British Film Institute

10:30 - Welcome and introduction to BFI ( Mark Reid ) 

10:35 - Introduction to the study ( Tom Woodcock)

 

10:40 - Session 1 : Conventions of film openings ( Tom Woodcock)

 

11:30 - Break 

 

11:40 - Session 2 : Anatomy of the Titles and Student Task ( Tom Woodcock )

 

12:15 - Lunch 

 

1:15 - Student task exercise report back 

 

1:30 - Introduction to Corin Hardy and The Hallow (Tom Woodcock)

 

1:35 - Screening : Opening from The Hallow

 

1:40: - Q/A with Corin Hardy (Director)

 

2:30 - Session 3 : Making your own film opening (Tom Woodcock)

 

3:30- END

                                         

Representation of Age in Media

The show 'Skins' is based on the individual lives of college students going through their A-levels. It represents youths as being rather rowdy and not caring what consequences may come through their actions. Throughout the series it shows the teenagers getting into trouble with police and parents but although it represents teenagers in a negative light, they are also represented in a positive light too. Throughout the series it shows the teenagers helping their friends and other people out, despite them being represented as selfish and rude. The older generation is also represented in this show, however not as much as the younger generation is. During a lot of the series they are shown looking down on a lot of the teenagers for their actions. 

'Father Ted' and 'One Foot in the Grave' represent the older generation as grumpy and arrogant. Both of the television shows show the ladies as rather ditsy and the younger male in 'Father Ted' is shown as rather unintelligent. The oldest men in both of the television shows are presented as extremely opinionated and do not take much of a liking to the younger generation.

The media represents the younger generation as lazy and violent while the older generation is represented as grumpy and narrow-minded. These representations are rarely ever true and well, if they are, they do not apply to the whole younger/older generation.

Fonts

Sound and Music

We managed to find a website which offers un-copyrighted music and have decided that a piece of music that we will layer over our filming is one by the name of 'Welcome to HorrorLand'. We are still in search of other pieces that we will be able to use which hold a lot of tension. 

Group 1 Filming Vlog & Extras

Our first day of filming seemed to go as planned as the weather stayed great for the whole time we were there. The ground was rather damp and muddy as it had been raining the day before we went to go and film but this did not prevent us from getting the shots we needed. So far we have managed to film and edit all the videos we captured and we have ended up with about half of our opening done. We now just need to go onto the sound we will use in the background of our opening and if we manage to find a rather good one, we will be able return to our location and use that as a guide to what we need to film next.

This is a short video of Semra getting under the bridge for the first time. It took quite a while to get the right shot and I felt extremely bad for her as the water was absolutely freezing! 

Group 1 Vlog

Starting our filming has been a big challenge for us as the weather has been absolutely horrible recently and as we are doing our filming over a number of days, we need the weather as good as possible on every day we go so that we have continuity. We were going to go on Thursday but it would have been far too dark to film by the time we would arrive there. Because of this we have decided to go fairly early on Sunday morning so we can try and get as much footage as we can. We need to use a drone for some of the first opening shots but we can wait to do those as we need to focus on getting the main shots done before it gets too cold and the weather gets even worse. 

Gogglebox

Clip 1 - Doctor Foster

Clip 2 - Luther

Clip 3 - From Darkness

Scapegoat

Storyboard Videos & Pictures

Shot 1

Shot 2

Shot 3

Shot 4

Amy and Olivia's Location Vlog

Although I was not able to go and visit the location of where we will be filming, I can see some good ideas of where we will be able to take our shots from the pictures and the short vlog that Amy and Olivia took. We hope to re-visit the location (this time as a whole group) and possibly even start the filming of our two minute opening. 

Location Pictures