Prologue

Today we logged the shots of our main task which we have filmed so far.

Prologue-Main Task

Shot 1: 0:01:19:13-Missing poster of short blonde haired girl. The camera zooms out. We will be using this shot.

Shot 2: 0:01:25:15-Missing poster of brown haired young boy. Mid shot of missing poster blowing in the wind, we will be using this shot.

Shot 3: 0:01:30:15-Missing poster of young blonde haired boy. Camera pans diagonally across missing poster, we won’t be using this shot because camera is too shaky.

Shot 4: 0:01:32:17-Missing poster of young blonde haired boy. Camera pans diagonally across missing poster, we will be using this shot.

Shot 5: 0:01:38:16-Close up of young boy, medium length brown hair, camera slowly zooms out from poster. We will be using this shot.

Shot 6: 0:01:45:00-Close up of an old door with padlock, the door is shaking as if someone is trying to escape through the door. We will be using this shot.

Shot 7: 0:01:48:00-Camera pans across police suspect board, it shows possible suspects and information about them. We will be using this shot.

Shot 8: 0:02:03:00-Close up of suspect, slowly pans down the poster. We will be using this shot.

Shot 9: 0:02:09:07-Midshot of suspects panning around the board. We will be using this shot.

Shot 10: 0:02:21:18-Mistake shot. We won’t be using this shot.

Shot 11: 0:02:24:00-Low angle shot of suspect, camera pans up his body. We won’t be using this shot.

Shot 12: 0:02:29:00-Wide shot of suspect walking, as if security camera shot. We won’t be using this shot, as actor corpses.

Shot 13: 0:02:32:00- Wide shot of suspect walking, as if security camera shot. We won’t be using this shot, as actor corpses.

Shot 14: 0:02:35:20- Wide shot of suspect walking, as if security camera shot. We won’t be using this shot, shot cuts too quickly.

Shot 15: 0:02:38:00-Close up of suspect walking out door. We wont be using this shot as the camera work wasn’t good enough.

Shot 16: 0:02:42:21-Mid shot of suspect, actor corpses therefore we won’t be using this shot.

Shot 17: 0:02:43:22-Quick accidental cut, we won’t be using this shot.

Shot 18: 0:02:44:00-Another accidental cut, we won’t be using this shot.

Shot 19: 0:00:00:00-Mid shot of suspect walking, camera follows suspect, we won’t be using this shot as actor looks at camera.

Shot 20: 0:00:09:19-Midshot of suspect walking camera follows suspect, we will be using this shot.

Shot 21: 0:00:00:00-Close up of knife cutting human meat. We will be using this shot as chopping board moves.

Shot 22: 0:00:28:23-Close up of human flesh being chopped up. We will be using this shot.

Shot 23: 0:00:00:00-Close up cutting up human flesh. We will be using this shot.

Shot 24: 0:00:33:21-Close up of knife next to meat and the killer is playing with the human meat as if it’s a toy. Knife is picked up by killer at 0:00:48:00 they continue to cut up meat aggressively. We will be using this shot.

Shot 25: 0:01:06:06-Killer moves meat off the board and picks up another piece and starts slicing it up. Gets even more aggressive at 0:01:30:00 places the knife in the meat at 0:02:26:00 and starts picking at meat. We will be using this shot.

Shot 26: 0:03:46:00-Over the shoulder shot but actors head was in the way, we won’t be using this shot.

Shot 27: 0:03:47:14-Over the shoulder shot of killer cutting up meat, we will be using this shot.

Shot 28: 0:04:03:19-Extreme close up of meat being cut up, we will be using the majority of this shot.

Shot 29: 0:04:32:20-Extreme close up of killer stabbing meat as if it’s a real human. We will be using this shot.

Shot 30: 0:04:40:00-Killer places knife down clearly in front of the camera, we will not be using this shot as a stage hand gets in the way.

Shot 31: 0:00:00:00-Mid shot of killer cutting meat with left hand this time, we will be using some of this shot.

Shot 32: 0:01:01:01-Extreme close up of killer stabbing knife down into the meat directly in front of camera, then killer takes of gloves slams them down and leaves. We will be using this shot

Shot 33: 0:00:00:00-close up of suspect walking through puddle. We won’t be using this shot. As camera too far away.
Shot 34: 00:00:06:00-close up of suspect walking through puddle, we will be using this shot.

