My Journey

In the start of the year we looked at general film openings and analyzed mise-en-scene, cinematography, editing and sound. The film openings we looked at where  Les Miserable, Pride and Prejudice, Love Actually, Bridget Jones´s Diary, This is England and then a movie of our choice where I chose to do John Wick.

Then we started to learn about media language. We where given a sheet where we added media terminology as we went on. The reason for this was to expand our knowledge in terminology as its an important part of both our written exam and our blogs.

We then went on to create a pitch of what our media film opening. For the pitch we had to have a some what clear idea of what we wanted to do, this included: the genre, location, narrative, character, etc. After creating a post on the idea then we had to give a presentation to the class while being recorded, during the presentation we got questions from the class that we had to answer.

As a group we where assigned to create a micro-drama. Before we started planning the micro-drama we created a continuity sequence, this was so we got used to the cameras as well as know how to create a smooth continuity sequence. After we created the continuity sequence we started the pre-production stage of the micro-drama, this included, casting, script and storyboard writing and location scouting. Then we started the production stage, we all met up at the film locations and we started filming using the roles we had previously been set. After all the filming was done we started editing using the school computers and editing software. We then watched the final product in class and posted it on YouTube. This was a vary useful experiment as it got us ready for our pre-production and production stage.

Then when we knew what genre we wanted to follow we analysed movie openings in that genre. I wanted to do a Zombie movie so i looked at these movie openings: World War Z, Zombieland, Dead Snow, Dead Rising Watchtower, Resident Evil. All these movies are zombie genre but also have something that makes them different. World War Z is a big budget zombie movie with an A list actor which you don´t normally get in zombie movies. Zombieland is a comedy zombie movie. Dead Snow is a Norwegian gore zombie movie. Dead Rising Watchtower is based on a video game with no cinema release and Resident Evil is also based on a video game but was successful enough to spawned 5 more movies after the first one.

After doing some research into the genre we started to evolve our idea. We did this by going in more depth of how the costumes would look, what props would be needed and what camera angles to use. Then we created a storyboard to get an idea of what the filming world look like.

I created three vodcasts to begin with, where I discuses ideas that I would use through research in movies with the same genre. Doing these vodcasts gave me a clearer idea of who my target audience was and how to attract them. It also gave me more inside to Adobe Pro as I used technology I hadn't previously used.

As a class we then set out to create a swede of the movie Tyrannosaur. We started of in the pre-production stage like we did in the mirco-drama, after all the planning was done we then proceeded to start shooting. We shot everything on the school ground as this was meant to be a quick exercise. After the filming was done we gave each-other different editing roles so every one would work on editing. I edited the second sequence where I learnt a new technique "Slow motion".