Experimenting with our flip

Our Prelim Video

Lesson 8th Oct

In fridays lesson we pitched our opening idea to the class , in the hope that we'd get the green light, and be given our equipment. After hearing our pitch all of the class agreed on giving us the go-ahead and we were finally given the equipment! Our group is really excited about starting filming, I think we're all going to really enjoy this project. We also got the chance to hear everyone elses pitches, all of their ideas are brilliant.

This was our pitch:

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Monday 4th October

In todays lesson we were left to brainstorm ideas for our films in our groups. My group came up with an original idea of a Brit film, based around a young, troubled girl. However after watching the opening to the film 'The Hole', we decided to scrap the idea of the young girl, and make something more straightforward, but equally as effective. We're still unsure about some aspects of our opening, but we have the basic plot.
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Lesson 27th Sept

In mondays lesson (27th Sept) we looked at film genres, ones we may consider for our coursework. The genres we focused on were:

Comedy:
Superbad
Hot fuzz
Youth in Revolt
Sean of the Dead

Chick Flick:
Mean Girls
Sex and the City
Wild Child

Horror/Thriller:
The Exorcist
Paranormal Activity
Blair Witch Project
Hide and Seek

Alternative:
Juno
500 Days of Summer
Happy Go Lucky

Action:
James Bond
Bourne Identity
The Matrix

Brit Film:
This is England
Tormented
Kidulthood
Shank

Period Drama:
Atonement
Pride and Prejudice


The genre I am going to do for my coursework is Brit Film. I chose this because I think it will be different to many of the other groups, and it'll be fun to do.

Kill Bill opening scene - Camera Shots



The shot begins with just darkness, the audience not being able to see anything, just able to hear the sound of Beatrix Kiddo (Uma Thurman) panting in distress, along with the footsteps of Bill (David Carradine), although we don't know that it's Bill until later on  in the scene. The sound of the footsteps create an eeriness about the scene. It then cuts to an extreme close-up of Beatrix's face and part of a veil which straight away tells us that she is a bride. She is also covered in blood, which obviously lets us know that there has been some act of violence previously that we didn't see. The sound of the footsteps get louder, indicating that someone is walking towards her. It then translates very quickly to another extreme close-up, but this time of the feet that we can hear. The camera tracks the feet as they walk across the floor. It cuts back to the extreme close-up of Beatrix's face, in which her eyes change focus to be looking directly above her, implying that whoever is there is now standing over her. The main part of this scene happens now, when we see the handkerchief with the name Bill embroidered on it, wiping the blood of her face. This sets the entire plot to film, as we become aware it is Bill that has done this to her. In the final shot we can hear a gun being cocked,  then the sound of a gunshot and a splash of blood. The scene is cut very quickly so we don't know whose blood it is, and whether anyone was shot. The entire scene is shot in black and white,  to imply that this was a long time ago.

Film-making Techniques.