Minutes of the meeting

In the meeting today we discussed if I should steady the opening shot. After some debate between the group members, we decided that it would be necessary as it could make the difference of the entire project maintaining the professional quality. Therefore I tracked the footage and then added a steady filter to the footage. This was all done using Adobe After Effects. The reason why the footage wasn't steady to start with was because I didn't balance the Steadicam well enough, which resulted in emphasizing the faults.

Below is a YouTube tutorial, explaining how to steady footage.

Minutes of the meeting

In today's meeting, we discussed the plan on what we wanted to do with our after effects editing. We all agreed for a dark hint of blue color correction, as we thought that the darkness would help to show that the film is in the night time and the blue would also help to give it a cold horror feeling to the entire production.

Minutes of the meeting

Today when filming we started by having a meeting. The meeting was about one of the shots we where unsure about. In our story board we had wanted to film a birds eye view shot of the bed and then have the camera float down to a close up shot of the protagonist. The reason why we where discussing the shot was because we had found that the shot was not stable, even when using the Steadicam and very difficult to film. Therefore we made the decision to change the shot to just a birds eye view. From this we made some minor adjustments to the story board. Also this meant that we didn't need to use the step ladder for the filming of shot, instead we used the tripod.

An introduction to Semiotics

In the lesson today, I learnt about semiotics. We were told that semiotics are the following things:

• Colour 
• Camera shots and angles
• Clothing
• editing
• Mise-en-scene

I was explained that visual semiotics was the study of signs and codes. The definition we were given on how they were used was as followed: ''producing, conveying and interpreting messages and codes that govern their use. We where then explained, through the use of different examples, a range of colour corrections; camera shots and angles.

After the lesson I spent some time research into semiotics theory. Below was one of the videos posted by another teacher giving a more in depth explanation.

Minutes of the meeting

We started the meeting by setting the date we would start filming, which is 16/12/2013. We then wrote out all of the items we would need for our filming date.
Things that we need for the filming date:

• Camera 1
• Camera 2
• 4x camera batteries
• 2x tripod
• 3x lighting rigs
• Steadicam
• story board
• make up for hand etc.
• music box
• set needs adapting

This is the Steadicam which we have available for the film shoot.

Title time line:

I have analysed a title sequence of the Conjuring, which is psychological horror. I did this by watching the clip below and writing the time and type of title on to this time line. I did this so I would get a better idea of how the titles in a opening sequence would occur. From this I noticed that the title of the film only was shown at the very last shot. This idea we took forward to our own opening sequence.
http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/the-conjuring/

leaning how to use adobe after effects

After looking around on the internet and from the advice from Ryan to use adobe after effects.
To be able to use adobe after effects I spent some time learning how to use it using the different clips below. The first clip essentially explains the basics of using the program.