6 storyboard shots (from end to start)

Recipe for a Horror Movie

Ingredients:

1. Suspenseful music
2. Dark lighting
3. Items of violence (knife, axe, etc.)
4. A big and empty house
5. Creaky doors and stairs
6. Blood and gore
7. A scared young women
8. Whispering sounds.

Instructions:

1. Firstly, introduce the big and empty house with not much lighting, mostly moonlight.
2. Enter the scared young women, curious about the house.
3. As she enters the house, create creaky door sound effects and creaking sounds when she climbs up the stairs.
4. Start suspenseful music.
5. Stop music and start whispering sound effects.
6. Women finds bloody knife on table.
7. Women turns around suddenly
8. Surprising sound effects
9. Women dies of knife stabbing.

Analysis of shot

The angle used in this shot is an low angle shot. This angle may have been used to create a feeling that the man on top of the drawers is powerful and big. However, in this case I believe that it has done the opposite. By positioning the man and the drawer in the centre, and also by having the man on the drawer in a difficult position can also make him look like he is in a difficult situation which he is having trouble getting out of. Therefore, this is creating a very contrasted look to what a low angle shot usually would create. Another way that this shot has created this feel is the lighting. By having a mostly dark shot with the light mainly on the man, again this creates a shot that looks as if everything is concentrated on the man. It can also be seen that this light is not from an electric light in the room, but that it is coming from the window on the roof, implying that it is the moonlight.

Thriller - 5 points

1. Dark lighting/ Shadows

2. Suspenseful music

3. Sudden transitions

4. Over the shoulder shots (these may be used to show something that the audience may see but the character cannot.)

5. Camera techniques so that the movie is shown in the character's point of view. This makes the movie more exciting as it creates the feeling that the audience is in the actual situation.

Animation Analysis

In Matreyek's work called the 'Factory', In this piece, the majority of the objects that appear are related to some kind of technology and manufacturing. Hence the title, the video takes place in some sort of Factory, starting off with people seemingly walking into it. Everything is precisely in order, including the people. After the video has shown people walking into the factory at the start, the shot moves upwards to the sky, showing 2 aircrafts that are holding large ships underneath them. The movie piece then moves on to inside the factory, showing the different varieties of technology and their uses. The technology seen is seems either extremely outdated according to the 21st century, or very peculiar. In particular, one of the technology include a machine that is basically just a hand, which repeatedly moves from one place to another, grabbing and putting down at the same time. The movie then moves into a close up shot of a woman working with a piece of equipment with a lot of repetition. This woman was in the bottom right hand corner previously. Behind her, a person wearing a mask is writing something down on a clipboard. The next scene shows two working people, one working with an extremely large wrench, larger than a human body. Next is shown yet another person, who seems to be doing the same activity as the previous but with a different tool. An object that looks like a blender is also seen. The overall mood of this piece is simple and boring. Everything in the piece has repetition and presented so that there is no emotion in the piece. When seen closely, it can be seen that many of the actions in the video are repeated, just as if they were copy and pasted. The actions that the technology and people are doing are repeated exactly the same. Sound in this piece also uses repetition. The sounds in this piece are realistic sounds, sounds that one might hear when the machinery in this work is turned on. There are no particular sound cues in this piece, although in the very first scene and the last two scenes the action is done exactly 14 times. For example, in the first scene, 14 people walk into the factory until the scene ends. In the last two scenes, the actions are done 14 times before the scene ends. This work is interpreted as a film that shows an extremely boring and repetitive life of some people who work at some sort of factory. The film could be set in the future, as the majority of the items and objects that are seen in this film are not seen in real life. When various people were asked what they thought this film was about, people responded with, “I think that this is about a world that’s has become overcome by technology”, “ I think it is about people who have a hard lifestyle” and “I think it is about the repetition of a working lifestyle”. The intended audience for this piece are people in their mid-teens and older. This is because the themes and movie itself will probably only be understood by people in these ages. That way, the main themes of this movie may be understood. Visual language such as the colour and especially repetition results to the interpretation. The colour scheme of this entire movie is black and white, and as described before, the actions in the film are repeated throughout the whole movie. Matreyek has also used sound to emphasize the boringness of the factory. There are no particularly interesting sounds in the movie and everything is again, repeated.

