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MARCUS COULING 1291

CLAREMONT FAN COURT SCHOOL 64680

Welcome moderator! I am Marcus Couling 1291 and I worked with Ollie Macnaughton 1243 and Freddie Howe 1210.
I hope you enjoy my blog, which contains my work on G321, the titles and openings of a thriller/horror film which I named "Lights Out!". My preliminary exercise follows immediately underneath. My evaluation questions are above.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbqqKR9XO0U

LIGHTS OUT! THE FILM OPENING

HERE  Is a link to our film on YouTube.

LIGHTS OUT! EDITING THE KIDNAPPING SCENE

 In this scene we are presented with a flashback of the disappearance of the husband and in these scenes here, we took various shots of the husband being dragged away. However, we were slightly perplexed as to whether we should implement this scene into our film because we were worried that it would take the aurora of suspense away. We also were drawn to the idea of the audience using their initial thoughts of the disappearance of the missing husband and to paint themselves a picture of the disappearance. Despite this, we decided to film the scene anyway in case of any change.

 In the scenes presented here. We are shown the Boss using brute force against the husband. We also see a shot of his feet being dragged on the floor before the scene where he is tied up to a chair in an disclosed location. When we see the husband walking down the tunnel, we devised a "over the shoulder" shot to give a clear perspective of the husband who is about to be assaulted. We then have the boss played by me walk around the corner at the end of the tunnel. We were very cautious for this scene to look as realistic as possible. for the dragging scene, we wanted the close up of his feet because it created more suspense as the audience is oblivious to the location that the husband is being taken to.

Lastly, we shot the scene of the husband being confined to a chair and we went to a run down looking shed in the school woods. we decided to put a blindfold on him to make the kidnapping look intimidating and we filmed in the shed because it looks horrifying and it gave an enclosed edge to it.

LIGHTS OUT! THE EDITING

After the production of the film, we needed to wrap our heads around the editing process. For all of us this was a very time consuming process as we had to sit through all of the outtakes that we made and we had to decide amongst ourselves which bits of filming was best suited for each scene and we needed to decide which bits of filming were suitable and scenes which were not suitable. Looking back at one of our scenes, we made a flashback scene involving me and Tom Gladstone, the missing husband in our film, this consumed nearly 40% of our film and therefore we decided to edit this out because it was too long.

In the end we used two editing softwares. We used iMovie which is included with all MacBooks as one of my peers owns a MacBook. We also used Final Cut Pro which is a very professional editing software and we were all over this software as it was very good to use and caused lots of good effects in our film. In the end, Final Cut Pro had a lot more effects than iMovie but iMovie was very easy to access and contributed massively to our film editing. We also used iMovie for our preliminary exercise and it was of great use.

LIGHTS OUT!, STORYBOARD

During the intense preparations of making our film 'LIGHTS OUT!', I was responsible for making the storyboards of our film. These were the stepping stones to help us broaden our ideas and give ourselves a rough idea of what each individual scene was going to look like. I also added descriptions underneath each drawing talking about the Shot number, the shot type, the action in the scene and the location.

I also designed each scene chronologically which allowed us to critically assess each scene one at a time.