Connor Poulloura G321Production Log

  • Week 1

    We did this research so that we had a better idea of what our film idea could be.
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    Production Log

  • Week 2

    In week 2 westarted learning about title sequences and how a genre can be representes in the title,
  • Analysis Of Synopsis

    We took a Horror film synopsis and annotated it to discover the horror codes and conventions of a horror synopsis.
  • Title Sequence

    We had to analyse the title sequence of a horror movie. we analysed the conventions of the title sequence, how the titles create a sense of genre and how the themes and atmosphere are created thought the title sequence
  • Horror Moodboard

    We created a moodboard to show us what type of iconography is used in the horror industry. It gave us an idea on which things we could use in our own horror clip and showed us how using these things would boost our grade up, showing us the importance of the iconography.
  • Wallwisher - Initial Ideas

    Wallwisher was the most helpful website that we used. We had six titles that we had to write a paragraph on and it helped us get a better idea on our horror sequence.
  • Analysis Of Horror Company Logo

    We had to analyse a horror production logo. this gave us a idea into what our logo would look like and what ideas that we could use to make our logo a more professional logo, The analysis into the logo was a good idea and I thought it helped us a lot.
  • Design your own Logo

    We had to Design our own horror logo and be very creative with it. We had to make our own name up as well. My name is Bullet Productions, with a gun shot in the background and the writing goes to a bloody red.
  • Initial Ideas - Title Sequence

    We had to storyboard our title sequence
  • Franchise

    We had to analyse a horror film. I chose Final Destination. we had to show how many directors were used over the 5 films and what years they were made in. also we had to show whether or not the development of technology changed the horror codes and conventions of the horror film.
  • Roland Barthes Opening Sequence

    We had four codes to learn and use to analyse the opening sequence of a horror movie. Hermeneutic Code, Proairetic code, The Semantic Code, The Cultural Code these are the four codes that we used.
  • Digital Media Case Study

    We had to create a case study to see how a film has used New Media and the internet to market and Distribute itself. These are the keywords that we used.
    Social Media
    Ubiquitous technologies
    Media convergence
    Social Networking
  • Font Analysis

    We had to analyse the font of a movie film. I chose the film Saw as it was the easiest to analyse. We ananlysed it and looked to see what iconography was in the text. We also looked for typography in the writing to see whether or not it used any of the horror codes and conventions.
  • Star Research Filming

    We had to research a horror movie star and talk about what they have appeared in and what roles they played in the movie. We filmed ourselves talking and uploaded it to Weebly.
  • Initial Audience Research

    We researched and try to think of our target audience to see what certificate our movie would be.
  • Storyboard for title sequence

    This is where we had to design the opening sequence to our horror movie. We had to storyboard it.
  • Shot List

    We had to fill in our shot list for our opening sequence.
  • Synopsis

    We had to write a full synopsis and use Todorov's thoery. We had to write whether or not we adhere or subhere.
  • Filming Schedule

    Our filming has to be completed by the ebd of January.