Film Synopsis

The sequence/story of how the film continues from the shown death.
1. girl dies
2. 3 days earlier we see her walking out of work and stands outside waiting for something/someone.
3.A woman walks out of the office and says goodnight and walks down the road, a car pulls up, scarlet gets in.
4.Her best friend is driving the car, established through friendly dialogue. The friend is a typical stereotype of a near,glasses, skinny which provides comic relief.
5.They pull up outside a block of flats and get out the car discussing scarlet running for the marathon and jake (the best friend) teases her about it.
6.They go inside and the camera becomes point of view suggesting someone is watching them suggesting that person is the murderer.
7.The next day scarlet is shown getting ready to go out for a run leaving her ipod behind which shows the audience this isnt the day that she dies.
8. She jogs around and then sees a strange man staring at her from down the path.Scarlet stops and runs onto another path as the man has scared her.
9.It then cuts to scarlet leaving the woods and going back to her flat.She comes in and Jake tells here theres a message on the phone for her because he missed it. When she plays it, she can hear the sound of footsteps running, she look towards Jake and tension in built then Jake suddenly turns and laghs dismissing the call as competition for the marathon trying to freak her out. Scarlet doesnt look convinced .Scarlet goes to work and we see her walking towards her desk.
10.Days pass and its in the morning where the audience see's Scarlet get ready for her jog. she is wearing the clothes she wore when she got murdered which can suggest to the audience that this is the day that she gets murdered.
11. Jake figures out who the murderer is, which makes him the hero as most teenage films use (best friend as the hero). The audience with Jakes help find out that the murderer is infact a psychopath women .
  --> This challenges a convention of a thriller because normally the murderer is a man.

Becky, Mahida, Sarah and Duresh 

Becky Slatter Evaluation

I had to split my evaluation into two videos because Youtube wouldnt allow me to have a video longer than 15minutes , The first video is for questions 1,2,3,4 . The second video is for questions 5,6,7

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The Last Run

This is it! The Last Run

Becky, Mahida, Sarah and Duresh

So close to finishing

Today was the deadline for finishing our opening sequence but sir is giving us an extra day to upload it so by monday/tuesday the video will be uploaded and that will be it and our creative task for the coursework will be complete. All we have to do now is write up our evaluation which is due in next friday (25th March) . Its been a long few weeks and the process has been hard but i am proud of what we have achieved the input that i have had as well as editing the sequence, which i never thought i could do .

Becky

We have time

we were just told that we have more time until the deadline, we were about to have a panic attack but sir said our deadline is on the 18th march...YEAH we have few more days to finish!

Becky

The Last Run - its already a film

Today we were faced with an issue, there already is a film called 'The Last Run'. None of us knew this so it was quite a shock. Hopefully we wont have to change the name, but if we do then we will think of another name that relates to death and running just like 'The Last Run' does.

Becky

Finished Titles & Production Name

Today we finished creating the titles by using the titles on iMovie because we didnt want to ruin the quality of the opening sequence. However we did use LiveType for creating our Production name which we decided to call 'A Redox Production'. This wouldnt harm the quality of the film because it was on a black background.

We thought of 'Redox' by thinking of what comes to mind when you think of 'Britishness' and we said red,telephone boxes. I think Duresh was the one who combined those two to create 'Redox' which we all liked the name of. So 'A Redox Production' appears in red to represent Britishness and of course blood and horror.

'The Last Run' also appears in red to represent that the film will contain shots with 'blood' like images and to also represent that as a thriller blood has to be included.

Creating Titles

Our lesson today was a bit caotic because we all had ideas and we felt a bit stressed because we thought the due date was today, when in fact its due in for next week.Anyway in todays lesson our teacher helped us with the titles and showed us how to use LiveType and how there are different styles of fonts which can make the titles seem more interesting than just plain white. There was a difference in quality of the film when we added a title from LiveType which can be seen as an issue. Towards the end of the lesson we were debating on whether or not to add in the special style of the titles because we would rather have the film in good quality than better looking titles.If the quality of the film stays the same with the special effects of the titles then we will use it but if not then we will stick to the normal plain white titles.

Becky, Mahida, Sarah and Duresh

Limited time left

we have 2 days left till the film has to be complete and handed in. I think we are on time however due to tomorrow being academic mentoring day and us loosing 3 hours of media, that will put pressure on us on Friday when we have a lunch hour, 1hour media lesson and then hopefully after school to get it all complete to the best of our ability. All we have left to do is add in the titles which i don't think will take that long, add in the voice over which as well wont take that long and create the music which i think will be the most difficult and most time consuming because we have to make a final decision of what music we want and where it will be placed and how the music will flow through the sequence.
We are determined to finish it and make it the best that we possibly can.

Becky

Re-shoots

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Day 3: Final Day Pt 3

 

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Day 3 :Final Day Pt 2

 

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What the film should be called?

As everyone knows its hard to come up with  a name for a film. Its easier to figure out the name once you have come up with the storyline of the film. I came up with the name 'The Last Run' because the opening sequence is of the girl running and ends up dead, which illustrates her 'last run'. I told the rest of the group the name and they liked it so i felt happy to have come up with the name because its not as easy as it seems. There were other alternatives such as 'Run', 'The Run', 'Her Run' , but they didn't seem as catchy and have a sense of suspense when saying it, like 'The Last Run' does.
So the name of the Film is 'The Last Run'.

