Poster for our film opening

Risk scale

The following is measured by the scale of 1 to 5, of how much it is risky to shoot our film opening:
-Finding the actor : 4
-Actor cutting out or baking meat : 5
-One  of the group members can not come due to a valid reason : 4
-Availability of car for the shoot : 3
-Getting props like meat for shoot : 1
-Deciding the date for shoot : 2
-Potential future fights with group members : 1.5
-Completing everything within time : 3

Storyboard

https://youtu.be/WRZeTc5ljGw

25 Word Pitch

In  Eddington, fourteen teenagers have mysteriously vanished. The police have little lead on their whereabouts. But one man has the whole bloody truth to himself.

Synopsis

The movie revolves around Robert, who uses his cunning and deceitful ways to hide a secret that could get him in a lot of trouble. Robert has managed to get away with quenching his thirst for human flesh till now but he messed with the wrong family this time, by killing and devouring their only daughter, Robert has started war with a family that will stop at nothing to find out where their daughter, Shayla, went and to bring justice to her.

Discussion

Me and my group mates had a discussion about our film opening. In our film opening we will show a man who's age is between 20 to 30 years old,he is the main character of our film. In the starting we will show that he comes out of his car with two shopping bags.One shopping bag has meat in it and the other shopping bag  has an necklace and clothes in it.Then he will enter his house and place shopping bag(one with clothes and necklace) on the  table and he will then go to the kitchen.After that the shot will be of him preparing food for himself. In the end we will show the table, there would be a poster or newspaper in which its written about murder of a women who is wearing exactly same clothes and necklace as he brought to his home(the the necklace would be visible on the table).

Location

Me and my group mates have selected a location for our film opening. Here are some pictures of the location.

Premiere Pro

https://youtu.be/Hls3Tp7JS8E
I researched for best premiere pro tutorial to be good in editing.

Camera Movement

https://youtu.be/h2c3JZ6X3f8
I watched this video to know about importance of the camera movement and how it help us make our audience stay engaged to the film. By using good camera movements we can be more creative and have a control over our film.
And by watching this video,it made me learn about best camera movements which i can use in my film opening to make it more attractive and creative.

Research

https://youtu.be/i_oduNucAGQ
I saw few film openings to get idea about  camera work,editing, subtitle.One of the film opening example is this.

story board discussion

Me and my group mates first meeting for story board. In which we discussed about every single shot, that what type of camera angles,camera movements,camera composition and mise-en-scene we will use.

60 seconds film

https://youtu.be/uGrBHj1LVGw
Me and my group mates were given project to make 60 seconds film for our partice to know different types of camera angles,camera composition,camera movement,mise-en-sćene. We tried to edit it ourselves to learn editing,So when we do editing for our final project we have enough knowledge that how to use adobe premiere.

Assignment

 https://youtu.be/NwCLh-F_cdU

From  this clip we had to take out camera work, mise-en-scene, sound, editing.

Editing

https://youtu.be/E1xqVsKuFCI   https://youtu.be/TCwqkG1ArL4
 Media sir assign me to make time lapse and slow motion for my practice.

Lighting

In today's class we learn about broad and short lighting. This is an example of broad lighting.

Class Assignment

https://youtu.be/cVGExwYboYQ
 Project given to make advertisement on a painkiller.

Color psychology

Homework assignment to see color psychology in a movie clip. In which we learn about different color psychology,such as red color is meaning of love or war, black color is meaning of power and blue color that inspires safety and serenity.

Camera shots

 In media class today we learn about different types of camera  shots like long shot,close up,wide shot,point of view shot. Here are some examples of those shots.

Rule of thirds

In today's class, we learn about rule of thirds which is included in the camera composition here's an example,

Introduction

Hi, I’m hameeda sara ahmad and this is my As media blog,for the project of film opening.