Social Networking

Our group has decided to put together a social networking page on 'Twitter' we will be posting updates of our upcoming production, follow @EclipseCompany thankyou.

Guide To Creating Our Logo

Step 1: I started by making a blank white canvas with a good size to include some shapes and text.
Step 2: I added a simple black circle that covers the canvas.
Step 3: I added a circle with transparent fill and a white boarder with a line size of 19. Then I moved this to cover one end of the circle to make a crescent shape.
Step 4: I added the Eclipse Productions text in Castellar font in bold and with a white boarder. Then I moved this so the text starts inside the black circle.

Film Brief Presentation

This is a video presentation of our upcoming project, we are discussing our current ideas for our  film, Enjoy!

Film Brief

Horror, mass murderer who  wears a mask, set in some woods. In the opening they are walking in a dark woodland area. They are coming out of a party. For some reason they have to walk back another way, through the dark. Rumour has there is a killer in the area. Mysterious music in the background while walking to set atmosphere. Long shot of them walking laughing and joking, then the killer emerges walks past the camera and mysterious music sets atmosphere. Then one person gets caught by killer, the others run off and are in for a night to remember...

Feedback From Our Questionnaires

The current picture above shows our results from a recent questionnaire, our group published questionnaires to teachers/students around the school asking questions about which is there favourite genre? or another example how long a film opening should be? above are our results from the questionnaires.

Company Logo

This is our company logo which will feature in our two minute opening to our film.

40 words for an idea of a short film.

Our film will be a contestant who has the choice to open his box and win a mystery amount of money, or take his current prize of £70.000 and be the highest winner on this show,  the choice is in his hands.

SE7EN

Set The Scene:- Set in modern day, New York city.

Introduce key characters- Brad Pitt-David Mills

Morgan Freeman-William Somerset 

Introduce pre plot/beginning-Set in a hellish vision of a New York-like city, where it is always raining and the air crackles with impending death, the film concerns Det. William Somerset (Morgan Freeman), a homicide specialist just one week from a well-deserved retirement. Also as Brad Pitt (David Mills) is a new detective and is made to tackle a diabolical serial killer. 

Key Credits: The director of Se7en is David Fincher.

Usually starts with equilibrium-No equilibrium occurs at the opening of this film.

Psycho Title Sequence

This is my title sequence to the opening film of Psycho, I also included talking about the title song and how long the duration of the song is.

Titles Research

This is the opening credits to the film Psycho 

This is 9 scenes of the film title Psycho

Film Classification/Prezzi

Film Classification on Prezi

War of the Worlds

The purpose of this opening film clip is to show the audience what exactly goes on throughout the film, it also tries to get the viewer hooked and wanting to watch more by starting off the film directly with action

Most film openings are around 2 minutes long, however major blockbusters may be consider to have a opening to a film up to 5 minutes long.

Set The Scene:-year,setting, or even location.

Introduce key characters-protagonist, antagonist, or even a sidekick.

Introduce pre plot/beginning-establish the scene.

Key Credits:logos, or even a producing company or a director.

Usually starts with equilibrium-Meaning a key event may occur

Code's and Conventions in Media

Codes:

Media students identify three categories of codes that may be used to

convey meanings in media messages:

TECHNICAL CODES, which include camera techniques, framing, depth of field, Mise en scene, editing,  lighting and sound;

SYMBOLIC CODES, which refer to objects, setting, body language, clothing and colour.

WRITTEN CODES in the form of headlines, captions, speech bubbles and language style.

Conventions:

Conventions are the generally accepted ways of doing something, and in the case of media texts, they are generally accepted patterns of code that communicate a particular message.

There are general conventions in any medium, such as the use of quotes in a print article, but conventions are also genre specific. For example, in Westerns fights scenes are generally shot from a low angle, the setting is usually dusty and desolate, and even the sounds used within the scene are conventional, such as castonettes, or some sort of whistle. 

Main Exercise

The Main titles and opening of a new fiction film, to last a maximum of 2 minutes.

Preliminary Exercise Filming! 20/9/12

Today in our Media lesson, Me and my group (Luke, Jerome, Toby) filmed for the first time our two minute clip, which is based on a person walking into a room and holding a conversation with another person then walking out the room,Bearing in mind we had to use the following..
*Shot/Reverse Shot
*Match On Action
*180 Degree Rule

At first we had some out-takes, Also we reviewed the shots we had taken and then went back to try and improve the shot to the best of our ability, Also another reason is as a group decision we decided to edit some scene's to make them look the best we could.

Continuity

Continuity is making sure you keep every shot the same as before,  making sure your consistent with characteristics, plots, also costumes and places.

(this video below will show you some continuity mistakes, enjoy!)

Match On Action

Match on action is for example, if a person walked down through a corridor and then went to open a door, a camera can zoom in on the same persons's hand opening the door, it is also a cut or action or even a movement between to certain shots. ( Check out the video below for an example!)

180 Degree Rule!

The 180 Degree rule is used as a filming guideline that participants in a scene should have the same left/right relationship to each other, filming should only take place within the 180 degree angle for example, if two people were holding a conversation the camera would only stay on the left/right side of the people talking.

Shot/Reverse Shot!

For example this means if two people was having a chat facing each other, the camera would take the view of a person listening to the other person speak, usually a view from a persons shoulder.

Brief:Preliminary exercise

Produce a continuity exercise which involves a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom they exchange a couple of lines of dialogue. The Task should demonstrate;

*Match on action!
*Shot/reverse shot!
*180 degree rule!

Me!

Hello Everyone!
My name Is Connor Penson I study at Ken Stimpson Community School as a six form student, I am currently studying AS Media Studies, AS English Literature, AS Finance, and also AS ICT.

Also I have been taking part in our schools football team for the last three years! (Currently scoring over double figures!)