Evaluation

For this Creative Media assignment, me and Abbey decided to do something related to do global warming and the environment. So we thought up of an idea of how a magic seed could appear in an environment that was black and white, and everyone was suffering because of the bad environment (hence the coughing in the video). For this particular part we decided to put in sad music to make the feeling be shown better. We then thought that the seed could explode into another environment where the world is all colourful and also like a cartoon, because everyone is perfect. For this section, Abbey thought that the song 'Walking on Sunshine' would be good, so I agreed and we used that song for the cartoon section. In the story, suddenly the world fades away, with the whole world turning into a world of black. When Abbey was drawing this scene, she thought of the idea of the clouds raining black tear like drops, and then that flooding the whole scene. I thought that this idea was a really good one, which made the fade out more smooth than it would have been without that idea. In this part, we put in the sad music again, but fading in from the happy music so it would get the fact that the world was 'fading away'. I also put a thunder clap jingle from Garageband, because I personally thought it matched the scene alot. Previously, the next scene was just straight away the little girl waking up from her dream, however we then decided to add another mini white and black explosion because we thought it sent the message better that she was infact waking up from a dream. For the little girl scene, I got a picture of a cartoon girl sleeping from the internet, traced it on Animation-ish, and then used the selecting tool and the moving tool to make her look like she was blinking and moving her head. After this scene, we repeated the first few scenes from the very first scene, to the explosion to show that the dream actually happened in real life. This part was the easiest, because all we had to do was copy and paste the scenes into the back of the movie. After that, we put in our credits for the movie. Before, me and Abbey were just thinking of putting in the credits through iMovie, which would make it a lot easier, however Mr Powell suggested that we used Animation-ish because it matched the rest of our film. So we got to creating the credits through Animation-ish. A problem we had with this assignment was with the USB's. About 2 days before the Assignment was due, I discovered that my USB had broken. We searched Abbey for the movies and found that she had everything but she did not have the updated version of the magic seed scene and the credits. We were not worried about the credits because we just had to draw this, but we were worried about the magic seed scene. For this scene, originally the guy who brought the seed in would walk out again, but we just decided to keep him in there and put the explosion over him. So that is how we solved our problem. From this I learnt that we should definitely be saving our assignments on both our USB's and maybe also email the minor parts to ourselves so that if something happens, we always have it in some other place. I thought that for our assignment we managed our time well, because we had finished the assignment with about a month left to go to the due date (this is without the sound). We started planning out our sound and then I put it in at home on Garageband. Overall I really enjoyed doing this assignment and working with Abbey.

Evaluation

For this Creative Media assignment, me and Abbey decided to do something related to do global warming and the environment. So we thought up of an idea of how a magic seed could appear in an environment that was black and white, and everyone was suffering because of the bad environment (hence the coughing in the video). For this particular part we decided to put in sad music to make the feeling be shown better. We then thought that the seed could explode into another environment where the world is all colourful and also like a cartoon, because everyone is perfect. For this section, Abbey thought that the song 'Walking on Sunshine' would be good, so I agreed and we used that song for the cartoon section. In the story, suddenly the world fades away, with the whole world turning into a world of black. When Abbey was drawing this scene, she thought of the idea of the clouds raining black tear like drops, and then that flooding the whole scene. I thought that this idea was a really good one, which made the fade out more smooth than it would have been without that idea. In this part, we put in the sad music again, but fading in from the happy music so it would get the fact that the world was 'fading away'. I also put a thunder clap jingle from Garageband, because I personally thought it matched the scene alot. Previously, the next scene was just straight away the little girl waking up from her dream, however we then decided to add another mini white and black explosion because we thought it sent the message better that she was infact waking up from a dream. For the little girl scene, I got a picture of a cartoon girl sleeping from the internet, traced it on Animation-ish, and then used the selecting tool and the moving tool to make her look like she was blinking and moving her head. After this scene, we repeated the first few scenes from the very first scene, to the explosion to show that the dream actually happened in real life. This part was the easiest, because all we had to do was copy and paste the scenes into the back of the movie. After that, we put in our credits for the movie. Before, me and Abbey were just thinking of putting in the credits through iMovie, which would make it a lot easier, however Mr Powell suggested that we used Animation-ish because it matched the rest of our film. So we got to creating the credits through Animation-ish. A problem we had with this assignment was with the USB's. About 2 days before the Assignment was due, I discovered that my USB had broken. We searched Abbey for the movies and found that she had everything but she did not have the updated version of the magic seed scene and the credits. We were not worried about the credits because we just had to draw this, but we were worried about the magic seed scene. For this scene, originally the guy who brought the seed in would walk out again, but we just decided to keep him in there and put the explosion over him. So that is how we solved our problem. From this I learnt that we should definitely be saving our assignments on both our USB's and maybe also email the minor parts to ourselves so that if something happens, we always have it in some other place. I thought that for our assignment we managed our time well, because we had finished the assignment with about a month left to go to the due date (this is without the sound). We started planning out our sound and then I put it in at home on Garageband. Overall I really enjoyed doing this assignment and working with Abbey.