Mac 5's filming day

Yesterday my group and I, along with Hannah Connolly our main actress, went to Enfield town to film for our film opening. Two hours of hard work and 26 takes later and we have very nearly finished filming a scene for our film opening. We will be going on Friday to Tara's mums office to film the other scenes and will also go back to Enfield town to finish filming the scene we started yesterday. I will be uploading pictures and videos of yesterday's filming day very soon.

Mac 5 have started filming

The other day my group and I starting filming for our 2 minute film opening. We managed to film the lights flickering and we test filmed a girl scratching her hands. We have decided to film the lights flickering again because the camera angles from one shot to another don't flow.

BFI vlog part 2

The other day the media class went to the BFI. It was a really interesting trip and I learnt a lot of information about how to answer the TV drama questions.

BFI group vlog

The other day the class went to the BFI. It was a very interesting day and I learnt a lot of information about how to get the tops marks for my groups film opening. My group decided to change our idea after we left the BFI because we thought our idea wasn't very original and so we have now come up with a new idea for our film opening.

Se7en opening title sequence

During the last few lessons the class watched the movie Se7en, directed by David Fincher. I particulary paid close attention to the opening title sequence to see if I could get any ideas for my groups opening film sequence. The films opening sequence is a short story told in fragments and vignettes following the hands of an unknown man (presumably the killer) while he makes diary entries alongside clippings from books and self-developed photographs giving the audience an insight into the mind of a serial killer.
Many editing techniques are used including jump cuts to give an unsettling atmosphere and short high pitch screams can be heard through out the piece to create a disturbing and eerie mood.

Below is the art for the opening sequence.

Location ideas for our opening of our movie

Film criteria

Here is the film criteria to get a Level 4.

Blog criteria

Below is the criteria to get a level 4 in the Blog. 

Evaluation criteria

Here is the requirements to get a level 4 in the evaluation. 

Mac 5 Pitch PowerPoint

Here is Mac 5's pitch PowerPoint. We have two main ideas at the moment and so we are now finalising our idea.

Mac 5 Pitch

The other day we filmed our pitch for our film opening. We have two main ideas for our film opening which are explained in our pitch. We have decided to make an action/thriller film opening because, from research gathered from our questionnaire, this is what most people said was their favourite film genre.

Mac 5 group vlog

My blog on my Questionnaire

Conclusion from Questionnaire

I asked 13 people their favourite genre of movie but there are 21 answers due to the fact that some people gave more than one answer.













I asked 9 people and out of them 8 people said the beginning of a movie is important and one person said it isn't important.

My Film Questionnaire

group 5 prelim

group vlog on preliminary exercise

my vlog

group vlog

My first blog on storyboarding

storyboarding pictures

As you guessed i didn't draw the first picture!!!

preliminary exercise video

Preliminary exercise

A preliminary exercise is a continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom he/she then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. This task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180 degree rule.

Shot reverse shot

Shot reverse shot, also known as shot/countershot, is a film technique where one character is shown looking at another character (usually off-screen), and then the other character is shown looking back at the first character. Since the characters are shown facing in opposite directions, the viewer assumes that they are looking at each other.

A match on action

A match on action is a technique used in film editing and is a cut that connects two different views of the same action at the same moment in the movement. By carefully matching the movement across the two shots, filmmakers make it seem that the motion continues uninterrupted. For a real match on action, the action should begin in the first shot and end in the second shot.

The 180-degree rule

The 180-degree rule is a basic guideline regarding the on-screen spatial relationship between a character and another character or object within a scene.
An imaginary line called the axis connects the characters, and by keeping the camera on one side of this axis for every shot in the scene, the first character is always frame right of the second character, who is then always frame left of the first.
The camera passing over the axis is called jumping the line or crossing the line.
The 180-degree rule enables the audience to visually connect with unseen movement happening around and behind the immediate subject.