During our first task in AS Media as a group we were presented with a script, where we had to create our own little short video, following the script only.
First as a group we all decided what Genre we was going to put our video under, and we chose horror. We then adapted the script to fit to our Genre and then went on to make our own storyline. Our story started just as the script did, with the phone call, and the injured person at at the end, we tryed too show that the injury was caused by the Ghost. This way it would perfectly fit into our Genre catagorie.
We used many different camera angles, which best suited what we were trying too show the audience. For instance with the conversation at the start we began with a long shot to, highlight some of the key characters. We then changed it to a shot reverse shot, to give the audience a better understanding of the conversation occuring. Once we came to the scene with the phone, we used a close up shot of the phone, to focus on the phonecall alone, and this went into a close up shot of the characters face to emphasize the emotions of the character. The scene that folowed was the hospital scene, where we used shot reverse shot to put emphasis on the conversation, once this ended we used the camera and the editing to zoom in then fade as if the next scene was a flash back, this was higly effective as it was the perfect image of a flashback, and was a different way of showing the audience it was a flashbalck. In Our flashback sequence we used a high amount of sound effects to put the audience on edge and many versions of tracking shots too follow the character, through what seemed a tence moment. Once we arrived at the part where the accedent occurs we use the camera too follow the character as he is dragged in the toilet.
However although some of our camera angles were successful unfortunatly we did have some drawbacks. For instance the lighting throughout most of the scenes were of poor quality and some to the point where its hard too make the character out.For next time we have decided too choose diiferent areas so the lighting does not affect our scene. More so, sound wasnt very clear in some of the scenes, due to background noise. Also some of the camera angles shake a litte during the shot which may be helped with a tripod.
Overall i feel our first task for AS Media was highly successful, however as there were some drawbacks it allows us too re-vist certain aspects that went wrong, and allow us too produce better quality videos.
