The History Of Horror Films From 1950's

Horror films
keep you as a viewer on edge and horror films encourage emotions such as disgust and fear. They normally show scenes with supernatural activity to jump scare the audience. The first ever horror film production was in the late 1890's the most popular film was Le Manoir du diable (The house of the devil).
1930's to 1940's
At this time American universal pictures made horror films popular. This was films like Dracula and science fiction films were mixed with gothic horror films like the invisible man.
1950's to 1960's
In this times period the technology became more advanced, this ment loads of horror movies changed from gothic to genuine concerns this meant horror films then shifted into two genres such as the Armageddon film and the demonic film.

 1970's to 1980's
At the end of production in 1964 Rosemarys Bay was a success and then influenced the production of  films with occult themes for example the exorcist. The horror films then included gory horrors and with those with more sexual themes which was then classed by 'A-movies'.

1990's 
This genre of films of the 80's carried on until the early 90's. Films such as Halloween and a nightmare on elm street. By the late 90's had very good success.

2000's
By the start of the 00's this period started to settle down the Halloween genre. The second release of the exorcist in September year 2000 was very rewarding even know it was already released for people to watch it at home. Final destination then started the teen based horror and the followed with other sequences. Then films such as the Wrong turn and Cabin Fever helped bring the restricted ratings in theatres.

Introduction To Main Task

Preliminary Task Evaluation

We have created a short film based on a sixth form interview. This was including a characters such as a student and teacher. This film consisted of 12 shots throughout the entire film with the 180 degree rule, match on actions and shot reverse shot.

We did a set brief consisting of how many and the type of shots we would be including in our preliminary task this also included camera angles we would use, this helped us be more organised for recording the raw footage. Then we thought the story would be based on a sixth form interview and we started brainstorming on a A3 piece of paper. This helped us gather all of our ideas. Then we put our ideas on 12 individual shots on 12 A4 bits of paper which would further explain how each shot will be recorded and helped us plan what lines of dialog will be exchanging during each shot. Then we started our location planing which was where the shots would take place this helped us have  verisimilitude. We decided which of us would be starring of the characters of Dwayne and George based on who looks more like a teacher and who looks like a student.


The filming process started with the establishing shot.Then the character Dwayne started walking to and in a room which went very smooth with, however we struggled with the point of view angle  because when Dwayne pulls the chair and turns the door handle as we were using an iPad to record we had some difficulty trying to prevent anything else but the hand showing up in the shot. A big mistake was made when Marvin recorded one shot in portrait and another in landscape which didn't help with trying to keep verisimilitude. The last issue we had whilst recording was when recording the last line of dialogue. I had trouble saying a line that was pretty long and managed to accumulate 12 failed attempts.

I imported my raw footage into premier pro. Then i trimmed the bits of footage i don't need including video and audio. I scaled the footage to frame size. I later on used video grabby to download a song off YouTube into iTunes and imported it to premier pro and added key frames which gradually fades the volume after Dwayne walks through the door. Then rendered the whole work area and exported it then uploaded it onto YouTube and used the embed code and pasted it onto my blog.

I felt that my preliminary video was satisfactory. The strengths of my editing were the introduction as i thought the music went well with the establishing shot and how it faded away as Dwayne walked through the door. I was also pleased with the trimming i made so that the shots run smoothly together including the point of view, shot reverse shot, match on action, over the shoulder and the 190 degree shot. My weaknesses were i accidently deleted one of the point of view shot where Dwayne opens the door before i uploaded it. Another weakness was i forgot to trim my audio and let it run the full length while it was muted in the background which resulted in my video carrying on  after it has finished with no video or audio. Next time when i edit i need to double check my editing before uploading the video to prevent potential errors.

Preliminary Task : Filming Schedule

Date	Cast Involved	Location	Props/ Mise-En Scene	Equipment Needed	Health And Safety Considerations
	Sam Merrison	Outside the school building.	Paper explaining the sixth form requirements.	iPad	None
	Lewis Molloy	Upstairs corridor.	Smart/Casual clothing.
		Classroom.

                                                    

Learning To Edit With Adobe Premiere Pro

In the last two lessons of Media Studies i have learned how the following:

• I have learned how to create a new project on Premier Pro
• I have learned how to import clips and audio in the Premier Pro and not to move the files after adding them to it
• I have learned how to navigate through video by using the left and right keypad and by scrubbing
• I have learned how to move a clip into my timeline, with or without it's audio
• I have learned how to trim with the razor tool for precise cuts between shots
• I have learned how to play the video in full screen to see any errors clearly, or for video viewing purposes
• I have learned how to add video transitions and effects to my project
• I have learned how to decrease the volume (decibels) on a video
• I have learned how render a video so it is ready for exporting
• I have learned how to export my project to my desktop

Here is my test of using Premier Pro by making a short film from clips about a knock knock joke: