Similar Text Analysis Five

House at the End of the Street
Thriller/Mystery/Horror
After moving with her mother to a small town, a teenager finds that an accident happened in the house at the end of the street. Things get more complicated when she befriends a boy who was the only survivor of the accident. 

Similar Text Analysis Four

Sinister
Horror/Mystery
A true-crime writer finds a cache of 8mm home movies films that suggest the murder he is currently researching is the work of a serial killer whose career dates back to the 1960s.

Sinister trailer analysis from amyoughton

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The Sixth Sense
Drama/Mystery/Thriller
A boy who communicates with spirits that don't know they're dead seeks the help of a disheartened child psychologist.

Similar Text Analysis Two

Black Swan
Thriller/Drama
A ballet dancer wins the lead in "Swan Lake" and is perfect for the role of the delicate White Swan - Princess Odette - but slowly loses her mind as she becomes more and more like Odile, the Black Swan.

Black swan analysis from amyoughton

Similar Text Analysis One

Orphan
Horror/Thriller/Mystery
A husband and wife who recently lost their baby adopt a 9-year-old girl who is not nearly as innocent as she claims to be.

My Initial Idea - Trailer

Ideas 

- Horror/Thriller/Mystery

- Children being stalked 

- One by one they go missing

- Stalker - child

- Child is actually paranormal? 

Film name ideas

- The Missing

- One By One

Preliminary Task Chase Scene

Before starting the A2 media work, our preliminary task was to create a chase scene so that we could get used to working with the cameras. I worked with Cory, Taylor and Natasha to create a comical chase scene to the song 'Eye of the Tiger'. The idea was that it would look like a motivational chase, preparing Natasha for marathon.

Myself and Cory primarily filmed, whilst Taylor and Natasha ran in the scene. They also had the chance to film in order to get used to the camera themselves by including point of view shots as they ran. We used a camera and a tripod at different levels and angles around different areas of the school to create our shots. We used various locations, such as different staircases around the school and an outdoors area with a bridge etc. We filmed over the course of two days and planned to use the same locations and costuming so that the scene had continuity, however, on the second day of filming, Natasha and Taylor were in the wrong clothes so it does not have the continuity that we had planned.

Once we captured enough footage to create the chase scene, we moved the footage from the camera to a Mac and used iMovie to edit it together and include music. We made the scene more comical by increasing the speed of certain shots and then slowing down other shots. For example, at the end when Natasha falls, we copied to footage about six times and sped them up, we then gradually zoomed in on each one as she fell. We then faded to music out at the end. 

Y13 Video Analysis Three