Story Board....

This Week

Monday and Tuesday (and Wednesday) - complete ALL editing and upadate blogs
Thursday - show FINISHED dvd, evaluation prep -> lesson
Friday - submit all practical work -> English Office -> sign in
Lesson complete 1st draft evaluation - post on blogs, wait for feedback - submit 1st monday bacck after easter holiday.

Spend time on practical work in free time, study centre and even break, lunch and after schools.

New Plan....Again.

We are refilming our opening because we thought it was too boring and all over the place. I (Sian) have already filmed the killer(Sarah) drugging the drink with out Abi yesturday(17/03/10). Just need to meet up after school sometime to finish the rest which can be done in one day.

Drugging scene....
Sarah crushing up the drug. We used asprin for the tablets then swapped it with health salts to pour in the drink so it would fizz (shown in picture below.





In this picture, its a shot of the glass and within the glass you can see the killer walking away. This is effective because you can see their whole body but the glass distorts their body shape making it difficult to know if the killer is female or male.

Problems...

After adding all the clips of the forest scene onto the timeline, it turned out to be too long. If we delete some of the clips, we think it will not make complete sense. Also, there is a clip we need to record but might have to do the party scene again as Abi's kitchen has been redecorated.

The Forest scene, the audio is sort of poor. We filmed near a river and the sound fades Beth out a bit. Also, when we use different shots, you can tell they're different part of time as the sound of the shots changes. For example, one shot the river is quiet and in another shot the river is loud.

The party scene, the lighting was all over the place. When beth is getting ready the lighting is bright and when shes going down the stairs it's really dark. We need to make it look like it's night time and the lighting from outside ruins it.

The music, doesn't really fit into the genre very well. We need music that fits into a party style theme but also needs to have a bit of horror in it to show the genre of the film opening.

Working Title revision handout

Ownership
The company was founded by Tim Bevan and Sarah Radclyffe in 1982. Working title is base in London, UK. The Co-chairpersons of Working Title are Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner.
History of releases
Hits; Four Weddings and a Funeral, Hot Fuzz, Elizabeth, Notting Hill and Mr Bean
Flops; Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Thunderbirds, Bartom fink, Hudsuckers Proxy, plunked and Macleane
Working title’s philosophy
“To make films for an audience – by that I mean play in a multiplex” – Lucy guard & Natasha Wharton
Benefits partnership with Universal
Universal owns 67% of working title films. This happened so they get a better advertisement and a wider audience which is a benefit.
How different is it with big Hollywood studios?
They are not widely known and they produce British style films and most countries view British films as ‘crap’
What is working title 2?
WT2 is an independent film production company arm run by Natasha Wharton, and has produced films that include Billy Elliot, Shaun of the Dead and The Calcium Kid.


T.B.C

Finished Blog....

rough production title....

Had to save in bad quality but got the original 'good' quality on my laptop.

Some ideas for shots

Blurred...This shot will help to portray that the lead character is drugged and the effects she feels from it. We'll hold the camera in our hands for the P.O.V shot to show that she's unstable and vulnerable. The sound track will be muffled as she feels more of the effects. All these effects will increase as this scene goes on until the screen goes black.

Close Up, Zoom Out...To open the wood scene, we open with a close up on the main characters eye then we'll zoom out to catch the characters reaction in waking upin the woods the morning after the party. There will also be eery music which plays throughout the film.

Long Shot...When the main character is standing, we will have a long shot to establish the fear of being lost in the woods.

People & Characters

Beth Day - main character Name -Megan
Abi Edwards - The bad friend Name - Regina
- The random Guy/rapist Name - Josh
Extra's/Party People - Sian Taylor, Natalee Mobbs, Anna Masters, Robert Williams, Tom Betts, Jordan, Laura, Dani Tuffen

Distribution company - Summit Entertainment
Production Company - Sibain Productions

BRAINWAVE - In the party scene, we could do three shots in one at some point. It was inspired by the B&Q advert :).