today i have been looking at script formatting
below is a couple of links that i think will be really helpful
http://www.scriptologist.com/Magazine/Formatting/formatting.html
http://www.scriptfrenzy.org/howtoformatascreenplay
Monday, 28 June 2010
Monday, 21 June 2010
Shot List
Test Shots For Film
Today I have been writing down types of shot that i would like to try out for my film, these shots are...
Shot 1
Tracking shot around performers
Shot 2
Close-ups
Shot 3
Long-shot
Shot 4
Worms eye view
Shot 5
Birds eye view
Shot 6
Tracking Shot
Today I have been writing down types of shot that i would like to try out for my film, these shots are...
Shot 1
Tracking shot around performers
Shot 2
Close-ups
Shot 3
Long-shot
Shot 4
Worms eye view
Shot 5
Birds eye view
Shot 6
Tracking Shot
Thursday, 17 June 2010
Research into 2 Practitioners
Research into Two Practitioners
For my EPQ project I am making a short Horror film entitled The Legend of the St Claire Ghost.
I will be looking into two practitioners who have done similar work; The Names of the practitioners are John Carpenter and Wes Craven.
I shall be looking at some of their Previous work, Their background, Their Style and Their Inspiration.
John Carpenter
Background
John Carpenter was educated at Western Kentucky university. He began making short films in 1962. He won an academy award for Best Live-Action Short Subject in 1970, for The Resurrection of Broncho Billy (1970). Carpenter formed a band in the mid-1970s called The Coupe de Villes. Since the 1970s, he has had numerous roles in the film industry including writer, actor, composer, producer, and director.
Mini Biography
John Carpenter was born in Carthage, New York. His family moved to Bowling Green, Kentucky, where his father was the head of the music department at Western Kentucky University. He attended Western Kentucky University and then USC film school in Los Angeles, not the University of South Carolina. While there, he made The Resurrection of Broncho Billy (1970) and started work on Dark Star (1974). He was also in a band called the Coupe de Villes while he attended USC, which included future directors Tommy Lee Wallace and Nick Castle.
Trade Mark
[Horror] Although Carpenter has directed films in numerous other genres (dark comedy, sci-fi, romance), he is known primarily for making horror films (Halloween (1978) and the subsequent sequels not directed by him, The Fog (1980), The Thing (1982), etc.). He is also known as the "Master of Horror" or the "Prince of Darkness" (after one of his films).
[Attribution] The words "John Carpenter's" appear before all of his film and TV titles (e.g., John Carpenter's Halloween (1978)).
Uses synthesizer-based soundtracks that he composes himself (Most famous for the theme song to Halloween (1978), obviously).
[Cheap Scare] Many of Carpenter's films include what he calls a "cheap scare", where something comes into view very fast and leaves just as quickly, intensified by musical cues. Carpenter makes open compositions that allow the villain/monster (or sometimes just an object) to pop into frame from the background, the immediate foreground or from either side of the frame. It has since become a horror cliché after using "cheap scares" so effectively in Halloween (1978).
[Apocalypse] Apocalyptic overtones run throughout Carpenter's films, most prominently in
(1987), the Norwegian recordings of the expedition to uncover the aliens in The Thing (1982), various TV sets and the general anti-TV motif in They Live (1988), etc.).
Frequently makes references to classic Westerns.
Includes at least one scene inside an automobile in nearly all his films. Likes to include helicopters in his films, many times doing a cameo as a pilot.
Previous Works
John Carpenters previous works include…
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy (1970).
Dark Star (1974).
(The Thing (1982),
Prince of Darkness (1987),
In the Mouth of Madness (1995)
Halloween (1978)
They Live (1988)
Escape from New York (1981).
Inspiration
Is an avid fan of the Godzilla films. He considers the first Godzilla movie (Gojira) to be an inspiration for him.
Personal quotes
In France, I'm an auteur; in Germany, a filmmaker; in Britain; a genre film director; and, in the USA, a bum.
