Monday 8 March 2010

Finished continuity and planning final sequence

we finished our continuity exercise which now includes a shot reverse shot and a match on action. i feel that our overall exercise went well and we used a range of camera angles and shots to create variation and different perspectives throughout our exercise. One problem we noticed when filming our continuity exercise however is the clock seen in the background, it shows different timings depending on when we filmed each shot, therefore disrupting its continuity, we will work on this problem when filming our final sequence.
Here is our completed continuity exercise



Using the research we gathered from viewing other films, we decided that our final sequence would be of the horror genre. We used ideas from title sequences of films we'd watched, as well as our own ideas. Our final idea has many links to the film the orphanage. Our final idea is based on a teenager with the mind of a child, who uses a Rag Doll as a 'voodoo doll' which ends up killing people. Like the Orphanage, our sequence focuses on the mind of a child, and therefore includes main places a child would be found, such as in a park, and a child's bedroom.

Once we had chosen our genre we researched it, here is what we found:
Genre: Horror
History: First made in 1890's including mainly supernatural events. The earliest horror films were created by german film makers. In early 1930's American film producers i.e. universal popularised horror films. In 1970's the devil represented evil and in 2000's zombies returned to horror
Institutions: (companies) distributors - universal pictures, columbia pictures, new line cinema and fox searchlight pictures
Target audeinces: mainly males under 25, the most popular age range is 18-24
Examples of films: The Exorcist, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Phantom of the opera, the grudge, Dracula, the mummy, the curse of Frankenstein and Dr Terror's house of horrors
Sub genres and examples: horror of personality e.g. Pyscho, horror of armageddon and horror of demonic e.g. the turn of the screw
Conventions: main chracter usually dies, antagonist is normally a man, some one definately dies
representation: women: either dansel in distress or evil character
male: evil or heroic character

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