Plot for A2 Project

• Imaginary friend isn't around constantly
• Appears at random moments
• Main character is trying to get rid of the imaginary friend
• Film begins portraying the close friendship they both share
• Friendship begins to falter, main character starts to dislike imaginary friend
• Main character makes a new friend
• Main character attempts to get rid of imaginary friend

Music for A2 Project

A song heard in a movie I watched as research would fit in well with the 5 minute movie we are filming.
Below is the clip that the song was featured in.

Production Chain

The Production Chain:
1. The Pitch
2. Development
3. Principal Photography
4. Sales Agent
5. Distribution
6. Marketing
7. Exhibition

Colour Grading
Colour grading is the process of altering and enhancing the color of a motion picture or television image, either electronically, photo-chemically or digitally. The photo-chemical process is also referred to as color timing and is typically performed at a photographic laboratory.


The colourist chooses the colours in which a film is shown in, eg colours used in "Saving Private Ryan" to create the sepia effect. The colourist chooses that fit the context of the film. Here is a still from the movie from Saving Private Ryan.

Continuity Piece 1

Continuity Piece 1-Analysis

Continuity Piece 1-Planning




Continuity Piece 1-Research
As we were expected to use close ups and shot reverse in our continuity piece, we looked at clips from television dramas like One Tree Hill and 90210, as they are constantly using these shots. Below is a clip from 90210 displaying why we watched it for our research.

Media Project:Planning

When we began our media project, we immediately chose to make a horror film and discussed shooting outside of the school. We already had numerous suggestions for location. Unfortunately our plans changed as we weren't allowed to take the camera off site, so we proceeded to find a suitable location in the school to start filming.

Our group has chosen to shoot a horror movie because were are all interested in them and, as a class, we have previously looked at examples of short horror movies. Below is a clip we had watched. This clip is one of the factors that made us want to shoot a horror.

As we had many individual ideas for the project, we each made our own storyboards, then used elements of  them all to create the storyboard we are going to use.

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One suggestion that was brought up in the group was to give the film a classic touch, this led to the colour being changed into black and white using iMovie in the editing process.

Location wasn't a problem for us, as we were shooting in an old school. After searching the school, we found a spiralling staircase and added it to the storyboard.We did this to emphasize the feel of a classic horror.

Below is a clip from the 1946 horror/thriller The Spiralling Staircase.
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Film Making

To consider the use of mise-en-scene for creating effect.
To explore layering in sets.
We were asked to design the set of an undrground boxing training club.
These are pictures i found on google to represent what i would have on that set:

These are pictures i found on google to representwhat i would have on that set:

The Sounds of the Images

Today we explored the effects of sounds on the moving image and to create 'meaning' through sound design.

Keywords from last week: Ideology, Reading , Meaning, Genre, Institution, Narrative, Audience and Representation

A quote from Walter Murch- "Sound has a great power but it is conditional power. It places the physical and emotional contest, helping us to deciode how to take the image and how it intergrates itself into everything."

Lesson on the importance on Lighting

Today we learned how light can be used as a tool of the director. We also saw Fredrico Fellini: "Light is everything. It expresses ideology, EMOTION, COLOUR, DEPTH, STYLE. i can efface, narrate, describe. With the right lighting the ugliest face, the most idiotic expression can radiate with beauty or intelligence."

Light is tool used by the director. It can determine how any character/actor is represented in a production. Lioght is also used to set a scene or enhance ideas from the director on what kind of scene he wants, or what the meaning of the scene is.

Three things i found useful today

In Media Studies today we learnt how to create our blogs. We also learnt how to follow eachothers blogs and we watched an oscar nominated short film, just to give us some inspiration

Marketing a film: The Promotion Trial

L.O: To understand how a film is marketed.

Marketing-The action or business of promoting or selling products.
Campaign-An organized course of action to achieve a goal.
Return-To yield or make profit.

An essential part of producing a movie is marketing. This campaign is important because without it there would be no return.

The Promotional Trial

• A precisely orchestrated publicity campaign
• "Teaser" posters on the tube and buses
• TV interviews with stars
• TV and cinema trailers
• Web presence
• Merchandise (esp. kids films)
• Soundtrack album
• Downloads

Film as a Business

This is our first AS Media Studies lesson. Our Lesson objectives are:

• To understand what is meant by film industry
• To understand the production chain
• To understand what difines a british film

Film as a Business

• Film is where art meets commerce
• In western consumer society, film is a business
• It is driven by the demands of the marketplace
• For efficiency, the  process has been industrialised most successfully in Hollywood-Bollywood and to a lesser extent Britain

How do we define British Films

• Stars
• Director
• Producer
• Crew
• Post-production (SFX/Editing/Sound mixing etc.)
• Finance
• Story-cultural relevance