Fitting the Criteria

Hi there,

So last lesson, we watched a few examples of other students final films and got to guess how they were graded and afterwards, we were told the actual grades they were given by the examiners. I found this exercise very helpful because it allowed me to understand how our films would be judged and graded. I learned that it's all about fitting the criteria of the task we have been set, and that the examiners will understand that this will be our first film so it's not expected to be perfect.

When watching these films, I noticed a few features that I liked that other students had used. One thing I liked was the use of flickering images in one of the films, and I want to learn how it's done and include it in my groups video.

Also I liked one groups use of sound, how they made it sound natural and I hope to learn to use sound in the way they did.

Screenplays and scripts

Hi there, During the pre production phase, we have been learning about screenplays and scripts and determining the difference between the two before devising them for our films. So what is the difference between them both? Well.. The word script is generally used in when referring to a piece of instructional writing which usually contains elements like dialogues and story in detail. Screenplay is type of script which also contains the visual aspects along with other narrative details of the story. Unlike a script, a screenplay is limited to movies and TV programs. Simply, a script just contains the words in which an actor will speak during the production, along with a few minor details, whereas a screenplay goes into much more detail about the scene itself. Here is an example of a script: Here is an example of a screenplay:

Conventions of a Thriller

Our plans

Hi there,

Things have been happening and my team have created a plan for our film, including a storyline, character, title, tag line and much more. Take a look at what we've created:

Research and Making Decisions

My group has been doing research on horror thrillers as we have decided that is what our main task production will be, after asking fellow students what sort of thrillers they enjoyed. We spent a couple of hours researching horror concepts and popular horror movies and after this research we decided on making our thriller one based on a demonic possession of a young girl. We decided this because we found the whole concept fascinating and we wanted to show our own take on it. In order to get a feel for the idea, we watched numerous videos of people claiming to perform exorcisms on others, as well as this, I went away and watched some movies with the same sort of possession concept, such as ‘The Last Exorcism’, ‘The Possession’, ‘The Exorcist’ and ‘The Devil Inside’. Watching these movies has helped me to visualise the sort of feel I want for my thriller opening as well as giving me ideas as to what I want my characters/sets to look like. Upon deciding a name for our thriller, the three of us looked on an online thesaurus for ideas in terms of a single word title. However after not being able to find a title through this method, we turned to researching mythology around possessions and stumbled across a demon named Lamia that preys on children, and as we had decided to have our films based a child being possessed, we thought this demon would be the perfect basis for our film, so we have decided to use this demons name for our title.