Becky, Mahida, Sarah and Duresh

'Shaun Of The Dead' Opening Sequence Analysis

The film is a horror so i decided to analysis the opening sequence to have a feel about how a horror could start.

There is a sound bridge at the beginning where we the audience see the universal and studio canel logo. This grabs the viewers attention because even though the visual of the film hasn't started, the music shows that its about to start. It also sets the tone/mood of the film i.e dark music suggests that something will happen at the beginning. After this, the film starts by Shaun being in the middle of the screen in a mid-shot to suggest that he is the main character. From this the camera moves further from Shaun to show a bigger image of the location which is a pub. This suggests that this is the place where everyone hangs out.

The camera moves with Shaun and the girl when they look at Ed to make it seem as thought the audience are in the movie. This engages the audience because they feel that they are apart of  it and want to see why the camera is moving and wanting us as the audience to see. There is a wide mid-shot of the girl,Shaun and Ed. They are framed within the camera with the 'rule of 3' which means that within each third of the screen one of the characters are in it. This can be so that there is no empty space and the audience should focus on them 3. I think that Ed is in the middle to suggest that he is causing trouble between Shaun and his girlfriend.

Ed is in tracksuit bottoms and a t-shirt and playing a gambling machine to suggest that he doesn't have a lot of money to splurge on clothes and that he isn't self conscious of what he wears and how he looks. In contrast Shaun is in a nice shirt and tie which can represent that he is able to dress up when going out maybe because he has a job and is able to make a living.

The shot reverse shot of Shaun and his girlfriend having a conversation makes it more realistic and creates an effect on the audience, as if there are there in the pub. The quick shots of Ed, his girlfriend and her 2 friends saying his name can suggest that he is being pestered, he himself is being annoying, they care for him or they want him to realise something.

The montage of the different characters at work suggests that as they are acting and look like zombies, which can suggest that something zombie like will happen. In my opinion this is what i think attracts the audience even more because they might be thinking 'okay whats going on here? i have to continue watching to see what happens.'

Shaun says 'things will change' which i think implicates that the main plot of the film is coming up. This line can therefore get the audience to think of what might change and how, because from this, it leads to the next scene.

The titles for the film is what appears next. 'Shaun Of The Dead' appears on the road as 'zombies' walk along that road to suggest that what Shaun said about things changing, is happening right now.

This then makes a transition to the next shot which is a pan shot of the camera moving up to show Shaun. Whats effective about this is that the noise that Shaun makes and the way that he walks seems zombie like which can suggest that he has turned into a zombie, when in actual fact, he has just woken up.This in my opinion creates humour.

A wide shot of Shaun & Ed's  messy living room is shown to represent them as typical men i.e. lazy and untidy.

The sound of shooting coming from the video game that Ed is playing suggests that shooting might happen within the movie as well as representing boys love for video games.

The quick montage shots of the flushing toilet, Shaun brushing his teeth and washing his hands can suggest the rush he is in to get to work, also suggesting that he takes his job seriously because he doesn't want to end up like Ed. Him not wanting to end up like Ed is also shown by the close up of his name badge to suggest that he does care about work and wants to be seen as someone that is able to make a living for himself. This, as stated previously shows a contract is characters, which can be seen as interesting for the audience because they might like want to know how people with different personalities get along.

That was my analysis of the opening sequence to 'Shaun Of The Dead'

Becky

Final Filming Day Pt 2

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Day 3: Final Day Pt1

 

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Editing Day 2

Today in our lesson most of the computers were taken up so we decided not to edit. So at lunchtime i decided to go and edit some of the footage that wasn't worth keeping or footage that went wrong. During this time i made a list of some of the footage that we need to re-shoot. Sarah came along at the beginning with me and started me off and then i carried on since my role is the main editor. Tomorrow both myself and Duresh will edit some more since we are the ones that are familiar with iMovie because as previously stated we want to complete the editing of the first cut of the sequence complete this week so we have all of next week to spend adding, deleting clips from both groups of footage.

Becky, Sarah

Planning reshoots & Editing days

This week except Friday we will be editing the footage we have and then what we need to re-shoot we will do on Friday and Saturday which means that we have to know what we need to film and how many different angles so we have a variety of shots to choose from when we do the final edit next week. Due to how organised we are, we feel that the more time we spend editing, the less stressed we will be next week so for most of our free lessons,lunch and break we will try and edit something, even if its 1 clip, at least its something.

Becky

Editing Day 1

Today was the first day of editing. We uploaded all the footage onto iMac and imported it into iMovie.As it was the first day and we didn't have much time we watched the footage and put the clips in order of the sequence. As Only 2 of the group members knew how to work iMovie (Becky &Duresh) they were the ones who sat down and edited. Sarah and Mahida were there to help and give any advice on when to edit, delete so they had an input into the creation of the final sequence.

Becky, Mahida, Sarah and Duresh

Filming Day Cancelled

Today we were planning on filming more for the opening sequence. However due to the weather we couldnt because it would affect the lighting and show that we didnt think about the lighting and weather which we should do. Although we have lost  a day of filming, we are going to have a whole day of filming so that we know that we have filmed everything. Hopefully everything will go to plan and we will be on schedule so we have more time editing to make sure it is a piece of continuety editing (no jump shots) which shows off our editing skills .

Becky