Chloe's A2 Media Blog

The opening scene of our short film is the setting of the location where we will be filming for our short film. The location is abandoned & abides by the conventions of a horror film. The overgrown weeds and trees also show that the land hasn't been looked after, meaning that the location is defiantly abandoned. The windowless frames show a sense of no security meaning that anything could be inside. Darkness within the building infers that this building is not in use. The panning shot allows the audience to understand that layout and to see where the short film is going to be filmed. The log shed and bins shown at the beginning of the shot suggests that someone used to live here.  Surrounding the building stand trees covering its location

I have been experimenting different effects using Final Cut Pro. I watched different videos on youtube of how to include different effects onto videos like the one above. I found a video that shown how to create a distorted ghost effect, I experimented using this because the short film that I will be producing is going to be about the sub-genre supernatural which includes ghostly figures in normal places such as a room/house. This then relates to where the short film is going to be filmed. The set up above was the way that I produced the video. I bladed the  beginning  of the video of the background and layered it so then that background would continue throughout the whole video. I added on the whole video the 'ghost' effect which created a very ghosty and distorted effect, this was due to the fact that I moved accidentally when I filmed which meant that the background behind didn't duplicate perfectly. Ways in which i can reduce this...