Monday 29 November 2010
Script
My script is very short, there is not much dialogue as there is only one main character and the only dialogue is when she is on the phone.
Script
(On the phone) girl at school: “Mum I’m staying late at school tonight, to catch up on some work.” (Pause for 3 seconds) “I will walk back when I’ve finished, I’ll be fine its not far.” (Pause again for 2 seconds) “Ok, see you soon bye.”
(Flashback, also on the phone) girl: “Who is this?” (Pause for 5 seconds) “This isn’t funny, stop ringing me!”
Final Pitch (Opening Sequence)
My third and final pitch is similar to pitch 2 but I have changed the location and the events that take place. The beginning is going to be the same but the person following her will not enter the school but will follow her as she walks home. I want it to be obvious that she is being watched. When she leaves the school it will be late and dark. This makes us suspect that something is going to happen because of the tense atmosphere. At the beginning when she talks to her mum on the phone, her mum will be worrying and she will say something along the lines of ‘don’t worry I will be fine’. This creates irony, as we know she will not be fine because of the events that lead up to it, foreshadowing the future events. The title for this opening would be ‘The Unexpected’. I think this title fits well as an unexpected event happens on an ordinary school day. I want to end the filming with the unknown character slowly approaching the young girl. This will leave the audience wanting to know what happens next. At the end I want to show flashbacks. The girl had been receiving threatening texts and phone calls, the texts will also say that she has done something to provoke who ever it could be and that she wont be the only one to suffer for it. I will show that these are memories by showing them in black and white and also adjusting the sounds to make them sound more distant. The texts were not taken seriously and this was a big mistake.
Pitch Two
My second idea is very different but I still want a scary atmosphere to be created. I want to show the girl on the phone to her mum explaining why she is staying late at school, because she needs to catch up with work. I want to get a close up shot of her hands on the keyboards and then of the clock to show how long she has been there for. I will then skip to another scene of a hooded person walking up the stairs. I want to create a tense atmosphere and I will do this by choosing the right camera angles and the right music. I want to make most of the scenes pretty dark to show the character of the girl’s vulnerability and to show that the other mysterious character is dangerous. I want to do a long shot of both the characters as the hooded character walks up behind her. I want the scenes with the hooded character to be slower than the rest, to show that he is in no rush as there is nowhere for the school girl to go.
Pitch One
My first idea for the opening sequence of a film was set in the future. 2012 June 14th. We’ve all heard the rumours about the world ending and in my film it will, but someone has survived although they are not sure where they are or what happened. They keep getting random flashbacks of a classroom and some ones face looking over them. I want to show these flashbacks in black and white to make it clear that they are just memories. Towards the end, there will be a big realisation for the character and they will realise they are not alone as well as remember what happened. I want most of the scenes to be set in the school, but after school hours so nobody is around. And I want the flashback scenes to be filmed elsewhere. The first scenes will be of a news report about what is happening and the situation, this will fill the audience in on what is going on.
Thursday 25 November 2010
Tuesday 16 November 2010
Evaluation of the opening scenes of ‘Matilda’
The opening of ‘Matilda’ starts with the opening credits on bright backgrounds that change from yellow to green to orange, the text is in a childish font and it gives the impression that it could have been written by a young child. The credits change quickly and go to the main title of the film ‘Matilda’.
The scene quickly changes to a close up of the babies eyes. As the camera zooms out the voice over starts and we can see that the baby we are looking at is a baby girl in a hospital cot. This is an example of non-diegetic sound in the opening of this film. The voiceover is used to introduce the characters aswell as give us an idea as to how the stories going to carry out. As we listen to the voiceover we learn more about the story line, which we can see is the life of this baby. Before the voice over starts the music is calm and slow.
We get a good understanding of what this film is going to be about when we see the nurse show the baby to her dad through the window. The reaction the character of her father shows us is not what we expected to see. The camera angle at this point is important because it shows us all three characters and we can see their reactions.
We get a good idea of the story and life of the characters when the voiceover says “for better or for worse”, as this is said, the camera angle changes from the baby, Matilda, to her father. The voiceover then stops and the parents are shown talking about Matilda. They are walking towards the camera as the camera moves backwards away from them.
Once they are in the car we see a close up of a foot hitting the brakes and then a bird’s eye view of the car, skidding around a corner in the car park, we are shown this so that we know the character is careless and impatient. We can see this from the way he is driving.
Evaluation of Juno opening remake
In our group we decided on the film ‘Juno’ to remake the opening scenes as a practise piece. We tried to match our surroundings to the film as best as we could but we had to work with what we had a lot of the time, therefore we had to make a few changes according to what was possible to film and what wasn’t.
To act out the parts of Juno we made sure that I had all the same props and was dressed the same to make it as identical to the original thing as possible. Most of the scenes were quite easy to film but it was hard to find places suitable to film. We managed to get most of the important scenes done but a few were missing. We improvised with the missing parts by using some of the same shots twice but zooming in so it looks completely different.
Before we started filming, we make a timeline of every shot and everything that happens in that shot so that we knew what we were doing and how long every shot had to be. We also made a storyboard to take around with us when we were filming so that we could draw sketches and label them to make what we had to do clearer. We also watched the original opening scenes many times before hand. We had a few ideas of how we were going to film certain parts but we had to improvise a lot a think of ways to make it more effective whilst we were filming. The timeline and our planning helped us a lot.
We filmed the whole thing over two days. This caused us a few problems because the weather was different and you could see the difference when comparing the shots taken on either day. However, it would have to do as we had a limited time to do it in. When we were editing, we managed to make this change in weather less obvious by changing the brightness of the scenes.
