AS media studies assignment

• I beileve that our finished film shows that we can hold the camera steady and therefor our shots are also steady but this is mostly because we used an tripod, their was one shot that we used in our film when we didn't use a tripod but it worked well in the way that the shot is steady and if the audience were to believe that the shot is not as steady as the others we cover it up but showing this shot as from the persons view point when moving.with all our shots we mad sure to use the 9 grid squares and never have someone in the middle unless we wannted to have and cose up or an extreme close up. we shoot these but in the end we didn;t use them in our over all film.we also made sue to not break the 180 dregrees rule and also the 30 dergee rule aswell.Another rule we made sure not to breake was the the head room rule and in everyshoot we took we didn't breake this rule.After watching the film we decied on remaking we took down what shoots they used soo we could use them oue self's and also improve on them. We did use some of the same shoots but we didn't use all the same shoots for example  some of the shots we took were,
• Over the shoulder
• Min shot
• Long shot
• High angle

For our shooting we shot at highfileds there were people there which sometime came in to our shots but that was ok the real problem was the "duck's" they would come in and out of shots but this only happed a couple of times so that was ok other that our filming was ok.

With our editing we were woried that one of our main shots would not flow this shot is the one when our actrees falls though the mirror to the wood's at first it didn't flow but this was because we croped it to late it look as it she hit the mirror then fell though it ,so we croped it again and it woked we croped it so that it was just as she was about to hit the mirror she fell into the woods. Their was also one more problem we had with the flow when our actress was walking towards the person in black we used the wrong shot but it still wokers it just seems as if it takes to long.The shot we should of used was an over the shoulder shot.
Also with one of our shots we had to split it in half and add an shot in the middle of them of an sigh that says "KEEP OUT" this shot was took some where else but you can not even tell the shots flow so smoothly.

With our film we chose to remake we saw that the person is at home then falls though the mirror then finds them self's in an woods so for our costume for this person we decied on her wearing p.j's and a dressing gown,then for the sceary person we decied that it would be more effective if the person look as if they were dead so we used face paints and painted the face white with black around the eye's to make them stand out and look dead we also made the lips blue and then added conseler to the lipes to make them  ligther and look more dead. We also had a bear that played an childish tune like a music box but in the end we didn't use it. We used the playground sounds on the mak and added them into the backround in the shoots of when she is falling though the mirror, looking around and walking up to the black figuer.We knew that we needed an woods for our woods sense so we decied on hightfields because it was the closest and it also had an amazing woods and we didn't have to go to someone's house to film the shoot of our actress falling thought the mirror because they have an big bath room with an large mirror so we didn't lose so much time traveling to and from also there was a problem with how the person was falling into the mirror for some reason it wasn't working so i had to get on the floor and pull her to the mirror. Oh and you would think that a lot of people would be walking in and out of the toilets but there was on two. We also decied on filming at a later time in the day because the woods had to look spookie.
For our actor we decied on people who took drama at gcse and got A or A*because only the best for our filming we also picked people for there acting towards the camera e.g we picked them also how good the worked with the camera if they always looked at the camera etc.

To plan for our filming I found the place for our shooting (highfeilds).We also found capable acters that also wok well togther. Before even shooting we planed out what shoot's we were going to use and also for when the actress fell though the mirror we planed how we where going going to crop it. 1st shot of her walking up to mirror 2nd shot of her falling 3rd shot of her head falling 4th shoot mid shoot of her boddy falling. W e also mad an storie board of events.

One thing we could improve on is the shoot of when the person is walking down toward the person in black it seems to take to long ther person in the bath robe to get to the person in black to improve this shot we could use this shot and the crop it to an over the sholder shot.

I think that we will be using the same actress and the same location for our shooting.for our finall coursework.

By Annalise