At AS, my opening two minute film
did not reach the codes and conventions of a horror film as the lighting of the
opening two minutes was too bright to fit the codes and conventions of a horror
film,. Because we had filmed the footage on camera phones, if we tried to film
it when it had gotten darker then we would not see the characters clearly and
so the audience would not be able to see what is happening. It did not fit the
conventions of a horror as it did not seem realistic due to someone getting attacked in broad
daylight is quite unusual and would not particularly happened in day-to-day
life. However, it did meet some of the conventions such as the use of
production titles at the start of my opening two minute film as I have created
two to go one after the other. For the first one, I have the writing appear
slightly before the image which is in black and white. This contrasts our
second production title which starts off black and white but then as it appears
it flashes in colour. We then had an image of a women being beaten by the
‘devil’ with a quote over the top. In our A2 work I feel that our production
titles met the codes and conventions of a horror film a lot more as the music
is clear to hear and its starts from our very first production titles and so
when the trailer actually starts, it blends in with the person playing the
piano. The music that we are using it mysterious and so makes the audience
wonder what is going to happen next which is something that audiences expect
from a horror genre film. There is quite
music playing over the top in the AS production which I found that when it was
put all together, it does not stand out as much as I thought it would and so
gives off a much more calm effect rather than being dark and mysterious like I
had planned for it to be. We also had names of the main characters in the film
to show their importance, however, they did not really stand out as much as I
would have liked them to, they had just been placed against a black background
which is something that you see in almost every film and so our opening film
lacked individuality. Although we had looked at different openings within the
same genre as ours, we still seemed to lack the key points that made up a
horror film such as the quality of the final film when it was put all together,
it should be sharp and clear for the audience to see. However, in my opening
film, from the very start the quality of the camera was very low due to using a
camera phone and so the final product was almost blurred and distorted.
I did not really have a director
that influenced my work as I looked at Lasse Hallström which directs films that
fit into thriller, romance which would not be useful to me as mu genre was
horror. I think my final film may have been better and I would have come up
with much better and original ideas if I had done abit more research into film
directors that were part of my genre as I would have a better idea of what they
think the main features of a horror film were to make it stand out more, making
the audience want to carry on watching it. Most of my AS work was experimental
as we had to change some of the shots and sections that we had filmed without
planning it all out as when it was planned out it did not work as well as we
had hoped it would have. Therefore it resulted in me not really knowing if it
was going to work and how it is going to look. When putting it all together and
watching it through, it was evident to see that it wasn’t well planned through
and so therefore was not at as high a standard as it should have been.
I have developed in all these
areas for my A2 project as I have planned out each section thoroughly and so I
was sure that when I had put it all together, it was going to work. When we as
a group had our first idea, it was originally going to be an action film as it
was something different to what we had all done last year. I looked at other
successful films within the same genre such as Taken and it was directed by
Pierre Morel. Although we had done our
research in this specific area, we found that the better ideas we had fit into
the horror/thriller genre more and so we went back and showed our thought
process and had done research in the horror genre too. Also, I feel that the
skills that we had incorporated into our film trailer are much more developed
from the previous year as we are more familiar with the tools, however, we did
still experiment with the different tools to ensure that we were using the best
transitions and editing techniques to make the trailer stand out and from the
others within the same genre.
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