FILM PROJECT - "THE HUNTER"

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"SOMEBODY IS WATCHING" we realized it better suited by the name "THE HUNTER"

We oroginally intended for our project to be slightly more traditional. we had a thrid person, and it was going to be, boy stalks girl, girl gets mad.,and kills the boy. unfortantley we faced a pretty major challenge while doing this. one of our group members could not be there the day of filming, and faced with crisis, we thought on our toes and switched up the entire idea. first we decided that boy stalking girl was too boring, so we made the girl the stalker, better yet, we made the camera the stalker, or the point of view. it created a sense of mystery in the begining, it almost seemed like a documentary, just a camera following a subject, but then the music changes and creates a feeling of suspense and throws out the idea of the documentary. you start to feel like there are two people at a time, even though you dont see two people at time. the juxtapostion of shots helped create that effect, you could see the other person when the main person looks back. we also cut alot of the shots of the walking and chasing to create a temporal relationship. it obviously takes longer than 5 minutes to cover that much ground in the school. we used all kinds of different shots, mostly tracking shots, but in certain places we used high angle and low angle shots, for intance the view from the glass hallway, or from the steps going to the subway. the music we chose was very suiting, "psychokiller" by the talking heads was a fun upbeat song, yet with the theme of the film still in it, and the suspense music we chose was the perfect for creating the emotion we watned it to. overall the film was a sucess, yes, it might have seemed a little more comical than we would have preferred, but regardless of our setbacks, we still made everything work, and the otucome was great.

PARTICIPATION AT THE MUSEUM OF MOVING IMAGE

One of the demonstrations i took part in at the Museum of Moving Image was the stop-motion station. unfortunately i didn't arrive on time to participate in the sound demonstration. so i took it upon myself to learn something on my own. i always sort of knew how stop-motion film worked. it was lots and lots of pictures taken one after the other to create the illusion of motion, or film. the station included a picture of a road, and a few wooden cut outs of objects, such as a car, an animal, a bicycle, and plenty of other fun things to include in your little film. Next to it was a note that said there are approximately 24 frames in one second of film, that means for every 24 pictures i shot, I only got one second of a film, i never realized how involved it was. Doing this really made me realize how much work goes into making a shot clip using this medium. at the station there was a camera above my head, i assume, because i couldn't see it, and a big red button that captured the image. the point was to move things around, slowly, and capture shots with every little tiny movement, so that after hundreds of shots it would seem like my little car was driving down this road and accidentally hit this bicycle, i ended up with a little clip about 10 seconds long. it was really fun to play around with it, but it really made me think about how many stop motion videos I've seen, and not realized how hard and time consuming it must have been. This demonstration was very interesting, i cant even imagine how much MORE work goes into making cartoons, where every single frame has to be hand drawn. The rest of the museum was very interesting too, I participated in plenty of other demonstrations and enjoyed them, as well as the exhibits very much.