I can play just about any keyboard but I can't read or write a note.
Everyone who ever made a low-budget film was influenced by Night of the Living Dead (1968).
Wes Craven
Background
Born in Cleveland in 1939 and raised in a Baptist family. After an unhappy childhood, he left Cleveland to study for a degree in English Literature, at Wheaton College, Illinois. But after illness, he left the school for one year before returning to study psychology. In 1963, he took a degree in writing and psychology and in 1964 he took a Masters from J. Hopkins University. While he was a humanities college teacher, Wes married Bonnie Broecker, mother of both his children, Jonathan and Jessica. But after few years, they separated, and the children stayed with Bonnie.
Wes left his job as a teacher, and after employment as taxi driver, he became a sound editor for a post-production company in New York. And after the co-direction of Together (1971) with Sean S. Cunningham, Wes made the horror movie The Last House on the Left (1972). The movie, released in August 1972, was a big success as was his second movie, The Hills Have Eyes (1977), winning the critic's prize at the Sitges Film Festival.
Wes has gone onto win many more awards, including one for the best movie at the Avoriaz Film Festival for A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984). In 1999 he directed Music of the Heart (1999), a change of direction from the horror genre for which he is known.
Previous Works
Cravens previous Works include...
The Scream Quadrilogy, Nightmare On Elmstreet Franchise, Vampire In Brooklyn, Dracula 2000, Dracula 2 Ascension, The Hills have Eyes 1 and 2 and The Last house on the Left.
Personal quotes
"Horror films don't create fear. They release it."
"If we don't get out of Iraq soon, it'll be like A Nightmare on Elm Street" (April 2007)
Style
Craven’s Style is mostly dark and scary as most of his films are Horror with the exemption of Vampire in Brooklyn with Eddie Murphy, which was a Horror Comedy.
Inspiration
Craven was inspired by
For my EPQ project I am making a short Horror film entitled The Legend of the St Claire Ghost.
I will be looking into two practitioners who have done similar work; The Names of the practitioners are John Carpenter and Wes Craven.
I shall be looking at some of their Previous work, Their background, Their Style and Their Inspiration.
John Carpenter
Background
John Carpenter was educated at Western Kentucky university. He began making short films in 1962. He won an academy award for Best Live-Action Short Subject in 1970, for The Resurrection of Broncho Billy (1970). Carpenter formed a band in the mid-1970s called The Coupe de Villes. Since the 1970s, he has had numerous roles in the film industry including writer, actor, composer, producer, and director.
Mini Biography
John Carpenter was born in Carthage, New York. His family moved to Bowling Green, Kentucky, where his father was the head of the music department at Western Kentucky University. He attended Western Kentucky University and then USC film school in Los Angeles, not the University of South Carolina. While there, he made The Resurrection of Broncho Billy (1970) and started work on Dark Star (1974). He was also in a band called the Coupe de Villes while he attended USC, which included future directors Tommy Lee Wallace and Nick Castle.
Trade Mark
[Horror] Although Carpenter has directed films in numerous other genres (dark comedy, sci-fi, romance), he is known primarily for making horror films (Halloween (1978) and the subsequent sequels not directed by him, The Fog (1980), The Thing (1982), etc.). He is also known as the "Master of Horror" or the "Prince of Darkness" (after one of his films).
[Attribution] The words "John Carpenter's" appear before all of his film and TV titles (e.g., John Carpenter's Halloween (1978)).
Uses synthesizer-based soundtracks that he composes himself (Most famous for the theme song to Halloween (1978), obviously).
[Cheap Scare] Many of Carpenter's films include what he calls a "cheap scare", where something comes into view very fast and leaves just as quickly, intensified by musical cues. Carpenter makes open compositions that allow the villain/monster (or sometimes just an object) to pop into frame from the background, the immediate foreground or from either side of the frame. It has since become a horror cliché after using "cheap scares" so effectively in Halloween (1978).
