Monday, 25 May 2015

horror genre(cinematography exersize and assignment)

lighting idea for music video and horror genre shoot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ly930bOK-eU
So I have been thinking about what Im going to do for my cinematography assignment and I would like to do a horror film inside a movie theatre. The concept coming from watching poltergeist in reading cinemas and thinking about how scary it would be if there was a ghost or something stopping the employees from leaving. The script is being realized today with the help of sean Mcgifford who I may ask to direct it for me.

Now onto the exercise which is also a horror. Ive done my own research and to answer your question in how I will re do my short film. Using dead space to create a sense of something following. The location will be queens park at night, maybe try to emphasize the gloominess with fog by the lights. Maybe have him walking through and shooting the pov of villain more sparsely.

In other news I'm hearing the song that I will use to shoot my music video with at the end of the year and was hoping to get more info on what options we will have( keep in mind the song "fly" by Joana Buchannon)
Planning the shots already.
Going to explore the options in green screening someone falling. Shooting a subject in 24 fps and extras in backround in 60 i and putting them together... more soon

Sunday, 17 May 2015

18th of may

What comes first:
Shooting script, shot list, story boards, camera and light schematics.
It's a trick question it depends on director.
No hard and fast rules all depends on director and dop.
Some people will color code different shots in a shooting script.
We've all seen story boards ( again no hard and fast rules about how to story board)
Story boards are good for getting funding. Patrick got funding for a short film because of his story boards. Very effective way of communicating ideas to your crew. Some artist will draw story boards outside of the box, literally and or figuratively. 
What could some draw backs Be?  "Takes a whole lot of fucking time" brogan "it's not realistic to achieve"-Corey.
Sometimes things can't be realistically achieved on set to what you can do on story boards (nothing was eventuating in reality)
Action, animation, and cgi will always need story boards in big budget films in Hollywood.  In Hollywood they won't story board the drama, but will definitely story board for action.

18 of may

So we have been given two tasks to complete over the next two weeks.
1. Make a 2.15-5 minute long horror scene/ short film that use all Cinematography techniques associated with the horror genre.
2. Make a factual news report.

The horror genre task is going to be fun, I'm thinking about potentially redoing my first ever short film back in high school which was a horror. Obviously I'm going to give it a better treatment, but I will potentially keep the song from 28 days later,because it's such perfect music.

The factual news report is going to be done by me on teusday. The news report so far is showing us how to tell a story with cinematography ad not just cover everything