Camera HT

We tried to get a high mega pixel camera at short notice but for our research we have decided to use a Sony cybershot 14.1 megapixel camera.


Key Features:

• 14.1 effective megapixels resolution
  Captures very high quality images, allowing detail-packed enlargements
  


• 4x optical zoom
  4x zoom range and 26mm wide angle to cover wide range of shooting situations
  


• 2.7" LCD
  Clear Photo LCD screen (230k dot) offers excellent detail, high contrast and wide viewing angle
  


• Intelligent Auto
  Automatically adjusts exposure and other settings for optimum results in a wide range of shooting situations
  


• Face Detection
  Automatically adjusts focus, exposure and white balance for clearer portraits: priority selectable between children and adults
  


• Smile Shutter
  Automatically fires shutter when subject smiles: with adjustable smile threshold and priority selectable for children/adults
  


• Easy Shooting mode
  Fuss-free operation for beginners with simplified controls and easy-to-read on-screen instructions

Camera advice HT

Before we go to take the photos i've decided to do some research into how to create the most effective photos at night. During my research i found that on the camera we should avoid using the flash, to try and combat this we should try and adjust the ISO on the camera and increase it.

This will mean the higher the ISO the lower the exposure. Another bit of advice i found was to take multiple pictures all using different exposures this will enable us to retrieve the best possible outcome.


Definition of ISO: is the measure of a photographic film's sensitivity to light.

Example of ISO

This link shows tips on how to use ISO and how to correctly use lighting settings:

http://www.videojug.com/film/digital-photography-tips-iso-and-light-settings

Ancillary task begins!!! HT

We have taken the advice of our teacher and have decided to split our ancillary tasks between the 4 of us, Me and Amy are going to tackle the advertising poster and Sophie and Claire are going to do the web page.

Me and Amy have decided that today we will try out different shots and mise-en-scene's for our poster. We've both agreed that we will try and mimic the picture of 'eyes' which Claire posted. We particularly like this and will take inspiration from this as it depicts the horror theme really well also with the eyes being off centre in the picture it allows us enough room to add titles and other texts. We hope to get all the pictures taken today so we can start on putting our poster together on photoshop; using the photoshop tutorial i added below.

Cold Night for Alligators Font.. AM

This type of font is very suitable for our media trailer as each letter looks like it has been drawn with blood. As the genre of our media trailer is a horror, it is important that we get a font that represents the intensity of the killings that occur throughout the trailer.

Eyes Idea CA

The idea of the dark background against the pale skin and the blood from the eyes makes the image very intense.

Useful link? CA

I found a link to another blog with research links into how to make a thriller poster.



http://a2mediacourseworkdanielparslow.blogspot.com/2010/11/film-poster-reaserch.html

Influences for poster HT

I think that this forest picture could be an ideal influence for what we should try and re-create for our poster; with the focus on the sun just breaking through the trees and depth of the picture we could create with help of photoshop to make it seem the ideal place to resemble and give connotations of a horror. It also ties in well with the theme of our film which is set in a forrest. We can grab the interest of the audience by layering the poster with different images; for example in the photoshop tutorial they use clouds to set the scene. We could also adjust the saturation and colour of the photo to enable us to pull of the correct affect and feeling for our poster to give off the correct message.

As the seperation of the trees leaves us with a lot of room to work with we could follow as the photoshop tutorial explains we could use an image to send off a message, in the tutorials case they use eyes i think we could also follow this as it would highten the fact the film is a horror and also add to the suspense of the film as the audience will want to find out who this person is.

We can set the eyes in a black background like the picture above in order to not give too much away and add to the suspense of the piece. Photoshop tutorial also explains that we should work on the eyes and make them more dramatic and other worldly so they fit in with the theme of the film.