Tuesday, 27 September 2011

Horror movie - Practise

For our home learning we had to write up an a story board of an accident. For this exercise in a group of three, using our story board of the accident, we had to take differant types of camera angles, for example, long shot, and short shot to represent the accident. This task was done in the school, I then interpreted the video's and put them together making sure each video flowed effectively and smoothly, using the program Final cut Express. However, in order for me to do this is was very significant that i edited and cut some videos. The reason for this was because it helped my video flow and prevented each video to overlap and jump. This made the robby's horrow flow even better.  Moreover, I decided to explore differant types of music on youtube. The reason for this was because it would give the audience a much more scarier vibe and help build suspence. I decided to use a few differant types of horror music to give it a better vibe and connect to the audience for example, the beginning of the movie starts of with a low sound but as "Robby" starts  sees the "monster" the music changes to a higher pitch which creates more suspence for the audeince, making them pychologically know that something is going to happen as the "monster" is approaching.

One thing that I believe worked effectively that I felt very clever about is how i explored and found that using blank spaces can set the mood of the atmosphere. I had some shots that did not flow together therefore, I decided to have a blank space. This worked towards my strength because it gave a scarier effect for example at one moment you can see the "monster" then it goes black, as the music builds up, you see her again. Instead of the camera jumping unsmoothly from one shot to another I found that keeping blank shots gave a better atmosphere.


In conclusion, even though the soundtrack blended in smoothly with the track i believe that there is allot that i need to work on for this video. For example, at the beginning of the video, the actor is talking to long to walk, this can prevent gaining the audience attention as it is too long. Furthermore, there is no text for example, the audience are unaware of who the actors are. I believe if i made the video black and white at some shot it would create a more scarier effect, also, i believe the character in the image should have worm a red top which indicates blood rather then blue.





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