Preliminary Task #2

“The Axeman”

Genre: Silent Horror

Story Board, Script, & Shot List:

As seen in the images above, an important thing that AS Media Studies have taught me is that a films documentation and planning is key when producing and creating a film. Without these documents shown above, our movie would not have turned out as well as it did. Nor would the process be as simple or as streamlined as it was during production.

The Film making process…

In this set task my role in my group was the camera man, I filmed all the scenes throughout our movie. Me and my group decided to do a film opening task as our set task for AS Media film studies. The good thing about this film is that we already had previous knowledge when we were assigned this task because we had already made a film previously which was called “The Cube”. After deciding on our genre we also had to think of the different codes and conventions that are in a horror film. After looking at some different sources we found that a horror film is usually in a secluded place such as a forest, so this is why we decided to make our movie in the forest. We also chose the forest as our spot because one of the issues I mentioned for our last film is that filming our movie in school wasn’t good because its a very loud place and we knew the forest would be a much quite place. I immediately thought that my partner should be the main actor in this film because he is very passionate regarding film making and he had the type of energy for this type of film. We then did one more step of developing the shot list for our film because as mentioned earlier this is another important task which has to be done when you are first planning your film. After this we basically had everything done for our movie except filming the movie and the after editing. Overall filming went much better due to the choosing of a better location then our last film so we had no distractions so we were able to finish it up much faster then our previous film and the location also makes the movie much more suspenseful and streamlines it much better then the location that we choose for our previous film.

Preliminary Task #2 questions

1. Rate on a scale of 1-10 how did your group work as a team. Support your rating. What could have made it a 10?
2. Explain how you organized and prepared for the project. What went well and what could have been improved?
3. What difficulties did you encounter when FILMING? How did you overcome them?
4. What difficulties did you face when EDITING?
5. Discuss how you prepared for the AUDIO of your film?
6. If you were to REPEAT THE PROJECT AGAIN, what would you do differently?
7. ANALYZING THE FINAL PRODUCTION, what aspects are you happy with? What could have been improved?

The Film

In this final rendition of my film “The Axeman”, I played the active role as the main character, “The Axeman”. I additionally edited the film with my coeditor Michel Mertz, my group member and cinematographer.