Year 12 Review

From the beginning of year 12 as a class we have been focusing on thriller genre films. We started looking at Mainstream and Independent cinema and the differences. We have been watching thriller films, focusing on the openings. The Birds, Memento, Vertigo and Peeping Tom are many of what we watched. We focused mainly on Alfred Hitchcock and his directing work. We learnt that Hitchcock focused on primal fears such as birds and the fear of heights. We also looked at continuity editing and the effect of it, the effect is classic Hollywood filming. We then did a subsidiary task, which we first planned out on a storyboard. We got to be more familiar with the cameras and the equipment and how to use them. We then started shooting which didn’t take much of our time as we didn’t require to film a lot. However we did have problems with finding actors for our subsidiary task. We started editing using the editing programme on the computer provided from the school, and learnt new techniques on how to edit the clip we made. We have learnt a lot so far and now we are confident enough to start filming our final product.