Jeepers Creepers 2 Film opening

Our main task is to create the start of a teen horror so we set the task to watch the start of a selected horror film and answer some questions on the film.

Our group’s film was Jeepers Creeper 2. The film producer is myriad and the distributors are American Zoetrope Pictures. The film was released in 2003 with the certificate of age 15 and Victor Salva directed the film.

The film opening is eight minutes long and starts with a low crabbing. From the first part of the film as it opens we see a very large corn field and can tell this film is set on a farm. We don’t see anything else around the farm which shows us its excluded from everyone. (This is a common horror film convention) The opening scene consists of 86 shots. There are some special effects used such as the scarecrow grabbing the boy and flying away. The opening starts slow but builds up tension as it goes along and then music start which slow speeds up as the young boy is kidnapped.

Pitch

This is our groups pitch for our main task:

dhillon cassidy mander 60 sec by kbamediastudies

Pitch

Today at 12:05 our group pitched our idea for our main task the teen horror to our teacher.

Preliminary Task

Today our group imported out preliminary task footage on to the Macs and then edited it using Final Cut. Before doing these we had to make sure that our preliminary task had all the camera angles that were requires and that the audio was clear. After achieving this we cropping clips and then started adding effects and music to our footage. Editing our footage was fairly easy as final cut is user friendly software. After creating out final product someone had deleted it off the Mac so we had to create our preliminary task again. This wasn't too much trouble as we had recently made it so we could remember everything.

Transferring footage

Today we taught how to get our preliminary task footage from the cameras to the macs and then convert it to QuickTime so that we can edit the footage using a program called Final Cut.

Media Lesson

Today in our lesson we were all assigned a common role of film making such director or boom operator. We had to find out from each other all of the roles and what they did.

Some of the new roles we learnt were:




The production Manger - draws up the budget
The boom operator - Operates the long "boom" stick with the microphone on the end (grey spongy bit)

The make-up artists - changing the actors into character in the way they look

Preliminary Task

Today our group booked out the camera and tripod and went to our desired location where chose to film. It took us less than 1 hour to film everything because we had planned it so well. I think our preliminary task went well. The next stage for our group is to use Final cut and edit the footage.