Wednesday, 20 November 2013

We all set out separately and created our own version of Cabin's opening, this is only rough

Ideas for Cabin

I looked at the opening for the movie "Sinister" and noticed the simplicity of it, and how effective it is. Just what seems like a still image and that was all it took to make it effective, the lighting also being because contradiction towards the production as a whole. An extra idea for our opening "Cabin" could be something like this, still images being added into the opening to add some effect and to make it slightly more creepy. Some of these possibilities could be a young boy in the woods, but with the lighting edited on photoshop to make him into a silhouette and to make the overall picture a lot darker with saturation. Different camera angles of this either close up or at a distance can add a light confusion to the opening, which would be revealed in the story of the movie, griping the audience more. Also blood dripping from the axe in the woods, this can be used as a past time act that when the actress runs past it, there's no blood, also again enforcing the enigma code.

Wednesday, 13 November 2013

Production Logos

I watched a quick video on many different production logos, from watching all of these I noticed that nearly every single logo always has a darker background, I believe this is due to attempting to make the logo stand out a lot more, contrasting the different colours, as the words on the logos always tend to be white or another light colour to make them stand out a lot more. Also each of the logos have either a picture or something iconic in the background that is either used to represent the production or something to symbolise it and make it recognizsable for the audience. Therefore for my production logo I will have to create the logo with an image, preferably with a dark background and a contrasting colour for the text

Sunday, 10 November 2013

Costume and Props for "Cabin"

The costumes

The girl running

- A pairs of white running shoes
- A blue vest top
- A pair of black leggings

We all decided on these clothes as these are the stereotypical running clothes, so very quickly show the audience that she's actually going for a run, wearing the right uniform



Antagonist –

- Ripped clothing


We have decided that the actor must wear ripped clothing, as this shows that the antagonist has been praying in these woods for a very long time, and emphasises that he's lived there for the whole of his life.

  •       ·        iPod
  •       ·        Headphones
  •       ·        Axe
  •       ·        Nooses
  •       ·        Cabin






Monday, 4 November 2013

Camera Angles Analysis

In the TV series Breaking Bad, they use a variety of  different camera angles, such as this angle which is a wide shot, where the object of the shot (the character) is central and you can see items around him as well, the camera angle is wide, these are mainly used to explain a part of the environment that the character is in, or to reveal a small area in which something will happen, but concealing the whole area by not showing it
 The TV series also uses a closeup quite often, a close up is where the characters face will take up most of the camera area, leaving not much of the background visible. They may use this to make us see the full expression of the character, so we know as an audience if the character is happy, sad, excited or feeling any other different emotion, this can also help us to predict what the character will do next, which is useful for a directer to add tension.
Establishing shots are used to, well, establish an area so the audience know the whole place they're looking at and will remember it. This can be used to show a safe area for the characters or an unsafe area, to show the audience what could happen next, this particular shot is used here to elaborate that the area they're working in is desolate and completely isolated, and that no other people are there, and the reason this shot is used is so that we subconsciously know that no one else will be there.
This is a worms eye view shot, they use quite a lot of these in Breaking Bad for an opening. They make the audience feel below everything, as the camera is at a very low angle looking upwards onto the scene, usually showing something being dug up, or something being created on top of the glass. These are normally used at the opening of a scene, because the angle doesn't show much of the area that the scene is in, and shows very quickly and in detail, a closeup of what the character is doing without using a POV shot or an over the shoulder shot.