Construction- Reflections

Reflections 

Today we have decided that we will be editing the death scene of our film.

 When filming this piece, it was fun to play around with the fake blood that was used to try and get the splattered effect we were looking for.
 When filming we also had to show Alice finding the dead body and screaming. This was difficult because we had to judge how long the scream should be for and where I should be looking, how the body was shown and how my body language was shown. This took multiple takes, however we got there in the end.

 This screen shot shows the death scene that we have edited so far.

Construction- Making use of Todorov Theory

Making Use of Todorov Theory

 Todorov theory is shown in our two minute opening film from start to end.

 This screen shot first shows the equilibrium where every thing is calm, just a normal conversation between two people.

The next two screen shots show that there is a sudden change from calm to a disruption showing an argument between two people that are shown in the screen shots, another scene that shows a bigger disruption to the calm is the death scene, which is near the end of our two minute opening film.

 As you can see we have incorporated this theory into our opening scene, we have obviously not reached the return back to the equilibrium yet as this is only the opening scene for our film but as you can you can tell from the film, we have shown the entire Todorov theory just in the opening scene.

 If we had made a full movie we would have filmed the solution to the problem which is James' death, the solution being that the killer dies later on in the movie, returning from problem to calm, therefore returning back to the equilibrium again. we as a group really feel we have approached Todorovs theory very very well and have applied it to our film the best we could and we hope it is successful.

Construction- Reflections

This week we have been filming; we have filmed the death scene, the main part of our two minute opening film. This was really fun to film as we had to use fake blood to try and make the death seem as realistic as possible.
 The down side to this week was that it took longer than expected to shoot, but we got it done in the end.
 We have also edited this week, trying to link the scenes into each other. We are now looking at adding effects to the clips that we have linked together.
 We are looking forward to nearly completing our film and adding the effects, as this will be a new experience for us.
 We have also had fun making our poster, especially adding the effects onto the photograph that we had taken. We wanted to get the right balance to suit the film and create a good visual piece. 

Construction- Reflections

Construction- Reflections

Today, we as a group have been creating a blogpost about Binary Structure. Binary Structure is the stereotyping of age, race, sexuality, region and gender.This will help us get our blog up to date, it will also help us with the rest of our filming as we will know about all of the stereo types, meaning we will know or target audience for our film.
 The lows of our group this week is that one of our group members has been ill so production on our coursework has been slower than usual. We are still adjusting to only two members in our group however we are still coping.

Construction- Reflections

Reflections

This week our group has had a loss of one member, as he has left the group this has been one of the lows of our film production. However we have called in another person in to fill in for this member.
 Also this week we have filmed parts of our opening two minute scene, which we are quite pleased with.
 We have had fun filming as we got to use a variety of shots and angles and tried out being actors/actresses for the day.
 We will be going to film the murder scene soon which we are quite excited about as we get to play around with make up to try and make the murder victim's wounds look real, we will also be trying to film a point of veiw shot soon, which i feel this will be challenging but fun to try out for our opening scene. 
 The last thing that we have done is edited the parts of our film that we have filmed recently, this might take some time but are enjoying it so far.

Construction- Todorov Theory

There are three different moments which define a narrative. These are:

1) Equilibrium- Start of the film where everything is calm to start with, everyone is most likely to be happy.

2) Disruption-  Middle of the film where there is a disruption to the calm, everyone is more likely to be sad. 

4)In the process of solving problem- Near the end when everyone resolves the disruption.

3) Return to equilibrium- this is where the problem is resolved and returns back to a calm mood( the equilibrium).

This keeps the audience hooked and interested in the film, this theory is mostly seen in all movies as it is a safe plot to follow.
Usually in a thriller movie by the end the antagonist should be killed there fore following the structure of Todorov's theory. However this does not apply to all thriller films. some have a twist and start from the ending and finishing with the beginning, such as the film 'Cloverfield'. these films rewrite Todorovs theory

Planning- Reflections- Important

Reacent events of this week have left me alone to create the rest of the movie and finish the blog by myself as my partner michael has dropped out of sixth form, i am nervous but i feel that i will get through this with a lot of hard work and will power through to complete this all.