Green Screen

Green/blue screens are based on the idea of chroma-keying. The idea is that a specific color is chosen and replaced by a different color/background.

Blue screens are used in place of green screens because it's generally easier to chroma-key. The color is softer than in a green screen. However, green screens are still more commonly used because of multiple reasons. One of them being the fact that some people like to wear blue clothing. Green screens are also more commonly used because of the color green being the highest luminescence of all the color channels (RGB). Green screens are very bright, but because of the high luminescence, there is also a high level of light reflection from a green screen, resulting in "green spill". 

Green spill is when there is so much light reflection that some color reflects onto your subject as well. Green spill is very problematic, and is usually best fixed before shooting by watching your lighting, and chroma-key background.

Before and after

Dolly Experiment

CAMERA DOLLY

The camera dolly may be used as a shooting platform on any surface but is often raised onto a track, to create smooth movement on a horizontal axis known as a tracking shot. Additionally, most professional film studio dollies have a hydraulic jib arm that raises or lowers the camera on the vertical axis.

                                                                       
The camera dolly in action

The dolly zoom used in 'The Lord Of The Rings'

Question 5

5. To what extent have you used conventions from real media texts in your production work?

Clip from our opening...

Can be compared to...

Can also be compared to…









The scene we used for our own opening could be compared with a scene from the film 'The Woman in Black' where an establishing shot of the house could result in the audience feeling uncomfortable due to its colors and the way it's being presented to the audience.

Darkness in Prelim:

Darkness in Final Thriller opening:

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Title in Preliminary Task:

Title in Final Thriller Opening:

Flashback and titles in credits in '10 Cloverfield Lane'.

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Match on Action in Preliminary Task:

Match on Action in Final Thriller Opening:

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Shot reverse shot in Preliminary Task:

                                   180 degree rule

Question 4

4. How has production work been shaped by post-production?

Question 3

3. In what ways have the research and planning processes helped you in constructing your production work?

Question 2

2. In what ways has your creativity developed throughout your production work?

Creativity has developed in my work through the use of equipment I had used and the advantages and disadvantages I had whilst using them. The equipment also allowed me to expand my knowledge on the use of them and have more experience with them.

Question 1

1. How have you used digital technology to complete your production work?

In order for us to complete our production work, we used many different technologies in order to make our thriller opening and to distribute it. 

During the start of our thriller opening (pre-production), we firstly started off by creating a blog so that we can upload all of our work onto it. Before constructing our thriller opening, we had to research the background of a thriller film and got ideas on what goes into a thriller movie. 

Production: In order to film we used a Canon DSLR 650D. This high-street brand camera allowed us to do many things such as gain high camera quality. We had to learn many of the features such as rule of thirds, white screening and the sound control, which in the end gave us a lot of experience and ways on how to work it. At times when filming, we had used the tripod to give a smooth finish and work but also at times handheld the camera so that it can put the audience at a better view for the film.

Post Production: During post production, we used Final Cut Pro in order to edit our film on the Mac. Although at first it was quite hard to understand and use, but from the practice we had from our preliminary task it was made quite easy to understand. More and more practice enabled us to get a hang of the editing app. There we many filters, sounds and effects available to make our film opening really good.