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)