Creep Opening Titles

In Creep-Freaking out, the use of the underground theme, with zombie like men running around trying to hunt them down, creates a scary theme for the viewers to watch. I chose this Youtube video, because of the use of camera angles, and the way it is shot, to be scary.

The use of the underground and trains, creates that sense of 'no escape', which gives the viewer that sense of shock of horror. In Creep we also see the CCTV cameras, which suggests that someone is watching, her in the underground. Creep also creats the effect of horror by using long knifes, which is 'the fear of the body being punctured, or ripped'

What is a Horror Film

In this Blog I am writing about, what is a horror film? In this blog I will be talking about all the aspects of the horror film, the personal, ideological and Industrial/Financial parts of the film.

Personal
The Audience’s own identification with the Fears or Terrors of narrative, the monster in the darkness or fear of the other. There is also the fear of the body being ripped or punctured, our own boundaries being transgressed. The emergence of a terror, at any level being shown from a safe distance. Horror films are designed to scare the make the emotions of fear, horror and terror to the viewers.

Ideological
The implicit that is a hidden message within the narrative of the theme of punishment rejection and/or revolution at subjects which deviate from ‘correct’ thinking. From simplistic to the basic messages e.g. ‘The virgin, good girl’, surviving the villain at the expense of the rebellious ‘slutty’ friend. To the more nuanced or subtle fears of Strangers/Hitchhikers breaking our boundaries.

The condemnation of any deviant, i.e. not religious. Our perception that the power of science can defeat the darkness at the expense of older beliefs in religion and superstition. In our modern understanding of fear we rationalise the supernatural and defeat it with psychology rather than Latin chants. Modern creates ‘demons’ by crusading against sections of society and labelling them.

Are there so many paedophiles today, rather than in the past? In the past there probably weren’t any records of attacks at the times. How many mental patients have escaped the hospital and stalked and then killed innocents?

Industrial/ Financial
Perhaps the most lucrative genre in the film industry HORROR draws in huge audiences justifying the continual re-invention, re-making and franchising of every successful HORROR product.

We wonder whether there should be an Indiana Jones or a Lethal Weapon 5 but no question is raised over the legitimacy of producing Saw 6 or re-making a Nightmare on Elm Street after 9 previous incarnations.

Final Cut Pro

Final Cut Pro is a very useful editing software, it is a professional, non-linear editing software application, developed by Apple, and is a module of the Final Cut Studio product. Final cut Pro is really good as you can edit the sound and picture to your movie clip. The software logs and captures video onto a hard drive, where it can be edited and processed. The current version of Final Cut Pro, runs only on Intel processors. Final Cut Pro is new to me as i have not used it before. My media teacher showed us Final Cut Server which stores all the work, and when you want to edit the recording then you have to check the work out of final cut server and when finished check it back in. This is so the computers don't get overloaded with files, going back and forth.

With final cut server it is vital that you save and check your work back in to the server. This is because the computer will get overloaded with the files.

Post Production Blog

In our last lesson i learnt how to use final Cut server, this was really good, as i now know how to use final cut sever, as i can now edit a film correctly. To get the film onto the computer i uploaded it straight onto the final cut server.

I opened up the final cut proxy, and i then logged the shots. The reason why i logged the shots was so that i can get the best clips of the different shots, and use them in my final clip. This is really good as i can use any clip and put it anywhere i want in the timeline. I then picked out the shots that i liked and then named them. E.g. Over the shoulder shot, medium shot and close up, and then logged them in to the bin. I selected the shots because of how they were either in focus or had the correct angle.

After all my shots were in the bin, i then opened it up and dragged the selected clips into the timeline. I then repeated it and then made sure that they were merged together properly so the sound was correctly edited and the shots were correct. I then added in all the shots that were compulsory for the task, i then selected the extra shots, and dropped them into the timeline. I used the storyboard to arrange the shots in the timeline correctly so that they made sense by following the storyboard.

I edited the final cut because of how either the picture didn't work, or just didn't look right. I cut from a over the shoulder shot to a close up because when the actor says "i won't wait for you", i thought that the viewers needed to see the expression on his face. when he was about to leave the actress. I also wanted to edit the clip because maybe one shot was too long to have in and then cram in the other required shots.






I then selected the appropriate shots that i needed to use in the clip and placed them into the /

Preliminary Task Evaluation

In our preliminary task we had to film a two way conversation, this meant by not crossing the 180 degree line. This is so when you are filming someone, they don't suddenly switch sides. The task was so we could get used to using the camera and the settings on it, we also had to cover the different types of shots including wide shot, medium shot, over the shoulder shot and a close up shot.

We moved the room around, so that the table was in the middle of the room, but also enough room to move the camera around for filming. Our group then used the chair for the girl to sit on and i placed the gun on the table. We then marked out on the floor, so that the male actor could see where he was meant to stand when he comes into the room.

It worked as a location for our task, as we had enough space to move around and film, we had a door that made a noise when the actor entered the room when he wasn't being filmed, so the viewers knew that he was in the room.

I had quite a big active role when our group were filming because i knew how to do the colour bar at the start of the film, and knew how to set up the camera's light settings. Our whole group took part as we all took turns filming and moving the camera around the room. we were all helping each other and saying what would be a good shot to have.


The thought that we had towards using lighting, was to use a hard light going across the room onto the table. We turned the room light off, so the standing light was just on. This was a really good effect because you could just see the light in the camera frame.

The lighting was important to the scene because it sets the right mood e.g. dark is a scary and mysterious.

When we were filming we had to move the camera into the correct position, and then bubble the tripod