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Evaluation

Media Studies AS Evaluation from Prentice Johnson

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problems and issues we faced

After filming many of our scenes we found out that Daniel had broken his leg this means the next scenes with Daniel in wouldnt be possible to shoot in time as he couldnt walk. Lucklily in the shots that we had filmed previously shot a few were positioned in an angle perposly positoned to hide Daniels face to build suspense and mystery about the character, the shots with daniels face we had to reshoot. One of our group members joe was used to be our new killer.

joe putting on glove prop

Another issue we faced as when i was creating the match on action the test for it using her neckless and a image of the moon worked fine:

I used this test image of the moon for the match on action.

I then had the clip of the moon on one layer and the clip of the neckless on another layer and over lapped the ending of moon clip with the opening of the shot of daisy' neckless.

I then used the pen tool to make a time marker on the opacity level.

Then with the mouse select i dipped the opacity level down and then created another marker and had it run at 20% and then slowly dip down to 0% as daisys neckless was fading through to create a smooth match on action.

Through testing this i was sure i could do it but when gathering the footage for a shot of an extreme close up of the moon the nights where realy cloudy and i was unable to film a full moon so we disided to have a zoom from the neckless instead which i later edited in with some music and worked really well.

process of our props

 The use of props in our film was to use to create a sense of verisimilitude, this helps to make the film seem more realistic and gives the audience something to relate to. from our research we knew that props are essential in building meaning as it forms part of the mise en scene. we used a chair for daisy to be tied up to portraying a 'damsel in distress' with a sinister atmosphere.  We used a chain to tie up Daisy. we origanly planned for Daisy to have a pearl necklace,which we would then use to create a graphic match from a pearl to the moon. The pearls will signify innocence and purity, which contrasts the dark, evil precents of the moon to create a binary opposition. We also used a fake home made chloroform bottle, This was created by using a glue spray art can and using photoshop to create a chloroform lable to fit to the mesurements of the cans lable and stuck it over the top to create a more realistic and clear link to what the prop is.

Another prop we disided to use where some rubber gloves to create a dangorous,hazardoss effect,to clearly show the prop he is handling is dangourous.

Editing- Colour Correction

When editing our film i disided to apply some previous skills i had learned. I used the colour correction tool and the contrast/brightness levels to alter the apearence of our footage to create a more sinister looking lighting.

The tool used is video effect > colour balance > video effects

I also had to change the exposure as when i filmed this scene below the exposure was too high and created the clip to seem grainy but by turning the exposure down creates the scene to be more sharp than it previously was.

 I then needed to apply the previous settings of the last frame to the next so it runs smoothly,this turned out well and i was pleased with the outcome and so was my group but gee suggested we should make it look more sinister and cold by adding a blue filter to the scene. I turned the blue highlights and midtones up by 5% and kept these settings throughout the scene with the other shots.

By applying these changes to out footage instead of keeping it raw alloud us to refrained from having high key lighting and over exposed footage that comes across as bright and creates the feeling of happiness but with the settings used contributed to our horror/thriller movie, Also from our groups research we could see how low key lightning is widely used in thrillers as this technique relies on one light source "it may cast light over one object whilst leaving others in darkness/shadows." Which we did with our opening scene with a lED light shining down on daisy.