Thriller Clips

In we had to look at the way that films open and by this we had watched the openings of six thriller movies 'The shinning', 'what lies beneath', '28days later', and 'Arlington Road'. In that lesson we had looked at how trailers had been done . The short cilp had showed us all aspects on how trailers should be like. This gives us and idea on how we could set ours out, making it more intersting. 

Using Macs & Editing

That day i wasnt in but i was told that Mick had given tutorial lesson on how to us the macs to edit our pratise video. In that lesson i was told to go back to my orignal group but i thought it would be confusing as i took part in Karess group so i desided to help them edit. The next lesson i had came in for my group hadnt finished off there editting so i had to help our with the help of my group members Karess and Ufuk. Mike taught us how to upload our videos on to the software. When we did our video had looked very dark and it was difficult to even see our faces so our video came out not as well as we thought. We couldnt do nothing with the lighting as it was to late so we started cuting and pasteing the shots that we liked and got to put them in any where we thought would looked good. Editing using the mac was pretty diffecault but with the help of the teachers we got the hang of using the timeline and putting it what looked good. We had then added a sound track to out practise video which i think went well with our video. The music was up beat and fast pased which went with our theme of the game. In our sound track we added heart beat which shows there is alot of tension on the game being played. Our camera shots went apart from when we was panning because we had used a table to go around and so that came out quite shaky. That conventions that we had used was to create tension but eye on contact and hand movements which creates the suspense on the card game.

How to use a Camera

In today lesson we had been taught by micky on how to use a camera. He had made a short clip on how to use a camera which told us how switch on and off the camera, take out the battery, putting in and out a tap and how to us manually bottons eg record and zooming. We also got the chance to open the tripod and put the camera on for safey.
In that lesson it was only me and nasmia in our group so there wasnt enough people in so we was put in another group so i was with Karess and Ufuk. That lesson we had been given a task to make our practise video in a short game of cards. Our group had to plan out our story broad on what was going to happen and what camera shots we would use. I was given a role of one of the characters and so was my group member Ufuk. At the start of our video we was told to give it 5seconds at the start and 5seconds at the end of our shot. We had set our short clip in a dark room which only had natural light, we then discided to us closes up, extreme closes ups. long shots, panning and much more. The room starting getting dark and we didnt have any other light so we had to rush the rest of our video.