Monday 5 October 2009

evaluate of progress week 5

i understand the 3 theorys because i also learned them in gcse media, i think todorov's theory is the easiest because it is set into steps whereas props theory has alot of characters in it that are hard to remember

when we went to record our short film i didnt record the film but i did see the camera and its just like all the others so its easy to use, when we recorded we used some different camera angles.

we used Imovie to edit our movie, which went well seeing as it was our first time, Imovie went weird when we were importing the movie but the teacher told us we had to restart the program and it worked fine, we dragged the movie clips in order to the main line and then cut bits out that were wrong. we were about to add the title when the lession ended.

Thursday 1 October 2009

homework-codes and conventions of a thriller

The conventions of the thriller genre are to do with sound and editing like quick cuts and camera angles. The music is meant to give tension and make you jumpy, the editing one would be quick cuts from the killers looking point and then the room the victim is in. thrillers are also meant to have surprises and twists and the use of lighting to create shadows