AS opening sequence

prelim task

Tuesday, 17 November 2009

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.

Wednesday, 28 October 2009

Ugly and Beautiful

Prince Edward of England lives in a palace with his parents, the king and the queen. Beautiful girls love him and they are always after him, he loves the attention he gets from girls and he already knows that he will marry a very beautiful princess; he just hasn’t met her yet. The king and the queen have arranged his marriage since he was small, but he knows nothing of it. One day the king and queen tell the prince that he will marry Princess Lucy from France, the prince is furious about what his parents told him but because he is a prince he will have to accept for both countries to get along. The prince travels to France to see Princess Lucy, he hopes with all his heart that she is beautiful just like the girl in his dreams.
When he goes to princess Lucy’s palace he is completely disappointed to see that his future wife was the ugliest person he had ever seen. He cant even make himself say hello to the princess because he is too shocked. His father urges him to greet the princess and respect her as looks are not the most important thing in a person. The prince does as he is told and he marries Lucy, however the next day he is stunned to see a beautiful girl sleeping next to him. The girl wakes up and tells Edward that she is Princess Lucy and that many years ago she had put in prison the son of a witch and the witch had cursed her, that she will be very ugly for the rest of her life, unless she marries a prince, then she would turn beautiful again. Lucy said that she thought that she would never marry a prince because no one would love her because she was ugly, but when her parents found out that the queen and king of England had a son they would arrange their marriage because that would interest the king and queen of England, for their countries to get along. The prince was shocked with Lucy’s story and promised her that he would never let anyone harm her in anyway. The Prince finally married the girl of his dreams and the princess was beautiful again and they both lived happily ever after.

beginning of a film