Description Of Our Opening Scene To Our Film.

Opening Scene Description:

Our film starts with me and Baily, two of the films protagonists walking down the road on their way to meeting their friend Shannon, the other protagonist of the film, as well as her friend Anna, who turns out to be the antagonist of the film. The two boys are worried about meeting her as they don't know what she will be like. 

When they arrive at Shannon's house, they find out that Anna isn't there so the boys ask Shannon what Anna is like. Although the two girls have been friends for a long time, Shannon warns the boys that Anna is quite weird and creepy, which worries them. While this is happening, Anna arrives at Shannon's but instead of knocking on the door, she is seen staring through the window and watching the TV, which confuses the rest of the group. When Shannon opens the door to Anna, she says that she was watching the TV.

When Anna walks into the living room, she doesn't speak to anyone and everyone is unsure on what to do. Shannon has a suggestion of going up to the loft to get a game for everyone to play, which everyone agrees to do. Strangely, Anna gets up and follows Shannon upstairs, which she doesn't know about. When the two girls meet in the loft, Shannon looks around for a game that everyone can play. Meanwhile, Anna finds an old scrunched up photo lying around and she says that she recognises it. Shannon thinks she's being silly, so she pretends to rip the photo up. Anna responds angrily to this and she attacks Shannon, who screams when she sees her going for her. The boys downstairs are left confused, and Anna turns to the camera in a creepy and menacing way.

Media Storyboard Animated

Animated Storyboard for Media:

After we created our draft storyboard, we have animated it to show a running sequence of the opening two minutes of our film. We have also explained what is happening by adding titles to each scene, so you can clearly see what it is happening in each scene.

Learning how to use Adobe Premier Elements 10

As we are coming up to editing our film, I want to improve my knowledge of how to use Adobe Premier Elements 10, due to my inexperience of the software program.

After watching the video, I have found the information helpful and effective, and it has helped me understand my knowledge of the software.

Storyboard

Original Storyboard  

This is our original storyboard that we have designed. For our next step, we need to animate it and put it onto youtube. You can see that we have kept the drawings basic and simple and that we have also written on the dialogue and camera shots that we will use.

Preliminary task 2

Preliminary Task Evaluation:
For our task, we filmed ourselves in a small classroom with computers in the room, where Ellis and I are having a conversation about my weekend. After I inform her that I went McDonald's in Epsom, she makes a joke by saying that I like to eat at McDonald's. I get annoyed at what Ellis says, so i retaliate by saying "Are you calling me fat?"

We chose to film in a small classroom in our school, as it is a common place where students can be found. In the build up to the conversation between us, Ellis walks through the school library and goes through 2 sets of doors. This was effective, as we could show our editing skills on Adobe Premiere Elements 10.

To help us edit and piece together our scene we chose to use the software program Adobe Premiere Elements 10. We used time lapse to slow down the part of the scene where i am looking at Ellis. Unfortunately, we broke the 180 rule in our scene, meaning that part of it may not have made sense to our audience. So when it comes to making our final film, that is something that we can improve on and correct.

One piece of equipment that we used was a tripod. This piece of equipment is used to help steady the camera when we are holding it. Although we chose to hold the tripod with the camera on top, it can also stand alone or rest against another object, where it will film with no movement. Another useful feature that the tripod has is height adjustment. The three legs on the tripod have different levels of height that you can film from. This feature of the tripod is effective because you can film at different angles, which can have an effect on the audience. It also stables the camera well, so the filming will run smoothly.

Why are you here software analysis

To help edit our short scene (why are you here?) we used the editing software of Adobe Premiere Elements 10. The program has many useful features, such as time lapse, which can edit the length of the scene, by speeding it up or slowing it down.

Another feature that we used on Adobe Premier Elements 10 was adding a black and white filter over one of our scenes.This complemented with the time lapse of our scene, as it gave an effect of adding horror, as well as making it feel like it was filmed a long time ago.

We also used editing skills to cut short some of footage that we had filmed. We did this to make sure that we got rid of any unnecessary footage that we didn't want in our scene

Institution Research

                                               
                                                  Institution Research:

Paramount is an American Film institution that were founded on May 8 1912 as Famous players film company. However they changed to Paramount Pictures in 1914. Paramount are the 5th oldest film institution in the world.They have produced many high grossing films such as Titanic, The Transformers series and Forrest Gump.

We feel that this would be a good institution for our film, as they are a big and successful company, which could help promote our film to a wide audience, as they are a well known institution.