Zombie Film Practice! o.O

Our practice video was made to stay as true to the original as possible (if possible), and there was a series of things that went right, including good composition (rule of thirds, no chopping limbs) and also there was some good continuity (180 rule, 30 degree rule) but in some cases we did some poor camera work where we did shots from outside of the 180 angle, making it look jumpy. Also, our work could've been better if we did our shoot in the day (organisation!!!!)

Storyboard, Shot List - First Film Project

This is the storyboard that we will be following to produce our first film project. It has a total of 15 shots even though the storyboard says 14, this is because Tom missed out a shot! But, luckily for us it was exactly the same as another shot but in reverse so we just included an arrow and the words "switch back" and we'll know to put it in. Masterpiece by Tom.
Also the Shot List was completed, it lists all the shots, duration, effects and what actually happens.

Visual Continuity Assessment Exercise

I feel the strengths of our project were that we applied the 30 degree and 180 degree rules well and the piece flowed well, however i feel that our weakness' were the fact our actor changed clothes, so the continuity wasn't as good as it could of been. Also the scene where the actors feet are walking up the stairs then cuts straight to his hand on the rail, we feel this could of been done smoother and better. Our composition in most of the shots was good as they were mostly well framed e.g. the first 3 shots.  Continuity - i feel most our piece flows well apart from the cut from walking up the stairs to the hand scenes - these would have flowed better if there was a mid-shot in-between.

Make-Up for our Zombie

The first one is obviously before, and the second was is after. The make-up provided that we could use was a low amount and not partically what we wanted so the work done wasnt to the best of Quality. However, taking in to account the supplies, we did a pretty good job of turning our friend and soon to be actor, Scott Burton, into a zombie.

Its not really scary but after a few practices and when we get hold of better equiptment, we believe that we can make Scott look terrifying in the dark. After applying the make-up, we left Scott alone for about 2 minutes and in that time he had tampered with what we've done and ruined/rubbed off quite a bit of our work. This made the final piece rather tacky and it was very time consuming trying to get it back to the original state.

On thing we struggled with was the fake blood. As we couldnt get any, we resulted to using a red Sharpie and tomato ketchup. Scott wasn't going to put ketchup around his mouth or on his lips cos of the horrible taste, but after some persuation he eventually caved in and agreed to do it.

I believe we could of improved this by having a lot more of props (torn clothing etc.) and by having a lot more make-up and fake blood. But overall, the outcome was a success.

Recee - Sean Silverton.

This is an image of Robert Shaw Playing Field taken from my bedroom window. In the dark it looks very scared! Rusty railings, a lot of mud, few woodland and overgrown grass! This would be a perfect place to film our assignment as its easily accessible (just across the road), we can attend it whenever because its always open and we dont need any permission to film there. Also, its not a popular destination and the field goes on for a long distance away from the road which means there will be minimum background noise from passing pedestrians and cars.

Practical Continuity & Coverage Preliminary Excercise

When our video moves from clip to clip, there is no jumping except for the background audio. However, we couldn't avoid this due to the fact we couldn't control it. But the actual video didn't jump. I think we have evidenced our skills as the film runs smoothly, we used the correct camera angles and made sure it made sense. Also we used the 180 degree rule. We have used various shot types including a couple of close ups as well as mid shots and 2-shots, and they have all been used to good effect, and we used all the shots planned on the sheet. It could be improved by not having any 'sillouhette' shots due to shooting into a light source, this meant the shots didn't go together well. We framed our shots well as no part of anyones body got cut off.

Composition
We made good use of the reverse shot from the beginning. Also, in one of our Over The Shoulder shots, the rule of thirds was used well as the character (Tom) was mostly to the right of the screen rather then in the centre. However, in the other Over The Shoulder shot, Tom was stood directly in the middle 3 squares so it was as if he was looking at the camera! Lead room was never needed because we didn't do any panning or tracking, we just thought to do doing reverse shots.

Reccee - Dom Habgood

As I walked home from college, I decided to take photo's of the possible locations for our horror film as thats the homework we were set. I also completed the Recee Sheet, as shown above, at home.

Recee - Tom Lees

I decided to select one of the possible locations of our horror film as Robert Shaw Primary School and its playground. I think this would be a great location due to the lighting at night is perfect as it can be pitch black in some places and slightly dim in others which would make it a whole lot scarier.