Author Archives: Sebastian Castro

How do your products use or challenge conventions and how do they represent social groups or issues? Our film uses its two main characters in order to create a gay stereotype that is rarely used in horror films. Inside of our gay couple, Chad is a gay-closeted, football player whilst Angel is an openly gayContinue reading “Creative Critical Reflection – Final Film”

Rate on a scale from 1-10 how did your group work as a team. Support your rating. What could have made it a 10? I think that out of ten, we most likely score a 6. I believe we scored this much because there were times when our communication skills were flawed and things wereContinue reading “Discussing our Final Film”

The final shots were recorded and sent to me for editing during spring break and I completed with time remaining. There were multiple shots given to me with a variety of angles and audio clips for me to choose from. Though I did have a fairly easy job on my hands, I later found outContinue reading “Editing – Final Film”

For our story board, we detailed not only each and every shot, but we also included audio and actions participating in each one of those shots. Sounds such as diegetic and non diegetic sounds were all part of the story board. This kind of illustration helps later on in post-film editing since it provides forContinue reading “Story Board – Final Film”

What I am doing: I am the editor for GFX, SFX and VFX on this film. This means that I will be working with the sound and visuals for this here script. The toughest part of this role that I play in the film would be the audio. Since there will be high winds inContinue reading “Script – Final Film”

Diegetic-Sound: These sounds are sounds that both the audience and character can hear. There is a multitude of ways this can be done; environmental sounds, dialogue, and sounds coming from inside the scene. Another way to refer to this type of sound is, ‘literal sound’. The example above is the opening scene of the movieContinue reading “Sound in Films”

Extreme close-ups are incredibly popular among horror genre type films due to many things. For starters, these kind of shots make the audience/viewer feel claustrophobic. This kind of feeling is used to produce the feeling of anxiety and further tension. Moving on to angles, a very creative and effective angle is the ‘dutch tilt’. TheContinue reading “Camera-Work in Horror Films”

Camera-work is used in films for a multitude of reason that ranges from budget, to expression and meaning. Different genres such as Horror and Adventure can affect the kind of camera-work used since they can create and give off different feelings to the audience. Camera Movements: Zoom – Overused method, consists of in camera zoomingContinue reading “Camera-work in Films”