Roles revised

Since we originally had the idea of the seven deadly sins and also the amount of people in our group we have changed our role as well. Rather than creating a piece based around the seven deadly sins we have changed our mind on our idea to be around fate and the dangers of tempting fate. 
We have also decided that instead of having specific roles within our film that we could actually change it and have seperate parts of the film which means we will all take on the positions of director, editor, story board artist and script writer. By doing this it means that we can take charge of all roles and also be responsible for our own part of the film.
The main reason behind us changing it so we all undertake all of the roles is because we originally had five people in our group and so this would be the way in which we would have previously undertaken this situation as opposed to just having one role each.

Research

Since films have first been made there have been many technological advances in the media. The first materials to have recorded action were on plastic. In 1888 the world’s oldest recorded short film was two seconds long and was called Roundhay Garden Scene by inventor Louis Le Prince. It was recorded at 12 frames per second. The following year, US inventor George Eastman developed the first roll of film made of celluloid which could easily bend to fit around the reel. It was made of gun powder and camphor and is moulded to the desired shape through heat. It was said that the first movie made was called ‘The Waterer Watered’ a French film in 1895. The original title was called 'L'Arroseur Arrosé'.
 

Early films did not have sound already added to them so in theatres they would usually have a pianist to give it a better atmosphere to give films another dimension so to speak.  The first film with all talking was made in 1927 called ‘The Jazz Singer’ made by the Warner Brothers. With the increasing amount of ‘talkies’ it severely hurt the careers of those who had been in silent films and also the musicians who would play music at the theatre alongside the films.

Creativity

Creativity is a complex and independent process which is limited by four factors. These factors must be taken into consideration when making my own creative process of my A2 short film project. We have been thinking about what we could potentially create as an effective piece of filming and had quite a few different ideas. There may be some problems when it comes to the creative process as the determining factors can include the matter of how much creativity can be shared with a certain genre of film and also because of having to compromising with others in a group. In theory there is no form of complete creativity when making a film in a group. The collective identity within the media is especially important to consider when it comes to making a film due to the fact that if we don’t think about your audience then you would not have an audience for our film itself and no one would want to watch it. I think that the main problem that we may face will be putting together everyone’s opinions and ideas together rot create a piece which will attract a large audience.

Roles

Since last year we have changed our roles within our groups at A-Level media. Our group previously had myself as the script write and although I enjoyed this I have decided that I would like to change my role to that of the story board artist as it seems like it would be interesting and creative. It also shows that I will be able to do more than just draw as there is always the option of using a camera to then give the correct shot sizes and also it gives me experience on photographic story boards. Chloe enjoyed her role being our editor last year and so she will be staying as the editor. Paige was the story board artist last year she is now going to arise to the challenge of becoming the director and Adele was previously our director however she has changed groups.

Review

For our AS course we were told to make the opening two minutes of a film. I was in a group with Chloe, Adele and Paige. We were given many options of what we could make our film opening about but we chose to venture into the horror musical genre. We chose this style in particular because we felt it was something different to the typical conventions of a horror film. I also think that through our good use of camera movement and lighting techniques that it gave us another dimension to our film and also the way in which Chloe did our editing in an effective and scary way to emphasise the film itself. When it came to making out film last year I found it a very rewarding experience to see what our hard work actually achieved, having only ever watched films before I was not aware just how much work was needed to be put in to make a great film and felt that the hard work which we put in was very effective for our opening two minutes.  I think the next time we do any filming that we should make sure to plan effectively to get the best out of our filming time and to maybe also help Chloe with editing as we found out that was the hardest job.