Preliminary Task
We were
given a preliminary task with the brief that said 'A character opens a door,
crosses a room and sits down in a chair opposite another character, with whom
she/he then exchanged a couple of lines of dialogue'.
In groups we discussed the brief and came up with idea of
having an interview between a police officer and a young girl that killed
someone. To add to the plot the young girl was suffering from noises in her
head, therefore this lead her to killing. With this idea we then started to
draw up a story board that is shown below.
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| Story Board |
Once the idea had been pitched and the story board had be
completed we then started casting roles. After we casted roles it was time to
move on to the next stage this was writing the script and creating the shot
list. The passage below is a copy of the script that was used:
Script
Scene 1
(Door slams Lauren walks in)
Sophie - Who's there? (Feeling anxious and paranoid)
(No answer)
Lauren - (goes to shake hand) Hello my name is
Inspector Amber Watkins, please take a seat.
Sophie - (ignores friendly gesture and looks away)
no speech
(Lauren sits down and waits for Sophie to respond to
orders) (Not bothered facial expression)
... Pause of silence
(Lauren sorts out papers and puts recording on table)
(Sophie continues to fidget and breathing heavily)
Sophie - I did nothing wrong, they did it.
(Lauren looking emotion less)
(Lauren starts recording)
Lauren - At 16:37 Nicole parsons was found dead in the
back garden of Madison bloom, what is your take on this?
Sophie - (mumbling to herself) I didn't do it, i did
nothing wrong.
Lauren - where were between hours of 4 and 5 o clock Saturday
evening?
Sophie - I was with them
Lauren - (looking angry and concerned) who is ... them?
Sophie - (walks into spotlight) Their my friends ... erm
... (hesitates) My friends ... (screams) Don't you believe me? (Slams hands on
table)
Lauren - Calm down (reaches for Sophie’s hand)
(Sophie moves hands, and walks backwards)
Scene 2
(Sapir grabs Sophie’s shoulders)
Sapir - Hello there (sly face)
Desiree - so how yah been Madi? Killed anyone lately? (Grins repeatedly) (Sly face)
Sapir - Yea Madi, Killed anyone lately? (Touching her
hair)
Sophie - (faces windows) I didn't kill anyone ... You did
it ... Why don't you guys just own up? (Controlling voice)
Desiree - So what if we killed her? No one will find out!
(Flicks Sophie’s hair) (walking around her)
Sapir - Technically (emphasis on the 'Y') you killed her,
because you hand the knife. We didn’t tell you what to do.
(Sophie should be silent, but looking angry)
Desiree - whooooa is someone getting angry? (Laughs and
pokes her)
Sapir - Is someone going to throw a tantrum? (Laughs and
pokes her)
(Sapir and Desiree push Sophie around)
Sophie - (screams) stop it, stop it ... I didn’t do
anything, it wasn’t my fault ...
Scene 3
(Lauren scared and very worried)
(Lauren looks at Sophie whilst she is getting knocked
about)
Lauren - Who are you talking to?
Sophie - (Realised she is alone) I was talking to my
friends.
Lauren - Where are your friends?
Sophie - They are right here.
(Sapir and Desiree make a mess)
(Sophie wide eyed and scared)
Lauren - Stay here I'll be back
(Lauren sprints away)
(Sapir appears and drags Sophie head to the table)
(Sophie bends down)
Sapir - This is for your own good
(Sapir’s passes Desiree the hair) (Desiree wraps round
hand)
Desiree - This is what’s best for you...
(Slams head on table)
(Sophie collapses on floor)
As it was an interview we decided to set our movie in the
drama studio. Reasons for the drama studio are its very spacious giving us the
right amount of room to set up in and preform in. It also contains its own
personal lighting board; this made everything 10 times better as unlike natural
light we could control the colour and the brightness.
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| Drama Studio: Location of Filming |
Once we had filmed all the shots we needed we then went
on to edit the raw footage using ‘Final Cut Pro (FCP)’ on the apple macs. At
first our director edited the whole movie and then presented it to us, we were
then given some extra information from our teacher when applying it our movie
at the time it did meet the demands. Lauren and I both took it upon ourselves
to re-edit the footage that was given up. After days of editing we had finally
completed the task and meant the requirements.
Old Movie
Unfortunately, as a group we decided that the first movie was very complicated and we redid everything. Once we had completed our new movie it was much more understandable and easier follow.
As the new director I got all the shots that were needed
and many more. The aim for this second piece was to keep it simple and very
natural, being so we then decided to have a topic and have the characters elaborate
on the topic given. Some people may think this would have never worked but our
cast members were very good at remembering everything they said for extra
shots. The editing this time round was done by Lauren who did a great job
bringing every thing together.
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| Mind - Map of Ideas |
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| The group discussing ideas |
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| Our new shot list |
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| Our new story board |
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| Filming in Process |
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