Friday, 21 March 2014

Question 7 - Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

The purpose of the preliminary task was to shoot a short clip within our groups and upload it to YouTube to demonstrate that we knew how to use specific shots for our thriller film opening. We also had to edit the clip to make it look smooth with the changing of shots and dialogue. This task helped me and my group to practise filming different shots and learning how to edit the clips together so they look smooth and professional. Also, it allowed us to see what difficulties we may find when filming, and give us time to see how we can resolve these issues, the preliminary task also allowed our group to discuss different opinions when filming which we will also need to do when filming our thriller opening. This task has helped me to understand when to use certain shots within a clip, such as a shot reverse shot which is used to show the audience the different characters who are speaking. Also the tri-pod which the camera was on helped to do panning shots which will be good to use in my thriller opening.

Question 6 - What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

In the whole production and development of our thriller we used many different types of technology such as: camera (for filming), tripod (to have steady camera shots), macs (to make blogs and to edit), laptops (to make blogs), final cut pro X (for editing), blogger (to write and evaluate different stages of making our thriller opening) and YouTube (for film clips). Miss Georgiou briefly explained how to use the tripod and camera, the rest we figured out for ourselves when doing our preliminary task and during our filming process. The tripod was easy to work and was very helpful also, the editing programme (Final cut pro X) was very difficult to use but our editor Joe was familiar with it and taught me and Cara the basics during the editing process and we quickly learned how to edit for ourselves. Some camera shots were more difficult to film than others, for example a low angle shot was simple as the tripod could be adjusted to get very low and film upwards. On the other hand, a handheld camera shot was very difficult to film; this was because it couldn’t be too shaky, and in the cold night when filming is was very hard to keep my hand still. We overcome this issue by editing the shot to skip a few frames to look like the audience were moving towards Alice when she turns around in her gas mask making the shot very mysterious. Also panning shots was quite difficult to film because the adjustments on the tripod could be very loose of very stiff making it hard to shoot a smooth pan shot. We overcome this by finding the perfect adjustment on the tripod making the pan shot smooth and professional looking. The editing software we used was Final cut pro X, this was very professional and quite difficult to edit with at first, after trimming and editing a couple of clips the software became easier to use and very helpful. I learned how to trim clips down to remove unwanted shots and just keep the good part of the clip which was very helpful as many clips had accidently laughter or bird chirping in the background. I wasn’t very good at putting transitions in-between clips because sometimes it lasted to long and cut out half of the following clip, this was one of my weaknesses but Joe was good on Final cut pro X and perfected the transitions. The ending of our opening shows a very good bit of editing on the editing software, the handheld, POV shot flashes and jumps quickly towards Alice with a mask on, and this is very mysterious and surprising for the audience as it feels as if they are racing towards the possessed child.

Question 5 - How did you attract/address your audience?

.To address our audience we created a questionnaire to see what elements throughout our film would appeal to them the most and make our thriller opening more enjoyable for them to watch. To create our thriller film, me Joe and Cara had to carry out many different types of research to make our film as successful as possible, we started analysing other thriller films such as ‘ Sinister’ we made blogs on the camera shots, mise-en-scene and soundtracks to inspire us to make a successful opening. The mask/face paint on the antagonist’s face hides his identity creating enigma and tension about who he is and why he is killing these families. Secondly, we had to research film certificates to see what elements and themes to include for a 15 rated film as this was the average age of our target audience, 15 rated films consist of strong violence, brief sexual scenes or references and/or discriminating behaviour. As our opening is only two minutes long it is hard to include any of these elements but our film will still be rated a 15 due to the physiological horror. Also we researched into narrative theory’s, we are using the Aristotle theory because we want to make the audience feel sympathy and empathy, also we want to use an antagonist and protagonist to allow the audience to relate to the characters as we aim our films at teenagers aged 13-16. Also the Aristotle theory will create an emotional relationship with the audience because they are aware of the situations going on in the film whereas the characters do not. All this research helped plan our film especially analysing other films as they have been made successfully so the inspiration we got from ‘Sinister’ and ‘The woman in black’ helped our planning a lot as we knew the conventions taken from them were perfect for our thriller film.

Question 4 - Who would be the target audience for your media product?

