SHOOTING AND EDITING JOURNAL

Day 1 - Shooting:

• Today we stayed at Georgia's dads house and filmed the scene of the little girl getting read a fairytale book. The filming went very well as we used a range of angles that really made an affect. Also the lighting we used and the room we filmed it in really brought together the image we wanted to potray to our audience,

Day 2 Shooting:

• We planned to film today  but it ended up that the weather wasen't what we wanted so we decided still to practise and still plan exsactly how and what we were going to do. We came to the conclusion that the representation of our "hero" was all wrong and changed this immedietly ready for the next time we would shoot

Day 3 Shooting:

• Earlier today we filmed our cene wirth the "hero" and the card (Mcguffin) in Maidenhead highstreet. We tried to film in places where there were alot of people to make it as natural as possible but alos near shops so that when our audience are to watch it they know that we chose a highstreet to film. 

Day 1 Editing:

• Today we inported all of our film and put it all into Final Cut Pro we edited the first scene with the little girl and her dad, we were really happy with what we ahd done and altogether tht scence looked great! However when we came to look over the shots from the second scene with our hero and the mcguffin we wern't quiter sure if we were happy with it and if we had a wide enough range of shots and that we would have to re-shoot.

Day 4 Shooting:

• Today we decided to re-shoot the scene and took alot more shots at differnt angles and also in different places of the highstreet

Day 2 Editing:

• Today we edited the scene we had re-shot, we were alot happier with the shots we filmed and used simple techniques such as slowing the card down to give a totally diferent affect and meaning to the film also we imported our music wich also added to the affect of a dark fairtale.
• After school Bex and I stayed after school to add the finishing tocuhes onto our film such as titles.

NCS

I voulenteered for the National Citizen Service where we then made our own social action film, this helped us a lot when filming our main task

We had to choose a film based on a social issue and our group decided  to base our film on phone addiction

Apple to my I

Convergence x2

INSTITUTIONS x2

SCREEN PLAY

This is the screen play for our main task.

1.INT. HOUSE WITH VOICEOVER- AROUND 6PM

PAST

Voiceover tells us who the main character is and sets the story.

Establishing shot/wide angle of House where the story will take place.

VOICEOVER

When I was little my Dad used to read me fairy-tale books before bed... that’s where my dreams in life have come from

2.INT. LITTLE GIRL’S BEDROOM- AROUND 7PM

First shot of Fairy-tale book...

OLIVIA

Talks to her Dad *voiceover of fairy-tale book*

Daddy can you read me my fairy-tale book before bed?

DAD

*voiceover fairy-tale book*

Of course I will darling

NEXT SHOT

Olivia picks up the book and a playing card falls quickly onto the floor. (McGuffin)

NEXT SHOT

Excitedly she jumps into bed next to her Dad and gets comfortable for a story.

Dad looks at the fairytale book she has chosen

Oh! This book was your Nanny’s, she said it has special secrets inside...

Opens the book and starts to read the first page

PANNING SHOT FROM THE STORY BEING READ IN A TWO SHOT, TO THE CARD ON THE FLOOR...

Ripple effect into the next scene

FUTURE

3.INT. FIELD/GRASS AREA/FAIRGROUND- DAY TIME

McGuffin of playing card (fishing wire) followed around until it hits a character on the chest...

CHARACTER’S FACE IS NOT SHOWN

Looks at playing card...

*TREATMENT AND PITCH*

SHOT LIST

The shots we plan to use for our opening two minutes

• Establishing shot of a house to set the scene and show our first location.

• Close up of fairy tale book 

• Mid shot of little girl picking up book (do not see face yet for enigma)

• Panning shot taken with the camera on the floor following the girls footsteps to her bed

• Mid shot from the end of the bed showing the little girl and her father reading the book

• Also a mid high angle shot of them reading a story to show their facial expressions better

• Panning shot from bed to card on the floor

• McGuffin of playing card floating in the wind 

• Some sort of establishing shot in order to show the new location

• Mid shot (not showing face) of card hitting character

• Point of view from character looking at card

PITCH

Our Pitch for our opening 2 minutes

RESEARCH

PROPS

The props we have used:

• Playing card- McGuffin
• Fairy-tale book
• Teddy Bear
• Everything in Olivia's bedroom including- bed, netting over bed, bedside table, lamp etc.

Card

Fairytale book

Teddy bear

 

ACTOR

Actors:

• My Little Sister Olivia- as main character 'Olivia'
• My Dad- as character Olivia's father
• as the 'hero'

We decided to use my little sister Olivia as the main character because she is the exact age that we wanted the character to be. This was very useful because her room is a stereotypical little girls room, exactly what we needed.

My Dad was the actor for the character of Olivia's father, this was useful using Olivia's actual Dad because then she was morecomfortable when saying her lines and acting. This then got us better results in her performance and for our opening.

LIGHTING

For lighting and colour research we were taking photos to see what the different techniques would be:

 Here we used the pink shade over the light to see what sort of effect we liked, we preferred this to the yellow shade below.

The picture below was natural light which we used as we felt it looked better than the other shades.

 Here we used the pink light shade but preferred the natural light below.

This picture was with the bright white light without a shade above, we didn't like this much because it was too bright.

LOCATION 

 

This is a shot of the house we used in the film and also is a pann in our opening shot

this is the bedroom we used to shoot part of our film, as you can see we made sure we got across to the audinence the sterotypical little girly "princess" room

We chose the highstreet because we wanted to to shoot where there were a lot of people and make it as natural as possible

COSTUME

• When thinking about costumes we looked at the sterotypical girly princess and so for Olivia we asked her to wear pink pj's (as it was a night-time scene) 
• When deciding what Oliva's dad should wear we didn't really want him to wear anything in particular as we wanted him to be as comftable and relaxed as possible. We asked him what he would wear normally wear on a day to day basis when he was relaxing at home for instance and he told us that he normally wears a tshirt and jeans. So we decided that a t-shirt and jeans would work with his character
• For the hero character we wanted Harry to wear something smartso he wore a shirt and tie, trousers and shoes

Audience Research

We chose to certify this film as a 12A  this is because we went through our treatment and realised there would be some dark elements in it

12A

Suitable for those aged 12 and older (VHS and DVD only)

Treatment

this is our treatment ENJOY!!!

NEW EQUIPTMENT

35mm Lens 
wide angle lens; which is good for landscapes,
group portraits
 long shots and establishing shots

50mm Lens 
audience feel as if they are really in the moment which is being captured.
engages the audience.

75mm Lens
 close ups
 portraits due to it's ability to focus on the subject

Lighting
helps to set different moods
makes something look more important

RØDE Microphone
microphone that we can attatch to the camera to get a better sound
 

IDEAS AND GENRE ANALYSIS

These are the top 3 ideas we came up with for our project.


This idea came up as Bex had a heard of this horror story

This idea of fairytales came from opur inpiration of Shrek and Cinderella Story, a typical "boy meets girl"

Our last idea we came up with was to do with a dark thiller/ fortune teller story with a tarot card as a mcguffin

 With much disscussion we came up with the idea to incorpotate both the fairytale idea and the thriller/ mcguffin idea and to do our 2 minute opening on a dark fairytale.. we're excited!