The equipment we used when filming our horror genre film opening was the schools tripod and camera. I feel that the tripod was a good piece of equipment to use as it enabled us to keep a steady shot when we were filming our news report, this was vital for this shot to create an all round more professional feel to the news report to create verisimilartude to real life and create a scarier atmosphere for the audience. Without the use of the tripod this shot would have been shakey and this would not have been realistic and would look unprofessional and messy. By using the tripod we were able to include verisimilartude in our piece creating the hyperdermic needle effect on our audience through creating a realistic news report. The tripod when in an open area was a very handy piece of equipment it was easy to take up and put down however there was an inconveniance with this piece of equipment and that was when we were filming in a smaller area the tripod took up alot of room and made moving around the room difficult and made filming in such a small area rather difficult. The cameras we used was of high quality and enabled us to have a clear picture which therefore made our opening look a more profesional level they were simple to use.
As a group overall there was a few issues with the camera equipment, these were that the cameras that we used did not use the auto focus feature well which meant getting the right shot was difficult whilst trying to keep the camera steady to try and avoid making it blur. Another problem is that the dolly we used was broken, the stand would not stay still and wobbled constantly so created a fluid shot and the filming had to be done by hand when filming the pictures on the wall however when loooking back at our scene in which pictures are shown on the wall through the use of filming this piece by hand i feel creates a more eerie and scarier atmosphere on our audience.
It was difficult to find times for filming that everybody could make especially ones that were a long period of time in order to get alot of filming done to overcome this problem we created a schedule which we all followed we all said when we could film and from that found the best and most suitable times for us all to film.
Editing software
We found that a certain noise was running throughout many horror films with the same generic conventions as ours we found this out through analysis of various other horror genre film openings. The static noise we added made our film fit in with the horror genre genetic conventions better and increased the overall feeling of fear within our piece. We also changed the darkness of the shot in the park as before it was too light in contrast with the rest of the piece so we made it darker to fit in and create a more worrying scary atmosphere.
If i was able to do this again i would have filmed more shots because this way we would have more material to pop up every now and again througout the piece to show the genre easier. This also would help the group to decide on which shot is best as then we would have had more to choose from.
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