Narrative Action Bullet Point List (First Draft) - Flora

- Starts with a establishing shot of a living room space, a tv is shown and a tv show is being played

- cuts to a mid shot of a boy eating popcorn laughing at a ridiculous show

- mid shot of tv showing what is taking place, 2 presenters are shown standing in front of a 'spooky house' 

- slowly zooms into tv, transitions into the actual tv show

- cuts to real life of the show, following shot of a man going into a house, video cam style.

- the presenters are quite obviously making fun of the whole situation, trying to spook out the audience 'did you hear that'

- they go down to the basement, behind the shoulder shot of following the 2 men down to the creepy basement

- diegetic sounds of fake screams can be heard in the distance.

- full body shot of a ghost who is obviously a man behind a white sheet, cheesy acting and fake screams, camera light 'stops' working

- cuts back to boy watching the tv laughing, distress men heard in the background, tv suddenly turns off, he is confused and taps the remote trying to turn it back on.

- boy gets up to try turn on the tv from the screen

- jump-scare of a man standing right behind him, eery tense sound.

- eery suspenseful sound/music

Narrative Action Bullet Point List (First Draft) - Flora

- Starts with a establishing shot of a living room space, a tv is shown and a tv show is being played

- cuts to a mid shot of a boy eating popcorn laughing at a ridiculous show

- mid shot of tv showing what is taking place, 2 presenters are shown standing in front of a 'spooky house' 

- slowly zooms into tv, transitions into the actual tv show

- cuts to real life of the show, following shot of a man going into a house, video cam style.

- the presenters are quite obviously making fun of the whole situation, trying to spook out the audience 'did you hear that'

- they go down to the basement, behind the shoulder shot of following the 2 men down to the creepy basement

- diegetic sounds of fake screams can be heard in the distance.

- full body shot of a ghost who is obviously a man behind a white sheet, cheesy acting and fake screams, camera light 'stops' working

- cuts back to boy watching the tv laughing, distress men heard in the background, tv suddenly turns off, he is confused and taps the remote trying to turn it back on.

- boy gets up to try turn on the tv from the screen

- jump-scare of a man standing right behind him, eery tense sound.

- eery suspenseful sound/music

Development and Choosing our Title Sequence Idea

Our teacher Tom gave us feedback on our ideas and whether they would be doable and how well we'd actually be able to film and present it. 

Tom's feedback:

he felt mine and Albie's ideas were the most achievable to film, and felt Ablie's would be quite fun to make, which we all agreed with and we were leaning towards it as well. But we felt Flora's idea about a reality tv show haunted house works better and would be quite fun to shoot and would give all of us a lot to do and equal jobs in the sequence and the idea. So now we have chosen to go for Flora's idea. 

We decided to go with Flora's idea, and our working title for it at the moment is "TV ghost show."

Her idea:

"the idea is a stereotypical paranormal reality TV show, very cheesy and funny and quite obviously not real. Starts with a boy eating popcorn laughing at the absurd show, zooms into the tv as the show comes to life, stereotypical things like fake screams and the scary house, as well as using night vision effect and a camera man style camera work. Slowly goes back to the boy watching the TV, the TV switches off and starts going static, the boy is confused and taps his remote wondering why the TV isn't working, a suspenseful eery music/sound is played as the camera slowly reveals a man standing behind the boy."

Development and Choosing our Title Sequence Idea

Our teacher Tom gave us feedback on our ideas and whether they would be doable and how well we'd actually be able to film and present it. 

Tom's feedback:

he felt mine and Albie's ideas were the most achievable to film, and felt Ablie's would be quite fun to make, which we all agreed with and we were leaning towards it as well. But we felt Flora's idea about a reality tv show haunted house works better and would be quite fun to shoot and would give all of us a lot to do and equal jobs in the sequence and the idea. So now we have chosen to go for Flora's idea. 

We decided to go with Flora's idea, and our working title for it at the moment is "TV ghost show."

Her idea:

"the idea is a stereotypical paranormal reality TV show, very cheesy and funny and quite obviously not real. Starts with a boy eating popcorn laughing at the absurd show, zooms into the tv as the show comes to life, stereotypical things like fake screams and the scary house, as well as using night vision effect and a camera man style camera work. Slowly goes back to the boy watching the TV, the TV switches off and starts going static, the boy is confused and taps his remote wondering why the TV isn't working, a suspenseful eery music/sound is played as the camera slowly reveals a man standing behind the boy."

Second Camera Workshop

 Workshop 2:

 I had coronavirus during this workshop as well so this is also Roaleyn's blog post.

180 Degrees Rule:

The 180 degrees rule is a film-making technique used to help keep the audience aware of where the characters (or objects of interest) are in the scene. For example, if you are shooting a scene of a conversation between two people you would create a mental line directly between the two and make sure to keep your camera the same side of that line at all times whilst composing shots. This means that for the audience one character will always remain on the left hand side of the screen and the other character always on the right.

Rule of thirds:

The rule of thirds is a rule of thumb for film-making which generally leads to shots that are a lot more organised, aesthetically pleasing and easy to read for an audience. This technique splits the frame of a shot into an imaginary three by three grid the points where the lines cross being the main points of interest for the viewer, reading from top left (most important) to bottom right (least important) (this is because we read images the same way we read books, going from left to right, top to bottom). A film-maker utilizes this information  by placing the focuses of the scene around these points.

 

 

Master Coverage:

Master coverage is a method of shooting where the film-makers take a wide shot of the whole scene first thing on the shooting day so that they have footage of all that happens for them to refer back to and use in the final edit in an emergency. This is a good habit to get into as a filmmaker, because it not only makes continuity errors on your scenes less likely but it also means that if problems occur at some point in the shoot which means they have to cut it short they have something to use and the scene will will be workable.