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Denotation & connotation

The ring

Denotation- young girl, long black hair in an empty white room with a wire across the floor, she’s wearing a long white dress and young school girl shoes.

Connotation- the girl is unhappy, looking worried and looks troubled, she also looks unwashed. It could suggest she is not mentally stable.

The omen

Denotation- Young boy at grave yard & smartly dressed.

Connotation- looks like he could be possessed, he looks mysterious as he should be at a grave yard on his own.

The grudge

Denotation- Young girl pale face open mouthed with her head through the bars on the stairs

Connotation- She looks possessed, she looks like she wants to kill someone and she looks like she needs help and looks like she wants revenge.

Codes and conventions of the horror/thriller

 In a horror/ thriller many situations/ objects will occur:-

Death, Torture, Blood, Ghosts, Knives, grave Yards, Big scary houses, Bats, Darkness, Footsteps, Owl sounds (outside at night), Car crashes, vampires, mutations, Fog Frost, trees In wind, Masks, China Dolls, Puppets, Clowns, Doors slamming, Cat eyes in lights,  sudden movements, jumpy moments, body parts, chains, rape, wolves, foxes, snakes, spiders, bugs, skin head men, murder, pain, fear, villain, twisted plots, creepy children, paranormal, false sense of security, storms, screaming, chasing.

These objects are all stereotypically made to scare an audience. They create an uneasy back ground to build up to a situation that may make you jump or give the audience a thrill.

Camera shots & editing that may be used in a horror/ thriller:-

Establishing shots to show the audience the location. Close ups that can focus on the main act of the crime or on the face of the villain/killer to scare the audience. Low angle or high angle shots to differentiate the villain/killer from the victim. They will also use shot reverse shot in the editing to quickly show the reaction of the victim to seeing the villain or seeing someone dead on the floor for example.    

Editing Our Preliminary Task

I found editing interesting and satisfactory, we all had an equal role in the editing process we all got to help each other and add pointers when each person was editing so it was a joint effort. I found editing really interesting as I was new to it and found that the outcome was really successful and enjoyable as we were starting from scratch making our own piece of work. I have never used final cut pro on a Mac before therefore I had never used the time line or any of the editing equipment. I enjoyed editing my film into a coherent narrative because it was making sense of the images and finding and order for the story. I learnt to use in and out brackets (which is i&o on the keyboard) learning to drag and drop putting the right thing on the key board and also learnt how to use sound by manipulating it to match the image when the door was shutting.

Premliminary Task Evaluation

We filmed in the editing suite this worked because we wanted to create a classroom effect to reenact a columbine massacre situation. We all took an equal role of filming, I filmed the close up shot and the shot of the gun which we cut and edited later on in the editing suite. The lighting was hard and fairly bright this was important as we just wanted to create a classroom light so that the scene didn’t look suspicious at all, this was effective as it was verisimilitude.

We had learnt from out mistakes in our practice run through where we broke the 180 degree rule and filmed half of the scene hand held so when we came to do our final preliminary task we didn’t make many technical mistakes. We checked the tripod was level by bubbling it to make sure the shot was straight and checked that the shot was in the frame correctly as these were also things that were not quite right on our run through. We tried to do as many shots and different angles as possible such as low angle shot, wide shot, pan and till shots and close up shots. We were following a script which was slightly different from the storyboard as we changed it to fit our scene slightly better; we thought that we should change it to be slightly more direct to make it more exciting and to build tension. We conformed to the 180 degree rule as we had learnt from previous mistakes in a practice run. We used the appropriate terminology to make sure that everyone was aware of what was going on.

I have learnt a lot by doing this task such as: how to bubble a tripod, how to use the camera, discovered more shots, how to white balance and how to zoom.