[Apocalypse] Apocalyptic overtones run throughout Carpenter's films, most prominently in
(1987), the Norwegian recordings of the expedition to uncover the aliens in The Thing (1982), various TV sets and the general anti-TV motif in They Live (1988), etc.).
Frequently makes references to classic Westerns.
Includes at least one scene inside an automobile in nearly all his films. Likes to include helicopters in his films, many times doing a cameo as a pilot.
Previous Works
John Carpenters previous works include…
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy (1970).
Dark Star (1974).
(The Thing (1982),
Prince of Darkness (1987),
In the Mouth of Madness (1995)
Halloween (1978)
They Live (1988)
Escape from New York (1981).
Inspiration
Is an avid fan of the Godzilla films. He considers the first Godzilla movie (Gojira) to be an inspiration for him.
Personal quotes
In France, I'm an auteur; in Germany, a filmmaker; in Britain; a genre film director; and, in the USA, a bum.
I can play just about any keyboard but I can't read or write a note.
Everyone who ever made a low-budget film was influenced by Night of the Living Dead (1968).
Wes Craven
Background
Born in Cleveland in 1939 and raised in a Baptist family. After an unhappy childhood, he left Cleveland to study for a degree in English Literature, at Wheaton College, Illinois. But after illness, he left the school for one year before returning to study psychology. In 1963, he took a degree in writing and psychology and in 1964 he took a Masters from J. Hopkins University. While he was a humanities college teacher, Wes married Bonnie Broecker, mother of both his children, Jonathan and Jessica. But after few years, they separated, and the children stayed with Bonnie.
Wes left his job as a teacher, and after employment as taxi driver, he became a sound editor for a post-production company in New York. And after the co-direction of Together (1971) with Sean S. Cunningham, Wes made the horror movie The Last House on the Left (1972). The movie, released in August 1972, was a big success as was his second movie, The Hills Have Eyes (1977), winning the critic's prize at the Sitges Film Festival.
Wes has gone onto win many more awards, including one for the best movie at the Avoriaz Film Festival for A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984). In 1999 he directed Music of the Heart (1999), a change of direction from the horror genre for which he is known.
Previous Works
Cravens previous Works include...
The Scream Quadrilogy, Nightmare On Elmstreet Franchise, Vampire In Brooklyn, Dracula 2000, Dracula 2 Ascension, The Hills have Eyes 1 and 2 and The Last house on the Left.
Personal quotes
"Horror films don't create fear. They release it."
"If we don't get out of Iraq soon, it'll be like A Nightmare on Elm Street" (April 2007)
Style
Craven’s Style is mostly dark and scary as most of his films are Horror with the exemption of Vampire in Brooklyn with Eddie Murphy, which was a Horror Comedy.
Inspiration
Craven was inspired by
Thursday, 10 June 2010
Info of Interest
Below is a List of links that i have found useful this week.
http://www.theofficialjohncarpenter.com/pages/theman.html
http://www.theofficialjohncarpenter.com/pages/theman.html
Wednesday, 9 June 2010
DVD Cover
Today I have Managed to do some more to my DVD Cover. I have added the title of the film in red writing except for the word Ghost which i have put in White and I have also moved part of the word a little bit higher than the rest of the word to make it look like a ghost is moving The Program that i am using to make the DVD Cover is Adobe Photoshop
I have also got a good start with the opening credits for my film these have been started in windows Movie Maker but i will probably make a better Version of them in Final Cut Pro once I know who is going to be in My Film.
I have also got a good start with the opening credits for my film these have been started in windows Movie Maker but i will probably make a better Version of them in Final Cut Pro once I know who is going to be in My Film.
Monday, 7 June 2010
Opening Sequence for Film
Today i Started Making the Opening sequence for My Film this is being done in Windows Movie Maker as the Windows Machines don't Have Premiere Pro or Final Cut Pro but we can import them into Final Cut Pro or make a Newer Better Version in Motion on the Mac.
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