Madrigal
10-20-2004, 04:31 PM
As I mentioned in my intro, are very interested in filmmaking.
We don't have anything under our belts yet but we hope to do some stuff.
Anyway, we are both really into horror and of course wanted to work at making one. This weekend we decided to take a 5 minute clip of something, just to work on our camera skills. We would be using a basic sony cam but some decent editing software.
Our main idea was to take something that was seemingly unfrightening and make it frightening or at least a bit chilling using little special effects, mainly in the sense of zombies, or costumes and the like.
The basic premise, two guys are walking through the woods, as a shortcut or something, maybe a bit happy after the party that night and are telling stories that they have heard about the woods. My friend and I are big into interesting camera angles, so we want to have a lot of them, but basically, it follows us from point a to point b, with minimal lighting, though consistant lighting. Near the end of our walk we hear sticks cracking, not too disimilar from the Blair Witch Project, but we don't see anything. At the end, as far as he has described to me, which was only in school today and he did it quick, the camera then turns around and double speeds back along our path to the front, as if it is going to zoom in on somehting, like a creature, then it stops. I will have to talk to him more, but that is the main idea.
I was thinking, have some cool shots like in a tree looking down or something, and have the camera slightly lift and fall as if something is breathing.
Basically, we are looking for ideas, can anyone on here throw a few ideas into the pot to see what we can come up with. Either technical, to do with lighting, or camera, or even editing, or to do with the film itself, bottom line- we need ideas.
Thanks guys.
We don't have anything under our belts yet but we hope to do some stuff.
Anyway, we are both really into horror and of course wanted to work at making one. This weekend we decided to take a 5 minute clip of something, just to work on our camera skills. We would be using a basic sony cam but some decent editing software.
Our main idea was to take something that was seemingly unfrightening and make it frightening or at least a bit chilling using little special effects, mainly in the sense of zombies, or costumes and the like.
The basic premise, two guys are walking through the woods, as a shortcut or something, maybe a bit happy after the party that night and are telling stories that they have heard about the woods. My friend and I are big into interesting camera angles, so we want to have a lot of them, but basically, it follows us from point a to point b, with minimal lighting, though consistant lighting. Near the end of our walk we hear sticks cracking, not too disimilar from the Blair Witch Project, but we don't see anything. At the end, as far as he has described to me, which was only in school today and he did it quick, the camera then turns around and double speeds back along our path to the front, as if it is going to zoom in on somehting, like a creature, then it stops. I will have to talk to him more, but that is the main idea.
I was thinking, have some cool shots like in a tree looking down or something, and have the camera slightly lift and fall as if something is breathing.
Basically, we are looking for ideas, can anyone on here throw a few ideas into the pot to see what we can come up with. Either technical, to do with lighting, or camera, or even editing, or to do with the film itself, bottom line- we need ideas.
Thanks guys.