Match cut prelim estefanie

News and Current Affairs events

'TSUNAMI' kills two off France

Two passengers were killed as 30ft water crashed on board of the Louis Majesty cruise. Sailing from Barcelona to Genoa with 1,350 passengers and crew, the tsunami struck whilst they were in the Mediterranean Sea. This idea could have been used to create a thriller film because as in the winter, France is meant to be looking spectacular with the landscapes covered in snow. Tsunamis create panic and tension as they are abrupt and unknown to its environment and being featured in a thriller plot allows the audience to communicate with the character as their safety is in caution. Suspense and tension are built very quickly here and this is successful to the plot, because the audience are able to quickly grasp the plot.

Volcanic ash CHAOS

For the first time ever in Britain, flying abroad has been brought to a standstill whcih doesnt include maintenance difficulties or weather problems. The answer to this- VOLCANIC ASH! Small grey-like powder which injected by fumes can provide a deadly experience for passengers. The tourism industry has hit a downturn as we reach the summer months where profits are made. This can be used as a background story in a thriller because the idea of being 'grounded' in Britain provides suspense for victims trying to escape from villains. A common source of transport used to get out of a country is by plane so when this escape is is suddenly out of use, the audience is stuck to the storyline as panic uses them to react to the plot. It can also be used to maximise of the idea someone being physically trapped in their mind to a larger scale. This makes the audience want to offer help to the character in danger which effectively means they are 'glued' to the storyline.

Skills Audit: LiveType and Sound

LiveType is a program which allows people to create and manipulate text to insert into their film or to use as credits. The Inspector is the place where you type to change the text which is displayed in the middle section of the page. The Alignment function is used to manipulate the text on how it looks. For example, the Attributes section allows you to physically change the text like the font. Media Browser enables you to put efforts onto the text. For example, ‘Textures’ which changes the background of where the text is in. ‘Effects’ features the transition of each character individually which can be used to create tension if used in the actual film footage (not on the credits).

SoundTrack Pro is a program which uses the ability to create music for a piece of footage which can be linked together with the video footage from Final Cut Pro. This makes it easier to transport music onto the footage and make it quicker to do so. On the bottom right-hand side of the page, it allows you to select the instruments that you want. Once clicking on this, you can hear a repetitious melody which is played over. Like Final Cut Pro, in the middle section of the page, it features a timeline so that you can place your sounds onto. Above this, it shows the times so that you can see how long you would want your track to play on for in the background of the footage. You can also layer clips underneath each other so once played, you can hear the sound. This makes it easier to make an extract and insert this where relevant onto your footage in Final Cut.

Technical Audit: Final Cut Pro

Final Cut Pro is a program which is designed to edit footage. To open Final Cut Pro, a video hard drive must be inserted so that you can save your footage, music or text onto. This makes it easier to locate when looking for files when merging clips together. To start editing, a blank canvas is used to display and place your work where you can easily make changes onto the footage. A timeline is used in Final Cut Pro to position your clips where you can rearrange them to piece together how you would want the film to look like. This is positioned on the bottom central half of the page where you can make transitions between the clips. Pressing Command + T allows you to put a transition to swiftly move the audience onto the next scene. On the left hand side of the screen, this displays all your work on the hard drive so when inserting pieces onto the timeline, this saves time and is very easy to use.

To play footage, you can simply press the space bar and press again to stop it. On the top right-hand side of the page, a large screen is shown as a viewer to present the footage that you have edited so far. If the footage is right for the clips, it can be dragged onto the timeline and from this, you can re-arrange the positions on the timeline suited to your desire. A red icon beneath this highlights the ability to overwrite clips and the yellow icon placed near this is the ability to move clips out of the timeline and put the desired clip into place.

When editing footage, watching the clip is necessary to see improvements to be made and also allows you take and place that certain footage onto the place you want on the timeline. By pressing ‘I’ for In to mark out the start of the clip and ‘O’ for Out to mark the end of it and drag the footage onto the timeline. Drag the yellow marker key to the beginning of the footage to view it and it’s the same process if you want to insert more clips. If you want to delete a clip, pressing the delete button will do this. Razor blading is used to delete snippets which is good because it allows you to easily insert other clips into its place.

Skills audit: filming and editing preliminary match cut exercise

During a 3hour lesson with Donna, my group managed to film and edit the match cut sequence. As one member of the group was away, we asked another person from the college to fill in as an actor. Whitney and David were the actors of the sequence while I filmed it. We made sure we got as many interesting shots as we could within the short amount of time, for example, over the shoulder shot, arial shot, close up shot, tracking shot, and also, we made sure we didn't break the 180 degree rule.

We spent the first half of the friday's lesson filming, and the second half editing. Overall, I think the filming and editing went well. The only negative thing I could say about the sequence was that we didn't check that the ND filter was on and this made our sequence seem dark. But other than that, we managed to film and edit smoothly without hardly any struggle.

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Planning Preliminary Match Cut exercise

Our initial plan is a meeting with a teacher and a later student who needs to explain himself. Scott walks into the room where his teacher is waiting while typing up documents on the computer.

At first, we found it quite challenging because match cuts had to look perfect and play smoothly. But in the space of roughly 30minutes, we found that we had done quite well

Final Edit of Livetype and Sound Filming Practice

Skills Audit: Livetype and Sound

During another lesson of Media, we had another tutorial about how to use two programs called Soundtrack Pro and Live Type on the apple mac computers which is to help us when editing our films.

