing the people and this is shown to the public so it is classified as a horror film.

Wednesday 18 November 2009

second draft of DEADLY SINS

Sound of school bell.

Dark atmosphere

On the white board there is a sign saying ‘SILENCE’ to show that it is a detention room.

Camera pans across classroom showing 5 students at their desks looking extremely bored. Showing their individual character through various actions eg: basketball player in his uniform playing with a ball. Geek reading, whilst the geek flips the page of the book she gets a paper cut, but she doesn’t but she doesn’t make a big deal out of it and she carries on reading. Goth listening to loud music with his eyes closed, class clown lying back trying to distract others. A camera pan, until BIANCA is in the frame. She wriggles looking frustrated and angry until she leaves her seat.

Long shot of her walking out the door. She looks at herself in the door window to see her reflection. Camera bounces back to her and shot turns to a point of view shot, of her walking down the corridors to the toilets.

She opens the toilet door (close up of her hand) and walks towards the sink. She runs her fingers through her hair, while doing so she looks in the mirror and sees a figure of a person in black behind her in the mirror. She turns her head around seeing no one there. She panics and slams all the cubicle doors open to reassure herself that no one is around.
She returns back to the sink were she washes her face.

When she washes her face there is a horror music that creates tension and then it suddenly goes to a black screen and then the titles come up.

Deadly Sins

Sound of school bell.

Camera pans across classroom showing 5 students at their desks looking extremely bored. Showing their individual character through various actions eg: basketball player in his uniform playing with a ball. Geek reading. Goth listening to loud music, class clown lying back trying to distract others. A camera pan, until BIANCA is in the frame. She wriggles looking frustrated and angry until she leaves her seat.

Long shot of her walking out the door. She looks at herself in the door window to see her reflection. Camera bounces back to her and shot turns to a point of view shot, of her walking down the corridors to the toilets.
She opens the toilet door (close up of her hand) and walks towards the sink. She runs her fingers through her hair, while doing so she looks in the mirror and sees a figure of a person in black behind her in the mirror. She turns her head around seeing no one there. She panics and slams all the cubicle doors open to reassure herself that no one is around.
She returns back to the sink were she washes her face. She looks up into the mirror and begins to cough; gradually blood starts to come out of her mouth.

BIANCA
(Panicking making weird hand gestures)
ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH

She stagers towards the doors to exit the bathroom,

BIANCA
(Whilst staggering)
Help!

Shot of her staggering holding on to walls leaving blood marks. As the previous figure appears behind her watching her.

Tuesday 17 November 2009

sound checklist

- screw the shot gun microphone together
- put the shot gun mic on the mic holder
- place the mic holder into the windshield system and screw it so that it's secure
- attach the other part of the windshield system to the windshield system
- open the fish pole to its maximum level and screw it on
- attach the fish pole to the windshield system

how to operate the camera


- get the tripod out
- fix the tripod to my shoulder length
- get the camera out and put it on the tripod
-get the battery out and put it in to the camera
- get the tape and insert it in to the camera
- turn the camera on
- record

Thursday 5 November 2009

feedback for my story

I told my group my story and they gave feedback. The theme of the story is vanity, and it’s about listening to parents because they always want the best for their children. It also teaches the target audience that looks are not everything.
They said that I had to make it more modern because it was too much like the olden days with the king and queen and the witches. They said that instead of a prince I should have a good looking boy. They also said that I had to write more about the boy and his Barents background. They said that my disruption in the story was not clear and that I should have something a little bit more dramatic happening in the story because it was too plain.
They also said that I should make the audience more familiar with the girl and her parents.

feedback for my story

I told my group my story and they gave feedback. The theme of the story is vanity, and it’s about listening to parents because they always want the best for their children. It also teaches the target audience that looks are not everything.
They said that I had to make it more modern because it was too much like the olden days with the king and queen and the witches. They said that instead of a prince I should have a good looking boy. They also said that I had to write more about the boy and his Barents background. They said that my disruption in the story was not clear and that I should have something a little bit more dramatic happening in the story because it was too plain.
They also said that I should make the audience more familiar with the girl and her parents.

Tuesday 3 November 2009

Halloween


The movie Halloween has a very powerful opening.
At the beginning the music is a scary music, this causes the audience to get scared and creates tension, it shows the audience that the movie will be a horror genre.
The movie opens with a long shot of just a pumpkin, a pumpkin is associated to Halloween which relates to the name of the film. The pumpkin gets closer and closer and the background is black which makes the orange pumpkin stand out, the pumpkin getting closer and closer gives a feeling that someone is out to get you. There is an extreme close up of the pumpkin and then it just disappears, this shows that the characters in the movie will get followed by the evil character and then when it gets you it just disappears.
There is an establishing shot of the setting. We see that it is very dark and the house is white, this shows that it is dark and something scary is about to happen, and the white house stands out to show that the bad thing will happen in that house.
There is a camera tracking, this is to show the audience what is going on.
Then the movie carries on to a couple kissing, this shows that they are together and whilst they are together they are safe. However later the boy hears a noise and then the girl gets killed by the mysterious character. We see camera shots in the killers’ point of view, and we can tell that he has got a mask. When the girl gets killed there is silence to show that something bad has happened in the film and this makes the audience scared and want to know who the killer is.