Week one catch up

This is the first week of our project, we were introduced to the project brief this is:

‘To produce a 2 minute opening sequence for a fiction film it must include:

• titles throughout

• some form of copyright free soundtrack

• evidence of understanding of continuity editing’

When i first found out the brief i was happy as i knew i had enough experience working on continuity and working with equipment to produce a quality piece of media. Im confident that i will do well in this project due to the group i was given. In my group there is spencer, ciara and india. these are three of my friends so i know i will enjoy the experience ahead but we are all very hard working so im sure that we won't mess around. 

This week we split up into our groups and had our first group meeting, we decided what we needed to do before we could start planning our film sequence we decided we should all come up with our own proposal and present them to the rest of the group. you can see mine on my portfolio. 

Also we decided we needed to do research, we decided to do a horror film so i did some research on the horror genre, you can see this on the group blog.

Finally this week we were shown the 2 minute sequences from last year in class, i thought these were helpful as i learnt about what kind of conventions and features are needed in the sequence, plus i have a few ideas about shots we might use now that i saw worked well in last years sequences.

What did i learn this week?

We havent done much this week so i haven't learnt a great deal, however i had learnt about the film genre of horror, ive learnt that you are able to make a scary film without a huge budget, an example of this is paranormal activity. Also i learnt that in order to make our film scary we need to have a distinctive and freaky main villian, this is something i will urge the rest of my group look into in the upcoming week.

see you next week x