SE7EN

On fridays lesson, 6th Oct 2010, We watched the whole of se7en. Eventhough ridiculously scary, its helped me understand that not all films need popular music, as se7ens uses nothing but music specially created for the film. This encouraged me to have more enthuasim for our filming as we have to do the same, as we cannnot use any music copyrighted.
Also, I beleive the film was well shown as stupidly i beleived i worked out the film's ending half way through - yet, i was embarrasingly put to shame because i was unbeleivably incorrect.

Lastly, Its made me understand how beautiful brad pitt actually is. :o

Oh, and one more thing, To anyone to hasn't watched this, (which hopefully is none of you), that last picture basically gives away the whole film... Bet you're gutted now?

We Actually Made It To Southend!

(Please don't judge, We forgot our cameras, So we had to rely upon Blackberrys 3.2 'awful' megapixel camera... But none the less, This is our proof)

Me & Tasha went to southend for the day, Even though sligtly windy, I beleive we managed to gain some good footage. To make extra sure, that our trip was not wasted, We filmed everything atleast twice. Admittedly, fairly difficult too film steadily with the wind, we tried to film in places with as little wind as possible - for example, hiding behind a shed.

We used the Southend Pier like we said, Which luckily had no visitors on except us. Which means that we don't have to worry about any intruders in our filming, and also means that our film will look like the pier is deserted. Hopefully, this will help add some mysterious to our filming.

'The Potatoes' In Action

As time is of an essence, We've been messing around with different shots what we thought would be ideal for our final peice. We changed the lighting on some certain clips, and We learnt how to edit music, add font, and edit and cut film.
We came up with this, Even though it has no plot, whatsoever, We are quite pleased with it, as its proving our skills.

The song was chosen because we felt it fitted in with our clips, as We sped most of them up because the felt like creating a short and upbeat film.

Preliminary Exercise

Its because of this, We've been labeled with a name of 'The Potatoes'. Of course, We aren't planning on using that as our finishing name, but it'd do for the time being.




I beleive that if i was to re-do this clip, I would make it more interesting by recording with some new angles. For example, An birds-eye, Over the head shot would make it interesting, and give the Audience a sense of power. When Nada walks in, We could have followed her feet walking, Which may have looked effective as sends out an intriging image.

I beleive that the problem with this clip is that it remains with the same shot for most of the time. Even though, We start with a panning shot and follow Nada to the center, We then follow with two face shots
, It doesn't make it look as interesting as can be. From 00:10 onwards We choose to use the same shot, which - for future reference - may loose the audiences interest.

Our Proposal

And from this, We have the basis of our film. Eventhough, the idea of running alone may not seem very interesting.. We are thinking about having background noises, such as whispering which helps build up a mysterious atmosphere.

The start to the 'New Group'

The group I am working with has been formed, and consists of Myself, Katrina, Natasha and Nada. Over the weeks, we've constructed many different ideas for films.

Orginally, we decided that we wanted to remain different. Therefore to persue a unqiue touch, we planned to create a 'brit' film. In which, we found ourselves, peicing different characters together creating a 'scruffy and british' styled film. We planned and thought about certain characters outside of our group, worthy to be filmed. As we beleived that, the characters needed had to contain the very same unique style, we aimed for. As time went by, We discovered that our idea verged on the 'cheesy' side, ad we soon later, pushed the idea to aside and left it.

After viewing the start to 'The Hole', Our group started fresh and tried to keep everything as simple as can be. As, We beleived that the simplicity was more effective.
Unfortunately, Our new idea appears to be classed within a thriller or horror, Yet we are currently trying to keep our film to verge away from a scary movie, as we understand that its been created faarrrrr too many times before.

I am back.

Admittedly, Eventhough, My blogs been a little abandoned for a while, I am back, and a little more experienced than i was before.


Its taken a while; but you will be pleased to know, there's been so much progress!