Table Top

We got into our groups again and started to work with the props that we had and added in our own props for the table top opening. We started to plan what it could be about and we came up with the idea of a woman who is jealous of another woman's (Heather) husband because she is in love with him. We edited it to have a black and white filter, as it is representative of the fact that it is set in the 1900's. It opens with the camera moving down from a white lace material to a french newspaper featuring a picture of the husband. It then goes down and to reveal his name: Jean Boissemond. The camera moves up slowly and the pans onto a hand of a woman who picks up a flower that was clearly given to Heather by her husband Jean. She then opens a short love letter from Jean to his wife, Heather, which the woman reacts to with jealousy and shuts. At this point, the camera movements start to speed up and move to a picture frame of Heather which the woman slams. It then moves to an opened jewellery box where she finds an engagement ring which she puts on and moves her hand next to the picture of Jean as if she is imagining that she was his wife. We added in background music; a song called 'Heather'. The lyrics fit perfectly at the part where the camera zooms in on the love card, 'I wish I were Heather' showing the envy the woman feels for Heather.

On the set

Cameras and tripods. In groups they were passed around so each of us could have a chance to practice how to handle the camera, insert the battery and memory card. to avoid dropping the camera you should say "yours" when passing and "mine" when you have received the camera. We learnt how to set up a tripod and to 'bubble' it using the spirit level to help to camera balance and focus. We learnt how to focus the camera and how the exposure is adjusted by moving the dial up and down.

White balanced is the process of removing the unrealistic colour casts, which the objects that appear white in person are rendered white in the photo. Proper camera white balance has to take into account "colour temperature" of a light source, which is how warm or cool the white light is. On the camera you adjust it by clicking the WB button and then it will come up with different little pictures showing the difference colour tones of different lights to give a more realistic look.

180- degree rule is a cinematography guideline that shows two characters in the scene that should keep the same left/right relationship to one another. When the camera moves over the imaginary axis connecting the two subjects, this is called crossing the line which makes the shot then become a reverse angle.

On set, the director then shouts 'standby' when he's about to start filming to make sure everyone is ready and once they are they shout reply 'standing by'. When the director shouts 'rolling' everyone has to make sure they are quiet then she/ he shouts 'action' which is the cue for the actors to start. After they are done the director will shout 'cut' which will be followed shortly by 'strike the kit' which the film crew starts to pack away everything and to make sure the video is uploaded.

Good practice in editing. In the media studio we use Final Cut Pro and imovie on the imacs. We should make a folder for the shots when we are uploading our footage. These folders are called bins and the unedited footage from cameras are called rushes.

Continuity

We got into groups of four to construct a trailer. My group and I decided to make a horror trailer. We  came up with a story line and from then we then started putting our ideas into Imovie. We gathered props and went outside to find the best scenery for our trailer. We started filming and improvising and it started coming together. The first clip featured Tallulah and I, walking and asking what is wrong with Millie lately and what the sound was that we hear. In the background, you can see Millie acting out of character and banging her head against the door. The camera then zooms into a dark corner where you see bloody hand prints on the wall. We then did some editing to have a black and white filter while having a mid shot of Millie banging her head on the door. We then have an over the shoulder shot and can see that a mysterious person is controlling Millie my a doll. We then filmed Tallulah and I walking and finding the doll and started moving about. It then does a hard cut to Millie throwing her arm up violently and hitting Ellie in the face. It then cuts back to Tallulah and me seeing what we had just done. The camera then cuts to an over the shoulder angle which the viewer can see us talking to Millie about how we think she is possessed and she needs help. It then cuts to a mid shot of us saying we can remove the curse with God and I start to shout "Get out demon!" in latin. The camera cuts to Millie shaking violently and a voice over by Tallulah saying "It's not working!". She then come in with a gun and shoots Millie with an edited shooting sound. The person who was controlling Millie also died as the coat suddenly drops to the floor with no one in it any more.