More filming

We had to do more filming as we found some problems with certain scenes. Charlotte took the camera home and re-did the scenes we needed and we are now workong on piecing together our text so it is coherent and fluent.

'Dreamcatcher' opening analysis :-)

Institutions: Warner Bros. Pictures, Castle Rock Entetainment and Village Roadshow Pictures.
Warner Bros. Pictures are associated with other horror films, as are Castle Rock and they are famous for their involvement in the horror genre.
The opening of Dreamcatcher consisted of only the titles.
I didn’t think the opening reflected a lot of the horror genre; at all.
The colours were greys and whites and patterns were made in the background that resembled skulls of animals and there was a background pattern that was just teeth. This created a creepy, uneasy atmosphere which fits slightly to the horror genre, but this was all that was done.
Music was played while the titles were on screen, trance like music with a strong beat, but slow tempo. This, I feel, did not link to the horror genre, it created no atmosphere and seemed rather out of place.
I also feel that the opening titles were far too long, this made me bored and uninterested in watching any further. Most horror films are quick paced, jumpy and full of movement, to almost disorientate the viewer. This film was slow and didn’t pick up the pace, even after the titles.
Overall, I feel quick disappointed, as there was very little horror iconography, mise en scene, sound etc at all.

Editing#2 (Y)

We carried on editing our piece, Wednesday 11th Feb. We looked over what we had from the previous week and realised we had some errors. After rectifying these, we looked into what else we could do with the text. We then put the scenes into the correct order and played about with the time stretch on another piece of audio. We noticed one massive error while doing this and so had to re-do a part of the text. After this, we then had to edit the last couple of scenes for the ending. We were unsure as to whether we had enough light for these scenes during filming, so we checked and found out it wasn't bright enough to see. We then played about with the brightness and contrast to make this visible.