We were asked to re create a scene from a horror movie with the groups we had been put in. This would help me get familiar with the filming, editing and team working with my other group members so that we know each other’s strengths and weaknesses. Overall it was a fun experience.
We only had one day to film and one day to edit this scene
which did not give us much time to come up with more creative ideas as I could
have done so. We all came to agreement that we would do the lift scene from the
movie ‘Devil’ which is all based inside a lift which makes it different from
other horror movies. We used the lift that was in our sixth form building as we
were ambitious to get this scene as accurate as possible. We also used each
other as actors so that we can get familiar with working with each other. We firstly
recorded our scene yesterday and used a lot of cut shots from peoples point of
view but when we went back to view the actual scene on YouTube, they actually
had a panning shot. So we had to re film our scene today which only took about
10 minutes. In the scene we filmed, they were only 4 shots which were a panning
shot and 3 point of view shots. The only thing we could have improved on is to
drag on the scene more long as it only lasted 17 seconds.
After this task, what I have learnt personally is that I
should plan and prepare before actually filming scenes as this can lead to
mistakes as we made during this task. A schedule shot plan would help me plan
what types of shots and when to take when filming the scenes we need to.
Here is the actual movie scene we had made an attempt to re-make:
Here is the actual movie scene we had made an attempt to re-make:
The specific skills and ideas I developed during making this short scene was thinking carefully for the appropriate location as it was just about the same from the official clip we followed from.When it comes to making my real horror trailer, I would carefully think about the locations as to how suitable and appropriate they with the scenes we would be creating soon. Although, in this prelim task we did not add in any sound effect and we could have made it longer as it was pretty short meaning we did not have much editing to do. When making my real trailer, I would for sure add in a soundtrack and effects in the background of our scenes to make it more realistic and effective as it also is a convention of mostly all horror trailers - all trailers in general.
A good team effort here Zainab - I'm glad you have referred to what you have leanrt during the process of making your prelim - you now need to take that further by explaining what specific skills or ideas you developed making this. What will you now think about differently when you create your full trailer? What will not do again because it didn't work as you thought - you could create a table to show this - the columns could be features of a trailer and under each one list what your tried and what you learnt from it.
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