Storyboard of first two minutes of film. 22/11/10.




First shot: Long shot.

Straight on camera shot showing girls opening a door and leaving a house. Shows match on action, shows opening from the inside and walking out of door, to end up standing on footpath to house together. Both wearing red t-shirts.

 

Second shot: Long shot.

  High angle shot in style of a CCTV camera. Shows the two girls walking past houses in a built up area, wearing same clothes as last shot.



Third shot: Mid shot.

  Newsreader sat behind a desk, reading the headlines of two girls missing. Still, straight shot.



Fourth shot: Mid shot.

  Interview shot, policeman talking to Ian Huntley, discussing the missing girls – Ian saying the last time he saw the girls. Keeping to 180 degree rule, showing one actor talking then the next.

 


Fifth shot - tracking long shotPolice actor looking in open bins. Long shot then moves up behind him and shows him lifting burnt red tops out of bin.







Sixth shot: Extreme close up.

Plan shot of a table with newspapers falling on top of eachother, showing headlines about evidence found against Huntley etc.

 


Seventh shot: Mid shot/ close up.

Tracking shot of Ian in a bathroom, girls struggling as Ian chokes them. Frosted glass effect so can’t really see what’s happening.




Eighth shot: Tracking long shot.

  Tracking shot from behind. Showing person walking through forest. Tracking stops, person walks forward a few more steps then stops and screams (has found burnt girls bodies) – shot cuts black directly after scream.

Ninth shot: Cuts to writing:

Based on the true story of the disappearance of Holly Banks and Jessica Chapman: 2002.



Original cast listing for film: 23/11/10.


 

• Holly Banks played by Anna Powell.

 



• Ian Huntley played by Eddie Hobbs.

 




• Jessica Chapman played by Sophie Rowe.

 


• Newsreader played by Amy Franczak.




• Policewoman played by Katie Porter.

Person walking through the forest played by Annette Russell

Full synopsis of film. 09/11/10.

  Our main task is to create the first two minutes of a film. My partner and I decided to make a social realist film out of the options of horror, thriller and social realist. For inspiration and ideas we decided to do research using old newspapers and the internet of news stories we could use to make a film out of. We finally decided upon making a film based upon the story of Holly Banks and Jessica Chapman's abduction in 2002 by Ian Huntley. 

   We were given the choice of three genres: social realist, thriller or horror. We chose to do a social realist film because it gave us a wider choice of subjects that could be more original than the generic stalker thriller film for example. We also had the idea of adapting a real life story as well to make a more interesting storyline, but keeping it simple at the same time.

   This is a basic synopsis of the whole film:
  The opening of the film will show flashbacks of the girls leaving the house of one of the girls, clips of interviews and television newsreels etc. After we've seen the flashbacks, the film will then cut to the title.
  The beginning of the actual film, after the title sequence has shown, then reverts back to the family barbeque Jessica and Holly were attending when they left to buy some sweets, never to be seen again. The search of the neighbourhood would then be shown and full interviews with various people from the neighbourhood people including Ian Huntley inferring he was one of the last to see the girls in the neighbourhood. Two investigations would then be performed on Huntley's surroundings as his interview led him to be a suspect. Evidence of the girl's burned shirts are found on the second inspection, Ian and his partner (Maxine Carr) are then arrested. The next scene then shows the gameskeeper finding the burnt bodies in a ditch in a forest. Ian's court case then follows. The case trial would show Huntley lying and clips to show his imagined events. However, evidence would then be given (with clips again, of the evidence being found and the newspapers announcing it) and the film would end with Huntley being arrested.

GarageBand. 18/10/10

GarageBand is a programme used for creating music to accompany films. When thinking about what kind of music you want to accompany your film you need to think about the following things first:

• Whether the music is made to the film, or vice versa.
• Structural concepts, imagining the music as a graph with heightened volume or build up creating a ascension in your graph.
• Tension, looking at your film and finding points where tense music would add to the atmosphere.
• Impact points where you want the viewer to pay particular attention, then finding the instrument to compliment this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1swPZzxv0tI
  This link takes you to the short film: 'The Dark Side of the Lens.'
  This particular film was edited to the music. The music would have been created first and then an editor would become a team with the composer to work together to reach the final film. The main thing that creates tension in this film in the rhythm of the music.

This is my first attempt at creating a graph of the score of music. It represents the score of the film 'The Dark Side of the Lens.'

Preliminary Excercise. 5/10/10

  Our task was to create  a continuity sequence involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair with another character, with whom she exchanges a few lines of dialogue.

    The following things had to be included and shown clearly in the sequence:

• Match on action - keeping different shots making sense when editing them together.
• Shot/Reverse shot - moving from person to person when talking.
• 180 degree rule - keeping the camera on one side of the scene so it makes sense to the audience.

   We first made a storyboard for the filming of the sequence, then went on to film it. After filming we uploaded it to iMovie and edited it for it to make sense. The only problem we found in the process was trying to get the door walked through in the same place on the screen, as mentioned in my post about iMovie. However, we did make a mistake in the first shot of the film as the actress sat on the bench later in the film, wasn't shown there through the glass of the door in this shot. To fix this we would have reshot it but in the end didn't have time.