Shot 35: 00:00:13:00-Mid shot of suspect walking away from camera, suspect starts to run. We won’t be using this shot.

Shot 36: 00:00:27:00- Mid shot of suspect walking away from camera, suspect starts to run. We will be using this shot.

Shot 37: 00:00:40- Mid shot of suspect walking away from camera. We won’t be using this shot.

Today 15/1/10

Today we have designed and printed the Missing posters which we will be using in our final piece. We did 10 different copies and asked each member of the class to let us use their picture because this is the only safe, legal way of doing this without getting prosecuted.

We will be taking shots similar to this.


We will also be using a black and white style or sepia type style to film these shots.

Storyboard / our idea

We have just finished our story boards for our AS media title sequence. We did 10 story board shots,we will be using more than that but these are just the raw shots of what we will be using in our final piece. Some of the shots will be seen more than once but will slightly vary each time. Such as missing posters, but each time a different one is shown, also when the knife slices down onto the meat, one of our names will be on it (credits). Also in between shots a letter from the word 'Dissapear' will flash up and the final shot of the title sequence will flash the full word-'Disappear'.

Textual Analysis of Mad House

_Textual analysis of Madhouse_

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Here is a film called Madhouse, it has many elements in it that will be
similar to our main task. So we may be using some ideas very close to the ones used in this film. The embedding was disabled for the video but
here is the HTML: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUYcRIC1cYc

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The first shot shows a common phrase used in most family films but it
has been deranged and twisted to off put the audience. The deranged way
in which the film opens shows that it is more likely a horror film than
a family film. The sound used in this first shot is of a young girl
laughing in an evil manor. This is off putting to the audience as
laughing is usually a sign of happiness and joy but the images are quite
different from this common thought. This first shot pans to a long
corridor that looks like it would be in a mental institution. This
relates to the film’s title. It then does a very quick cut to a child in
a washing machine; this is then cut instantly back to the corridor where
the camera continues to walk down it. Lightning then flashes which means
the camera can cut to a woman stood in the corridor looking quite
confused and dazed. This breaks continuity and affects the audience’s
viewings. It then carries on to do more cuts of weird items like babies
being hung with blood out their mouths. This is generally quite a
disturbing and shows the general idea of the film. The sounds through
out the whole intro is a high pitched music that is chilling. This intro
sequences carries on to cuts of people’s faces that are slightly
deformed but not in a natural way, this shows that something in the
house is causing this. The lighting used in this intro is constantly
breaking continuity which does put the user in an uneasy place. At 0:45
the intro shows a body being cut up, this may answer the questions
raised in the audience of how the people in the house had become
deformed. At 1:00 minute a man tries to escape the house and is followed
by people in white suits, this shows that people are not allowed to
escape and gives a feeling of claustrophobia to the audience.

Shot Reverse Shot

This is a good example of a shot reverse shot.



Notice how the 180 degree axis is set in the establishing shot. The shot-reverse shot alternates between Lily and the office boy talking, . This scene uses the main concept of continuity editing, which is the 180 degree rule. The 180 degree rule is where the camera must stay on only one side of the actions and objects in the scene. An invisible line, known as the 180 degree line or 'axis of action' runs through the space of the scene.


A long shot of the characters in conversation, followed by a medium shot. Any shot focusing on two people is referred to as a two shot. As the scene progresses to moments of emotional or dramatic intensity, the camera typically presents closer shots of the individual characters -- Medium close ups and close-ups. These shots usually alternate between the two speakers, with the camera placed at more or less opposite ends of the axis of action between them. This pattern of alternating shots is called the shot reverse shot structure.

The diegetic sound in this clip (the characters speaking to each other) shows continuity as it shows one character speaking then focuses on the next characters reaction towards the end of their speech. As this is a relatively old clip of Shot reverse shot there aren't any ambient sounds in the background.

From this clip i have been able to easily identify elements of the shot reverse shot that my group could use in our preliminary task and how we are able to do it.

Members of my group and their strengths

Member Strengths

Tim Eldridge Creative and artistic, musical skills
Chloe Hill Photography skills, organised with work.
Tom Sanderson Strong musical ideas and skills
Curtis Sinden Strong ideas for filming

Research- Different Camera Shot Angles

Different camera shots i will be using when filming. Not all of them but a fair amount. Although im not going to use zoom, as its bad! ;). Also when framing i have to leave enough head space because its crucial! ;)