Psycho vs The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

This is my video where I compare Psycho and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre:

PRELIM: Directors Commentary

This is mine and Hibah's directors commentary where we talk about filming and editing the clip and how we feel the preliminary task went:

PRELIM: Editing

This post is how we edited our clip to produce the final product, which is below: 

This is the first part of our editing process. We put all the footage clips into Premiere along with the audio from the original. We then had to match up all the takes of each shot to the right audio section as well as we could while also making sure the clips were in chronological order. To help us with this stage we used markers to mark out the important parts of the audio. We used the cutting tool to trim videos when we liked specific parts of it. To make sure we had the correct visuals we always referred back to the original clip.

Here we began to  pick the best shots out of all the takes we had taken and shorten down to the length of our clip. We worked on some of the speeds of some of the clips to make sure the audio was spot on. We then joined them together to get a rough draft of our clip.

Once all clips were in the order we were happy with them and the audio matched, we moved onto colour correcting. We wanted a bluish tint to the video as the original had one and we really liked the effect this had.

To change the colour on the video, we used the section in Premiere called 'Colour Balance'. This allowed us to mess around with different colour mixes and shades of blue before we got the correct one. To achieve the blue tinge in the video we upped the blue tones in the videos visual.

To ensure we kept the colour consistent all the way through the clip, we copied the effect and pasted it to all the individual clips.

Overall, I think that the clip looks really good and is almost exact to the original. We did have to change some shots due to layout/space but I think it worked to our advantage in the end.

This is our final remake:

This is the clip we remade:

PRELIM: Shooting Schedule

This is the post showing our shooting schedule:

PRELIM: Storyboard

This is mine and Hibah's storyboard. We have drawn and described the shots that we think are key in this clip. We looked at our clip in detail and tried to get all the details to make sure that we could recreate the clip as best as we could. This has helped us as we know what the different camera placement are and has helped us to plan out the clip scene by scene.

PRELIM: Analysing 'The Conjuring 2' Clip

This is mine and Hibah's video where we analyse a clip from 'The Conjuring 2':

We discussed camera shots/treatment, mise-en-scene, lighting, characters and sound.

Key Shots From Our Chosen Clip

Monstrous Feminine

This is my Prezi on Barbara Creed's Theory:

The Cabin in the Woods

This is my post on the film The Cabin in the Woods:

Barthes' Enigma Code

This is my Prezi explaining Barthes' Enigma Code:

Audience Theories

This is my post on audience theories:

              

  

Clover's Final Girl

This post will be about Clover's Final Girl theory:

Carol J. Clover came up with the term Final Girl in her book title ' Men, Women and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film which was published in 1992. Her theory suggests that there is commonly a female left at the end who survived against the monster/villain.

   

Traits of The 'Final Girl':

• Virginal - The final girl is commonly a virgin or started out in the film as one. This plays on the whole innocent girl type when really she is the one is survives in the end.
• Smart - She always escapes the villains attempts a couple of times before battling against him/her and defeating them.
• Strong - A lot of the time the final girl replaces the hero in horror films.
• Feminine - A lot of the final girl characters are portrayed as girly even though in the end they kill/fight the villain which a girly girl would never do.

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