.A target audience is important when making a film as they are the people your film is aimed towards and the people who are most likely to enjoy it. The codes and conventions in our thriller film have been specifically produced to aim towards teenagers aged 13-16. This is because of the babysitter character as teens this age may babysit themselves and be able to relate to the characters and enjoy the film more thoroughly than an adult would. Also, teenagers are always looking for a thriller film to see and be scared at night; I believe our thriller ticks that box with the conventional themes throughout the opening to appeal specifically to our target audience. The narrative of a possessed little girl  is mysterious and tension-building, it was also chose most scary in our questionnaires, the mise-en-scene used in our thriller was also chosen by our target audience such as: gas mask, homely house, little girl antagonist, babysitter protagonist to make the film enjoyable to watch for them. The cinematography used creates an eerie atmosphere throughout the whole film with fast paced editing to create enigma to the audience which makes our thriller opening appeal to our target audience well.

Question 3 - What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

.A media institution is important to consider when distributing our thriller film because it determines the success of the film and how much money will be made. A bad media institution would ruin advertising and getting our thriller film recognised by our target audience; this would result in a decrease in profit as less people will watch our film. I would like ‘Filmdistrict’ Film Company to distribute our thriller film because they also distributed ‘Insidious’ which is a very scary film aimed at the same target audience as our film. When people see ‘Filmdistrict’ being involved with our film they may associate it with ‘Insidious’ which was very successful, this will make them have high standards for our film and make them want to watch it more urgently. Insidious was the first film that FilmDistrict distributed which was successful, since then other films such as ‘Olympus has fallen’ and ‘Dead man down’ have been distributed by them, all these films are aimed at the same target audience as our thriller which makes FilmDistrict the perfect company to distribute our film and make it as successful as the previous films they have worked with.

Question 2 - How does your media product represent particular social groups?

'The antagonist in our film is Alice; she is a little blonde girl who is seen multiple times in our opening wearing a gas mask. This is contrasting as little girls are meant to be cute and innocent which makes our opening mysterious and surprising which is conventional to thriller films. At the beginning of our opening Alice is singing nicely playing with dolls, this use of a sharp transaction of playing to being possessed will shock the audience and make our opening enjoyable to watch as it has generic conventions of thriller films in it. Our protagonist is a baby sitter whose name is unknown, she is a conventional victim as she is innocent, vulnerable and home alone. This makes her open to any attack or danger, this is again conventional to thriller films as a female victim is very stereotypical as they are seen as less able to defend themselves compared to men. This use of character choice in our film and other films are used to appeal to the audience as they can make an emotional link with the characters because they can see their fear and also see them being in a similar position.

Question 1 - In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

.Every successful thriller film team uses cinematography, mise-en-scene and editing to ensure that their film follows the generic conventions of shock, fear, tension, mystery and many more. This is so that the audience can create an emotional relationship with the characters and enjoy the film they are watching, this can be specifically seen in ‘Paranormal activity’. The use of the home-made camera effect allows the audience to relate to the characters as they seem like a normal family and that the scary happenings could occur to the audience, making them feel afraid. This can also be seen in ‘Insidious’, the use of a mysterious hidden antagonist creates tension towards the audience as they don’t know what could be hiding behind the black vale. Similarly in our thriller opening, our antagonist (Alice) is hidden by a gas mask, this also creates tension as the audience can’t see what she looks like and why she may be hiding her face. The use of a young antagonist may shock the audience as they would not expect it to be an innocent looking girl which adds the mystery to our opening thriller scene. This element of our thriller specifically resembles ‘Sinister’ by the use of a young female child who turns evil, this creates again, tension and surprise as the audience is shocked by this unusual happening. These elements used in my thriller opening, and real thriller films are generic conventions that are purposely included into the films to make them stand out and have an emotional link with the audience.

Final Thriller - Miss Georgiou

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuerHg6fws4

Thursday, 13 February 2014

Thriller comparison - Miss Georgious

I think we have made a successful thriller sequence because we used the conventional thriller aspects such as mystery. This is specifically seen by the gas mask on the antagonists face, this hidden identity leaves the audience curious of why she is wearing a mask and what she is going to do. Also the element of surprise is used when the door slams behind the babysitter protagonist, these conventional thriller elements appealed strongly towards our target audience so I believe we have a made a successful thriller sequence.

I think the micro element which shows my creativity most is the little girl antagonist, the contrasting features such as; scary staring and evil laughter manipulates the audience as they wouldn't expect a little girl to be so evil. This is most specifically seen when the babysitter looks out of the window and Alice stares at her with the mask on and doesn't say anything, this is very mysterious and creative as other thriller films have a male killer.

