Film Practice

This was a film we did when we were practising with using the camera equipment. Some of these shots we were planning on putting into our films such as the shot of the eye at the beginning where you see the pupil dilate. The shot of walking down the alley way was stabilized and the colour of the shot was changed to make it look creepy and I thought it looked quite good.

Wikapedia

I found this information on wikapedia about opening credits:
In a television programme, motion picture, or videogame, the opening credits are shown at the very beginning and list the most important members of the production. They are now usually shown as text superimposed on a blank screen or static pictures, or sometimes on top of action in the show. There may or may not be accompanying music. Where opening credits are built into a separate sequence of their own, the correct term is title sequence (such as the familiar James Bond and Pink Panther title sequences).

Silent Witness

This short clip shows how silent witness on BBC 1 uses lower case letters.

Film Draft

This is another draft of our film and we have made the credits bigger and they are on the screen a bit longer. Some credits had to be put in a different place because they didn't fit very well but I think it looks better now. However we now do not know whether to have the credits in lower case or upper case letters because now most films and dramas have their credits in lower case letters. An example of this is Silent Witness.

Ripper edit

This is our almost finished film that needs to be shown to an audience to get some feedback and it also needs the music. We thought the credits worked well with genre as they are written in red to represent blood and death. We decided to have the credits show throughout the opening rather than all at the beginning because it looked better. We have changed the speed of some parts to make it flow better and to make it less boring, because before the shots were too long and could be a bit boring to watch. It now needs a bit of a tidy up and we are hoping to screen it to an audience to see what else we can do to improve it and then all it needs is the music.

Avatar

I went to see Avatar yesterday with my brother because everyone had recommended it to me and I thought it was absolutely fantastic. Usually I am not keen to see 3D movies, but I could bare this film because it was just brilliant, the 3D effect actually made the film as good as it was and I would definitely watch it again, although it is quite a long film. Although it was obviously a fictional film the effects were so good it actually looked real, because it had a mixture of real people in it and then the avatar people. I would definitely recommend this film because of how good the effects are and the storyline is really creative as well.

Garage Band session

Yesterday we went to the city learning centre for a session on how to use Garage Band, I found this quite useful because, before I didn't have a clue about how to use it. My group decided to practice making music to go with our film. We found some useful sounds that were already on there and we had all picked similar sounds, which was good because we all agree on how we want our music to sound like. We each tried to mix the clips to see how they sounded and then we all listened to each others. Michaela made some really good music and it did sound quite scary, so she saved it and we might adapt to it and use some of it in our film. I am now really looking forward to making the music to our film because I think, hopefully once it is all put together the film will turn out good and will look scary.

Credits

Today and last night we decided to do our credits for our film because we have not done them yet. Last night we decided that we would use the colour read to symbolise danger and death. The style writing we have used looks as though it has been handwritten to add to the effect as if 'Jack the Ripper' has written the credits. Today we decided where to put the credits and they are all in significant parts of the film which makes them stand out. Some fade in and out and others just appear. All we have left to do now is the music and to tidy it up a bit.

Firefly Credits

Firefly opening credits: I think these credits are really effective because the title is Firefly and the credits fade in through what looks like fire which is relevant to the title.

The Ripperologists

I found this book review about Jack the Ripper called "The Ripperologists" and I thought it was quite interesting research and they try to rein act the murders of Jack the Ripper:

"The Ripperologists" is a contemporary thriller about two competing experts who are forced to work together to beat the clock when a copycat serial killer begins recreating Jack the Ripper's 1888 murder spree.

"I really enjoyed it. Most entertaining and showed a great insight into 'Ripperworld' - a strange and unique place." Stewart P. Evans (author, "Jack the Ripper: Letters From Hell" and "The Ultimate Jack the Ripper Companion")
Famous mystery novelist Barbara Thomas -- who has once again topped the best-seller lists, this time with a new, nonfiction book she claims reveals, once and for all, the true identity of Jack the Ripper -- is paired with legendary Ripperologist Henry McHugh, a renowned and beloved expert in the field.

Brought together by an eager police detective, the two rivals must put aside their differences long enough to piece together the identity of a killer who has ingeniously recreated Jack the Ripper's first murder -- and looks to be well on his way to re-committing the next four.

With wit and suspense -- and set against the backdrop of the fascinating subculture of Ripperologists -- the story takes equal stabs at the disparate worlds of publishing, Ripper studies, fan conventions, and Internet chatrooms, as our two unlikely heroes employ their (often contrary) knowledge of a 120-year-old phantom to hunt down a modern killer.