College Short Film Review (Stalker)

We where the set a task of making a horror genre short film.
So we're set up into a production team at random by our tutor.
Our director was Nikita.
The cameraman was Ed.
I was the video editor.
And the fixer was Jack

I know I have to write my own review on my own my own editing skills and Ed's filming skills.

factors Is actually pretty much hate this video because  because of the tripod, audio and how slow Jack was walking and the fact that he mest up couple of times like  like between 1:27 and 1:28 if two separate shots yet I had to sync them up as the best I could.

Because in the first shot he didn't look out the window like he was supposed to.

In the second shot we started filming and he walked around the corner bit weirdly so I had to cut it and mach the two pieces as smoothly as possible

in the first scene we had a failure with the tripod where we forgot to loosen the scrwo that allows us to Pan upwards so it jolted up in stead of a smooth tilt 

with in the first 3 scenes had to be sped up because Jack's walking speed so we had some strange movements by people in the background off the shots like the speed of some of them walking with superhuman speed.

things I think work well was the color change between the scenes with Jack and the girl who's stalking because it emphasizes who his target was going to be in this case my friend Amelia from level 2 art who i ask to help in her 20 min lunch break.

 Another thing I think work as well was the music emphasized the Loneliness he had until he found his victim And the spike in audio add drama to the video so does the raising heartbeat  and scream at the end of the videos was be added as a jump scare

Suicide Squad Trailer 2016 (college Edit)

We was given the task of making the teaser trailer out of some brand new film release trailers so I chose the new Suicide Squad trailer.

What I thought worked well was the music and the clip I chose for the video because it adds more action feel to the video instead of a calming relaxing like the Originals song did.

 Choosing the song for it I had help with by Jay.
 I mainly chose the action clips because the background song emphasizes that this film is an action genre.

 What I could have done better was to mix the clips better
 and do a little bit better on fading and time besides that I think I did a really good job of it

original movie poster design (diary of the dead)

This is my final piece

I decided to pick diary of the dead is my movie poster because I like the horror genre and the director George A. Romero set the standards of most modern day zombie based films and TV shows .

This is what I was going to originally uses my poster but I found the image to be to a bit to computer animated of the original movie poster design  it made the camera in the foreground stand out a lot.





Original background was from a game called Left 4 Dead, I've never played the game but originally chosen this photo because of their background scenery and on the fact that there was a zombie dead center in the photo so it make it easier when editing one into it

In the original movie poster use a flip screen camera but went along the lines of using a DLSR camera because it was hard to find a flip screen camera at the right angle for the photo I wanted to use
I came across this photo by typing name DSLR wallpapers for computers

 Like in the original movie poster the camera has a smashed screen so I decide to use this photo which is another wallpaper but this time for mobile phone.

this is something I have added on my own according to make the photo more unique, you normally see this on a smashed TV screen. I thought it would look cool on a DSLR camera screen as well.

This is the new background photo decide to use. I'd found it on my Tumblr news feed on the post-apocalyptic website.

The text and the five star rating I stole from one of the original movie posters because it was easier than me typing it up and finding information out online

I crop the camera and removed the photos from the background And the LED screen. Which took me about 45 minutes to do.

The crack in the LED screen took a lot longer because of how highly detailed it was.
I had to go in to find the details because I wanted to make it transparent but yet have to crack still visible.

I use the multi coloured cracked screen to emphasize that the screen is actually broken.

Then I added the background I wanted to use and fitted it perfectly and lined it up.
Then I duplicate the background layer crop it down to make a smaller photograph of the LED screen on the camera then moved it so it went into the eye of the camera.

T
hen I warp the original background image and add a filter layer between the writing and the background and camera.
Then I started to blend the camera so it would fit nicely and wouldn't stand out as much on the background layer.



 This is the similar movie poster that I was trying to recreate.

Suicide Squad Review

The new Suicide Squad movie is is an action-based genre according to the imdb website.

 The movie trailer within the first two scenes do not show what a basic action movie should look like. The first couple of clips show some people sitting around the table eating a meal at the fancy restaurant.

The next couple of scenes there are some military guards coming out of an elevator which source shows that something is about to happen or escalate but it is actually prison guards in high secure prison for the mentally insane.
it keeps on switching between shots of the restaurant and the prison to help build-up suspense that something bad is about to happen.