Our thriller film and 'Sinister' have some similar thriller elements. For example the little girl antagonist, in Sinister the little girl turns out to be a killer and kills her family, in our film she turns viciously to the babysitter and the audience are left in suspense. Also, the use of a big house is used in Sinister just like our thriller sequence, this allows the audience to relate if they feel their house is big and allow the film to appeal more to them. The sounds used in our film are mysterious and creepy, for example the slow song with laughter over the top is used during the credits of our film, and in Sinister there is slow music when the homemade clips are showing creating the same mysterious effect.

Audience feedback - Miss Georgiou

Audience feedback is the comments and criticism you receive from making a film. This is very important as it is the comments from your target audience, the success of your film depends on if your film appeals to your target audience. The feedback will determine our success on our film and help us with the improvements we will need to make for it to appeal more to our target audience.

We received our audience feedback through questionnaires, we had 10 varied questions, mostly multiple choice questions about which characters they would like to see featured most, what gender antagonist and protagonist they would want to see in our film. This allowed us to focus specifically on the aspects that our target audience wanted to see in our film so that we could aim it directly to them to achieve our goal of making a successful film.

One positive comment we received was about the gas mask we used, it was said to be mysterious and scary and draw in the audience as the little girls identity is hidden. Another comment we received was about the low key lighting, the lamp post outside the house was "creepy" and conventional to the thriller genre. Finally, we received a positive comment about the chosen characters, the female babysitter was relateable to the audience and the little girl antagonist was different and unexpected.

A negative comment was received was the camera shots, some of them were too still and needed more movement, maybe a zoom in shot instead of a close up. Secondly the last hand-held camera shot was very fast and jerky which was hard to notice what was going on. Finally the editing at points was over-done and reduced the fear factor slightly but this can be easily fixed by Joe our editor.

In our two minute opening scene, we followed the brief by using conventional thriller aspects such as mystery and surprise, we also had eerie looking text for the credits whilst creepy music is played in the background. We also used a conventional female protagonist allowing our target audience to relate and create an emotional link with the characters, also a little girl antagonist manipulates the audience as they would expect a little girl to be nice and cute but contrastingly she is a possessed killer.









Thursday, 19 December 2013

Rough cut - Miss Miller

A rough cut is important as it is when the film first starts to look like the final product so that any changes and improvements can be made and the cast and crew can change certain aspects of the film if they think it doesn't look as good. In our rough cut we realised that the sounds and effects could have been improved to make the thriller aspects be evoked further towards the audience, also, more transactions needed to be edited in to make the film flow better. This is why a rough cut is important as it shows a clear indication of where improvements can be made to make our thriller opening better and appeal more towards our audience.

Audience feedback is very important because they are the people that the film is aimed to, so our thriller genre must appeal to them in order to receive positive comments on our opening. Also the target audience can comer up with better ideas that we can use in our thriller opening to make it more satisfactory to watch. Audience feedback can also boost confidence in our group if we receive positive comments which can allow us to try more effects and sounds without worrying if the audience will like it or not.

We received our feedback from questionnaires given to the whole class which included questions such as; what went well?, what could be improved? and an overall mark out of 60. This allowed us to see what our target audience (teenagers) wanted to see in our thriller opening that we may not have included, it also shows us what we done well so we know what aspects to keep in our opening when we alter it.

Our feedback had good marks out of 60 from everyone who done the questionnaire which was helpful as it indicated to us that we were on the right tracks with our editing and shots etc. Also, in the 'what could be improved?' section the answers were small things such as: 'don't repeat shots too much' and 'sound was too loud' which is easy to alter and doesn't need any re-filming. Also the comments in the 'what went well?' section were very positive and morale boosting for our group with comments such as 'editing was good' and 'iconography was scary' which was our aim in our opening thriller scene.

This feedback from our peers will help us improve our thriller because multiple peers have written specific comments which shows that it is a fault in our opening which can be easily fixed by our editor Joe. When finalising our thriller opening we will not be changing our positive comments as we know those aspects appeal to our target audience making our opening a success.

Tuesday, 17 December 2013

Planning group storyboard - Miss Miller

A group storyboard is important as it allows everybody in our group, (Me, Joe and Cara) to understand exactly what is going on and not to get confused as it is one storyboard for all of us which also reduces the chances of us making any mistakes or doing something in an incorrect order. It also creates a guideline for the group to follow and make filming and editing less complicated and make sure everyone of us is on the same wave length.

