The group needs to produce 3 different storyboards; 2 of the 3 storyboards belong to the continuity pieces for 30 second films, the last belongs to the main piece that lasts 2 minutes . The 30 second films are to show that we can produce a film which is consistent in plot, characters and events, which is necessary to any type of film making as it shows that we can produce a film that flows and is consistent. Keeping consistenc will help us to attain the highest possible grades
Storyboard for the 1st continuity piece (scanned by the school computer)
Storyboard for the 2nd continuity piece (picture taken by the HD cameras)
Storyboards
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Our groups first impression from using the cameras is that we personally found the cameras relatively easy to use from remembering the demonstration and the quick refresher we were given before we were handed them. We have agreed that with practice the cameras will become easier to handle and our skill with them will improve.
Getting the cameras
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Today in our lesson we were handed the new camera's that we will be using. It's called the JVC Everio GZ-HD40.Each group was asigned one of these. It's very hi-tech for our level so we had time to play around with it to learn how to use the camera and it's features. We then started to record various camera shots and angles as a test which I will upload in a later post. It has a large hard-drive so we can record lots of different cut's/scenes without having to worry about not having enough memory for leanghty recordings. It also records in HD so our production will be the same quality programs are broadcast at.
Here are the specifications of the camera :
Recording Format: 
Hard Drive
Optical Zoom:
10x
HDD Size:
120 GB
Weight:
0.54 kg
Audio format:
5.1 Surround Sound
Optical Zoom:
10x
Digital Zoom:
200x
Lens Focal Length:
4.5 - 45 mm
Filter Diameter:
43 mm
Horror conventions
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I started to research the general conventions of a horror film and what goes into it so that it is actually classed as a "horror"
Wikipedia has it's own definition of the horror genre which is ;
"Horror films are movies that strive to elicit the emotions of fear, horror and terror from viewers. Their plots frequently involve themes of death, the supernatural or mental illness. Many horror movies also include a central villain."
Wikipedia has it's own definition of the horror genre which is ;
"Horror films are movies that strive to elicit the emotions of fear, horror and terror from viewers. Their plots frequently involve themes of death, the supernatural or mental illness. Many horror movies also include a central villain."
Further reading has revealed that there are 3 types of sub genres horror's which are usually the main underlying plot for these types of film.
There are films which are "the horror-of personality" for example Texas chain saw massacre , where the main villain is mentally instable. The second sub genre is "the horror-of-armageddon"
which are things such as war films. The third and final sub genre is " horror-of-the-demonic" which are films such as the exorcism of emily rose / the exorcist.
About Our Film
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The genre of our film is that of a horror. Our film gere started of as a teen-romance, however after we finished our two continuity piece we reached the conclusion that we could create a better horror through use of eerie shots and that we could use little to no speech at all to build tension within the first 2 minutes.
After we reached the conclusion of the genre we started to brainstorm our ideas and stared watching a few intros to real horrors such as Panic room and Triangle in both lesson and at home, below is a brainstorm of a members brainstorm
Finally we decided on our plot for our piece, a member of our group (Amin) brought forward a very good plot, after we viewed all possible plots we decided on bringin to life his idea.
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