When learning to use Live Type, we learnt how to insert text but typing in the rop right hand corner box. Then with the text inserted in, you will then see it in the main window. And from here, we could choose a font desired which is found on the right hand side and the colour - these were the basics. Then once we got use to that, we then learnt how to add effects such as textured backgrounds (motionless or with motion), shadows and fades. And to play back, you have to drag the arrow to the beginning of the timeline and press the space bar. First tine viewing, the clip will seem slow, but the second time viewing, it plays at it's normal pace.

With soundtrack pro, we learnt how to browse for sounds, for example, you could either type in a keyword or click on a category you think your desired sound would be under. And by (double) clicking on a sound, you should be able to hear it. Then once you have found our desired sound, you drag and drop it onto the timeline. And from here, you could drag and drop another different sound onto the timeline and this enables you to play two or more sounds at the same time, both overlapping eachother. On the timeline, you could either shorten or lengthen the sounds, duplicate or delete sounds and replay the sounds.

Intro to Cameras and Health and Safety Tutorial

During lesson time, we were given a health and safety tutorial for camerawork and how we should handle the camera when using it. In the tutorial, we learnt how to:

• Put the memory cards (A and B) in the camera memory card slots which is found on the left side of the camera.
• Put in and take the battery.
  
• Turn the camera on and off. We were also told that if the camera isn't used for a number of minutes, the camera would automatically turn off to standby to save the battery life.
  
• Setup a tripod and how to adjust the height.
  
• Put the camera on a tripod and locking it in place so it is secure.
  
• Unlock and take off the camera from the tripod.
• Zoom in and out (of an object) by using the zoom in and out switch which is found on the top right side of the camera. To zoom in, you push it forward and to zoom out you push it towards you.
  
• Focus - by using 'user1' which should be used and checked everytime before shooting a footage so everything is in focus.
• Use the ND filter which is used when the lens is exposed in the sunlight otherwise, the footage would seem dark.
  
• Open and close the lens cover to prevent any stratches or finger prints on the lens.
  
• Record footage by pressing the record button and also to stop recording.
  
• Playback footage.

We were also told if the weather is bad, we should always take out a big umbrella from the office to prevent the camera from any damage by the rain. And finally, if we are not using the equipment, we should always put it back into the cases just incase of any accidents or damage. The battery and the memory cards should be taken out before putting the camera back in it's case and the memory cards should be put back in it's own individual cases too.

News and Current Affairs Events

I have noticed that there has been a lot of youth crime happening recently. It has come to my attention that this could be the main idea of our thriller title sequence to emphasis how dangerous it is for teenagers to be wondering around at night time binge drinking. Binge drinking is also a popular topic in the news as younger people are drinking and going to clubs. This is how female victims are targeted.

News and current affairs

News and current affairs

Recently on the news world wide a natural disaster happened an earthquake struck a Carribean Nation Haiti. The earthquake measured a magnitude of 7.o. Natural disasters are used in thriller films, to show what may of have happened at the time giving the audience and insight.

Films like the one above show that films can be made from an idea of natrual disasters occruing in the world. They make the audience feel suspense and worry.

A man was accused of a jigsaw murder, he left different parts of a victims bodyacroos England. This could be seen as a pschological thriller film.

Films like Saw can be related to these type's of news.

List of Sub-genres

Religion

I like religion in thriller films, because they give a more realistic perspective. That makes me along with the audience wonder about real life events, by including religion the audience may be aware already of the ideas used in the movie which makes it more thrilling an example would be ...

this film uses the concept of religion, that made it a BIG seller.

Pschological

I believe using pschology in a thriller movie makes it more appeling to the audience, because its not always the same clichè plot. The use of pschology enables the plot to varify, without the audience becoming confused insted making them realise what they may not have seen an important part to the film. An example.. i love the way pschology is used in this film because it shocked audience with unpredicatable endings and made me feel very dumb for not spotting some of the most important parts of the film Eventhough this film is a horror film also it uses thriller, because it shocks audiences in the way a triller film would do.

Crime

when crime is used in a thriller film it makes the audience drawn with tension.

This film showed crime being used tothe extream, with the predicatable acts made the audience feel much more aware and confused at times why a character won't do the obvious thing.

My Preferred Thriller Genres

ACTION

Action is a genre that particularly interests me when watching a thriller because it allows the audience to be visually busy allowing lots of opportunities for suspense and tension to take place. Although, there are lots of explosions, props such as guns, I think these uses are particularly successful in a thriller because it grips the audience allowing them to react with the character.

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These examples contain a comedy feature allowing the audience to be calm and relaxed where, in the next scenes, entitle them to be in shock and alarmed in relevance to the dark tone of the film. This places the audience to be in an 'utopian' environment whilst in a real-time setting which becomees visually interesting to watch.

CRIME

Crime is also a genre which is highly used in thrillers which, therefore, apply more tension whilst watching them from being in a particular point of view-normally, the criminal's side. Some aspects which are normally involved in thrillers are: robberies, murders and shootouts. With these aspects, we as the audience, are obliged to be within the action therefore whilst being in a chase with the authority, suspense and tension is built to grip the audience to their seats. I think Crime Thrillers are succesful in attracting the audience's tension because, even though, the dialogue or the plot may not be as good, the action can distract the audience's attention from this.

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PSYCHOLOGICAL

Psychological thrillers are normally depicted from a character's mind and plays upon this to where there are hardly any physical action involved. Suspense is very effective in psychological thrillers because they allow other enemies to use their minds to prey onto their victim/victims. An example of this would be playing deceptive mind games. Where conflict is used, this could create suspense as the conflict could be portrayed vividly towards the audience watching the film. I think the psychological genre of a thriller film is very entertaining because it allows the audience to be visually active by using thier brains to connect with the plot. This could be of a disadvantage to others but for me, it is a clever way to catch the audience's attention by reacting with the characters whilst the use of physical action is commonly used in thrillers to create tension.

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