Before our group storyboard each of us in our group made an individual storyboard of our own ideas and shots. When told to make a group storyboard we had to put all of our ideas together taking different aspects

Opening scenaration - Miss Miller

The opening scene of our thriller film begins with a little girl in Victorian clothing sitting in a garden playing with a doll whilst singing, we see many different angles of the girl then she suddenly drops the doll and runs away. The camera zooms into the doll which has a large leaf on its head to create foreboding. The scene cuts to inside the house when the little girl is running up the stairs but her face isn't shown, the babysitter then walks through the door saying 'bye' to Alice's parents, the puts her blanket on the side and hears some banging upstairs. She calls out 'Alice?' and without an answer walks up the stairs and turns on the lights. The camera then follows over her shoulder when she walks into a room and finds a gas mask on the bed, when she picks it up a slam of a door sounds and alarms the babysitter causing her to drop the mask and run down to where the sound came from. She puts her ear to the door and a music box sound is playing, she opens the door and calls out 'Alice?' again, the window is open and as she goes to shut it Alice is outside under a lamp post with a gas mask on facing away from the babysitter. Alice then turns round and the camera jumps to her face the cuts back to the babysitter running down the stairs to the front door, the camera goes into a handheld shot and jumps with flashes towards Alice with mysterious singing echoing in the background. The babysitter puts her hand on Alice's shoulder and Alice looks round quickly with the mask on her face and the scene ends.

We could improve our opening scene by cutting down on the amount of repeated shots of Alice in the garden, it took up quite a lot of our 2 minute limit, it also may bore the audience as it takes some time for the opening to become scary and mysterious. Also we could have less shots following the babysitter, although it puts the audience in her point of view and create an emotional link, it can come across quite boring at times especially if the opening is only 2 minutes long.

Friday, 13 December 2013

Filming schedule - Miss Miller

Shot
Date & time
Location
Content /Action
Shot type & Duration
Costume/ hair/ make up
Iconography
Personnel
Equipment
1
25.11.13
3:10
Cara's garden
Little girl playing in the garden with dolls and tea cups looking innocent.
Close up 5 seconds, high angle 4 seconds, tracking shot 6 seconds, zoom in shot 3 seconds.
Little girl in old fashioned dress to show when it is set, not showing her face hiding identity.
Blanket, teddy bears, doll, tea cups and plates.
Hannah acting, Joe camera man, me (Shaun) director and Cara also directing.
Digital camera, batteries, tripod, Tape / memory card.
2
25.11.13
3:30

Cara's house
Little girl running up the stairs still not showing her face creating mystery
Tracking pan shot 5 seconds
Again, old fashioned dress to show the era.
None
Hannah acting, me (Shaun) camera man, Joe director and Cara also directing.
Digital camera, batteries, tripod, Tape / memory card.
3
25.11.13
3:40


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Thursday, 12 December 2013

Planning sound - Miss Miller

Sound is important within in a thriller film as different soundtracks can evoke different feelings and emotions to the audience. Also sound effects and techniques at certain parts in the film can create a better understanding and create tension, enigma and create an element of surprise.

We will be using a child's singing as a diagetic and contrapuntal sound as we can see it on the screen, the point of this is to give the audience a better understanding of the opening as they can hear the child as well as see her playing. Also the laughing will mislead the audience as it is a thriller film which is contrasts the happy laughing when the little girl is playing. This will shock and surprise the audience when something horrific happens as they don't associate nice singing with thriller films.

Another contrapuntal sound that will be used in our thriller opening is a music box, when the babysitter is scouring the house for Alice she hears a music box playing a nice calm song which confuses, and scares the audience as nice music isn't associated with killings. This is conventional to many thriller films such as Insidious when a happy song is playing whilst a demon is sharpening his blades, we want to create a similar effect to this win our opening scene.

Another sound we will be using in our opening scene will be a non-diagetic bird to make the film seem realistic and not in an artificial garden, this will make our opening scene more professional. Also the bird's tweet can convey happiness which will then be contrasted by the horror occurring in the house during our opening scene. This is conventional to a thriller film as the contrasting effect of good and bad is represented simply by a non-diagetic sound.

These sounds are very important to films specifically thriller films as they can have a great effect on the audience as it makes the film enjoyable are professional looking, also the use of contrapuntal, diagetic and non-diagetic sounds evoke different emotions such as mystery, enigma and tension.

