while watching films

Today i watched a fim as my college is off for a week for half term, the film  i watched was entitled grave encounters which i thought was a terrible movie but the opening sequence was rather interesting as it was different from any7 other film i have watched it involved the director sitting down and talking about the fillming of this movie then it lead straight to the point of the fliming process he ended on this kept me interested as it was something i had never seen befpre but sadly i lost interest as the film went on.

test shots

Today i visted the location of where my group and i will film and we took test shots with my camera to see what angles we would use and where we could put the police tape this was pretty helpful as we could eliminate some ideas we did not need to use.

working progress of pitch

PitchMy group and i have begun working on our pitch and i will upload as we go along this is our initial ideas there is a possibility we may change it all together but this is our first ideas.

last years process

Last year whilst studying AS media, we had made many mistakes regarding audience. The first mistake we made was our survey we sent it out individually instead of using a site such as http://www.surveymonkey.com/. This was a major setback as less people would take our survey due to it not being mutiple choice and they also had to write/type, this year we only went for multiple choice questions which meant the survey could be completed with just clicking a mouse. My colleagues also suggested that we do more then five questions but less then ten so we decided to go with 8 questions which is enough to give us the information required without having to much questions for the participants to answer.

Our feedback from last year was poor, this was due to us printing out the survey and having participants write their answers down this gave us less feedback and careless answers. Now that we are using the website "surveyMonkey"we can put the survey on our personal profiles of social networking sites such as (Facebook,Twitter,Blogger and bebo) this gives us a wider audience.

As my group has decides to do a crime thriller The teaser trailer will have to indicate that a crime has been comitted or something along those lines.Whilst searching on the internet i came across novelty police tape for sale which is an exact replica of the real thing so before we begin to film we shall order some of create the atmosphere of a crime scene.

Location Scouting

On the way home from a night out on the weekend i noticed this church tremendously lit up. i decided to take photos of this church because even though it was lit up the surroundings were still dark this is a striking image and creates a sinister atmosphere. as we are also doing a crime detective teaser trailer i think this building could be very useful.

Then getting closer to home i approached Wandsworth common which is normally not a great place to film but in the evening it creates a mysterious atmosphere due to the lighting and the dack sourroundings