Commentary

We have now recorded our comentry evaluation for our film "Avenged" we did this buy doing a voice recording on Sountrack. Firstly we made a script with each group contributing equally and giving their input on what they have learnt and generally evaluating our film. After our recording was completed we then exported the final copy of our directors cut to quick time.

Main Task Final Video

Rough Cut

This is the most recent rough cut of our video. Our rough cut is only a minute long because we did not have an ending.

The history of our genre- Horror/Thriller

A Horror film is a film that wants to make the audience feel fear, horror and terror. Their plots normally involve themes of the supernatural or a main murderer of criminal. In history the early horror movies were mainly based on classic books of the same genre for example Dracula, Frankenstein, The Wolf Man and Phantom of the Opera. However mordern horror films mostly involve ideas preying on the insecurities of life now for example serial killers and terrorists. Horror films have been criticized for including graphic violence, paticularly in mordern day for example "Hostel 1+2" and "Saw". Nonetheless, the horror genre is still on of the most popular genres to date with many respected and well-known directors for example; Alfred Hitchcock, Roman Polanski and Stanley Kubrick.Richard Donner, Francis Ford Coppola, and George Romero have made forays into the genre. Some horror films also incorporate elements of other genres such as science fiction, fantasy, mockumentary, black comedy, and thrillers into the films.

Using Live Type

Our group used Live Type in our piece for the opening credits. We did this by typing our chosen wording on live type and then adding effects, colours and fonts. For our “An E.S.J Production” we decided to use an effect that looked as though the text was being written on as you watched it, we also decided to do the text in blood red, again to fit in with genre. Another way we used Live Type was for the end title “Avenge”, we wanted to make the title minimal for extra suspense so we chose a font and changed the colour to blood red.

Using Sountrack.

In the final Stages of the production of our film clip we use soundtrack in order to make sure that our diagetic sound that we had captured while filming was not to loud and perfectly in time with what was going on. We did this buy first importing our video to soundtrack and then by using the razor tool we cut the sound into different clips. This meant that we were much more able to turn down and up certain points of our film. For example we decided when on soundtrack that when the killer said “Recognize me now” it wasn’t creepy or tension building enough. To solve this problem we decided to slow down that particular clip and also make it quite so it appeared a whisper. In our film we wanted to demonstrate both use of diagetic and non-diagetic sounds. However we felt that lots of non-diagetic sound would not fit with the build up in tension of the scene and felt it important to keep music to a minimum. We did however create a clip of two drum beats that sounded, when we had slowed them down, very similar to a heart beat. Our group decided that this clip would be effective to connote that the girl was really scared and also to build up suspense.