After we created our video we needed to edit it and then it would be finished. The day I tried to edit the tape we could not find it, me and Dan had to film the footage again without a third person which complicated the filming as we had to take filming in turns and we were unable to use over the shoulder shots. After we edited the film it looked smooth and we managed to keep the continuity from the start to the end. Over all I think that this video, though it is rather short is good and covers all the criteria required and demonstrates the different camera techniques that I have learnt doing Media so far.

For my preliminary project i had to create a video of somebody walking down the corridor, opening a door and having a short conversation with a friend. I firstly drew a storyboard of the camera angles that would be involved.

During the filming process we changed different elements of our initial ideas due to, light, people using the area we originally wanted to film in and difficulties with the camera. Firstly i was filmed walking down the stairs while the camera panned. Their was then a low angle shot of my walking down the remaining stairs. I then walked through the corridor with a point of view shot.

This is the point where we had to change form the storyboard, we had to use a different door due to lighting problems and people using the room. We had a close up on my hand opening the door, this was then challenging to do the next shot because we had to think about continuity when moving the camera through the door.

The next challenge was the conversation, when doing over the shoulder shots with a friend it was hard to keep a straight face and remember what we had to say. We had to do the lines over and over to make sure we were not laughing or messing our lines up in the shot.

Making this short clip took a long time and was a lot more challenging than i was expecting. It has shown me that their are lots of elements to consider when shooting my film opening for my coursework, especially choosing the right actors who will be able to remain serious thought filming.

The start of ‘Hostel part II’ is both confusing and interesting. You can hear digetic sound of a fire as there are close up shots of a mans arm putting various objects down on a table. These objects include Jewellery and a wallet containing a driving licence of an unknown woman. He then takes all the money from the wallet and burns the positions in the bag, including the photo of the woman; this could suggest she is dead. The mans face is never seen as the lighting is very dark. This gives mystery to the film as the audience is left wondering what is going on. There is then a blurred master shot of the man from behind, this suggests that this man may have something to hide.

This scene then quickly cuts to some police officers stood in a train speaking in a foreign language; this causes suspense as the audience are unable to decipher what they are saying. It is then shown that there is an unconscious or dead man, the police could be seeing whether this man is actually dead.

This makes the audience curious and they will want to know what has happened or what is going to happen later in the film.

I believe that the last scene of ‘The Devils Rejects’ is the most exiting and cleaver one. It uses techniques to make the audience root for the bad guys. The song ‘free bird’ by Lynyrd Skynyrd starts as there are various master shots and birds eye views of the vehicle the characters are travelling in and its surroundings.

The camera zooms in on the weary and distraught faces of the characters as well as cutting between the present and the memories of happier times. The memories contrast between they are feeling now and how they felt in the past. The police barricade is spotted as the music speeds up. The slow motion camera as the guns are passed around in the car shows the characters are weary.

Although the police heavily outnumber the main characters they drive aggressively at the blockade. This dramatic clip is shown by fast cuts and blurry movement, this contrasts with the slow motion before the gun fight. The music dies down as gun shots are heard, as the song quietens they die, it shows their lives and freedom dying away.

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I watched the opening sequence to the film ‘Night of the Living Dead’, as it started non-digetic music could be heard as the camera faded into a master shot. It showed a car driving down a country road. The music was eerie and the camera was hand held, it gives the impression the car was being watched. This also happened when the camera panned to follow the car.

The car then drove into a graveyard in the middle of no ware, this is a typical scene for a horror film as it symbolises death. The car stops and the characters talk innocently to one another, this shows they are oblivious to what is going to happen later on in the film. The radio then turns on and there is digetic sound, the reporter also shows something is not right. The creepy music then kicks back in to show something frightening and out of the ordinary is about to happen.

This is a scene form a film called 'The Shining'. It shows two young girls which in any other film would appear normal.

They are both dressed in blue frilly dresses, this makes them appear innocent. The room is also quaint and homely.

This may be misleading because this film is a horror film, the only feature that could give this away is the use of shadow, allot of the girls faces have a shadow cast over them, this may show these characters are not to be trusted.

These girls may cause fear as they are out of place in a horror film, they are creepy.