Se7en

Yesterday in media we watched the movie Se7en which is directed by David Fincher. Although this film has a brilliant narrative I was trying to focus more on camera shots and angles, which was extremely hard and this film really draws you in and engages you with the storyline. I did manage to pick out quite a few shots I think me and my group will use in our film opening. I noticed many close ups, extreme close ups, two shots, over the shoulder shots and extreme long shots which can all be used in my film opening. I noticed many aerial shots were used to set the scene which were brilliant, however I think this will be quite difficult to do for our film opening. I found this film great and although it was extremely scary the quality of shots were excellent and has reminded me of shots that I can use in my film opening.

Let the right one in

In media last week we watched the move Let the right one in, directed by Tomas Alfredson. Although the narrative was in swedish I found myself very engaged with the movie and thought the quality of shots were excellent. This movie was brilliantly directed and I like the use of parallel editing and focus pull. My favourite scene was of Oskar and Eli each staring out of their separate windows. To me that was a brilliant shot. I have noted the different types of shots and am looking forward to using them in my film opening.

Filming

Recently we have been having a bit of trouble with our filming. At first we thought we we doing fine, then realised our camera setting was not compatible with the macs in school so we could not upload our footage. At first we were all a bit angry that we would have to film again but now realise it was for the best as the second time round things went much smoother and we knew what we were doing.

This is a video that we came across when searching for ideas for our horror spoof film opening. We found this hilarious and it ties in well with our theme. This have given us a few ideas for filming and we think it is a good spoof.

This is a vlog that Miss Foster took of our group discussing what we will be doing for our film opening. We have had many ideas, but have decided on a horror spoof. We have storyboarded ideas and now cannot wait to start filming next week.

My collage of representation of gender in the media

Vlog

This is a vlog of me and Sanan reviewing what we have done this week in media and what ideas we have had for our film opening.