When we were editing the scenes we found that we could match it to the timing of the original video quite well as when we were filming we had got most of the timing right. However, because we had a few scenes missing, this affected the timing a great deal. Although, we did make up for this by changing the scenes to make them look different and the using the same ones twice.
We found it quite difficult to make the text look the same when adding in the credits as in the original film, the writing changes colour and is in a very original font. We made the text look as close to the actual thing as possible by having the same text but in different colours appear one after the other to make it look like it was changing colour. It was hard to make sure the text was in the same place as the one before so sometimes the text looked as though it was moving but we thought this added to the effect and made it better.
On the rare occasion that we had a scene that was not timed correctly, we fixed this in the editing by speeding up or slowing down the scene to make it fit. We also corrected the camera zoom by zooming in when editing where appropriate.
Overall I thought the planning, filming and editing of our remake of ‘Juno’ went well, as we were able to fix any major problems with our scenes in the editing and make the less important mistakes less obvious. If I were to do it all over again, I would have taken more time to film it, to make sure the weather was the same and all the shots looked as good as possible, but as this was just a practise piece, I thought we did well, working as a group and getting the task completed.
To act out the parts of Juno we made sure that I had all the same props and was dressed the same to make it as identical to the original thing as possible. Most of the scenes were quite easy to film but it was hard to find places suitable to film. We managed to get most of the important scenes done but a few were missing. We improvised with the missing parts by using some of the same shots twice but zooming in so it looks completely different.
Before we started filming, we make a timeline of every shot and everything that happens in that shot so that we knew what we were doing and how long every shot had to be. We also made a storyboard to take around with us when we were filming so that we could draw sketches and label them to make what we had to do clearer. We also watched the original opening scenes many times before hand. We had a few ideas of how we were going to film certain parts but we had to improvise a lot a think of ways to make it more effective whilst we were filming. The timeline and our planning helped us a lot.
We filmed the whole thing over two days. This caused us a few problems because the weather was different and you could see the difference when comparing the shots taken on either day. However, it would have to do as we had a limited time to do it in. When we were editing, we managed to make this change in weather less obvious by changing the brightness of the scenes.
When we were editing the scenes we found that we could match it to the timing of the original video quite well as when we were filming we had got most of the timing right. However, because we had a few scenes missing, this affected the timing a great deal. Although, we did make up for this by changing the scenes to make them look different and the using the same ones twice.
We found it quite difficult to make the text look the same when adding in the credits as in the original film, the writing changes colour and is in a very original font. We made the text look as close to the actual thing as possible by having the same text but in different colours appear one after the other to make it look like it was changing colour. It was hard to make sure the text was in the same place as the one before so sometimes the text looked as though it was moving but we thought this added to the effect and made it better.
On the rare occasion that we had a scene that was not timed correctly, we fixed this in the editing by speeding up or slowing down the scene to make it fit. We also corrected the camera zoom by zooming in when editing where appropriate.
Overall I thought the planning, filming and editing of our remake of ‘Juno’ went well, as we were able to fix any major problems with our scenes in the editing and make the less important mistakes less obvious. If I were to do it all over again, I would have taken more time to film it, to make sure the weather was the same and all the shots looked as good as possible, but as this was just a practise piece, I thought we did well, working as a group and getting the task completed.
Wednesday 3 November 2010
Analysis of the opening scenes of The Little Vampire
The opening scenes of ‘The Little Vampire’ start of in the characters dream. At first we do not know it is a dream as there are no clues to tell us that this is not actually happening in the movie. It only becomes obvious that we are seeing inside the dream when we are shown the character Tony in his bed watching the scenes we are being shown happening, he then wakes up and we know he was having a nightmare.
In the beginning scenes of the dream are dark and at times confusing to watch because the edits change so quickly and there is a lot of movement. This is done to show the confusion and fear of the dreamer. The mood and atmosphere change straight away as soon as we are out of the dream and everything changes and we see a normal family and child who has bad dreams, immediately giving us the impression that the dream was just a product of a child’s imagination but the dream is also foreshadowing future events. This is shown by bringing certain effects from the dream into the bedroom. We hear the wind and the thunder and also see the lightening. This reminds us of the atmosphere in the dream.
We learn more about the families situation and also that the dream was not a one off in the next scenes. We learn this from the dialogue between the characters. There are a lot of wide shots at the very beginning so that we can take in the whole scene and goings on of the dream. The music starts of slow and mysterious but as the dream goes on it gets louder and more urgent to exaggerate the urgency of the situation. As soon as the dream is over the music gets a lot softer to give us the sense that the danger has gone.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEY_gHG-_Pk
In the beginning scenes of the dream are dark and at times confusing to watch because the edits change so quickly and there is a lot of movement. This is done to show the confusion and fear of the dreamer. The mood and atmosphere change straight away as soon as we are out of the dream and everything changes and we see a normal family and child who has bad dreams, immediately giving us the impression that the dream was just a product of a child’s imagination but the dream is also foreshadowing future events. This is shown by bringing certain effects from the dream into the bedroom. We hear the wind and the thunder and also see the lightening. This reminds us of the atmosphere in the dream.
We learn more about the families situation and also that the dream was not a one off in the next scenes. We learn this from the dialogue between the characters. There are a lot of wide shots at the very beginning so that we can take in the whole scene and goings on of the dream. The music starts of slow and mysterious but as the dream goes on it gets louder and more urgent to exaggerate the urgency of the situation. As soon as the dream is over the music gets a lot softer to give us the sense that the danger has gone.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEY_gHG-_Pk
Tuesday 2 November 2010
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