Planning characters - Miss Miller


Characters are important to any film, without any characters its nearly impossible to have a narrative, characters are people in films that the audience to relate to and create emotional links with to make the film more understanding and to create empathy. Especially in thriller films, the characters in the film are similar to the target audience so that they can relate to them and feel their emotions during the film, when the characters are in danger or a fight scene for example this creates excitement within the audience fear for the protagonist which ensures that the audience don't get bored.

In our thriller opening our first, and most important character is the protagonist, acted by Cleo, she is a blonde babysitter who is vulnerable and the same age as our target audience so that they can create an emotional connection. She is home alone which is also conventional to a thriller film and in our opening scene you can see how nervous she is when she says "Alice?". She is wearing normal, modern day clothes to show that the film is set in the modern day which makes her character more relatable to the target audience as they can see it as being themselves home alone. She is very innocent

Our other main character is the antagonist Alice, she is a little girl who is possessed, this is mysterious as the audience wont suspect a little girl to be a killer. This tension and mystery is conventional to a thriller and keeps the audience enticed and also makes them question why a little girl would be a killer. When Alice is under the lamp post it creates a very eerie atmosphere for the audience and makes them fear what will happen to the babysitter when she goes outside.

Our main characters have a huge effect on our opening film as they relate to the audience to evoke more emotions such as fear and enigma to make the film more enjoyable. Also the narrative of the film wouldn't go very well if the characters weren't chosen and make correctly to fit the genre of the film and create an emotional link between the characters and the audience.

Thursday, 5 December 2013

Planning editing styles - Miss Georgiou

Editing is important as it provides coherence and continuity to a film, in editing shots are combined with the script to produce the finished film. Editing makes the film look professional and evoke specific emotions to the audience through the different editing styles used. In an opening scene, it is conventional of a thriller to create enigma through the editing.

In our opening scene will use slow editing quite alot, this makes the scene flow more as it looks as if it is happening in real time, thus creating more enigma and suspense towards the audience. It also creates an emotional link between the audience and the characters as the film will be more understandable. When the babysitter is scurrying around the house looking for Alice, the use of slow editing when the camera follows her around the house puts the audience in her point of view as it doesn't switch scenes to keep the enigma.

Also, in our opening scene we used fast editing when Alice is spotted with a gas mask, the scenes change very quickly in order to set a high tempo make the audience feel excited and fearful. The second Alice is spotted the editing speeds up keeping the audience on edge which is typical of a thriller film, we hope that the fast editing in our opening scene creates the same effect as the chase scene 'Scream' showing various angles of the protagonist and antagonist to build tension and create mystery.

A Kuleshov effect is used in our film at the end, this is where two clips are put together to create a third meaning. In our opening scene the two clips of; Cleo walking to Alice, and Alice turning round frightfully with a gas mask on gives the third meaning that she has been possessed as she is acting strange and scary. This creates mystery as the audience don't physically see what is happening, but know that it has happened in their minds, making Alice seem even creepier as they don't know where she is or what she will do next.

These editing styles that we have chosen to use in our film are conventional to films in the thriller genre and create typical thriller elements such as; surprise, shock, mystery, suspicion and tension. This will help our opening to appeal to our target audience and entice the audience within the opening two minutes that we have.

Tuesday, 3 December 2013

Inspirations for opening scene - Miss Miller

We need inspiration when making our opening thriller clip because seeing something that scares us from another film, can be used in our opening to present the same feelings towards our target audience. This is my inspirations for mise-en-scene, editing and cinematography.


Mise-en-scene is everything you see in a camera shot in a film, it is made up of five different elements: Setting and iconography, costume,hair and make up, facial expressions and body language, lighting and colour and positioning of characters or objects. I took my inspiration from The woman in black because the little girls tea cups are mysterious and create tension, the little girls dresses and old fashioned hair shows us the era that the film is set to give the audience a better understanding of things that may go on and why, the scary stillness of the woman in black creates tension as we don't know if she is going to jump out and scare us, the dark lighting when she is around shows us that she is the antagonist, the positioning of the killer behind the camera scares the audience because it is as if she is behind us when watching the film which creates fear and enigma.

Cinematogophy is The art of movie photography and camera angles including both the shooting and development of the film. I took my cinematoraphy insiration from 'The devil inside', A high angle shot is used to show the audience the room Maria is in and whats in it. The working man's uniform shows us that Maria is in a mental institution which is mysterious and makes the audience curious of why she is there. Also the high angle shot could represent a security camera watching Maria in case she does anything bad, this makes the audience see her as very sinister which is conventional to a thriller movie. Also an extreme close-up is used is ued to show Maria's arm which has cuts on it. This creates a sense of mystery again, as of why she has cut herself. The extreme close up makes her arm cover the whole shot which looks very gory and strange which are conventional themes to a thriller movie.