When it has a random cut scene to a woman exploring in a dark cave which to me this is completely irrelevant to the whole story line and plot of the trailer but the woman talking audio overlay says "Superman was just a symbol for them to creep out from the shadows" and the cave is quite Dark.

When it goes back to the scene inside the prison with prison guards running  down the long corridor this shows that something bad is about to happen
 because they are carrying riot Gear.

 then it goes to a cut scene back into the restaurant with a woman and a senior high ranking military officer (how I can tell this is because of the wing badge above all the bar medals)

then it goes back to the scene with the prison guards with riot gear about to enter a cell with a woman(Harley Quinn) in and smaller cell inside the bigger cell hanging upside down from some embedding she has tied together to make a makeshift rope it looks like something you'd see out of an old second world war film when a prisoner of war is trying to escape. But unlike a prisoner of war she is using it to do gymnastics Style dancing that you would often see in a Circus.
then it does a fade between 4 other characters including harlequin and deadshot when they have been locked away in prison.

then it did quick flash scene of two guys shooting up   what appears to be a hospital in stupid outfits, then  it goes back to a clip of Deadshot outside of prison walking with a woman at what appears to be Christmas time because of the snow, the Christmas tree and the nun collecting money for charity  which is your stereotypical style of Christmas in movies.

the movie trailer starts to become more action packed by first showing Deadshot abseiling off a rooftop and then  it goes back to showing the people shooting up the hospital in stupid outfits.

 The next scene seems quite weird it appears to be a girl sitting in the bathtub full of blood and also has reeds in it,  but the star which is drawn on the wall behind her is a aquarian star or unicursal hexagram  it's supposed to represent great Magic and power and the gates of Atlantis.  (source of information is my friend Rebecca and her massive knowledge about supernatural stuff and also this link http://symboldictionary.net/?p=1367)






The next scene shows suicide squad which is built up of multiple villains from the DC Universe which has joined up with a military Force to execute military style Tactics and fighting
the scene after start showing the supervillains families and this sort of makes me feel like there fighting for the right to see their family and loved ones because back  in the high secure prison they weren't allowed visitors

 a lot the next scenes start to show more action based because there is a lot more fighting in them and a larger military presence  this is shown by the military helicopters and troops. it also shows there is a larger rebel Force that is causing problems that's the reason why the suicide squad was assembled. But it shows between the two forces which one is more powerful by Tactics, precision and training.

the next scene which only lasts a couple seconds  which shows you quite a lot  of information on who the proper bad guy in this movie is....  Aka the Joker the  the scenes that follow this all flash by but they all action packed because there is  a lot of violent things happening in them to catch the viewers eye.

 In one scene there is Harley Quinn who has stolen a posh fancy car with what appears to be Batman holding onto the roof for dear life and then it goes back to doing flash scene which are full of action fighting scenes and a helicopter crash which is all your basics stuff in an action movie

the scene afterwards is a scene on subway stair well between Harley Quinn and a guy.  And the guy basically says "you know what they say about the crazy Ones" as a reference to that they all being released from a mental hospital and H
arley Quinn responses to is just "huh"  but then add demonic laughter as it fades into the next scene where the joker is walking into a room and then it fades again to a shot facing upwards at the Joker where he has to electric shock pads in his hands.. This makes the viewer feel like he's got more power over them.


Well this is my review on the suicide squad trailer I doubt it's what our teacher asked us to do but I completely forgot so I decided to hold review on the trailer instead

trailer link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhU9ETbUMm0
the voice type online software i use to help write this: https://talktyper.com/

Movie Poster Evaluation

 The movie i pick is diary of the dead because it a zombie basic film by the director George A. Romero who is the one who set the modern day standard of zombie film and tv shows for example the tv series, books and graphic novel series walking dead by Robert Kirkman heavy basic on George A. Romero ideal of what a zombie is and the way they act, move and how you kill them. destroy the head.

the diary of the dead is a part of a series.
- dawn of the dead
- day of the dead
- land of the dead
- diary of the dead

I only seen one of the films out of the series and it was land of the dead, but i chose diary of the dead because it intrest because it sound like a video blog style of film or first person view and third person view, the art work prove it with someone alway holding a camera and also screen shots from the film as well