I have researched the iconography of horror films. These are the sterotypical images in which are expected to be seen in the horror movie genre. The images contain dark locations, weapons and victims.It is usually young woman who are shown to be vulnerable and the villians usually have a mask or deformity.
When creating our horror film we will incoporate some of this iconography.
Websites I used for research and pictures for horror iconography
http://rachaelmariebreheny.wordpress.com/2011/01/24/iconography-of-a-horror-film/
Script (story: A young girl walks into a room and sits down, she sees a young male that she fancies and is finding insignificant excuses to make conversation)
Girl: (walks into room, sits down and looks at boy) Hi!
Boy: (Looking up from book): Err..Hello.
Girl: (Apprehensively): I don't know about you but i haven't got a clue what to do for miss jones maths homework..do you?
Boy: NO! i don't..maybe we can work on it together?
Girl: yeah okay that sounds great..who's place mine or yours?
Boy: umm..maybe here, right now in the library?
Girl: ohh, yeah of course..um..lets get to work
Boy: okay. Question one...243 X 6...
Girl: umm..if i knew the answer I wouldn't be asking you for help would I?
Match on action, also known as cutting on action is an edit technique. it goes from one shot to another which portrays the action in the first shot.
This creates continuity which draws the viewers away from any cutting.
The continuity gives the shots a flow rather than cutting from one to the other.
Below is a video we created which demonstrates match on action.
Evaluation of demonstration
To demonstrate Match On Action we filmed Mary Thompson walking through a door into the common room and then sitting down on the sofa.
We decided to position one of the cameras far back from the door and another facing the door from the inside of the room to film her walking inside.
We chose to keep it far back so when she walked into the room the audience would not see a camera behind her. This meant we filmed her from a side angle rather than behind her.
We then imported the footage from both cameras onto iMOVIE.
I then edited the footage from each camera separately so it flowed from one shot to the other, creating continuity.
When editing I chose to slow down the footage so that i could clearly see when she walked in the door making sure it flowed when it cut from her walking inside to opening the door.
A more challenging part of the activity was getting the balance perfect on the tripod when filming. This involved adjusting the tripod which took a while to perfect.
Although we were able to create continuity, when Mary walked inside the room she looked at the camera and was smiling. We now know that when filming again that the actor should not acknowledge the camera.
