film symbols

A high gate- a barrier for people to get in and out, and robin hood back in the day.
A telephone off the hook – trouble, interruption mystery reason?
The sound of dogs barking – trouble, Erie mystery reason?
A calm lake – lodge camp site calm before the storm
Cars beeping – traffic jam, city living life very busy rude people.
Sirens from emergency vehicles – trouble, a serious accident mystery reason?
A hooded figure – stereotype, teen, mystery reason?
Running footsteps – pace, fast panic life threatening mystery reason?
Lighting – storm rain conductive mystery reason?
A creaking door – old, farm house country side mystery reason?
Tapping on glass – waiting, wants attention, needs something, a break in mystery reason?
Shuffling paper – busy, work office, suits, ties, skirts, boss, and paper clip.
A smoking fire – trouble, fire, fire-fighters, hero, panic, water, island, mystery reason?
A sweating man – hot, summer, beach, sand, water, ice cream, hairy, sticky
Heavy breathing – panic, running, hiding, love, heartbeat, nervous, scared.
A door slamming – anger, shame, annoyed, trouble, argument, accident, mystery reason?
A clock – the time, numbers
A ring taken off a finger – UN or done marriage, engagement, argument, love, passion, a terrible mistake, mystery reason?
A train speeding through the night – fast, pace, hurry, strong force, dark,
A vulture – scavenger, beast, animal, cares for nothing.
A glass of wine with lipstick on the rim – kissing, dinner, sex, marriage, party, dancing, romance, killer
A bird in flight – danger with peaceful
A bird in a cage – prisoner, locked up, a pet
A candle – burning, old times trouble of fire.
An axe – weapon, a lumberjack in the woods
A cross – time of Jesus, catholic, passion desire.
A bat – vampires cr9icket baseball, weapon,
A dead butterfly – sadness, better things in life , a squashed bug
A key – unlock doors, a gateway, the exit, and the findings of something new.
Broken glass – Annie Lennox, blood, horror, self harm.

Introduction to FINAL CUT PRO - non linear editing

Preliminary Filming Task

Filming from a Storyboard (no dialogue)

Add the western storyboard - GUN FIGHT

First Video Camera Lesson using Sony PD170's

Photoshop Lesson 2

In this lesson we used the tools in Photoshop and apply them to start making our horror/thriller posters by using a photo that we had taken in a previous lesson. Throughout the lesson we went through loads of differnt styles and tried to get the best and most effective one, i ended up with this.

Photoshop Lesson1

Learning about a Digital Still Camera

11/07/08- i used a still digital still camera and went out and took pictures of objects and people of a close up and mid shot and a long shot. i leanrt about the squares of the camera as a squar ein the top right would be a very distanced shot where a shot in the middle one is the centre of attention i saved my pictures into my place and will use some of these pictures as either a stimlus or used in the thriller.

introduction to media

i choose media becasue i love the media concept of style it has to the public, and i want to find out more knowlegde about the subject. i was very keen when hearing about the horror/ thriller becaus ei really put my ideas foward on the camera. i want to see if the media production is th same as i think it is and i want to see how it all works and how people cope in real life media jobs becaus ei think it will give me a extra opition in the future for me.