Editing is used after a movie has been filmed, it helps the film run smoothly. A reaction shot is used to show that the mother is in pain, we can see this when she gets stabbed and the camera instantly jumps to her screaming face. This shows us the horrific pain she's in after being stabbed and also makes the audience feel sorry for her as the shot of her face indicates how much she is hurt, this reaction shot also makes the audience curious of what she can do to fight off Esther after being stabbed which creates tension. Pain and curiosity are themes linked to thriller films such as 'Orphan'.

Production roles - Miss Miller

When creating a film, different people are allocated different roles, these are: producers ,directors, actors, director of photography, music producers, screenplay writer, MES coordinator and editors. These different roles are used so different parts of the film production can work smoothly and efficiently without any confusion, also because different people in the production team are specialised in different areas, they are allocated to a specific role.

In our group, to decide who should be allocated to which role, we discussed who was the best at certain roles in out of me, Joe and Cara.

 I was allocated as the director, I supervised the filming commenting on shots and angles that could improve the opening. I also had to read over the storyboard and improvise with situations such as not finding a suitable costume for the actors.

Joe was the director of photography because he was most experienced with the camera so he knew the best shots to use and to pan smoothly and many other professional shots to help our opening look the best it can be such as: tracking, zoom in and hand held camera shots. These skills that Joe has helped our opening to run smoothly with no rough, jerky shots or any bad angles. Joe was also our editor as he was most familiar with a mac and was very confident with what he was doing, although me and Cara contributed to some of the editing ideas, Joe made it happen on the mac, the video effects used by Joe were very professional and made the film look alot better. Also the transitions and soundtracks he used improved the film too.

.I was also the producer, I found the location to film, prepared the film and supervised it as we went along to change things that needed improving, I sat with Joe whilst he was editing and gave him some ideas that he could work with to improve the film in many ways.

Screen play writer was Cara, this is because her narrative runs mostly throughout our opening with bits and pieces from mine and Joe's. She done the storyboards and drew the pictures to go along with it. I, director and producer altered some of the narrative during our filming as we found some things to fit together and we carried on from there and continued from the rest of the storyboard.

The actors played a massive part in our film, they were Hannah and Cleo, Hannah's size allowed us to use her as a little girl to create enigma, Cleo looked like a typical teenage babysitter which allows the audience to relate and feel her fear and discomfort.

Music producer was Cara, she knew which scary music to play at which time to evoke scary emotions to the audience such as horror and mystery. Also the sudden jumpy noises she chose shocked and surprised the audience.

These allocated roles helped the filming, editing and production of our film run smoothly and efficiently as possible. This allowed us to film and edit really quickly yet at a good quality to create suspense, mystery and enigma towards our target audience.

Sunday, 1 December 2013

Risk assessment - Miss Georgiou

Risk assessment

Risk                                                                                             Prevention of hazard

Dropping the camera during a handheld camera shot                  Use strap around your hand

Trailing leads when filming                                                         Use gaffer tape to secure

Tripping over the tri-pod                                                           Place it sensibly when not using it

Getting too cold when filming outside                                        Wear warm clothes and have breaks inside

Falling over when running                                                         Make sure the area is clear before running


Shot
Date & time
Location
Content /Action
Shot type & Duration
Costume/ hair/ make up
Iconography
Personnel
Equipment
1
25.11.13
3:10
Cara's garden
Little girl playing in the garden with dolls and tea cups looking innocent.
Close up 5 seconds, high angle 4 seconds, tracking shot 6 seconds, zoom in shot 3 seconds.
Little girl in old fashioned dress to show when it is set, not showing her face hiding identity.
Blanket, teddy bears, doll, tea cups and plates.
Hannah acting, Joe camera man, me (Shaun) director and Cara also directing.
Digital camera, batteries, tripod, Tape / memory card.
2
25.11.13
3:30 

 Cara's house
 Little girl running up the stairs still not showing her face creating mystery
 Tracking pan shot 5 seconds
 Again, old fashioned dress to show the era.
 None
 Hannah acting, me (Shaun) camera man, Joe director and Cara also directing.
 Digital camera, batteries, tripod, Tape / memory card.
3
 25.11.13
3:40 


 Cara's house






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