After our first viewing by the year 11 class, we had to quickly try to amend the problem of the film not being long enough; so we decided to film a short scene of just the main character with a voice over. This shot actually solved two of our problems which was the lengh of the film and the fact some thought it looked like a trailer. Finding a suitable window within our establishment was a little bit of a challenge as there are building works happening and we didn't want that to be in the shot or any of the surrounding school buildings.
After quickly shooting this we proceeded to edit and add a voice over. We still tried to ensure that the voice over added a bit of an enigma of the characters previous life.
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Sunday, 29 March 2009
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Friday, 27 March 2009
Main Character Juxtaposition
The female lead represents a strong sophisticated female like Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct 2. Here we can see that our main character is also appealing to a male audience because of her costume as it is made up of a blouse and cardigan with a large belt emphasising her figure and also high heeled boots giving her a taller frame; the boots also alter the way in which she walks while wearing this costume making her walk with a 'strut'. The lead females costume is also black which represents the darkness of her deeds and reflects her mood. Her hair is tied back to also emphasise this 'sophisticated look'.
Friday, 27 February 2009
First Day of Filming
Due to reasons beyond our control, snow days, our filming schedule had to be changed. We originally scheduled to start shooting on the Monday when we received the cameras and equipment but couldn't start until the following Monday.
As we planned to be shooting in a flat in Sutton we thought it best to get all the scenes that would be shot nearer to home done first, this meant starting in school. We initially thought about shooting in a stairwell but soon changed our minds as getting enough time to shoot without interruptions would be difficult, so we chose to shoot in the lower school, first floor corridor.
We roughly spent only a few minutes deciding what shots we were going to do as we had already briefed everyone taking part on what would be happening and what shots we should include.
As the persona of the main character had to be different to that of when she was entering the flat, our main character had to adjust her appearance, so we found some glasses for her to put on and a large jumper and also made her hair messy to give her an appearance of someone who didn't care.
While shooting we still did encounter some problems like teachers and the odd pupil walking into the shots & the class change over but eventually managed to get all the shots needed on time before the next lesson change over. As we had a significant amount of time we decided that we could squeeze in a few more shots in the downstairs janitors area. This meant that our main character had to do another outfit change and smarten up.
As the scene in the janitors area entailed switching on and off of the light we noticed that the camera took a while to focus which could potentially cause problems so we cut our shooting short with only a few shots of the main character standing around thinking, and decided to use the flats hall way for walking in shot.
As we planned to be shooting in a flat in Sutton we thought it best to get all the scenes that would be shot nearer to home done first, this meant starting in school. We initially thought about shooting in a stairwell but soon changed our minds as getting enough time to shoot without interruptions would be difficult, so we chose to shoot in the lower school, first floor corridor.
We roughly spent only a few minutes deciding what shots we were going to do as we had already briefed everyone taking part on what would be happening and what shots we should include.
As the persona of the main character had to be different to that of when she was entering the flat, our main character had to adjust her appearance, so we found some glasses for her to put on and a large jumper and also made her hair messy to give her an appearance of someone who didn't care.
While shooting we still did encounter some problems like teachers and the odd pupil walking into the shots & the class change over but eventually managed to get all the shots needed on time before the next lesson change over. As we had a significant amount of time we decided that we could squeeze in a few more shots in the downstairs janitors area. This meant that our main character had to do another outfit change and smarten up.
As the scene in the janitors area entailed switching on and off of the light we noticed that the camera took a while to focus which could potentially cause problems so we cut our shooting short with only a few shots of the main character standing around thinking, and decided to use the flats hall way for walking in shot.
Friday, 23 January 2009
Entry Two: Target Audience
For our group, having chosen a thriller with a strong female lead roll, the target audience will be specific.
We have decided to target an audience from mid to late teens as our strong female lead will be around that age and the audience could possibly find it easier to relate to the charecter.
In order to find out exactly what teens would prefer in a thriller, we came up with three initial story lines and we pitched them to a selection of young people. From this we were given feed back on what would work well within the movie and what was the most appealing storyline that would make the viewer want to watch more.
From this we noticed that the tecnique of flashbacks within the story, like those used in Run Lola Run interested the audience, as it would create an enigma and leave the the viewer asking
We have decided to target an audience from mid to late teens as our strong female lead will be around that age and the audience could possibly find it easier to relate to the charecter.
In order to find out exactly what teens would prefer in a thriller, we came up with three initial story lines and we pitched them to a selection of young people. From this we were given feed back on what would work well within the movie and what was the most appealing storyline that would make the viewer want to watch more.
From this we noticed that the tecnique of flashbacks within the story, like those used in Run Lola Run interested the audience, as it would create an enigma and leave the the viewer asking
what happens next?in order to link the flashbacks with the story presently happening.
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