Sunday, 20 March 2016

Media Project

Lesson 9

Today we were all looking at each others presentations and share our ideas of what we think about them and how they can be improved. we had seen all of our peers presentation and gave them feedback of what we thought was good and what we thought could be improved. Since we had ran out of time we did not have enough time to show our presentation.


The next day we had shown our presentation but everyone thought it was unfinished. we had only shown them a piece of the start to confuse them but instead they ended up saying that we need to improve the music and not make it as loud. we needed to work on our editing. we also needed to improve the story line and make it look like a thriller.

Me and Kento had decided to go back and look at the scenes that we thought were not as good as we wanted them to be and I saw that the music was to loud and didn't exactly fit in with the thriller. I think we have to re film the scenes. I also noticed the scene where Kento was walking into his room the camera was too focused which resulted in the scene being quite blurry which our classed mates didn't like and couldn't understand. I tried to adjust it however I think we should re film that scene as well.
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Lesson 8

Today we filmed our scene where I would going to kento's room and meeting him as the last time we recorded it we had changed things like our clothing and I had started to work on the mixing of the music. I had a look on YouTube on scary noises and creepy voices. I decided to use some of the soundtracks and decided to mix them using my Virtual DJ software. the mixing was simple and after I saw what sounds I liked I had decided to record. After recording 2 times I found that there was something missing so I went back in to you tube and found a soundtrack of people crying and screaming which I decided to use and went back to mixing. After mixing the crying and screaming and the other two soundtracks I had found what I was locking for.

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Lesson 6 

Today we are going to film the next scene which is me coming into Kento's room and giving him his bag, introducing myself as an assistant (to James the Manager). I will be going kento to give him the keys to the room, and tell him if he need anything to just call me, then leave. we are also going to film the scary noises scene where Kento will be in his room and we will be putting speakers around the room but hiding them so the audience doesn't notice and making scary noises that the ghost (Martin) will be making and scaring Kento.

However after carefully looking at the  scenes we have agreed to Re Film The part where Jhon comes in and shakes my hand, we felt that it was too simple. In the end we decided not to use that scene as I felt it would over complicate things and make the audience confused.
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Lesson 5

We had collected the camera and the tripod and had decided to start filming our opening scene which was about Kento entering the apartment complex and signing in and meeting the manager (James) and goes to his room. We had started to film right after school around 3:30 pm and finished at 4:45 pm we had taken many shots and did lots of retakes to get the angles just right and the lighting perfect.

Kento had edited the parts we filmed but struggled to edit the sound as we then had to come up with what type of sound we were going to use. 

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Lesson 4

We Decided which areas of the boarding house we were going to use to film are project and came up with a few spaces that had the angles that would help us when shooting the scenes. 

Areas We are going to use for film production:
 
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Lesson 3

Planing

Movies to watch to help: Halloween movies, night mare on elm's street, psycho,
we looked at many thrillers to help us understand better and help us with creating our own thriller. we want to make a scary thriller to give the audience that wow factor and looking at the thrillers on YouTube on different movies it has and hopefully will helps us with completing our thriller.

We looked at different types of trailers to give us an idea about horror thrillers. Our storyline starts with a guy called Steve moving into a new apartment. .Later at night while Steve is playing games he is shocked to death when he finds out their is a ghost in his apartment room which ends the scene.

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Lesson 2

Planning
Thriller: starts in boarding, kento's room. he is playing games in his room. He hears a scary noise coming from outside of his room. he stands up and starts walking to the door and lights go on and off and kento starts to get scared.


Next scene he opens the door and all the lights are off and everything is dark. he starts to panic and steps out of his room. something rushes past him and knocks him on his back. scary noises start to occur and kento gets up even more scared.  He gets up and see that Jhon is running and screaming run for your life as martin playing the ghost is chasing us and we decide to hide in Jhon´s room and hope that its safe but then martin appears from behind and the camera closes up  to both of our faces and quickly turns to Martin with a smiley face. camera cuts to flat line.